StrangeSox

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 10:26 AM) As a civilian who came across this scumbag, you don't have handcuffs or anything to work with. So wouldn't it be assumed you might have to pound the prick into submission to hold him for the police? I don't see why a guy who got shot at in a theatre could get in trouble for inflicting some damage on the person who did this! Because the police were there and there would be no reason for you to follow him into the parking lot.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 10:23 AM) I agree with your second paragraph. Besides if I just beat the s*** out of the low-life punk like a regular bar fight in which one guy pummels the crap out of another, what is the most I could get? I mean I'm beating the hell out of a guy who just killed 12 people and put my life in danger when I was in the theatre. It'd take an OJ jury or Casey Anthony jury to put me away for beating up such a lowlife punk. Wouldn't police applaud me for beating the piss out of such a coward? Two people who were found "not guilty"

The Muppets are dumping Chik-Fil-A and donating the money to LBGT rights groups instead.

You'd be arrested.

you're wrong, steve.

Jesus christ who would complain about someone leaving at 4:58:30 instead of 5:00:00 anyway?

Somewhat related, but the star of Romney's "My Hands Didn't Build This" ad's business has relied not only on a functional society and infrastructure but on government loans and contracts throughout the years.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 07:57 AM) In your opinion they didn't. Feel free to post some examples edit: I'm genuinely interested in dumb cartoons. They're usually all terrible regardless of persuasion.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 09:16 PM) Kinda like the right wing version of "I don't care about the poor"? No, not like that at all. People didn't make cartoons about Romney's statement that were completely contradictory to their intended message.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) You have to wonder if he'll ever get the mental aspect of the game. I've given up on him at this point.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 09:02 PM) Its probably better to drink something with sugar in it that something that miraculously has zero calories, at least thats what I was told. Diet drinks have been shown to have cancer causing agents in them, and you have to wonder where that flavor comes from while not adding any calories. I also love G2, but sparingly, there are better alternatives. There are natural sweeteners like Truvia. I also seem to remember that you need to consume a ridiculous amount of artificial sweeteners to be at risk for cancer. Like 1/2 pound a day or something.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) This whole incident gives you a new perspective on how large collegiate sports have become. These colleges have become religions. It's a multi-million dollar business where sports coaches are the highest paid people on campus while academic departments (you know, the actual point of colleges) get the ax.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 06:59 PM) Welcome to the NCAA. That's pretty much how every punishment gets handed out. You can't punish an institution without affecting innocent people. When Enron was brought down, plenty of innocent people lost their jobs and their pensions/retirement accounts.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 06:14 PM) True. If he gets shot too quickly, it turns into Martin... Martin didn't do anything illegal let alone go on a shooting spree, that's a ridiculous comment.

There's a bunch of similar ones. Basically anything involving that quote-mined statement has the exact opposite message than intended.

QUOTE (MuckFinnesota @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 07:22 PM) I should clarify a few things. They aren't paying overtime to some salaried employees who work under the threshold for OT pay. A minimum wage employee works 60 hours a week and doesn't get OT. I realize what G&T said originally but wasn't sure if there were exemptions for minimum wage employees. Paychecks are pushed back a month but are not skipped. So I just got the overtime I earned a month ago on the weekend. My concern now is that they got rid of the finger print system to keep track of time for lunches and how much you've worked. Now the HR person eyeballs how long you have worked based off the security cameras in the office until the admin system is developed. My paychecks always read 80 hours for two weeks and since we're a month behind I am "being paid" and having checks pushed back since overtime is packed in to the check somehow. The issue is I don't know how much I'm out for overtime or what I am owed. Maybe I need to start keeping track of my hours. I don't believe in the management but the product is cool. Unfortunately I don't love what I'm doing enough to keep working at an hourly rate and wouldn't mind taking the new job I suggested for a salary and benefits to start out. I don't know if I'd report a scenario like this, but that doesn't mean the guy I mentioned before wouldn't. I appreciate everyone's concern and sorry I couldn't reply sooner. Keep a daily log of your hours.

QUOTE (Carter224 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 04:45 PM) I think just a fine should have been enough.. Why is the football program getting punished for something that had nothing to do with football? Hit them with the fine and remove all the Paterno stuff, thats really all that should have been done. At least they can transfer without having to sit out. It was about the institutional culture and decisions made to protect the football program's image.

Saw an interesting point elsewhere: In the other movies, we saw and heard more from the people of Gotham. In this one, they were almost entirely background extras. The way they react to the Joker's plot to blow up the barges and Bane's plot is also 180* different.

I don't get this meme. Clearly a little girl is not solely responsible for her lemonade stand? She had to rely on the help of her parents to provide her with the materials to make the lemonade and the stand. Is it just supposed to be "Obama's a jerk, yelling at children!"? Is it really A Good Cartoon, portraying those who think they are entirely self-made without help of others as having a child's understanding of society? a variation of this is common across many other conservative political cartoons right now.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 04:03 PM) I think that was a turning point in law enforcement since no law enforcement agencies had anything to combat it at that time. It definitely led to an increased militarization and expansion of SWAT teams. But the point there is that all of these people, including sitting US Senators, saying that one Brave Man with a concealed handgun could have stopped this guy are just being pretty damn naive.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 03:56 PM) Also, some of the people here talking about how easy it would be to shoot the guy in a dark theater are deluded by Hollywood. Ain't that easy. I think Balta already pointed this out, or maybe it was someone else, but the North Hollywood bank robbery in the late 90's demonstrates how naive this idea is. In that case, you had two heavily armed and armored gunmen out in broad daylight fighting to get away, not to kill as many as possible. Yet it still took dozens (hundreds?) of trained police officers over an hour to bring them down.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 03:42 PM) As a policeman, why do you think the gunman wasn't shot and killed by the cops in the parking lot? Was the guy standing against his car? I'd think any one sign of resistance by the guy or his moving his hands to detonate a bomb or something would have resulted in the guy getting blown away. I wish he'd have been killed on the spot. I'm amazed at the "coddling" culture you mention. The same parents who were not coddled and even got slugged by a brother at say, Brother Rice, are now the ones coddling their own kids and making sure they play for teams that get trophies for going 0-10 during the season. The same parents who were able to roam the streets of Chicago unsupervised until dark and play baseball or hockey with their friends at the park all day, now have to be supervised entirely lest they get kidnapped or something. I don't understand how a generation that was not coddled has been the biggest culprit in coddling kids the last 30 years or so. This isn't an easy thing to live with for most people, including police officers.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 03:26 PM) Your answers are in Genesis and Revelation. After the "fall of man" sin and death entered the world. The story of Cain and Abel was the first murder. Sodom and Gomorrah was listed as "sin so grievous" that only the story of Lot is recorded. In Revelation there is prophecy of evil becoming greater. Evil has always existed. The problem with secularism is it doesn't believe evil exists and when it does, they look for excuses that makes the individual less accountable. It has a belief that poverty=immorality. (in many cases true) We are shocked that such crimes like these are not done by "ghetto" people. As secularism becomes popular acts like this happen. Worse acts like this have been committed before in political systems where the foundation is secularism. Our current culture treats stress as something bad. Kids going into the public education system since the 80's have become coddled compared to those in the 70's. You got yelled at by the teacher for a bad grade and then got it at home. If you got whacked by the teacher you prayed that info didn't get home. If you were bullied you handled it on your own as much as possible. If you lost, you didn't get a trophy. If you were bad at something, you wanted to improve because quitting wasn't always the option. The world is not fair and there is no political system that can be implemented to change that. People tend to snap more because they've been coddled and never had to deal with any stress. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 06:13 PM) This was really written?

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) You seem to have a thing for 2nd round picks and bad players.

This isn't a "conviction" and Paterno's wins weren't directly vacated, PSU's wins were. eta: and there is absolutely no penalty here, aside from pride. Paterno's wife isn't going to jail, she isn't losing any money. The cost of "getting it wrong" here is minimal, not to mention the likelihood. USC's 2004 national title was vacated, which meant Pete Carroll's win was vacated in the same manner as Paterno's. Should the NCAA have talked to his family first?