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- Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:18 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: the debt ceiling vote, does anyone else think this is epic?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 29950
Re: the debt ceiling vote, does anyone else think this is ep
There does, however, seem to be the support of the people to play chicken.
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Red Tape
- Replies: 2
- Views: 932
Re: Red Tape
Not the Coast Guard folks, but they're enlisted.
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:21 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
The reason why intent isn't everything: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Seattle-bus-shooter-to-police-I-wasn-t-even-1402917.php Bad example. He fired a gun at bus full of people (without intent of actually hitting anyone). He was properly charged with reckless endangerment and unlawful gun p...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:19 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Red Tape
- Replies: 2
- Views: 932
Red Tape
http://sfist.com/2011/05/30/man_drowns_ ... _beach.php
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:58 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Golfing on Memorial Day
- Replies: 1
- Views: 734
Golfing on Memorial Day
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100090074/obamas-decision-to-play-golf-on-memorial-day-was-disrespectful-and-hardly-presidential/ I find this to be interesting, first, that the media invented a controversy during the P. Bush years about his golfing habits, which Bush then gave up beca...
- Tue May 31, 2011 11:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
The reason why intent isn't everything:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/ ... 402917.php
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/ ... 402917.php
- Tue May 31, 2011 7:24 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
I take better care of my wife's kids (and our kids) than my wife or her ex husband ever did, ever would've. There is no comparison between a "parent" by circumstance and biology and a person who has treated parenting as a serious obligation and invested the time and energy to be the best ...
- Tue May 31, 2011 7:06 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
I do sometimes wonder if taking away a guy's weekends for a year, forced to do productive things is better not only for the convicted, society, and the victim than a year of actual jail time.
- Sun May 29, 2011 4:18 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
...however, is 6 years for a stupid mistake that had no actual real harmful effect rational? I'm assuming a lot of things, that he's not a scum bag with a history, that the kids were not actually harmed psychologically. I think the fallacy with that particular part is intent, not outcome. I've neve...
- Fri May 27, 2011 7:48 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
2,000 hours of community service, fines, convictions for misdemeanor child endangerment assuming he wasn't a bad person... if he has a history of doing stupid crap like this, 6 years is fine. I could probably agree with that, but 2,000 hours is a full time job for a year, aren't you concerned that ...
- Fri May 27, 2011 5:13 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
So offer 1 year and 5 lashings. Either that, or have him bound, gagged, and thrown into the garage for three hours for each child without checking to see if his asthma is bad that day. And still 1 year of jail time.
I mean, really, what are you suggesting as an alternative?
I mean, really, what are you suggesting as an alternative?
- Fri May 27, 2011 5:11 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: sex selection and abortion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5496
Re: sex selection and abortion
Well yes. I am like 100% of Americans, in that I have my own beliefs about when a fetus becomes a human. To modify that, however: a lot of people make the conscious decision to defer judgement and extend protection to fetuses all the way to conception, despite their personal beliefs. Likewise, a lo...
- Fri May 27, 2011 1:06 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: sex selection and abortion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5496
Re: sex selection and abortion
I get the feeling that Ragorn is like most Americans. It's not a human until he feels like it's a human.
- Fri May 27, 2011 1:05 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: state to fed, groping is a felony, fed to state no mo planes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1545
Re: state to fed, groping is a felony, fed to state no mo pl
I wish you wouldn't post stuff from infowars. They recommend stock picks for pete's sake.
- Fri May 27, 2011 1:03 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felonies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7704
Re: 2-6 years for binding and gagging your GF's kids, 6 felo
Umm.. guys? You do realize that they weren't his kids right? Completely appropriate sentence.
- Wed May 25, 2011 6:05 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: sex selection and abortion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5496
Re: sex selection and abortion
Dunno. For me, it has nothing to do with looks, it has to do with viability. Once the fetus can thrive outside the womb with a reasonable chance of survival, that's where I start drawing the line. So it's not at the end of the second trimester, but usually somewhere within the sixth month. Which, i...
- Wed May 25, 2011 5:48 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
Ragorn wrote:He does if it's me playing LA Noire.
Pedestrians are fucking HARD to kill in that game!
Damn unrealistic games.
- Wed May 25, 2011 3:38 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
Its clearly a matter of sanctioned discrimination vs unsanctioned discrimination. They've morally decided that its justifiable to discriminate and treat open carry folks differently than other law abiding citizens... because its different. I wonder if they would think to treat a karate blackbelt di...
- Wed May 25, 2011 3:06 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
It's ok to treat someone carrying a loaded weapon differently, Kiryan. The problem is that the difference should still be both respectful and non-harassing.
- Wed May 25, 2011 3:02 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: sex selection and abortion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5496
Re: sex selection and abortion
Dunno. For me, it has nothing to do with looks, it has to do with viability. Once the fetus can thrive outside the womb with a reasonable chance of survival, that's where I start drawing the line. So it's not at the end of the second trimester, but usually somewhere within the sixth month. Which, i...
- Wed May 25, 2011 1:36 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: sex selection and abortion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5496
Re: sex selection and abortion
To me, I find it ironic that America draws the line at around the end of the second trimester. Like everything else, it comes down to looks - when a fetus looks like a person is when most people draw the line.
- Wed May 25, 2011 1:34 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
A quick reminder, there are many places in the United States where open carry is legal and routinely practiced. They don't have any more gun violence than other places. How would you feel if open carry also required insurance, like drivers are required to carry insurance? Remember that the right to ...
- Wed May 25, 2011 1:33 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
Also, I'd call security if I saw someone open carrying in a grocery store. And definitely wouldn't shop there again if they permitted it. Open carry should be subject to the same rules as smoking... establishment owners should be free to permit or ban it as they see fit. They are permitted to do so...
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:42 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Union issues in Canada I feel are pretty different than in the United States. But our labor unions are fairly corrupt.
I'm starting to feel like I should flee this BBS. Everyone up in here is divorced damnit!
I'm starting to feel like I should flee this BBS. Everyone up in here is divorced damnit!
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:28 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
People We Should All Be Afraid Of (torkur and sarvis are definitely afraid of) http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/santamariatimes.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/6/03/450/603450d4-2f36-11df-ad66-001cc4c03286.preview-300.jpg http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTLYkJbhYMbmbKn29XJ8e8R3...
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:13 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Refusing Medicaid Children
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1582
Re: Refusing Medicaid Children
Money is probably usually the #1 thing, but don't discount the role of bureaucracy. You're dealing with highly intelligent people at the top of society... and forcing them to deal with a government bureaucracy that makes no sense where every time they turn around theres a new subltety to some speci...
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:11 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: sex selection and abortion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5496
Re: sex selection and abortion
The question at hand is: When is murder justifiable? Every person has their own unique perspective on the subject of justifiable murder. Aside from the most radical anti-war leftists, you'd be very hard pressed to find any living human who condemns murder in all cases. War, abortion, the death pena...
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:07 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3806
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:06 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Long commutes increase risk of divorce by 40%
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1893
Re: Long commutes increase risk of divorce by 40%
Working in the oilfield of northern alberta increases divorce rate to 80%. The funny thing here is yes you do have a lot of wives complaining that they dont get a lot of time with thier spouse, but when those spouses get office jobs and are home every night, the wives complain about the lack of mon...
- Tue May 24, 2011 8:01 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Ive worked alot in the oil sands in Fort Mac (alberta). I have worked both union and non-union building plants up there. I know this is just my perspective on this. When i worked the union plant we did have a lot of man power and yes there were a group of people there who were lazy and dog-fucked t...
- Tue May 24, 2011 4:40 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Amena, would you mind explaining the unions/large construction projects relationship?
- Tue May 24, 2011 4:37 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Refusing Medicaid Children
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1582
Re: Refusing Medicaid Children
I think it may be more a shortage of dentists. I mean, dentists should prefer 50% reimbursement to zero work. My take away from the article is that US dentists are busy enough that they don't have downtime.
- Tue May 24, 2011 4:35 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3806
Re: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
Hah, Joe's prison is definitely inhumane. But so was my un-airconditioned dorm in Texas during most of the year. I remember sleeping on the sidewalk outside with half the other students because the 104 degree heat during the night was cooler than the 110 degree residual heat inside the building. It ...
- Mon May 23, 2011 9:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Refusing Medicaid Children
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1582
Re: Refusing Medicaid Children
If I were the dentist, I'd probably take a case like the one presented in the original article on moral grounds. Problem is, I suppose I would not be a very successful dentist.
- Mon May 23, 2011 9:19 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3806
Re: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
Personally, I think it's inhumane when prisons reach 150% capacity, or really, any number above 100% for a sustained period of time. Perhaps California could consult Joe Arpaio about how to run their prison systems on a shoestring budget. Although, I get the feeling California has already mastered f...
- Mon May 23, 2011 9:11 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
There is definitely still a need for the union today. Trouble is, the need for the union, I don't think is being met in reality by the unions. The union was never supposed to be a device that pitted Americans against Americans.
- Mon May 23, 2011 7:32 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Unions are very different from corporations. They not only have the power corporations have access to: money, law, etc. Unions also have the power of the vote. The major union interests, the AFL-CIO and SEIU have worked for decades to use their advantage to craft a very, very union friendly Federal ...
- Mon May 23, 2011 7:24 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3806
Re: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
Btw, the language used in the title of the article and in my thread subject can be misleading. The order is to reduce the prison population to 137.5% of capacity. This can also be interpreted as adding capacity to the prison system.
- Mon May 23, 2011 6:42 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Hey, if the workers actually got fucked, I would be supportive. But in this case, the workers still have their jobs, still have their livelihoods, and opportunity still exists in America. The union is a driving power that has both abused and used Americans in the past and will continue to do so in t...
- Mon May 23, 2011 6:18 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Actually, it's the opinion of the NRLB, based on communication between Boeing management and the chief of the union. I was merely reciting for you the facts present in the case. It is illegal to retaliate against a union's right to collective bargaining by opening a plant in a non-union state or lo...
- Mon May 23, 2011 6:14 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3806
Justices Order California to Reduce Prison Population
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html
Interesting case. Does the Supreme court function to resolve problems or to determine matters of the law? Is it capable of doing either?
Interesting case. Does the Supreme court function to resolve problems or to determine matters of the law? Is it capable of doing either?
- Mon May 23, 2011 5:44 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
It is illegal to retaliate against a union's right to collective bargaining by opening a plant in a non-union state or locale. Now look at who's reaching. A legitimate business decision to do business in America, to create American jobs, while retaining and hiring additionally in their original Was...
- Mon May 23, 2011 5:40 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Refusing Medicaid Children
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1582
Refusing Medicaid Children
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/insurance/articles/2011/05/23/some-dentists-reluctant-to-treat-kids-on-medicaid-study Children with a need for urgent care frequently cannot get an appointment in Illinois if they don't have private insurance. Dentists frequently offer to...
- Mon May 23, 2011 1:50 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Imperialist Democrats Threaten Libya - NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
- Replies: 91
- Views: 12520
Re: Imperialist Democrats Threaten Libya - NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
kiryan wrote:Bush, I mean Obama, is prolonging the conflict in Libya to drive up oil prices to benefit his friends in big oil. I wonder why I haven't seen that narrative ever, or the one where Obama, I mean Bush's third term, is responsible for rising gas prices.
Umm, because the media votes democrat?
- Mon May 23, 2011 1:37 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
Ok, so you're fucking stupid all the time. Not only do you not understand the difference between individual opinion and a party opinion, you're also too stupid to understand the difference between a political party and a political philosophy. Also, the portion I quoted from you earlier carries the ...
- Mon May 23, 2011 12:16 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
Ok, so you're fucking stupid all the time. Not only do you not understand the difference between individual opinion and a party opinion, you're also too stupid to understand the difference between a political party and a political philosophy. Also, the portion I quoted from you earlier carries the s...
- Sun May 22, 2011 3:08 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Time to ban swimming! Its a health risk.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1315
Re: Time to ban swimming! Its a health risk.
ban indoor air. It's more polluted.
- Sun May 22, 2011 3:06 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18113
Re: Your vaunted public servants seving the public
The difference between a murderer and "lawful open carry" standing next to you is the 2 seconds it takes to unholster and open fire Fewer than 1% of 1% of firearms are used in homicides. The vast majority of which are wielded by gang bangers and individuals with a violent criminal history...
- Sun May 22, 2011 3:04 am
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12558
Re: Taking Sides and Hating States: NLRB
Kiryan, that's just not what I said.
- Fri May 20, 2011 3:32 pm
- Forum: Current Events & Politics
- Topic: More CPS bad behavior
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5095
Re: More CPS bad behavior
I don't see the issue. I'm not sure how CPS did the right thing here. They're a bunch of zealous assholes in this case. There are child actors everywhere, I don't see how this is any different. Government, and CPS by extension isn't about doing the right thing. While doing the right thing and gover...