StrangeSox

Maybe it was having her patriotism questioned?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 07:26 PM) ^^this Though several people on here know my real name, so if you know, you know, not a big deal. I just don't want that tied directly to this account where I've said a lot about my opinions on national security, politics, defense industry, etc. I repost everything you say under your real name at about 33 different message boards.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 07:13 PM) I rather enjoy your rants...please do not stop. You aren't that guy, because you actually have something intelligent to say... Unlike this person: Hahaha wow.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 02:39 PM) And despite the panic after the Kelo v. New London decision, there have been comparatively very few uses of Eminent Domain since then. The state is not going out and seizing people's property willy-nilly. Furthermore, it's not like eminent domain wasn't actually a standard doctrine at the time of the writing of the Constitution, and the takings clause of the 5th amendment explicitly allows for eminent domain as long a "Just compensation" is paid. States have gone and passed laws forbidding the type of takings in kelo.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 01:08 PM) I think "The Newsroom" is f***ing awful. The episode and a half i watched were pretty bad.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:59 PM) And sadly...look how much has been accomplished in that regard. Absolutely nothing. The media is the 1%

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:39 PM) I call BS on this. The debt ceiling stuff ended because the deadline passed and the parties came to an agreement. IIRC that happened in July-August 2011 and the occupy stuff didn't start until a month or two after that. The conversation had already ended by that point. Austerity and the debt ceiling negotiation committee thing were still the main topic until late September when the nypd began pepper-spraying protestors.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 11:47 AM) It shifted the national conversation away from the stupid debt ceiling and austerity, austerity, austerity to discussing inequality. QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:12 PM) Yes, it is true. Occupy is a complete disaster, and a failure in every regard. Anyone that says otherwise is simply blind and refuses to see things as they actually are. If it accomplished, please...enlighten me. Tell us all exactly what it accomplished. This should be hilarious.

It shifted the national conversation away from the stupid debt ceiling and austerity, austerity, austerity to discussing inequality.

Video already taken down. IOC is being ridiculous with their copyright notices.

This sub-forum has been absolutely dead for days at a time this summer.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 08:38 AM) No it wasn't. But now that fits YOUR agenda... so okay. Now it is. I guess all those people who have stood against CFA's political contributions for years are just making s*** up?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 06:33 PM) And the other thing that ought to be perfectly clear...this applies to a very large portion of the Penn State Community. Large enough to elect trustees. I still think the NCAA should have imposed a literal death penalty on PSU. Raze the entire campus to the ground.

He's just giving you the NBC tape-delay version of Soxtalk.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 10:06 PM) You still have to have done SOMETHING. Talked to someone about killing your wife, bought bomb parts online after posting you wanted to kill XXX and so on. They get terrorists on that for conspiracy after they buy (fake) bombs from undercover officers. So they DID something, not just woke up one day and said to themselves 'i wanna blow up a bridge today'. Hate crimes are only brought in as motives for other crimes, correct? So it's still the same; you still have to "do something," in this case shooting up a temple full of people.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) And charging someone with a hate crime does WHAT!? Besides making you feel good. Charging someone with murder doesn't make your family undead. What does it accomplish besides making you feel good?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 08:53 PM) And who did it hurt? And what, exactly, was the consequence? Please. Go ahead, knock your socks off talking about an OPINION. I think it backfired just a bit from what everyone on the "I support gays" intended. It's shameful as hell that people can't state that gay marriage is biblically immoral, or on the other side that gay marriage should be legal. The CFA debacle is stupid, not the issue. (sans Obama, who is just a money whore and doesn't know what he really believes unless a poll or money donors tell him what to believe, but that's another story). He has given millions of dollars to groups that fight to keep gays as second-class citizens. Any response that doesn't recognize that and only focuses on something he said is ignorant at best. edit: ‘Stance’ vs. substance: why evangelicals are confused about the actual harm Chik-fil-A is doing to actual people

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 08:48 PM) The reactions is what is stupid, not the issue of minority rights. This guy said no more then what gets said every day in different contexts all over the place ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE... yet... it's a hill to die on and everyone "supporting" their supposed beliefs make a huge issue out of someone's OPINION. It isn't a reaction to what he said but to what he financially supports.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 06:35 PM) I've read there is a lot of sex going on in the Olympic Village during the Games...it's pretty legendary, as I recall... It's pretty much a non-stop orgy. Since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, they've flown in 100,000+ condos to the Olympic Village. Sometimes 100k isn't enough.

The Trayvon thread was started in Filibuster. By me.

The best market I've ever heard of.

Mark Kirk released a video over the weekend http://www.examiner.com/article/sen-mark-k...ollowing-stroke

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 06:06 PM) So does this mean that when Romney wins the White House

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 04:19 PM) They all agreed on it as well as their president and chairman. I dont see the point. PSU's very own investigation gave the NCAA all it needed to rule on their sanctions, that is all the process they required. The NCAA sent them a notice of investigation and PSU never responded to their allegations. PSU has proven time and time again they are just ridiculously stupid. How many of us on here have been through NCAA sanctions or the firing of a coach? And how many rioted? But Tressel was removed for his heinous crime of allowing his players to sell stuff. Who would want to embarrass themselves rioting over that?

Really cool graphic showing the rise of High-Frequency Trading day-by-day: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012...ay-hft-edition/