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I just e-mailed the President.  A quicker email address than going through the CTC site is president@whitehouse.gov.  I mentioned that I was a conservative from Colorado who would like to see a manned mission to Mars "sometime in the near future".  I hope it's not too late...  ???

I was trying to show that everyone has had trouble securing and delivering funding.  No organization (or the federal government) has done a spectacular job on this issue.

Once again, Enron was a huge company.  That comes with some pretty substantial benefits.

We need to make the investment now to protect our country in the future before this problem spawns out of control.  And we are rebuilding New York... there'll be a couple of nice, new buildings in that foundation by the end of the decade.

I never said the stock market was secure.  I was saying that the dividend tax repeal will make it easier for people to get into the market or turn a higher profit if they're already investing.

Sure, my vote counts more because I live in a small state, but my parents' income doesn't mean jack #### on their ballot.

Running over some chemical shells in the desert with a bulldozer isn't exactly a professional disarming job.  Not to mention that if they truly had disarmed them prior to inspections, they would have made every effort possible to show it in the declaration.  Wouldn't you make extra sure the US saw that gesture if you were the Iraqis?  Burying it in a shallow hole looks more like a quick way to get rid of it under the gun to me.

It doesn't matter if Iraq has build 16 or 16,000 chemical warheads.  The fact of the matter is, they were required by the UN to disarm, and they didn't.  It's like in court when you're trying to prove pergery.  If you catch the person in a lie, you can conjecture that their other statements might have been false as well.

Saddam said time and time again before all this that Iraq had completely disarmed and disclosed all of the weapons.  Obviously they haven't, and their word is worthless now.  I think that is an excellent ground to go to war on.

Maybe someone can explain this to me...

Josh (or maybe it was Auqakah) said that the longer you smoke marijuana, the less tolerant you become of it (ie the more you smoke, the less you need to get high later on)

I talked to my marijuana user friends, and my father (a former user) this past week and they all said that they needed more pot to get high the longer they smoked.

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I told you Bush wasn't such a bad guy...     

First, that's why I'm not a Catholic.  Second, what's God supposed to do?  Reveal himself to all so that he can correct some petty human indifferences?  ???

Essentially the same as my last point.

I've stated it before, but I believe that salvation is only salvation if you came to it out of your own free will.  If God was omni-potent, there would be no point in making that decision because God would just be an undisputable fact.

I don't recall Einstein feeding 5000 people with a loaf of bread and 3 fish, or Richard Feynman turning water into wine, or Stephen Hawking causing people to bleed spontaneously from their hands and feet.

You're right.  Bob might have external problems that are causing him to use things out of moderation, but why legalize pot and make it easier for Bob to abuse it?  Are we really helping Bob by making a quick-escape from reality legal?

Most pot users that I know are losers.  I know a kid who talks all week about getting high next weekend.  The thing is, he does it EVERY weekend.  His actions are copied exactly by many of the pot users I know.  They rant and rave all day about how the government is shit and wondering if they could blow up the propane tank next to our school with a .22 shell.

Out of this huge group of drug users, I know one girl who plays in honor band, stays involved in the community, and keeps up a reasonably good GPA.  Out of that huge group, ONE is a decent citizen.

I'm not writing very well right now (midterm week).  Bye  :angry:    :laugh:  ???

This forum really died.

Hey!  Aren't fate and chance the gods of Atheists?

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You call ridding the world of the lowest form of combat light on substance?

I agree (and so does everyone else) that getting rid of all racial intolerance is the best thing to do.  But he got me to agree with the underlying concepts of what he was talking about.