Posts made by raphjd

My point being, increased participation will increase your reputation just by virtue of how that system works. Give it a try.

He is right.

If you notice, you already have have positive rep now.  :hug:

Most countries still refuse to accept that women can be child molesters, even with countless cases already recorded.  So this won't help us much either.

They should be fined and lose their tax exempt status.

I've always liked "twink" for the youngest actors {as it is now} and "frats" instead of "young bloods".

@martini20:

The term 'barely-legal' sends out the wrong message and invites unwanted attention, imho

I agree.

Nice find.  :hug2:

I'm not really sure how to answer this other than to voice my concern that he dismisses your concerns so easily.

Nice ad and the "son" is cute.  :cheesy2:

As far as the "public organization" thing goes, we know that the US Supreme Court ruled that private groups {ie; the boy scouts} can discriminate as they wish.  Also in the same ruling, using public spaces does not automatically make you a public organization, otherwise the boy scouts would have to follow the law.

Ironically, this is another story that reminds me that Bisexuals want it all.

It doesn't matter if no one outside of Africa can show where Malawi is on the map, as that doesn't affect people's lives, as they will still get their aid money.

However, having hateful laws against an entire segment of your population does affect lives.

People will not come forward to proclaim they are gay in a country with such harsh and homophobic laws as we see in Malawi and the rest of Africa.  Maybe aid to Africa {and Jamaica} should be conditional on them getting rid of their hate filled laws.

How can anyone be President of a country and not know that there are laws against an entire segment of the country's population?

Are Malawians that closed off from the rest of the world that they have no idea what being gays is?

Try VLC player.

So the Malawian President is still a homophobe because he still thinks homosexuality is wrong, but he's not an evil one or something like that.

If it weren't for the massive negative international press, he would have been completely happy with the situation.

I'm always a sucker for a good/happy animal story.  :hug2:

So it's not a deal to repeal DA, DT, but a deal to possibly repeal it next year, or after some year after that, or never.

Allowing gays to openly serve has not had an effect on any other military, so why do so many people think the US will go into meltdown if they do it as well?!

I think he's very good.

The saddest part in this is IF you were to suggest that nations not give aid to countries like this, then you would be labelled a racist.  This is especially true of the ultra liberal crowd.

I have been labelled a racist and homophobe because I criticized the Obama administration's 2 defences of DoMA where they said that gay relationships are no better than incest, bestiality and pedophilia.    That I criticized Obama made me a racist, that I criticized Obama who apparently has done so much for the gay community, made me a homophobe.

You can't win for losing.

Frugal cooking is sometimes the best meal you will ever have the pleasure to eat!!!

That is so very true.

Ask him to author a bill to remove the special protections that are already the law; ie religion, race, creed, color, gender, disability, etc, etc and see how he replies.

Of course he won't have the courage to do that.

I'm not talking about the big black power cable that plugs into the wall, but the internal power cable that hooks up to the back of player.

Also, your SATA cable may be bad.