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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 06:24 PM) Willard Mitt Romney, 8/24/12, in Michigan. And the crowd, of course, went wild. WOO HOO YOU'RE WHITE LIKE US

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 08:19 PM) the "find a smallish city with no MLB, NFL, or NHL competition" strategy seems to be a pretty sound route to a consistent fan base. How about Sacramento, California?!

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 07:42 PM) Chael Sonnen asks to be the replacement and Jones ducks, i mean declines the fight. Why the hell would Sonnen deserve a LHW title shot?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 21, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/20/the-...ly-must-not-win http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-will-...s-team-f,10804/

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 08:02 PM) We have any mechanics on board?? Heres a question I posted on yahoo answers. Why is my car so loud? Hey, I've got a 97 Saturn SL that sounds like a muscle car. It has a loud rumble that gets worse when I hit the A/C (at least for the moment I flip it on, can't tell if the constant rumble is louder). The muffler was replaced, and its gotten 2 oil changes since the loud rumbling has began so that should eliminate those responses. I'm thinking maybe the A/C compressor or Cat Convertor? I'm really not sure, what can you tell me? Anyone here on board got any ideas? Sounds like you need a new Johnson rod in there.

NY Times does some amazing infographics. Here's one on the history of the 100m dash http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08....html?hp&hp The fastest 8 YEAR OLD American today would almost have gotten a bronze at the 1896 games!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 09:18 PM) Romney was/is the easiest for the messiah to beat because health care (regardless of one Justice Roberts) is off the table with him and everyone knows it. That's 40% of the election issues that Romney cannot debate. Now Obama gets 50% of the remaining 60% of the welfare state handout recipients and he wins "in a landslide". Every other candidate was insane, mentally disabled, or extremely hate-able. Romney was the best case scenario for Republicans.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 04:16 PM) If anything it's silva saying that, jones didn't care about fighting rashad Evans back when they were super close. "Man my man ‪#AndersonSilva‬ went to work tonight, consistently amazing," Jones said "I guess Anderson said he had no interest in fighting me at tonight's press conference, I feel the same way about him. Nothing but respect."

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 04:15 PM) Bones and Evans also said they would never fight because they were bros. Dana made it happen. Just sayin They had a huge falling out. It wasn't Dana's doing.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 03:03 PM) It had to happen at some point, not sure if I'd go as far as saying Silva would destroy GSP but I do think he'd pick up the W....then proceed to face Bones I hope. Agree that Silva would beat GSP. GSP might have a chance to wrestlefark him like Sonnen-Silva I, but I think Silva is too big. Silva doesn't want to fight Jones. They're bros or something.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 12:08 AM) Assuming it was the same girl...after the balance beam, her coach tried to come over to her and she pushed him away. Different girl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederates_in_the_Attic Interesting book; not about the Civil War itself, but about peoples' interest in the Civil War. Historians, reenactors, Southerners.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 06:29 PM) I wonder why in the world your generation is anti religious. Far greater diversity and exposure to different ideas. Greater scientific knowledge. QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 06:29 PM) And soon we are going to have a society that never worships. Great. I think that is great. QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 06:29 PM) If your generation is not going to have community worship, then I wish it would change to where people organzize Sunday or Saturday outings to go help the poor or something, because IMO the concept of community worship on a Saturday or Sunday or Wed. night is a very positive thing. I agree that alternative community-building events would be good.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:51 PM) No, I've seen some jokes in movies and on TV where there's a feminine portrayal of gays or the old gay jokes. I'd think somebody could find one of these examples and immediately start a nationwide boycott of the theatres and the company that produced said movie or TV show. People understand the difference between non-malicious comedy about stereotypes (even when offensive) and taking actions which actually harm a group. If I made a dumb joke about women and kitchens and sammiches, you might think I was an ass. If I told you I donate money to a group working to repeal women's suffrage, you'd think a lot worse. QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:51 PM) No, it's the whole story and slanted coverage as a whole. Can you give us some examples of what kinds of coverage you felt was slanted?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:36 PM) Yet the media will not discourage people from becoming coaches again and imply that all coaches are pedophiles like Sandusky and cover up artists like Joe. Yet this pedophile priest issue was covered in a way that it was implied all priests are pedophiles. The media implied all priests are pedophiles? That's ridiculous. QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:36 PM) Yet because of liberals and the coverage of this issue, the future of the priesthood is dead. Like I said, becoming a priest is a no-no, a huge taboo. It's all part of the ruination of society. A good occuption like priest has been wiped off the map. Again, young people aren't as interested in becoming priests because they're not as interested in religion. QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:36 PM) How come nobody attacks Hollywood and TV producers. You'll still see the feminine portrayal of gays in the movies and on TV shows and occasional jokes about being gay in the movies. How come there's no outrage?? Wait, are you comparing comedy to working against gay rights or comparing comedy to child molestation?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:51 PM) I don't care that you disagree. It's dumb. OMG INTOLERANCE

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 08:39 PM) Well I disagree. It's a hilarious double standard. A girl brings a boy home to meet her parents. The boy reveals at dinner that he hates them damn Jews. The parents tell the girl they don't like him. Parents are intolerant hypocrites?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:31 PM) Just keep ignoring the fact that the people supposedly defending the notion of equal rights and equal acceptance are the same people that feel so much hate and animosity towards a specific group of people. I don't know of anyone outside of crappy journalists who promotes equal acceptance of IDEAS.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:19 PM) Exhibit A. lol Step 1: Complain that people sometimes regard Christianity as having a negative influence on society while posting examples of Christianity having a negative influence on society Step 2: Wait until someone points this out Step 3: GOTCHA!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:00 PM) Christian belief isn't covered as if it's one side of an argument, it's covered as a problem that needs solving. And it's not just "oh, that's interesting you believe that" it's "OMG, you're a f***ing dumb ass for thinking that way." Creationism? You don't believe in science, you're an idiot. Abortion? That's not a murder issue, that's an equal rights issue. Same with homosexuality. Oh, you don't like boobs on national TV, you're just old fashioned grandpa! Get with the times! Oh gawd, we have a President or Governor that believes that prayer will provide guidance? We're all f***ed! With some of your examples, Christian belief IS a problem that needs solving. It's not "interesting" that anyone is a Creationist. It's sad. It's not "interesting" that some people think gays should be treated poorly. It's sad.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 07:56 PM) That's what so annoying about the "traditional marriage" or "marriage as defined for thousands of years" crap. It is complete fiction. The definition of marriage has varied frequently throughout time and among different cultures. Our own understanding of marriage in the US has changed drastically in the last 100 years or so. It doesn't even hold up in a Biblical sense. Most of god's major bros in the OT (Moses, Abraham, David, etc) had numerous wives.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 08:26 PM) No you guys are wrong IMO. Here's it the defiinition of a priest nowadays to liberal America: A pedophile. The Catholic Church's image problems aren't limited to liberals. Also, I don't think that association exists AT ALL for non-Catholic priests

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) Our priest (yes priest, my religion has run out of priests because of all the jokes and PC that no longer allows "normal" kids to consider pursuing such a calling) If your church is lacking people interested in becoming priests, I doubt political correctness has anything to do with it. Young people simply aren't that religious compared to past generations.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 07:59 PM) And again, Jake proved my point perfectly. Without hesitation, he typed in that crap blasting the Bible, whereas I would have to think long and hard before I typed in something about gays or other groups of people with certain beliefs. So your point was that Christians no longer enjoy an immunity from criticism of their beliefs? Jake's post was accurate: the people who wrote the Bible didn't know jack squat about human sexuality. And if someone is going to hold up a book which says gay people should be executed as a paragon of morality, it's going to get blasted in this age. And rightly so. Could Jake have been more tactful about it rather than saying they're assholes? Sure. But maybe that's not his style. You should feel free to criticize ANY positions a person holds. If I said Will Perdue was the best player on the Bulls championship teams, you'd say that's stupid. If I said Communism was an efficient economic system, you'd say that's stupid. If I said rainbows were caused by fairies, you'd say that's stupid. But if I have a ridiculous view that happens to be part of my religion, you can't say anything? Why do the kid gloves come out only in that situation? QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 07:59 PM) This sentence by Jenksismyb**** described my situation perfectly To the liberal world I am ... "a gay-hating, science-denying redneck." The liberals have absolutely won that fight, and there's really no debate about it. I think that was Greg's point. Great post, Jenks! I think that's a rather large exaggeration given that most liberals ARE Christian.