I would posit that the most Americans you have referred to are those who are paranoid and believe the country is in a constant state of paranoia and fear when it is not
That would be the people who watch Fox News, Football, American Idol and Dancing With The Stars. No, I don't have a clue what these things are but my girlfriends do.
And before you go trying to revoke my nerd license, no I haven't got laid in a while.
I think my problems with women stem from the fact that I'm in Springfield. All the women I know here are cartoons. Take my roommate Amy, for example. When she had her face rebuilt after her ex-husband tried to kill her, her surgeons were very skilled indeed - too skilled. And her body is a caraciture of a beautiful female body as well; she's a few pounds overweight but very shapely, with a thin waist. She reminds me of the receptionist in the old '70s TV show taxi, except she's brunette, not blonde. That itself is a cartoonish coincidence because Amy drives a cab.
He spent the last third of his life in prison. He has nothing. His life IS forever changed. And having spent th elast 20 years in prison chances are he is now a rape victim himself.
And yes, I do know rape victims. But no, I don't know anybody "normal". I'm not normal, I'm a nerd. What about you?>
Give me a break, It's been ten years since I read those two books. Besides, I have worse things to have to surrender my berd card faorl; I actually go outside!
Oliver is being held without bail, a police statement said, because he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in San Diego and was on parole when Dodele was killed
IMO his son's better off with him in prison. This guy was a psychopath who would have almost certainly wound up killing his son's mother eventually. Have a look at the journal linked below, and click the link in it to Amy's ex-husband. That link leads to a local newspaper story about a high speed chase through Springfield. What it doesn't say is what I found out from Amy, which is that the guy was on his way to kill his parents when the cops got him after the chase.
You have no sympathy for sex offenders of any type? How about the seventeen year old kid who got ten years for voluntary oral sex with his sixteen year old girlfriend?
If I get caught banging a hooker, will that make me a sex offender? My prostitute friend Linda, who's in jail on a drug charge, got busted for soliciting the Secret Police later in the summer. If she's found guilty of that charge, will she be put on the "sex offender" list? And you'll have no sympathy for her?
I agree with your sentiments but not your history. Nobody was afraid of gangs in the '60s. I was there. It was more like
1950s - World War Three and the communists 1960s - the government and the draft board 1970s - Arabs and bankers 1980s - Drugs, drugs, and drugs (some drugs anyway) 1990s - gangs 2000s - TEH TERRERISTSTST!!!!!!!! "We are raising the threat level from 'yellow' to 'scared shitless'. Oh by the way be careful of the child molesters!"
The present penal system in the US is NOT going to rehabilitate anyone. If anything it makes them worse. But I don't think it should matter whether or not an offender can be rehabilitated, if you're given a five year sentence and serve your five years, you should be left alone. If he gets caught again, put him back in jail.
It's not like every criminal gets caught. On the contrary, few crimes are actually solved.
What's ironic is that the things the media and government are scaring people with are things that, as you say, are unlikely to ever happen to you, while real danger is unregarded.
Take terrorism, for example. More Americans died fighting in Iraq than died on 9-11. Fewer than 3,000 people have died this entire century on American soil from terrorism, while half a million Americans die from cancer every year, another half million from heart attacks. The terrorists I'm more scared of are the terrorists who run the fast food and tobacco companies!
Meanwhile 40,000 Americans die on the highways every year. I'd like to see some of that Homeland Security money go to some guardrails - it would actually save some lives rather than being a political circus.
But guardrails don't give government officials more power.
Apparently the editors actually DO something around here
Actually, they do, as I can attest from the following stories I've submitted, none of which were posted without an editor changing something or other. At least one submission bore little resemblance to what I submitted. In most cases I liked the changes they made.
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I'm against these databases; once you've served your time you should be a free man in every way.
On the other hand, the responsiblity for the murder is solely on th eman who committed the murder. Ironically one of the victims of this murder is the very child the murderer was trying to protect, who will grow up without a father.
On the third hand*, maybe the kid's better off without a violent dumshit like that around.
Well duh. Click the link to the journal posting titled "NSFW". I guess I should have quoted thustly:
Tami was groaning in extasy, her huge legs wrapped around my back. I lay between her giant breasts, pumping hard, sweat drupping off our naked bodies...
And the last sentence in the journal: "I called in today. I'm not safe for work."
I didn't see anything in the article to suggest that these would be permanent, either. And it seems that a technology that could convert the kinetic energy of the host's movement to electricity would be a better solution.
I hope my eye implant (see sig) doesn't break before I die!
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Kissing isn't sodomy. But thanks for playing.
I would posit that the most Americans you have referred to are those who are paranoid and believe the country is in a constant state of paranoia and fear when it is not
That would be the people who watch Fox News, Football, American Idol and Dancing With The Stars. No, I don't have a clue what these things are but my girlfriends do.
And before you go trying to revoke my nerd license, no I haven't got laid in a while.
-mcgrew
I didn't say it was. In fact I believe the opposite; stating something is not proving something.
Actually I do know I'm an asshole
I have boxes of books in the basement, shelves of books upstairs, stacks of books in th edining room, CDs, DVDs, tapes, records, all over the place.
I solved the problem by ignoring it.
-mcgrew
Also the problem is that I did't hit the damned thing hard enough.
He spent the last third of his life in prison. He has nothing. His life IS forever changed. And having spent th elast 20 years in prison chances are he is now a rape victim himself.
And yes, I do know rape victims. But no, I don't know anybody "normal". I'm not normal, I'm a nerd. What about you?>
Give me a break, It's been ten years since I read those two books. Besides, I have worse things to have to surrender my berd card faorl; I actually go outside!
The horror!
If you are indeed "A Follower of The Right Way" then why must you post anonyously, mr anonymous troll?
Oliver is being held without bail, a police statement said, because he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in San Diego and was on parole when Dodele was killed
IMO his son's better off with him in prison. This guy was a psychopath who would have almost certainly wound up killing his son's mother eventually. Have a look at the journal linked below, and click the link in it to Amy's ex-husband. That link leads to a local newspaper story about a high speed chase through Springfield. What it doesn't say is what I found out from Amy, which is that the guy was on his way to kill his parents when the cops got him after the chase.
-mcgrew
PS- the above linked journal features an alien.
You have no sympathy for sex offenders of any type? How about the seventeen year old kid who got ten years for voluntary oral sex with his sixteen year old girlfriend?
If I get caught banging a hooker, will that make me a sex offender? My prostitute friend Linda, who's in jail on a drug charge, got busted for soliciting the Secret Police later in the summer. If she's found guilty of that charge, will she be put on the "sex offender" list? And you'll have no sympathy for her?
No sympathy? I pity you.
-mcgrew
I agree with your sentiments but not your history. Nobody was afraid of gangs in the '60s. I was there. It was more like
1950s - World War Three and the communists
1960s - the government and the draft board
1970s - Arabs and bankers
1980s - Drugs, drugs, and drugs (some drugs anyway)
1990s - gangs
2000s - TEH TERRERISTSTST!!!!!!!! "We are raising the threat level from 'yellow' to 'scared shitless'. Oh by the way be careful of the child molesters!"
-mcgrew
A Rabbi, a Priest, and a lawyer are on the Titanic having a lively discussion about God and the law when the boat hits an iceberg and starts sinking.
"Save the children!" the Rabbi exclaims.
"FUCK the children, the lawyer snarls.
"No time for that!" says the priest
-mcgrew
The present penal system in the US is NOT going to rehabilitate anyone. If anything it makes them worse. But I don't think it should matter whether or not an offender can be rehabilitated, if you're given a five year sentence and serve your five years, you should be left alone. If he gets caught again, put him back in jail.
It's not like every criminal gets caught. On the contrary, few crimes are actually solved.
-mcgrew
What's ironic is that the things the media and government are scaring people with are things that, as you say, are unlikely to ever happen to you, while real danger is unregarded.
Take terrorism, for example. More Americans died fighting in Iraq than died on 9-11. Fewer than 3,000 people have died this entire century on American soil from terrorism, while half a million Americans die from cancer every year, another half million from heart attacks. The terrorists I'm more scared of are the terrorists who run the fast food and tobacco companies!
Meanwhile 40,000 Americans die on the highways every year. I'd like to see some of that Homeland Security money go to some guardrails - it would actually save some lives rather than being a political circus.
But guardrails don't give government officials more power.
-mcgrew
Apparently the editors actually DO something around here
Actually, they do, as I can attest from the following stories I've submitted, none of which were posted without an editor changing something or other. At least one submission bore little resemblance to what I submitted. In most cases I liked the changes they made.
Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/13/1552224
Racketeering Trial of MS and Best Buy Can Proceed
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/2313225
Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/22/1631212
Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/04/1941227
Leonard Nimoy to Play Spock in Next Star Trek Movie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/27/165205
Student Arrested for Writing Essay
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/27/1626243
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/0316215
Brains Hard-Wired for Math
-mcgrew
Oh come on now, the "M" is just one key away from the "B". I bet you have an atomic clock!
Google is your friend.
-mcgrew
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I'm against these databases; once you've served your time you should be a free man in every way.
On the other hand, the responsiblity for the murder is solely on th eman who committed the murder. Ironically one of the victims of this murder is the very child the murderer was trying to protect, who will grow up without a father.
On the third hand*, maybe the kid's better off without a violent dumshit like that around.
-mcgrew
*The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
That's why if the RIAA ever sued me I'd hire you or someone like you. No way would I ever go to court without a lawyer!
PCP is dirt cheap. It doesn't take much heroin to get someone high who isn't addicted.
It appears that we're in agreement then. It would be nice to actually live in a free USA.
I didn't see anything in the article to suggest that these would be permanent, either. And it seems that a technology that could convert the kinetic energy of the host's movement to electricity would be a better solution.
I hope my eye implant (see sig) doesn't break before I die!