Sorry bout that - apparently my brain decided to not see the whole thing. Plus, I freely admit, I have something of a bias against Mainstream Media. Will do better - thanks again.
Keep in mind, I'm not an Obama booster by any stretch of the imagination. Nor am I a supporter of Bush. But, at least in the pic that started this thread, I can maybe clear something up. In Japan bowing can be seen as subservient. Or it can be merely a sign of respect. It all depends on posture and ...
rath, a question. Does the report at all list the country the deaths occurred in? I ask merely because there's an old reporting trick of leaving out one key fact to incite the desired response - in this case getting the flu vaccine. (For some good examples of this, look up the causes of the Spanish-...
Buck Rogers would, indeed, be flippin' sweet! And yeah, Aniston would be good, although I'm normally not her biggest fan. As for Buck, John C. McGinley for a slightly older Buck, or Jared Padalecki for a younger, maybe?
It seems to me that a lot of us want our cake and eat it, too. We claim that there can be no God, because He isn't visible and doesn't seem to be involved in our lives. Yet if He were clearly visible and involved, we'd be upset that there was no freedom or free will. We don't like the idea of taking...
Umm...esecallum....history lesson time. The Romans had themselves a pretty 'advanced' society. Then it fall down go boom. Babylon was considered the most advanced civilisation of it's day - now it's naught but dust. The 'we're too advanced to fall' rhetoric is hollow, is far too jingoistic, and spea...
Sorry. I cannot agree with this. The death penalty disturbs me, for it makes the statement that the executed is beyond all hope of possible redemption. My beliefs have me try to see the Divine spark in everyone. I understand the pain - my brother is dead as a result of the actions of another and I'm...