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Is "Anti-racist" codeword for "Anti-white"? Yes, IF you are a racist white. Now, IF you can believe polls here (even CNN commentators seem to be biased towards the Republicans and thus live, to some extent, in the neo-conservative "bubble"), just over 30% of white males...

[quote=""Perspicuo""]Yes, it was inclusive, but idiotic. To whom would atheists pray to?[/quote] He didn't say "pray" but that atheists should instead exhibit the "desire" for peace. Is everyone here a closet US Republican who has to twist everything around so...

[quote=""Clivedurdle""]And I'm not sure how that woman on a bike is using a mobile phone![/quote]

Pretty sure that was a 2 way radio. Here in the US of A we had Citizen's Band (CB) radio. I think that was UK, so I do not know what type.

DCH

Just to add my 2ȼ (cents, the smallest coin here in the US): There is certainly more to this story than has so far been presented. 1) All this about weaving and resistant attitude by the deceased student comes from the campus policeman. The dead student is not available to defend his actions. 2) It...

rousseau, A while back I read David Laird Dungan's A History of the Synoptic Problem , and Part Two contains chapters on the emergence of modernism. He is reacting to the impact that the Historical-Critical method of biblical interpretation, which is a product of the age of reason, has had on tradit...

Yes, I also remember hearing it stated some time ago that Guderian had been influenced by Fuller and/or Liddell Hart, but nowadays it seems that both Fuller and Liddell Hart were merely claiming credit, after the war, for techniques that Guderian had adopted from other sources or developed on his ow...

Nowadays Stupid qualifies as a philosophy ... :constern01:

The lone marksman who is later himself killed is much more consistent with the direct military mind. A scenario where a gunman kills an important political figure and then is quickly killed himself is eerily similar to that which occurred in the Philippines when Benigno Aquino, Jr., who was shot de...

[quote=""Davka""]I was born in 1960, right in the middle of the Jonesers. We're sort of invisible, lumped into the Boomers or Xers but not really part of either. Too young to be a hippie, too old to be a punk/ turned out I was a pippie, tho I tried to be a hunk! ... Ah, memories!...

Actually, the truth was that there was at that time a terrible shortage of violin strings, due to the great demand for stringed instruments occasioned by boodge-wah owners of small businesses who insisted on being serenaded while consuming their meals. Violin strings, at that time, were manufactured...