The Postman

Huzzah for theocracies! This is fucking awful. She's the victim of rape and they fucking hang her? Oh fundamentalist regimes, I fucking hate you with a passion.

Why is that logical? You're making unfounded assumptions and passing them off as logic. Back this up.

Got any studies or statistics or articles to back this up or are you just supposing?

Yes but this is gonna upset Swiss people Pfft, they're neutral.

Ewwww, that's what I get for not reading the text. Now I feel icky

Some would call it accurate The real point is that no women look like her. They either physically can't or the laws of physics don't allow light to react like that. She's touched up for a reason, to be larger than life, a symbol not a reality.

For future reference please tell us about it, link the pictures and we're 100% a-ok.

Or because I hate bleach blonde bimbos because my experience with them dictates that damned near 99.9% of them have nothing interesting to say and use their good looks to cover up for the fact that they have no personality or character. Nice jab at me though, really felt that one

Looking great man!

Am I the only one that thought she looked better without the retouch?

We had to change ours, too. What works reasonably (not too noticable) well is a white cross on a red circle. Seems to shut 'em up. "GOOD LORD, YOU MIGHT EVEN FIND OUT THAT THE GERMANS HAD RED CROSS HELP DURING WWII! WE CAN'T HAVE PEOPLE FINDING OUT WE HELPED...(dramatic pause)... NAZIS CAN WE? :monocle: Quick edit. If I'm not mistaken, isn't the Red Cross's "logo" pretty much just a simplified Christian cross? Same as there are Jewish and Muslim versions of Red Cross centers? How the hell are they going to go on about saying a religious symbol is their intellectual property? :confused:

Like I said though, Klein, they won't because they can't. It'd be suicidal for them to. Not to mention it'd destroy their monuments and religiously significant areas as well. What muslim nation would support Iran's actions after they nuked the Dome of the Rock?

Actually most of them don't. Where'd you get this wacky idea? Most of them think the big bang, in the words of the infamous bumper sticker I've seen next to a lot of Darwin-eating Jesus-fish, is: "The Big Bang: God said it, bang it happened." Honestly, they believe that it all spawned instantaneously in a void, like placing a model in a level you're designing. Let there be light, and then god adjusted the values on his point lights. You know that they've been studying dwarf galaxies lately and discovering more about dark matter, right? The lack of full knowledge does not, in any way, mean that something is invalid. That's the wonder of science, it's constantly changing. Unlike the simps from the Religious Right and the Intelligent Design fundies who have no idea what science is and simply mean to jam the words "God did this." into any cracks yet un-filled. Removal of NASA? DD, do you have any idea how much technology and research goes on in and because of NASA? Removing them would do one of two things (and perhaps both): 1. Make the public, on the whole, just that much dumber. 2. Sling space exploration firmly into the hands of irresponsible private firms who would exploit space for their own short-sighted ends. Furthermore, the guy got fired. I doubt his brand of idiocy and being a crony of the Bush administration would've pushed the NASA folks in any good direction. Dumbass yes. Belief defying dumbass? No. Belief injecting dumbass? Yes.

Muahahahaha. Oh Tom, thank you for this These two quotes make me giggle like a school girl:

You're appreciative of the deficit spending? You're appreciative of the cuts to social programs that pale in comparison to the massive budget he's proposed for the war while we are in dire need of funding for the areas hit by Katrina? You're appreciative of his backing of "Intelligent Design" that will only seek to either further cripple our public school system or produce a whole lot of very dumb students? You're appreciative of his blatant cronyism that probably cost a lot of hurricane victims their lives? You're appreciative of his administration and all the rampant and blatant corruption they've brought with them? Gadzooks man, I'd hate to see what it would take for you to finally snap and disagree with this man and his administration. I'm glad you voted, Ferret, but even I can realize a mistake after I've made a decision. However, it seems like you're defending this president regardless of any mistake he makes. That just seems inherently dishonest to both yourself and what the Republican party really stands for, or well, stood for. Opinions can be backed up by fact though, and the facts of the matter are that this current administration is dealing with a massive backlash due to rampant cronyism, corruption charges, and assaults on our domestic liberties while cutting taxes for the top 1-2% while running a very costly war. Doesn't mean they didn't make an awful mistake for which we're going to be paying the consequences for years and years to come though, either. I'd personally just like to know where you stand. If you still support this administration and if you still feel good about voting him in. You've answered that. Like I said, it wasn't an attack on you and was merely an honest curiousity so cut the persecution complex. What Scraps said is very true though. Acting like there's some kind of argument here where there really isn't one is a tactic that the Religious Right in all its wisdom likes to use to wedge in a debate. There is an absolute mountain of evidence supporting the Big Bang theory. There is only faith supporting "Intelligent Design." One is science, the other is not. Period.

Like I said, I let people get away with a lot. Mostly I just get on people for the leet-speak garbage. Mistakes are one thing, heck, even common spelling errors are one thing, but blatant disregard for the English language is another. I'm sorry about the relationship with your brother. I'm a moderator, I don't have to Then act like adults. Post well thought out arguments and have conversations instead of posting long strings of google image search "angry muslim" pics. We let you discuss pretty much anything here, even crazy posts about how supposedly intelligent people believe in haunted houses. You guys get a lot more leniency than I think you really believe you have. In all honesty I'll argue whatever you want any time you want and heck we might even agree on some things, but I won't tolerate flame-bait poorly thought out crap. If you have a post with pictures, I'm not going to take you seriously. If you have a post with a linked website (the more unbiased the better) with facts, stats or articles I'm going to think over your point and consider you a better poster.

For discussion about the current state of the forums. I deleted posts from a few people who were only posting large pictures that had little to do with the thread other than perhaps they showed angry Muslims. They weren't arguments or conversations. I said my opinion in that thread and only butted heads with people that weren't doing much more than fanning the flames or just posting huge pictures. If you think I was being bratty go read the thread again. :roll: Actually I can't do that. I'm only a moderator, not an admin. Next un-informed bitch-point please? Deleting his posts would result in you bitching and a still-fucked-up forums. Come on, use your head. Fletch and I talk about what to do in the forums before acting. If you're still angry, lo siento, it's not going to change. Um, no. I go into damned near every thread and look at what's going on, especially if there's a lot of posting (oddly enough I've made changes, not posted what happened, and no one's noticed). That doesn't change if I'm posting in the thread or if Fletch is posting in the thread or if Mikezilla is posting in the thread. If anyone posts something dumb, flaming, or just plain off topic it'll get the chop. Sorry, not going to happen. Because sometimes posts are off-topic, flaming, or just lots of pictures in a forums that's supposed to be about serious discussion? We make sure that it flows smoothly. Sorry to anyone for deleting your five 800x600+ collection of angry Muslims burning Israeli flags. :roll:

This won't be gone completely and I am pretty damned lenient most of the time. The only stuff that really gets my goad are people that use leet-speak garbage in what are supposed to be (hopefully) intelligent conversations about serious topics. If you post "lol well i thikn that p3rhapz tehre is a moon good that is making teh muszlims go crazy and there religon is bulshit" I'm going to call you out for being dumb. Again, what Fletch said rings true. If you don't like it go tug on the skirt of your mother or otherwise. They'll care just as much as we do. I do this every single time and that's why I'm the big bad wolf. :roll: I even make nice big notices for people to read the rules about when entering this sub-forums. They are stickied at the top of the forums. Please read them

Sorry chum, your avatar got them yanked. Next time don't try to screw up the forums. This is a ridiculous reaction. You could have simply changed my avatar. As it stands the thread makes little sense with missing posts like this. Also, this post as well as yours are off-topic, so please delete them in the interest of fairness. My post was explaining the outrage at the removal of yours. I can't change avatars personally and if you'd like to keep on topic now you're more than welcome to. /derail Now on to discussion about Iran and international politics.

Sometimes people hate honesty.

I deleted posts because someone had a 510x340 avatar and his posts were fucking up the forums. Not because of what he was posting. I also deleted posts that contained lots of inflammatory off-topic pics after Fletch and I discussed that they weren't helping the civil discourse in this forums. If you want to get on moderators for moderating then by all means leave this section alone. Thanks for the quick and harsh judgement though, let's all hop upon the bandwagon! Sorry chum, your avatar got them yanked. Next time don't try to screw up the forums.

You keep chiming in whenever someone blames the constituency that brought him in. What are you trying to achieve by this? Not a flame, just honest curiousity. Do you not feel like your vote was a mistake or are you proud of how this administration is disintegrating rights and turning us slowly into a police state?

I nuked all of his posts for now. Shouldn't we already have stuff in place to make sure that avatar sizes are fixed? :confused:

It's a curious predicament. On one hand I think that Russia's solution was a very realistic and fair one. Iran claims they want nuclear facilities to process uranium for nuclear power plants. However, they're not being allowed to enrich uranium to do so. Russia okays that, so long as the enrichment is done by Russians for Iran, and not done in Iran itself. Iran bows out of this deal and just screams obscenities. The nuts and bolts of it: Iran wants nukes. Period. They want them as a bargaining tactic with Israel, the US and her interests largely because they see it as the only way to slow the roll of the US's imperial interests of late. North Korea has nukes, has repeatedly threatened the US and nothing has been done about that nation. Russia had nukes during the cold war, repeatedly threatened the US and was never outright attacked. Various other nations with nuclear capabilities are more respected and treated with kid gloves by the US because of their armaments. Will they nuke Israel? Fuck no. They'd be wiped off the damned map by a coalition of western nations, not to mention they'd be nuking a whole slue of their own religiously significant sites and nullifying any and all bargaining ability diplomatically.

But but but, during the State of the Union address he promised us 70,000 more science teachers!* *so he can teach that the world is 6,000 years old and made by God. What a fucking fool. This is seriously one of the worst and most regressive administrations ever.