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I call bullshit. I remember Trump telling supporters during a rally to hit protesters and he would pay for their legal fees. I remember seeing on the news an elderly man at a Trump rally punch a protester in the face as the protester was being dragged out by security.

They've hugged and made up since then.

I am sure the ass hat that burned down that mosque in Texas was a Trump supporter.

Are you referring to the mosque that was burned down in 2016, or the mosque that was burned down in 2015? Because the 2015 arsonist is a Muslim who attended prayers 5 times a day, before burning down his own mosque on Christmas day. As for the 2016 arson, I'll wait for the police report, thank you.

I am sure the neo nazi wanna be that burned down those churches in the south this last summer would vote for Trump.

Actually, there was a grand total of one black church that was burned down and vandalized with "Vote Trump" graffiti. It turns out the arsonist was black, and a member of the congregation to boot. More encouragingly, the church has since raised over $170,000 from donors to rebuild the church, many of which were donations from Trump supporters.

If you are not willing to speak out against those instances of violence by your fellow Trump supporters you have no right to bitch about being targeted.

Got any more? Knocking these down is pretty fun.

Also a prominent Broadway composer has banned his works from being performed in NC. I'm very heartened by this; the boycott movement might actually get legs and make NC think twice.

Unfortunately, Mississippi has passed an even more egregious law than the one in NC. The Mississippi law basically makes it legal to fire LGBT people and refuse them housing.

What the hell is going on in the Bible Belt? Are these people insane?

It's not always "the best thing".

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130109/NEWS02/130109026/Russia-zorb-accident-Giant-inflatable-ball-veers-off-cliff-2-inside-Video-

Is that really your dog in the video? I keep parrots (although not at the moment) and they are my favorite pets, but I actually think a dog driving a car tops the parrot driving a cart. It would be hilarious if dogs could get driver licenses and drive around everywhere.

No, not really my dog. The SPCA in New Zealand trained 3 rescue dogs and have gotten pretty far along. Here's the story: http://www.clarionledger.com/viewart/20121205/NEWS02/121205030/Dogs-driving-cars-Trainer-in-New-Zealand-puts-canine-companions-behind-the-wheel-Video-?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

"1. Value of the Dollar"

And how exactly is printing more money (in the form of "tax rebate" checks funded through deficit spending) going to increase the value of the dollar? (Source) Doesn't it do the exact opposite?

"4. Percentage of bankruptcies caused by lack of health care coverage"

And Obama would replace that number with the "percentage of Americans completely losing their property rights to socialism", which of course would be 100%. McCain is of course doing the same thing, though possibly to a lesser degree (or maybe he's just better at hiding it).

"5. Number of houses lost to predatory lenders."

I have no sympathy for people who sign contracts without reading them, nor for banks that associate with such shady sources. Companies and individuals that purposely do not investigate the risk of such endeavors will fall. It is not our responsibility to provide a safety net for bad practices - doing so brings the whole system down, because everyone starts thinking they can make mistakes and someone will protect them from the consequences (for free at that!)

As for Iraq, all I see is a lot of empty talk from the candidates. I doubt either has a viable plan that is without dangerous consequences; they will instead elect to do nothing.

I don't accept the implied premise that Democrats didn't do exactly the same thing.

SUV sales haven't been affected by the price of gasoline? On what planet? Look here http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article ?AID=/20060404/BIZ/604040336/1005 Or here http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ 20060602/AUTO01/606020398/-1/ARCHIVE SUV sales have completely tanked which is why GM and Ford are in serious trouble.

This crap got pulled most hilariously on a Benji poster:

"Gene Shalit gave us a lukewarm review on the Today show," Camp recalls. Shalit closed by saying, "It's a wow for kids, a bowwow for dogs, and (breaking for a commercial) I think it's time for this message."

"I knew the picture worked," Camp says. "But how was I doing to get people into the theater?"

That day he rented a billboard outside Shalit's NBC office in Rockefeller Center in New York. " 'Benji -- I think it's time for this message.' -- Gene Shalit."

Shalit looked out his window, saw it, and laughed his head off.

Benji creator, Ole Miss alum on star hunt

If you buy a non-HDTV you will get a box that will be obsolete long before it's likely to wear out--soon you won't be able to use it without a converter box. All televisions sold after December 31, 2006 must be sold with digital tuners, and broadcasters are to stop airing analog content Jan 31, 2007. Unless you pay next to nothing for an analog box, it no longer makes sense to buy anything other than HDTV.

Hmmmm. I wonder why the Best Buy salesman didn't mention that to me when I was in his store last week?

For more information on the planned changeover, (See
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article ?AID=/20050515/FEAT0111/505150305/1010/FEAT01_/URL )


NR

That was the University of Southern Mississippi. Coincedentally, the president tendered his resignation yesterday.

See here
and here

An article on the attempted termination is here

That was the University of Southern Mississippi. Coincedentally, the president tendered his resignation yesterday.

See here
and here

An article on the attempted termination is here

People don't like frivolous lawsuits

That statement is misleading. If someone believes a lawsuit is frivolous, by definition they don't agree that it's valid (and thus, they usually don't like it). If the spirit of your statement is "People on juries don't like lawsuits that the majority of people in America consider to be frivolous", or "People on juries don't like to give out monetary awards that most of America considers excessive", you're dead wrong. The jury selection process is most likely to blame. By the time you actually get to the pool of people who aren't able/willing to get out of jury duty, you're generally left with a group that is a) stupid b) unemployed and thus c) looking to stick it to "the man" (in corporate tort cases like this).

Check out this: http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0212/10/m02.htm l link (or google for "60 Minutes" and "jackpot justice"). The story in a nutshell: There's a county in Mississippi which is known for giving out obscenely large awards in suits against pharmaceutical companies. They are _so_ well known for this that lawyers in such suits make every attempt to get the case tried in this county. They do so by having a client buy a "controversial" drug in a drugstore in the county, suing the drugstore, and naming the manufacturer as a co-defendant. The drugstore typically drops off the case by the end, but only after having to spend time/money defending itself in the early stages of the case.

If you think that the McDonalds lawsuit itself was reasonable, that's fine. You and I just draw the line differently about what "personal responsibility" constitutes. But if you think that the damages awarded (almost $3 million) were reasonable -- and I think that this is what most people are really objecting to -- you're insane.

Oh, by the way -- the result of 60 Minutes airing this story? Some of the lawyers interviewed filing a 6 BILLION dollar suit against CBS.

After Sept. 11, to the amusement/horror of music critics and radio industry professionals, Clear Channel issued a list of 150 songs to its member stations that it deemed too sensitive to play in the wake of the terrorist attacks. The list included an odd mix of songs: the more understandable choices featured flight references ("Bennie and the Jets," "Ticket to Ride"); others were associated with New York ("On Broadway"); and, most surprisingly, many were related to peace ("Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Imagine"). The list also included all songs by the political rock group Rage Against the Machine.

They have given $42,200 to Bush, vs. $1,750 to likely Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 race. What's more, the executives and Clear Channel's political action committee gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans. That's a bigger share than any other entertainment company, says the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. In contrast, Viacom (VIA) executives and its political action committee gave just 30% of their $545,650 to Republican candidates. Viacom syndicates Stern's show.

No, I don't see anything political there. Just good business sense. (Yeah, right.)

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Sure. Here's an article from Nov. 6th explaining most of it. From the article: "We paid $1.6 million for voting machines and hundreds of thousands of dollars on training" and the results are still unknown, said Hinds County Tax Assessor Bill Burrow Jr., who was trailing Democrat Eddie J. Fair in a re-election bid.

A number of electronic, paper and affidavit ballots had yet to be counted in all the Hinds County races, but only one remains too close to call. Republican Sen. Richard White, a 13-year incumbent, held a 49-vote lead over Democratic challenger Dewayne Thomas on Wednesday.

As many as three dozen voting machines were unexpectedly left at precincts overnight.

Since then, a handful of mystery ballots have showed up, swinging the unofficial count in favor of Dewayne Thomas (Dem). The ballots have no initials, which is apparently required by law, but the Democrat AG decided to count them anyway. This decision will likely be contested in court. Sound familiar?
Don't get me wrong- there's some shady Republicans around here too, but my point is the current system needs to be fixed in the law and in the technology.

How is this bug more of a bummer than how gnuftp was compromised and potentially more damaging? Oh, don't hear people moaning about that on here now do you...?

Do you not read the newspapers?
When the GNU ftp site was compromised did it affect any DMVs?
Did the cracking of the GNU server cause disruption at entire school districts?

In case you missed it, look here
or here
If you follow the first link you'll see that even Cisco's VoIP customers are affected by Blaster, not just WIndows users.
I'd call that more of a bummer than the GNU compromise.

They need EPA's superfund to clean up after their toxic waste.

They need huge government subsidies to keep their huge hog farms running.

The government pays unemployment benefits to jobs lost from gross corporate mismanagement

The government pays dearly when defrauded out of billions of dollars.

In fact, it sounds like the worst thing our economy has suffered through is the rich.

Easy Peasy Japanesey.

See here for details.

Are they in jail?

We live in a country where kids with no prior record are being jailed for years at a time for having, not selling, drugs at rock concerts.

A car thief can expect to spend years in jail, but George W. Bush violated securities laws multiple times and he's in the White House.