Due to the number of British Commonwealth countries involved this event quickly became known (among other terms) as the Boxing Day Tsunami.

I had to look it up out of curiosity, he is right about the cow urine. Though I'd bet it's a minority of Hindus that go in for that sort of thing. Now we just need more videos of Hindus talking shit about Muslims to balance things out.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5707554.ece

A few years back I saw a very interesting documentary on all the questions surrounded the landing. It made me cautious enough to question the validity of the facts we have. I've learned not to trust in belief based on something I've been told or what's in a book. That's why I don't believe in religion. One thing I do believe in, it's man's ability to lie.

Research on the internet reveals solid, sound proof of the landings while it also offers some very interesting questions such as theVan Allen Radiation Belt.

What I end up with is one big science-fiction story that I hope is true but have no way of actually proving for myself..

Two random picked sites on either side of the debate.:
• Facts and Info about the Fake Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory
• The 15 Essential Moon landing facts


>> ^spoco2:


Really? Good arguments from the side that say it was a hoax?
Show me ANY GOOD arguments and I'll respect your stance, but there are NONE. NONE. Every one of their inane arguments is utter rubbish and easily, simply, painfully debunkable.

Maybe it was a slip of the tongue, but then its more believable given her apparent past trouble understanding there were two koreas: "Heilemann and Halperin write: "Palin couldn't explain why North Korea and South Korea were separate nations."

1) Muslims aren't a race. 2) It has absolutely nothing to do with not liking Muslims. It has everything to do with not liking governments that bend over backward for oppressive religions. Notice how this video is about a crazy American not realizing that government and religion are supposed to be separate in the US--well, that's not something you escape by going to Europe.



Even England still has blasphemy laws on the books from hundreds of years ago, but they're never enforced. Actual instances of people being prosecuted for blasphemy in Europe are very few and far between.



The UK is a surveillance state. I know it makes Brits sad when people say it, but they have more CCTV cameras per capita than any other country in the world.



Depends how the cameras are used. The mere existence of CCTV cameras on the streets is not necessarily a bad thing.



There is legislation that would allow the government to store every email and website you send/visit.



That would be very very bad, but the law hasn't actually been passed yet. It was just proposed. Surveilance of the internet is worse than surveilance of public streets because:



1. Nearly all internet crimes are victimless crimes except where people are using the internet to plan to do something IRL. There is no such thing as getting mugged on the internet, and viruses/hacking are nearly 100% avoidable as a matter of personal responsibility without much need for policing.



2. There is an expectation of privacy in your personal communications that does not exist when you're walking down a public street. If 1000 other people walking down that street can see it too, why are you worried about one more guy watching it on CCTV?



3. People can and will use encryption to circumvent any and all attempts at policing the internet, so don't even bother. Internet anarchy is inevitable so you might as well accept it.




Anyone charged with any sort of offense has his/her DNA stored permanently (England and Wales).



This is exactly the same in principle as fingerprinting. I've got no problem with it.


There are (different link) Sharia courts in the UK.
It's not my country, so they can do whatever they want with it, but I definitely wouldn't move there if I were upset about the Republicans' stance on religion, or the police, or either party's stance on wiretapping, or any of the other things we've generally been pissed off about in the United States. Except for the socialized medicine thing. I could go for that.




Separate courts for Sharia law are bad, but is that really much different from a corporation making employees agree to resolve all civil disputes with the employer via binding arbitration with a particular arbitrator? In the latter case there's sort of coercion/adhesion going on. If both sides were really free to choose and agreed upon using a particular arbitrator to resolve their civil disputes, then there'd be no problem. If e.g. Muslim women in abusive relationships are being forced my their husbands to use these separate courts, that's terrible, but I haven't seen anything to substantiate that or anything similar.

@jwray: 1) Muslims aren't a race. 2) It has absolutely nothing to do with not liking Muslims. It has everything to do with not liking governments that bend over backward for oppressive religions. Notice how this video is about a crazy American not realizing that government and religion are supposed to be separate in the US--well, that's not something you escape by going to Europe. There seem to be a lot of laws against blasphemy popping up.

I never said that the US was "more free" than the UK, or said that the US was better. I said that the UK was not better than the US, though. They're just fucked up in different ways.

The UK is a surveillance state. I know it makes Brits sad when people say it, but they have more CCTV cameras per capita than any other country in the world. There is legislation that would allow the government to store every email and website you send/visit. Anyone charged with any sort of offense has his/her DNA stored permanently (England and Wales).

There are (different link) Sharia courts in the UK.

It's not my country, so they can do whatever they want with it, but I definitely wouldn't move there if I were upset about the Republicans' stance on religion, or the police, or either party's stance on wiretapping, or any of the other things we've generally been pissed off about in the United States. Except for the socialized medicine thing. I could go for that.

Uhmm... yah. We have the same thing here, if you don't remember take a look.>> ^quantumushroom:
Meanwhile... Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts

>> ^quantumushroom:

Catholics are an easy PC-approved target for these folks and the left in general. Boys were being buggered by criminally mental defectives, not "in the name of the Catholic Church."
Remember the hypocrisy: a "small" group of jihadists continue their worldwide assaults and we're told they are not a part of islam while a small group of criminal priests = blanket condemnation of the world's one billion Catholics.
Meanwhile... Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts


I think the concern here is more the orchestrated coverup extending to the highest levels of the catholic hierarchy. I don't think anyone has a problem with practitioners of catholicism. Further, Islam has by no means escaped atheists' censure.

Catholics are an easy PC-approved target for these folks and the left in general. Boys were being buggered by criminally mental defectives, not "in the name of the Catholic Church."

Remember the hypocrisy: a "small" group of jihadists continue their worldwide assaults and we're told they are not a part of islam while a small group of criminal priests = blanket condemnation of the world's one billion Catholics.

Meanwhile... Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts

Read the full story (via Neatorama).

Everyone in Iran is certainly hoping that the CIA/US would leave the movement alone[1]. This is an internal soul searching, and if US deploys its old tactics, it would only serve to reinforce and prove that the current regime's mentality against the west is correct.

In 1953, US overthrew the democratic government of Iran and replaced it with the Shah. Then US supported Saddam to wage a 9 year war with Iran, which led to lose of over a million Iranian lives.

The current paranoid and oppressive regime is a reaction to past foreign policy choices of US, and as an average Iranian we hope that it won't repeat mistakes of the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE

[1] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6964530.ece

Luckily we have google for people who don't get stuff. Here is a lobbyist. And here is a moneymaking scheme.

You can't deny this any more than you can deny global warming. Taxing oil makes little difference to the companies as the prices will go up, so you and I will be the ones paying for it. Whether or not warming is everything it's made out to be, the economic consequences cannot be ignored.>> ^MaxWilder:
I still don't get that argument that man made global warming is a moneymaking scam. As opposed to what? The trillions that are made annually by those honest, hardworking oil companies? If you follow the money on both sides of the argument, it's pretty damn clear who is trying to protect their assets.

I'm going to have to call *lies
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3111547.ece
bottom of article:
- The largest firework is thought to be the Universe I Part II, used in a festival in Japan in 1988. The 1,543lb (700kg) shell burst to a diameter of 3,937 feet (1,200m)

However "This was not an aerial shell but a shell that was placed on a floating platform and ignited"
http://www.pyro-pages.com/Info/records.htm

Funniest man america's side of the pond..honestly..

Signed,

A Bugler

This was pretty shitty three years ago... it hasn't gotten better.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1
857190.ece