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User:Kajillion

2008-07-22T03:10:25Z

Kajillion:

User:Kajillion

2008-07-22T03:05:57Z

Kajillion:

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User:Kajillion

2008-07-22T03:05:15Z

Kajillion:

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User:Kajillion

2008-07-22T02:57:46Z

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Debate:Why do we still have an embargo on Cuba?

2008-07-04T16:44:24Z

Kajillion:

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It's been a very long time, he isn't a threat to us, do we really need to keep this going on. Cuba doesn't do so well because of our embargo, the only people that suffer are the average citizens, Isn't it time for it to end?

I'd like your thoughts for either side of this debate -- '''[[user:DLerner|D L e r n e r]]''' [http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:DLerner Articulate] 11:14, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

If the embargo were lifted it would have the beneficial effect of bringing Cuba in to the mainstream. The U.S and Cuba are like two neighbours who won't talk too each other, the U.S could improve relations by making such a positive gesture. North Korea a is case in point, the World Community began to provide aid to the country, and thus North Korea became open enough to listen to the U.S and abandon its nuclear programme. [[User:Angband|Angband]] 11:57, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

:I believe anybody who still uses repression as a legitimate tactic of goverance should be shunned by the humanitarian international community. [[User:LeaningRight|LeaningRight]] 11:59, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

::What about China? Who advocates shunning China? What about Gitmo? The international community seems to be shunning the U.S somewhat, judging by the country's popularity[[User:Angband|Angband]] 12:16, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

Sometimes the good guys lose the plot. Such as the US after 9/11. Gitmo is the greatest travesty of justice in the US since the incarceration of the Japanese Americans during WWII. [[User:LeaningRight|LeaningRight]] 13:02, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

Yes, it is true that Gitmo is a shameful stain. The point I was making was that it is not fair on Cuba with all this happening. [[User:Angband|Angband]] 13:27, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

:I actually don't understand why conservatives support an embargo that hasn't worked for 40 years. It violates free market principles. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 13:51, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

oppressing an entire people and not allowing freedom violates free market principles. And the embargo certainly has worked; It has prevented Cuba from becoming a threat to the US during the Cold War. [[User:LeaningRight|LeaningRight]] 13:55, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

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Abishua:
I agree completely, it is an idiotic and annoying to see that we continue to shun Cuba, with no real reason to keep them out of the mix. Although I doubt this will happen until a new president comes into office for a few reasons. The first reason is that he has almost no time to open relations up with Cuba again, so the chances are slim. On top of that, he decided it was time to shake the cage with Cuba and say we wouldn't let communism to stay in power in Cuba, and would stop the transfer of power from Castro to his brother. (Sorry I can't quote the article that I remember reading this.) It may have helped in the Cold War, but now it can only benefit us. If you watched Sicko (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/), you may want to check the scene where they go to Cuba to get health care. Maybe we could learn a thing or two from Cuba about fixing our broken health care system.

TL;DR version (To Long; Didn't Read) No reason not to open up to Cuba, and we can only benefit from it now.
==Humanitarian==
LeanignRight, why should the average Joe Cuba suffer because of the actions of the government? As far as Human Rights, did anyone forget Saudi Arabia? -- '''[[user:DLerner|D L e r n e r]]''' [http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:DLerner Articulate] 18:53, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

Saudi Arabia is unfortunate but unfortunately realpolitik has to play some role. Cuba, as a communist nation and at the foot of the US was always going to be a threat during the Cold War. It was important to keep it weak. However, since many other countries who are probably even worse than Cuba aren't sanctioned, maybe their is a fair argument to life the sanction. [[User:LeaningRight|LeaningRight]] 07:16, 25 March 2008 (EDT)

Lets face the fact. the US military will never help spread freedom as much as Americas greatest weapon... consumerism and even better instead of paying to invade countries this way they pay us. please note im not being sarcastic -craig101

==Fight Communism with Capitalism==
[[China]] has the fastest growing economy in the world because they trade with [[us]]. If we opened trade with [[Cuba]] they'd get a really strong economy also. [[User:Kajillion|Kajillion]] 12:44, 4 July 2008 (EDT)

2008-07-04T14:42:32Z

Kajillion:

[[Image:Nicolo.jpg|left]]
'''Niccolò Machiavelli''' (1469 A.D.-1527 A.D.) wrote "[[Prince, The|The Prince]]," which is an account of government in which the "end justifies the means" (a ruler can use any means to gain power and rule his state). Historians consider Machiavelli to have been the thinker who laid the foundations for the [[Age of Revolution]].

Even today the term "Machiavellian" is used to describe a politician who spends all his time and effort on getting ahead and manipulating other people for his own gain, many [[liberal]] [[democrat]] [[politicians]] can be called "Machiavellian."

Machiavelli, like many of the great [[Renaissance]] artists and thinkers, lived in [[Florence]].

See: [[Machiavellianism]]

[[Category:Authors|Machiavelli, Niccolo]]
[[Category:Writers]]

Percy Bysshe Shelley

2008-07-02T02:58:42Z

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'''Percy Bysshe Shelley''' was born August 4, 1792 in [[Sussex]], [[England]]. He drowned in a storm while traveling from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner on July 8, 1822. Shelley was one of six great early nineteenth century British poets later dubbed the High Romantics (the others being [[William Blake|Blake]], [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Byron]] and [[John Keats|Keats]].)

Shelley was anti-religious and a skeptic his whole life and promoted a poetic program where--like [[William Blake|Blake]]--the individual imagination is the sole authority on matters of truth. His play ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imagination/creative life in the story of Prometheus. In critic Harold Bloom's reading, the plays characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon bear resemblances to the psychic constructs of other writers including Blake, [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. <ref>(Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Cornell University, New York 1971, p. 90-91)</ref>

Shelley's major poems include: ''Ozymandias'', ''Alastor'', ''Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'', ''Mont Blanc'', ''Ode to the West Wind'', ''Prometheus Unbound'', ''The Witch of Atlas'', ''Epipsychidion'', ''Adonais'', and the ''Triumph of Life''.

He also wrote an "Essay on Christianity" which attempts to read Jesus as an ethic philosopher whose great teachings have been corrupted by the institutional religion called Christianity.
== References ==
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[[Category:Poets|Shelley, Percy Bysshe]]
[[Category:Atheists]]

Eugene V. Debs

2008-07-01T22:51:31Z

Kajillion:

'''Eugene Victor Debs''' (1855-1926) was a [[liberal]] [[American]] trade union leader and politician. He founded the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (the 'wobblies') and was [[Socialist Party of America]] candidate for the presidency of the [[United States]] on five occasions. He was sentenced ten years in prison and disenfranchisement for life under the [[Espionage Act of 1917]] for his outspoken opposition to [[World War I]]. The Presidential campaign he ran from prison in 1920 gained him the most votes of any [[Socialist Party]] presidential candidate.

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[[Category:Political People]]

Oath of Hippocrates

2008-07-01T02:47:32Z

Kajillion: added category: The Oath is Anti-Christian

The '''Oath of Hippocrates''' or '''Hippocratic Oath''' is an oath traditionally taken by doctors setting down certain guidelines about how they will use their medical skills. The oath dates back to ancient Greece but it is uncertain if it is actually due to [[Hippocrates]].

== Translation of the Classical Oath ==
I SWEAR by Apollo the physician and Æsculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment,

I will keep this Oath and this stipulation — to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture and every other mode of instruction,

I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.

I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves. Whatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad.

I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot.<ref>http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/hippocrates/</ref>

==The Oath is Anti-Christian ==
Due to the Oath requiring the doctor to swear on the names of Apollo, Æsculapius, and all the "gods" and "goddesses" of the Pagan Greek pantheon some have said that the Oath is Anti-Christian.

== The Oath in Modern Times ==

Due to pressure from [[abortionists]] and promoters of [[abortion]], many medical schools now drop the prohibition on abortion and [[euthanasia]] from "modernized" versions of the Oath.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970328/ai_n14096334</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_today.html</ref><ref>http://www.cmdahome.org/index.cgi?CONTEXT=art&art=313&cat=100102</ref>

==Notes==
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[[Category:Medicine]]
[[Category:Abortion]]

Talk:Oath of Hippocrates

2008-07-01T02:40:39Z

Kajillion:

==Translation==

[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]], what is the source on the translation? [[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 21:57, 24 February 2008 (EST)
:Sources are many; try this one: [http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/hippocrates/] [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 22:01, 24 February 2008 (EST)

:Right, there are many sources on the internet for this basic text. Simply do a google search on the first line, for example.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:05, 24 February 2008 (EST)

::Thanks to both of you. When I did a Google search for ''oath of Hippocrates'', the first result was [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html this one], which differed from the CP version already in the first sentence. I figured that rather than searching for a translation that matched the CP version (and then assessing the reference's authority on the matter), I would just directly ask the person who posted it. I think a long translation (even if it's a popular text) should have a source, since it involves word choices on the part of the translator which can yield subtle differences in meaning. Incidentally, do you think the PBS Nova version might be better? I haven't looked through all the differences, but at least the translation of the first line seems to me a bit more accurate. Considering the references to the Greek gods Apollo and Asklepios (Æsculapius) and the capitalization of ''Health'' and ''All-heal'', it seems more accurate that the Oath is refering to the Greek gods ''Hygeia''[http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/AsklepiasHygeia.html] and ''Panacea''[http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/AsklepiasPanakeia.html]. In fact, the second of these two links cites the first line of the Hippocratic Oath as one of its attestations of Panacea in Greek literature and history. [[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 00:22, 25 February 2008 (EST)
:::The reference I pulled up was published in the Harvard Classics series of books about 1911. Perhaps the article could benefit from the current version, the ancient version (if found), and the liberalized version of today mentioned in the article. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 00:43, 25 February 2008 (EST)

==The Libs did a good thing?==

Even if they did do it because the oath is pro-life isn't it also anti-Christian? Pledging to Apollo and all the pagan "gods" and "goddesses"? Pro-life or no, I don't know why Christian doctors have been saying this for thousands of year. [[User:Kajillion|Kajillion]] 22:40, 30 June 2008 (EDT)

Single (baseball)

2008-07-01T02:20:58Z

Kajillion: Removed redundant information

[[Image:Baseball Ball bw.jpg|left|120px]]
In [[baseball]], a '''single''' is a play in which the batter safely makes it to first base.

Not all instances of a batter reaching first base are considered a single.
In order to qualify for a single the batter must have hit the ball and run to first base before being tagged [[Out (baseball)|out]] or the ball is thrown to the first baseman (or other defending player) who steps on or otherwise touches first base.
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== References ==
*[http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/beginners/glossary.html Baseball Glossary] WETA.
*[http://www.nocryinginbaseball.com/glossary/glossary.html Baseball Glossary OF TERMS]
*[http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/pitch_glossary.shtml Pitching Glossary]
*[http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/bat_glossary.shtml Batting Glossary]
== See also ==
*[[Baseball]]
*[[Major League Baseball]]
== External links ==
*[http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp The Official Site of Major League Baseball]
*[http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp Minor League Baseball]
*[http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/features/alumni/article.jsp?article=history BASEBALL HISTORY] Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association.
*[http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/features/alumni/stats.jsp Stats]
*[http://web.baseballhalloffame.org/index.jsp Hall of Fame] National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.
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