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2008/2/28-3/4 [Politics/Foreign/Europe, Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:49288 Activity:nil |
2/28 Prince Harry looking like a bad-ass American GI: http://www.csua.org/u/kx1 (Yahoo! News Photos) \_ Doesn't he look more like a British soldier? \_ But that face looks more like an American GI in Vietnam to me. -- OP |
2008/2/20-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:49193 Activity:low |
2/20 Is Obama anti-Asian-American? \_ link:tinyurl.com/26zx2v \_ Are you an idiot? \_ No, but I sure met a lot of Asian-Americans while canvassing that seemed to be vehemently anti-Obama. Funny, they would never explain *why* though. \_ Maybe it has something to do with this S.B. Woo spam I keep getting. \_ I googled that and man, to quote Clay Davis on The Wire, "that is some shameful shit." \_ Between this and the spurious accusations linking Obama with Farrakhan, I can already see what tact the GOP plans to take against him in the general election. As pp said, "shameful shit." \_ This sounds more like Billary than the GOP, but it is hard to tell... maybe they are working togethere? \_ I highly doubt it; I just mean that it's liklely that the GOP will target Obama by exploiting ethnic/racial tensions. \_ The Farrakhan thing is coming from the Israel lobby. Pretty sure that they're bipartisan. \_ What are you talking about? URL please. \_ It's because Obama had refused to respond to 80-20 Initiative's questionnaire on Asian American issues until after they gave up and endorsed Hillary. \_ That questionnaire was some dumb shit. Somehow I doubt this is really the reason. \_ No, he did not refuse, he asked for the questions to be clarified, which every other campaign asked for and got. Once the questions were clear, he answered them just like everyone else. \_ Hmm. Hillary responsed on 12/10/07, while Obama responded a whole 7.5 weeks later on 1/31/08. http://www.80-20initiative.net/news/preselect2008.asp \_ When did they clarify his questions? |
2008/2/19-22 [Politics/Domestic] UID:49186 Activity:nil 80%like:49180 |
2/19 Castro is such a quitter! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080219/wl_nm/cuba_castro_dc_4 \_ Well, at least his internal organs are. \_ I wonder why he just doesn't push on at least until after this cycle of US elections. \_ "Many observers believe Fidel Castro will either be replaced by his brother Raul, or by his idiot son, Fidel W. Castro." -- Letterman \_ Ha ha! |
2008/2/11-14 [Politics/Domestic] UID:49120 Activity:nil |
2/11 What's the female equivalent of the phrase "Mr. President"? Is it "Mrs. President", "Miss President", "Ms. President", "Ma'am President" or "Madam President"? \_ Madam |
2008/2/8-10 [Politics/Domestic, Recreation/Humor] UID:49100 Activity:low |
2/8 "The stakes in November are high. This is an important election. Prosperity and peace are in the balance." -Bush Is he trying to be funny here or what? \_ Sounds like a typical Bushism to me. |
2008/1/28-2/2 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic] UID:49020 Activity:nil |
1/28 Humans Force Earth into New Geologic Epoch - Yahoo! News: http://www.csua.org/u/kld |
2008/1/4-7 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48889 Activity:low |
1/4 Why is the Congress investigating baseball doping? Doesn't a nation's legislature have better things to do than looking into conduct within a sport? --- clueless \_ Very short version: the owners wanted a monopoly. To get it they agreed to give the gvt oversight. So yes they should have better things to do but it is their job to do this as well. \_ I see. Thx. \_ Sheesh, lke the gvt needed anymore responisiblities. They don't do the ones they have now! \_ And they do things they're not supposed to do but I don't make the rules. Just providing some info to the op. \_ Not really. Baseball's antitrust exemption gives Congress some leverage over them when they choose to get involved, but it's not like they have some particular obligation. The steroids hearings are just political grandstanding. \_ 1) That was the "very short version" and 2) yes, you have an opinion. |
2007/12/11-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:48781 Activity:nil |
12/11 Russia expanding again. http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071210/wl_csm/omerger |
2007/11/20-26 [Politics/Domestic, Recreation/Food, Uncategorized/Profanity] UID:48670 Activity:nil |
11/20 FRE FNM CFC LEN PHM ETFC, all bond insurers eating buckets of shit \_ http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/achievement/chap7.html |
2007/10/31 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48494 Activity:nil |
10/30 From the very beginning Alexis attention deficit disorder and complete disinterest in all things academic made it obvious that she wouldn't be moving mountains with her intelligence. By the end of her fifth grade year, however, she had shed a large amount of baby fat only for it to slowly migrate to one centralized location in her upper torso. By the time she reached high school, she was not only sporting boobs on the upper end of Double D, but sported a derriere which had been dubbed by most of the student body as "un-fucking-believable." |
2007/10/19-24 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48383 Activity:high |
10/19 Awesome. Now Harry Reid is claiming credit for raising money for children by sending the smear letter to Rush Limbaugh. http://csua.org/u/jrn (transcript at NRO of senate minutes) \_ I read that off LGF too, but I don't really agree with that interpretation. It doesn't read to me like he's taking credit for it, except the last line, which could be read multiple ways. \_ "Never did we think that this letter would bring money of this nature. And, for the cause, madam president, it is extremely good." We? We?!? \_ So what if he is? Frankly I think that's genius. -dans \_ Errr... ok. Taking credit for someone else's good idea hardly takes genius. \_ Actually I was suggesting that he may actually have manipulated $KNEE_JERK_RIGHT_WING_MOUTHPIECE into this. I mean, seriously, their buttons are pretty easy to push. But then I'm evil so I don't think that's a ridiculous idea. \_ Merely stupid. Maybe you do. Let's split the difference. -dans \_ Yeah, that's a ridiculous idea. Well, I've learned that "dans <heart> Harry Reid." \_ You think he manipulated Rush into raising money for charity? Yeah, that's a pretty ridiculous idea. \_ dans <hearts> Harry Reid! \_ Harry Reid can go fuck a goat. But I do think it's \_ Harry Reid can go fuck a dans. But I do think it's \_ A well done modification. I o7 (salute) you. -dans easy to manipulate knee-jerk, reactionary talking heads, and I think it would be awesome if it happened more. I'm not saying that's what happened here, I'm merely saying it's in the realm of possibilitty. -dans merely saying it's in the realm of possibility. -dans \_ It isn't even in the realm of possibilty. Sorry. Reid and 40 other Dem Senators did not sit down and write a threat letter based on a lie to a radio show host's syndicator with the hope of over $4m dollars (half of it from the radio show host) going to a charity where the radio show host is a board member. \_ In the realm of possibility != likely != remotely likely Merely possible. Get over yourself oh holy arbiter of what is. -dans \_ I love it when people try to justify their stupid statements by lowering the threshold of "possible" to ridiculously low levels. "Hey a perpetual motion machine is within the realm of possibility, we might discover new physics!" Yeah, ok, whatever. -!pp \_ Now, perpetual motion machine violates the laws of thermodynamics. Apples and orange my boy. Suggesting that politicians might be manipulative and machiavellian is a far smaller leap than suggesting we oopsed and misunderstood thermodynamics for the last few hundred years. -dans \_ No, you're suggesting something with the same odds as a working perpetual motion machine being built. The odds that Harry+40 wrote their lying smear letter with the hope/intent that Rush and his fans would turn it into a $4m charity event is zero. Please let this thread die. You're convincing no one. \_ That's a doggone lame thing to do. |
2007/10/17-18 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48340 Activity:kinda low |
10/15 http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.32084028 Why Democrats can't win. "You heard me right. There is no correlation between being smarter than your opponent and actually, you know, winning the election." \_ Yeah, and that 2006 election just goes to show that... uh... \_ When two morons run, nobody wins. \_ Those morons were selected by the voters in the primaries. So, uh, yeah. |
2007/10/15 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48324 Activity:nil 66%like:48325 |
10/15 Harry Reid sucks (yes, even in NV) http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/10/at-home-in-neva.html |
2007/10/15 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion, Politics/Domestic] UID:48323 Activity:nil |
10/15 Sexist and racist remarks deleted, regardless of proofs & facts. \_ Can facts be sexist? I've always thought only untrue statments can be sexist or racist. Is "men are generally stronger than women" sexist? What about "black people are darker than white people?" Or, "men cannot become pregnant?" \_ Reality doesn't have liberal bias after all. |
2007/10/12 [Computer/Companies/Ebay, Politics/Domestic] UID:48299 Activity:nil |
10/12 Awesome. http://csua.org/u/jq0 \_ What is awesome about Limbaugh trying to rewrite history? He tries to do that all the time. |
12/25 |
2007/9/24-27 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48177 Activity:nil |
9/24 In America, nobody is allowed to exploit 9/11 for political gain except Republicans! \_ C'mon, this is the weakest troll the motd has seen all year. You're not even trying. This wasn't even phoned in! |
2007/9/18-22 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:48099 Activity:nil 75%like:48098 |
9/18 "Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_sc/shrinking_kilogram *The* kilogram is weighing less. \_ Old news. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-8938134.html \_ Even worse, WE DON'T KNOW WHY!!!! \- maybe the dildo really is 9lb! \_ It's completely natural for a dildo to lose weight when it goes from erect state to flaccid state. Oh wait ... |
2007/9/14-18 [Politics/Domestic] UID:48066 Activity:low |
9/14 10:00pm ABC 60min 2007 Whose Body Is It Anyway?! Health Care in America A John Stossel report on health care weighs the pros and cons of the U.S. system and others around the world, and looks at U.S. innovations. Included: a segment on health care in Cuba, featuring filmmaker Michael Moore, Miami-based Cuban activist Jose Carro and George Utset, who runs an anti-Castro Web site. Also: Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger; and Canadian physician David Gratzer, author of .The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care.. \_ John Stossel's reporting is almost all of the 'I am a complete corporate tool' variety, but maybe I'll watch, thanks. \_ Is there an equivalent term for 'I am a complete big government tool?' |
2007/9/12-14 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic] UID:48035 Activity:moderate |
9/12 High School students not allowed to wear US Flag \_ On 9/11 \_ The day that changed everything! http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=736551408894700123226loxq4.jpg http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-09-11-0027.html \_ More imporantly, stupid school bans wearing flags, has to deal with the consequences of such an assinine rule. \_ The US flag isn't a foreign flag. \_ It's a stupid fucking rule. Start banning things just because they are foreign and you are asking for a much deserved lawsuit. \_ I'm pretty sure schools can ban pretty much whatever they like Anyway, it is a stupid rule, I agree. But the leap from that rule to baninng the US flag is mind-boggling. -op (!pp) \_ No they can't. There are free speach limits even at a school. And let's take a hypothetical. Hispanic students start wearing Mexican flags, people get upset some kids get into fights. The school bans Mexican flags. (And it doesn't get smacked down.) Now some of the love it leave it assholes who were also part fighting start wearing American flags as a fuck you this is America display (not hard to imagine now is it?) Why is one acceptable and the other not? \_ Umm.. because this actually IS ths US? \_ So why are they banning flags then? Because "This is America damnit (tm)" or because flags were causing a significant disruption? \_ What is wrong with "This is America damnit (tm)" anyway? Is this *not* America? \_ Besides the xenophobic viewpoint it's not appropriate for schools to degenerate into violence. Why were flags banned in the first place? Until you get answer that, this is just squwaking. \_ Flag Code aside (because that isn't why they were banned): Banning flags is not the real issue. The issue is violence. Banning flags doesn't make the hatred that causes the violence to go away. Now that I've answered that, tell me what is so wrong about loving your country and putting your own nation above others. \_ Why not look it up yourself, squwaker? You're the one asking. Why is it my job to answer your questions? \_ Because I'm not the one in hysteronics about the evil anti-american flag cabal? \_ Wearing the US flag is a violation of the Flag Code: http://www.legion.org/?section=our_flag&subsection=flag_code&content=flag_respect -tom \_ So is lowering the US flag to half-mast when some local hero (e.g. firefighter in your community) dies while in line of duty. But people do it arbitrarily anyway. \_ You are incorrect. Half-staff may be ordered by the president, but that does not preclude respectful displays by other local authorities at other times. (Oops. I'm wrong. The order to half-staff can only come from the President or a Governor. Never mind.) \_ Yes, it's just funny to see rah rah U-S-A types defending violations of the Flag Code. -tom |
2007/9/10 [Politics/Domestic] UID:47973 Activity:nil |
9/10 'General Betray Us' HA HA HA HA HA I love watching Republicans get offended over language and ignoring the gigantic bloody trillion dollar sucking sound in Iraq. Oh no someone on a blog said something mean! |
2007/9/6 [Politics/Domestic] UID:47915 Activity:nil |
9/6 i really hope the american people do not fall for this Thompson presidential media snowjob THIS IS A MAN OF CONVICTION complete bullshit, but I have my doubts |
2007/8/30-9/3 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:47834 Activity:high |
8/30 A Burning Man participant was found dead this morning, hanging from the inside of a two-story high tent, according to Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Land Managment. The apparent suicide would be the festival's first in its 21 year history, Pirtle said. \_ Am I alone in thinking that Burning Man is retarded? \_ No. \_ Definitely not. \_ Nope. \_ You are certainly not the only person who has never been there and knows practically nothing about it who has a very strong opinion about it. \_ I'm sure you've been to Guantanamo, Iraq, Darfur, and a Billy Graham Crusade, right? \_ I'm sure you've been to Guantanamo, Iraq, Darfur, and a Billy Graham Crusade, right? Or not, since you deleted this comment. \_ How much of my tax payer dollars are being spend on Burning Man? I think the Billy Graham Crusade is just dandy, btw. If people want to spend their own time and money doing things like that, that make them happy, more power to them. And no *I* did not delete this comment. More than two people Burning Man? I think the Billy Graham Crusade is just dandy btw. If people want to spend their own time and money doing things like that, that make them happy, more power to them. And no *I* did not delete this comment. More than two people use the motd, believe it or not. \_ How much does it cost to clean up the environment after they leave? What is the cost to the local communities to lock up all their stuff and keep their kids inside? (Yes they steal shit from the locals). Who pays for the cops and emergency services in the area to work overtime? Just some good clean fun, kids, all free! \_ Just like I said, the people who know the least about what they are talking about, have the strongest opinions. BLM inspects after the event to make sure it is totally clean. Dozens of volunteers stay for months until it is cleaned up. BM LLC pays for every dollar of police, fire and emergency service time. Any other misconceptions you want cleared up? \_ Thousands of people show up in the desert, run around naked, take a lot of drugs, have sex with random people for a week, don't bathe, burn a giant 'man', then drive home in their SUVs leaving behind (literally) tons of garbage in the environment for the locals and government to deal with. What was the cool part that I missed? \_ You dont leave your garbage out there. You take it with you. so often that means leaving it in a dumpster in Reno, but you dont leave it out in the desert. Actually I'm down with you spreading FUD about burning man that it sucks, it keeps idiots like you from showing up. please continue! \_ Don't worry. I won't go. I might work to stop BM, though! Enjoy it while it lasts! \_ I don't think a lot of sex goes on at Burning Man. Maybe you might try it once, then you figure out that having sex at Burning Man is terrible and should not be attempted by anyone. \_ Ok, so thousands of dirty people in the desert naked taking a lot of drugs, not getting laid, burning the 'man' and leaving a huge mess behind. I'm still looking for the cool part. \_ Where can I find pix of naked people in BM? \_ google. Or just go next year. \_ Better for people like you to stay away, since you already know everything anyway. -Been to BM six times \_ Wow, you are such an expert, glad to know you already know everything that 45k people do over a weeks time, even though your only knowledge is through the media. \_ Don't worry. I won't go. I might work to stop BM, though! Enjoy it while it lasts! \_ I've yet to see a single person post anything about BM being anything more than described: smelly people taking drugs for a week, leaving a huge mess behind. If you'd like to correct that 'misunderstanding', please do. And oh yeah, there's people doing 'art' and 'expressing their freedom'. Sorry, can't forget that. \_ Nope. No desire to encourage fools to come at all. Please stay away. \_ Stupid smelly hippies enjoying Burning Man: http://www.csua.org/u/jfl \_ Just because they are old doesn't prove anything. |
2007/8/30-9/3 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:47824 Activity:nil |
8/28 Matt Taibbi interview: "I read "Dead Souls" about forty times before I was twenty. He was my hero. For the longest time I just wanted to... well, not to be Nicholai Gogol, because he was an insane and miserable boot fetishist who ended up becoming an overbearing religious bore before starving and bleeding himself to death with leeches, but to write like that anyway. But you should see how pathetic it is when a modern American tries his style." http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001695.html \_ Like many great artists, Gogol was an anti-semite. -- ilyas |
2007/8/21-22 [Politics, Politics/Domestic] UID:47680 Activity:low |
8/21 "Poll: White youths happier than others" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_en_ot/youth_poll_race_4 "Sex: Sixty percent of white youths are happy with their sex lives, compared with 46 percent of minorities. Both groups are about equal on the sexual activity scale." Why? Because the white guys get all the H01 4ZN CH1X! Damn it! (Never mind the white gals who responded in the survey.) \_ white people happier than non white people? woah. \_ The article addresses youths only. "Carpenter, one of the survey participants, spoke for the majority of minority youths who feel their race will not cause problems later in life." \_ it's annoying that the article doesn't give number for asians. |
2007/8/18-22 [Politics/Domestic] UID:47650 Activity:low |
8/20 So in this clip that is getting forwarded far and wide from 1994, ---- Cheney is prepared, smart, and obviously knows what he is talking about, because he's a articulate, experienced man who has been in government a long long time and you should trust his judgement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY WHAT THE HELL happened since then? Did he get a brain transplant? Arrgh. Pitchforks. Riots. Street. \_ I met Dick Cheney in 2004 when he gave a speech at my work. He came across as very articulate, experienced, and a natural born leader. So if you feel he has changed in some way then it must have happened since 2004. \_ Are you new to politics, or are you a Democrat? |
2007/8/17-22 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:47633 Activity:nil |
8/20 when was the last senator to actually win the presidential election? I mean 'senator who is a senator while running', not former senator. \_ JFK. From wikipedia entry: "Kennedy is the most recent to be elected while serving in the Senate." |
2007/8/2-3 [Politics/Domestic, Academia/GradSchool] UID:47507 Activity:nil |
8/2 US high school education in action: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/education/01education.html Kinda odd that the teachers are allowed to talk about a student by name. \_ This would violate FERPA if they never got a written permission from the parent(or the student if she was 18): http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html The writer definitely was one-sided, but it does remind us of some problems that is probably wide-spread. (like budgetary pressure on the schools to pass kids and parents who fail to see the fault of their kids or themselves regardig school matters.) For a young mind that becomes a teacher because s/he wanted to make a difference, the situation this teacher was in is certainly difficult. All the while, the areas where these same minds want to make difference in are also the same school districts with the budget constraints. Chicken and egg problem. But I do think a teacher that wants to make a difference should have given the student a retake on the final to force her to at least for one day in her life. |
2007/7/17-19 [Politics/Domestic] UID:47309 Activity:nil 66%like:47307 |
7/17 'None Of The Above' surges into the lead in Republican primary link:preview.tinyurl.com/2c3r77 (ipsos-na.com) [PDF] \_ Just remember "Hillary doesn't have a chance." \_ When confronted with numbers, retaliate with slogans. \_ I remember once when Jon Stewart said that some Republican was going to lose against a yet-unnamed Democratic opponent. "However, once a Democrat is actually named, they tend to do much worse" |
2007/6/12-15 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:46921 Activity:nil |
6/12 Scientists find that salvage logging makes wildfires worse http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_sc/wildfire_logging |
2007/5/13 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46610 Activity:nil |
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/revive_the_republican_way_of_w.html \_ Given the plurality of our nation it makes very little sense to associate one self as a "pure" Democrat or Republican. A smart person is happy to give up faith and blind party loyalty to adaptability and logic. A smart person does not associate oneself to purely one party. A smart person is one who is independent. |
2007/5/3 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46521 Activity:nil |
5/3 Any recommended budget motherboard that can support a quad core Core 2 and has decent linux support? |
2007/4/21-24 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46404 Activity:low |
4/20 Liberals .. it's too obvious.. Liberals want the conservatives to stand next to a ditch and get gunned down. They want to be the one that guns down pro gunners and conservatives! That's what this is all really about... only way liberals can win is to take away all the guns.. get control of the army and then kill off all the conservatives... that's your plan.. we know.. That's why there is the 2nd amemdment. To prevent mentally disordered liberals who would have no balls otherwise be able to control the masses by removing guns and then using the military in the same facist way Hitler did to exterminate the jews. That's why the 2nd amendment exists. \_ how is this interesting? did you even write this? \_ ^Liberals^Statists \_ I thought it was funny I could add comments to the motd gun threads that I cut and pasted from random blogs and people would reply, eventhough the comments really didnt have much to do with the previous discussion. \_ Isn't this something that the VT shooter posted before he went ballistic? Should I be nervous? \_ Only when Hillary wins in 2008, then we should all be nervous \_ Worried about Hillary, worred about the gun nuts or worried about both? |
2007/4/20-24 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46398 Activity:nil |
4/21 Latest sign that reality is becoming an Onion headline: "When you're president of the United States and you have this many folks that you are employing, it's a pretty small number that he's had to express full confidence in." --White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino \- Bhutan to hold fake election: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6578421.stm |
2007/4/19-20 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46376 Activity:nil |
4/19 A message all of us, liberals and conservatives, can get behind: http://www.thepoorman.net/2007/04/14/a-little-bit-country \_ already posted and boring |
2007/4/12-15 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/HateGroups] UID:46276 Activity:nil |
4/12 Anyone have a link to video of Olbermann becoming the next McCarthy? Or Sharpton doing the same? \_ Please give context, troll, thanks. \_ Last night on Olbermann, he called for Imus, Limbaugh, Savage, and others to be pulled off the air. \_ That's unfortunate. Looks like Imus is gone. I'd simply not to choose to buy any product ever advertised on Savage's show. What a cesspit. I don't listen to Savage though (anymore). I don't know how anyone can put up with it. It's a giant daily shower of insults, rage, racism, hate and bile. I really hope no one I know listens to that and can identify with it. \_ Wow, Olbermann is a senator with the power of the legistlative branch behind him? When did that happen? \_ You know that McCarthy was in the house, right? \- Uh no. Maybe you are confused beacuse of HUAC, or possibly because your brain is small. \_ You know you're an idiot, right? \_ Is Olbermann a member of Congress? \_ How many conservatives have called for liberals to be rounded up and put in camps? \_ I love seeing people defend Imus. You look stupid either way. Do you think Imus hired a writer/foil/cohort just to make nigger jokes? Look it up. |
2007/4/6-10 [Politics/Domestic, Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:46213 Activity:nil |
4/6 "Mystery of Greek Amphitheater's Amazing Sound Finally Solved" http://www.csua.org/u/iel (Yahoo News) "Amazingly, the Greek builders of the theater did not themselves understand the principles that led to the exceptional audibility of sound from the stage." How did the author come to this conclusion? \_ we invented first vaccine without ever knowing the existence of viruses... |
2007/3/30-4/3 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46161 Activity:nil |
3/30 Why Mommy is a Democrat: http://littledemocrats.net \_ Is that a parody? "Democrats make sure we all share our toys." \_ No, I believe this is in earnest. I keep flipping between horrified astonishment and ROTFLMAO. |
2007/3/29-4/2 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Politics/Domestic, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:46140 Activity:nil |
3/28 A kind reminder that CSUA stands for Computer Science Undergrad Association. It is not the Political Science [aka I hate Democrats and I hate Republicans] Undergrad Association. In other news AMD is releasing a new laptop chip! EXCITING!!! http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/29/amds-laptop-ready-m690-chipset-unveiled \_ that's chipset. and CS students like to talk politics. \_ Piss off. \_ Well someone is pissy. If this is representative, I think I know why I chose to hang out with CS types as opposed to poli-sci types. -dans |
2007/3/24-27 [Politics/Domestic] UID:46084 Activity:nil |
3/23 We're throwing away TRILLIONS in the Middle East, with no reasonable plan of winning or withdrawal, and the best the Democrats can do is point out that Administration fired a few US Attorneys and lied about it. Bleah. \_ No, they actually just passed a bill in the house requiring the US to withdraw by Jun 2008. Too bad it will get vetoed. the US to withdraw by Sep 2008. Too bad it will get vetoed. This is what happens when you lose elections. \_ When you understand who controls the US media and government this is perfectly natural. |
2007/3/12-15 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/California] UID:45936 Activity:nil 80%like:45942 |
3/12 Pete Stark comes out of the theism closet http://www.secular.org/news/pete_stark_070312.html \_ http://www.thegodmovie.com |
2007/3/12-15 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45933 Activity:nil |
3/12 So now that Halliburton is moving the Corporate HQ to Dubai, will they close their Iranian office? Why are they moving everything off-shore anyway, are they worried that the Democratic Congress will start investigating the war profiteering? \_ Maybe you should ask their newest big stockholder, George Soros http://csua.org/u/i7t \- from the daily show: "the long kiss dubai" ... heh. --psb |
2007/3/7-10 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:45896 Activity:nil |
3/7 RIP Captain America http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/503132p-424376c.html \_ This is part of Marvel's stupendously boring and stupid series 'Civil War'. Comic book fans will react by making even more fun of Civil War. It's stupid. Marvel comics suck. Sometimes the occasionaly actual good movie gets made from a Marvel comic book, like Spiderman and The Punisher. \_ The Punisher? Which version? \_ Actually the current Brubaker run on Daredevl is excellent. I haven't read Bendis' run that preceded it, but I heard it's also good, and I dig Powers so I'll probably give it a look. -dans |
2007/3/5-7 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45883 Activity:high |
3/4 http://www.conservapedia.com \_ "Modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood." http://www.conservapedia.com/Kangaroo \_ I still can't figure out if that site is for real. My liberal friends say "IT IS FOR REAL, IT IS FUNDED BY THE EAGLE FORUM." But it's so dumb, and appears to be run off some dude's DSL line. \_ Well we know automatically that all conservatives are Xtians and fundamentally stupid. Therefore it must be real. I saw it on the intarweeb. \- intartube |
2007/2/27-3/3 [Politics/Domestic, Recreation/Humor] UID:45833 Activity:nil |
2/27 "Why I Hate Blacks" http://preview.tinyurl.com/2r6vqc (Asian Week) \_ Oooookayyyy... \_ Funny stuff. Even funnier when you start googling for author and discover he's a crazy person, people hate him so much they create epic poems about how much they hate him, AND he's a furry. \_ http://blogs.ign.com/Hil-IGN/2006/09/01/29782 Oh man this is going to crack me up all week. \_ From the article: "Eng wrote about experiencing racism as an Asian American student at New York University after he "expressed my negative views on America, religion and African Americans." Bwahaha. Imagine, Eng: Blacks are all so stupid/evil. Other: What? You dick! Eng: What's your problem, you racist or something? I'm a genius! |
2007/2/23 [Politics/Domestic, Politics] UID:45808 Activity:high |
2/23 I hope I kick this much ass when I'm 70 http://redirx.com/?7yui \_ If you can't kick this much ass today, you won't be able to at 70 either. \_ Unless you take my class now! Just $19.95 a lesson! \_ Way to go! That guy retired from the military. I bet the average sodan can't do this even at the present age. \_ Hard to say. I only know one person who has KILLED A MAN WITH HIS BARE HANDS. \_ Is this from the Chuck Norris Facts list? \_ I thought they didn't know what weapon Hans used. -tom |
2007/2/21-23 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45785 Activity:kinda low |
2/20 D.C. Cir. upholds law stripping the federal cts of the power to hear habeas claims from prisoners in Guantanamo Bay: http://preview.tinyurl.com/26ssw8 (miami.com - miami herald) link:preview.tinyurl.com/ynmz8x (pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov - decision) \_ Really sad to watch our civil liberties stripped away. I hope the USSC will overturn this. \_ GITMO is not on mainland US. Much like how Taiwan is not China. \_ Neither is fucking hawaii, dumbshit. But other than your poor choice of words, permanent residents can fall under the same danger if the president just decides he wants to imprison, torture, even execute them. No charges needed, no recourse. If the USSC does not overturn this, they're not worth the wood for their chairs. not worth the wood for their bench. \_ Ha, I got you! \_ http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3131/nocontestsb1.jpg \_ What the heck was the point of that picture? -!pp \_ Well, it is unclear if the USSC can overturn the decision b/c the decision is really that the court has no power to hear a habeas claim from persons w/in a particular class. The 2d part of the decision is that for these particular people, no habeas right existed at common law, thus Congress hasn't suspending the writ - that may be reviewable, but I doubt it. The issue here is whether Congress has constitutionally used its Art 3, Sec. 1 and Art. 3, Sec. 2, Cl. 2 powers to determine the original/appellate jurisdiction of the lower federal courts (district courts and appeals courts) and the appellate jx of the USSC. Congress seems to have done everything correctly except possibly one thing - Congress may have prescribed a rule of decision in a pending case, which is unconstitutional. But, the problem is that it is unclear whether it is unconstitutional to prescribe a rule of decision in a pending case before the USSC or if it unconstitutional to prescribe a rule of decision in a pending case before any federal court. If the unconstitutional act is prescribing a rule of decision in case pending before the USSC, then Congress has acted cons- titutionally b/c there were no pending habeas cases before the USSC at the time the MCA was enacted. The hope must be that the constitutional violation occurs when a rule of decision is prescribed in a case pending before any federal court. It is unclear if this is true. The one other option is that that the USSC some how finds that Art. 3, Sec. 2, Cl. 2 gives the USSC original jurisdiction over habeas claims. From Marbury we know that the USSC's original jurisdiction cannot be altered w/o constitutional amendment, thus if the MCA takes away part of the USSC original jx, it would be unconstitutional. This option is no option at all b/c the USSC is not prepared or able to hear habeas pleas in the thousands of cases that can be filed. One other thing might happen in this case, the DC Cir. might re-hear the case en-banc and reverse. That is probably more likely than the USSC accepting and reversing the case. |
2007/2/8-11 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45692 Activity:nil |
2/9 Boredcast Message from 'psb': Thu Feb 8 18:16:00 2007 boy this attack on the pelosi jet is quite a low (not posted by psb) \_ Do you mean her whining for a 757-200, even though her existing plane is fine? \_ By "her", do you mean the House Seargent at Arms? \_ the whole 'give her a different jet' thing WASNT EVEN HER IDEA. fuck. \_ Not really. I don't see why she needs more than the previous Speaker had and why that isn't good enough for her. Perhaps she has forgotten that it is still important for public officials in this country to at least pretend and give lip service to the idea that this isn't a moncharchy yet and she isn't the queen. \_ the previous speaker's jet could do non-stop from DC to home. the sgt at arms is the one who urged pelosi to have a military jet for security reasons, and having two-hops does not exactly make it more secure. \_ The previous speaker's jet could do non-stop from DC to Illinois. She's getting that jet. I don't see how refueling at an air force base is insecure. Besides, the Gulfstream 5 can go coast to coast without refueling. \_ The people arguing against this here are either trolls or morons. Let them be. \_ The GOP realizes that almost all of their agenda is opposed by the vast majority of Americans, so that their only hope is to smear and personally attack their political opponents. This is the Karl Rove method and while it was wildly succesful, it is the Karl Rove method and while it was wildly successful, it did not create the Permanent Republican Majority he had hoped for. Apparently the GOP hasn't developed a new playbook, or learned the lessons from their defeat in 2006. |
2006/11/25-12/5 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45369 Activity:nil |
11/25 Gas price is going up after the election, as expected. \_ It was going up before the election too. |
2006/11/9-10 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic] UID:45293 Activity:high |
11/9 Can anyone think of a legitimate reason for the flag to be at half-staff today? I'm suspecting that some crybaby republican security guard did this because of the election, but I want to know if there's *any* other possible explanation. \_ OP here: I was being paranoid, it's legit: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/31709.php A Border Patrol officer died in a car accident. \_ What state are you in? Gov Schwarzaneggar ordered flags to half staff when those fire fighters died in the LA wildfire \_ The control of the Republican congress died. It's a dark dark day out there for America. God Bless. -Republican \_ Only plausible explanation is that a member of congress has died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-staff \_ Someone confused 11/9 with 9/11? Where did you see the flag at half-staff anyway? half-staff anyway? A lot of times people lower the flag to half-staff to honor some local people. That's not an appropriate use of half-staff'ing of the US flag, but nobody is going to complain "oh we liked so-and-so but he didn't deserve a half-staff US flag". \_ This is at a Federal institution (a lab), so the formal rules should apply and should be known by whoever is resonsible for the flag out front. This is certainly either becuase of some obscure rule or because someone is knowingly being a little crybaby asshole. Given the nature of the local security guards who are the only ones here in the middle of the night, the latter explanation is very plausible. \_ You should follow up with this and find out. This is highly inappropriate and the person should be fired, if in fact this is wrt the death of the control of the congress \_ No one is going to get fired over a half staff flag. You can legally burn the damned thing as a matter of free speech, you can certainly half staff it. Get over your big self. \_ No free speech if you're king, eh? \_ Free speech is fine. Co-opting the tools of state to express your free speech is unprofessional. Fire him on that. \_ Uh yeah right. Have you ever worked in the real world? Short of raping his boss's boss's wife whoever "co-opted the tools of the state" is not going to get anyone fired. You're being ridiculous. \_ You're being naive. People get fired for less than this all the time. \_ Not federal employees. \_ Nonsense. In CA it is almost impossible to fire someone. In order to avoid a lawsuit you need so much documentation and efforts at making sure it "was done right" it will take several months, loads of paperwork and multiple wrong doings (except theft, assault, etc) to fire someone. Who are these 'people getting fired for trivial nonsense all the time'? You're full of it. And frankly, even if you *could* get someone fired for half staffing the flag as a sign of his personal political distaste for the results of the election, you'd be a complete ass for doing so. \_ No idea but I noticed a fire station had the flag at half mast this weekend and wondered why as well. \_ The US flag is supposed to be lowered every evening and raised again the next morning. So whoever's there in the middle of the night shouldn't have anything to do with it. \_ This flag flies 24/7 normally. Are you sure about that rule? So you're claiming that all the flags one sees flying at night all over the country are violating some flag rule? I don't believe that. I don't believe that. link:csua.org/u/hf6 \_ If flown at night, the flag is supposed to be illuminated somehow. Otherwise it is supposed to be taken down at sunset. \_ Well, yes, it's illuminated(duh). \_ Title 4, Chapter 1, #6, (a): "It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed 24 hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness." http://www.csua.org/u/hf7 (www4.law.cornell.edu) |
2006/11/8-10 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic] UID:45282 Activity:kinda low |
11/8 Say you're a politician and you just lost an election, and say you're not a wealthy dot-comer who made millions from eBay or inherited millions from your family, what would you do for a living? \_ You stay home all day and cry. Like Al Gore. Then after a year or two you start making a movie you're passionate about so that you can forget about your loss. Like Al Gore. \_ Well, you could always hit the lecture circuit and make an absurd amount of money...like Al Gore \_ Lobbyist. Go back to law. Give talks. Do what you were doing pre politician. Lots of things. \_ http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/3afec4f94f.jpg 1. Buy daughter a puppy 2. Send son off to Hogwarts 3. Repress homosexual urges 4. Profit! \_ awesome. |
2006/11/8 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45278 Activity:very high |
11/8 Allen concedes. House and Senate officially in hand of the Democrats. I expect great things. Don't let me down! \_ All the news sites I see say "Associated Press declare Webb winner". WTF? \_ Do you have examples of what you expect? Just curious. \_ Is this the first time a Mormon will lead the Senate? \_ Allen concedes? url please. \_ He was down 7k. Lawsuits and noise about election fraud with big spreads aren't a Republican trait. \_ Right. They steal their elections fair and square. |
2006/11/8-9 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45272 Activity:nil |
11/8 One good thing about the Dems winning--I'll finally hear the good news about the economy. \_ Loser says what? |
2006/11/8-9 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:45269 Activity:kinda low |
11/8 Hah. Dems win and Rummy steps down. Suddenly all those people who felt guilty about voting Dem feel a whoooooole lot better. \_ Watch those Democrats implode! \_ I just realized Rummy was also Secretary of Defence when he was in his forties. \_ I think Rummy has been both the youngest and oldest sec of defense. |
2006/11/8-10 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:45265 Activity:nil |
11/8 As it turns out, despite more spending for Republican campaigns, the Democrats won. Elections do not always follow money. \_ err. they did kept the Senate. and only Senate can impeach the president, no? \_ Well, unless 'kept' means 'lost' in this context..... \_ I guess kept is a way of saying "didn't keep"? \_ No, the house can impeach the POTUS. \_ More correctly, the house impeaches, the senate convicts. While presidents have been impeached by the house, none has been convicted by the senate. \_ Simple majority in the House to impeach; 2/3 majority in the Senate to convict. \_ This is a new meaning of the word "kept" that I'm not familiar with. Perhaps you could enlighten us? |
2006/11/8-9 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45261 Activity:nil |
11/8 I think it's really great that Dems are emphasizing bipartisanship in their victory speeches - that there was a divided America, and in order to defeat terrorism, we would need to work together. I feel really good about this election. \- assming the Rs hold on to the Senate, I think te play between the two chambers will be itneresting ... sort of a "if you are total assholes [nuclear option etc] then we at least have some scope to respond." \_ Democrats take Senate. Wonder what will happen to Lieberman? \_ url? \- nothing will happen to lieberman. Harry Reid already said that. if the margin was large, he might be able to reneg, but it wont be, and also harder to reneg on something that is sort of public. \_ As of 8:34am MST it's not quite a done deal, but it looks like the Democrats got both Montana and Virginia, thus winning a Senate majority. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/senate |
2006/11/8 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45255 Activity:nil |
11/8 DEMOCRATS TAKE THE SENATE DEMOCRATS TAKE THE SENATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \_ Of course. All the idiots on the motd the last few months talking up an "October surprise" and "November surprise" was just a lot of hot air. Gee, imagine that. The motd was filled with idiots who had no idea what they were talking about. Shocker. \_ The November surprise was the Saddam conviction. It just didn't work. It might have saved a few House seats for the GOP. |
2006/11/7-8 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:45245 Activity:kinda low |
11/7 What party are they counting Joe Lieberman as? \_ (I - Running for Secretary of Defense) \_ yeah, and he /says/ he will caucus with Dems for Senate majority \- and then he added "unless they dont honor my seniority perqs" ... which means that asshole is basically saying "if you try to punish me, i will punish you". \_ Even the Dems aren't that stupid. They will give Joe anything he wants so that the Dems can be in control. \_ I hate him, i guess that makes me anti-sematic. \_ And I hate him too, which makes me a self-hating Jew. |
2006/11/7-8 [Reference/RealEstate, Politics/Domestic] UID:45235 Activity:nil 76%like:45228 |
11/7 http://tradesports.com House GOP control now at ~ 10, Senate back to ~ 65. \_ What do these numbers mean? \_ basically 0 means people think it will not happen 100 means people think it's guaranteed to happen \_ Does that mean that if I bet on GOP control of house, I get back 10X what I bet if they win? \_ if you buy at 12, and the GOP wins the House, then you get 88 x $0.10 = $8.80 profit for every contract (share) you bought at 12. let's say GOP loses the House (and you held onto your contracts until the bitter end). Then the contracts you bought are worthless. You're out what you paid for them, 12 * $0.10 = $1.20 per contract. \_ Please excuse my denseness, but this site is blocked at work, and I'm considering going home to bet. I still don't get it. In your scenario, how much did each share cost? Did I pay 12 dollars and get back 12+ the 8.80, or what? \_ updated answer. any more q's? \_ I just don't understand what's going on. Is each share 0.1 dollars? Then where does the 88 number come from? How does that relate to 12? \_ Let's say the price is 12 right now. This means 1 contract (share) costs $1.20. You buy 1. Let's say the GOP wins the House. You can now automatically sell this for $10. You make $8.80 profit for that 1 contract. If you can find someone who's selling 100 If you find someone who's selling 100 contracts (shares) at 12, and your dream comes true, then you make $880 profit. Actually, I see someone offering 440 contracts at 10.5, so you can get them even cheapter. \_ Ok, I finally get it. Thanks! |
2006/11/7-8 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:45216 Activity:nil |
11/7 Haha. From CNN: "Bonds rally on election bets: Market surges on hopes of fiscal discipline created by Democrat-controlled Congress; dollar mixed." \_ that must be CNN TV I guess, cuz http://money.cnn.com mentions the bond thing in the very last paragraph and just says "change in control of the House" w/o mentioning Dems |
2006/11/7 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45209 Activity:nil 57%like:45228 |
11/7 Okay, so http://tradesports.com has House GOP control at ~ 20, and Senate GOP control at ~ 70. Let's see how we do! |
2006/11/6-8 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:45191 Activity:nil |
11/6 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15590729/site/newsweek/from/RS.2 "Saddam and the Republicans" |
2006/11/5-6 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45175 Activity:kinda low |
11/5 I predict the Republicans will keep control of both houses in Tuesday's election. Doom!!!! - danh \_ but tradesports is trading House GOP control at ~ 22 now. \_ but tradesports is trading House GOP control at ~ 22 now. \_ My prediction: they will lose the House but keep the Senate because of "three heart attack" Cheney. \_ Unlikely. |
2006/11/4-6 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Politics/Domestic] UID:45170 Activity:nil |
11/04 Do people still want Joe Ayoob back in as QB? See motd from sept. \_ As if anyone here remembers any single obscure motd entry from two months ago that doesn't have to do with Dems vs. GOP or renters vs. homeowners. Dolt. \_ Someone claimed that Nate Longshore was worse than Joe Ayoob, "Cal's worst quarterback ever." Cal is off to its best start in (?) decades. \_ Someone claimed that Nate Longshore was worse than Joe Ayoob, "Cal's worst quarterback ever." Cal is off to its best start in (?) decades. \_ 5 decades |
2006/11/3-4 [Politics/Domestic] UID:45135 Activity:nil |
11/3 Today's moment in Republican film: When Sgt. Hartman made the comment about Pvt. Cowboy giving a man a "reach around" the director stopped filming and asked what it was, and Ermey very matter-of-factly told him. Kubrick broke out into laughter and decided to keep it in the film. \_ Kubrick was republican? I thought he was a brit. \_ Kubrick was republican? |
2006/11/2 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:45123 Activity:nil |
11/02 Just keep repeating it: free speech and the freedom to dissent are Republican Values. Only Democrats try to silence opposition: http://www.csua.org/u/hd5 |
2006/10/26-29 [Politics/Domestic] UID:44994 Activity:nil |
10/26 Govt report on Q3 U.S. GDP due before market opens Friday morning Analyst consensus is 2.6% Analyst consensus of all major banks is 2.0% or lower White House Natl Economic Council head predicts between 1 - 2% Council of Economic Advisors to the President signals below 2% Finally, wishful thinking of a Q4 bounce \_ It's time to short GDP! \_ The trick is to figure out how much the market has factored in 2.6% vs. <= 2.0%, and election hijinks prior to tomorrow morning. |
2006/10/25-27 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:44964 Activity:nil |
10/25 So I'm reading about the recent law passed that takes away Habeas Corpus from non citizens. Was there a huge plague of non citizens clogging up our courts with their petitions? \_ url? \_ Really? You didn't know George W Bush just signed into a bill denying the right of any non citizen we arrest from filing an appeal of their detainment, one of those 'basic rights under the United States Constitution' things? Fuck. \_ The USSC made the exact opposite ruling regarding Germans and Japanese held off shore during WWII so this isn't that shocking an event. \_ Are you refering to Korematsu or some other case? \_ No I didn't know that. And I was asking for a URL for the text of the bill, not a news story. \_ Ask Google, no time to help you today. \_ I didn't realize the US Constitution applied to random people in other countries. |
2006/10/19-21 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44867 Activity:moderate |
10/19 Guys, I need your help to come up with this "Troll of the day:" Why today's Iraq is Republican's philisophical utopia? - democractic - small central government that governs the least - right to bear arm (AK47, RPG, and IED) - emphasis on family value (adultry punishable by death) - no evolution is being taught in school - religion is fully interwined with government institution - full "personal responsibility" for average citizens anything else that can be added? \_ flat tax? deregulation? free trade? \_ Republican doesn't believe in free trade, though. tarrif on steel, agricultural subsidies, you name them all. \_ the best trolls are spelled properly. try again. \_ What about chicom troll? \_ your sense of humor is worse than my spelling \_ man, i was hoping i am being funny, sigh.... op \_ It IS pretty funny, you just need to package it in a comic or something. Keep up the good work! |
2006/10/8-10 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Gay] UID:44725 Activity:low |
10/8 It's almost November, let's review some of the memorable highlights of 2004-2006: -Terry Schiavo on news -Cheney shoots his friend -Abramoff scandal -Kenneth Lay finally dies -Foley -Tom Delay -Bob Ney -Duke Cunningham -you forgot William Jefferson--who's still serving in congress... \_ Shhh! Only Republicans are corrupt. Stay on message. \_ Ahh, the equivalence game. \_ Republican evilness is no game. All Republicans are evil. No one said anything about equivalence because there isn't any. How hard is it to understand? I'll explain again: all Republicans are evil. Just keep saying it. \_ Are all Republicans alchoholic gay pedophiles or just your leadership? |
2006/10/4-6 [Politics/Domestic] UID:44668 Activity:nil |
10/4 BOOM. Aide says he warned Hastert about Foley 2 years ago. http://www.csua.org/u/h3q (Yahoo! news) \_ More like "drip, drip, drip" -- no indication how explicit the content was at the time. \_ I don't think that's going to matter. Republican house members are already cancelling apperances with Hastert. \_ No one on the Republican side will miss him. He hasn't done anything. \_ He sort of defended Jefferson \_ I think it's great. The longer the Republicans hang on to their crippled Speaker and people bring up reaming pages every time he speaks, the better. I wonder how long it will take the Republican party to cut their losses? |
2006/10/4 [Politics/Domestic, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:44659 Activity:nil |
103/ http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061004/2006-10-04T005304Z_01_L03419567_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-GOOGLE-POLITICIANS-DC.html ... "unless you're in China". |
2006/10/3-5 [Politics/Domestic] UID:44652 Activity:nil |
10/3 Foley now a Democrat?: http://www.bradblog.com/Images/FoxOReilly_MarkFoleyDEM_100306.jpg |
2006/10/3-5 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:44644 Activity:nil |
10/3 I'm addicted to crystal meth on MTV http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/television/03true.htm |
2006/10/3-5 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:44641 Activity:nil |
10/3 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,015.htm In The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths, you will learn how: heterosexual militants have embarked on a systematic assault on American values; heterosexual activists plan on recruiting your children into their lifestyle; heterosexuals are undermining traditional marriage; heterosexuals are undermining the health and safety of society; violence has become a hallmark of the heterosexual lifestyle; heterosexuals are intent on eventually recriminalizing all freedoms of expression for gay men and women. |
2006/9/16-19 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack, Politics/Domestic] UID:44406 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
9/16 "I have been saying for the last thousand years that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican." - Gore Vidal \_ The Democrat Party has become the Jew Party, and attempts are well underway to coopt the Republican GOP. are well underway to coopt the Republican GOP. -jblack PS. I hate blacks, Mexicans, and Jews \_ Didn't know the U S of A has been around for a thousand years. |
2006/9/14-16 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/SIG] UID:44377 Activity:high |
9/14 Cheap-Shot Journalism by Thomas Sowell http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/cheap_shot_journalism.html \_ The financing of conservative think tanks is not coincidental; it is part of a conscious conservative strategy. Of course Sowell wants to hide that fact. -tom \_ And the financing of liberal think thanks is coincidental and random? Ok. \_ No, it's not, but it's also miniscule compared to conservative think tank funding. I'm sure openness would benefit the liberal side. -tom \_ Since they did an article posting the $$$s above the heads of the conservatives it seems like there is openness. You say the liberal think tanks get miniscule funding but since the cheap-shot article Sowell attacks doesn't provide those $$$s we can't know. We only have your word on it. It would have been nice if they had provided the $$$s for the liberal think tanks as well but that didn't suit their agenda. \_ Is "liberals help unions" news? -tom \_ Strawman. Care to try again? How about telling us how much unions have given to the left over the years in money extracted from their members who have no choice in the matter? Nevermind, any abuse for money and power is ok as long as it's your guys doing it. it. Anyway, should I take it as conceding the point since you ignored what Sowell was saying? \_ What's the strawman? Reporting that evangelical Christians contribute to churches is not news, and it's not the job of a newspaper to report on it. The link between big business and pro-big-business think tanks is not common knowledge and is newsworthy, unlike the link between liberals and unions, which has been a core part of liberal politics for a century. -tom \_ Sowell is talking about an article that puts $$$ signs above the heads of conservatives but sort of vaguely mentions in passing that liberals do the same but doesn't mention any or put up $$$. The links between all these orgs are common and public knowledge, but never mind reality: so if the original article was about liberal think tanks and there were $$$ over their heads and they vaguely mentioned near the end that conservatives sort of kind of do the same thing but didn't name any, you'd be ok with that. Your last line is funny. There hasn't been a liberal in the modern sense of the word for a century. Liberals are a product of the 60s/70s universities. Unions began as a product of the communist movement. I hope you're not trying to lay claim to communism = modern liberalism. \_ The link between WalMart and conservative think tanks is common knowledge? Do you have some evidence for that claim? As I said, newspapers report on news, and I think it would be silly to write a report that unions contribute to liberal causes, or liberals contribute to unions. If military contractors start contributing to liberal causes, I think that's newsworthy and would bear reporting. -tom |
2006/9/5-7 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:44277 Activity:nil |
9/5 http://www.whitehouse.org/tours/index.asp Dang, I didn't know the White House tour was so expensive \_ nice try \_ http://www.whitehouse.com was cheaper and more enjoyable. |
2006/8/28 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Politics/Domestic] UID:44172 Activity:nil 80%like:44165 |
8/27 hey meth fans read this: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060828fa_fact2 \_ Thanks! great article. -meth fan |
2006/8/23 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44107 Activity:high |
8/22 "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." - Third Amendment to the United States Constitution "They will greet us as liberators!" -some dumbass \_ Ok troll, I'll bite. What does the first quote from the USC have to do with the unattributed pseudo quote about Iraq? \_ The troll has left the building. \_ I guess you're right. I was hoping for some rambling blithering idiocy but I'll have to go elsewhere for my entertainment today. \_ Ever since they put the eye in the pyramid on the dollar bill, it has symbolised the petrodollar conspiracy which will soon invade Iran to solidify the New World Order gulags in Montana built by Halliburton. \_ Thanks, I appreciate the effort but it just isn't the same as a real live troll. :-) \_ How much did Karl Rove pay you to disregard my troll? You're one of Them aren't you? \_ No, but I am one of They and we're coming to take your sunglasses away. \_ I have put them someplace where you will never find them. |
2006/8/15 [Politics/Domestic] UID:44005 Activity:nil |
8/15 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14348539 Really bad news for jblack, Conservatives, and Republicans |
2006/8/12-14 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Domestic] UID:43985 Activity:low |
8/12 The U.S. is near the bottom of the civilized world in belief in evoluation. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html So much for the myth of liberal bias in the U.S. media and education system. -tom \_ That's quite a leap. \_ Americans are dumb. \_ America! Fuck yah! -T.E.A.M. America World Police \- the turkish know better, because that is where THE ARK OF NOAH wound up. \_ And how many of us can spell "evolution" correctly? \_ Don't tell the Armeniens that! |
2006/8/4-6 [Politics/Domestic] UID:43901 Activity:nil 90%like:43899 |
8/3 How much oil money are they giving to politicians? link:csua.org/u/gm1 (i.a.cnn.net) \_ $69.69 -proud American |
2006/8/3-6 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:43885 Activity:nil |
8/2 So much for freedom fries http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060802/od_afp/afplifestyleusiraq_060802203314 \_ Mel Gibson thought freedom was worth fighting for in the movie Braveheart. -proud American \_ I think the GOP has now officially jumped the shark. \_ Maybe they should rename it "Crow". \_ Good movie. Brandon Lee rocks. -proud American |
2006/7/18-20 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:43714 Activity:nil |
7/18 Breaking News: Seeing how unpopular it is to charge evacuation fees which will affect the November election, two Republican senaators tell CNN that the fees will be waived. So much for preaching "self-reliance" and "you're responsible for your own lives." \_ Oopsiedoodle! \_ Of course they do. We're in the era of "borrow and spend" social-but-not-economic conservatism. |
2006/7/14-18 [Politics/Domestic] UID:43669 Activity:nil |
7/13 I am looking into buying a light weight bike--mostly riding in the parks with some weekend off the road riding. Is Marin's Hawk Hill a good buy for a $800 budget? Thx. \_ If you're a beginner you SHOULD buy a really nice ***USED*** bike. A used Giant OCR C1/C2 is pretty decent. But more importantly you should try out a few. Go to your local bike shop (LBS) and ask for demo rides, and then find out what you like. People say aluminum vibrates a lot, and steel is more gentle, but only you can find out what you like. Lastly, may I recommend clipless shoes, as they make your strokes much more efficient. |
2006/7/8-10 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:43597 Activity:nil |
7/8 No flame wars about the Mexican election??! Damn. \_ How can Mexicans be so interested in politics, yet still have such a massively corrupt govenment? \_ Who said they're interested in politics anymore than anyone in any country. Mass demonstrations are dime a dozen in Mexico, Central and South America. And what do you expect them to do about it anyway? Mexico isn't a democracy and has a cultural history of corruption just like the rest of the world. It is the United States that stands out for our relatively minimal corruption and our unwillingness to accept that as standard practice when discovered. You won't find the governments of other countries regularly investigating their own political leaders a la Abscam or Jefferson's fridge. \_ Yes, shoveling tons of money to the lawyer class helps those who are too uneducated to follow fucking directions. \_ What? What does this have to do with anything? Did you mean to post this somewhere else? |
2006/7/7-8 [Transportation/Airplane, Politics/Domestic] UID:43590 Activity:nil |
7/7 Democratic Underground proves the 9/11 planes could not have taken down the WTC! http://csua.org/u/gcn \_ What a maroon. \_ Yes, I agree with them entirely. It was the Greys with the help of their Bigfoot warriors lead by Elvis. Everyone knows that. |
2006/7/5-7 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:43566 Activity:nil |
7/5 Ken Lay dead, reportedly of a heart attack. \_ Apparently, I'm not the only one who's suspecting this to be a big cover up for him to escape his sentence: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52773 \_ Has the price of tin gone up recently? \_ piss me off. I want this guy go to jail. And i am really mad about how news articles kept saying he is a spiritual person... I just love this logic. "he goes church, therefore, eventhough he have stolen millions from the poor, he still deserve a place in heavan." \_ He's dead of a massive coronary. He's dead. He didn't escape to South America with his ill gotten gains. He's dead. Dead. He's dead, Jim, dead, dead, dead. \_ Yeah, but that's pretty much what the Bible says. Good deeds are totally irrelevant. Faith trumps all. |
2006/6/28-29 [Politics/Domestic] UID:43515 Activity:nil |
6/27 http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Fox-Friends-Levin.wmv http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Fox-Friends-Levi.mov Carl Levin interviewed on "Fox & Friends" show on cut-and-run Dems. (Levin is the ranking Democrat on the Senate armed services committee, and also one of the most best among the Democrats) Notice the different reactions of both the male and female hosts at the end ... \_ She was dead pan and he was frustrated and shaking his head. So? Her behavior is more professional but his is understandable. \_ "stunned" was the word I'd use for her. naturally, of course, with the exchange she witnessed. Remember, when you don't know how to react: Put on a big smile! with the exchange she witnessed. \_ "We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandates of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." -- Carl Levin, Sept 2002 |
2006/6/22-26 [Reference/History, Politics/Domestic] UID:43461 Activity:nil |
6/22 Is the phenomenon of the American suburban expansion an example of free-market at work, where the build-wherever-you-can-find-land methodology is used commonly used by most developers today? Whatever happened to centralized city planning, is that a thing in the past? \_ what are you thinking? American suburb is result of our Federal government policy of subsiding road constructions. \_ At least in my town, the city council has made almost any new building illegal. The result is, build where you can find land. Of course, supply does not match demand. \_ Which is one of the causes of skyrocketing housing prices in certain areas. \_ It's worth pointing out that, in my town, the City Council members all own property. \_ You mean like in Orange County? You want to live in Irvine if you want strict city planning and control. I don't think you'll like the result. \_ Is many cases, the suburban expansion was accelerated by the federally funded interstate highways. |
2006/6/14-15 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:43380 Activity:nil |
6/13 Should be interesting to watch the Webv vs Allen senate race in VA. Webb is RR's fmr Secretary of the Navy who left the R party over the Iraq war. Allen has much better recognition but the rhetoric in that election may be interesting to follow, espe if Allen decide to run for President in 2008. \_ Politics is local. |
2006/6/9-11 [Politics/Domestic] UID:43341 Activity:nil 75%like:43336 |
6/9 dcs and dim, are you gays Republicans? \_ More to the point, dim, how's Irvine? \_ I'm not Republican, I'm not in Irvine, and I detest both - especially Irvine. Thanks for asking! --dim \_ Irvine looks nike. All the homes look clean and neat. Why do you hate Irvine? \_ Why don't you email them and ask? |
2006/6/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:43337 Activity:nil |
6/9 Those tolerant Democrats. http://tinyurl.com/q3lko (sfgate.com) \_ 'Cos it's so much harder to write: "Rep. accuses Dem. activist of stuffing dog shit through her mail slot." |
2006/6/5-9 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:43278 Activity:nil |
6/4 http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/04/trivia_tidbit_o_3.html Republican cars: Hummer (52%R 23%D), Porsche (59%R 27%D), Democrat cars: Volvo (44%D 32%R), Mini-van's kinda weird-- Republicans tend to have more children, 3.5 on average versus 1.7 for the Democrats. \- an associate of mine at the FED was kinda amused to see a car listed by BERNANKE. he was apparently selling a Siena minivan via the FED WEEB. \_ Are you sure about that factoid? Most immigrants are Democrats. \_ Not the ones that start/own their own businesses \_ I dunno why, but the Porsche seems kinda weird--how about a Camaro instead? Or something with badly done window tinting and a moon roof? -John \- there is a saying something like economics/demographics trumps \- there is a saying something like demographics trumps stereotypes. meaning income type predictors generally win over "cultural stereotypes" like "brie eating liberals" ... my understanding is the "money <-> republican <-> brie" connection is better than "marin county liberal and berkeley connection is better than "marin county liberals and berkeley grad students <-> expensive cheese". so porsche drivers -> few std dev above mean income -> higher probability of being R. now if you just compare +$75k cars, it might be interesting to see the different R/D compositions. \_ Childbearing stat sounds familiar. Cite? |
2006/6/2-4 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:43258 Activity:nil |
6/1 http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzZkNDU5MmViNzVjNzkzMDE3NzNlN2MyZjRjYTk4YjE= Top conservative songs \_ Wow. Unintentional comedy at its finest. \_ Hilfuckingarious! On a related vein, have you heard Toby Keith's "The Taliban Song"? I almost shat myself. \_ The national review is great at making liberals angry with their rhetoric. Unfortunately if you ignore them, they don't go away, they're still there next year. |
2006/6/1-4 [Politics/Domestic, Academia/GradSchool] UID:43249 Activity:nil |
6/1 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060601/ap_on_re_us/mixed_up_victims See, all blonds look alike. They all do. -!caucasian |
2006/5/26-28 [Politics/Domestic] UID:43205 Activity:nil |
5/26 "Mr. President, Pentagon officials have talked about prospects for reducing American forces in Iraq to about 100,000 by year's end ..." "That's some speculation in the press that I -- they haven't talked to me about. And as the commander in chief, they eventually will talk to me about it. ..." -Dubya (May 25, 2006) "I think the political people who give him advice will say to him, 'You don't want a Democratic congress. You want to keep the Republican majority. And the only way you're gonna keep it, is by reducing substantially the troops in Iraq'" -John Murtha (Jan 15, 2006) |
2006/5/23-28 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic] UID:43156 Activity:nil |
5/23 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/world/asia/23afghan.html We bravely salute the 16 dead and 15 wounded Afghans who died honorably in the War on Terror. War is a blunt instrument. |
2006/5/19-22 [Politics/Domestic] UID:43109 Activity:nil |
5/19 "I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment and civil liberties, but you have no civil liberties if you are dead." Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) \_ "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" --Patrick Henry \_ "If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy." -Dubya! |
2006/5/8-10 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic] UID:42972 Activity:nil |
5/8 Gotta love socialism http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194557,00.html Chavez wants to be president for next 25 years http://mosnews.com/money/2006/04/28/venezuelaoil.shtml Venezuela oil production down 60%, buys from Russia \_ It's not Socialism, it's Bolivarian..uh..ism. I am seeing first- hand how a lot of S. American countries are getting very scared of Chavez; here in Chile they're paranoid about how he prodded the Bolivians into nationalizing their gas production (even though they did the same with copper at one point.) The Argentines are playing along because they're dependent on cheap energy, and Brazil isn't doing much about it. Basically the only country really raising its voice against Chavez is Colombia, and then mainly because they're pretty sure he's using oil cash to supply massive \_ Chavez' term, interestingly translated, not mine. -John amounts of guns to FARC. -John \_ Bolivarianism? How did you pick that word? Right now Bolivia is kind of apeing Argentenia, aren't they? -op \_ The Economist says its Bolivarianism, so it exists. \_ Ah, it's not from "Bolivia" it's from "Bolivar" \_ Ah, it's not from "Bolivia" it's from "BolÃÂvar" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarianism \_ Chavez' term, interestingly translated, not mine. -John \_ Dictators wear many masks. In the past it's been Communism, fascism, democracy, divine right of kings, fundamentalist [ islam, christianity].... The problem is that most people don't see the monster behind the pretty mask. |
2006/5/2-5 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:42893 Activity:nil |
5/2 ojuang: don't bust up the massage parlor if you think you got robbed: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2006/05/02/1559957-sun.html \_ oj, are you interested in anything except money, porn and technology \_ And how exactly does this differentiate oj from the majority of sodans, exactly? \_ Some people here care about say politics or research. |
2006/4/2-4 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:42620 Activity:low |
4/2 You see 1/2 million blacks protest. You see 1/2 million latinos protest. How come you don't see 1/2 million whites protest? \_ For starter it's easier to find jobless blacks and latinos than whites. That's why you'll never see the Million Jew March. \_ Or maybe that's because there are a *lot* more of almost every other race than Jews in this country? Of course you would know the reason for that is ZOG wants to limit the number of people They need to share power with so Jews breed when ZOG tells them to and who with. \_ Ey, watch it, shush. You're telling them all the secret stuff! -john@zog.net \_ What are they going to protest? "Oh no, I'm not oppressed and priviliged!" Protests are for people who are or have been oppressed, like the latinos and the blacks. It's the same reason why you won't see 1/2 million chinese take the streets and protest.(Well, at least not in America.) \_ That mean old congress is going to take away their medicare benefits and they will have to learn to use the internet to order petmeds from canada in order to stay alive. \_ whites can protest in the form of union labor strikes. though, that tends to be a heterogenous mix of races. \_ We'll call it "the Million Goth March!" \_ Most white-dominated countries, including the U.S., had well over 500K people protesting before Bush and the PNAC crew railroaded us into Operation Clusterfuck. -tom \_ You're wrong. American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle. \_ Yeah, you said it: "commitment to moral principle". Somehow building a mountain of lies doesn't quite fit that, does it? \_ Stop it! You're making jblack mad. Now he's going to double his effort posting even more freeper URLs. \_ The Promise Keepers protest sure seemed pretty white to me. |
2006/3/27-30 [Politics/Domestic] UID:42476 Activity:very high |
3/27 Amway \_ Sundari \_ Market America \_ INA \_ Crooks \_ Quickstar \_ Quixtar \_ Alticor \_ Scam \_ Scientology \_ Xenu! \_ Semprini \_ I thought that wasn't allowed? Also w**-w** and kn*ckers. |
2006/3/27-28 [Politics/Domestic] UID:42471 Activity:kinda low |
3/27 yaMotdPoll - What are your favorite shows currently on tv? (feel free to add other shows) 24: SG1: .. SGA: .. BSG: . Hustle: . Prison Break: . Dr. Who: .......... The Shield: . Aqua Teen Hunger Force: . The Daily Show / Colbert Report: ... Real World/Road Rules Gauntlet: . Law & Order: . Black & White: . House MD: . Lost: . Deadwood: . |
2006/3/27-28 [Politics/Domestic] UID:42462 Activity:nil |
3/27 http://www.bustedtees.com Stupidily humorous liberal shirts. Or something like that. \_ basically the same shirts you can buy at bear basics and tons of other stores. Theres a sudden explosion of these companies a couple others are http://www.defunker.com and http://www.threadless.com alot of them are selling the exact same shirts. Most of them are selling shirts on consignment for the original artist. -shac |
2006/3/25-27 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign] UID:42424 Activity:nil |
3/24 http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/03/24/graceland.landmark.ap Elvis' home to be designated national landmark. Ah, you Sillymericans |
2006/3/20-21 [Politics/Domestic, Reference/Tax] UID:42336 Activity:moderate |
3/20 http://www.slate.com/id/2086617 \_ I've got nothing against tax cuts but what we've got is not really a tax cut but rather tax postponement. All that money you're "saving" now? It's going to come out of your budget later, with interest. --PM \_ You realize that most of the conservatives are too bright to consider Slate, a left wing propaganda web site, to be a fair and balanced source of information? \_ The exact details of how the facts were misrepresented is what's being reported. Fair and balanced or not, unless they're actually lying, that's pretty damning. \_ I think pp was trolling. \_ this is 3 years old, dude. |
2006/3/16-18 [Recreation/Humor, Politics/Domestic] UID:42273 Activity:low |
3/16 Our great leader getting ready to RIDE BIKE http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/187/1525/320/belly4.jpg \_ As an American, I was pretty dissapointed with my two choices in the 2004 election...but as a cyclist, I was damn happy with both choices. \_ I don't get it. \_ Is it the pink socks? Is it the balding guy checking his gut behind him? It just doesn't scream "presidential". \_ That's your it? He doesn't look "presidential" when he's exercising? Heaven forbid! (Honestly, I'd be pretty happy if he ever looked presidential.) \_ It's humour, not some slashing criticism... chill. if you don't find it funny, watch some dennis miller... It's a lot funnier than Ann Coulter's "jokes" about killing supreme court justices. \_ yeah but short skirts and long legs... mmmm. \_ If the skirts are short enough, you might be able to catch a glimpse of her dick. \_ I loved the thread about how that was ok because "Democrats are always threathening to kill the president" "Democrats are always threathening to kill the president" (no examples given) \_ The guy behind him is putting on a chest strap transmitter for a heart rate monitor, not "checking his gut". \_ Again, seriously, it's simply amusing. Overanalyizing is stupid. |
2006/3/15-16 [Politics/Domestic] UID:42243 Activity:low |
3/15 Swimming ants: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1589516.htm \_ nobody cares \_ I actually find that kind of creepy -- you could make a horror movie with a couple of 'unexpected' twists with that. Just add an extended torture sequence, and you've got a low budget hit.... \_ Mangrove ecology is rapidly rivaling deep sea vent ecology in the News of the Weird section. Cool stuff, thanks for the link. |
2006/3/9 [Politics/Domestic] UID:42155 Activity:nil |
3/9 U.S. military to transfer detainees from Abu Ghraib to new facility within three month, so that they can continue torturing in secrecy. News at 11 on CBS liberal biased news. \_ The really sad thing is that there are valid needs for security and secrecy in some military operations, including some involving prisoners, but the current "regime" we've got has lost ALL credibility for handling anything without intensive oversight. |
2006/3/7-9 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:42133 Activity:low 61%like:42127 |
3/7 Ok, long term illiteracy rates finally went up. We know the education system in America is fucked thus helping the Republican party, but what will that do to the overall economy? Will the proliferation of Walmart and conservatism help control inflation, or is inflation now determined by factors overseas? \_ I love a good backhanded troll. Ok, so if a bad education system helps Republicans then why have the Democrats been systematically destroying it for decades? \_ What?!? So I agree that op is a trolling moron, but your post just shows an utter disconnect from reality. tjb? Is that you? Can you MC for us? -dans \_ YHBT. \_ Less reliance on illegal immigrants for cheap domestic help! Finally a way to get your laundry done by someone you can (sort of) understand _and_ who won't get you in trouble if found out! And the great thing is, now that life expectancy's going down, all these trolls won't be around long enough for us to have to take care of them when they start babbling and drooling. -John |
2006/2/26 [Politics/Domestic] UID:42011 Activity:high |
2/26 You know what will save our country? When you liberals realize that your stupid high tax socialist programs don't work. Realize that all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism are reasons why America hates you. Mainstream America = conservatives, not liberal wackos. You lost. Get over it. Go ahead and delete this post, see if I care. \_ these non-wealthy, conservative american aregoing to be eaten alive by another -ism: globlaism. [although so are the uneducated liberals ... but they have been losing for a while now]. \_ You know, "government enforced atheism" is completely different from the ideal of a non-religious government. \_ funny line in latest LEXINGTON [E'ist column on USA Politics]: [secular europeans] can't believe that any modern person can be religious unless they are either stupid or insane. |
2006/2/22-23 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41953 Activity:moderate |
2/21 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060222/ap_on_bi_ge/economy Leading economic indicators rise. Bushenomics works. Time for liberal critics to shut the fuck up. \_ Still no wage growth. Woops! \_ WTF. decifit spending always gives a short term economic boom. Further, baby boomers are at their salary/wage peak right now (right before they start to retires)... of course things are somewhat rosy right now... \_ why don't you just admit that you hate Republicans you hippie king \_ Okay, I hate Republicans. That doesn't change the fact that Chimp King is running the country into the ground. \_ "I hate <opposing party members>. That doesn't change the fact that <childish name for opposing party leader> is running the country into the ground." \_ Speak truth. If it is true, it doesn't matter whom I hate. \_ Of course it does. Why must the obvious be spelled out? It always ruins the joke: you believe the country is being run into the ground *because* you hate the opposing party. If your party was doing the *exact* same things you'd find a way to rationalise and defend it. Sheesh. \_ I am not the previous poster, but I am an independent and I think the GOP is running the country into the ground economically. A negative nationwide savings rate is the quickest and surest way to impoverishment. \_ I agree that a negative savings rate is bad. Which GOP policy made that happen and what policy change do you propose to change that? \- if the "country is run into the ground" but you can go to private hospitals, send your children to private schools and private universities and get private insurance in case of hurricanes and hire private security, and you get all your books and DVS at AMAZONG or netflicks and subscribe to your own magazines, you care a lot less about the deterioriating infrastructure. also richer people are better able to hedge against dollar falling. although i have fairly little symphathy for either yuppies making good money who are spending beyond their means or people with more modest incomes who do as well ... but i do kind of wonder what will happen when the shit hits the fan [after the gop dupes them into supporting repeal of the "death tax" or under funded school voucher programs]. and DVS at AMAZONG or netflicks and subscribe to your own magazines, you care a lot less about the deterioriating infra- structure. also richer people are better able to hedge against dollar falling. although i have fairly little symphathy for either yuppies making good money who are spending beyond their means or people with more modest incomes who do as well ... but i do kind of wonder what will happen when the shit hits the fan [after the gop dupes them into supporting repeal of the "death tax" or under funded school voucher programs ]. i think maybe the gop will institute "slavery-light". \_ ok that was uhm, long, but what exactly was the GOP policy that is causing people to not save and what policy would you suggest to encourage savings? \_ They already did. See bankruptcy "reform" \- oh, i was more thinking of this plan to admit aliens with strings attached. like "you can stay in this country as long as you are doing a shitty job for sub-mkt wages and non-legal working conditions". |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41830 Activity:low |
2/13 I miss jblack's Republican trolls \_ jblack isn't a Republican or a conservative. He's a freeper. \_ No, actually he is all three. But yeah, if you miss them so badly you could always go to The Free Republic yourself. \_ He is neither a Republican nor a conservative. Anyone who loves the freepers that much is a freeper and nothing else. \_ The freepers all believe they are conservatives. Most of them believe they are Republicans. Who are you to say otherwise? |
2006/2/10-13 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:41797 Activity:nil |
2/10 "Gov't Budget Surplus Hits $21B for Jan." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060210/ap_on_go_ot/budget_blank_ink I'm very confused. Haven't we be having budget deficits all these years? \_ That's the balance for the month of January only. See http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/index.html for receipts and outlays for the last 25 years. \_ Right. Though this report is a good January, the monthly surpluse/deficit fluctuates. If you look at the monthly results, the receipts spike every few months and really go up each April. Another place for information is: http://www.cbo.gov -emarkp \_ don't worry, we'll spend it all by the end of the year \_ sweet. can I choose which parts of the budget I want to support and get a refund on the rest? \_ run for a house seat and you even get free plane trips to resorts, etc. don't get caught with an intern, though. |
2006/2/8-10 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41767 Activity:nil |
2/8 Ok, this is a pretty funny political cartoon: http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/06.02.07.WestDhimmi-X.gif \_ Not particularly.. Right wing kneejerks are blaming liberals for not standing up for free speech. I haven't heard one progressive commentator say anything like this. I've seen newspapers make editorial decisions not to show them, but right-wingers are filling in the other side of the argument without bothering to ask. Fuck this. It _is_ heartening, however, that the right is rediscovering their love of free speech. \_ Until another Piss Christ shows up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ \_ Michelle Malkin is coming to do another Berkeley show? \_ So when did the Christians start rioting and burning shit en masse over the PC exhibit? It was in poor taste and most people just ignored it. A few people from any crowd will go ballistic over anything. It takes a truly messed up society to burn embassies over some cartoons. \_ You are obvioulsy mixing the issues. Nice try, meathead. |
2006/2/2 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41679 Activity:very high |
2/2 Democrat \_ Condones anal sex. EVILLLLL!!!!!!!!!!! \_ enjoy having interns suck dick. EVILLLLL!!!! \_ The guy at the party who gives coke to everyone, but still no one likes him. \_ Didn't inhale. \_ Depends on what the definition of "is" is. |
2006/2/1 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41649 Activity:nil |
2/1 I thought the president gave a good speech. The Democrats in the audience were acting very childish. Donald (Grove City, OH) |
2006/2/1 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:41641 Activity:nil |
2/1 "Thank you, Mr. President, for standing firm and resolute through all that's been thrown at you from natural disasters, to the worst tragedy our country has ever seen with 9/11, to fighting terrorism here and abroad, and through all the constant mean-spirited antics from the Democrats. One would think that by now the Democrats would start to realize that in order for our country to move ahead to get things done they need to step up to the plate. This is about America. Let's get to work. Great speech!" Kathy (Maine) \_ Is this before or after we try Bush for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity? \_ Kathy is a true patriot. Kathy should be the next president. |
2006/1/12-17 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:41357 Activity:nil |
1/12 Oh man, I want to see these ads, but my work computer doesn't have a recent enough version of flash. (Canadian liberals accuse conservatives of being US symps) http://www.filibustercartoons.com/archive.php?id=20060111 |
2006/1/8-9 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41290 Activity:nil |
1/7 Who can check the president? Interesting historical overview and current analysis of the expansion of presidential power and related recent court cases. By Noah Feldman, a law professor at NYU. b http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/magazine/08court.html?pagewanted=prinbt |
2006/1/3-5 [Transportation/Airplane, Politics/Domestic] UID:41206 Activity:nil |
12/3 RocketMan for real: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/safety/detail_page.cgi?ID=613 \_ Those wacky Finns. |
2005/12/30-2006/1/1 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:41174 Activity:very high |
12/29 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051229/od_nm/britain_party_dc The article above says certain areas require more claims than others. Does the insurance company have a right to charge your premium based on location, and if so, does it have a right to charge different based on last names (like scotsman)? In the US, you're not allowed to use things like sex, religion, age, and race, but what about the UK? \_ Question 1. Sure it can, it happens all the time. Question 2. Don't know, UK isn't a constitutional government AFAIK, but since it's the origin of common law I would assume you can't (whole concept of being a subject to the crown with certain inalienable rights per magna carta). \- um i think there is a fair amount of confusion in various \- hello i think there is a fair amount of confusion in various comments above like "in the US you are not allowed to use [sic] things like [list]" and "UK [sic] isn't a constitutional government". also it seems like you are alluding to the notion of what is called "sovereign immunity" although i am not sure what you point is about "common law" and the "magna carta". you may wish to see the very fine book The Law of the Land, by Charles Rembar. some random comments: \_ Well, for starters, the U.S. law (at least that which is not covered by the Constitution expressly) is derived originally from English Common Law. English Common Law isn't exactly written down, but is based on accepted traditional legal practices and case precedent. This is in contrast to what's called "continental law" which is more "rule-based." What this translates into is that the common law systems, such as the U.S. and commonwealth countries the system is often based on the adversarial system, the oppossing parties essentially run the trial while the jurist ensures that the proceedings are run in accordance to procedure (either civil or criminal, etc.). In the continental system the jursist supposedly has a much more active role. In real life I doubt that the systems differ much in modern day contexts. The amount of standardized procedure in the U.S. has resulted in what I like to call "form based law," in which we are innundated with Judicial Council forms, especially for things like divorces or DUIs. I'd say that 90% of the law that I do is routine, and I'm sure it's very similar throughout the world (I know for a fact that patent law certainly is). As for the magna carta, it basically set a precedent for the limitations of government through the use of a contract, so it is significant in the tradition of our modern day democratic institutions, as such a copy is prominently displayed in DC next to the constitution (at least when I was visiting it). \_ You are confused about so many areas of legal history and terminology this is no longer worth talking about. e.g. common law is characterized by being "judge made" based on actual cases ... in contrast to code/civil law, which is statue-based by a committe or legislature or some other codifying authority. the english may not have a WRITTEN constitution but they are a constitutional govt ... in their case the line between parliamentary statue and "rights under the const" are a little vague ... this is hard to talk about without going into great detail. for example there is an act on Habeus Corpus which is reasonably comparable to the HC section in the us const. however the document known as the "Bill of Rights" in english history, is not comparable to the US Const's BoR. comments like "English Common Law isn't exactly written down" is ridiculous. If you want to see where the Rule in Hadley v. Baxendale comes from, you can actually read the decision Hadley v. Baxendale ... some of it is based on custom which dont flow from a single authoritative document, but the huge body of prior cases are written down. 1. you may wish to look up "adverse selection" in the context of insurance markets and premiums. there are consequences for not allowing insurance companies to not consider all relevant factors. also there are indirect ways to influence your insured pool ... like having your office on the 8th floor of a bldg with no elevator [ok this may violate ADA, but you see what i mean ... efficiency and "public policy" both play roles in shaping the insurance business] 2. you can discriminate based on some of the factors you list, but different factors requires different levels of "scrutiny" [which means different levels of justification and narrow tailoring]. also this obligation doesnt apply to all occasions. you can invite whomever you want to your house for poker and beer, but if you apply for a alchol lic to run a booze operation, you may not be able to keep certain people out. BTW, i think english law begins before the magna people out. 3. i think english law begins before the magna \_ I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say here, but I never implied that english common law started with the magna carta. English common law started much further back, and even has historical roots all the way to the Roman occupation. My point was that England is not a constitutional democracy (it never was), and it has the concepts that are embodied within the U.S. model (the constitution and the subsequent bill of rights) through tradition. However, not having things written down did apparently pose problems, as can be evinced by the subsequent misunderstandings which led to the revolution. \_ You are confused about so many areas of legal history and terminology this is no longer worth talking about. Also you are changing your vocabulary ... you say "const govt" above and then use "constitutional democracy" later. yes, they are certainly different. England was essentially a different country [or arguably wasn't really a country] much before the Norman Conquest so the Roman stuff isn't even worth talking about. I think it is fair to say English law really begins to take on its own identity starting with Henry II. I do agree there has some continental style "codification" of various areas of the law in the US sign on to various "uniform" standards for tort/contract/business practices etc. carta ... henry ii, the parent of king john, has an important legacy in english law [post norman conquest]. people out. BTW, i think english law really does begin before the magna carta ... henry ii, the parent of king john, has an important legacy in english law [post norman conquest]. YMWTS, the book referenced at: ~psb/MOTD/EnglishLegalHistory.ref As the Times Literary Supplement says "it is the standard".oktnx. \_ Again, I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say here, but apparently you're trying to interject something what appears at best tangential information. Anyway, I'm sure that individuals who are actually interested in this can do their own research. \- the last bit was just for the humorous review from AMAZONG. but ti does discuss the great Assize of Clarendon, the "census projects", and the Magna Carta (although i ends before the Magna Carta story really plays out, which it does for +50yrs after 1215, into at least the reign of H3.). |
2005/12/22-24 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41118 Activity:nil |
12/22 http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu/nycpolls/TS051221.htm Ah, racial disparities.. And lafe, please merge changes. You overwrote me --scotsman \_ Sorry, dude. -lafe |
2005/12/6-7 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic] UID:40887 Activity:nil |
12/5 GOP Corruption Continues: http://halliburtonwatch.org/news/whistleblower_hearings_denied.html \_ Why is a story from 18 months ago news now? \_ Which President gave Halliburton their first exclusive no competition contract? |
2005/11/21 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:40683 Activity:nil |
11/21 CNN hates Cheney! http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3cnc.htm |
2005/11/21 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:40668 Activity:nil |
11/21 At BA .271%, parked truck crashes into YOU. http://www.wbns10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4009353 |
2005/11/15-17 [Politics/Domestic] UID:40602 Activity:low |
11/15 I hear that congress is spending 62 billion to rebuild new orleans. Is it just me or does that not seem like a hell of a lot? Do we really need to foot the bill for building it back better than it ever was before? This won't fix the fact that its still below sea level. I suppose some portion of the 62 billion will be going to levee enhancement. -mrauser \_ the overall process didn't seem very scientific, did it? \_ I think capitalism should rebuild New Orleans. If there's value to being there, then investors will pay to rebuild. The government should stay out of it, except *perhaps* to repair the levees and interstate highway. Why is the entire US paying to repair NO when mostly a rich few investors are going to benefit by it? \_ Run for congress. \_ I totally agree! Fuck socialism, it only works when you're always on the receiving end. We as superior Northerners should have succeded from the South that keeps leeaching and gives nothing back. |
2005/11/4-6 [Politics/Domestic, Recreation/Media] UID:40443 Activity:nil |
11/4 Last night I was tuned into Air America on the radio, and the host said, "we'll be listening to ATRIOS next from ESCHATON/blah". I thought use of handles outside of geek culture only happened in the movies. Welcome to the FUTURE! \_ cb radios had handles long time ago \_ ob cb nerds are a part of geek culture \_ All those interstate truck drivers are geeks? \_ Overweight, poorly socialized, generally libertarian, and utterly convinced that you can't live without them? Yeah, I'd say they're geeks. \_ ok, truck geek culture |
2005/10/13 [Politics/Domestic, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:40062 Activity:nil |
10/13 Are there more details on the proposed changes to the CSUA constitution? Meeting minutes so far have not included much information on this subject. |
2005/10/13 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:40058 Activity:moderate |
10/12 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9629463/site/newsweek Conservative columnist George Will: "Conservatives are not supposed to be cuddly, or even particularly nice. They are, however, supposed to be competent. And to know that scarcity--of money, virtue, wisdom, competence, everything--forces choices. Furthermore, they are supposed to have an unsentimental commitment to meritocracy and excellence. The fact that none of those responsible for the postwar planning, or lack thereof, in Iraq have been sacked suggests--no, shouts--that in Washington today there is no serious penalty for serious failure. Hence the multiplication of failures." \_ No, the conservatives have only one main function, and that is to keep the liberals out of power. \_ No, you're confusion conservatives and liberals with R's and D's. \_ "Duh" -- good link \_ Those aren't really Conservative values, but more military values. Conservatives are supposed to say "praise Jesus" all day and strive for theocracy. |
2005/10/2-4 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39949 Activity:nil |
10/2 *BREAKING NEWS: American citizens can visit DPRK and mass games in October 2005- only the third opportunity in 13 years- email us now!! http://www.koryogroup.com |
2005/9/28-10/1 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:39906 Activity:nil |
9/28 Tom DeLay INDICTED Frist next? \_ Apparently he has already stepped down as House Majority Leader. \_ Isn't this automatic? You can't serve in congressional leadership when under indictment? \_ Yes, although the Republican leadership attempted to dismantle that rule (the so-called 'DeLay Rule Change'). They were publicly embarrassed into not doing it. \_ Wrong. This is an an ethics rule the Republican delegation in the House applies to itself! It \_ Bullshit. You are either lying or misinformed. was in response to the massive, widespread corruption in the House when the Republicans took over under Armey and Gingrich in 1994 (an apt analogy would be running the House like New Orleans). In 1993, BTW, Earle indicted Sen. Hutchinson during her Senate run in an attempt to change the outcome of the election. When the trial took place he refused to present any evidence and the charges were dismissed. \_ Mmmm... parrots... \_ Remember the adage: you could get a grand jury to indict a sandwich. \_ Unless the indictee is on The Other Team, in which case it's Justice. \_ Rove, DeLay, and Frist indictments being handed down? HIT THE TRIFECTA! |
2005/9/27-29 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39893 Activity:kinda low |
9/27 So, how long can the White House cover up Goerge's drinking? \_ It has already been published in the National Enquirer and has been on the front page of the Drudge Report, so my guess is that they have already failed. \_ Is he really drinking again? Most people I've known who give up drinking never go back. \_ Wow. This is a troll, right? \_ No, I'm serious. Most people I know who stopped drinking haven't ever gone back. \_ Way to go Anecdotal Evidence Man! I suggest a googling of "alchoholism" and a quick perusal of the literature. "alcoholism" and a quick perusal of the literature. \_ Apparently he thinks the plural of anecdote is data. \_ Was the pres. alcoholic? If so, then what you are saying could be relevant. I don't know (and frankly I don't care - yeah it show a weakness of character to drink, but then again I think the 18th amd was a good idea) \_ Alcoholics are just drunks with low self esteem. \_ Again, consult the literature. You seem extremely ignorant about the symptoms of alcoholism. \_ how about the story of he smoked cocaine when he was young? |
2005/9/15-17 [Politics/Domestic, Recreation/Food] UID:39704 Activity:low |
9/15 We had to lay someone off at work because of the shrinking budget. Some people would like to take him to lunch. Some of us think it would be weird to go out with someone being (essentially) fired. What do you think? Would a card/gift be more appropriate? Should we do anything at all? We've worked with this guy for 2-3 years. \_ Take the guy out for a meal. What's so awkward about it? It's not like you made the decision to can him. \_ Agreed. If you like him, give him a nice send-off. \_ Well, I didn't make the decision but I was party to it. \_ "laid off" = "we couldn't afford you, no hard feelings please", "fired" = "you suck, we don't want you, go away". Make sure you know which it is; I would find it extremelyy odd to take someone whose firing I was involved in to lunch unless I knew him personally. Otherwise it seems very disingenuous. If it's a real layoff, you might also want to consider passing his resume around and other nice things. -John \_ Well, as you know, when there's a layoff there's always the choice of *who* to layoff. It's not the same as being fired, but there's the undertone of "We chose to let *you* go." I personally might feel odd going to lunch with coworkers if I was laid off. I did offer to help him get another job. If anyone needs a sysadmin, junior s/w engineer, or WWW developer with a BS in CS from Caltech and about 3 years experience let me know. I'm in LA, but I know his girlfriend is in the Bay Area, so he might consider moving. Oh, he is also a RHCE. --dim \_ Something more important to consider: that shrinking budget. When is *your* turn? Think about where you'd like to be taken to lunch when your turn comes. Also, a single layoff for budget reasons sounds really weird. What's really going on? How big is your place? Are you a C*O or founder? If not, polish up your resume if he was really cut for budget reasons. As far as lunch or no lunch, it doesn't matter if he was fired or laid off. A particular job is not the be-all end-all of life. If you like the guy take him to lunch. If you hate him, don't. Remember, in theory, someone who got laid-off will be re-hired when times get better. I've seen it actually happen a _small_ number of times. \_ Well, I asked him if we could take him to lunch and he said "Yes". As for the rest of the story, who said it was a single layoff? \_ enjoy lunch. No one said but if you re-read the OP it is easy to come to that conclusion from context. How many out of how many total? |
2005/9/5-7 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39506 Activity:nil |
9/5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9142893 Hey pot smoking LibUrals, does this news make you happy? \_ Well, seeing as this is likely a harbinger of difficult economic times, why would it? Does it make you want to cry Mr. Bible- thumping Neo-Con? \_ Yes, I am always happy when economic reality sets in. \_ I sorta think pot smoking liberals would be happy solely because they are pot smoking. =D -mrauser \_ Uhhhh whaaaaaaat ... duuuuuuuuude you said "pot" \_ It makes me very unhappy that lots of American workers will lose their jobs due to the usual braindead management obsessed with the next big SUV and unable to compete in the ordinary passenger car market. |
2005/9/2-3 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39445 Activity:nil |
9/2 GTA: New Orleans \_ I don't get the rape charges. "Hey it's dark, no power, no lights, dead bodies everywhere, no food, let's go rape grandma!" (I don't believe it) \_ Do you think food and other resources are evenly distributed in the convention center? Have you attended an American high school with a diverse ethnic demographic? \_ Try "I'm bored and got a hard on, what's available?" \_ "...and who's going to stop me?" \_ Grandma? I heard they were doing the kids. \_ They draw the line at necrophilia |
2005/9/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic] UID:39409 Activity:low |
9/1 The libertarian answer to a non-libertarian society is to game it for all it's worth while pointing and laughing. -- ilyas (reposted by meyers) \_ Gee, must be nice to have such a flexible philosophy that you never need to make any tough decisions, like say getting a job instead of continuing to beg for government handouts like public education. Do you think emarkp, for example, would engage in an all male orgy that might benefit him greatly financially? Of course not, he has convictions (even if I disagree with him). -meyers \_ Meyers, you don't seem to understand something. 'Libertarianism' isn't a moral philosophy, it is a political philosophy. It has certain things to say about how state power ought to be exercised, but that is all. It does not say one should not engage in charity (moral question), it does not say one should not receive charity (again, moral question). Do you start to see the pattern here? A non-libertarian society is structured to take advantage of productive members of society to benefit the non-productive. The proper productive response is to leave, strike, or take advantage of an unjust system. -- ilyas \_ I'm not meyers but it's clear to me that people like you care about libertarianism more than morals. People who don't care about moral, are jerks. \_ Who says I don't care about morals? Do you even know me? -- ilyas \_ No, I don't know you. It is YOUR FAULT for not letting people know you. You talk about libertarianism. What about your other beliefs? Open up. Tell us about your self. !meyers \_ Why don't you email me, trollboy, and we ll have a nice chat. -- ilyas \_ This is a bad analogy. Mark's religion says "it's bad to engage in male orgys" Libertarianism doesn't say "it's bad to take money from the government." It says "It's bad for the government to give money (in many situations)" -phuqm \_ That makes no sense. Govt aid is bad, but not if you take it? -meyers \_ Well that's like believing taxes for public schools is bad, but still going to a public school. Nothing really wrong with that scenario... it's not like using gov't services violates libertarian religion. They are having to pay for it like the rest. \_ Actually it says all sexual relationships outside of marriage are bad for various reasons. So that excludes female orgies as well. -emarkp \_ Actually it says all sexual relationships are bad for various reasons. So that excludes female orgies as well. -emarkp \_ Actually it says all sexual relationships are bad for various reasons. So that excludes female orgies as well. -emarkp \_ Well that's just crazy talk. -phuqm \_ Just thought I'd clarify. -emarkp |
2005/9/1-2 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39397 Activity:nil |
9/1 On google, search for Cindy Sheehan. There is a big advertisement "Does Cindy speak for you? http://www.thankyoupresidentbush.com Learn why she's wrong in the pages of Thank You, President Bush." The Republicans sure have a lot of money. \_ That was pretty funny, actually. I saw no such ad. I did see this: "Singles For Cindy America's Liberal Dating Service As in N Y Times, Air America, etc http://DemocraticMatch.Com" \_ I saw it late last night. Wow. -someone else \_ Why is this ad special in some way? |
2005/8/18-20 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic] UID:39165 Activity:nil |
8/18 Apparently the crazy housing boom doesn't happen everywhere. For example, College Station TX, El Paso TX, Montgomery Alabami, Odessa TX, Memphis TN, etc decreased by 10% while cities like San Diego and Santa Barbara appreciated over 50%. http://tinyurl.com/b8dgq (USA Today, sources from National City Corp) \_ what a shock, prices go up in places where people want to live. -tom \_ Wait, does this imply people from Redneck states are moving out, and moving into MY liberal home town? Where my parents and great grand parents already stayed for generations? \_ heh, 1/2 of the housing fizzle come from Texas. \_ In Detroit many homes are available! http://csua.org/u/d2s \_ Man, Detroit is some shit. Downtown is genuinely spooky - boarded up skyscrapers, no working traffic lights... \_ Detroit is the most liberal city in the US -- damn liberuhls! \_ If you think that's why Detroit is so fucked up, you really don't know very much about Detroit. \_ why Detroit is fucked up has certainly caused it to become a liberal hotbed though. If that's what it takes for an area to become liberal, America's too damn prosperous to be liberal. |
2005/8/18-20 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39164 Activity:kinda low |
8/18 So what do you guys think about this "reintroduce the megafauna" to North America idea? Seems almost crazy enough to be a god one... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050817/sc_nm/usa_wild_dc \_ Sounds like a lot of dead mega fauna. \_ Those animals disappeared because of Intelligent Extinction. We shouldn't try to interfere with it. \_ Are the Asian and African species the same species that disappeared here 13000 years ago? If not, they're not really restoring lost species, but they're only trying to prevent some other species elsewhere from going extinct. \_ No. These are different species. The native megafauna was wiped out when early humans wandered in. The African species co-evolved with humans and were able to survive a while. The American species never had a chance. \_ I am still waiting for them to recreate (clone from frozen mammoth tissue and grow in elephant womb) the woolly mammoth. that would be really cool. \_ "Yes we have a T-tex" \_ Once all the imported megafauna die out, get buried, and turn into oil under the ground in 100,000 years, we will finally be free of dependence on foreign oil! \_ Cool, elephant burgers! -John \_ Ribwich ... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm \_ "Thag, got mammoth on face" |
2005/8/4-8 [Politics/Domestic] UID:38988 Activity:nil |
8/4 RIP <DEAD>dailycal.org<DEAD> \_ liberal trash \_ What happened? What about the Heuristic Squelch? ;) |
2005/7/28-29 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38867 Activity:nil |
7/28 Woohoo! Hanoi Jane rides again! Maybe we'll get a picture of her cutting of the head of an American hostage this time. http://csua.org/u/cv0 \_ Wow, you're like, 35 years behind the times. Pick up a newspaper, troll. \_ you are such a tool \_ But what does The Free Republic have to say about this? \_ Lots of famous people are anti war. What's so special about this case? Fonda's kind of useless anyways, it's not like there are many conservative fans of hers in the first place. |
2005/7/21-22 [Politics/Domestic] UID:38747 Activity:low |
7/20 To emarkp or whomever was making the comment about the judicial arm of the government being mainly interpretive, you're basically wrong. Since we live in a common-law country in reality much of the basis of day-to-day law as it exists today was created through the courts. The legislature and the executive branch can't be bothered with figuring out every little detail of law. Courts have traditionally been a font for much law, and much legislation is based on recommendations by commentators, such as the MPC and the UCC. Also, if you ever bothered to examine the constitution, it's a pretty short document and is merely a framework to setup our national government. The guarentees codified in the Bill of Rights were actually rather unnecessary, as they reflect English subject rights which were assumed to be part of common law. In fact, codifications such as the 2nd Amendment have caused nothing but trouble. There is a fiction amongst laymen that there are "strict constructionists" vs. "liberal interpretists", but in reality it probably is more accurate to view them as being essentially individualists vs. statist. The law is hardly a static thing, and even the simplist codifications are open to endless interpretations and expansions. \_ Indeed? You are a very misguided man. It is very interesting to me that you think a common law conception is enough, and codifications 'cause trouble.' By your own dichotomy you would be a statist. In fact, I suppose your entire post can summed up as 'I am a statist.' -- ilyas \_ I suppose your entire posting history on motd can be summed up as 'I am a moron' \_ You know, kais motd is entirely unreliable as far as determining the exact identity of posters, but it is useful for noticing trends sometimes. Whenever you see a post like that one of the people on the attribution list is a member of the wall liberal goon squad. Odd, that. -- ilyas \_ Meh, not really. That clique is pretty active on both wall and motd, it seems. The fact that they get picked up by kais scripts shouldn't be surprising, especially considering the variety of ways people use to view motd in various editors, etc. Perhaps you're just being overly sensitive, esp in light of how badly you get treated here and, apparently, on wall. \_ My comments were limited to SCOTUS--I wasn't addressing the entire judiciary. Your assertion of "fiction" is ridiculous IMO (see, I can make assertions too!). The constitution was written to limit the powers of government. SCOTUS should interpret the constitution with that in mind. I guess that means I'm "originalist" or "textualist" as well as "individualist". -emarkp |
2005/7/18 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38674 Activity:kinda low |
7/16 You guys are screwed! Loser, ha ha ha ha -conservative http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050718/ap_on_re_us/party_money \_ What's their stock symbol? \_ REPU \_ TWAT -John \_ FUCU |
2005/7/7-10 [Politics/Domestic] UID:38471 Activity:kinda low |
7/7 Endowment per student: Princeton: $1,492,065 Harvard: $1,147,146 $tanford: $ 602,217 Cal: $ 61,594 \_ Interesting discussion of endowments in the Ivy League: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri/wp/cheri_wp16.pdf The 90's drastically increased the wealth gap among universities, even just within the Ivy League. \_ rich private, rich private, rich private, PUBLIC SCHOOL. get a life, eat shit, go away, etc. \_ it would be interesting to see how much UT Austin's endowment/ student is since I believe their endowment is second only to Harvard's in absolute terms \_ Yes we know. We got the same pamphlet in the mail. \_ Why? Because Princeton treats their students like a mother treats her children, whereas Berkeley treats their students like the real world treats them. Berkeley treated me like SHIT, why should I donate a single penny. If they want us to donate anything, maybe they should cut costs on stupid things like athletic equipments and field upgrades and spend it on BASIC things that matter, like better/more housing, less student-to-prof ratio in introductory classes so that we don't have to CRASH them all the time. Also the L&S administrators are aloof and don't seem to care about anyone. And while I'm at it, they just should do something about long lines and red tapes. Oh well, it'll never happen. \_ So? Cal also has more students. What do you expect? \_ So? Cal also has more students. \_ But Cal is also funded in part by the state (although that funding is drying up), so in a sense all Californians are endowing it. \_ you're not exactly clear what is meant by "endowment" here, are you? \_ No, I'm not, are the numbers meant to be total endowment amount or just private endowments? When figures like this are posted one tends to automatically think "private endowments." If that's the calculation including public endowments then it is a sad state of affairs. However, does public endowments automatically include what the state directly and indirectly supports? What about endowments to graduate programs? \_ My endownment is large and tax free. \_ Cal doesn't invest the donations it recieves, it spends them as fast as it can. Otherwise, the State would give it less money. \_ do you see cal's spending habits as a good thing? wouldn't it be nice if uc or at least cal wasnt entirely depending on ever shrinking funds from the state? had they invested all the money all these years instead of whatever they did with it, would cal be better off financially today? \_ If Cal had invested it, Davis or Schwartzenneger would have just raided it the first time they got in trouble. AFAIK, Cal mostly built buildings with it, which is fine by me. \_ Not if it is in some trust for that purpose. What would have happened is the UC system would have ended up financially independent and got nothing from the state except maybe a capital expenditures budget. Ya know... buildings. \_ Why do you think there is no such trust? The Trustees of the UC aren't political naifs. They know that the existence of a huge enodowment would prove irresistible to greedy politicians. They would use it as an excuse to cut the UC budget entirely. \_ Or the unions would just strike until they got it. It's useful to be able to say you don't have any money in a public organization. School districts expend an incredible amount of effort on hiding money from the teachers unions so that they have some for something else. |
2005/6/23-25 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38275 Activity:high |
6/23 I blame all you liberals for this Eminent Domain fuckup. Hang your heads in shame. -- ilyas \_ I thought all liberals would think this decision was stupid and wrong since I am a liberal and that's what I think. The motd has proven me wrong, and I do indeed hang my head in shame for my fellow liberals. \_ It's not liberals, ilyas, it's corrupt and stupid government, aided by lack of transparency and control. Happens on both sides of the spectrum. -John \_ fuck you. there is nothing on the liberal docket to justify Eminent Domain. \_ Finally, we actually found an issue on the motd where the far-right, far-left, moderate liberals and moderate conservatives all agree. Leave it to you to turn that into a anti-liberal flame war. \_ What flame war? Are we reading the same motd? You think _this_ is a flame war? And as for everyone agreeing, apparently the more 'liberal' justices didn't agree. I mean my original comment was sort of tongue-in-cheek, but as the russian proverb goes, in every joke there's a grain of a joke. -- ilyas \_ Uh, why? How exactly would your typical liberal favor eminent domain for a private developer? Most liberals I know don't even favor eminent domain for storm drains. The politics of redevelop- ment don't fall along the lines you might imagine. I will admit that the voting over the recent SC case mystifies me. -- ulysses \_ We had a rather heated discussion about this just now on irc. My view is that liberals favor more conventional uses of ED, while it tends to be a 'hot button' issue for conservatives. Furthermore, liberals in my view tend to favor 'public good' at the expense of 'private property' if these come in conflict. Also, you can take the private developer out of the equation here, the government can take full initiative here (or not even involve a business at all). -- ilyas \_ I think this view is a rather ingenuous application of a stereotype. I know very very few liberals that are comfortable with this development, or would have actively campaigned for it. Admittedly, this is anecdotal, but no less so than your blanket assertion about 'all liberals are bad, etc'. \_ I don't think liberals are 'bad,' nor have I asserted this as you claim. I happen to disagree with their moral framework though. Some of them are fine people, really. They are well behaved in public and everything. Some of my best friends are liberals! -- ilyas \_ Okay, my bad -- that was phrased very poorly... But I think you're confusing the clout of big business and their poilitcal alliances with rabid Berkeley students fresh from HS. business and their politcal alliances with rabid Berkeley students fresh from HS. While the liberals have some big philosophical weaknesses, I don't think it's reasonable to blame them for the actions and power of big wealthy, powerful, connected business interests. it's reasonable to blame them for the actions of big, wealthy, powerful, connected business interests. As someone points out below, the simplification of this issue into liberal vs conservative is, at best, naive and at worst, a smoke screen to distract the people from the not-very-subtle shift of power. \_ This has nothing to do with big, powerful, connected business interests. This is the supreme court approving this and all future money grabs by the government through increased tax revenue at the expense of individuals. Getting 'business interests' involved is a red herring. Though they may be involved, they are not necessary for application of ED, especially this shiny expanded "I am gonna kick your ass" ED. I hope you don't think the actions of the scotus were the direct result of 'big business' interference. You can't buy off the scotus that easily. They are old and set for life. -- ilyas \_ Ok I'll bite. What are the "big philosophical weaknesses"? \_ ^liberals^homosexuals \_ I think it's enough for all the "liberal" SCOTUS judges to have voted for expanding ED powers, and all the pricks to have voted the other way, I mean, conservative judges. \_ That too. I was sort of trying to explain why scotus voted as it did. Frankly there are plenty of reasons to dislike this ruling for almost every point of the politial spectrum except perhaps some full-on hivemind utilitarian/authoritarian. -- ilyas \_ did you read the full opinion below? It explains why the majority voted as it did. Additionally, Kennedy's op. also illustrates it. For the record, I'm liberal, and I think I'm hesitantly in favor of the ruling. But, it's very borderline. I am not comfortable with what they did to Kelo, nor the other home-owners. I'm also not comfortable with the future resale of the land to Pfizer. However, I am sympathetic to the logic of the ruling, given current interpretation of law. You're right about the sociological generalization of liberals favoring "public good" over "private property," and if it weren't for my philosophical leanings towards principle, I would have no problem with this ruling. However, there's another generalization about liberal principles that should be noted: a favoring of individuals' privacy and rights over that of corporations. These two liberal principles are at odds in the Kelo case, which is why I'm very borderline in my support for it. I would be amenable to an amendment limiting eminent domain to cases like Hawaii or extreme blight. But current law supports "economic development." -nivra \_ Out of curiousity, assume there was no private business involvement at all. The gvt bulldozed over some buildings to build a government business, like a post office or a lottery. What would your feelings be in this scenario? -- ilyas \_ I'll be your token liberal. Neither of those qualify as far as my "feelings" go. An eminent domain seizure should serve a function beyond simply grabbing land for a public (or private) project. Storm drains and transportation corridors are a good example since both are large scale systems that require continuity. Landowners are rarely willing or able to properly maintain drainage corridors they happen to own, for instance, which can cause widespread flood damage. The funny thing is, as I said, there is little support for such an eminent domain act while apparently grabbing land to build a gamepark is OK. Whatever I might "feel" about particular eminent domain applications has little bearing on how to interpret the eminent domains clause. -- ulysses \_ I agree with the last sentiment, as well. The law and my perceived interpretation of it(favoring the majority) are two different things. I feel like Kelo was treated unfairly, but as the law cur- rently stands, I support the majority interpreta- tion. -nivra \_ the usage of eminent domain needs to be demonstrated as necessary. For instance, in Berman v. Parker, the dept. store wasn't blighted, but was part of the blighted community fixed to undergo wholesale redevelopment. In this case, eminent domain condemnation of the dept store can be seen as a necessary portion of the "public good" over "private property" as it is necessary to implement the grand plan. In your example, the questions that need to be asked are: 1) why this location? 2) why a post office? 3) what is the public use/good of the proposed development? 4) are there any alternatives. For something as small as a post-office, I think the answers will reveal that there are other options available than eminent domain condemnation of an un-blighted property. I can't off-the-top-of-my-head imagine a scenario where that wouldn't be the conclusion. Btw, this is also the prevailing reasoning behind why Kelo v. New London makes sense. -nivra \_ stupid troll. The life of a few can and should be sacraficed for the benefit of the mass. If you can tear down a few insignificant houses for a huge Walmart that everyone can benefit from, then you've done a great service for the community. Eminent domain is a good thing. \_ Don't blame me. I'm a moderate! -moderate (Psst. So is Hillary. Pass it on.) \_ well you can also blame Bush I and John Sununu, in part anyways. \_ I agree this time around, the liberals have fucked it up. -eric \_ Who is on the side of Wal-Mart? Hint: it ain't the "liberals." This is classic big business conservatism, where government dances the tune sung by corporations. Real liberals have been fighting this drift for at least a generation. http://www.corporateering.org Get the book and read it. It is interesting stuff. -ausman |
2005/6/17-18 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic] UID:38171 Activity:nil |
6/16 Red Cross joins AI: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292692/posts \_ What are they talking about? The report last year? God, freepers are unintelligible \_ I think he is saying that the Red Cross has joined Amnesty International in stating that the prison conditions for terror suspects is less than humane. \_ And is there some new story? Or is this moaning about the report from last year? \_ I think it is just moaning. The best thing to do is to ignore the weirdos (on both sides) and hope they will get bored and go away. |
2005/6/16-18 [Politics/Domestic, Reference/RealEstate] UID:38163 Activity:nil |
6/16 If Tom Delay has nothing to hide, why has he effectively shut down the House Ethics Committee? \_ Because Accountability means never having to say you're sorry. |
2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38013 Activity:nil |
6/7 Doesn't today's marijuana decision from the SCOTUS effectively mean that the federal government can dismantle any state or local law that differs from federal law through enforcement? \_ Uh, Alabama? Civil Liberties? Hello! \_ Yeah, despite my conservative bent, I'm pretty sure this whole idea went out with the civil war. \_ What do you mean? I have/had no idea, so I'm curious. !op \_ I'm not 100%, but it sounds like he is talking about the 14th amd which made due process applicable to the states. WRT the original question, yesterday's decision doesn't really break new ground. Congress has always had the power to enact legislation that preempts state law as long as the legislation falls w/in one of its enumer- ated powers. |
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