Rex Kickass

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 11:42 PM) No, but is should be unamerican to do government business in any language other than english. That includes printing of ballots. There is no official language federally in the United States of America. There never has been.

Chris Dodd also pulled the same stunt. With a lot less anger though.

Does that mean that if you don't smoke in a bar, the terrorists will have won? I say, "Smoke em out!"

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 09:09 AM) lol, "valid" and "it may not be theirs" doesn't fit. I have a valid bank account. It's filled with the money that I stole from people. But hey, the account is legal! And it's a correct statement to say that SOME illegals pay taxes. SOME being the key word. Out of the roughly 12 million, my guesstimation would be less than 500,000 do. That's a whole lot of tax revenue that we're missing out on, all while most of those millions have children who get free education and free health care. And who cares that other Americans don't report their income to the government? You know what happens to them when they get caught? They go to jail. The IRS doesn't say "oh hey, you didn't report your income because you have a family and you work hard. Bah, lets forget about it." And that's some poor logic. Just because Tommy does it too doesn't make it right. The economy is strong enough to support a very very very small dip in the lost income from illegals. I'd bet most illegals shop at places like Wal-mart where they can consume lots of goods on the cheap. I'm guessing Wal-mart would be just fine if they lost that business. Agree, but that doesn't mean we should just give people amnesty. There's a process of citizenship. You shouldn't be "rewarded" the rights that go with it just because you came over and had a kid. I'd argue they put a bigger strain than most think, but that's because we have morons like Blago who think money grows on trees and the government (you and i, the taxpayer) should pay for everyones everything. But I agree with your last comment. The wall is a joke and massive deportation isn't a viable option either. My solution: massive raids on any known illegal in the country. If they can prove they've been here, working, for more than two years, they can stay, so long as they pay every penny they owe to the system. The "fringe" illegals, those with families who might not work, or those who are here working but for less than two years, get 6 months of temporary work visas to get their paperwork in order and start the process of citizenship (all while paying back what they owe to the government). Everyone else gets kicked out and has to stand in line. In conjunction with this massive sweep, the entire immigration process is revamped. It's ridiculous that it takes someone YEARS to be granted citizenship. Put the XXX millions we want to spend on building a stupid wall and hire some add'l staff for the naturalization offices around the country. Speed that process up and half of the problem of immigration would be solved. Do you have any data to back up your guesstimation? Probably not, I'd guess. I was talking with a friend of mine who lives in Northwest Arkansas. He thinks that the number of hispanics in his corner of the world is 10 to 20% of the population - and most of them are illegally here. They work for meat packers. Same in Wilkesboro, NC - where I saw it with my own eyes. You stop the cheap labor force that powers the meatpacking industry and watch the price of food skyrocket. If you don't want to have illegals here, fine. But if you're gonna target the illegal immigrants, target the companies who want them here too, like Tyson, Swift and a lot of the other meatpacking firms that knowingly hire illegals because then they don't have to worry about Workmen's comp when someone loses a finger or three or worse.

Going in to protect your interests has nothing to do with Empire. It's a fact of life in International Relations. It's just rare that a state will send troops at risk for altruistic purposes. The only time I can recall it in recent memory was with Somalia in 1992/93.

You did when you said the US went in to help. The US went in to protect its interests. Period.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2007 -> 02:39 PM) How long did it take us to go into Iraq? It wasn't like we went in the Monday after a Friday night. We put ourselves in Iraq. Events put us into Germany. Events put us into the former Yugoslavia, and that main event was the fear of losing the leadership and de facto primacy that we enjoy in NATO. Our involvement in Germany had nothing to do with the Jews. Our involvement in Yugoslavia had nothing to do with any systemic ethnic cleansing/genocide/repression.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 9, 2007 -> 02:11 PM) Al Queda wants war, but not in their own back yard. Yes or no? And to me what you're saying only emphasizes my point even more about the two sides using the same rhetoric. You're making it a better arguement then I have. Al Qaeda doesn't have a back yard to begin with. Al Qaeda is a decentralized network of cells with an ultimate aim of promoting Islam by forcing violence on the nonbelievers. If Al Qaeda didn't want war in its backyard, why is it attacking Pakistan? Why is it attacking Indonesia? Why is it attacking in any number of states that are predominantly Islamic?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2007 -> 12:08 PM) Check and check. Both times the US went to help. We invaded Yugoslavia, or what was left of it, Germany, and Italy. Yugoslavia which has a very large Christian population in sectors, not to mention Italy, the home of Catholics and Germany, a Lutheran nation. Except we didn't go to help in Germany because of the systemic repression of Jews. It was an afterthought. We could have done much more to stop these things during World War II than we actually did. It's funny that you think that we went to help in Screbernica, we really didn't rush into it. It wasn't until the Kosovo issue that we rushed to help and that was through NATO. US reaction in Yugoslavian break up, like much of Eastern and Central Europe's transformation in the late 1980s and 1990s happened entirely within and had little to do with external pressure.

I had to read that like four times before I got it.

Hey and we aren't mathematically eliminated yet either! All we have to do is win out and everyone else lose every game! Chip and a chair, baby!

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Happy Birthday and such.

QUOTE(bmags @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 06:58 PM) not really. He only came for one track, come around, which was a bonus track. Switch and Diplo and mya herself were the producers. It is one of my favorites on the album though. I downloaded it and burned it on a CD backwards accidentally. And I like it better that way. That Timbaland track is a great way to kick an album off.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 11:09 AM) Oops, sorry, we do accept Judaism. But those crazy radical religions, we drop bombs on. Notice we have not bombed a Christian or Jewish country . . . Did you forget about Serbia?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 05:54 PM) let me ask you this, when was the last genocide in a Christian country? By true definition of genocide - Less than 70 years ago. Events that come close to it? - Less than 15 years ago.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 11:36 PM) Hey, I'm not the one saying s*** that used to be what people would roll in their graves over. JFK and people of his time have to be rolling in their graves seeing the Democrat party of today OPENLY embrace defeat in a time of war ALL for political power. It's not for debate, it's not for "the good of the country", it's for POWER. Let me tell you something, since you're too young to get it: when people in MY government openly and brazenly work against people who I know personally that are in harms way by statements like "OH LOOK, WE'LL GAIN SEATS IN 2008 IF IT KEEPS GOING [LIKE THIS]" - that's a mighty f*** YOU. I have NO respect for representatives of MY government who in my opinion border on treason by agreeing with talking points of Osama Bin Ladin. To you, it's just political discourse. To me, it starts becoming personal when I see stuff like this. Then people like you wonder why I get so cynical and "sarcastic" when it comes to the Democrat party. Today's Bin Ladin tape pretty much explains why - especially when I see Schumky Schumer and Harry Reid RUN for the cameras to try and grow a backbone, all for political power. At that point, they are not worthy of political discourse, as you put it. But, you'll never understand, because you believe what you believe, and that's okay, though. Good for you. Withdrawal only means defeat if staying in means victory. The administration has never defined what victory would exactly be. And that's the problem. It's hard not to lose when you don't have a plan to win. Or even a definition of what winning means. Some people like to point to Anbar province as proof of success in the Surge. Anbar only received an increase of 3,000 troops. Much less than most other places in Iraq. And it's gotten so secure, that it's no longer the deadliest region in Iraq, merely the second deadliest. Behind Baghdad. You know, where everyone lives. Oh and Kap, if you wanna cherry pick quotes - we totally could here. Did you say this or Bin Laden? Wait, I've never seen you two in the same room.... Anyone else notice that he's lost the gray in his beard? Does this mean he's combing Grecian Formula in it? And if that's the case, why are we allowing Greece to sponsor terror like that?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 12:38 PM) Out of curiousity, has anyone stopped to wonder why this thread is up over 200 posts or so, and there isn't a thread at all on Hsu? That Hsu thing is weird. I don't even understand it. Sounds like the kinda person they should throw the book at though. Lots of Campaign Finance mishaps going on. Romney's Campaign Finance Chair got indicted this week too.Link. The Club for Growth got pinched for a 350K FEC fine, and 11 Public Officials in NJ were arrested for bribery. Busy week for political cops.

I'm sure if you really want to know why the intent was so clear, there are a number of websites on the internet that illustrate the song and dance that comes with sexual activity in a men's room. And the good Senator, illustrated a by the book come on.

QUOTE(bmags @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 03:23 PM) when kanye actually raps he's probably the most modest rapper you will find. In this album alone see everything i am, big brother, and can't tell me nothing. Let alone roses, addiction, touch the sky on LR and all falls down, family business and never let me down. I find the negativity against him hilarious, when a rockstar is arrogant to the press it used to be funny, when a rap star does it he's just an arrogant thug. Meanwhile our rockstars are now boring ass suburbanites that just love their fans so much!! ANd they were treated badly in high school! Kanye's evolution has been really interesting, and he takes a lot of chances with beats in his album, as seen by the daft punk and can samples. And as funny as the kanye hate is in this thread, the JT hate in the other thread is equally embarrassing to read. OMG YOU CAN"T LIKE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. Kid's a lot more talented than most of the bulls*** I hear, and he makes enjoyable pop music in the likes of Michael Jackson did decades before. A good pop song is harder to make than people give credit for. ANd his collaborations with the neptunes and timbaland have added legitimacy to his vocal talents, that seemed wishy washy behind the casio beats in nsync. I hate Timbaland, but he was involved with the new M.I.A. record and I heart it.

The famous site that it came from is long gone, but you can never erase Bea Arthur's true past.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 10:39 AM) Do those actions always result in public sex for willing partners, or could it result in "come back to my place"? I guess that is where I am still confused. Theoretically it could result in come back to my place. It's not likely that's the case in an airport bathroom (and if he was making a connection both physically and in the aviation sense, he'd have been beyond security in the "sterile" area.) But given that the intent is for anonymous sex, why would you take that stranger back somewhere that someone would learn anything about you?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 11:28 AM) delete delte delete you bastard for getting that stuck in my head . . . What, you mean this?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 10:30 AM) Happy Birthday to the one and only Rex.... The image of him eating that steak forever haunts me. That was a whale, actually.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 6, 2007 -> 09:29 AM) And if they caught him having sex, I would agree on this case. When the cops start busting people for possible intent, and actions that *may* lead to a certain crime, we are on a slippery slope. Calling a hooker over to a car *may* lead to an illegal act, or it *may* lead to someone trying to help the person with food, clothing, shelter, etc. One is illegal, the other not. I don't like the police being in the position where they are claiming they *know* what another person is thinking and can have him arrested and convicted. You know what? I don't buy this argument. I think there was little else the Senator was insinuating by playing footsie under a bathroom stall wall and passing his hand through the gap and creepily staring at the guy through the gap for several minutes. I like to think I'm as sex-positive as the next guy, but I don't believe that sex in public bathrooms should be legal, and I do think that propositioning someone to join them in the stall for sex is the same thing, especially when using established protocol to do so. The only thing wrong with what happened is that the Senator didn't get charged with the correct, more serious charge that he should have been charged with - and that was probably because of his influence as a Senator.