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Another point to remember is that the Russian Revolution was brought about by internal groups. Even though Stalin was a bastard, he was their bastard, and he was committed to the change. In the case of ex-colonies, even if the departing imperial power happened to be committed to establishing a fully...

I like how oral sex is apparently wrong because it's unhealthy, and someone might have lied to you about how unhealthy it is. One can only assume that smoking, drinking, working as a biochemist, and riding the bus are also all 'implicitly wrong'. And that’s why I called them “wacky.” It’s also inte...

The problem is that D&D in name generally evokes feelings of LotR for most people. As a basic descriptor people are going to say "It's the game where you get to be Legolas or Conan." This probably depends on the age of the person. D&D basically became popular shortly after LotR be...

Ummm, the "occupied territories" were parts of three Arab countries , not a separate Palestinian state. The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories captured by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967, consisting of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the ...

I seem to have used the wrong expression. I meant heavy-handed rather than hot and heavy. I know he asked for Patterson to resign. I was just wondering why. And I'm pretty sure that patterson has admitted to drugs and prostituting as well. IIRC, drugs yes, prostitution no. However, he did admit to ...

Zherog wrote:

Absentminded_Wizard wrote:Under these criteria, does Mussolini get a pass because he made the trains run on time?

He did what now?

Interesting.

It seems like the defense of Stalin is kind of selective. Under these criteria, does Mussolini get a pass because he made the trains run on time? Or Hitler, because he brought Germany out of the Great Depression?

NFP is basically the new, improved Rhythm Method. The objective is the same (only have sex when the woman isn't ovulating), but the methods are more sophisticated (things like monitoring the woman's temperature instead of checking the calendar against known data about the woman's menstrual cycle). I...

tzor wrote:The sacrament of baptism requires three conditions, matter (water), form (Trinitarian baptism), and intent (wanting to be baptized).

So how does the Catholic Church figure out if all those little babies want to be baptized?

More gibberish. Apparently, not mentioning Red Dawn until paragraph 23 and deigning to mention To Wong Foo is horribly slanted coverage. Tim Graham[/url]][The Washington Post's] obituary for Patrick Swayze begins obviously by noting his big hits "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing," but ...

It'll be interesting to see how much hype Swayze's death gets. On the one hand, like Michael Jackson, he died relatively young. However, unlike Michael Jackson, he was a clearly recognizable figure* but didn't have the kind of huge impact on popular culture that MJ did. I guess this is where we find...

To me, both situations are exactly the same, especially with regards to your previous post. It's simply not the first time a President has been ridiculed, heckled or booed in Congress. However, I think this whole argument is overall a little retarded. The thing is, booing is basically a statement o...

Actually, the original bill would have barred illegals from subsidies to purchase insurance on the exchange, but would have allowed them to pay for it with their own money. Now the administration, in an attempt to compromise with the Joe Wilsons of the world, is lobbying to put in a provision barrin...

...I'm very interested that all the information on Afghanistan prior 9/11 has been pretty much overwritten by modern occurrences. Anyhow, yes, that's how an Islamic Republic works. You have a civil government and a shadow Islamic government and then Islamic courts. It's not like our three-part gove...

Also, if we WANTED Bin Laden, we'd have him already. We spent months after 9/11 sabre-rattling and giving his relatives flights out of the country so he could pack up his dialysis machine and find a new place to hide. Bin Laden's health is broken and he needs to be hooked up to machines a couple ti...

Afghanistan provided al Qaeda, with, pretty much, room to put stuff and people. The Taliban didn't have the resources to do a whole lot else, and, really, Afghanistan big and mountainous, if you want to hide there you can pretty much just do that (as we've found out). Sure, they could hide out in c...

Count: bin Laden's stated reason for hating the U.S. in 2001 was that we stationed soldiers in Saudi Arabia, the home of the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He only started the anti-Israel rhetoric after being chased out of Afghanistan because it's a great way for a beleaguered figure to dru...

WotC's very own sit on my facebook and I'll twitter your myspace! Looks like it was built on some sort of early 90's design philosophy to just cram in flashy things to get people's attention that doesn't really work cause they just want to count page hits. The sad thing is that there's actually a s...

What will people think when they see four pages of mouth-frothing based on whether or not acid ignores hardness according to the rules-as-written? Come on. Just accept that the rules are poorly written and move on. This may be themost sensible thing you've ever said on TGD. However you interpret th...

I've found that electric razors are much better if you shave with them every day. If I go three days without shaving, it's much harder to get a good shave out of one. As for safety razors, it seems like the mulitple-blade models shave a little closer than single-blades, but not by a huge amount. One...

Actually, there is nothing that says creatures can't have hardness. ...Why? They look like proof to me. Clearly, the first sentence is the actual definition of hardness... Each object has hardness—a number that represents how well it [object] resists damage. By this definition, hardness is the prop...

I think they also use e-mail contact lists to get suggestions. At least, I once got one of my professors as a suggested friend; and this was back when I had only two Facebook friends, none from the college, and the only contact that Facebook would have known about would have been e-mails related to ...

Yeah, it definitely would have been better if Obama had just said, "Here is what I want in a healthcare bill" (as opposed to "Here are a few vague red lines that might or might not provoke a veto"). Leaving it to a large body like the Congressional Democrats, who have varying ide...

So, by 4e RAW, you can break down a door but can't break a window? Is a glass house the best defense in 4e?

Actually, there is nothing that says creatures can't have hardness. Each object has hardness—a number that represents how well it resists damage. Whenever an object takes damage, subtract its hardness from the damage. Only damage in excess of its hardness is deducted from the object’s hit points Cle...