Forum: Brick and Mortar
12-19-2005, 06:29 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,131
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
12-19-2005, 05:55 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,131
Re: Tropicana AC a dump?
Thanks for the advice. Do I need to phone ahead to make sure I get a West Tower room do you think?
Some other questions for while I'm there - which of the new poker rooms should I check out? I...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
12-18-2005, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,131
Re: Tropicana AC a dump?
"What rate did you get and how? "
No special rate as such, I just checked availability on their website and it offered me a room for 72 bucks including taxes. They seem to have some kind of...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
12-17-2005, 06:33 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,131
Tropicana AC a dump?
I'm staying at the Trop in a few days instead of my usual stay at the sweet, sweet Borg (basically because I wasn't up for the waits at the Borg this time and because for once the Trop was as cheap...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 646
Re: Speeding and punishment
"You can easily understand that it's a scheme by looking at how traffic enforcement often works. Patrol cars are often unmarked, often hide in shadows, behind trees and roadside signs, etc, so that...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 721
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 1,238
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,325
Re: why do people love violence?
"It also says something about Lebanese youths attacking lifeguards first."
Allegedly, as part of an isolated incident involving two people, not large-scale rioting.
"Are you saying it is...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 646
Re: Speeding and punishment
"3) with the exception of excessive speeds, speeding can be much more easily reasoned as not dangerous (and possibly true) and is widely accepted as not very dangerous, whereas drugs are widely...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,325
Re: why do people love violence?
:I think its more of a racist statement to blame the actions of a large group of Muslim men riding in 50 cars into a neighborhood with the intent of vandalizing it on "White Supremcists."
From the...
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Forum: Other Other Topics
12-13-2005, 09:00 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,100
Re: Why is Chuck Norris funny?
Cos he seems to take himself so seriously and is so completely out of fashion/a relic of the 70s and 80s? I say he's funny in the way David Hasselhof is funny. He epitomises a certain dated C-List...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 08:51 AM
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Replies: 110
Views: 2,352
Re: This bloodlust is sickening
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Richard,
"Isn't that the idea behind the idea of rehabilitation."
The criminal justice system is not and should not be about rehabilitation. It is about punishment and protecting...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 1,238
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Forum: Politics
12-07-2005, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 448
Re: Hot Air For Africa
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Nobody mentioned the c-word. Corruption—as in African leaders’ corruption.
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This is indeed the major problem. Taki's major problem is that he...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 09:02 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
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Yea nicky, it really pays to keep an open mind so that you can distinguish between different forms of violence and the nuances of differing forms of dictatorship. That way you don't...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 05:26 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
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Yea, I'm sure the peasants and serfs of pre-modern times didn't really feel like their lives were regulated or that whether they lived or died was at the whim of the ruler or ruling class....
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 05:16 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
"Maybe there is a great deal of debate about those things amongst ignorant Westerners, but not amongst imams and mullahs."
Who exactly you mean by "imams and mullahs" I'm not quite sure (Imams in...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 05:12 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
"The Koran advocates war and violence to convert unbelievers"
No, it doesn't.
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 05:11 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: Where You Were, I Was
"the reason Islamic societies have through many centuries tended towards totalitarian rule, and today so clearly do"
There are no Muslim states today that could remotely be characterised as...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 05:08 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
"Next, if you get a Koran and read through and find all the imjunctions to Muslims, the instructions given to them, you will see a mountain of injunctions to fight the infidel, to subjugate the...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 05:01 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: Where You Were, I Was
"THEY believe man's only rightful freedom is to worship Allah and to behave as prescribed in the Koran."
There's a bit of a contradiction there because the Qur'an gives people the freedom to...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
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totalitarianism is largely a 20th century phenomena
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You have just proved you don't know dik about history and therefore it is likely the rest of your...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 04:47 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
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Nicky, Islam has always been a totalitarian system, and Mohammad and his armies spread it by the sword.
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No, it hasn't - totalitarianism is largely a 20th century...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 3,253
Re: The Crusades
"I think you ought perhaps to read some Orianna Fallaci "
The only genuine fascist you've managed to refer to so far.
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Forum: Politics
12-01-2005, 07:29 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 487
Re: Iraq: The Case of Cutting and Running
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There you go again, ruining Felix's whole point with ... um, what are those things called again ... oh, yeah, "facts."
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I appreciate you agreeing with me, but I think we...
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