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#1 GIJames248
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Farm bills and federal food stamps, the perfect examples of everything wrong with this country.

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The death penalty is just, and should be used more commonly in murder cases that are beyond in certainty. It is bizarre that most murderers, even the ones we know for sure did it, just get life in prison.

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#3  Edited By GIJames248
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Hmm..

Half-life 2 - not really a problem with the game, but last time I checked it didn't support cloud-saves for some reason, and the sequel may well never be made; other than that, the game is freaking flawless.

LoZ:WW - I was sort of disappointed they had to abridge the game a bit by having that one island be destroyed by the time you get there; it made for a great plot element and ramped up the drama, but I would have loved another well developed island town/dungeon thingy. I honestly even loved the sailing and the treasure hunting in that game so that was really the only thing I can come up with.

Halo: CE - Obviously, the fact that the last half of the game is essentially two rooms over and over again, but I found the gameplay and general atmosphere enough to pull me through it, and it is still one the best times I ever had with a shooter.

F.E.A.R - Pretty repetitive visually, but the gun play is the best I've ever seen and combined with the AI and story made for a sweet campaign.

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#4  Edited By GIJames248
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I vote, but the two party system here in the US, combined with the general idiocy and socialism of the populace, doesn't make it very fun.

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#5  Edited By GIJames248
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This is going to depend on whether people think religion is just a sociological phenomena or if it is actually making claims about and establishing norms according to something that is actually real. The naturalist will see it one way, and the dualist or idealist will likely see it another. So.. this is basically the whole non-supernatural vs. supernatural argument.

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#6  Edited By GIJames248
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Obama has done worse, which is pretty impressive given some of the crap the Bush administration created. Part of the problem is that a lot has come to light on Obama's watch which he is not entirely responsible for, but for some idiotic or evil reason he defends the government and tows the establishment line a lot of it instead of being a president of the people and helping fix stuff.

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Libertarian, because I happen to actually like people.

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Yeah... pathetic, but it is MSNBC after all.

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#9  Edited By GIJames248
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@lamprey263:

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Well, it's their state and school system, but I hope they mean intelligent design instead of creationism. At least ID jives with a lot of the data, while creationism is largely a theological and philosophically grounded (however successfully or unsuccessfully) position instead of a scientific one.

intelligent design is just creationism's trojan horse

Not certain schools of thought in the ID community, I'm sure some ID advocates are really just posturing Creationists in disguise, but a lot of them are much more restrained and differentiated from creationism.

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Well, it's their state and school system, but I hope they mean intelligent design instead of creationism. At least ID jives with a lot of the data, while creationism is largely a theological and philosophically grounded (however successfully or unsuccessfully) position instead of a scientific one.