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Again, we are looking at specific situations involving marijuana. Not every situation should involve government stepping in, but many do. Will your business or residence hurt my real estate values? The government steps in. Why should they care that you park four abandoned cars on your lawn and paint your house like the Partridge Family bus?

Has technology made this harder or easier to perpetrate? On one hand photo editing software makes doctoring photos child's play and quick, on the other the internet makes spotting these easier. Newspapers can be lied to. Much of our lives are based on trust. We trust that oncoming car won't swerve into our lane and we trust that the photographer selling photos is telling the truth. How would you authenticate those types of photos? No wonder trust in media is dropping, being replaced by our government and admittedly biased sources like the talking heads. the question will be was Reuters a victim of a dishonest freelancer/employee or criminal in it's own actions? If a store accepts a counterfeit bill, we don't charge them with counterfeiting.

Can a great fan also be a great poster?

I sat around debating what to do about a few adults who acted like children on an internet message board.

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QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 02:48 PM) or maybe he just wasn't trying to kill the kid. Then the "defending his life" argument falls away. If you are using deadly force, you have to be prepared to kill. Shoot for the biggest body mass, the chest. Not for limbs like in some spaghetti western. He claims the kid was trying to kill him, why would be be shooting to maim?

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 02:51 PM) TOP TEN THINGS THAT MAKE A GOOD SOXTALK.COM POSTER: 10. ABILITY TO POST "SEND [iNSERT STARTER'S NAME HERE] TO THE BULLPEN AND START B-MAC" THREAD EVERY WEEK 9. DEMONSTRATE CLINICAL SCHIZOPHRENIA, BETWEEN "WE'RE DOOMED" SCENARIOS AFTER A LOSS AND "ALL THE PIECES ARE IN PLACE!" AFTER A WIN 8. ENTER INTO LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIHP WITH JOHN GARLAND. FIRST HALF HE WAS "JUDY"; SECOND HALF HE'S OUR ONLY HOPE, OBI WAN, OUR ONLY HOPE (THE REVERSE BEING TRUE LAST YEAR) 7. ENJOY BEING PUT IN THE DAMNED-IF-YOU-DO SITUATION OF PICKING A CENTER FIELDER TO START ONCE AND FOR ALL: ANDERSON = GREAT GLOVE AND NOODLE BAT; MACOWIAK = OKAY BAT BUT SPECIAL-OLYMPICS-LIKE CF ABILITY 6. SECOND-GUESS OZZIE WITHOUT "REALLY" SECOND-GUESSING HIM, BY PREFACING POSTS WITH DISCLAIMERS LIKE: "I'M NOT TRYING TO BE AN ARMCHAIR MANAGER, BUT...", WHILE PARKED FIRMLY IN YOUR LAY-Z-BOY 5. PISS EVERYBODY OFF BY STARTING AN ATTENDANCE THREAD 4. PULL "RANK" WITH A NEWBIE BY TIPPING YOUR AGE: "HEY, KID! I WAS THERE WHEN LUKE APPLING HIT FOR THE CYCLE. BACK WHEN CARS COULDN'T GO UP HILLS!" 3. REFER TO NOW-DEPARTED BACKUP CATCHER AS "THE WIDGENATOR" 2. KNOW TO INSTINCTIVELY MUTE TV PLAY-BY-PLAY WHEN HAWK UTTERS DEADLY PHRASE: "WELL, BACK WHEN I WAS A PLAYER..." 1. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GREATEST BROADCAST MOMENT IN RECENT SOX HISTORY WASN'T HAWK'S "JOOOOE! CREEEEEDE!" BUT RATHER A BORED-OUT-OF-HIS-SKULL DJ SINGING "BILLY, DON'T BE A HERO" DURING THE BROADCAST OF AN AWAY GAME Yup, sounds good to me.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 02:51 PM) TOP TEN THINGS THAT MAKE A GOOD SOXTALK.COM POSTER: 10. ABILITY TO POST "SEND [iNSERT STARTER'S NAME HERE] TO THE BULLPEN AND START B-MAC" THREAD EVERY WEEK 9. DEMONSTRATE CLINICAL SCHIZOPHRENIA, BETWEEN "WE'RE DOOMED" SCENARIOS AFTER A LOSS AND "ALL THE PIECES ARE IN PLACE!" AFTER A WIN 8. ENTER INTO LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIHP WITH JOHN GARLAND. FIRST HALF HE WAS "JUDY"; SECOND HALF HE'S OUR ONLY HOPE, OBI WAN, OUR ONLY HOPE (THE REVERSE BEING TRUE LAST YEAR) 7. ENJOY BEING PUT IN THE DAMNED-IF-YOU-DO SITUATION OF PICKING A CENTER FIELDER TO START ONCE AND FOR ALL: ANDERSON = GREAT GLOVE AND NOODLE BAT; MACOWIAK = OKAY BAT BUT SPECIAL-OLYMPICS-LIKE CF ABILITY 6. SECOND-GUESS OZZIE WITHOUT "REALLY" SECOND-GUESSING HIM, BY PREFACING POSTS WITH DISCLAIMERS LIKE: "I'M NOT TRYING TO BE AN ARMCHAIR MANAGER, BUT...", WHILE PARKED FIRMLY IN YOUR LAY-Z-BOY 5. PISS EVERYBODY OFF BY STARTING AN ATTENDANCE THREAD 4. PULL "RANK" WITH A NEWBIE BY TIPPING YOUR AGE: "HEY, KID! I WAS THERE WHEN LUKE APPLING HIT FOR THE CYCLE. BACK WHEN CARS COULDN'T GO UP HILLS!" 3. REFER TO NOW-DEPARTED BACKUP CATCHER AS "THE WIDGENATOR" 2. KNOW TO INSTINCTIVELY MUTE TV PLAY-BY-PLAY WHEN HAWK UTTERS DEADLY PHRASE: "WELL, BACK WHEN I WAS A PLAYER..." 1. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GREATEST BROADCAST MOMENT IN RECENT SOX HISTORY WASN'T HAWK'S "JOOOOE! CREEEEEDE!" BUT RATHER A BORED-OUT-OF-HIS-SKULL DJ SINGING "BILLY, DON'T BE A HERO" DURING THE BROADCAST OF AN AWAY GAME Yup, sounds good to me. POTM

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QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:52 PM) Wiconsin has black people at the school. Its just an unfair picture, they are taking a picture of the stands, when clearly all the black people are actually on the playing field. LOL, Plus that picture was used for advertising and marketing, not news. Biiiiiig difference.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:57 PM) How lame though. I would remember going to school on valentines morning, hoping I'd get a valentines from the girl I had a crush on. Where's the fun if everyone gives one to you? Most schools don't have a policy that they all have to be the same. My kids picked out extra special ones for their better friends and crushes. Rex, 5 when you started 2nd grade? and 11 when you started 4th?

I'm not saying the government's actions are right. The original question was what right the government has in telling people what they can not put into their bodies. My reply is we gave the government that right, which is exactly how our system of government is designed to work. Anyone claiming that the government does not have the right and how would you go about changing what rights or actions the government can take? I seems to me that establishing a system of laws becomes the primary responsibility of any government. Our Constitution established how and what the government should be involved in. Should it then take an amendment to change that, not individual laws?

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:38 PM) Someone who knows the correct forum for such a topic?

And the reasons cited are partial b.s.. In reality, the teachers do not want to, and shouldn't have to, deal with the crying kid who was excluded. Why allow a situation in the classroom where some kids are going to have their feelings hurt and disrupts instructional time?

Every photo is a doctored version of the events depicted. In a 360 degree view, the photographer pick a narrow slice to shoot. To further doctor the photo, by adding elements, should be labeled as such. This would place it at the same level as a courtroom painting. We know that is doctored and accept that.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) Texsox, For the majority of our nations existence, people and the govt as well, did not believe that it had the power to control what an individual did with their own body. Regardless, the economic cost of enforcing marijuana laws is very high and the gain to society is very low. Most laws that try and enforce morals are a waste of tax payers money. And my response is pretty much the same. The government is involved because *we* allow it. Sometimes it makes sense and is correct, sometimes we are wrong. But we should never forget that we are the government. We can change it by electing people who share that vision. I happen to believe that marijuana laws are outdated and the time has come to make changes. I prefer to remove marijuana from the hands of dealers and into the hands of liquor stores and taverns. This coming from someone who has never smoked anything in my life except meat. QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:33 PM) There's plenty of people addicted to legal "drugs" like alcohol and cigarettes yet there is no mass government crackdown on the "lack of productivity" caused by people having to take multiple smoke breaks during the day or those that show up to work hungover on Monday morning. If it is okay to put some known as dangerous materials into a person's body and have it be socially acceptable, why not other drugs -- especially if they are responsible with usage and can pull it off without hurting anybody else? After all, alcohol and cigarettes kill more people than crack, coke, heroin and pot combined each year. And in the idealist world the government does represent the people. However, the government represents their own power-hungry interests, the interests of those who can influence peddle with donations and the such instead of truth, logic and reason. Look at the criminalization of marijuana in 1937 for some real easy proof. Are you debating why the government is involved or that marijuana should be legal? Two vastly different debates. I agree marijuana laws are outdated and should be changed. At the minimum to reflect the current enforcement norms. I believe we are the government. We have done a poor job of oversight and electing representatives and the problems you outlined have crept into the system. But bottom line, we are allowing it.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:30 PM) Sounds like your boss was in the Boy Scouts. Actually, I work for the Boy Scouts.

participation trophies are stupid and the kids know it.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) And then the levels decrease to lower levels than those nations who have criminalized it -- or so says the experminents of states who have decriminalized soft drugs and added in safeguards for those who use hard drugs (i.e. clean syringe exchanges etc.) And really, if a person is not harming another person, what business is it of the government or anybody else what a person is putting into their body? One function we have given to the government is our collective economy and the financial impact we have on each other. If you're behavior is costing me money, then the government should mediate. Another point, the government is actually you and me and everyone else. We elect representatives as our proxies. It is their business to do whatever we ask of them. If we decide they should be involved in what each citizen puts in their body, then they have the power invested in them by the people who elected them.

One attribute that I wish I saw more of is the ability to disagree and not take it personal. Of the dozen or so posters here that I would actually walk across the street to meet, most are 180 degrees from me politically. The best examples I can give are Nuke and YASNY. We have pounded each other in politcal threads and never once has it ever been taken personally. I walked away licking my wounds, but believing that we respected each other's opinion. I never would believe that we would bait each other for sport or knowingly toss out an insult. I love a sense of humor, someone who can laugh at himself, someone who understands that we are all talking opinions. My employer has a list of twelve attributes they like all the members to live by, most probably apply to this place: trustworthy, loyal, helpful. friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. A little depth when appropriate and brevity when that is the right thing to do. Sometimes an "I agree" really does help the conversation. And when necessary.

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Since it is illegal for the kid to have a bb gun, it is reasonable to assume that the cops will treat all guns as potentially deadly. Sorry kid, don't be playing with guns. And as far as the witness who claimed the kid was trying to put it down, they have no way to know intent. I have to say this about the cop: 4 shots from 10 feet away and only hit 3 for 4 and the kid is still alive? From 10 feet?? wtf? Learn to shoot.

Not naming names, but we keep hearing good posters have been run off the site, he's a good poster, he's a bad poster. I've lost track of what a good poster sounds like. So, tell me, what makes a good poster? Willing to debate his point of view? Willing to state his opinion and shut up? Let's not take shots at each other, although I think that would show bad posting, but talk about the attributes of a good poster. What standard should the Admins be thinking of when "cleaning up the site?"

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) Didn't Canada try that like a year ago, and wound up having people complaining that the government-approved stuff wasn't very good? But that's Canada, we're the country that invented McDonalds, Sliders, Cheetos, we make everything mo' better.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 11:08 AM) I really need new friends. Don't we all. Making good friends is something that a person just can't set out to do. It happens best when you aren't looking. Having said that, I'll bet these are a couple people who would like to be a friend, who you don't "see" everyday. Like everyone, you probably walk right past them. How about a soxtalk be a friend day? Tomorrow let's all try and be a friend and see what happens.