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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 12:22 PM) Important witnesses are now changing their stories. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...0,3635603.story I'm guessing it doesn't really matter which side they change it to; if they change it at all that hurts the prosecution, doesn't it?

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ May 23, 2012 -> 12:27 PM) So, uh, I got the job. Hah Now accepting move ins... Congrats!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 21, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) Ilya Somin has a post up at Volokh that goes into some of the asset forfeiture abuses by police that seem to be increasing: http://volokh.com/2012/05/21/adventures-in-asset-forfeiture/ The stuff about seizing bail cash seems particularly egregious, if what is alleged is true.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 18, 2012 -> 06:06 PM) My outside garbage bin smells like shrimp and vagina. Sounds like you ate some seafood recently.

Was it in this thread that I recently first heard about Chief Keef, the 16 year old from Chicago? Anyway, the remix of "I Don't Like" is pretty good, especially Kanye's verse. I should really learn how to embed videos. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/embed/yZAZmuR-fPM

QUOTE (Cali @ May 8, 2012 -> 09:27 PM) Against Me! singer Tom Gabel comes out as transgender This is CRAZY news. The queasiest thing about that article had nothing to do with Tom Habel becoming Laura Jean Grace, and absolutely everything to do with Tom Gabel having a dick piercing. I'm in pain just thinking about it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 15, 2012 -> 05:51 PM) Hopefully he is Bobby Hull in the making. Dude was a drunk racist, but he played some damn good hockey. By far the best post in this thread in the last week.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ May 14, 2012 -> 02:21 PM) You're right about that feeling. Except it was 55 for me. 65 for me. It was weird and a bit depressing, but at the same time I was ready to start something new. Four years was the perfect amount of time to be there, basically.

General Bank Account Question: So I moved to Minneapolis last August, but never opened a new bank account up here because I liked my Chase account (there are no Chase branches up here), and since my only "income" right now is student loans, I don't really have too much money to put into an account. Anyway, I need to open one up here now because it's (predictably) getting to be a hassle. But, my dad claims that I shouldn't close my current account (which I've had since I started college in 2007), because it would adversely affect my credit score to not have an account that's been open for a while. I've never heard this about bank accounts -- is it true? Ideally, I'd like to completely close my Chase ones (checking and savings, though I have a credit card through them too so I'm not sure how that will work) and open new stuff up here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 14, 2012 -> 01:29 PM) Damn, I would kill to be at Assembly for the IU/UNC game.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 10, 2012 -> 02:45 PM) I'll quote from Graeber's Debt here: Graeber is using this example to expound on the morality of debt, but I really like the sentiment expressed by the Inuit here. To help each other is human. To say "thank you" to someone for that help suggests that he or she might not have acted that way, at least in some cultures. That is rather interesting. Jewish law has some interesting rules regarding loans/debts -- basically that you have an obligation to help people in need, but those people then have an obligation to pay it back. Their big on reciprocity of rights/obligations if I remember correctly.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 10, 2012 -> 03:01 PM) If you firmly believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, unless you have some personal experience, why would that view change? He could be (and appears to be) pro civil unions, but not marriage. I don't see a logical reason for that opinion to change except to get some votes, especially in the time frame we're talking about here. Admittedly this is different because my views changed in my general young/formative years (ie, high school and college) when you're still just learning a lot of things and whatnot, but I actually made the switch you have trouble believing. I used to think "civil unions" were enough if they were identical to what straight couples could get; but over time, I realized that was basically the same "separate but equal" logic that was discarded in Brown. By telling a group of people you have to call what they're getting a "civil union" you're essentially telling them they aren't as good as the people who get to call it a "marriage."

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 9, 2012 -> 08:30 PM) No, I don't. I'm glad you "settle" for being used. If it's a principled stance, so be it. This isn't. Nonetheless, you are all in love again because we have a leader who loves to play people's emotions instead of being a real leader. It's sad you can't see that. I should stop being surprised in the Buster when people do not read what I've written and then respond to what I haven't said.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 9, 2012 -> 08:24 PM) No, a definition of a sheep is just allowing yourself to be sucked in, saying RAH RAH RAH!!! by a weak sauce president who is using a sensitized issue for a political prop and to shake a group down for more money. You all are praising a stance that may be right or wrong (which you keep assuming my stance but you don't know) that is 100% allowing your position to be used. He did it TODAY because the pollsters told him to. Quick. Call GMA, because now I'm for gay marriage! (sic). It's a disgusting, purely political bald face move. I'm glad you all support using gay people like that. I sure don't, and frankly I don't have a problem with the issue at all. But I sure do mind it for a political prop and you all cheer it on ... so hisssstoric!! The biggest condemnation here seems to be liberals are glad Obama used gays as a prop. People in this thread have repeatedly said "but what if the group affected is GLAD (pun intended) to be used as a political prop if that's the only way they'll get these rights that have been denied to them?" And you keep ignoring that question.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 9, 2012 -> 08:07 PM) Farmteam, Hes no crusader for gay rights, but hes the first President to support it, so you cant deny his role. Its like Lincoln, he was no abolitiionist, in fact he wasnt even strongly against slavery to start, but circumstances changed and thus he freed the slaves. Right, I agree with this. Specifically the "you cannot deny his role" part -- things are so often done for political gain, but this is still the first time someone decided that the political gain was worth the political risk. Seems pretty momentous to me. Sorry if I was unclear (or am now confused in thinking we disagree! ha).

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 9, 2012 -> 06:53 PM) Can we get back to eating human baby pills? I think it poses an interesting question as to whether biologically correct but taboo behaviors should ever be legally or morally acceptable... Gladly (This thread has gone like a Michael Bay movie -- I got exactly the number of explosions I was expecting, and was therefore bored). In terms of legally acceptable, I don't think we can just willy-nilly allow all sorts of beliefs. However, I'm speaking more to the "taboo behaviors" that society has actually deemed harmful to people. But, if we started outlawing things because we didn't like them or thought it was a weird practice, I would have a problem with that. These are extremes, but it'll get at what I'm talking about: Imagine the following: Because of strife in their home country, a not-insignificant number of people from an indigenous Central American tribe rapidly move to Wyoming; so much so that in 2000, their population in Wyoming was 1,000; in 2010, after many more flee their home country, the population is 50,000 (roughly 10% of Wyoming's population; so something not large, but certainly noticeable). Example A: This tribe has a ritual of killing any infants born with red hair, because they believe the child is emblematic of the devil. Example B: This tribe has a ritual of eating live squirrels (but does not force anyone within their tribe to comply with this if they don't want to; naturally, most of them just eat squirrels). Now, if Wyoming's legislature were to suddenly take up bills looking to outlaw Example A, I would have no problem with that. If they were to outlaw Example B, and could give no better reason than "we think it's yucky" then yes, I would have a problem with that.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 9, 2012 -> 07:57 PM) Farmteam, Even if it was done 100% for political gain, isnt that better for someone who has been denied rights, than for him to do nothing, which is seemingly what Kap prefers? Thats how ridiculous the argument is. I agree he's taking his argument to the extreme. I also agree (to the extent that I can empathize with a group of which I'm not a member) that if the only way I'll get rights everyone else in this country enjoys is if some politicians want to score some points with me/people who support me, then I won't care as much that he's only doing it for political gain. My first statement was basically taking a way-less extreme version of Kap's position -- this was obviously done for political gain, and to act as if Obama is now some sort of ultimate LGBT savior is sorta silly. The second was similar to what you're saying -- even if that's what was done, it's silly to think it might not have a positive effect.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 9, 2012 -> 07:44 PM) It has nothing to do with HIS position, or mine for that matter. He's using gay people for a prop, and you all dig it. Sheeple. If he actually gave a damn, it might change the spectrum from which he preaches. He's the most unprincipled leader we have ever had. But whatever, you all don't care. I think it's silly to completely and unequivocally laud Obama on a statement that was made partly (or even wholly) for political gain. I think it's equally silly to completely write-off any possible positive effects of Obama's statement because it was done for political gain.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 8, 2012 -> 05:20 PM) I don't even need to check the list. Fear has to be #1. Indeed it is.

Top 5 On-Screen Fingerbangs [NSFW] Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist should be on there.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 8, 2012 -> 02:09 PM) I just wish it was jump right to the NBA or be required to stay in college 3 years, nothing in between. This. Just like MLB.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 8, 2012 -> 02:23 PM) Agreed. I can't even fathom eating a placenta. Does not compute.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 8, 2012 -> 12:57 PM) If there was no God, what is the point of all this? Even being here? Are we just going to die and bam, that's that, thanks for playing 60-100 years? I think God is amazed at how low his creations can go ... all the horrible murders throughout history, and bizarre things humans do, but I do think he exists. Oh I cannot WAIT to see where this is heading.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 6, 2012 -> 02:20 AM)

Yeah I quite liked the Avengers. I hadn't really been planning on seeing it but it just ended up happening, but it was solid. RDJ was pretty funny as Iron Man.