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HonestDictator
@Smith thats the biggest sticking point for me as well... The woman quit her job as governer because the situation became "too overwhelming" for her and she wants to try to become the leader of this country? We'll she's nothing but a footnote in ALASKAN history, and nothing but late night tv fodder.
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Hmm, its pretty interesting. With comments like, "Well I'm not getting it at home so I may as well get it somewhere else..." I'm pretty sad at the state of affairs people are in. Its never occurred to some people that even if they don't feel like having sex with the person they're with that they should learn to do things they don't feel like doing to make the other person happy? As many folks say, a relationship between a couple requires work on BOTH sides to keep it going forward. When one drops out of doing their "duties" then everything falls apart. I know there were times my missus wanted to have at me and I was absolutely in no mood for it, but guess what? I did it anyways because I took her feelings into consideration above my OWN. It's what people in a relationship should be doing but many do not and most often ends up in a very sad state of affairs if not completely destroyed. Too many of us are selfish, and are pretty much using the other person for our own wants and desires.
@MickBell70 too true. Back in my free-wheeling days, I knew there were people out there that didn't want a relationship and just wanted to fool around. So since I was not tied down myself and wasn't in the mood for a relationship beyond that I knew where to find them and it worked out pretty well. Of course I had to make sure they weren't fooling around on someone they were with also because drama sucks.
Posted in: New Zealand's legal brothels gear up for busy World Cup
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I build all my desktops from scratch instead of buying install ready PCs from Dell/Acer/HP etc. The only exception is laptops. But I only purchase the I've never used pirated software ever, but I do know of some freeware that does some things I need it to do better than some of the software being sold, so I go with that if I know it works and isn't filled up with virus or spyware. I do buy the official copies of windows as well as my norton internet security.
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Many people are so insistant that something isn't real until it happens to them in REALITY. And of course by then its usually too late. Fact is unless someone is actually caught, or an act of terrorism does succeed then it will all be taken as, "Oh they're just fear-mongering."
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HonestDictator
Wow talk about people losing the meaning of sarcasm.
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@WilliB I do know the difference, if an unmarried person decides they want to visit a brothel then there is no issue. If a married person decides they want to visit a brothel then its an issue between them and the person they're married to and shows a lot about their personality and self-discipline. As I said, for those who are married it usually involves a 3rd person that doesn't know the person they're with may come home with another persons "cooties" loyal unless before they married it was understood that the marriage was "open" and they BOTH agreed that they want to fool around with other people when the chance arises.
When I travelled to Hong Kong you would not believe how many married men from the US/UK and other EU countries WITH children travelling on business were doing the nearest prostitutes or trying to get a new girlfriend overseas. It was quite sickening to know the indescretions of others, but its their life and they have to deal with the consequences of their choices.
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@Oracle, marriage is much more a "sexual contract" it was a commitment. Even if a man or woman live in a country that allowed poligamy, if they sleep around with someone that is not one of their many wives or many husbands, then why did the marry (aka "commit") to that person in the first place??? What you responded with is what a person who wants their cake and eat it too would think. I remember Magic Johnson was married, fooled around with someone who wasn't his wife, got AIDs and gave it to his wife, sure one could say he wasn't careful but my point is, there are people in the world that are happy being with only one person. There are also people in the world that don't want to be commited to just one person and would like to play around as much as they'd like. It would be in everyones best interest that the people that do NOT want to commit to just one person should only mess around with other people that do NOT want to commit to just one person and leave the people that DO want to commit to just one person alone. If a person cannot be loyal to the one they CHOSE to commit to then they should not do it in the first place. It saves a lot in the drama bank.
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If I'm correct many animals show particular behavior either a few mins or hours before a quake hits since the senses are more on with instinct, like how dogs usually try and warn their owners that its time to go somewhere safe etc.
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Wow, no matter where you go, its hard to find decent writers for TV programs. Interesting premise though, but it would make some sense if she had at least some kind of police or military training... an flight attendant is hardly what I could imagine wanting to start chasing down most wanted criminals or felons.
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@Smorkion I do, as an american who thinks he's "everybody". Just messing with you xD.
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My favorite story of morality dealing with prostitution is when a married man with children visits to local brothel consistantly. He keeps it up and eventually sees a new girl being advertised. Out of curiosity and the desire for some new flesh he pays for the service but when he enters the room finds his own daughter is the prostitute. One of the various morals of the story is WHY get married in first place if you can't stay loyal to the person you're married to?
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Moral compass aside, everyone has to take responsibility for their own actions. Its better to have legal and regulated prostitution where women can go to a brothel and sell their "services" with help available when needed compared to a back ally, jumping into random cars, or being invited to a home with nobody knowing where they're going.
Personally, why pay for sex when one can get it for free? Sure even "that" may be up for debate but lets just leave it at that for now xD.
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Now this is an instance where I'm glad to see US tax-dollars being used for foreign aid to buy food and survival supplies.
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Well, I would have preferred having tighter regulations, but since the 1990s to now the air quality in my city has definitely improved by leaps and bounds. Used to have high pollution days almost every week, now its down to every couple of months if not more. Still do get some manufacturers pollution from the nearby Commerce City though. Purina dog chow does not smell all that great while its being made.
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@Oracle your last post seems to be the most likely solution given the situation thats going down there. Even if the prez Calderon could find un-corruptable police officers, its been obvious that the cartels will assassinate them when given the chance as they've done before.
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Pfft, I like your first post Virtuoso and damned straight. Hopefully Rick won't get out of the primaries or I'll be guaranteed to vote for Obama like I did the first time xD.
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@HumanTarget, I've pretty much repeated this over the years I've been on this site, but I'll humor you. First off my first experience was with while visiting my uncle back in 1996 in Michigan. He is muslim and therefore since I was a relative of course he wanted me and my mother to to be won over to the "splendor" of Islam. So anyways, without getting into too much detail the crap that came out of his mouth as to why I should become muslim didn't affect me so much back then because in those days nobody really cared about Islam for two-cents and it was "just another religion" in the world (at least to us little ignorant american hicks).
When I came back to my home state of Colorado after this visit I always would stop by this little shop (I had no idea that the person who ran the shop was muslim, and again back then I didn't care) and because I liked the bean pies they made so me and my "I don't care about Islam cos its just another religion" self asked where could I get the recipe. Her response, "Well just come on down to this mosque here and you'll find out." Now I'm not big on evangalists, or the hari-krishna folks that try to get me to run on their beliefs being the agnostic person I am. So I could tell a lure for "conversion" when I saw one. This wasn't all that important to me back then either.
Roll around to 2001 summertime I'm in Utah going to school living in a dorm where I shared a room with about 4 other guys, some stayed some went and we always got a new one almost every 6months or so. One just happened to be an african immigrant who was a devout muslim. Now remember, nobody really cared about Islam still because the US as a nation didn't see any threat from religious beliefs except for those crazy cults like branch davidians, or some random abortion clinic fanatical christian (y'know most of them just walked around with picket signs, not blowing up the local grocery store or church because they didn't agree with abortion). Anyways, this man had an attitude problem, he ended up being booted from the school because the classes he was taking were not changed to have breaks meet his prayer times or whatever other religious needs he wanted. His entire attitude towards everyone was just plain hostile, and exceptionally anti-social and he liked to carry the "you kafir's" air about him I guess. Its not that the people in the school didn't like him because he was muslim, they didn't like him because he was demanding more than what could be adapted at the school for people and his basic personality. Now I admit I don't know what he may have experienced in his life that made him that way, but knowing what I now know about Islam, it didn't help him.
Now don't get me wrong I've met good PEOPLE who are muslim just like I've met the bad PEOPLE. What matters is whats in peoples hearts that make them trustworthy and how they treat others around them. Most of the good people who are muslim have not read the qur'an in a language they can understand, nr visit the mosque and do their prayers and such. They pretty much only rely on the the white-washed version and or lies (literally) that the Imams teach which is only to get people in the door. When 9/11 hit of course I wanted to know why the perpatrators kept claiming that they were justified by Islamic doctrine, and why so many people in many Islamic countries were dancing the the streets. So I read up on Islam and studied what caused people to think and act like this. Also during the times I've had friends and penpals from the Philipines and Russia that were telling me what was going on in their countries with Islamic extremism/seperatists, it just isn't reported beyond their national news all the time. Then the crap that my uncle was talking about and my own experiences pretty came back to me and started adding up.
This was easily backed up by ex-muslims that I know of and the organizations they have made to try and support each other emotionally and at times physically for being apostates (since Islam does promote persecution and even execution of those who were "born" muslim and leave of their own free will). Just FYI the ex-muslims have been telling the facts of Islam since the early 1980s, just that they were able to reach a lot more people since the internet came around. You'll never see a website that promotes leaving hinduism ran by ex-hindu because of all the horrible acts it promotes against other religions, or anti-christian websites ran specifically by former christians (yeah sure the athiests have some but they only try to disprove the belief in any god or religion and not all of them are former christians.), and so on. But you will find the ex-muslims pointing out specifically what is wrong with Islam from the holy texts, history of Islam and its founder, as well as hadiths since they had to live under this "religious" system since birth. The increased reports of Islamic fundamentalist aggressiveness around the world have also actually been going on for quite a long time, just once again, was not reported as global information back then as well.
Anyways, I'm out for now need a break. I'm not going to try and back track and say, "I apologise" because I am very critical of Islam, because guess what? Last I check I could be critical of any religion or anyone I please where I live. But there are some in this world that are beginning to say that criticising Islam specifically shouldn't be done... next will come what? Don't criticise christianity? People have been doing that since forever and don't have to worry about someone threatening their life because they do so. We can even criticise the judaism and even though people would try to claim anti-semetism it's a completely different thing to criticise a religion and its followers than it is to criticise a people for their ethnicity. As a british announcer once stated, "Since when was muslim a race?"
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Such is the life of a dictator smith but yeah xD. I'm still trying to figure out what he did for Algeria that they would take him in for asylum.
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It is easy for any country to change in a democratic society when the majority rules in a vote. Take for example with what happened in Dearborn, Michigan at one of the Arab Festivals (note it was not called the Islamic festival, but try telling the attendants that). If the vast majority take control of a local government then the local government will be changed to meet the needs of the people, the issue that happened though violated Federal law and constitutional rights that are given to the entire nation's citizens. There was violation of free speech, freedom of expression, tampering with evidence and so on. A federal court had to issue a statement informing the local state government that they were in the wrong and the citizens had their rights violated.
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An interesting article on Islamic ideology. It doesn't stop at religion, it conforms both religion and politics. Democratic societies with various beliefs systems do not have such constitutional amendments that force a people to believe what the government wants to believe.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/political-islam/constitutions-of-islamic-countries-from-contradiction-to-practical-discriminations-and-inequities/
When any government becomes an "Islamic" government, everyone who is not muslim or not "muslim" enough will be subjugated by their right to work, right to believe how they see fit, and even what their status as a citizen is.
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