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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 14, 2010 -> 06:06 PM) My ear was itching. WTF is going on in here? From what I gather, even though I don't directly comment on others music posts very often, I should not post about musical acts that I like because Shipps doesn't like them.

I guess South Africa? They've had more than diamond mines though. Yeah I unno. Ukraine was becoming a really up and coming industrial power before USSR too. SO I unno. I understand what you are saying NSS, it's better this that exploits the population rather than the illegal poppy seed trade. And, as Americans, we will probably benefit as consumers from their find, I just hope that this doesn't mean our soldiers will be staying there even longer just to die until we finally confront the fact that, hey, this war really isn't doing much either.

SO far I've heard that Texas is about to commit to the big 12, and that texas OU and 2 others were definitely going to the Pac 10 #awesomereporting

sure, let me remind you that you've been following me around for like 2 months. Very little of my comments in this thread are directed at anyone but bigsqwert. Your comments toward me remind me of someone trying to prove to themselves their musical tastes are validated, I don't really care for those arguments. If you want to talk about shows, music news, etc. towards me, fine, but don't expect any more responses to you telling me every time I post something "yeah that's not good, i have an opinion". Because, as I said, I don't care.

I don't really have time to get into it as I'm about to head to work. I'm not sour, I just don't care. You strike me as someone who probably just recently really got into how much music they could get on the internet and is discovering a whole bunch of s*** and wants to talk about it, and inevitably trying to organize, classify, and justify where this music fits and what makes what good and what bad, but at some point you'll move beyond that and give up because: "Most of it was just something a bunch of bands would have done in the late 80's. " isn't criticism. Bands in the eighties did use synths and bass. ANd in the eighties bands were playing songs with guitars and drums just like bands in the seventies. And shockingly bands in the seventies were playing blues riffs and singing a lot like bands in the 50s. Everything has an origin. Most bands are unabashedly embracing the sounds they grew up with and reconstructing in their new point of view. The shocking thing about Murphy's project and a lot of bands I like right now, is that in a time where everyone is competing for ears I'd imagine that music might go bigger, and be as cheesy as some early 80s pop bands. But the thing that makes Sound of Silver and This is Happening... and the s/t so good is how restrained it is. Each song has 3 memorable components, drums bass synth...they don't blend together, they sync up. that weird synth going on in "all i want" that slowly builds until the end where it's all you can think about and lust after is pretty much LCD's calling card - see the ridiculous piano in all my friends, which starts off annoying then gets beat into you until you love it. Add to that the honest, humorous, memorable lyrics and that's what people like about LCD soundsystem. Not that they are groundbreaking, but that they make really good pop songs. Except most of their singles.

Cool email from TPM about how this isn't that surprising:

On face value I'd like to believe that, but I just imagine it will end up more congo or sierra leone than Ukraine or elsewhere.

good news from the IL-D Senate Candidate http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/06...e-benefits.html

Man, I bet Karzai has huge bonerz right now.

well, i can't wait to implement the policy of shooting teenagers anytime they do something stupid in this country.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 11:30 PM) Although the Aggies Rivals site says A&M to the SEC. If you haven't figured it out yet, this is a classic case of sources using and abusing a bunch of writers hoping to be "breaking". Chip Brown has been wrong about 60% of the time so far. And a bunch of posts in here set as definitive were anything but. They are listening to anyone and reporting everything.

of course, this is what I want. To push up to around .500 and float around there being vaguely competitive only to lose the division by 8-10 games but be able to say we had another winning record.

shipps, i don't care.

I think what's more remarkable is that we could hold our country responsible for our actions and want them not to make stupid rhetorical flourishes that hinder our interests abroad.

lolz, criticism from the chamber of commerce and republicans...bahaha I'm shocked, SHOCKED

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:50 PM) Keep deflecting the point. I have never deflected criticism at BP. bahahaha

states aren't allowed to decide who is a citizen of the country. One of the things the constitution does is decide who is in charge of what, it's an actual existing document with words, and people can read it! It's not just some magical document you can point to whenever you want to act like you are a righteous patriot.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 08:42 PM) No, I got his point, I just don't agree. Like I said, I agree that the system is messed up and should be better. That doesn't mean I sympathize with someone that complains about life being hard because they chose to do something illegal. This isn't minor traffic law we're talking about. They've illegally entered our country, utilized our services without paying a dime, and get the benefit of reproducing so that their kids can be citizens. And they're complaining that this law now means they'll be targeted and inconvenienced? Boo-hoo. the following is heavyhanded, but drives home the core of the point: Jenksismyb**** 1963: "Yeah, okay, I understand that some people may feel blacks should be able to enter the same areas as whites, but this Martin Luther King Jr guy broke the law! Where is the outrage over that?"

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) Then what's the point of having laws? Christ. Next time someone robs a bank and gives the excuse that he's going through a rough time i guess we should just forgive him and feel bad for him. Nevermind that 99% of the rest of the country gives a damn and follows laws. Am I in law enforcement? Am I willfully ignoring a bunch of illegal immigrants under my nose I have a duty to send back? No. We are talking about you not understanding how I could not care about why, even if I'm pro-immigration, I am not upset that these people are breaking the law. It's because I think we have bad policy that is making lives of current citizens, and potential productive citizens, and their future productive kids, harder than it should be.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 12:44 AM) Show me where I've supported BP and said they weren't wrong. But, that's okay... keep protecting the guy who has to go to professors and other acedemia to figure out who's ass to kick. Show me to where that would've ever come up? All you've done for 3 weeks is attack any criticism directed towards BP and tried to fling it elsewhere. This is a company that has poisoned lake michigan, and now ruined the gulf and will cost those states sooooo much money in tourism and fishing money. But they are great. BEcause they made a lot of money, they must be right.

GMAFB jenks, you are SHOCKED that we are sympathetic to these people even though they broke a law? Think of other laws that people have broken that you are still sympathetic to. If I am against the policy, why wouldn't I show the poor affects of that policy as a reason why it's a stupid approach. No, I don't really care that they are breaking a law.

would be awful for football, Mizzou would have to go through cincy and kansas...I mean...we'd easily be top 1-2 in that conference. I guess it'd be easier to get a bcs. Oh well.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 12:50 AM) 12 team football, 20 team basketball conference. Not just Kansas, but Kansas State, Mizzou and ISU have also spent time in the Top 10 in the last decade. that would suck. The traveling would be absurd.

guys most of this twitter breaking news has been bulls***.

Look at all those commas!!!!!! And really, the point, is, that Barack Obama? Yeah, he's an alien too, man, and he's, like all of our presidents, a member of the stonecutters.