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What the NSA is doing is illegal

Is it? It's wrong, it's possibly a violation of the 4th amendment but I believe it is quite legal. In fact it's pretty well spelled out in certain pieces of legislation.

the 4th issue is murky, we haven't even had any precedent to decide who owns the data that is being accessed yet so we can't really say how that will play out.

Yeah man, those windbreakers are bad ass.

Bill always did seem like the reasonable one of the three but just so you know the man is a goddamn giant.

I am fiscally conservative and socially tolerant.

So by fiscally conservative do you mean you prefer to cut spending across the board or would you be an advocate for smarter more efficient spending? I can't find any sources right now but from what I understand some welfare spending has a disproportionately larger impact on the economy vs other types of spending(just using welfare as an example- I don't necessarily support all welfare spending).

Also how do you feel about military spending? My only frustration with most fiscal "conservatives" is their desire to raise the military budget over and over again and as far as I can see that's our biggest opportunity to get this budget under control. That being said I understand it's a complicated issue since it provides so many jobs domestically.

edit: as an aside I think a great method for phrasing the social tolerance part to appeal to those who call themselves conservative but vote republican would be to push the idea that the government needs to stop regulating our personal lives. for instance I'm trying to figure out why the government even has regulations on who can get married or what I can put my dick in(consensually of course) in the bedroom.

edit: also thanks for taking your time to come and spread the good word about fiscal conservatism to reddit!!

Ehhh, sorta.

In jesus' time the Arab people hadn't really migrated in to the Roman controlled areas yet so the ethnicity was predominantly a darker skinned Caucasian. Think Greek or Italian looking. It wasn't until several hundred years after his death that the Arab world expanded in to those areas and the Palestinian/Israeli appearance that we know today came about.