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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 08:33 PM) Then help me do something that takes guns out of the hands of people who get arrested convicted multiple times and shoot young black kids while thinking they're being heroes. Show me that there's a difference. I believe the editing is necessary in this country.

Why are religious groups treated differently than any other group? When Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower at UT-Austin and murdered 16 people should every member of the Boy Scouts worldwide have made pronouncements denouncing Whitman? When Ligue ran on the field and assaulted a Royals coach, was it the responsibility of every Sox fan to denounce the attack? Just because someone perverts a belief and does something because they believe a certain way, doesn't mean that an entire group should somehow be responsible. Everyone here belongs to groups that share an idea, a belief, something, that doesn't mean you are responsible for everything that happens to be done in that name.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 10:13 PM) you are missing my point and maybe i should have said it differently. using the dallas and the killing of the president is and was not a religious reason. using it as an example to try to make a point was wrong. terrorist attack b/c of religion is what i would like to criticize, but i will refrain tonite. now religion terrorist is a small point use the Columbine High School shooting if you want to make a point of plain and stupid violence. better yet, let them kill themselves. what still gets me is these so call innocent muslims don't say anything for or against. Right there was not a religious reason. So those without religion, this one is on you. Someone shared your belief against religion, why doesn't that stigma attach itself to everyone who does not believe? Because I am Christian, I am suppose to denounce daily every criminal act committed by a Christian or find a new way of life. So if that is our responsibilities, then if you check off no religion shouldn't you have the same responsibility? Or are those crimes somehow different?

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 06:00 PM) and when the schools did not shut down when it snowed before. when did it become the school responsibility for that. chi - 2 days after the blizzard of the 60, 70's , i had to walk to school. over 98% made it to school. the school had 4,000 kids. All it took was for a few kids to be injured, and a lot of parents complaining about having their kids forced to walk in the snow, forced to go out, risking frostbite. When did it change to where a kid brings home a report card with low grades and the parents come to the school to chew out the teacher?

f*** all of you guys, go back to where you came from. A lesson in green = sarcasm

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 05:56 PM) i am saying that if one believes that Oswald was the lone gunman. Right so if more were involved that becomes even more like the recent terrorist activity. Atheists assassinating the President of the United States.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 06:45 PM) This thread has jumped the shark and is now accomplishing nothing. It's become a mindless stream of "I don't have the answer, or anything close to a suggestion, so here is the most politically correct thing I can say." I'm sure that'll solve the problem. If I was religious, which I'm not because science, but if I was, and things such as this seemed to be happening on a daily a basis in the name of my religion, I'd either leave it or I'd be speaking out against it on a daily f***ing basis, and demanding the leaders of said religion do the same. And if they refused, again, I'd have to do some soul searching to find a new way of life because f*** this and f*** them. Science has created the worse imaginable ways of killing people. Bombs, chemical weapons, guns, diseases. Why aren't you condemning the evils of science on a daily f***ing basis? You should be demanding that the science leaders also condemn scientific discoveries to kill people. Or find another way of life.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 04:36 PM) It's also the N=1 fallacy... Plenty of issues with that argument Either argument takes a very small subset of a group of people who share similar beliefs and expands that to include every member. It also makes the supposition that because you identify with a certain belief that all your behaviors can be attributed to that shared belief.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 04:03 PM) that is everyone believes he is the lone gunman. not a good example. how bout using the Columbine High School shooting. I'm not understanding your point.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 04:06 PM) i know what you are saying. that is why i stop reading anything about how cold or how much snow. cmon when did all this get sooo sissified ??? When schools became responsible for the kids standing outside their homes instead of the parents.

Did you mean to put that in green?

If someone that posts here commits a terrible deed are we all tainted by our association? People all have beliefs, we take one set of beliefs, apply a label, and believe that is the cause. So if someone is a certain religion, Christian, Jew, Muslim, etc, and perverts the religion to fit their own world view, we still blame their religion. I'm not certain doing that is necessarily of any help. On a parallel thought, Lee Harvey Oswald did not believe in any organized religion, and based on his time in the Soviet Union, was probably atheistic. Shall we blame his terrorist actions on being an atheist? Apply the same call to action. Stop all atheists, etc. How about we treat criminals in a group, regardless of their motives, and allow honest people to their beliefs?

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 10:45 AM) Among The Thugs by Bill Buford. Has societal and group mentality issues That was on my radar to read. I am worried about the language and if it would be appropriate for a high school class.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 11:04 AM) Great, and when the Cubs don't come close to even making the playoffs, the person who made the ridiculous World Series prediction should lose all credibility as an expert. Depends on why. There wouldn't be any NFL experts out there after the Bear's season. IIRC they were picked near the top in almost everyone's predictions.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 10:06 AM) I feel this way about ALL organized religion. At some point in time, whether in the past, present or future, some piece of those religions will commit terrible acts in the name of their god. I feel this way about ALL countries. At some point in time, whether in the past, present or future, some piece of those countries will commit terrible acts in the name of their country. How about all countries? When the same terrible acts are perpetrated in the name of a country we are patriotic and defending our way of life. When those same acts are perpetrated in the cause of deeply held believes the people are terrorists and fanatics, etc. If we are following elected officials, yeah! If we are following our own deeply held beliefs, nay!

For anyone with a job that involves making these sort of predictions for a deadline in December, picking someone that no one else picked is both a f=great attention getter and if it pans out, makes you look like a genius. Not the Mr.Genius but a genius. Now be one of the guys that picks a team that has had a historical and for us hysterical streak of sucking (Cubs) to win and it happens . . . Wow. It gets people reading and talking.

I've been asked to outline a Special Genres class as an elective or alternative for their usual English 4 class. I've put together a reading list for a border literature/south Texas writers class now I am putting together a sports literature class. I'm hoping one or the other gets on the master schedule. The books need to be challenging and offer some opportunities for rigorous assignments. I've been thinking that Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air (mountain climbing) should be included. Friday Night Lights (Texas football), Veeck as in Wreck (autobiography genre), Boys of Summer (baseball) . . . It can't be a "blow off class" for just guys.

^^ I quickly distance myself from groups like this. I'm wondering which way the world would be better. Just insult everyone at every time so they "get over it" and "don't know who to kill" or develop a little respect for everyone. The answer of course is somewhere in the middle.

Very proud of my daughter being chosen as a finalist for Houston Advertising Assoc. Newcomer of the Year award.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) pretty much plus I'll have to check into the state income tax for each location. I would also prefer deferred money. Build a better team around me when I'm playing then who cares after I'm gone. Plus there will be more money for me to spend after I'm retired. yeah, I'm playing for #1. Y'all can pawn your WS ring when your broke ass has nothing left. I'm going grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 11:00 AM) This is the only right answer if we are being realistic Thanks LittleHurt05

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QUOTE (gatnom @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 10:55 AM) Sign me up coach, I'll play 18. It was dark.

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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 10:07 AM) Are we now going to blame the hostages for being or associating with Jews in France, because being Jewish is offensive to certain people? This is why you have to confront terror with defiance, because they can't be reasoned with. Are you saying that every media business should be required to print these cartoons?