Dhimmitude, What does it mean?

Screw them all....equally!

Usury is proscribed in all the Abrahamic religions, not just Islam....if public policy is to equitably take into account the religious sensitivities of some faiths...then all faiths should be free to be accorded equivalent exemptions according to their sacred doctrines. Unfortunately the whole of the tax base of the nation would then fall upon atheists who have no sacred god inspired books or texts to fall back upon for relief!

http://www.calbaptist.edu/dskubik/skubik-usury-proposal.pdf

The sensible answer is not to provide any fiducary exemption for any faith on the basis of the faith's doctrinal idiosyncracies. If the faithful find the situation intolerable, they are welcome to find some other country where their religious ideals are better matched. If the whole population is going to be screwed, then it is rather silly to exempt muslims from that game just because they believe that Allah told Mohammed that muslims can't play games of chance. If EVERYONE gets screwed...there's no element of chance involved! ; )

 

It doesn't matter....the fact that over 700 companies (representing over 2 million workers) are now exempt from adopting the plan means the "plan" is a big, steaming pile of sh|t. Yet...people are not outraged at this obvious "disparity."

People just don't care...if it doesn't hurt too bad...and there aren't check-points with armed men asking for papers, people just aren't going to think of consequences.

 

basically the healthcare bill punishes everyone attempting to do the "right thing" (from the anglo-western-judeo-christian- standards/views)

And most of them, are too busy scrambling to hold onto the "american dream", to bother to notice, or (heaven forbid) actually get involved.

IMO

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It means, freedom lost.

 

Another "The Sky is falling e-mail" .........

I'm not sure why folks here multiple post this spam e-mail....particularly referencing the Snopes analysis of the e-mail. A reading of Snopes indicates quite clearly that the e-mail is a hoax...and then explains in some detail as to why the e-mail is misleading and erronious....go figure.

Urban Legends also confirms that the e-mail is false and unsubstantiated.

Perhaps the motivation for spreading the e-mail is to scare monger and create an environment of fear and anxiety.....hmmm....it seems to be working effectively.

 

Nuff said about Snopes.

 

I'm pretty sure he uses 'Dragon Dictate' instead of a keyboard...

 

If he speaks the way he types I'll bet he could go to sleep listening to himself yammer

 

Good lord....why would I do that???.....my conversations are the only ones worth listening to...well...almost the only one... 07-1 does actually say something sensible occasionally. I can't appreciate and bask in the brilliance of my own pearls of wisdom if I'm alseep now, can I. ; )

(1) I'm glad that you like to read my typing....but like reading egyption heiroglyphics...for those that have put the effort into learning to do so...comprehending what is read can be, when one masters the art, a pure joy and a very rewarding enterprise. Where is the art in copying and pasting someone else's ideas instead of expressing one's own original thoughts (good, or, as it may seem to be in many cases...execrably bad)?

(2) Not so much of a problem....keyboards are cheaply replaceable. But, I'll let you know when I have had to replace it due to use above and beyond testing to destruction specs.


It amuses me when I see posts from SM members complaining that I write /type too much, or am verbose, or am boring (though that may be more a matter of a reader's low boredom threshold) or that I bamboozle people with language that they seem to find difficult to grasp, given their level of education. It usually indicates to me that they have no real answer to offer to what I have expressed, or that they are themselves quite incapable of defending adequately the arguments and ideas that they are supporting. It's the kind of school yard stuff that might be seen when some braniac nerd out reasons an otiose oaf...and all that the oaf can do is to say "Yer...whatever...you stink (you talk too much, you're boring etc)...take this...(whack!)"

All I can suggest to my detractors is...learn to argue your case better, with fewer fallacious foundations.

 

Most of us make our point in a few words.

 

if at all. A fallacious argument even if brief, is still a fallacious argument.

 

I had a professor once who would have labeled that as verbal flatulence

 

An eloquent confirmation of my thesis...and it must have only taken but a couple of mouse clicks....lmao

 

I dont know all the "Fancy" words but I do know reality........
The first Brother that gets arrestet because he doesnt have "health insurance" will show what a joke Obama is and that will be the end of the health care joke....

But the bs will wind up like how most laws are now viewed ,,,,,, just suggestions...

 

Your professors could label my posts as they like....but at the end of the day...your professor is not the one on this site critiqueing my literary or rhetorical style. It would be better to speak on your own account than to rely on what you might imagine that some academic may have to say on the matter.

I have had teachers and academics who actually did like the way that I expressed myself...to the extent of giving me credits, distinctions and high distinctions for my work. But they are not here at this site to extol my expressive virtues...so.... claims such as yours...like claims such as mine would merely be ...flattus ; ) But it does fill in time I suppose.

 

Nah, if the shoe wasn't a fit I would not have mentioned it..

Amazingly somehow your post reminded me of his words.

Every young engineer learns where product is made is quite different than his ala mater.