Rex Kickass

Six packs? Please, I have a pony keg!

Saying that this person represents every black person or even FEMA evacuee (most black people or most FEMA evacuees) is like me saying a picture of Lyndie England represents every soldier in the US Army. I'm pretty sure that's wrong, so I'm pretty sure you're wrong too.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 07:39 AM) /waiting for the inevitable "Clinton doesn't matter" comments from the lefters Here it is. Although Clinton argued for the inherent authority, when it became clear that the majority opinion of the rest of the government was vociferously opposed, they never actually ACTED on the argument by their own admission. And I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary - I'm sure there are plenty of disaffected former Clinton staffers that would have been happy to counteract the claims of the Clinton administration in this sense. And it would have been all over Drudge, Fox News, and the conservative talk shows on radio. It's kind of a major difference. However, any truth about this program won't be definitively known for years because the NSA has tried to use executive privilege to quash every investigation related to a warrantless surveillance program to begin with. There certainly are a lot of questions to this controversy, and the unwillingness of the government to answer them raises a red flag in my eyes. I even trust my government more than say the average conservative who seems to shout from the rooftops that government is the problem. But I think that something like this deserves an honest investigation. If nothing illegal happened, there should be no problem investigating the program and proving it. Parts of the 9/11 Commission report remains classified, there's no reason why part of an investigation report with this controversy couldn't remain classified as well.

Temporarily locked.

Nuke, Thanks to people like you, I've decided to join the ACLU this week. Because I've decided your freedom to speak your mind is important and I want to see it defended - even if you don't.

Dude, you lost a toe in the lawn mower?

Aced = not having to take the class again

There are lots of arguments to substantiate widespread fraud in Ohio in 2004 - and fully investigated may indeed cast the actual difference of votes between Bush and Kerry into doubt regarding that election. Between what seems to be a concentrated plan of urban voter disenfranchisement and some serious questions about the reliability of the electronic voting machines, it is entirely possible that some serious fraud occurred on the presidential level in that state. Given that at the time, there wasn't a single Dem holding statewide office - the finger of suspicion seems to point in the direction of the GOP. However, I don't think the fraud was enough to shift the balance. 1960 was a stolen election. So was 2000. 2004, I doubt it. Frankly Bush won that election by over 2 million votes - I don't want another president to win electoral votes but not the popular vote frankly. Even if the alternative seems vastly better today.

Thank God for my Senators who are going to vote Hell No on the Federal Discrimination Amendment. To be honest, I doubt that amendment will even get 50 votes in the Senate.

The problem with this story is that nobody can blame Clinton for it, so the GOP doesn't seem to be concerned. When things like this start to happen, the terrorists actually win. Because our principles changed, our values changed, and the very things that we hate about terrorists we're becoming.

Wall off Canada!

Katie Couric was hired with an idea to drag their viewership younger. They say that if she can shift the viewership five years younger, that CBS will literally make a s***ton more because their evening newscast better fits the "money" demo.

Or maybe its because they think they'll get more viewers and ad dollars with Katie Couric.

It's directed at everyone.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Jun 4, 2006 -> 12:14 AM) the know-nothing party might do suprisingly well in the upcoming presidential election. The Know Nothings? Are you aware what you're referencing?

My point is that the ACLU is there to defend people who don't otherwise get defended. Something they have a right to have, whether or not they deserve it. And I am a big believer in equal protection under the law, regardless of who you are.

Some of the "kidf***ers, murderers and thugs" that the ACLU represents and works with: Rush Limbaugh Anyone under the age of 18 in Ohio (who are not necessarily guaranteed attorney access if tried as a juvenile) Handicapped people who can't gain access to offices in government buildings ACORN (A low and moderate income advocacy group) HIV patients having their medical records revealed without consent The Tabernacle Baptist Church of Eastpoint, GA Olivia Turton of Frenchtown, NJ (A second grader who wanted to sing a religious themed song at a public school talent show.) Seriously - who needs em?

Just a warning - since you're new. Sniping at each other is not welcome here.

The constitution protects kid f***ers too. You may not like it, but its still so.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 2, 2006 -> 02:27 PM) The ironic thing is that people assume that the phone system is the old 1950s hardwired system that sits on a closed network and no one can crack it. A lot of the traffic is bounced off of a bird in space. Some of the traffic is send on point to point microwave. Some of the traffic is over a carrier network using data lines. People act like its some FBI guy with an aligator clips on a phone line running a jumper, when you can just use a spectrum analyzer and pick up the same thing in your backyard. In fact I was at an Infraguard meeting where someone showed the FBI that they could break into the local Cell Tower using some parts they got from Radio Shack. The kit cost under a grand, and it was able to hijack cell phone communications. BTW their "encryption' was cracked in about 15 minutes. Again if you are sooooo paranoid that someone is listening to you, have you and your friends use Skype which is encrypted by a AES cipher. Make sure you pull down the shades in your house, because they might employ lip readers with binoculars. Use a spectrum analyzers to identify all sources of electronic radiation in your house, make sure there are no bugs. Sweep daily. And if you can pull the covers over your head and close your eyes and chant "its all ok, the boogy man cant hear me" Although the ability to snoop others' phone calls is somewhat easy to do, it doesn't make the action of doing so right - and nor should we expect our government to be snooping without cause to begin with.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Jun 2, 2006 -> 04:48 PM) I actually like the Electoral College. Sure, it is not perfect, but I do not want the popular vote to be the complete deciding factor. When that happens, only the voice of the large metro areas will count. Your farmers and rural population's needs will not be heard at all. They aren't being now. So many states just go one way or the other that they are rarely visited or paid attention to.

A big reason that NYC got its funding cut apparently? Overtime. The way NYPD does its training is by training an entire city shift at a time, forcing a lot of overtime to do it. Although, its a costly method of doing it, it's said to be a very effective method of getting this kind of training to stick.

But that doesn't help you have a good time when you're inside the city....

Crazy Thunderstorm last night here. What would you listen to when you're driving through it? Two things come to mind: dEUS - Theme From Turnpike. A song about driving on the New Jersey Turnpike - dark and foreboding with a creepy Miles Davis sample. Mr. Bungle - California (Album) It's like Dick Dale and Brian Wilson had a Hungarian baby who joined a Klezmer band and scored a zombie movie.

I'm just happy to be the straight man in that exchange. That's right, you heard me.