Texsox

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) I'm talking about this case. She said she did it. The family knows she did it. There is no conspiracy. Yes I want her stricken from the earth very soon, not having to wait years for a trial. If that makes me bad instead of the system, then I'm bad. I contend the system and our world can be very bad. I'm not wrong on this issue IMO. I'm not blaming you or criticizing you. I think the world would be a better place if there was more outrage against people like this woman when everybody knows she did it than people defending the legal system when somebody like me speaks out against this monster of a woman. That's just me. In this case, like all cases in the US, she is innocent until proven guilty. She is entitled to a strong defense in front of an unbiased judge or jury. I support our system, you reject it. We have appeals in this country because we have so many rights. I am fundamentally opposed to the taking away of rights. You have no problem with that. I can express outrage, horror, and empathy for this crime without demanding an immediate execution. There are countries around the world where that does happen, and none of them are where I would like to live.

Being in the humanities this is all out of my area of expertise so pardon the questions. So how many students do you think are affected by what amounts today as a two week shutdown, and how many students if this goes until the end of the year? How did the research begin without money? How does a month or two, or more delay in receiving the next check have such a disastrous affect for most projects?

Exactly. I had hoped that academia could make adjustments. They can not. How many grad students are awarded federal money for their projects versus Professors? The complaint was that only long in the tooth professors drink from that well.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 01:47 PM) The problem is not me, it's getting these monsters tried in a quicker fashion. Unless the big, bad media is out to get her I think this woman is the problem. The article said: "Deno said in court that Giedrojc admitted in a video statement to beating the baby with a sledge hammer and slitting her throat." Cmon. If we can't get this woman convicted in a timely fashion, what good is society?? I think one of the problems today is people thinking somebody like me is the problem when I want quicker justice in these cases!! That's all. The problem is that: You do not believe in innocent until proven guilty. You do not believe in an unbiased jury. Therefor you do not believe in the American system of justice. How can you simultaneously claim the system is flawed and demand killing people sooner without appeals? You do understand we have sentenced to death people who later are proven to be innocent? There is very strong evidence that at least one, and possibly more have been executed who were innocent? It is bad enough when innocent people have spent months, years, or even decades locked up for crimes that they did not commit. Once we have killed someone, it is impossible to go back and bring them back to life.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:14 PM) huh? They can't adjust to the facts that some government supported research was halted and work around it. According to Balta, the careers and lives of academics have been shattered. There will be a mass exodus of researchers leaving this country for green pastures where funding is more consistent and guaranteed. I believed that people could make adjustments and understand why certain research was suspended.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 11:43 PM) No I am not the problem. She was found with the murder weapons. She said she did it. The relatives of this monster woman know she did it. Thus she is GUILTY at least in the court of Greg and I would make sure she didn't walk for this act. I seriously don't know if I've ever heard of a worse crime than this one and I feel so badly for the family of the baby. You are not the problem? Then you go on to admit you don't even need to hear the defense. Do you understand our entire justice system is based on innocent until proven guilty and being judged by an unbiased jury? How can you say you would not be a problem when you readily admit that she is guilty before the trial and that you have already formed a biased opinion?

You both realize how monumentally silly it is to argue about votes that were based on faulty information.

Too bad academics aren't able to adapt to the present conditions. I guess I thought more highly of them.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) I wish I was on the jury because she wouldn't be found insane. She'd be found convicted and she'd be giving up her life. Or there'd be a retrial cause I wouldn't budge. And that is one of the problems with the system. People on juries that don't even bother with the evidence at trial. Do you realize that people like you on juries destroy the very foundation of our justice system and one reason it is, to use your words, MAJORLY FLAWED!!! The basic, most fundamental underpinning, is that all defendants receive a fair trial from an unbiased jury. Innocent until proven guilty. Only then would allowing the government to kill someone come close to being morally fair.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:48 PM) Tom Hanks could play him in the movie

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) HAHAHAHAHA You know what's hilarious? Ruining people's careers while still wasting a couple billion taxpayer dollars. After all, I might have to go back more than 3 posts to find you complaining about the government wasting money. But hey, it's wasted by this shutdown, who cares. How are careers ruined? The rest of academia can't adjust to delays, even whole years?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 07:58 PM) Really? Get one of those really great government jobs without being the daughter's step-sister's cousin of a connect politician. Oh, you mean because it's easier to get work in the private sector when you don't know anyone? About what I thought. Welcome to the real world, Tex. You don't get those awesome government jobs without being born into the royal family that is US politics...or being lucky enough to actually become a freiend of a family member. What percentage of the jobs are hired that way? Is it just federal, or state, and local also? There are millions and millions of people who work for government agencies in this country, from the lady who accepts your water bill at your city office, to school teachers, garbage workers, cops, soldiers, postal carriers, inspectors, Doctors, lawyers, accountants, researchers, translators, and there are enough relatives to cover all those positions. Of course nepotism and favoritism doesn't exist in the private sector? You are joking correct?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 12:32 AM) IT IS MAJORLY FLAWED in these cases. Fortunately if the MAJORLY FLAWED system fails, we can just exhume the body, revive them, and the mistakes are corrected.

That isn't quite accurate and we execute people all the time who do not fit any of the standard diagnoses of mental disease or defect. Three in Texas just this past couple weeks, which is why Texas is the safest state in the union, we execute the most killers. But if for example she does suffer from certain kinds of dementia, schizophrenia, etc. we do not execute them. And for the same reason we do not execute say an 8 year old who has not yet developed the capacity to understand their actions.

We don't execute the mentally ill in this country.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 07:19 PM) i think we can call this a success story for the regime, a lot of U.S. workers got jobs to work on it ("shovel" ready jobs). oh wait, it was almost entirely outsourced to India. nevermind. How did Romney get in charge?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 03:32 PM) So I couldn't resist... The entire IPO document comes in at 754,890 characters, including spaces (which twitter does) meaning you would need 5393 tweets to put the entire IPO up. Being that you are a hard working private industry employee, why aren't you getting started?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 09:49 AM) They don't have pensions and are not nearly paid as well as their government counterpart. Are you suggesting then that competent people accept jobs that pay less and do not offer pensions? Why do they do that if government jobs are so much better?

Interesting strategy here for the Dems. Despite Rush telling his listeners that they are close to victory and giving in would be "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory", it seems that the shut down is hurting the GOP more than it is hurting the Dems. Although it is hurting everyone. Should Dems hold out for total victory, or try to give up the least while trying to be the party that compromised and re-opened the government? What's the end game here?

Nicely played. I laughed. Then cried when I realized my vote merely cancels his.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 10:46 AM) If Romney was president today... I doubt things would be any different. The ACA would be gone.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 08:17 AM) I think there's definitely a lot of historic outrage and debate over the decision to deploy the atomic bomb in wartime. Do more argue for the use of the atomic bombs in WW2 or chemical weapons? As you noted, there is debate over the use of atomic bombs in WW2. There is no debate on chemical weapons. We seek to destroy chemical weapons where we find them, but allow Christian countries to keep atomic weapons. Where is the logic in that?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 05:51 PM) Do you even know how the government operates? Like the basics (i.e., passing bills, etc.)? Not being flippant here, but I doubt many people (myself included) fully understand all the ramifications and differences between passing a budget, which hasn't happened in years, and funding through continuing resolutions. Then toss in the too many to track procedural options that seem to change based on the current situations, and you have events that I doubt many Americans, including the elected officials, can keep track of.

Slit the enemy's throat? Cool Kill twelve with an automatic weapon while helping your fellow soldiers to escape an ambush? Win a medal Kill sixteen with a "smart bomb"? Wow, look at our technology! Kill 200,000 with a couple atomic bombs? Hey, it saved lives! Chemical weapons? NOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!!! Really? Why?