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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 26, 2015 17:43:00 GMT -5
Chia is supposed to be good for you. Very high in fibre.
Mike
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Post by millring on Mar 26, 2015 17:45:11 GMT -5
Chia is supposed to be good for you. Very high in fibre. Mike And they make good, if sedate, pets.
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 26, 2015 18:11:29 GMT -5
Now, if we're talking about SHARIA coming to Belgium, that's different. I just don't see it, especially if it requires that their offspring continue to adhere to strict religious law for decades. Each succeeding wave of immigration into the US has been met with this sort of hysteria. When the southern Irish (i.e., the Catholics, not the Scots-Irish from the north) started flooding into the country, there was hysteria about that from the English Protestants already here. They wondered how the "Irish race" would ever successfully integrate into America, especially since, as Catholics, they all took orders directly from the Pope and therefore couldn't understand democracy. (In fact, they understood democracy quite well. The origin of St. Paddy's Day being a big deal in the US but not in Ireland is because of the St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC. At the turn of the last century, Irish immigrants or their offspring made up more than 50% of the population in NYC. On SPD, the politicians had to stand there for hours at a time watching the massed Irish marching by, the firemen, the policemen, everyone. A reminder that the Irish put them in power and the Irish could take them out.) Then there was the Yellow Peril as Chinese immigrants came to work the railroads, and more hysteria about the southern Europeans. In WWII we locked up a few million Japanese for a few years. Only more recently have we started obsessing about the Mexicans, because of large numbers, but they've been here all along. The first Muslims probably came in the 1600's, we just don't like to admit it. America will get over it, Muslims are among the most assimilated groups in America. I wouldn't worry about it in Europe either. Lots of truth in what you say. Just hope you're right about the hoped-for assimilation. (It is funny about the kid in the video texting while his father raves on about how few hands have really been chopped off.)
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Post by fauxmaha on Mar 26, 2015 18:52:29 GMT -5
Why expect assimilation?
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Post by millring on Mar 26, 2015 18:54:22 GMT -5
Undying faith in socialism.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 26, 2015 18:55:22 GMT -5
I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan. I've seen it in action.
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Post by brucemacneill on Mar 26, 2015 19:07:09 GMT -5
I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan. I've seen it in action. Yup. All the guys who look like us either assimilated or got out of Dearborn. CAIR called looking for a spokesman for the Americans so I gave them Patrick's address.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 22:04:29 GMT -5
Ignore that big wooden horse outside. Americans, especially women and gay people, are going to love Sharia Law. Excuse me while I go sit by the TV and wait for our POTUS to remind me that we are not are war with Islam.
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 27, 2015 0:49:09 GMT -5
Undying faith in socialism socialization. Fixed that for you.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 8:55:16 GMT -5
Ignore that big wooden horse outside. Americans, especially women and gay people, are going to love Sharia Law. Excuse me while I go sit by the TV and wait for our POTUS to remind me that we are not are war with Islam. I think you've just managed to disprove the theorem that even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's a frightened little world you've found yourself in.
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Post by dradtke on Mar 27, 2015 10:44:27 GMT -5
I've been thinking (big problem) but wouldn't sharia law out law bacon. Bacon wins.
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 27, 2015 11:44:41 GMT -5
Reminds me of an old joke:
A priest and a rabbi become friends and eventually exchange some private matters, including their doubts and failings as clerics.
The rabbi says, "I was raised in a conservative household. We kept kosher, but I was curious, so one day I went to a restaurant and ordered scrambled eggs--with bacon."
The priest says, "Yes, bacon is certainly delicious."
The rabbi agrees and then says, "What about you, Father? Ever cross the line?"
The priest thinks for a minute and says, "Well, you know we take a vow of celibacy, but just a few years after I was a ordained, I was attracted to a beautiful parishoner and I gave in to temptation. We had sex."
And the rabbi smiles and says, "Better than bacon, isn't it?"
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Post by Chesapeake on Mar 27, 2015 14:12:24 GMT -5
When you reach a certain age bacon vs. sex becomes a dead heat.
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 27, 2015 15:24:50 GMT -5
Hey--even cold bacon tastes pretty good.
(Variation on an old sex-vs-pizza joke.)
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Post by millring on Mar 27, 2015 15:38:51 GMT -5
I'm married. It's bacon or nothing.
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Post by drlj on Mar 27, 2015 16:40:26 GMT -5
When you get old, you have to switch to Canadian bacon. Back bacon, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2015 21:46:32 GMT -5
Some Americans seem concerned with religious lawmaking in Indiana.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 11:02:21 GMT -5
Ignore that big wooden horse outside. Americans, especially women and gay people, are going to love Sharia Law. Excuse me while I go sit by the TV and wait for our POTUS to remind me that we are not are war with Islam. I think you've just managed to disprove the theorem that even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's a frightened little world you've found yourself in. Reality can be a frightening thing. Maybe it's OK to avoid facing reality at your own peril but ignoring it at the peril of those around you is betrayal.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 2:47:29 GMT -5
I think you've just managed to disprove the theorem that even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's a frightened little world you've found yourself in. Reality can be a frightening thing. Maybe it's OK to avoid facing reality at your own peril but ignoring it at the peril of those around you is betrayal.I thought you neocons created your own reality and the rest of us just live in it. Spend your time creating a serene, peaceful reality. You'll feel better. Your blood pressure will go down. You'll live longer. Seriously (actually, the big above was serious...) name me a radical/extremist ideology in any realm that has stood the test of time. In the First Century CE, the nascent ideology of Christianity (love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, feed and clothe the poor, etc.) was VERY radical. But look how quickly it was cooped by those in power, and today, when is the last time you heard Pat Robertson talk about loving thy neighbor, turning the other cheek or taking care of the poor? Radicalism and extremism eventually gets absorbed into the greater, moderate and pragmatic whole. Nature likes balance and, more often than not, so do people.
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