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I am Retired U.S. Army. Became a Christian some time ago, and studied The Bible extensively. I went from atheist to agnostic to studying eastern religions until I finally became a Christian. Was a 'theistic evolutionist' for a while until i became convinced evolution was a complete crock. Stationed in Germany before the wall went down, and was privileged to be there when it finally went away. I spent about 7 years in the Gulf of Mexico, as a Marine Engineer. Worked with a defense contractor for a while (WAY cool stuff, lots of tech), and have been living in Australia for some time, again as a Marine Engineer. Really into pretty much all history, but specifically Ancient History, and WWII History. hobbies are mostly electronic and tech stuff, Warhammer 40k, building models, model trains, etc. Haven't grown up, probably never will:) Politics on the right end of spectrum, and used to consider some left points of view, but since it has become so far off the scale, I dont try much anymore.

  • Why are Global warming protesters such hypocrites?

    The protesters held a rally in New York and left SEVEN AND A HALF TONS of garbage behind, lots of it non-recyclable plastic.

    Why such hypocrisy? Do they even REALIZE what they are doing? the INFRASTRUCTURE needed to even allow them to protest????

    1. Transport to protest site (extra fuel consumption and running extra transport for the added work load)

    2. Added energy consumption from people staying at hotels.

    3. INCREDIBLE waste of food, not to mention energy consumed to make them the food they throw away.

    4. and how about extra strain on the sewer system??? all that extra WASTE MANAGEMENT, because they are so full of it.

    I would think the BEST way to PROTEST against 'global warming' is to STOP CONSUMING. don't make that trip to the city. don't buy fast food.

    I doubt if it even comes across their minds, they just blindly roll along chanting their Al Gore high priest mantras, and feel justified in their cause when they take that energy consuming jet home. or drive their SUV.

    8 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • What will happen to the white cop who shot a black man in Oklahoma?

    Will they nail the cop for violating his civil rights? religious persecution because he was muslim? will the community get together, burn down half the town, and riot because a white cop shot a black man?

    Will al Sharpton show up at his funeral an spout off another racially divisive rant?

    I am just wondering how they are going to handle THIS one.

    5 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Do you think this really irritates ISIS?

    Today, and American FEMALE fighter pilot just bombed the crap out of them!

    I hope she tied little pink bows to her bombs.

    the shame.... the shame...

    too bad, so sad for you.

    2 AnswersOther - News & Events7 years ago
  • so what happened with the 'NO WMDS' in Iraq??

    It seems the 'Bush lied, babies died' crowd has been strangely silent recently now that it has been proven that the Syrians used IRAQI WMDs when they were gassing their people, and now ISIS has a warehouse full of the stuff in Iraq.

    Or did Bush 'pre-plan' all this stuff too?

    Is it still a 'Bush-Cheney plot' to take over all the oil in iraq now that ISIS is selling it for $60.00 a barrel and undercutting the world market, or is Cheney getting a cut of that too?

    Or MAYBE, Bush was just doing what he thought was right and could SEE THE FUTURE (now), or what would happen in Iraq if we didn't have troops there.

    They knew back then that when we went in to Afghanistan after 9-11 (oh, WAIT!, that was an evil Bush plot too!!), that these people would scatter like cockroaches and head to...Iraq. doing what he did back then kept the war localized.

    Now that the worlds Savior, Obama, has pulled out the troops, only a few months after, the country was over run by people WORSE than the ones before, people that Bin-laden would think was crazy.

    Just wanted to hear the responses, you know, like when the hippies said PEACE after Vietnam, and the entire region collapsed and over two million people were killed in the Pol-Pot regime alone after we left.

    The hippies were silent about that too.

    10 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • How does a ‘peaceful protest’ devolve into machine gun and mortar attacks?

    When does a ‘protest’ against an ‘anti-Islamic’ video fuel enough rage to justify an attack on an American consulate?

    Was this a spur of the moment thing, or was the protest PLANNED to disguise a terrorist attack on sovereign American soil?

    Did Obama and Hillary (and the rest of the white-house hierarchy) go in to damage control and try to cover this up during election year?

    I guess they finally declassified the Benghazi attack, as I watched an interview with the survivors. These were navy seal and Delta force who were there to get out the staff.. They could see the telltale signs of a pre-planned attack.

    They spent thirteen hours under a machine gun and mortar attack from ‘an angry mob’?

    The FIRST mortars to hit were within a few meters of their target (the defense personnel). Pretty good for spur of the moment crazy mob, don’t you think? One guy had his arm and leg blown off, another almost had his arm blown off, and others were riddled with shrapnel.

    They had to fight their way to the airport (thankfully with the help of pro-American militia), and finally got out of there, but only after four were killed.

    This is despicable in the extreme, to cover up a major attack on an American diplomatic headquarters just to save on some votes.

    I am fairly certain what the Republicans think, but I need some help from you Obama supporters to TRY and understand his reasoning, and don’t go the ‘its all Bush’s fault’ route. Or are you just as p i s s e d off about this as I am?

    5 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Do I detect a trend in silencing free thought?

    Turned in again to the thought police for just expressing my views regarding the church of evolution.

    A rant?

    no.

    defaming or insulting?

    no.

    i would think people in the church would consider it an honor to be among the faithful.

    but trying to silence MY freedom of thought and freedom of speech because as scientific professional, I might be considered dangerous to the established order of things?? I am a marine engineer so pardon the pun when I say 'rock the boat'?

    My world revolves around TRUE science. not just keeping machinery running, but calculating volumes, displacement. etc. ( and lets not forget keeping the boat from sinking in that 'perfect storm')

    I have 2000 barrels of liquid mud to pump to the oil rig.

    my pump pushes out 250 gallons a minute.

    I have to pump 16.5 pound (pounds per gallon) of oil based liquid mud through a 6 inch hose 200 feet up to the rig.

    I just woke up, QUICK! the rig wants to know how long it is going to take for you to pump the fluid to them! they need to know NOW!

    let me get a coffee first.

    BUT, people in this forum who rip religion daily, are actually CLUELESS about how the theory of evolution actually works (best guess), and are clueless about the faith of about three BILLION people. and are resorting to terrorism to shut people up who disagree, are a DISGRACE to the very 'principles' they seem to stand up for, letting ALL scientific views have their say. sadly, this is not the case.

    'Big brother is watching'

    1984: George Orwell

    2 AnswersSociety & Culture7 years ago
  • WHERE are the millions of people protesting the evils of Obamas 'unjust' war in Iraq?

    The latest terrorist SAW VII film on the internet DIRECTLY accuses Obama of his war of aggression in Iraq. Where are all the volunteer 'human shields' to go there and stand in front of these poor terrorists? Where are the mass street protests to stop this unjust bombing and American being slaughtered like sheep on the internet? this is not because we have thousands of troops on the ground, it is because HE pulled them OUT.

    I know, first off, all the Bush-haters are going to say 'its all Bush's fault.' The best chance of a lasting peace in the mideast was gone the moment Obama got elected. love him or hate him, Bush was probably the best thing that ever happened to the mideast IF Obama would have kept the troops there. now, he is back to 'the Clinton years', by being PC, worried about poll numbers and the popular democratic vote, and just BOMBING them.

    Again, americans are being BRUTALLY MURDERED in the worst way imaginable directly because of Obamas buffoonery. where are the foaming at the mouth protesters?

    3 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Is history repeating itself?

    In WWII, Churchill said this about at the time prime minister Chamberlain:

    'Mr. chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, while Hitler takes a country in a weekend.'

    who does this sound like to you?

    HINT: somebody that likes to golf.

    5 AnswersHistory7 years ago
  • Why do people today complain about police brutality?

    I am pretty certain the media has a lot to do with it, plus it seems the general public HAS NO CLUE about even the recent history of Americas police force.

    Even in the 70s, they used dogs, water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets....and BAYONETS to subdue those 'peace' protestors (I don't see anything peaceful about setting a community on fire and looting the stores).

    Look up: KENT STATE MASSACRE.

    And go a good while back to the 'Bonnie and Clyde' days, where the police were packing Thompson Sub-machine guns, and BAR Rifles (light machine guns). Were bonnie and Clyde wanted back robbers and killers? Probably, but we will NEVER KNOW, because the cops AMBUSHED THEM. no halt and get on the ground, no stop the car, nothing. Over TWO THOUSAND bullet holes in their car, and Bonnie and Clyde didn't even see it coming. TWO THOUSAND ROUNDS. and how many MISSED? that means: EMPTY magazine into car. RELOAD. EMPTY. RELOAD. all the cops had to at least have reloaded twice to get off that many rounds. Then it was pistols and shotguns after that.

    Were Bonnie and Clyde black? racist cops? How many 'good old boys' in the south TODAY get beaten to a pulp by the cops on almost a daily basis? No judge, no jury, no Al Sharpton screaming about the violation of their civil rights.

    So, is it media hype, clueless public with no clue of American history, or both?

    3 AnswersOther - Society & Culture7 years ago
  • Turned in to the thought police AGAIN?

    I asked a question about if Martin Luther King was here today, would he be railing against 'police injustice' in Ferguson, or in Detroit, trying to stop all the black on black killings.

    Is black america IGNORANT of what he was about? He wanted social justice, but he also wanted black america to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY of their own lives, and not have the government controlling their lives (like the government is now through cradle to grave welfare)

    I was turned in to the THOUGHT POLICE because it was 'inflammatory, ranting speech'.

    Do people just hate TRUTH? they don't want to hear another point of view?

    5 AnswersSociology7 years ago
  • Is Obama completely clueless about the mideast or foreign affairs? does he care?

    First:

    1. he paints a half dozen red lines in Syria, and they roll over them with tanks....and chemical weapons. NOTHING.

    2. Then ISIS is ramping up, and he calls them 'JUNIOR VARSITY'.

    THEN they start slaughtering Christians in Iraq, and BLOW UP Jonah's Tomb, in Nianevah, a shrine sacred to Christians Muslims, and Jews, and about the only place in the world where all three religions worship together.

    3. After that, Christians and Kurds are isolated on a mountain, and he send people in, and declares the situation 'under control'.

    4. and NOW, they are back to the old beheading on the internet thing.

    BEFORE you respond, all BUSH BAITERS just SHUT UP, don't go back to 'its all Bush's fault'. He INHERITED a mess. Remember the FIRST world trade center bombing? The USS cole? the embassy bombings in Kenya? so i don't want to hear it.

    I want to know if Obama is as dumb as many suspect he is, or is he actually doing this ON PURPOSE to destroy america? or is he just such an egomaniac that he wants just higher polling numbers at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives in the mideast?

    4 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Racially, have we become a nation of cowards?

    I just CANT BELIEVE that a LEADER of the NATION, can stand up and say something so RACIALLY BIASED! who are YOU? WHAT are you? LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!!!!!!!!! a person 'other than WHITE' was ELECTED by a majority of WHITES. So what are you saying, we are actually cowards because we don't elect anyone from the Klan and give them equal time?

    It is ok the make villains out of white people because they are upset because their STORE was burn down by THUGS? people paint on the front of their store BLACK OWNED, so that they only burn down WHITE businesses?

    I can't believe a leader of out nation can stand up and say that the WHITE people who elected him are racial cowards. LOOK IN THE MIRROR! do you HATE yourself that much?

    5 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • would there be riots and a world wide firestorm if a black cop shot a white kid?

    OH WAIT! It happens all the time. probably wouldn't make the news. hmmmm.... don't know if the thought police are listening, SHHHH!!!! BIG BROTHER is watching!

    11 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Do computers spy on us?

    I had a revelation that once some troll reports me, then the thought police automatically zero in...with computers. I timed it, less than two minutes. must be automatic. lets see how long this lasts..unless they ban me from posting questions (PC out of control). HA! I made a pun! PC...Politcally Correct? Personal Computer? The PC police are monitoring my PC! SHHHHHH!!!!! BIG BROTHER is watching!

    12 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Is the police today really militarized?

    With all the riots going on in Missouri, all I see is cops with amored cars and dressed in swat gear. I do recall a while back, where the police would have gas masks and BAYONETS, and wade in to the crowd, stabbing ANYONE who couldn't get away. People seem to forget 'the good old days', where half of the riot force would shoot in to the air and the other half would shoot in to the crowd. I would think today we are better off just seeing the cops standing around all geared up, and not actually going 'old school' on rioting scumbags.

    7 AnswersCurrent Events7 years ago
  • Should Johnathan Gentry run for president?

    He has more testicles for the current town idiot in the White house, and he didn't go on a world apology tour. His 'rant' on you tube is truth and conviction. Of course, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the rest of their ilk probably hate him for what he said.

    3 AnswersElections7 years ago
  • Is Obama a used car salesman?

    I have been watching his health care 'sales pitch' over and over. Then I watch commercials on TV about used car salesmen saying 'COME ON DOWN! I have the BEST deal in the state!'

    Then you buy the sales pitch and the car breaks down 2 miles down the road.

    Except with Obamacare, they FORCE you to buy the car, and it doesnt make it out of the used car lot.

    sixty four million Dollars on the website just to get the message out, and it crashes.....

    From watching the hearings on the hill recently, only eighteen thousand people have been processed.

    so let me get this straight:

    The government is going to force me to get health care.

    I get online to find my 'best' plan.

    I cant get online because it crashes all the time.

    THEN I get penalized through taxes for not getting Obamacare.

    Obama 'sold' himself to the american people because he is supposed to be young and charismatic.

    So being tech savvy that he is, he puts out a website that young people can use (who are the least likely to need health care), and it doesnt work, and it has been said it has more bugs in it than a 1980s website.

    He has thrown just about everyone over 60 under the bus (the ones that need health care the most), because they havent been brought up with computers and the internet.

    NEW FLASH

    How about a 1-800 number?

    Still doesnt work.

    The future of America?

    It looks like mandatory euthanasia of everyone over sixty because they cannot get online to get healthcare, and are a drain on the system.

    The Odumba administration wants you to trust them with your health care, when they cant get a website together.

    I would rather go to a witch doctor and be sprinkled with chicken blood while they scream and dance around me, at least I will get satisfaction that SOMONE is at least trying to help me.

    7 AnswersPolitics8 years ago
  • How do I upload data to my iphone from my computer without wiping the phone clean?

    Some time ago, I purchased a macbook air (beefed up ipad), and have downloaded some movies from itunes to it. I hooked up my iphone, and synced pics, calendar, phone book, notes, etc, and I want to upload a movie from my itunes library to my phone.

    Everything is 'ghosted out', and when I go to click on 'sync all movies', It tells me everything on my phone will be deleted and the library on my computer will be synced to the phone.

    I dont want to lose 28 gigs of movies and music on my phone.

    How can I upload movies from my mac to my iphone without losing all my data?

    1 AnswerDesktops8 years ago
  • should Vladimir Putin be our next president?

    I know, this will be an automatic turn-in to the thought police (just like good KGB agents), but here goes:

    To much of the shallow, American sheeple, he would seem like the perfect choice.

    Dumb, shallow-minded college kids swooned over Obama when he was in a swimming costume. (what does that have ANYTHING to do with being able to lead a country?).

    Putin did the same, photo-op of him with no shirt on riding a horse.

    He is a WAY better speaker than our current clown-in-chief, and his cronies from the former KGB whipped up a PERFECT STORM propaganda speech that any democrat would be jealous of.

    He took our most liberal newspaper, crapped on it, and rubbed Obamas nose in it, like Obama pooed in the wrong corner of the house.

    He took every play from the dirty-slime-the-enemy democrat playbook that was ever used, and rolled it all in to one.

    And made the Obama administration look like a bunch of circus clowns (not too much of a stretch there).

    PLUS, he is a 'reformed' communist, which would make him the darling of Democrats anywhere (even the playing field by taking money from people who work and giving it to people that dont).

    He could even start a new party, the KGB party. after all, they infiltrated the democrat party in the 50s and 60s, and no one ever caught it.....

    until today.....

    2 AnswersGovernment8 years ago
  • Turned in to the thought police AGAIN!, wow! Atheists, why so close minded?

    I answered a question about Atheism.....

    and got turned in to the thought police.

    I asked a question about Atheism....

    and got turned in to the thought police.

    Is this a ploy by the violent Atheist community to SILENCE FREE THOUGHT?????

    Intellectual terrorism????

    SILENCE, INFIDEL!

    ALL ideas entertained, no matter how vile, but DO NOT imply anything good about even the EXISTENCE of a higher power.

    I lost points for being turned in to the thought police.

    DO I CARE?

    7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years ago