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QUOTE(GASHWOUND @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 06:24 PM) AvP sucked...I was so bummed to..I went to see it at the movies and sat in my chair for like 5 mins after it finished it utter shame..I paid $5.50 to see this crap??? :banghead I did that when I got dragged to Final Destination and **shudder** Sweet November. :puke

The Boondocks cartoon in my sig echos my feelings about the Cosby situation. Its really unfortunate.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 04:15 PM) Check out the Dodgers one with Bradley and Lima's wife! http://news.naver.com/sports/new/view.php?...=cartoon&seq=74 I was laughing my ass off at that. http://news.naver.com/sports/new/view.php?...=cartoon&seq=56 Why is A-Rod in a Jason mask with a fly swatter?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 01:35 PM) Did the U.S violate U.N. sanctions to sell Iraq weapons? No. Did the U.S. take bribes from Saddam Hussein for a "no" vote on military action? No So yes we do have moral high ground over France and Russia. Uh, technically Halliburton did selling them pulse generators in 2000. But who needs to get that picky. And Nuke -- The US was well aware of the skimming from Oil for Food -- http://mediamatters.org/items/200412070005

::wonders where Nuke is at since he was defending the Ashcroft raids before saying "conviction rates were high!":: And Tex -- I liked the questions raised by Ron Paul (R-TX) regarding the PATRIOT Act. He was one of 3 Republican Congressmen to break ranks and vote against the Act & ask how curtailments of civil liberties would have helped to stop 9-11 because there's no evidence showing that had the PATRIOT Act been in place, the attacks on 9/11 would have been prevented. "This legislation wouldn't have made any difference in stopping the Sept. 11 attacks," he says. "Therefore, giving up our freedoms to get more security when they can't prove it will do so makes no sense. I seriously believe this is a violation of our liberties." -- Ron Paul The PATRIOT Act was simply a laundry list of things that the DoJ wanted to have available to them but never were able to get them through since they were so antithetical to the Constitution but after 9/11, they were able to slam them through.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 01:11 PM) We really do talk out of both sides of our mouths in regards to Iraq. Thank you. That's exactly the point I'm saying in regards to this feigned outrage about France selling things to Iraq. The US government (the Reagan administration) did the exact same thing so there's no real higher moral ground for them to stand on to be pissed about. And Nuke -- at the time the Iraq weapons sales began there was still the State Department listing of Iraq as a terrorist nation -- Reagan had it taken off so they could sell weapons. When the US wants to do something immoral, just get rid of the pesky law. It worked for Reagan and Delay is even using the same tactic now after 3 ethics violations [getting rid of the law that would make him have to step down as chairman of a committee if he's being indicted -- a GOP enacted provision from 1994]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/...e/index_np.html 1) Of the more than 5,000 foreign nationals detained in anti-terrorism measures, not a single one stands convicted of any terrorist offense. 2) Nor did he find a single terrorist among the 80,000 Arabs and Muslims called in for registration, or the 8,000 sought out for FBI interviews. 3) He also claims that his terrorism investigations led to 368 criminal indictments and 194 convictions. What he doesn't say is that all but a handful of the convictions were for petty offenses, not terrorism charges. 4) A Syracuse University study found that the median sentence actually handed down in cases labeled 'terrorist' by the Justice Department in the first two years after 9/11 was 14 days – not the kind of sentence you'd expect for a terrorist. 5) And where are the al-Qaeda sleeper cells that prompted the aggressive sweeps in the first place? The closest thing Ashcroft can point to are six young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., who followed a charismatic religious leader to an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan, but returned to the United States showing no interest in terrorism and undertook no activity whatsoever in furtherance of even a petty crime, much less a terrorist plot. 6) The only criminal conviction involving an actual terrorist incident that Ashcroft can cite is that of shoe bomber Richard Reid, and he was captured not by anything the government did but simply because an alert flight attendant noticed a strange-looking man trying to light his shoe. Ahh...the illusion of safety. For all these "terror cells" being broken up, the only thing being broken up and destroyed is our Constitutional rights and civil liberties. A shoe-na-bomber was captured not because of government infringements on civil liberties but because of a random guy on the plane and the whores of both parties supporting this quasi-police state bulls*** herald it as some sort of great achievement which justifies the PATRIOT Act etc.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 10:37 AM) I for one did believe there were WMD. SS2K5 said it as it was too. You all can thank France being behind that one. Or the U.S. How quickly we forget our own history of propping up the same dictator with weapons & removing him from the list of terrorist nations even though he harbored fugitive terrorists like Abu Nidal. If we're going to whine about the French making money on blood then it doesn't seem like the US government of neo-cons has much a higher moral ground on which they can stand to make such claims.

I tried watching Miike's "Dead or Alive" (1999) last night for a while and could not stay awake though it. The first 10 minutes were awesome but after that, it slowed down infinitely and the story wasn't that good at all. I was quite disappointed.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan56789 @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 08:12 PM) Who didnt think Iraq had WMD's There was an Israeli spy found in the Pentagon that was a player in the Iraq WMD intel with Feith and the rest of the policy board along with Ahmed Chalabi being found to be an Iranian spy -- so the two men who helped give us a lot of info about the WMD programs came from spies from countries with vested interest in having us bomb the f*** out of Iraq.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 05:44 PM) There is a pretty big difference between the Balkans and Afghanistan and Iraq. In the Balkans there was clearly no threat to our security as opposed to the obvious threat posed by Afghanistan and the percieved threat posed by Iraq. Interesting how you portray Bush's calls to spread democracy as a threat. Somehow I dont think we're going to invade one country after another to do regime change until the world is 100% democratic. Regarding the idiot general who opened up his yap and those assholes involved in Abu Grhaib they will get what's coming to them. The blueprint for perpetual war for perpetual peace is being laid out right now. And the original intent of the Bush Jr. War in Iraq was WMD (intel shown to come from many less than reliable sources) but later it became about human rights/murders by state leader. Well, if stopping Saddam's state murdering is fine and a legitimate reason for military action then the GOP hacks who whined about Clinton in the Balkans have a lot of crow to eat. And the rhetoric of spreading democracy all over is like "benevolent empire". And I agree that we won't do every regime -- just the ones that threaten our ally Israel and sit on that precious precious oil.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 05:35 PM) FOX NEWS: KEEPING AMERICA SCARED Paranoia is patriotic.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 05:08 PM) You cherrypicked the hell out of that defenition didn't you? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=murder The actual defenition of murder: The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice. There is a huge difference between combat action and murder but you convienently overlook that. You're quick to point out regrettable incidents committed by U.S. troops and indeed Mai Lai was murder and so were several killings committed by U.S troops in Iraq but when stuff like that happens those responsible are punished in accordance with the law, something else you convienently overlook. You're just as quick to sweep under the rug all of the humanitarian aid and reconstruction work the military is involved worldwide ( Who were some of the 1st people to start helping provide aid for the Tsunami victims providing clean water, medical treatment and airlift capacity? Oh yeah, that bunch of evil "paid killers" as you so eloquently put it ) but I expect no less from someone like you. Our job is to protect this country and if that requires that we kill someone then so be it. To blindly label the millions of men and women who wore the uniform , myself included, as murderers is wrong and over the top and you damn well know it. Yeah and for Bush to say that we needed to invade Iraq because the smoking gun could "come in the form of a mushroom cloud" was over the the top as well and "you damn well know it". Or the threats of Bush to "spread freedom all over the world" -- coming from a man representing the party of less government and fiscal responsibility. Last time I checked, it wasn't the role of the US to be global policeman cuz I sure as hell remember the GOP hacks getting on Clinton's case for his activities in the Balkans (which are war crimes too, btw for the use of DU and cluster bombs) but then they shut their mouths now that a man with an R next to his name is able to take credit for the dead bodies. Nuke, when a high ranking military officer proclaims that its "fun to kill people", there are smiling people taking photos of torture, the US actively engaging in torture etc. etc. etc., the institution itself loses any sort of moral higher ground that they supposedly have. And its a slap in the face to have a President who wraps himself up in the Bible while completely throwing it in the face of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Now maybe I have a different Bible that doesn't have the subsections where they detail the parts where ending somebody's life isn't killing

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 03:54 PM) Where do you get off calling U.S. troops murderers. Scumbag. :fyou That's what they do right? They end peoples' lives. They kill which according to the dictionary definition of "murder" (n.) To put an end to; destroy. The military is simply paid killers -- and it amuses me that there are problems putting gays in the military because that would harm the "morality" of the military which has such bright shining moments like My Lai, Abu Ghraib, the Taguba report discussing the vastness of abuses going throughout. Its just hilarious watching a "Christian" President endorsing mass murder of brown people without evening saying "Whoops!" during the times of "collateral damage". But I see that irony is probaby lost on such a staunch supporter of the imperial Bush doctrine. We haven't even neared finishing up in Iraq and Bush is already making threats toward Syria and Iran. Sorry but America is not built on perpetual war for perpetual peace. When PNAC, the group founded by Rummy, Wolfowitz, Cheney etc. comes out and says "The United States will not and should not become less engaged in the world in the years to come." That is not a recipe for a protected, Constitutional republic. It is the recipe for a quasi-fascist empire. And yes, I know the Orwell quote that people sleep well at night because other strong men are ready to commit violence at our behalf -- but there is a major league difference between SELF-DEFENSE and "pre-emptive" wars with 3rd world countries that did not and do not threaten us. All the bombing campaigns, invasions, etc. do is just over-spread our self-defense force, give our enemies more targets, more ability to recruit and lead to another generation of terrorists and increased anti-American sentiment.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 5, 2005 -> 04:04 AM) Murder? Shut the f*** up. Combat does not equal murder you dolt and snipers are the most surgical instruments the military has at its disposal. "Thou shalt not kill" means just that -- not Amend Section A. That's why Marquette, a "Catholic" institution stopped it.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/04/family.torture/index.html They've been caught in Utah.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 09:32 PM) Let the kids raise some money. Come On! The irony is that they're at a Jesuit school and are selling bracelets promoting murder. They aren't saying that the CR's can't fundraise but rather that the private University believes that such bracelets do go against the crux of the religious doctrine on which their school is founded.

http://movies.ziaspace.com/budcommercial.wmv Just why exactly was this banned?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 04:03 PM) I'd just hang on to it for a while. Consider the jersey on "suspension." Never, ever put your own name the back of a jersey. You might as well say ... "Hey! I'm a dork." Fisk, Ventura, Aparicio, Fox, Thomas, John, Horlen, Peters, Allen .... any of those guys would be good on a Sox jersey. But then, I've always been partial to Tommy John, Joel Horlen and Gary Peters, so maybe that's just me. I think you're forgetting about the best Sox player of all time, YAS -- Dan Pasqua

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 01:05 PM) On that one I completely agree. Rumsfeld is an incompetent boob. If not the torture scandal etc., then he should have been handed his ass after completely f***ing up the "post-Mission Accomplished" Iraq planning with Wolfowitz etc. At least Feith had the dignity to resign from his post after realizing he f***ed up so bad (saying he needed more personal and family time) Norman Mineta even gets to keep his job after 9/11. Here I'm thinking that the head of the Department of Transportation might face some repercussions after planes (a form of transportation) was used as f***ing bombs but that's not been the case.

QUOTE(Mathew @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 12:24 PM) That was the only shot I've seen in Div III basketball. I echo those sentiments. I don't watch much Div III Basketball

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 12:42 PM) http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,3...2691638,00.html :rolly Obviously this was the work of the Colorado wing of Al Qaeda's bakery division.

Thank you very much for this. I'm stuck in a lab for an hour and will be playing this instead of doing BS busywork.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 3, 2005 -> 11:51 PM) No. It's w-h-O-r-e. OMG, Jim. That was hysterical.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/...n.ap/index.html John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died. He was 72 RIP.