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QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 19, 2010 -> 01:23 AM) 43--Suck it BBC. I've read more of your classic literature than most Brits (ETA: I know not all of these books are British). As we say here in the colonies: BOOYA! Love a girl who is smarter than me. I've only read like 34 or 28 depending on how many I finished. 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 05:09 PM) is this for the 99'ers? If it is, I'll break with my party affiliation and say, let them lose benefits. If you can't find an acceptable job in 2 years, you're not looking hard enough or maybe your standards are a bit too high. If there were fewer than 5 seekers for every job out there right now, I'd probably agree with you.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 03:15 PM) I wonder how people would react to an Obama kid calling someone a f*****. Probably a lot worse than people would react to the daughters of a reality tv star.

Tacos.

Questioning my language skills gets you nowhere.

If they don't tear it down, they need to retrofit it a la Yankee Stadium II, but you know, better.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 09:36 AM) No, Unionization=Evil I think there's a difference between equating crappy service with evilness. That isn't what AD was saying here, and you and I both know it.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 18, 2010 -> 07:48 AM) There has been much worse written here about Catholics, so I am not worried. In the rules that you agreed to in order to post here, you agreed that the following posts are not acceptable or permitted in this forum. Your previous post violates this rule. Referring to one of the largest religions in the world as a cult is not acceptable discussion on this forum, at any time.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) Two cults enter, one cult leaves....... Westboro Baptist crazies picketing the Dearborn Islamic Center, on 11/18. Oh boy. This is ridiculously disrespectful. There is nothing extremist about the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, MI. The Imam at this mosque works endlessly for religious reconciliation and understanding. His teachings have ecumenical underpinnings and is a prime example of moderate Islamic religion. So much so that George W recognized him for it.

Nancy Pelosi keeps her leadership position by a vote of 150-43.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 02:16 PM) Irony Getting on a plane - deal with it! In jail for an actual crime - 553 million! (clearly strip searches are not equal to pat downs, but still) When dozens of men are stripped down and given cavity searches next to each other simultaneously for boarding a plane, you'll have a point. And you forgot the decimal in your 55.3 million.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) No, were suppose to satop this because of the 4th and 9th Amendments to our Constitution. So what specifically makes this any more intrusive than a metal detector? People refuse that too, and they got a patdown before? If reasonable safeguards are in place, and they seem to be, why is this so unreasonable?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 09:59 AM) You find it hilarious because government employees doing something they're not supposed to do occurs ALL the time? This precise problem has already happened in a similar setting. And people do all sorts of crazy stuff despite being "bored." Great, we're 2% more secure than we were a year ago. So your odds of being killed on a plane due to a terrorist attack went from one in a billion to one in 990 million. Good excuse to force everyone to go through this crap. So we're supposed to stop this because some people are crazy? Should we stop OB.GYN services because some doctors are crazy and you know there's just some perv rootin around down there for kicks? Do we stop having garbage collection because the garbage man might go through my trash and thats private, and who knows what they could do with my personal information or what sick fetish they might have with trash? The truth is, every social interaction you make puts you at risk for exploitation in some form. This is no different. Anytime you put out information, show yourself, pose for a picture, you are at risk of being exploited. But in order to live a life, some risk must be accepted. And like I said, if its 2% likelier that nudie pics of me will go online as a result of flying or 2% less likely that I'll be blown up on a plane. (Both pretty unlikely options), I'll take the embarrassment over the explosion seven days a week.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 05:32 PM) First, it's not just like an xray, it's basically a naked picture of your body that you KNOW is going to be out there in public by some creepy perv. Honestly, this is one of the arguments I find most hilarious, because you don't know that. You fear that. In fact, if the government knew this was going to be out there in public by some creepy perv, this wouldn't be used. But the truth is that this is probably a boring, boring job to the vast majority of people monitoring these scans. The last thing that they would want to do is take these pictures home and fap to them. And frankly, there is some creepy perv fapping to some other picture of you somewhere else if your picture is public. There are lots of creepy fetishes. Many of them don't involve you being naked at all. This one pic probably won't be saved, and even if it is, it probably won't get into those people's hands. But you can't be sure. Personally, I do think backscatter machines are a step forward in helping security identify potential threats. Of all the security "enhancements" the TSA has done in the last few years, this one has the most potential to actually improve security on airplanes. And the truth is, given the choice between having a slim possibility that a naked xray type picture of me might leak to the press and the slim possibility that this nudie picture machine might prevent me from being blown up on a plane, I'll take the unlikely option that doesn't kill me.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 05:51 PM) WHo come back with Muslim names, long beards and other things that could also be profiled. Like that big muslim name Richard Reid.

My favorite part of this is that the picture I see most often looks like the woman has had her spleen replaced with a beer bottle.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) I believe I have a right to not have my naked body scanned or physically searched in order to get on a plane. It goes too far. As an added bonus, it's also not effective. I don't see that in the constitution anywhere. There is no expectation or right to not consent to a cursory security search to board a privately owned aircraft. I fail to see where any amendment or article in the constitution would cover this. That's like saying you have the right to free speech so it should be ok to tell your boss to f*** off and expect no consequence. IMO, putting US Citizens on a No-Fly list restricting the right to travel freely within our borders is an awful lot closer to a constitutional violation than having to essentially get an X-Ray photo taken of you.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 03:33 PM) You can't fly a train into the side of a building. But the damage inflicted by blowing up say the PATH train tunnel would be pretty devastating to a number of buildings in NYC and Jersey City.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 03:14 PM) (1) Since when does having a right to be somewhere suddenly cut off your constitutional protections? Pretty sure illegal immigrants are afforded the protections of the Constitution despite not having the right to be here. There are other ways to travel beyond flight. I think that there's a reasonable argument to be made that this isn't "unreasonable" because its A) applied equally - even flight crew is subject to this and B) because there is no constitutional requirement to give you access to the sterile side of an airport. I don't really get this part of the argument. There is absolutely no way that airlines can be held liable for the actions of agents who are not employed with the airline or doing business with the airline. The only financial obligation would be the government's, not Delta, JetBlue or Southwest. These backscatter machines, in my opinion will probably detect more than a metal detector which does make them very useful IMO, and frankly given that the images resemble an X-ray more than porn, I don't really know why anyone is that concerned about suddenly masturbating TSA agents to begin with. I just hope that if they are saving these nudie pics of me when I fly that they'll finally put better lighting in the security area. Honestly, CFL's make me look fat. Is airline security a little over the top? Yeah. No need to take off shoes or the liquid limit, IMO, but this seems like a reasonable advance in technology and may actually make us a little safer, unlike most of the other security theatre things we have to go through when we fly.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 16, 2010 -> 12:56 PM) Way to go Oklahoma. Way to set us back about 100 years. I hope the principal will be fired, but i'm sure he won't. I'm fairly sure that there are no protections for sexual orientation in Oklahoma.

I put this here, because I don't want to start a big gay thread... but some 18 year old lesbians are facing consequences for choosing to be in a relationship and living in Oklahoma. http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/20...om_Graduating//

Burying the lede, an example. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Poli...-107068574.html The headline The lead paragraph in a story on NBC Dallas' website. Sounds cut and dry, right? Get to paragraph 5: (Emphasis mine.)

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 15, 2010 -> 03:28 PM) Here is the rest of that quote that seems to be missing..... Saying I'm not making a judgment in the same breath as making a judgment about Soros' holocaust experience doesn't make it better.

Glenn Beck accuses holocaust survivor George Soros of being a Nazi collaborator, as a 13 year old Jewish boy. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101...ocaust-comments

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 12, 2010 -> 04:13 PM) You don't know how this works at all, do you? And I'm not trying to mock you, I'm asking you a question. Are you willing to learn why this story is a non-story, or are you just going to dismiss what is factual here? This was a story during his rise to governor where he earned a mandate commanding 49% majority of voters. This is not out of character for Chris Christie. He also, in several circumstances, used his authority as US Attorney to get out of traffic tickets. Including in one instance, where he was stopped for driving the wrong way on a one way street, and caused a motorcyclist to crash.