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To: bentway who wrote (261879)	11/23/2005 12:13:57 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572953

NEW JERSEY Stadium sets area for Muslim prayer NEWARK -- A special area for people who want to pray will be set aside at Giants Stadium, where several Muslim fans were detained and questioned by the FBI in September. George Zoffinger, president of the N.J. Sports and Exposition Authority, said yesterday he agreed to designate areas to pray at the football stadium and the nearby Continental Airlines Arena. The FBI said it detained five Muslim men Sept. 19 because they were in a sensitive area near the stadium's main air-intake duct. The men said they had been praying, and said they believed they had been singled out because of their religion. Security was extra tight that night because former President Bush was on hand as part of a fundraising campaign for victims of Hurricane Katrina. What happened to the seperation of State and church thingy. Oh right that only applies to christians

To: bentway who wrote (261879)	11/23/2005 12:39:05 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572953

"Now, there's no reason on earth for us to spend as much as the rest of the world combined on our military" No question about it. Yet, I suspect strongly that we will be spending even more per year.

To: bentway who wrote (261879)	12/11/2005 11:52:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572953

Frequently we read of the "growing Chinese threat" - but we currently spend ten times what they do on the military. We do spend a lot more than they do, but they spend a lot that isn't on their official military budget, so the difference is less than it might seem even if it is still large. Also the fact that they force (draft) people in to the military with very low pay (low even by Chinese standards), is a way that they devote resources to their military without actually spending a ton of cash. The lost productivity of the people in the military doesn't show up on a military budget but it is a real cost. Even considering all of that we put more resources in to our military, but than we have more resources to spend and when combat happens would would prefer to spend more money and less lives. You might argue that we shouldn't be in Iraq, and that if we were not we could spend less on defense, but that hardly is a good argument for the idea that we should not spend a lot more than the Chinese. Tim