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No, Prinzip planned on killing the Archduke. It was just luck that he got the opportunity as Prinzip had concluded it could not be done after the botched bombing in the morning and was on his way back to his handlers when opportunity smiled upon him.
A liberal list of what they find important. I say if they like it so much in Europe, come on over. I do live here and can't wait to get back to the land of concealed carry and large tracts of land.
Let's see, as I recall these are the various reasons.Oswald was an ardent communist failure - He killed Kennedy to strike a blow for world communism. There was no KGB involved, nor was there CIA involvement. Oswald essentially wanted to prove something to himself.Boston - The Tsarnaev brothers wanted to strike a blow against the West for not supporting the Chechen separatists, ever.9/11 - Osama bin Laden hoped to terrorize the West into disengaging from the Middle East an get them to leave so their very presence would not defile it. He also took particular umbrage to Westerners in Saudi Arabia, he considered the entire peninsula holy.That is the way I understand it. I could be wrong, I could be right. At this point any answers to all three are pure conjecture and in the case of Oswald and 9/11 will remain so.
I wouldn't mind seeing Reagan back in office. Also despite all his faults, and they were many, Clinton was actually a pretty good president and he would have been judged more favorably if he could have kept his pants zipped. Clinton knew how to deal to achieve actual compromise so both parties did not walk away from a deal feeling like they got screwed.
The JPAC Lab has all kinds of issues and it has recently caused a pretty big stir in the community of vets and serving soldiers. I am lifetime VFW member and I know the VFW has been beating them up about and pestering congress for a little over a year now. I find it disgraceful the way they do things, it reminds me of the scandal at Dover a few years ago when it came out that they were disposing of severed limbs and other body parts of soldiers returned from the battlefield in a local landfill.
I just wonder what point he is making and if he achieves anything by driving stalwarts away from the church while perhaps gaining some. I wonder if he is not preaching to the wrong crowd to begin with. I just don't think liberals really care about anything they say they do and so he is urinating into the wind trying to convince he cares about such issues as poverty, homosexuality, etc. My impression is liberals will say and do anything to get and stay in power. I guess I am one of those Conservative Catholics the story is talking about.
I have made clear where I have problems in the Pope's remarks. There is just something about him that strikes me as false and he just rubs me the wrong way. I will not leave the Church because of him or his policies but I am uneasy to say the least. He seems to be one of those types that wants reform for reform's sake and not because it is really needed. I won't even say the Church is not in need of reform, it most assuredly is in some areas. That being said, he seems to want to touch on feel good issues to appease people who won't go to church anyway instead of tackling structural reforms that will actually strengthen both the Church and its bond to the truly faithful. I don't understand why he wants to mollify the left, the Pelosi wing of the Church if you will.Phid, you and I will probably just have to disagree on this. I see Francis doing and saying things that tend to put conservatives off. It is conservative who have stuck with the Church and its moral precepts, not the hedonistic left.I think we have beaten this horse to death too.
There is a family that occupies one of the Maunsell Forts and claim sovereignty as a separate nation called the Principality of Sealand. They even mint their own coins and have their own stamps. They also maintain some of the most notorious spam servers and gambling internet sites in the world.
What was the point of keeping all those POWs? Was it just to thwart any potential effort to regroup an army of pocket resistance afterwards? It seems to me that the process of nation-rebuilding would require large quantities of men of the age that would have been fighting in the war.
The point was revenge. The Russians used many of the POWs as forced labor just like the Germans had with Russian POWs during the war. If I remember right only 20%-30% of German POWs ever returned from Russian captivity.
FWIW, I saw someone on Daily Kos mention that Obama could come out toward the end of his term by acknowledging that he was never lawfully elected to a second term, have Biden fill out the remainder of his term, and then win election in 2016. Or something like that.
Thus guaranteeing a Civil War.
I am sure St John Lateran is where I saw indulgences for sale, I am not sure the name is Outside the Walls is correct.
I am not a Catholic, but until this recent pronouncement had great respect for the Catholic church because it was steadfast in its positions on things such as homosexuality.I have now lost a lot of respect for both this pope and the Catholic church over this.
You and me both, and I am Catholic born and raised. I can think of nothing else likely to drive conservative Catholics from the church than the kind of stuff pouring out of Francis's mouth and pen since his elevation to the Pontificate.
I am not sure this is correct, although IMO that is how it should be.In most cases simply being in the country illegally is not a felony. I believe it is actually a violation of civil code, not criminal law.
You are correct that immigration law is civil and not criminal. To argue whether they are then then criminals by strict definition is semantics. My main point is that it is impossible to be a law-abiding whatever if by your very presence in the country you are violating the law.
Yes.Just look a what happen to what the voters in California passed regarding gay marriage. State officials refused to defend the will of the people in court and the US Supreme court would not let anyone else defend it so the will of the people was negated by state official who broke their oath to defend the state constitution.
I would say there are parallels between the present situation in the US and the period prior to the Civil War. The issues are different but the efects are the same. That discussion probably belongs in it's own thread though.
