Random Politics & Religion #00

Right, I forgot people can't make their own decisions, someone will inevitably be discriminated against. Better just fork over all civil freedoms.

When shall we be petitioning the government to marry children? How long shall we permit such discrimination? (/sarcasm)

In no way is discrimination against homosexuals a "civil freedom."

Stop being an opressive bigot and let him have his hatreds.

You're just sad Ramy.

Upholding the bill of rights, the constitution. You know, the good stuff....

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Next step from the radicals will be to strip tax exempt status from churches....

I would vote for that.

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In no way is discrimination against homosexuals a "civil freedom."

So that's finally finished. What's next?

The decision has ***-all to do with the rights of people like Nausi. No need to tarnish this day by feeding into the insane notion that this is somehow about them.

So that's finally finished. What's next?

I know right! Can we finally let this die and move onto more important things. With racism and now gay marriage being solved we can finally move onto actually addressing the economy and jobs.

The US Senate has passed legislation banning boycott against Israel.

Given rising international boycott against Israel, the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US had to act immediately. The bill is reported to be passed under immense pressure. Still, it has to be signed by President Obama.

The provisions themselves require the US negotiators to oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel during the ongoing free trade negotiations with the European Union.

The BDS campaign seeks to increase economic and political pressure on Israel until the regime ends the occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands and respect the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

"Today, for the first time in nearly four decades, Congress sent legislation to the president's desk to combat efforts to isolate and delegitimize the 'state' of Israel," US Representative Peter Roskam wrote in a statement released shortly after the Senate vote.

"After today, discouraging economic warfare against Israel will be central to our free trade negotiations with the European Union," said Roskam, one of the lawmakers who sponsored the provisions.

This comes as several groups and organizations in the European states have already supported the campaign against Israel.

If you really want to piss him off, marry a transexual farm animal.

People here cannot seem to play anything but the "disagreement = hate" card.

Greece has rejected an offer from its creditors to extend the country's bailout deal as too little and likely to cause recession.
The country's international creditors made the new proposal so that it could avoid defaulting on its debt - providing it agreed to reforms.
The proposal would have released €15.5bn ($17.3bn) of funding, €1.8bn of which would have been available now.
A statement from the Greek government said it "cannot be accepted".
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Because all anyone who disagrees plays is the "I disagree because I hate" card.

All this gay marriage is going to push Greece over the edge!

Whatever you have to tell yourself to maintain your rigid set of views.

A genetically engineered wheat designed to scare away aphids has, in the end, just not proved scary enough. Researchers had hoped that the wheat modified to emit a warning pheromone would ward off aphids while also attracting their natural enemies, thereby allowing farmers to spray less insecticide. Despite promising signs in the laboratory, the field trial—which made headlines in 2012 after opponents of genetic modification (GM) threatened to obstruct it—failed to show any effect.
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ones suspects something else is wrong: The wheat plants released a steady supply of pheromone rather than a short burst, as aphids do when they are attacked. Dicke agrees. “If you make a transgenic plant that produces that alarm continuously, it’s not going to work,” he says. “You have a plant crying wolf all the time, and the bugs won’t listen to it any longer.”

In fact, in greenhouse experiments the researchers did see aphids eventually ignore the pheromone when they were constantly exposed to it.
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The researchers are considering creating wheat that sends out pulses of pheromones or releases them only when under attack. Jones says that wheat plants turn on certain genes when nibbled by insects or sucked by aphids, so he and others might be able to find the switches for these genes and hook them up to the engineered genes that make the pheromones. It will likely take several years before the team is ready for a new field trial, he says.
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Oh Lord have mercy he is singing Amazing Grace

I know there's sarcasm here, but I honestly hope this is what happens, someday.

Racism and homophobia aren't gone yet, but they're on the retreat, and it'd be nice to actually start advancing as a species and civilization again.

I mean the effort required to stick ones fingers so deep in their ears is astounding to me. Dissent is not tolerated.