Why Ann Coulter is great.

[Tez3]

The Study:For the serious discussion of non-martial arts topics including world events, social and political issues, or other items not covered in the other forums. Topics in here should stay focused on their topic, with new threads created where topics split.

-social issues
-political issues
-world events

Hmmm, I think I post on those things here in the study.

The word here though is 'discussion', you don't actually discuss. You post a link up, lecture us on the evils of socialism as you see it, there is no discussion. No witty banter back and forth, no searing insights, no brilliant repartee....it's just 'socialism is bad'. My dear boy, it's boring! that's about the worse sin you can commit in my eyes in the study, being a bore. Something controversial is fine as long as it's not insulting anyone but really, the same post time and time again, it's just passe now. No offfence intended of course old boy.

 

[billc]

None taken old girl.

 

[billc]

Tez, old girl, I do post on the martial arts side, you should check out my posts. They are less political and social over there.

 

[Tez3]

Tez, old girl, I do post on the martial arts side, you should check out my posts. They are less political and social over there.

Ah but you can't make your mind up whether you are a beginner or an experienced martial artist!

You should be more political here though, politics is a world of interesting things.

 

[billc]

Tez, I am game, pick a spot on the martialtalk side and I'll chat about whatever topic it is. Now I have trained in Kosho shorei ryu kempo, Modern Arnis, dabbled in Pekiti Tirsia kali, Serrada kali, Lameco kali and I am currently studying Dekiti Tirsia Sirada Kali. I had two years of Judo in high school and have tried Aikido, hapkido, and western fencing. My main area of enjoyment is the FMA. I also like movies, besides the political ones, and I like to read sci-fi and fantasy. Pick one, anyone or even one I am not listing and we can chat.

 

[billc]

Guns are a good topic as is general self-defense, Tez.

 

[WC_lun]

I think part of the issue when it comes to equating political leanings to religion is they aren't the same thing. It is comparing apples to oranges. You can be socialist and a devout Christian. You can also be athiest and a hard line right wing conservative in a Democratic country.

I don't know if religon has killed more people than anything else is true or not. There may not be any way to prove it one way or another. However, what I think is blatantly obvious, the thinking of people who believe thier way is the only proper and true way, to the extent that anyone not like them are somehow less, is responsible for more death than anything else in our history. That includes both political and religious belief. It takes a lot of faith in a belief to kill a person over it...or should. When that faith is blind, that is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, many people seem set on teaching that lesson time and again.

 

[CanuckMA]

I guess I should not exist.

- I am an Orthodox Jew, devout in my faith
- I am fiscally conservative
- I am in favour of a strong social safety net and government healthcare

People are a lot more complex than talk show hosts make them out to be.

 

[Ken Morgan]

I guess I should not exist.

- I am an Orthodox Jew, devout in my faith
- I am fiscally conservative
- I am in favour of a strong social safety net and government healthcare

People are a lot more complex than talk show hosts make them out to be.

Hell I’m more screwed up then you are!!
I’m a conservative, atheist, who loves the arts and believes in a strong social safety net and government healthcare

 

[Ken Morgan]

FYI

"My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them." -Hitler in a speech on April 12, 1922.

"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." 1933

"The most marvelous proof of the superiority of Man, which puts man ahead of the animals, is the fact that he understands that there must be a Creator." Mein Kampf.

"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties." Mein Kampf

 

[billc]

I have moved the health care topic to its own thread. See you there.

 

[granfire]

I guess I should not exist.

- I am an Orthodox Jew, devout in my faith
- I am fiscally conservative
- I am in favour of a strong social safety net and government healthcare

People are a lot more complex than talk show hosts make them out to be.

Hell I’m more screwed up then you are!!
I’m a conservative, atheist, who loves the arts and believes in a strong social safety net and government healthcare

OH MY GOD!!!!
Do you play cards with Santa and the Easterbunny?

 

[Tez3]

OH MY GOD!!!!
Do you play cards with Santa and the Easterbunny?

Who? As Jews we are hardly likely to are we?

 

[billc]

Tez, Santa may be out for you but what about the easter bunny? Unless the rabbit rises from the dead it should be okay to get some chocolate bunnies, shouldn't it?

 

[granfire]

Who? As Jews we are hardly likely to are we?

LOL, no, the obvious trades that don't go together: being religious and so obviously communist!
I mean, REALLY, a strong safety net and government health care? And religion....

 

[Tez3]

Tez, Santa may be out for you but what about the easter bunny? Unless the rabbit rises from the dead it should be okay to get some chocolate bunnies, shouldn't it?

Easter for me means memories of school where the so called Christian children would taunt and sometimes even try to hit me for being the Jesus killer so no, no Easter bunny I'm afraid.

 

[granfire]

Easter for me means memories of school where the so called Christian children would taunt and sometimes even try to hit me for being the Jesus killer so no, no Easter bunny I'm afraid.

Wow, nice neighborhood....

Sadly, the wit to counter this stupidity does not come til much later in life....

 

[Touch Of Death]

The goddess Eastre allows any faith to sample her chocolates. :ultracool
Sean

 

[CanuckMA]

Easter for me means memories of school where the so called Christian children would taunt and sometimes even try to hit me for being the Jesus killer so no, no Easter bunny I'm afraid.

Similar. Heck, I went to Catholic schools. But in a nice wine sauce, the easter bunny may serve a purpose...

Santa is obviously an anti-semite. Never visited me. :ultracool

 

[SensibleManiac]

1-GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF WAGES AND HOURS OF WORK
2-HIGHER TAXES ON THE WEALTHY
3-GOVERNMENT-SET LIMITS ON PROFITS
4-GOVERNMENT CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
5-A DECREASED EMPHASIS ON THE ROLE OF RELIGION AND THE FAMILY IN PERSONAL OR SOCIAL DECISIONS
6GOVERNMENT TAKING ON THE ROLE OF CHANGING THE NATURE OF PEOPLE, USUALLY BEGINNING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD....
THESE ARE OF COURSE THINGS OPPOSED BY MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED "CONSERVATIVES" IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THEY ARE THINGS MUCH MORE CONGENIAL TO THE GENERAL APPROACH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED "LIBERALS" IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CONTEXT.

Ok?