If nothing else, they play some nice classical music, which sure beats rap any day of the week. I have yet to hear the same piece played twice, though I've only been listening for a couple of months.
In Chicago, they play some really cool blues at the times most public stations play classical. Agreed, it beats the heck out of rap.
Oh, and yes I said right wing media. The media used to be left wing when they were small independents,
The fact that you even had to clarify this shows how bad it has become here.
It's not illegal to say that you want to harm the president.
Dude, before you go posting anything in this vein you should look up the fact that it is actually illegal. If you do something of this nature, the Secret Service will investigate it and they will probably find you. Assuming you are just screwing around, probably not much will happen other than a few agents showing up at your door for a chat, but that should be scary enough. You will be on a list, and if the president comes to your town, you will be watched. The Secret Service does not screw around, and they have absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever.
Both of them are excellent tales for children and I'm going to read them both once again. But this time aloud, for my cute little daughter when she goes to sleep.
My mom read The Lord of the Rings aloud to me and my brother when we were kids and it was a really special time for us. I started reading them myself before she was done and ended up finishing before she did, but that didn't take away from the fun of having them read to us.
Gays do have the same rights, A gay man can mary a woman any time he'd like!
But do they have the right to marry the person they love? I do. I suspect you do too. What is the benefit to anybody by restricting their "pursuit of happinness"?
There isn't any.
It is completely driven by irrational hatred, which is why we have a bill of rights and are not a democracy.
It's not arrogance. If you think that gay people choose to be gay, then provide some scrap of evidence. I think you will be really astounded to find that there isn't any. You might be able to find a few scattered people here and there who say they chose that lifestyle, but for the vast majority it just isn't true. It never has been and there has never been any reason to believe it to be so.
Your interpretation of those principles anyway. As a Democracy you and every other American has a voice in how the country is run. You also have to deal with it if the majority disagrees with you. Right now the majority of the nation is against gay marriage.
Nope. "We hold these truths to be *self evident*, that all men are created equal." If it can't stand up to that, it is anti-American plain and simple. It doesn't matter a bit what proportion of the population agrees or disagrees with me. That is why this country is not a democracy. It's called the tragedy of the commons.
This is why that shithead Bush is supporting a constitutional ammendment to ban gay marriages because it is blatantly against the constitution and there is no other way to shove his hatred down the throats of the decent freedom loving Americans who don't support hate based discrimination.
If you believe that being gay is a choice someone makes then there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
This is so moronic and it is repeated so widely by the hate-mongering freaks who are trying to shove their hatred down everybody's throat.
Nobody is asking for special rights. The anti-American, Freedom hating scumbags are trying to take rights away from a segment of the population because they are ruled by hatred of people who are not like them. That is the issue. Gays don't want a god damn thing except what everyone else gets. How again is that "special"
This is why it is illogical to say only those who choose to be Republicans have free speech, and since I believe that homosexuality is a choice why gay marriage is wrong.
Well your belief is wrong. Sorry, but if you're too ignorant to know that you shouldn't open your mouth. It makes you look like an idiot.
Whether you think it is "wrong" or not is really your own problem. You are a bad American and a despiser of the principles this country was founded on as you demonstrated absolutely by your statements. Please move somewhere like Iran where attitudes like yours are in law rather than trying to ruin this country. If you want the benefits of this country, then everybody else gets them too. If you are too much of a coward to live in a free country, then leave.
Sure we have our fair share of short comings, but to argue that Saddam should have been allowed to rule is insane. How would you feel if he was in power in your country?
Well, if Bush had made that argument you would have a point. Since he chose to lie about "WMDs" and "imminent threats" as justification instead, you don't
Whether or not it ends up being a good thing is irrelevant to the fact that the US president lied to start a war. No free people can respect the citizens of a so called country who would allow such an atrocity.
According to reports, the attack had been planned for years. Al Qaida (however they're spelling it this week) hates America for supporting Israel - and Clinton did as much of that as anyone.
Certainly, but would there have been such a drastic failure in counter terrorism if Bush hadn't been elected? Be sure to address the fact that Bush fought tooth and nail to prevent any investigation. Also, when it was forced down his throat by a lawsuit brought by the family of the victims he tried to appoint Henry Kissinger to head it.
The U.N. clearly reneged on it's responsibilities in this case. Saddam could have avoided the war if he had just come clean on his WMD,
*All* available evidence indicates that he did come clean. Care to provide contrary facts? You might also want to indicate why Bush lied to the American people about his "evidence" before you have the audacity to claim that he's doing a good job.
One of the last century's worst thugs is now in custody, and the "insightful" comment around here is "who cares"? Get some sense of history.
Wow, amazing how the ignorant scumbags constantly twist people's statements around to make them sound evil.
Anybody in America who gives a shit about Saddam being captured when *THE PERSON WHO BLEW UP OUR BUILDINGS IS BEING IGNORED IN THE INTEREST OF HAVING A WAR FOR WHICH WE HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN A REASON WHICH HASN'T BEEN PROVEN TO BE A LIE*. is not really paying attention, now are they?
Get some sense of history yourself. OBL blew up our buildings. Saddam wasn't involved, had no WMD, and was no threat to us. Saddam was a thug, but with the blessing of the US government under the father of the current president along with most of the current administration.
Quite. But we don't know which of those possibilities WMD is yet.
We know which possibility the WMDs Bush was talking about are, because he said that they know exactly where they are. Those haven't been found yet, hence they do not exist. There is a theoretical possibility that there are some lying around, but zero reason to suspect it.
Hey, maybe I buried a pot of gold in your backyard. Why don't you go look.
You probably don't believe it. Why do you trust me, who has never lied to you, less than you do Bush who has been proven to have been lying about exactly what you are believing? Other than Bush's statements (and forged evidence and demonstrable false statements ) there isn't any evidence or reason to believe MWDs exist.
They also haven't found evidence of WMD yet. That doesn't mean they won't. And therefore you can't yet say that the war was illegal.
Actually you can say that it was illegal. The US administration said that there are WMDs, that we know where they are, and that they will be found in a few days.
These are lies, they were known to be lies when Bush and co. made these statements. Even if they do end up finding such weapons, it won't change in the least the simple fact that the US president and administration lied to the US population in the interest of starting a war against a country which didn't do anything against us while ignoring the people who did attack us on 9/11.
So rather than waiting to see if a different set of weapons than the ones Bush made up turn up, the patriotic among us are calling out to have that lying traitor impeached.
Please try to do your duty as a citizen rather than defend a known, proven liar and traitor.
name another software product/operating system that has a similar patch system that's easy to use and works for "average joe" ? For all you can say about Linux, it doesn't offer this on the desktop yet!
Tried a credit union lately? They charge just as much as the Banks.
In fact, I work at one. Our rates are generally lower on loans and higher on dividends then the banks in our area. Not by a lot, granted, but every little bit helps.
We are also generally easier to get loans from. The majority of our membership works for the same company, so we know where they live so to speak which is part of the reason for that.
We try to recruit new membership, our sales team is on commission, and one of our goals is to increase our assets. The fact that we are a not-for-profit (different than non-profit) organization does allow and encourage us to act differently than banks in many ways.
We don't actively recruit membership from every population segment we are legally allowed to, which we would if maximizing profit down to the last cent was our only goal. Our management is committed to slow, steady growth. This allows us to serve our existing members to the level they have come to expect while adding capacity to handle new membership as we grow.
Also, we get free lunch more than anywhere else I've worked which is cool;-)
considering that the US economy was up 8.2% last quarter, which is the highest growth since 1984 -- when Ronald Reagan was president, i'd say it's becoming a lot less of a problem.
When it falls as low as it has, tiny improvements are a large percentage increase without adding anything much.
The report also showed the number of unemployed still on the benefit rolls in the Nov. 15 week fell by a sharp 105,000 to 3.37 million
You do know that these benefits do run out, so that some number of these people are still unemployed, but now without benefits, don't you?
And "only" 351,000 people lost their jobs in one week. You are actually trying to point to a 3% reduction in *new job losses* as some great improvement?!?
Any good news is still good news, but it's silly to get excited about this news.
Atheism is a misnomer; it really should be called 'anti-theism'. Linguistical the 'a' does not denote a negative. Consider 'moral', 'immoral', and 'amoral'. 'Amoral' is not acting against morality, but with lack of concern towards morality. 'Immoral' is acting against morality.
Interesting my ass. Dead wrong, actually.
Linguistically, the 'a' does donote a negative. As a prefix it indicates the state of being without whatever the root is. It also has nothing to do with concern or a lack thereof. Amoral means without morals. Atheism means without a belief in a god.
'Anti-theism' ('imtheism' doesn't sound right...) would be stating that god does not exist. 'Atheism' should be the lack of concern as to whether or not a god exists.
Anti-theism wouldn't be stating god does or does not exist. Anti-theism is being against beliefs in deities. Atheism, again, has nothing to do with concerns. It is quite simply the lack of a belief in a god or gods.
I, personally am both Atheist and anti-theist.
I don't believe there is a god. I have yet to see a scrap of evidence, so I see no reason to accept it. This makes me an atheist.
I think that religion by its very nature is a nearly universally bad thing. It holds society back and leads to horrible suffering and hatred. I think that if we can do away with religion completely then the world will be a better place. This makes me an anti-theist.
I personally don't care enough about it to go around to people's houses trying to get them to ditch their beliefs or anything like that though.
This makes me not a zealot, and somebody who isn't a (complete) ass to hang out with regardless of your religious beliefs.
Everybody is born an atheist. It is only if they, at some point after their birth, decide to start believing in a god that they can become a theist.
One of my personal pet peeves.
Mine is people who have no idea what they're talking about who nonetheless talk about it.
Militant agnostics are funny. "I DON'T KNOW AND YOU DON'T EITHER!"
This isn't militant anything. It's the simplest statement of the only completely honest attitude possible regarding the whole issue.
Nobody knows that there is a god. Some people have chosen to *believe* (or been brainwashed into *believing* ) that it is true. Were they honest, they would say I believe this is true, but know?!? There is no way to know.
Similarly, for the other side. If someone doesn't believe in god, then that is just the natural state. If they tell you they know there isn't one, then they are dishonest.
If a person tells you have to believe either way, or that you're wrong for believing the way you do, then they are militant and a fuckwad.
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If nothing else, they play some nice classical music, which sure beats rap any day of the week. I have yet to hear the same piece played twice, though I've only been listening for a couple of months.
In Chicago, they play some really cool blues at the times most public stations play classical.
Agreed, it beats the heck out of rap.
Oh, and yes I said right wing media. The media used to be left wing when they were small independents,
The fact that you even had to clarify this shows how bad it has become here.
It's not illegal to say that you want to harm the president.
Dude, before you go posting anything in this vein you should look up the fact that it is actually illegal.
If you do something of this nature, the Secret Service will investigate it and they will probably find you. Assuming you are just screwing around, probably not much will happen other than a few agents showing up at your door for a chat, but that should be scary enough. You will be on a list, and if the president comes to your town, you will be watched.
The Secret Service does not screw around, and they have absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever.
Both of them are excellent tales for children and I'm going to read them both once again. But this time aloud, for my cute little daughter when she goes to sleep.
:-)
My mom read The Lord of the Rings aloud to me and my brother when we were kids and it was a really special time for us. I started reading them myself before she was done and ended up finishing before she did, but that didn't take away from the fun of having them read to us.
So... Good idea
Gays do have the same rights, A gay man can mary a woman any time he'd like!
But do they have the right to marry the person they love? I do. I suspect you do too.
What is the benefit to anybody by restricting their "pursuit of happinness"?
There isn't any.
It is completely driven by irrational hatred, which is why we have a bill of rights and are not a democracy.
Well your belief is wrong
Your arrogance astounds me.
It's not arrogance. If you think that gay people choose to be gay, then provide some scrap of evidence.
I think you will be really astounded to find that there isn't any. You might be able to find a few scattered people here and there who say they chose that lifestyle, but for the vast majority it just isn't true. It never has been and there has never been any reason to believe it to be so.
Your interpretation of those principles anyway. As a Democracy you and every other American has a voice in how the country is run. You also have to deal with it if the majority disagrees with you. Right now the majority of the nation is against gay marriage.
Nope.
"We hold these truths to be *self evident*, that all men are created equal."
If it can't stand up to that, it is anti-American plain and simple.
It doesn't matter a bit what proportion of the population agrees or disagrees with me.
That is why this country is not a democracy.
It's called the tragedy of the commons.
This is why that shithead Bush is supporting a constitutional ammendment to ban gay marriages because it is blatantly against the constitution and there is no other way to shove his hatred down the throats of the decent freedom loving Americans who don't support hate based discrimination.
If you believe that being gay is a choice someone makes then there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
This is so moronic and it is repeated so widely by the hate-mongering freaks who are trying to shove their hatred down everybody's throat.
Nobody is asking for special rights.
The anti-American, Freedom hating scumbags are trying to take rights away from a segment of the population because they are ruled by hatred of people who are not like them.
That is the issue. Gays don't want a god damn thing except what everyone else gets. How again is that "special"
This is why it is illogical to say only those who choose to be Republicans have free speech, and since I believe that homosexuality is a choice why gay marriage is wrong.
Well your belief is wrong.
Sorry, but if you're too ignorant to know that you shouldn't open your mouth. It makes you look like an idiot.
Whether you think it is "wrong" or not is really your own problem. You are a bad American and a despiser of the principles this country was founded on as you demonstrated absolutely by your statements. Please move somewhere like Iran where attitudes like yours are in law rather than trying to ruin this country. If you want the benefits of this country, then everybody else gets them too. If you are too much of a coward to live in a free country, then leave.
Are we to establish two sets of rules? One for people who have lots of marketshare and one for those who don't?
This was done about 100 years ago.
It's called anti-trust law.
Sure we have our fair share of short comings, but to argue that Saddam should have been allowed to rule is insane. How would you feel if he was in power in your country?
Well, if Bush had made that argument you would have a point.
Since he chose to lie about "WMDs" and "imminent threats" as justification instead, you don't
Whether or not it ends up being a good thing is irrelevant to the fact that the US president lied to start a war.
No free people can respect the citizens of a so called country who would allow such an atrocity.
According to reports, the attack had been planned for years. Al Qaida (however they're spelling it this week) hates America for supporting Israel - and Clinton did as much of that as anyone.
Certainly, but would there have been such a drastic failure in counter terrorism if Bush hadn't been elected?
Be sure to address the fact that Bush fought tooth and nail to prevent any investigation. Also, when it was forced down his throat by a lawsuit brought by the family of the victims he tried to appoint Henry Kissinger to head it.
The U.N. clearly reneged on it's responsibilities in this case. Saddam could have avoided the war if he had just come clean on his WMD,
*All* available evidence indicates that he did come clean.
Care to provide contrary facts?
You might also want to indicate why Bush lied to the American people about his "evidence" before you have the audacity to claim that he's doing a good job.
Your position is completely indefensible
One of the last century's worst thugs is now in custody, and the "insightful" comment around here is "who cares"? Get some sense of history.
Wow, amazing how the ignorant scumbags constantly twist people's statements around to make them sound evil.
Anybody in America who gives a shit about Saddam being captured when *THE PERSON WHO BLEW UP OUR BUILDINGS IS BEING IGNORED IN THE INTEREST OF HAVING A WAR FOR WHICH WE HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN A REASON WHICH HASN'T BEEN PROVEN TO BE A LIE*.
is not really paying attention, now are they?
Get some sense of history yourself.
OBL blew up our buildings.
Saddam wasn't involved, had no WMD, and was no threat to us.
Saddam was a thug, but with the blessing of the US government under the father of the current president along with most of the current administration.
Quite. But we don't know which of those possibilities WMD is yet.
We know which possibility the WMDs Bush was talking about are, because he said that they know exactly where they are. Those haven't been found yet, hence they do not exist. There is a theoretical possibility that there are some lying around, but zero reason to suspect it.
Hey, maybe I buried a pot of gold in your backyard. Why don't you go look.
You probably don't believe it. Why do you trust me, who has never lied to you, less than you do Bush who has been proven to have been lying about exactly what you are believing?
Other than Bush's statements (and forged evidence and demonstrable false statements ) there isn't any evidence or reason to believe MWDs exist.
They also haven't found evidence of WMD yet. That doesn't mean they won't. And therefore you can't yet say that the war was illegal.
Actually you can say that it was illegal. The US administration said that there are WMDs, that we know where they are, and that they will be found in a few days.
These are lies, they were known to be lies when Bush and co. made these statements.
Even if they do end up finding such weapons, it won't change in the least the simple fact that the US president and administration lied to the US population in the interest of starting a war against a country which didn't do anything against us while ignoring the people who did attack us on 9/11.
So rather than waiting to see if a different set of weapons than the ones Bush made up turn up, the patriotic among us are calling out to have that lying traitor impeached.
Please try to do your duty as a citizen rather than defend a known, proven liar and traitor.
Less than 12 this war.
Source: CNN.com
Sorry, but I think your comment was completely unresearched in this respect.
You honestly believe that with all the bombs, missles, and gunfire over there that only 12 innocent civilians were killed?!?
Are you thinking of "friendly fire" rather than "collateral damage"?
Its not like they really would have any trouble paying for a bigger pipe.
Given the amount of crack they must go through on a daily basis, I'm sure they have a huge collection of pipes.
"mute" would be funny too, although it wouldn't fit the Monty Python thing
name another software product/operating system that has a similar patch system that's easy to use and works for "average joe" ? For all you can say about Linux, it doesn't offer this on the desktop yet!
Nice ignorant troll, but try RedHat Up2Date, Suse YAST online update, Debian apt-get, Gentoo emerge.
All of them work better in my opinion. Equally well at least by any objective standard.
Isn't a tort like sandwich, but with different bread?
No, it's more a sort of cake. Chocolate tort mmmmm.
Yeah, he was thinking of a torta, which in the Spanish speaking legal system is like a sandwich.
I'd personally love to dress darl up as a yellow dog, and spray foam on his mouth and re-enact the scene from old yeller for kicks.
You must be one hell of an actor if you think you can well a tear up in your eye before you shoot him.
I'd have trouble suppressing my maniacal grin.
Tried a credit union lately? They charge just as much as the Banks.
;-)
In fact, I work at one.
Our rates are generally lower on loans and higher on dividends then the banks in our area. Not by a lot, granted, but every little bit helps.
We are also generally easier to get loans from. The majority of our membership works for the same company, so we know where they live so to speak which is part of the reason for that.
We try to recruit new membership, our sales team is on commission, and one of our goals is to increase our assets. The fact that we are a not-for-profit (different than non-profit) organization does allow and encourage us to act differently than banks in many ways.
We don't actively recruit membership from every population segment we are legally allowed to, which we would if maximizing profit down to the last cent was our only goal. Our management is committed to slow, steady growth. This allows us to serve our existing members to the level they have come to expect while adding capacity to handle new membership as we grow.
Also, we get free lunch more than anywhere else I've worked which is cool
considering that the US economy was up 8.2% last quarter, which is the highest growth since 1984 -- when Ronald Reagan was president, i'd say it's becoming a lot less of a problem.
When it falls as low as it has, tiny improvements are a large percentage increase without adding anything much.
The report also showed the number of unemployed still on the benefit rolls in the Nov. 15 week fell by a sharp 105,000 to 3.37 million
You do know that these benefits do run out, so that some number of these people are still unemployed, but now without benefits, don't you?
And "only" 351,000 people lost their jobs in one week.
You are actually trying to point to a 3% reduction in *new job losses* as some great improvement?!?
Any good news is still good news, but it's silly to get excited about this news.
I wonder if we can cut the banks our of the loop and have a nonprofit organizations facilitate taxpayer borrowing from the government.
We already have. They're called Credit Unions.
... the Israeli and Palestinian people (like people everywhere) are good and decent - it is the leadership on both sides that is attrocious....
True enough.
Just my opinion: don't blaim the people, blaim the leadership.
The people, perhaps through inaction, always choose their leaders.
Atheism is a misnomer; it really should be called 'anti-theism'. Linguistical the 'a' does not denote a negative. Consider 'moral', 'immoral', and 'amoral'. 'Amoral' is not acting against morality, but with lack of concern towards morality. 'Immoral' is acting against morality.
Interesting my ass.
Dead wrong, actually.
Linguistically, the 'a' does donote a negative. As a prefix it indicates the state of being without whatever the root is.
It also has nothing to do with concern or a lack thereof.
Amoral means without morals.
Atheism means without a belief in a god.
'Anti-theism' ('imtheism' doesn't sound right...) would be stating that god does not exist. 'Atheism' should be the lack of concern as to whether or not a god exists.
Anti-theism wouldn't be stating god does or does not exist. Anti-theism is being against beliefs in deities.
Atheism, again, has nothing to do with concerns. It is quite simply the lack of a belief in a god or gods.
I, personally am both Atheist and anti-theist.
I don't believe there is a god. I have yet to see a scrap of evidence, so I see no reason to accept it.
This makes me an atheist.
I think that religion by its very nature is a nearly universally bad thing. It holds society back and leads to horrible suffering and hatred.
I think that if we can do away with religion completely then the world will be a better place.
This makes me an anti-theist.
I personally don't care enough about it to go around to people's houses trying to get them to ditch their beliefs or anything like that though.
This makes me not a zealot, and somebody who isn't a (complete) ass to hang out with regardless of your religious beliefs.
Everybody is born an atheist.
It is only if they, at some point after their birth, decide to start believing in a god that they can become a theist.
One of my personal pet peeves.
Mine is people who have no idea what they're talking about who nonetheless talk about it.
Militant agnostics are funny. "I DON'T KNOW AND YOU DON'T EITHER!"
This isn't militant anything. It's the simplest statement of the only completely honest attitude possible regarding the whole issue.
Nobody knows that there is a god.
Some people have chosen to *believe* (or been brainwashed into *believing* ) that it is true.
Were they honest, they would say I believe this is true, but know?!? There is no way to know.
Similarly, for the other side. If someone doesn't believe in god, then that is just the natural state.
If they tell you they know there isn't one, then they are dishonest.
If a person tells you have to believe either way, or that you're wrong for believing the way you do, then they are militant and a fuckwad.