LowerCaseRepublican

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/foot...ex.html?cnn=yes So he gets 4 months for attempting to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. Sounds fair and I'm sure he's learned his lesson And what other occupation could you get away with this sort of "Don't sentence me during the season because its necessary for me to be with my team" bulls***? I mean, I'm trying to become a standup and if I got busted for something like this, I could not imaging doing what he did -- the size of his balls to try something like that (and get away with it!): "Sorry your Honor, you can't sentence me now. I know all the evidence shows I'm guilty but I will plead guilty if they drop the big charges against me but I got a lot of shows coming up that I need to play. Can we do this in August or so when there's nothing going on?" His testicles must each have their own pant leg, they're so big for him to try something like this.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 26, 2005 -> 11:17 PM) Not in the top 3. His remake of The Thing, poor man's Alien though it was, is still up there on the intensity scale and has to be considered superior to Precinct 13. Flaax, what about "They Live"? "I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and I'm all out of gum."

Duke just lost to an unranked Maryland team tonight by 9 at home. That'll knock them down in the rankings a bit most likely.

Weyco Inc. -- They had a bad experience with fires in the past so they tend to be very averse to seeing flames now

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 26, 2005 -> 06:35 PM) Suddenly, its like Soxtalk confidential in here. Jim, don't make me get out the pictures of you, the sheep, the ducttape and the set of collectible spoons from Yellowstone National Park. Jeckle is a guy that does stuff. And he named himself after my favorite cartoon magpie. Wino is a fun, knowledgeable guy who has a strange compulsion for Bea Arthur and I find myself mentioning Bea from time to time now in class.

I think we can all agree that I won when I got $1 Honey Browns at Murphys watching the game last night.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 26, 2005 -> 03:52 PM) I remember my local cops. I'd never want to remember them naked. yuck. I hear that. ::shudder:: :puke

Critic makes me laugh my ass off 8 ways from Sunday all the time with his posts.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:40 PM) It's wrong for me to suggest you are stupid but based on what you have written I must conclude you are ignorant. We are a democratic republic. Why? Because the officials that govern that republic are elected via a democratic process. It's pretty simple stuff. Now with respect to fascism since you seem to love to mirror it to democracy, I would like for you to list at least 3 historicial references whereby a democratic vote led to a fascist policy. Finally if you trully believe that a person who suggests there exists a limit to individual rights is a fascists please don't bother to respond. You are becoming a waste of my time. How about 4 off the top of my head? Hitler Pinochet Haider (Austria) -- believe that's how its spelled, I'm just about out the door Papadopoulos (Greece) They won the popular plebisites and elections and it led to fascist policies being implemented.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:18 PM) It's Constitution based on the principles of democracy fashioned around the federal system of a republic. As to your references equating democracy to fascism you should stop while you are ahead. You sound pretty stupid. No I'm saying that an oppression of the majority is indeed fascism when there is no giving a damn about individual rights -- which is something you seem to be very apt about doing. It can be based on principles of democracy but that does not change the FACT that it is a federal republic. So your entire argumentation has been wrong.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:02 PM) One more time we are a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. Democracy first. Secondly, an individualistic viewpoint supported by the wealthy will remain in effect UNTIL THE MAJORITY of the POPULATION challenges it. That is what happened with the civil war. Through the influence of books, speeches, & rights of assembly by abolitionists the majority were made aware of the issue & sought to end slavery. When they opposed the wealthy the wealthy used their resources to retain slavery. There was no avenue for a peaceful solution. The resources of the wealthy had to be destroyed so that slavery could not be retained. Its a Constitution based federal republic but who needs little pesky things like facts getting in the way of pseudo-science and quasi-fascism, right?

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 05:57 PM) Wrong again. We are a democratic republic. That puts democracy first! Socialists go to Europe. We don't want you here. A democratic republic is intended to prevent the oppression of the minority by the majority that pure democracy inherently entails. Fascists, go back to Germany.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 05:54 PM) Knowing how rapidly nanotech is progressing if I were put into a vegetative state & my condition was not deteriorating and remained stable I would want to remain alive. How do they know she can not dream? We dream subconsciously sometimes at levels which can not be detected. Clinical research has proven this to be true. Who has the right to terminate another's dreams? So research can detect something that cannot be detected? How does that work?

Not really giving a damn who wins because its $1 Honey Browns at Murphy's tonight. So I win!

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 05:15 PM) Slavery, demanding minorities sit at the back of the bus/use seperate facilities etc., not dumping Jim Crow laws, criminalizing sexual behavior between consenting adults comes to mind. Specifically, ALL OF THESE represent individualistic viewpoints NOT CHALLENGED by the majority. When they were challenged by the majority they were overruled. Generally, You are making your argument based on a relativisitc system of individualistic morality which you believe in. I may agree with that system but I do not agree with the general principle that any such system should ever usurp the will of the majority. Democracy first, individual rights second. One more time...real slowly...W e A r e N o t A D e m o c r a c y. W e A r e A R e p u b l i c. And the systems of slavery etc. wouldn't have stayed in place if the majority didn't affirm them.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 05:33 PM) We all know the ACLU is the bastion of morally relative politcally correct speech. There's no point in debating it. It's another socialist think tank designed with a specific intent to undermine democracy. We're a republic, not a democracy.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 05:12 PM) What you can't see is the two ton Maxim just to the left of the frame.

Disruption happens on both sides. Most times we forget, to quote Bill Maher "We don't have two parties in America. We have identitical cousins played by Patty Duke." Its all just one party -- the Business Party.

Juggs, there's been plenty of other things that the majority agreed with: Slavery, demanding minorities sit at the back of the bus/use seperate facilities etc., not dumping Jim Crow laws, criminalizing sexual behavior between consenting adults comes to mind. To paraphrase Frank Zappa -- Just because you have a million people believe it doesn't make it right. Look at how many people supported Hitler. The amount of public support he had didn't make what he did right.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 01:28 PM) No it is an allegation until law enforcement believes there is sufficient evidence to charge a person with a crime. In this case they have been charged with crimes against the district, the state, & fed. That's pretty serious. They can be charged all they want but there is still that little presumption of innocence until found guilty.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) You're the one who wants to be a teacher. Get ready to have deep pockets. I don't have a problem with spending the money. I do when I have about $50 or so in the account and gotta use most of it to make copies for this professor...and conveniently the topic she is making us research is what she wants to write her new thesis on so we get to be her monkeys doing all the work for her. I'm copyrighting my paper: All ideas expressed therein are property of LCR and cannot be used without expressed written consent from LCR and the Commissioner of Major League Baseball" Luckily we have an Education Advisory Board and I am scheduling appointments to speak with them and the head of the Sociology department about this class and how it is not necessay for high school teaching prospects to take (It is a class on social research methods for sociologists). I doubt s*** will change but it'll be nice to have an airing of grievances.

QUOTE(mreye @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 01:49 PM) I do all my copying at work. I've already turned in 20+ pieces of paper to this professor in the first week of class...THE FIRST WEEK.

You should add in me today...I gotta go drop $30+ in copying costs to turn in a homework assignment worth about 1% of our grade. I'd totally not do it but it hurts the rest of my group if I don't so -- needless to say I'm a real happy camper

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 01:19 PM) If you've ever had a spanish class here at the UIUC....that is the definition of busy work. If you've had it, you know what i'm talking about. Take Sociology 380 -- the definition of busywork /running off to the library to print off 150+ pages of papers for a HOMEWORK GRADE. This class is singlehandedly making me think about dropping out -- and I can't drop it since it is mandatory.

I know we all have them so who wants to share stories? Today I spent 2 hours of my life in a class "Content and Technology in Social Studies Education". In this class, the professor read the syllabus to us word for goddamn word after showing up 15 minutes late. Then we looked about 10 different examples of portfolios we'll have to put together [although 3 examples would have been more than plenty] and then she went into about an hour long lecture with such intellectually stimulating things like "Putting blue font on a blue background on your web page is hard to read", 20 minutes on the colors wheel, how to choose colors [a.k.a. what colors match] and making things pleasing to the eye for our portfolios. The entire class was yelling "f***ing boring.", "We got the idea" and "For the love of God and all that is holy, shut your piehole!" but the professor was encapsulated in her own self-importance just droning on and on while everybody in the class murmured/yelled obscenties about the class and how this is a total waste of time. Plus the only assignments for the course are to use Powerpoint, build a web site and write a 3 page paper on how we're going to use technology. Its the UIUC ed minor that is keeping me from wanting to be a teacher with all this banal busywork that they feel needs to be done that holds no academic value in the slightest.