symbollic cannibalism is not the same thing as cannibalism, and you said Christians engage in cannibalism...

so I take it you aren't a Christian since you call Communion all that crap...

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Of course not. With a Catholic mother and a Lutheran father, how could anyone stay religious?

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- The Declaration of Independence

Little too deep for ya, ain't it?

No, it wouldn't. Homosexuals are not an ethnic group.

What a country does to its own citizens is that country's business. No other country has any right to interfere. What a country does to another country's citizens is between the countries involved.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

No doubt!

But Islamic countries are sovereign nations just as the United States is a sovereign nation. No nation has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

The prime directive.

I concurr But our business with these people can certainly end. I think we are way to friendly with evil people. Way to involved either way.

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Psst - wake up, Mal.....oil.....

If satan was pumping low cost oil or gas, we would be doing business with him!

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- Robertson Davies

Well I know why but That is not a good enough reason for me.

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Is it that we're friendly with them or is it that they have something we want?

I'd like to see the United States become entirely independent with regard to oil and other energy production.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Man, that'd be nice. I am so sick of the MidEast.

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