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by Garyt
Sat Apr 04, 2015 1:55 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Replies: 1
Views: 9191

Re: Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Funny. Now they are backtracking and adding a non-discriminatory amendment to it, that you cannot discriminate against someone due to sexual persuasion when asserting your rights under the Freedom restoration act. :shock: However, this apparently DOES allow you to still discriminate against someone ...
by Garyt
Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:15 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Have you ever read Plato's Republic, or the Federalist Papers , or Gibbons' Decline and Fall, or anything by Hayek or Von Mises, or even David Horowitz? I find this interesting as Hamilton was opposed to the Bill of Rights, as his thought was there was not a need for the constitution to state the r...
by Garyt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Thanks Steve :D I kinda figured military forums would appeal to the ultra-conservative. I just was hoping though that those who can speak with great detail regarding very detailed and factual information regarding the specs on a ship would also speak of specifics in a political debate, you can't rea...
by Garyt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

GaryT - Do you seriously propose to debate the politics of our time based upon a comparative numerical count of executive orders? No. What I thought I was doing was debating the claims that Obama made excessive use of executive orders that as repeated over and over by the right. I was being rather ...
by Garyt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 10:57 pm
Forum: The Wreck of the Bismarck
Topic: Bismarck Wreck Salvage
Replies: 113
Views: 158031

Re: Bismarck Wreck Salvage

I think bringing up certain items for museum display so all can see - and future generations have something tangible to see 'in the flesh' - is a good thing. After all, all those wrecks will one day be hardly recognisable as a ship at all, just piles of rusted metal, or worse disappear completely d...
by Garyt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:27 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Here is a more recent article, looking at the amount of executive orders written per year. It's amazing, the current conservative spin is that he is out of control and behaving as a dictator with his excessive use of executive orders - heck, he is destroying the fabric with his abuse of executive or...
by Garyt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Well, I guess a good way to start would be to explain how the socialistic practices in the US are more in line with USSR socialism than they are with European Socialism or even the Socialism of "The New Deal". I would be interested in any logical explanation . I might add - I love a site l...
by Garyt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:25 pm
Forum: The Wreck of the Bismarck
Topic: Bismarck Wreck Salvage
Replies: 113
Views: 158031

Re: Bismarck Wreck Salvage

Eck was following his understanding of the operational orders given through Donitz His own rather broad in inaccurate interpretation of them. To "not rescue" does not mean to shoot dead in the water. Richardson was in a different position. He queried what to do with his superiors, the gun...
by Garyt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:11 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Bill Maher is a media "personality". He is certainly entitled to his opinions, but he is hardly to be considered a qualified (or unbiased) observer of American history, economic or otherwise. Except for the fact that he is rather spot on here. Attack the message, not the messenger. Too mu...
by Garyt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:55 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Then investigate the underlying ideology of "The New Left" - i.e., their ultimate goal. Of course, if you like the idea of Soviet-style socialism - where the state effectively supercedes and replaces all existing human institutions as the source of authority, morality, economic control .....
by Garyt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:06 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

Byron, I look at fact, not rhetoric. I'll look at what seems to work best based upon the facts. Have you noticed that the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) are almost always in the top 10 best nations as far as standard of living and other factors? They have a high standa...
by Garyt
Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:53 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Replies: 1
Views: 9191

Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Interesting: The editorial reflected the firestorm surrounding the state's newly passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Pence, a possible Republican 2016 presidential candidate, signed the law last week after it was approved by the Republican-controlled legislature. Critics as well as some...
by Garyt
Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:07 pm
Forum: The Wreck of the Bismarck
Topic: Bismarck Wreck Salvage
Replies: 113
Views: 158031

Re: Bismarck Wreck Salvage

By ''killing survivors'' I'm not referring to not rescuing survivors and leaving them in the water, I mean the deliberate act of killing them in the water with machine gun fire, grenades etc as in the Peleus case. Which was Eck taking matters into his own hands, not a policy of Donitz. Just as much...
by Garyt
Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

but the real reason they go after him is they are afraid of him because he is articulate and he doesn't back down. I want a fighter! Personally I hope Ted Cruz does well in winning the nomination, as I think he has little chance of being elected. The only thing that might give him a win is if Hilla...
by Garyt
Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:40 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?
Replies: 95
Views: 53932

Re: Senator Ted Cruz for US President?

My dad was an investigative reporter, and what he always said was to follow the money trail. Does not matter if it's politics, crime, or some combination. If you follow the money trail, you find the motivation. Well, it may not work for religion :D And I'm not a "obama can do no wrong" typ...