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magicjay38 said:
It's the conservative fear of their own shadows that intrigues me. They're afraid of, well, everybody and everything. Terrorism is a good example. You have a better chance of winning Super-Ball than being killed or injured by terrorists. Yet they sacrifce their liberty for an illusion of safety.




    Beirut, 1983, 273 U.S. Marines killed.

    The 1993 bombing attempt on the World Trade Center (by which ignoring the first attempt and not "chasing our shadows", a complacency that allowed 9-11-2001 to occur)

    Al Qaida participation in the 1993 Somalia deaths of U.S. soldiers.

    The 1995 Khobar tower bombings.

    The 1998 simultantaneous bombings of two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

    The 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yeman, killing 23 U.S. soldiers.


Granted, that's a fairly short list. So far.
(which omits the many foiled and arrested terror-cels that have not successfully killed thousands of Americans.
One revealed just today, a 2004 foiled plot orchestrated by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to hijack another airliner and ram it into the tallest building on the West coast of the U.S.)

Liberals act like there isn't a threat, even though the Afghanistan terrorist training camps captured in 2002 were filled with elaborate terror training videos, and maps of targeted landmarks scattered throughout North America and Europe.
And even though being passive only allowed then-amateurs(in 1993) to become highly skilled terrorists, advancing to ever more grandiose displays of terrorism, with ever higher body counts and ever greater economic/political damage.

Ten years of complacency allowed Osama Bin Ladin to become a household name, and a rallying banner for global terrorism.

The Kerry/Clinton/Gore/Reid/Daschle/Dean/Pelosi approach is to just sit back (as evidenced from 1993-2000, and in constantly voiced rhetoric of leading Democrats ever since) and pretend this isn't a war, and hope that not reacting and provoking the Muslim world will somehow make spreading Islamic terror just go away.

As evidenced from 1993 onward, that shortsighted liberal approach is not working.




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magicjay38 said:

The fact is they're afraid of most anyone different than themselves. Gay people, racial minorities. commies, liberals they fear everyone. Why do they care what goes on in other peoples bedrooms?

Why are they afraid of new fangled ideas like evolution?





The people I socialize with daily, from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Jamaica, and elsewhere, would quickly see the falseness of your sweeping generalization of myself and other conservatives.

As would both of the women I almost married. One from Spain, the other from the Phillipines.

It depends how spiteful and angry liberals I meet are, whether I may or may not socialize with them.

I already covered my opinion of gays in another topic .
Which again, does not conform with your sweeping generalization of conservatives.


I'm kind of an anomoly among Christian conservatives, in that I don't think evolution neccessarily undermines or contradicts the Bible creation account in Genesis.

But I hold to the notion that the Biblical creation scripture is true, unless proven otherwise. And I'm confident that after 3500 years and many secular attacks on the Bible that it never will be disproven.

My problem with evolution is that it's part of a larger attempt to leverage Christianity and the Bible out of our schools-- and out of our culture altogether-- and that secular/atheist/anti-Christian Evolution proponents are intolerant of the moral values of the Bible, and the good the Bible did for education and American society until they were leveraged out of our schools in 1963, along with the Constitutional freedom of school prayer.

So basically, I don't give a flying crap about teaching evolution in schools.




(Although Evolution, like Christianity, has some gaps that require a degree of faith. And far from the stereotype that Christians who discard Evolution are all uneducated morons ignorant of science, many scientists have written about the gaps of logic in Evolution theory, and embraced the idea of the complexity of the universe being the manifestation of an intelligent designer.)




I only get annoyed with attempts to shut Christianity out of our schools, government buildings, and even the Christmas carols in our parades and department stores.

While simultaneously allowing gay advocacy (a belief system that is essentially a faith-based doctrine), Islamic teaching (another belief-based doctrine, that is the ideology of our enemies, an ideology of terrorism that threatens our nation), and Evolution (another faith-based doctrine).

These we allow.
While excluding Christianity.

Christianity, the religion that inspired our contract government, that was stated by the nation's founders to be essential to the survival of Democracy.

And Christianity, whose absence in previous Democracies was what the founding fathers stated is what doomed those previous attempts at democracy to failure.

Oh, the irony.

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    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.