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Switzerland has the advantage of being populated almost entirely by Swiss.

Real historical example: the conquest of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish adventurer Cortez and his relatively small army. Aztec rule was so oppressive that many of the other Mesoamerican tribes they had ruled over were eager to show up and say "I'll help".

Did anyone claim that? No, the idea would be that her past choices made her unsuitable for marriage, and that God's forgiveness does not change this earthly consequence of her sins. And this means unsuitable in the eyes of any potential suitors, not in some absolute moral sense.

I think if one wants to use the word in the scientific-genetic sense and be understood, one needs to say something like "the Semite peoples" - which of course includes not only Jews and Arabs, but a lot of other groups (more of which than you might think are still around) who are not from the...

I don't see where he implied it had anything to do with gays. IIRC, the mutual hostility between Israel and Iran goes back to well before the West got into its current insanity of celebrating an alphabet soup of sexual depravity and craziness.

Big corps have wanted to have all computer use be dumb terminals connected to a mainframe for decades. I imagine they've always disliked the PC, for the same reason a bus company dislikes private automobiles.

How different would a rifle for a left-handed person actually be?

I'm trying to make sense of this... both sides know the war is about to stop, but they keep shooting at each other because....?

No matter how much or how often they are "celebrated" they will still be chronically miserable people whose only happiness is in causing offense to others.

What was your point again? In the long series of wars between Christendom and the Dar-al-Islam, sometimes the one side won, sometimes the other side did. Sometimes they made treaties rather. One anti-Christian talking point one will encounter on the internet is the claim that Christianity was...

Yup - almost all of the Iberian peninsular was occupied by Muslims at one stage. But now it's not. They got kicked out. Spain as a country exists only because of that. For a quick encore the Spanish went off and conquered a load of New World land that mostly still speaks Spanish today. Shall...