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Illini national championship game tomorrow White Sox opening day tomorrow ACLU conference Saturday Possibly performing at a coffeehouse open mic night Saturday night I get to register for classes this week and likely get to take 2 electives which is rare for my major/minor since it is so much coursework.

This game is going to be intense. Aside from the game my interest is piqued as to what these campuses will be like after the game (since I'm at UIUC), the win against Louisville was the beginnings of pandemonium. Reports say that there were 5,000+ people out. I can only imagine what's going to happen after this game is over. From yesterday after the game against Louisville

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 2, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) So, I should throw Bush and his Republican cohorts out of offce and watch while the Democrats do nothing, paralyzed by fear that their leftist constituents will label them "racist"? That's what happened in the early/mid '90s when Clinton was in office and the Dems controlled Congress. Obviously, neither party has done anything about this (albeit for different reasons), yet you place all of the blame on the right. How typical. :rolly I think he's just showing the Bush incompetency to deal with the borders while promoting the Unneeded Safeguard Abolition Preparing Americans To Readily Ignore Overt Totalitarianism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) But you are right that neither major corporate party is doing anything to deal with actual problems. I just wonder about agent provocateurs possibly infiltrating the Minutemen. I wouldn't put it past the US government to do this to discredit movements that were a growing threat to their policy since they've done it plenty of times in the past (i.e. COINTELPRO etc.)

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 2, 2005 -> 05:39 AM) A few minutes ago, I went out to grab a bite to eat. My radio was preset at a station that was carrying Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. His guest was a prophetic priest, Father Andrew Wingate. They were talking about the Pope, but I didn't listen long enough to pick up the point of the conversation, so I went to the shows website to see what they had been talking about. I just thought I'd put this out here. In case the Pope does recover, this would be quite extraordinary. I guess that guy needs to start re-evaluating.

Yes, I am very skeptical of government power so that means I want more in a socialist standpoint If anything, I'm more left leaning libertarian (actually voted Lib in past election). And our country and values are worth protecting -- that's why don't like it when Bush and his cronies jack off all over the Bill of Rights with "Sure, the PATRIOT Act hasn't led to the conviction of major terrorist cells & has done pretty much jack s*** to prevent attacks...and we're leaving the borders wide open but you need to give up your rights!" Its not about "hating America" but rather expecting it, since it is such a great nation set on lofty ideals, to actually step up to the plate and stand by their ideals. In the words of HL Mencken: The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. The Hunter Thompson statement following is my exact statement about the government: The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time--when the last living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House. Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters - it is where the heart of America lives. So if the president lies and acts giddy about other people's lives--if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder as a logical plan to make sure that we are still Number One--he is a Jackass by definition--a loud and meaningless animal with no functional intelligence and no balls. This of course, applies to any government in power.

QUOTE(1549 @ Apr 2, 2005 -> 10:21 AM) I just finished reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and it was extremely entertaining, maybe I'll see the movie now, but it can't match the book. Anyone have any literature they want to recommend? (I'm trying to stay away from sports and political books, I am kind of sick of them.) If you liked F&LiLV, then read "The Rum Diary" by HST -- it's another novel he wrote about his time at a newspaper in Puerto Rico.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 2, 2005 -> 08:56 AM) I have a problem with a foreigner constantly berating our government on a web site based in America, where Americans are the vast majority of posters, and the content is based on a sports team located in America. I have no problem with ciricism from voting, tax-paying Americans. IMO, it's not only our right, but our duty as well, to speak out when we feel that our government is wrong. While I typically listen to foreign criticism of American policy with patience and interest, I feel that never-ending anti-American posts from a foreigner on a site such as this are completely tactless. If you think that makes me a jingoist, I'm sorry you feel that way. Fortunately for me, I don't give a flying f*** what some 20-year-old who is still living off of mommy and daddy and has no idea what the real world is like thinks. IIRC, KWF is not located in our country. And if you think that there is a shortage of policy criticism in this country, you must be living under a rock. "Grrrrr... I'm an angry little college boy! Fight the power!" Grow up. :rolly Any criticism (unless its of a Democrat) is seen as anti-American by you. That's political hackery. And a personal attack on me -- Wow, you're really proving your point there!

While I do agree with Pat Buchanan on some foreign policy issues (the old Right policy of non-interventionalism is oddly becoming a policy that many in the left are agreeing with), salad dressing does not get one's point across.

The US government used Ahmed Chalabi (just a guy wanted for extortion in Jordan & an Iranian spy) for one of its major intel sources because Perle and Co. wanted any information to justify their policy. from: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

For death trifectas, lets not forget that Jerry Falwell is critically ill with pneumonia.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 08:51 AM) North Korea, perhaps? Regarding the free speech issue, I'm not sure what's worse: Jane Fonda committing treason by aiding the North Vietnamese or KWF's Small Canadian Penis Syndrome causing him to constantly bash the U.S. government. Yes because every critic of the US government has small genetalia. Oh wait, you mean that's not an argument? Holy s***! There goes your post. Actually, if we take out all the useless, insulting bulls***, let's see what we have left of your post: Because god forbid we have any criticism of policy in this country. Blindly follow government dictums because we know how well that's worked before and our government has never lied to us before Because it'd be a Communist like Tom Paine to say something like: It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.

Speaking of April Fool's jokes -- what has anybody played on anybody else today? I got a bunch of my friends this morning (we all have a class together) -- I showed up really angry & told them that my brother was re-shingling his house this morning. He fell off and broke his leg. Due to medical complications and everything, my parents would have to pay most of the bill. This means that I may have to take a semester or two off from school with the money crunch. I had everything going the whole class and they all bought it hook, line and sinker. After the hour of class, I went up to them and said (I should have won an Oscar for my acting ) "Thanks for being so supportive guys, I really appreciate it. I also appreciate that you fell for my gag."

I got a 104% on my Anthropology test. Got a free membership to the ACLU. The book I ordered came in the mail. Only have 2 classes tomorrow that are absolute cake.

Wow. That's pretty amazing. And odd aside not meant to threadjack/be sacriligous -- but every time I hear about the Medal of Honor, I always think back to Raymond Shaw in the "Manchurian Candidate" for some reason.

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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 11:50 PM) Nobody ever said Billy Joe Bob etc...etc... was the answer to this problem. This is a protest move designed to bring attention to a problem and based on the new enforcement effort in that area announced by the government today it appears to be working already. I'm just making a statement of fact that there needs to be more trained officers out there. That's all. Calm down, Nuke

There needs to be greater efforts to patrol our borders with special agents who are trained and know what the f*** they are looking for not Billy Joe Bob Steve Carl Frank with his rifle out there.

Happy birthday, Kap!

22...M 1. Yes 2. Parents should create it based on the maturity of their kid instead of a state/city mandated one.

I do think that *some* of the people engaging in this are ignorant racist twats just as some people who are involved in anti-war stuff etc. are ignorant slogan chanting twats that can't justify their position to save their lives. I do think border security is something that needs to be addressed -- especially in a time when borders/imports are porous as all Hell while we're being told we need to have our civil liberties curtailed to "stop terrorism".

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 28, 2005 -> 11:04 AM) We are trading one set of problems for another. I'm certain you wouldn't mind coming home late at night and bumping into Rambo and his rifle determining if you were someone he hated, or ok to pass. A well trained Marine killed an innocent kid, imagine what these vigilantes are capable of? Already they have harrased innocent Mexican-Americans. Pick a street in Chicago, grab a rifle, and detain every Mexican you see and ask them for credentials. Why is it ok in a wilderness area and not in the city? I am certain there are more than a few illegals in Chicago, let's put these guys on patrol. Tex, read the article: No rifles. Just a liscenced handgun if you have one. /dripping with sarcasm This is really a problem that the US government needs to address but I fear that neither party will do anything to avoid losing votes from the Latino bloc of voters.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Mar 27, 2005 -> 09:24 PM) Sideshowapu, a gross generalizer (again) -- you don't say. um, I hate to break it to you, but like Bill Hicks, your sad, sad generalizations and over-statements are uber-transparent. there's a huge difference between someone in a coma on a respirator and a woman who is responsive to her surroundings and needs help eating. Both stricken patients were severely brain-damaged. Both were incapable of surviving without medical assistance. Both were said to have expressed a desire to be spared from being kept alive by artificial means. And neither of them had a living will. So why is it alright for DeLay to do it and then stand on his soapbox about how we need to err on the side of life? /DeLay playing the Christian right like a cheap fiddle

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0327-01.htm Link originally from the LA Times... Tom DeLay a moral hypocrite (again) -- you don't say. I wonder what he would have done if Congress did half of what they're doing with Terri Schiavo if he was in the situation again.

I just have to say I watched most of that game on mute because I got sick and tired of the announcer "OH MY GOD! SEAN MAY TOOK 3 STEPS! SO AMAZING!" shilling like a slack jawed idiot.

http://www.canada.com/victoria/story.html?...02-d3330963019e An image that appears to be Premier Gordon Campbell's drunk-driving mugshot has showed up on a T-shirt authorized by famed comic-book maker Marvel Enterprises, Inc. The black T-shirt, which is selling at some local Wal-Mart stores for a suggested retail price of $12.96, features the outline of a skull, the insignia of The Punisher -- a Marvel character known for dishing out vigilante justice with oversized firearms. Filling in that skull outline are a number of yellow and red-coloured mugshots, one of which seems to be the premier's -- taken in Maui when he was arrested for impaired driving two years ago.