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Tonysoong - can you show me one period of time in which any nation is perfect? Show me one span of time in which any nation can claim to be without any fault. You cannot. In your eyes, what should be done to Japan for not being perfect in your eyes? Or for that matter any nation?

The whole "I'm the only one who can keep my farmstead safe from invaders." mentality is still VERY strong over here. There is a town in the south where every adult is REQUIRED to own and carry a firearm unless exempted! They don't have a whole lot of fights there...

As far as German being full of English and American words, well... English is made up of a lot of words and the sentence structure of German. The one semester course I took in Linguistics (History of Language) had a great line in one of the papers I saw - "To speak English you should learn to...

Language, like cultures, grow and change. CLinging t a culture or languge for the sake of zeonphobia is what causes some problems. Keeping a language alive as a sence of history and cultural respect is a healthy psychological process. But in the end ALL languages change drastically over time...

I thought that the study was done using mytocondrial dna - which is hadned down through females. As far as the history of the human race goes, sometime around that time period we were down to under 100,000 humans across the world and dying out. The one person theory is a little simplistic, but...

Worst: 70's disco Best: Daisy Duke's shorts!

and the ever popular "What EVER" with the snotty tone and rolled eyes. That one will get a smack to the back of the head when it comes out of my kids. It's ruder than ME!

It's as bad with the more recient laws on what's allowed on a plane as what's not. I have a friend in the USAF who is allowed by law to carry a firearm while on any flight - but they confiscated his NAIL CLIPPERS! He actually looked at the idiot and said, "Let me get this right. I can carry my...

How about "Like, oh - my GOD! You know waht I mean???" Yes, I know what you mean. You mean you can't pull more than one original sentence out of your empy little head more than once a week and I seem to have missed it. And don't be afraid of telling people things like that. My students (I now...

?݂????ȁ@I know ?݂????? what you ?݂????? mean! Every time my kids do something like this I repete EXECTLY what they say and say the annoying word LOUDLY enough so they can't help but notice what they are doing.

It shows that the current administration has no interest in maintaining the illusion of a democracy. They want a single party rule with BushCo as it's head.

PS to Doc - I live within 15 mintues of a couple of really nice towns in Canada. The second the bible becomes the book of law here, me and my family are GONE! At least in Canada the laws will prohibit people from discriminating agains tme because fo something as etherial as what faith I may or...

So someone here would like to get the bible and god more into government... So that measn that I as a non-christian would have what done? Do you take away my rights? Am I to be treated as a second class person? I fought and bled for people's rights to believe as they please, yet I have not seen...

As an American and someone who served in the USMC from 1982-1990 and then worked as a cop for one year, the mindset behind this law worries me. During the time I was in the military I did have to fight to stop enemy forces from killing me and my fellow Marines. During the time I was a cop I...

I'm right there with you. I served in the USMC and know first hand (having been on the recieving end of live rounds) what guns can do. The real issue isn't guns - it's the insane lack of control. And it's not legal gun owners like you and me that are the problem! It's the lack of vigorous...