My only contact with Islam has been through professors who specialize in it. The same goes for most religions, aside from what I read on the news and so forth. I've never sat down and chatted with Average Ahmed the Muslim about his faith.

So, I admit that maybe I'm biased; maybe I'm re-spouting idealistic thoughts about religion with my own idealistic take on it. But, there's a common trend throughout every scholarly lecture I've attended about any religion in the past school year. Lectures on eastern Christianity and Islam were the most memorable (I've only listened to talks about the Abrahamic traditions, and the Judaism ones really went over my head). Every time, the lecturer has said that war sucks, isn't supported by the texts, etc. And every time someone asks, "well, what so-and-so saying that religion to justifies this stuff?"

Every time, the lecturer answers, "well, they're wrong", going on to say that it's undereducated people with axes to grind interpreting scripture to further their own goals. Terrorists, broadly speaking, are not expert theologians.

No, I'm just like you are, in case you forgot...[quote]Originally posted by OnyxCougar
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[color=indigo] If an act of war is perped on American soil, once the perpetrators are tracked down, we Hiroshima the fuck out of the country that they came from. Period.


February: All illegals will be rounded up at gunpoint and deported. Anyone caught crossing the border other than at manned checkpoints with immigration papers in hand are shot, regardless of age/sex/disability/religion.


May: All persons on death row that have been verified as guilty by way of DNA evidence or admission of guilt are to be executed by May 7.

I looked in a couple of dictionaries for Raghead, Rag-Head and Rag Head. No luck. Is that like pornography in that you can’t define it but you’ll know one when you see them?
How can you call someone a racist, or accuse them of casting aspersions of billions of people by using a word that has no meaning.
Does it mean people of Islamic faith? I’d venture to say most Islamic people wear no head covering, most of the time. Look at the pictures from the myriad of predominately Islamic countries, and I think you’ll find that to be true. Look at the pictures from Iraq, or the Indonesians, or Palestinians.
Look at the pictures of the terrorists, outside the US. er,...uh.....gosh,.....Ragheads.
:p

Anyhoo...to get back to the spirit of the thread-

Marriage licenses are banned, to be replaced with 2 year permits.
If both parties agree to renew, so be it, and vice-versa.
Any community property acquired during the permit period is split 50-50 as well as any possible visitation arrangements upon non-renewals. Screw the lawyer's fees.

people found to have "unintentionally" caused injury to someone by shooting weapon into air is summarily shot, with their own weapon.

And shot by the family of the injured party!

nice touch. and if the first shot happens to hit the kneecap, the second hits the elbow, the third... well dammit they just have to keep going until they figure that malfunctioning weapon out!

Agreed..and if the kids are missing pitching and batting practice because of attendance at this event, well, two birds with one stone, eh?.

people found guilty of crimes against children receive a complimentary tattoo of a beautiful woman on there back and a lifetime sentence in a turkish prison.

need more rules.

Haven't had time to read through it, so I'm sorry if I repeat one.

Every child is required to be fluent in English and at least one other language before graduating from junior high. This means immigrants, too.

All pharmaceutical advertising is permanently banned.

The term "Marriage" is removed from all laws. The societal institutions can go around "marrying" people if they wish; the gub'ment is in the business of enforcing contract law.

Large-scale funding of research into effective, safe, cheap and easily available birth control, for males and females.

Constitutional amendment granting the right to privacy.

Judges cannot be elected; only appointed.

...I'll think of more later.
[later] Oh, yeah, that universal sunset provision -- GREAT IDEA!

Remove tax/tariff/gas milage exemptions for "light trucks".

Run Wal-Mart and their ideological cronies out of town.

Decrease or remove subsidies for corn farming. Go back to a "grain reserve" program, not a loan program.

Rescind software patents.

Say it with me now ...

All nuclear power, all the time.

I'll say that, with the caveat:

Wind, solar, and geothermal where feasible, and hydroelectric where it already is.