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QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Nov 3, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) When I read this at lunch, I almost spit my taquitoes all over my computer. I was actually disappointed that there wasn't a thread full of :lol:s in the buster. Not that he represents one political party or the other, but the "i bought meth, but threw it out" and "it was only a massage" (once a month for 3 years) excuses make John Kerry's "it was a botched joke" look plausible. Most definitely. I've been laughing so hard all day at work yesterday and today too. This is comedy gold.

Why do military newspapers hate America so much?

Sad for Liriano + baseball because this kid was the new up and coming 'phenom' that a lot of sports writers and sports stations and fans put their carts behind. Great news for the Sox in regards to their competition in the ALC though. I'd love to beat the Twins at full strength though, but gotta go for the jugular when the opportunity presents itself.

Ted Haggard, the arch-conservative evangelical gay-bashing right wing nut, has been alleged to have had a three year affair with a gay prostitute and seems to have picked up a meth habit. After initially denying it all as untrue, church officials say he has admitted to some guilt. Today he said he bought the meth from the gay prostitute but never used it + he contacted the gay prostitute for a 'massage'. Yeah, and Clinton didn't inhale. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/03/haggard.a...ions/index.html The rats are jumping off this sinking ship. I could really care less about the man's sex life. It is just hilarious to see his hypocricy get flaunted on the front page of every newspaper and TV station -- when he condemns all these behaviors as evil, liberal and terrible -- yet participates in every last one of them. Oh man, this is such poetic justice.

I vote out every judge. Other than that, I look candidate by candidate on an individual basis.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 08:23 AM) Its different. Its always different. I couldn't help but notice that you picked the one branch of the military that on average as the lowest educational numbers historically... interesting. It was the first one I could get before having to leave for work and it was also the one asked for in this discussion.

New Cyber Sunday match: Cryme Tyme vs Highlanders vs Cade and Murdoch vs Haas/Viscera with fans voting for the type of match (Fatal Four Way, Tag Team Termoil, Tornado Tag) And supposedly Steph is coming back to the road as of Cyber Sunday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15197832/ I'm with Cheat's opinion... And to answer Cheat's question: 7% of the entire Army have college degrees.

From the AP: LOS ANGELES: A former army officer from El Salvador who was convicted of taking part in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two other people during that country's civil war was arrested in the United States and faces deportation, authorities said Wednesday. Federal agents acting on a tip arrested Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos, 43, on Oct. 18 at a motel near the University of California, Los Angeles. He illegally entered the country in January 2005, according to a statement from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was being held at a detention facility in Lancaster, California, pending a deportation hearing next month, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for the agency. She did not know where Guevara Cerritos had been or what he was doing in the United States. "We will not allow the United States to be a place of refuge for aliens seeking to escape a violent criminal past," Robert Schoch, special agent in charge of the ICE office of investigations in Los Angeles, said in a statement. "Removing human rights violators and other persecutors from the United States is one of ICE's top enforcement priorities." The 12-year civil war in El Salvador, which cost the lives of some 75,000 people, ended in 1992. Guevara Cerritos was a sub-lieutenant with the Salvadoran army's counterinsurgency Atlacatl Battalion during that country's bloody war against the FMLN, a leftist guerrilla group. He and eight other officers and soldiers were convicted of involvement in the 1989 killing of six priests, their cook and her teenage daughter at a university in the capital city of El Salvador. Jesuits had called for a peaceful, negotiated end to the war and some in the army considered them to be subversives, along with union and human rights activists. The killings sparked international outrage and tarnished the image of U.S. anti-Communism efforts in the region after it was found that some of the soldiers involved had received training at the former School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. In 1991, Guevara was convicted in El Salvador of instigation and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. He was sentenced to three years in prison. He spent nearly two years under house arrest before he was pardoned by the government under a 1993 general amnesty, ICE said.

Veterans for America, a non-partisan organization, looked at the voting records of Congress for the last five years on issues that impacted vets and veterans (324 bills) to see how the different Congresspeople voted. Legislative proposals iincluded veterans' benefits, healthcare, and medical research dedicated towards injured soldiers (head injuries, etc.) Based on these votes, IAVA calculated which senators and congressmen had a history of supporting the troops, and which didn't, and graded them on a curve. http://iava.org/index.php?option=com_conte...&Itemid=221 But let's take a closer look at the data in the Senate. http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2006/10/iava...for-senate.html Yeah -- who supports the troops again?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) Savage Inequalities by Kozol. Recommended. Damn good book. So is his new one "Shame of the Nation" http://www.amazon.com/Shame-Nation-Restora...g/dp/1400052440

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 08:23 PM) As a teacher yourself do you think high turnover is a symptom of low pay, dealing with red tape/administrators, kids driving them nutty or a combination of things? The disparity in the low poverty vs high poverty districts is huge and can get really bad. The rich districts will grab up whomever they want first and then the rest get whatever's left unless (like me) per personally went for a job in a lower income area because I had more fun there. There's also the administration. If you have an administration that doesn't have your back and/or doesn't have clear ways to support the teachers (discipline, talking to parents, dealing with students etc.), then things get really bad. If you have a supportive administration (which I got) then things are really effective in dealing with issues. Kids can drive you nutty but it isn't just that -- it can give you a bad day but that's about it. Mostly, it's a lot of hours being put in before school that are unpaid (I get in an hour before the day starts to answer parent e-mails, fix up my assignment board, make my copies and overheads and do other stuff to set up) and then hours after school (grading, putting in grades to the online system, parent phone calls for detentions, talks with parents about kids' academics/behavior, sports eligibility, laminating things, making posters etc.) It's a lot of work before and after the professional hours that can get really taxing. I usually end up pulling 11-12 hr. days most weeks when my professional hours are 7:45 am to 3:15 pm. Doing that day in and day out while trying to juggle a family is probably what does it after a while -- especially when combined with the rest.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 08:15 PM) What happened to all that lottery money that was supposed to fund education? It went to education alright, but other funding was taken away. Classic shell game. Yep -- Blago is a lying sonofawhore. In the latest national report card, Illinois had the largest achievement gap between low-poverty and high-poverty students in the nation in three of four tests in reading and math. One-third of Illinois public schools failed federal academic standards, reflecting a deplorable achievement gap, leaving far too many students behind. Illinois is not keeping its teachers. High levels of teacher turnover and attrition contribute to a shortage of high quality teachers and chronic low student achievement. The national attrition rate for new teachers over a five-year period is 46 percent, and Illinois far exceeds that rate with 58 percent attrition.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 08:14 PM) They're doing it by deciding for themselves that we dont need certain laws and taking upon themselves to try to get them eliminated in spite of the fact that it was passed by a vote of 98-1 in the Senate.,........... http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_4.25.html .........and signed into law by President Clinton. And damn Rosa Parks and MLK Jr. decided for themselves that we didn't need certain laws that forced them to sit in the back of the bus. Larry Flynt decided that we didn't need certain laws that criminalized the sale of his magazine to adults. Here's a newsflash: CONGRESS SOMETIMES PASSES s***TY LAWS THAT END UP BEING OVERTURNED BY THE PEOPLE. It's the Judicial branch's check in action -- INTERPRETING LAWS.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 07:50 PM) I don't see how it's not being enforced when pretty much any porn site out there requires a credit card number for site access. If this law is made invalid then that would go away. By "enforced" do you mean nobody has been prosecuted under it? This is a classic case of the ACLU siding with the wrong people to thwart common sense and decency. The government never has enforced it.. And nice work side stepping the other question, Nuke. How is the ACLU telling you what's good for you or not? They're stepping in to prevent the government from doing so.

Quickly... -Rein in "Defense" spending -Rein in CIA/black ops that destabilize governments -End support for human rights abusing dictatorial countries -End the embargo against Cuba and let a true free market take over -Says 'f*** the flag burning amendment' -Revamps NCLB to include higher level mastry questions on exams rather than rote memorization and assists teachers to not be pressured to 'teach to the test' so they can use a wider variety of means to make topics interesting -Ends capital punishment -Ends torture tactics being used by the US government -Issues apology for innocents killed and "disappeared" throughout the last 70 years during the fight with 'Communism' around the world -Has a national holiday on the day Kissinger kicks the bucket -f*** "community standards". Free speech should apply to all situations anywhere in the US as long as it is not screaming 'fire' in the crowded theater. -Increase parental responsibility with TV shows, video games, music, etc. I do not need the PMRC, Safe Games Illinois and Joe Lieberman telling me what I can and cannot see, listen to and play. Let parents make their own decisions. -Promotes legitimate safe sex discussion and ends the farce of "abstinence only" education because it'll lead to a cut in the abortion rate -Free contraceptive distribution areas in cities to help anybody who wants them

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 07:40 PM) Can't refute the message? Just make fun of the messenger. Brilliant. Actually, I was just QFT what Crimson said. Again: How is the ACLU telling you what's good for you or not? They're stepping in to prevent the government from doing so. You also didn't address how poorly written this law is or the fact that it hasn't been enforced even once in 8 years.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 07:10 PM) How is the ACLU telling you what's good for you or not? They're stepping in to prevent the government from doing so. You also didn't address how poorly written this law is or the fact that it hasn't been enforced even once in 8 years. SHHHH! TEH ACLU = TEH SATANS!!!!!11!1!

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) If it's properly imposed, the death penalty accomplishes all of those things. Its too bad our society doesn't have the guts to bury those who deserve it. The thing is that the death penalty cannot be properly imposed because human beings are by nature imperfect creatures and prone to making mistakes and having biases. A completely color blind/economics blind etc. system is a pipe dream. Add in the fact that the sheer cost of capital punishment cases is skyrocketing comparatively to life w/out parole and we've got another big reason. And oh yes, the whole "life is sacred" thing that the majority of this country claims to believe in, especially those that are anti-abortion. People cannot lose their innate sanctity of life at a certain age or because of a certain act. Either you believe in the sanctity of life for all people or don't believe in it at all.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 06:19 PM) The week before the election should be called "Fkin Election Week" and include a significant amount of election coverage. There would be required debates involving more than just the Democratic and Republican candidates and shows where the candidates come on and just state their opinion on a number of issues. Hopefully some networks would pick it up, but at the very least PBS can show it. Obviously people who are very concerned with politics will do their research into the various candidates, but I still feel like a lot of voters are not as informed as they could/should be. It would also give some exposure to third party candidates who don't have the $$$ to run hundreds of tv ads every day. Second, I'd like to try something like Instant Runoff Voting, so people could vote for who they actually like the most without worrying that they have thrown their vote away, rather than the lesser of two D&R evils. f***, just run it on TV like a reality show. "The Real World Rules" and put it on MTv or something. Every week, there is a call-in vote to remove the most unpopular ones. Have them all angsty and living in one house together so we can see what they're really like rather than the media made PR image of their rose colored glasses and potpourri smelling farts.

I for one support our government overlords ruling down from on high about the things we peons can and cannot view. Who needs parents to actually supervise their children and have effective communicative relationships? Bah to that! More government from the party of less government I say, more! "Harmful to children", "community standards"? You don't allow that sort of loose language in a f***ing gym membership contract for f***'s sake. Talk about vague. "Oh I'm sorry, you had an independent thought that was not in line with the current government in power and that could be harmful if children see it and learn to think for themselves. So here's your 6 month jail sentence and your $50,000 fine." But please, let's just put a few anti-ACLU buzz words in there and I'm sure that'll appease the people who kneejerk don't like the ACLU Cuz who needs little things like facts and logic when you have BUZZWORDS!

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 01:11 AM) i know you're trying to be sarcastic, but Nuke didn't post anything like that in this thread or any other thread that i've read. what exactly is your point? The army was segerated and we all agree that was bs. But if there is going to be a historically accurate film about WWII it shouldn't show black soldiers making up an noticeable number on screen just my opinion of course. I'm just saying make the scene with the flag raising accurate.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:57 PM) The average US company doesn't ask the Feds to use tax money to feed the poor, THEN find ways to lower their taxes. If Bono wants to feed all the starving Ugandians, he should use his own tax savings to pay for it and quit trying to use MY tax money to do it (or Englands,in this case). When corporations standup for a cause, they front their own money for it, and then ask others for donations. Not the government for tax money. Plenty of companies ask for taxpayer money to assist their agendas, pay for their stadiums etc. and then move (in name only) their headquarters to Bermuda or another area to avoid paying taxes. So, why is it good business sense for these companies and then something bad for Bono to do? (Not that I'm condoning what this practice is -- just trying to flush out the double standard)

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 06:03 PM) In this country historical accuracy Nuke, this guy's gripe is that he was involved with getting the flag raised and no minority was shown helping with that -- talk about historical revisionism. And your point about PC over historical accuracy goes all the way back to the 1940s -- "One of the marines I interviewed said that the people who were filming newsreel footage on Iwo Jima deliberately turned their cameras away when black folks came by." Who needs to be seeing the uppity negroes fighting when we have a segregated white power structure to uphold.

QUOTE(MinnesotaSoxFan @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:58 PM) I will recognize TNA as a competitive wrestling business to the WWE once they do Impact! live. I don't want to watch Impact! when they filmed it like 3 weeks earlier. A live Impact! would be pretty cool. They are makings steps though with the new primetime slot.