For all you gays out there-HR 1592 Passed

[Dzan]

It's safe to say this though:

Muslims ratio to radical to moderate is far higher than anyother popular religon. There are moderate muslims (alot of them) but they are in the back seat of the Muslim Relgion.

Really depends how you define "radical." If your definition is "willing to strap a bomb to his chest and blow himself up" then sure. When I see a mega-church full of christians watching faith healings I see people who are pretty "radical."

[narwhal]

Still Evangelicals as a whole are a much smaller ratio to the one mentioned above.

[skimmer-x]

No. How many gay rights symposiums do you go to? None, so it only makes sense you dont see the moderate message. All you see is the flamers on TV making retards of themselves. Same for moderate muslims. You don't go to MSA meetings so you probably dont see too many educated, secular moderate muslims.

The problem isn't the lack of people trying to communicate the message, its you only seeing what you want to see.

edit: I didn't mean this as a personal attack against you Frank, just I hear this message alot and I wanted to address the general consensus of people who hold the same view.

Your all good Dan, we go way back. haha

[Max Shapiro]

Max, STFU. You are clearly splitting hairs and you know what i mean. i don't give a frack about what the exact technical fracking term is. And the majority is the majority. I learned that in 2nd grade. 4 people is greater than 3 people. So that would be a more. You knew what the frack I meant, and just to be a dick you gotta get all frackin' perfectionist about it. You wonder why people get tired of your smart ass on here. You act like your are better than everyone else, smarter than everyone else, and probably a better skimmer than everyone else. Basicly get over yourself. i don't give a frack if you do know everything, you can go frack yourself. I have read all the posts you have made over the weeks and though i do agree with you on some things, you act like a pompass asshole and it makes me what to be against you. BTW, the contest thread you were way off. You know absolutly shit about what it takes to run a contest and you looked like a dumbass and I hope you realize you made an ass of yourself on that thread. so do us all a favor. Shut up for a while, just read and don't post. Now sit and spin.


And yes that is me leaving you neg rep. Love Frank Hastings

go ask any poli sci professor and they will tell you there is a big difference between majority rule and plurality rule. I dont care about neg rep, its a message board, not real life. Its not my fault you dont care or know the difference. You also overlooked that if its majority rule then it would be illegal for more than 2 people to run in an election because 1 candidate out of three cant get a majority. Can you imagine how history would change if every election were limited to two people...? Btw, i know alot about running contests, like ive said ive helped to run the vb skim contests, ran my own skate contests, and helped my dad run and organize events 10 times bigger than a skimboard contest (The Polar Plunge, Oceana NAFB's air show, Langley AFB Air show, Red Cross Heroes Games, Virginia Flower and Garden show). You should at least try to show some respect, because as far as i can tell I have never disrespected anyone personally on this message board with the exception of when i did so sarcastically. I sadly cannot say the same about you.

[Dzan]

Still Evangelicals as a whole are a much smaller ratio to the one mentioned above.

I totally disagree with that. I think there is a large % of muslims who sorta sympathize with the extremist views on certain issues, but that doesn't make them extremists themselves. I think the same is true of christians or any other religion. The problem is car bombs are more offensive than faith healings to most people.

[RavesIsBack]

You also overlooked that if its majority rule then it would be illegal for more than 2 people to run in an election because 1 candidate out of three cant get a majority. Can you imagine how history would change if every election were limited to two people...?

ok I dont really give a frack about this topic because its utter bullshit that clearly will fail when challenged under freedom of speech, but I do have a problem with this statement. In majority rule multiple people could still run, just only the person with 50% or more would be elected to office or a situation where there is a run off would still take advantage of majority rule. Not illegal just impractical. 1 out of 3 could get a majority if they received 51% and the other two split the 49%. And if every election were limited to two, then that wouldve affected maybe 3 elections in the history of the nation.

[Max Shapiro]

15 times a president has been elected with less than 50% of the popular vote (http://www.usconstitution.net/elections.html). Not that it matters because its the electoral college that decides who wins the presidential election. Only twice has someone won less than 50 percent of the electoral college, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. When it comes to congressional election you can bet that there have been far more people who have won their seats with less then 50% of the popular vote. If every election were limited to two people it would have effected far more than two elections. Just look on that list the number of third and fourth party candidates that won large percentages of the popular vote, mostly in the early days of the republic. If those people were not allowed to run then those votes would have gone to a different candidate most likely the won who lost as many election were won and lost in those days because of a split in the parties.

[skimmer-x]

Max, your problem is that you hide behind all this "I'm not being disrespectful" bullshot that you say. But you are being a jackass in reality. You do whatever you want to make yourself feel better. But we all know your a jackass pot-stiring idot. I don't care that you "helped" run stuff. I help run the Florida comp and have orginized on my own 4 contests and have been competeing 8 years.

And you can stick that I'm better than you attitude up your ass. You aren't that good a skimmer, sources say, and you didn't organize any of those things you mentioned. You helped. That means you just did what you were told.