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Ultimately the issue will be damages. If they are just nominal its a waste of everyone's time. If Im the Defendant, Im arguing that there are no damages, that there is nothing wrong with being a lesbian, so outing her is as irrelevant as saying that their daughter came to school with purple hair. The rest just seems like commonplace school nonsense. Teachers, etc try and use leverage to get information from students.

Of all people seriously? Imagine if you were good at basketball and people called you the Bosnian/Croatian Nightmare? Or would you care if people said "Who cares they are all the same?" I dont care about his race, I just also dont think all Asians are the same. Its 2 different things.

lol I understand he was born in the US. Its just that Nintendo is Japanese, which is neither Taiwan nor China. As for China vs Taiwan, its ridiculously complicated as technically Taiwan is the Republic of China (not the People's Republic) and therefore there is an argument that he may identify his heritage as Chinese. Regardless many of the nicknames, sayings are not really applicable to him.

Hes from Taiwan, not Japan or China.

I enjoy Walking Dead. Never read the comic.

Odd, Ms. Hill came on Pandora the other day so it got me looking into Lauryn Hill. It could be anything, hopefully she reads some of her crazy poetry.

Cats communicate non-verbally.

Natalie Portman was hotter in 2, so that is a boost.

Juicy, turn a supposedly states right majority Supreme Court against a Republican state.

Right thats why Im not sure why Steve commented that Kobe was on him. I said that Lin would be a "solid PG".

Steve, I watched the game, over the final 5 minutes how many times did you see Lin go to the side of the court his left hand is on? LA was playing him straight up, I think over the course of the next few games you will see teams force him to beat them taking the ball left and when he does go right, will double team off chandler and have a guy rotate down on to Chandler when he throws the ball to the post. Its how the Knicks stole 2 of the passes. I guess I dont think hes going to continue to score 30+ points.

You definitely dont shoot that well for that many nights without having some talent. Even if defenses can stop a lot of the drives, he still can hit open shots and if he can facilitate offense with Melo/Amare he is going to get a ton of looks. The best thing for him now is that he is going to have the confidence to take those open shots in the offense. Definitely going to be a difference maker for the Knicks.

Empire New Hope Return Revenge Clone Phantom Thats how I see them. And its hard to compare because of nostalgia. As a kid I just loved Star Wars.

Right now I just feel that Lin is like a new pitcher who hasnt been scouted extremely hard. He definitely looks like he can be a solid PG, but once teams start to learn his tendencies, figure out what type of player he doesnt like to be guarded by, spend more time focusing on him on defense, I expect his superstardom to go down a little.

I think its just easier to say, believe what you want. This really is annoying.

Terrible by LA, they finally had Lin going left and they foul him stupidly.

Knicks are playing terrible defense on Lin. Letting him go to his right etc, odd.

Are you seriously arguing with me on the intent of my own post? The statement wasnt an "I told you so" it was to show how absolutely idiotic Steve's statement was. That not only was it wrong, but I was one of the few people who constantly harped about looking for a bigger cover up, so to say I argued there was no cover up was absolutely absurd. I thought that the reader would see that it was nothing more than a tool to attack Steve. Which is why when you read it in the context of the post it is only directed at Steve and his comment. I really dont know what else to say, to me its so clear.

Do people even read my posts? I swear I already answered that 2 days ago.

Well its because I just assumed I knew your argument, not exactly a good place to start a discussion.

Milkman, I have no idea who did what. I just doubt Paterno is the one who made the call, maybe it was one of the other 2, but I just think it had to be more. Balta, Do I think its good for someones career to be the person who helped to uncover the worst rape scandal in College History? Yes, yes I do think that helps. Or do you think that Hoover didnt get a career boost for allegedly solving the mystery of the Lindergh baby.

Drunkbomber, The real problem is that Im not saying anything in your post at all. From the beginning Ive clearly said that I thought PSU was firing Paterno and putting him the spotlight as an attempt to appease the masses with blood. I dont know Paterno's power on PSU campus, I assume its substantial, but like every other coach, has its limits (that being extreme illegal activity). Do I think Paterno had the power to stop an investigation in 1998? No Do I think Paterno or PSU had the power to call someone in 1998 and stop the investigation? Yes Would I be tearing apart every file from 1998 until I got to the bottom? Yes Did you even see the context of the post? here is why I posted: So it was anything but a told you so post. I had stopped posting here for over a week, and had no intention of returning to the thread because I dont care if I was right. If you think that I care about these online arguments, you really have not read a lot of my posts. Half the time I just completely forget about them once I get home from work and am not just killing time.

Balta, Do you really believe that? Tressel got axed at OSU, you really dont think Paterno could have been fired at PSU (odd especially as Paterno was fired when these facts came to light.) The simple fact is, that while PSU was a sacred cow to some, to others it was a kobe beef ready to be cooked. You dont think Tom Ridge's Presidential Campaign in 2000 would have sounded a lot better if he had "the man who brought the PSU rape scandal to light", you dont think there is some Senator or person in Pennsylvania who would have loved to further their own career at the expense of PSU? As I said, Im done with this thread. I have no problem with anyone, I dont take any of this personally. I hope that the facts come to light, I hope that all those involved are held responsible and I hope that one day the facts/truth come out. I just personally feel that Im not getting a lot of thought provoking discussion here, so instead of just fighting 20 people for the sake of it, Id rather quit. Milkman, Its a fair response and I never asked you to clarify. I just always meant the state, because in order for a District Attorney to get shut down or a police investigation (im talking 1998) it has to come from someone in the Govt. Even the BOT/President of PSU would have to make a call to someone in power to get that done. Thats where I was coming from, that you cant just make that go away as a College, to many star players etc go down for way less because the school and the police/etc dont see eye to eye.

See Milkman, some people actually believe Paterno was the most powerful person in the state. So I thought you believed that too.

If you clarified, maybe Id have understood that you meant only at PSU, and then I could have explained that I still believe that the cover up went beyond PSU. (edit) Some was entirely unnecessary and was just frustration because I seriously was not coming here to make fake arguments, so I apologize for the post, I just needed to get that out in the moment.