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fskimospy

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My money is on the velociraptors getting out first

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I’m not so sure about that. If you watch the end of Jurassic Park 2 where the T-Rex escapes they find a severed hand gripping the wheel in the pilot house and essentially no other damage there, which implies the T-Rex somehow had the ability to get its mouth inside there and nibble the rest of the pilot off. Thats some impressive dexterity!
 

K1052

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I’m not so sure about that. If you watch the end of Jurassic Park 2 where the T-Rex escapes they find a severed hand gripping the wheel in the pilot house and essentially no other damage there, which implies the T-Rex somehow had the ability to get its mouth inside there and nibble the rest of the pilot off. Thats some impressive dexterity!

I'm gonna disagree with you there. The first kill in the Jurassic Park world goes to the feisty female raptor who pushed her apparently non locking transport box out of her pen gate. Fascinating way to transfer an incredibly dangerous creature.
 
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fskimospy

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I'm gonna disagree with you there. The first kill in the Jurassic Park world goes to the feisty female raptor who pushed her apparently non locking transport box out of her pen gate. Fascinating way to transfer an incredibly dangerous creature.
The real story in the Jurassic Park series is once the T-Rex ate the lawyer all liability mitigation went out the window. This is a litigation nightmare!
 
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HomerJS

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That actually is a fact. Even liberal Democrat mayor of NYC has said "When we took prayers out of our schools, gun came to our schools." So even Democrats agree that we need to bring back school prayer.
Australia doesn't have prayer in schools and they doing great with keeping gun crime low.
 
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Pohemi

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Australia doesn't have prayer in schools and they doing great with keeping gun crime low.
Yes, but the biggest example of a DINO in the country is speaking for all Democrats! You didn't know? Facts.

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JD50

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Prayer wasn't taken out of school. Anyone can sit and pray quietly in school, students, teachers, administrators, etc... Teachers can't lead prayers, that's it.
 

fskimospy

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Prayer wasn't taken out of school. Anyone can sit and pray quietly in school, students, teachers, administrators, etc... Teachers can't lead prayers, that's it.
It is sort of funny/shitty how outraged Christians are that the government can no longer pressure people to pray. They view not being able to oppress others as themselves being oppressed.
 

Pohemi

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"Currently, there are three states, Florida, Texas, and Utah, that require students to have permission from their parents in order to opt out of the Pledge of Allegiance. This extra requirement violates the right of young people to make decisions about their own beliefs."

Self-righteous imbecile teachers are violating student's rights while trying to punish them for non-compliance (by having minors arrested for it).

What do you think will happen if Rethuglicvnts get what they want and force prayer in schools (led by faculty) ?
 

brycejones

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Nothing says freedom like forcing kids to pledge allegiance to this country under threat of punishment.

My daughter on her own has started sitting during the pledge in her middle school. The kid who sits behind her has so far asked her if she is a communist and why does she hate freedom.

We are discovering the people in our ruralish community are dumb as fuck.
 
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hal2kilo

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"Currently, there are three states, Florida, Texas, and Utah, that require students to have permission from their parents in order to opt out of the Pledge of Allegiance. This extra requirement violates the right of young people to make decisions about their own beliefs."

Self-righteous imbecile teachers are violating student's rights while trying to punish them for non-compliance (by having minors arrested for it).

What do you think will happen if Rethuglicvnts get what they want and force prayer in schools (led by faculty) ?
What if they just leave out the "under god" part that was added in the 50's cause of godless communists?
 

fskimospy

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Nothing says freedom like forcing kids to pledge allegiance to this country under threat of punishment.
Freedom! Here's a picture of kids reciting the pledge of allegiance in its original form.

Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg
 
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VashHT

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My daughter on her own has started sitting during the pledge in her middle school. The kid who sits behind her has so far asked her if she is a communist and why does she hate freedom.

We are discovering the people in our ruralish community are dumb as fuck.

They started doing the pledge again when I was in high school after 9/11 happened, I refused to do it because people were already beating the war drums to go after Iraq. No one really said anything to me, thought they did it when I had PE so most people were just changing and not really paying attention.
Freedom! Here's a picture of kids reciting the pledge of allegiance in its original form.

Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg
Crazy, maybe that's where Hitler got the idea from.
 
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They started doing the pledge again when I was in high school after 9/11 happened, I refused to do it because people were already beating the war drums to go after Iraq. No one really said anything to me, thought they did it when I had PE so most people were just changing and not really paying attention.

Crazy, maybe that's where Hitler got the idea from.
The raising your hand thing was pretty normal pre-Hitler
 
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nakedfrog

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"Currently, there are three states, Florida, Texas, and Utah, that require students to have permission from their parents in order to opt out of the Pledge of Allegiance. This extra requirement violates the right of young people to make decisions about their own beliefs."

Self-righteous imbecile teachers are violating student's rights while trying to punish them for non-compliance (by having minors arrested for it).

What do you think will happen if Rethuglicvnts get what they want and force prayer in schools (led by faculty) ?
It's an important step to building an effective fascist regime.
 
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Pohemi

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What if they just leave out the "under god" part that was added in the 50's cause of godless communists?

Still not justifiable to force on citizens, much less students. It's still a national creed that people should be free to choose not to participate in.
 

fskimospy

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The raising your hand thing was pretty normal pre-Hitler
Yeah it's called the Bellamy Salute, after the guy who wrote the pledge. As you mention though those Hitler/Mussolini guys made doing that distinctly less fashionable so it was changed to the hand over the heart.
 
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