Everything posted by bmags
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The Democrat Thread
Kap does this all the time, you can't criticize any fringe right group without kap jumping on the grenade for them and acting hurt. If someone started talking s*** on code pink or the firedoggers I don't think I would care.
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Technology catch-all thread
QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2010 -> 11:35 PM) Why not a laptop or an actual e-reader instead? Seems more like a marketing thing to me. I was pretty pissed off at the response to this. yeah, it could just be a deal with apple, but schools do these deals ALL THE TIME with TONS of other products. However, for all the money the school takes from students to do minor aesthetic updates and to buy more flat screen tvs to up their US and World Report rankings, at least the school is spending the students money on a device that could actually enhance their learning experience, and in regards to ebooks, save them some money. I applaud them. I wish so much of my tuition wasn't used in a way tailored to artificially inflate our ranking instead of saving some of our departments that were producing great professors but completely underfunded and would leave.
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Conservatives and the ACLU
Depends if you ask someone in the south that.
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Music Thread
Got a call from my friend yesterday "Hey man, wanna go to this music festival in Tinley Park, it's $25" "Eh, I'm trying to save my money and they'll rape me with the cost of beer, what's playing" "Don't worry bout the ticket, It's gonna just be some live music, the sun, some folk stuff" "Alright" Mother f***er tricked me into going to Country Thunder. While there was an extraordinary # of good looking women dressed in daisy dukes and letting their boobs hang out (who also all raised their hands when asked if there were any believers in the audience) The dudes were all absolutely hideous. Quite a conundrum. Also, I was doing fairly well when the sun was out, and we had some alcohol and I could just relax, but when the sun went down and I was forced to listen to the final act exclusively, Montgomery Gentry. And I can say, I understand most every other music and why it can appeal to people even if I don't like it...except for country. I really have no f***ing clue the difference between each individual song, why everyone sings in the same voice, and how the f*** it can be enjoyable to just talk about honky tonking and your truck. It was f***ing painful. Especially losing a saturday night to that.
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WHITE SOX WINNERRRRRRRRRRR
To note, this could be an incredible day if: Sox sweep Hawks sweep Lost sweeps the world with kindness.
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The Democrat Thread
See, I think you are joking. But how do American textbooks not already talk about Jefferson Davis and Lincoln? And I was a student in America, we don't cover Davis terribly negatively nor the south, there's a bunch of innuendo that it wasn't about slavery, which it was.
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The environment thread
WHY DOES OBAMA HATE BP SO MUCH THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE MONEY BY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF OTHER BUSINESSES AND POISONING OUR WATER WHY ARE THEY SO VICTIMIZED IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE WHYYYYYYYYY
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The Democrat Thread
sure it does, one who was right and one who was incredibly wrong and believed in something terribly evil. But besides that they were both white men from the united states in leadership positions.
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NBA playoffs thread
QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 22, 2010 -> 12:37 PM) Bulls chances at LeBron take serious blow: http://www.sportspickle.com/article:924/re...y-doable-knicks haha
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The Democrat Thread
QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2010 -> 07:15 PM) Like it or not, either check the textbooks of the district your kid goes to or pay for a private school. Just no way around it any more. Texas doesn't think this country has enough Rand Paul's. With any luck, there'll be enough sane people in Texas to toss out half of the school board members there in elections later this year. Somehow though I doubts it. Arne Duncan said those worries about it being a national textbook were overstated.
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The Democrat Thread
f***ing hell.
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Conservatives and the ACLU
We already had this discussion. And, once again, I whole-heartedly agree with SS2k5 You guys are just looking at the basics. Take the time to remember high school. Now be the person not constantly trying to be a dick, but instead be the administrators responsible for hundreds of people's kids every day. Now a group of teenagers comes into school and is clearly taunting a group of other students (every report confirms this), what do you do? Let it progress just because it's an american flag shirt? Or act quickly to neutralize it best you can. Asking them to turn their shirts inside out is NOT a big deal it happened EVERY WEEK at my school. But if the students refused they have every right and are correct to send them home before the kids make a big scene and try and rile up other students.
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The environment thread
Nooo, balta, they are protecting BP from responsibility because they really want to step on their neck.
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The environment thread
QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 22, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) Putting on his boots to step on the neck of BP. And selling out campaign dinners. He will not rest, though, until this crisis is over. poor BP, who is looking out for them?
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HAWKS WIN! HAWKS WIN THE STANLEY CUP!!
QUOTE (The Critic @ May 22, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) I understand why people want to see more scoring from Hossa. I would, too, but he is doing a lot of things that end up helping the team. The way he can control the puck and make defenders exert energy and chase him around wears on the other team. It can also draw them out of position, which can lead to open ice for other guys and bring good scoring chances. He's been really good at clearing the zone, and hasn't made many bad passes. These are valuable things he's doing. Hossa is getting a few decent chances himself, but it seems like when he gets a chance in good scoring range he gets swarmed or the puck's at his feet most times. San Jose knows his reputation and they're checking him pretty tightly. If anything, I love the fact that the team is getting the job done without 81 filling the net, because the Law Of Averages says he's going to get his eventually. He's still a weapon, and another weapon is a great thing to have. I guess I can say it doesn't matter since we are winning, and if we weren't I'd probably be "WHAT DID WE PAY FOR" but plays like 2 or 3 nights ago when a sharks defenseman lazily skated back to clear the puck behind his net and hossa beat him to it out of no where and it directly led to a goal...s*** like that is just fantastic.
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The environment thread
QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) BP checks the list of available dispersants. Finds one that a subsidiary company of its own produces. Checks the stats on that dispersant. Sees it is not the most effective dispersant. Sees it is much more toxic than other available dispersants. Begins purchasing and deploying massive quantities of that dispersant anyway. EPA turns its head for a month. EPA finally gets its head out of its arse earlier this week, after a lot of prodding from media/sciencey types who were saying "BP is using a more toxic dispersant than it needs to and it could be using better, more modern ones!" EPA orders BP to find another dispersant. Meanwhile, CNN finds a warehouse in Texas holding a few hundred thousand gallons of a less toxic, more effective dispersant, just sitting there. BP tells the EPA to s***w off, they'll use whatever dispersant they damn well please, it's their gulf anyway. s***w - what is this?
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HAWKS WIN! HAWKS WIN THE STANLEY CUP!!
Passes like Toews to sharpie is the exact reason why you don't complain about strictly goals for players (hossa). Not every goal in hockey is a breakaway.
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AND THAT'S A WHITE SOX WINNERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
I'M TOTALLY EXCITED ABOUT WINNING A GAME. WE ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS. ALL ILLS ARE CURED
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The environment thread
You've defended the company every chance you could. Don't walk back now.
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Interesting Unemployment Numbers
totally, i hate how I can't make a higher wage when I gain a higher position.
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The Democrat Thread
I'm sorry, but you want me to be sympathetic to one of the most unapologetic corporate shills in the senate. I will not be. She is a terrible person. She is a terrible senator. She is seriously a terrible senator. And she she makes political cynics like me a little bit happy when a primary on the left makes her actually interested in her job rather than just taking a corporate PR form on how to vote.
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NBA Offseason Thread
I'll believe anything that agrees with lebron coming and discard anything that says different as biased trash.
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Financial News
passes 59-37 or somethin like that.
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HAWKS WIN! HAWKS WIN THE STANLEY CUP!!
you don't have to drive to and from hotels?
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The environment thread
I like how kap can read two things that completely conflict with that statement and then continue to make that statement. Dude stays in character. He's like the asian-fish-bowl guy in the prestige.