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that picture frightens me

become?

Baghdad McDillhole needs to cough up the cash and stfu.

So is ours.

his lawyer is appealing it. reminds me of Exxon. f-ing lawyers.

Just cuz Im in canada doesnt mean i can just walk into the fucking doctors office whenever I want to.. I live in a small town and the local doctors wont see any patients for some reason and the office in chilliwack couldnt get me in for some reason... I just had a question and you dont have to be such a stupid motherfucker and bitch at me like that you fucking asshole... sorry bout my fucking language I thought the Canadian Health Care System was much better than the US. Weird.

Speaking of disturbing metaphors... yo, Adrian!!!

go play guitar or something

When they showed me the Integration Agreement it summed zero from -infinity to +infinity can you guess which empire Kafka was from? Was ist deine Probleme? Wie man will im Oesterreich leben, muB man die Deutsche Sprache lernen, nicht wahr?

Because we don't make people fill out residence permit forms in quintuplicate like Austria and have insistances on "cultural values" Your application didn't go through, eh?

Have you seen dumb and dumber? Or that Christmas movie with the dorky kid in glasses?

Have you seen dumb and dumber?

Only 5 more months until football season!!!!

Wow, John McCain's son is stuck in Iraq!!!

They do hold some advantage but even they (or at least Canada, the US and Australia) cling to some obscure notion of what a citizen should be thats tilted towards the White Anglo-Saxon Like what? My question is just exactly what "obscure notion of what a citizen should be" that is "tilted towards White" and "Anglo Saxon" - sounds like the same old tired, bullshit (racist) rhetoric. I don't see anything about the responsibilities/expectations of a citizen in the US that is racist or "Anglo Saxon". Pay taxes, vote, participate in politics if you want, volunteer. Yeah, that's so "white".

No….and lets get is straight. It was not a war it was a show of force. There is a difference. I didn't ask you Boner. Why don't you go start another top 100/favorite musician/song/solo thread.

that's a load of shit. however doesn't change the fact that bush made a mistake after a mistake and pretty much most of the decisions his administration made were the worst possible choices. and i honestly believe that a lot of the choices are going to have a very long lasting consequences. Do you support the first Iraq War (Desert Storm)?

i wonder why is it that immigrants from former soviet block move to england ireland, france or other countries and they don't lock themselves in a ghettos? and why is it that they can find jobs and immigrants from north africa can't? Ditto for immigrants from southeast Asia and India. And it's not like they give up their culture and language (and religion) either.

And there you have it. Blame America first. It's not just a Fox News/Rush Limbaugh invention - it's based in fact. Thanks, Boner.

Is this the same Catholic church that split the Americas between Spain and Portugal? Yes it is.

Oh, perhaps we can agree: Christianity AND Islam generally suck and have ample examples of intolerance. I don't want either of them in charge of my government. Better now? Generally suck? No. Want either of them ruling my government? No. So we are in 50% agreement.

Jay, I've read that the Romans were "tolerant" of religion too. Tolerant as long as you stayed in your place. And of course, there was no doubt as to who was a first class citizen - and who was not. To be in a position of power you had less room to deviate from the norm. And of course, there was always an undercurrent of brutality and the cheapness of life, even during Pax Romana. So, when someone tries to claim that the Golden Age of Islam was marked by religious "tolerance", you'll have to excuse me for challenging just exactly what that means. Judging from the course of history, including the rise and spread of Islam, I have a pretty damn good idea. I think what most people mean is that they were generally spared death, allowed to practice their faiths, and administer their own affairs in exchange for acknowledging their status as second-class citizens and paying an additional set of taxes. This was all after the conquest was final and absolute. I'd personally put the Caliphs generally on par with the Romans on this front, or perhaps somewhere between the Romans and the Mongols (I seem to recall that Ghengis, Hulagu, at all could be surprisingly accommodating to those who gave no resistance). Certainly no higher. In comparison to Europe from the 8th-12th century, I'd even give them the edge when it comes to the general level of superstition, backwardness, and barbarism that prevailed within their societies. At some point between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, however, the balance started to shift pretty decisively in favor of the West - and the disparity has only grown over time, IMO. That's about what I thought. Thanks, Jay.

Not to be contrarian here but the power of the catholic church peaked in the 11-12th centuries and began waning immediately - well before the Reformation.

That has NOT been posited. What has been stated is that there are ample examples of intolerance from Islam throughout its history. A little "balance" for the constant barrage of examples of Christian "intolerance" that we get here. Moreover, as I state above, I question just what this tolerance you cite constituted. What you read is of course a combination of the author's opinion and your interpretation of his word.