Rex Kickass

I think I need a new tinfoil hat. Major League Baseball can still read my thoughts.

Does this make me a dinosaur?

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 14, 2005 -> 09:08 AM) Not everyone who can't afford food has a big screen, or rims, or even a car.. Jewel is faaaaarrr from cheap for someone on stamps. I don't know about Aldi's, but I do know that Meijer's are not exactly located in area's where poverty of this level is the norm. But Super Wal-Marts are. ALDI and Sav-A-Lot are too. But that's not the point. I'm sorry to hear that so many poor kids have the chance to buy doritos after they receive the government's free (nutritious) lunch. How dare these kids have the chance to eat the same chips and candy that I eat? I tried living on a hundred dollars a week when I lived in Northern Michigan - it wasn't easy and I live on my own. Imagine having that kinda budget for two or three people. At one of my jobs, I knew a woman who worked there for 20,000 dollars a year and was raising two autistic children - ALONE. If she didn't have family help, she wouldn't have had enough money to feed and house her children, even with government assistance.

My point apparently keeps going over your head. OK, then. "Better than" is not the same as "good enough." That being said, I'm not saying anything about the current conditions of Guantanamo Bay - so please save the "should they get fine wine and cable TV?" stuff, thanks.

By the way, the last Dem added his name to the co-sponsor list so the holdouts are an all GOP list. This smacks of crappy politics. It'll be "Senator X can't even come out against lynching" next year... just like "Senator X voted to raise taxes 832 times - even though that would include not voting for tax cuts, or counting the tax increases in "tax relief" bills (for example, when the last tax cut was pushed through, the President at the same time raised taxes over 60 separate ways to balance out part of the tax relief). Blah. Like there isn't enough legitimate stuff to be pissed off at these guys about.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 14, 2005 -> 12:31 AM) ROFL They're wearing a helmet. Just cause he's fat doesn't make him plural.

There are hundreds of people who were in Guantanamo Bay who had no connection to Al-Qaeda whatsoever. That were picked up in random sweeps and found to have no useful intelligence to offer and were still kept for months and given that "soft ass" treatment after they were determined to be no threat at all. Again, saying "it isn't murder" isn't adequate to me to justify the treatment of foreign prisoners. And, what you might have noticed, is that I don't know if this "torture" that Time magazine describes is torture or even unacceptable. I do know that other confirmed methods at Guantanamo Bay and other prison camps were unacceptable. I do find the "same rules don't apply" attitude of our administration unacceptable.

Nuke: This is where you and I differ. Even though many, although by all means, not every person interred at Guantanamo Bay deserves treatment much harsher than we give them, it doesn't mean that we should give them harsher treatment. It doesn't mean that the level of treatment that we give them is currently acceptable. Why? Because we're the United States of America and we are supposed to set the standard when it comes to respect towards other people, citizens or not - enemies or friends. Some people say that our constitution and basis of our country is a Christian ethic. If this is true, although I believe it to be much more secular, the biggest Christian rule I know is to treat others as you would be treated. If captured Americans were treated the way we treat enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay, would you be happy with that situation?

Original Soundtrack: Ghostbusters II

I thought the Juice Box was alright, but isn't the hill an homage to Crosley Field? The train bothered me, there's too much eye candy at the park to distract you from the game - that's my main complaint.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:27 PM) The GITMO camp and the goings on down there pale in comparison to previous acts taken on behalf of national security. -The suspension of Habeus Corpus, free speech and other rights by Lincoln during the Civil War -The wholesale internment of persons of Japanese descent during WWII without any due process or even lifting a finger to see if there was any reason to believe they were a threat There is actually a legal basis for what is happening down there and the Bush Administration, as I have demonstrated, has 2 solid legs to stand on. I say it is the left which is actually denying these people a fair hearing by holding up the process of military tribunals with legal challenges. Additionally those who have been found to be of no further intelligence value have been released to their home countries so the "indefinite detention" argument is also a false one. BTW I am making far too many spelling errors to correct. I'm not used to the keyboard on my new laptop yet. So your justification is that "it's less wrong than when we put all the Japanese in Concentration Camps (which is, by definition, what the internment camps are). We believe that all men are created equal. If so, why is our treatment of enemy combatants held to a lower standard than how we would treat our own criminals?

Not every town has an ALDI dude. Sav-A-Lot is good for cheap food too, but believe it or not - some people are so poor that even the food stamps don't cut it. With Welfare Reform in the 1990's, you eventually run out of benefits and it gets cut when you make a certain amount of money which would be far below the line of poverty.

I'm not sure exactly what the protocol is, but I think an apology for Celine Dion and Anne Murray is required for entry.

Although this debate on the constitutionality of the GITMO camp is very interesting, I'd love to see someone answer this question: its more philosophy than anything else. If you are fighting someone to preserve your way of life and liberty and standards, why would you change your way of life and liberty and standards to preserve them?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 07:36 PM) Why should we show them any courtesy on the battlefield? You know what happens to our people when they get captured by these savages? -They get beaten to death and dragged through the streets with all the other assholes around cheering and spitting on them ( Mogadishu 1993) -They get their heads chopped off on live television and the video gets broadcast all over the internet ( SPC Matt Maupin, 2004, Iraq ) -They get hung from a bridge and used as human pinatas by a mob ( 4 Blackwater contractors, Fallujah, 2004 ) f*** these people. Where are all the cries of protest at the way our people get treated when they fall into enemy hands? You won't hear them because as far as Amnesty and all those other do gooder asshole groups are concerned our soldiers are nothing but murderers and baby killers so instead of sticking up for our people they run around and shill for a bunch of people who are only interested in killing as many Americans as possible. As I stated before we are going far too easy on these scumbags we have in our custody. If we aren't being better than them, why are we even bothering to fight them?

LCR is spot on. If we don't hold enemy combatants to the same courtesy we expect our captured fighters to face, we can't complain when they don't get that courtesy.

There were ten counts. If there was real thought about guilt, he would have at least got a misdemeanor for alcohol. He is innocent. Told ya so.

Please make an OK Computer 2 and I'll forgive you for Amnesiac and Kid A and Hail to the Thief...

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 04:03 PM) ^^^^ One of my all time faves. I recntly saw the Stephen Fry biopic of Wilde. Really interesting. It has been promoted to bathroom reading at the moment, with "People's History of the United States" being my main read right now. Breezed through "Shopgirl" over the weekend. Charming story from Steve Martin. He has this knack of really capturing L.A. loneliness. I really liked the book.

Saying torture and terror tactics is acceptable to end terror is not acceptable to me. I thought we were fighting this war because we were supposed to be better then them.

Whatever happened to baby x?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 07:37 AM) Seriously, does any album flow together better than Sgt Pepper? Side two, Abbey Road.

I just picked up "Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and "Shopgirl" by Steve Martin.

Unless you think there's something wrong with being a white Christian. Being a white Christian, I don't have a problem with it. Did you listen to the audio file? He said "The Republicans are pretty much a white christian party. The Democrats include everyone." That would be the polar opposite of what Hitler would say.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 08:43 PM) Yeah him and Hitler... they were just misunderstood. :rolly That could be the dumbest thing you've ever said.