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The good Doctor of Journalism -- Hunter Stockton Thompson once quipped: "So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here -- not under any byline of mine or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." I have to agree.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) They have a right not to go if they don't want to. I wouldn't call them names, people still have strong beliefs against it, many people do and if that's the way they feel, let them be that way. For me, it wouldn't matter to me but I'm not everyone. Who knows if they're so wrong? Perhaps during a fight for a loose ball, they might start making out?

QUOTE(JHBowden @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 06:45 PM) There's a cost to raising wage floors, and that's more unemployment. This classic example is found in textbooks because, well, it is true. Those who have disagreed have stated that they don't like this proposition, but disliking an idea does not make it false. The cost to rising wage floors is inflation there, Chief.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 06:29 PM) Dig up all you want. I am to the point I just don't care. Heard the stories about places in England that can't have piggy banks, because it might offend Muslims? Well then, stay in your own backwards-ass land where you can live in a pigless society. Or the movie about comedy in a muslim world that isn't ebing madenow because of protests? Sure, people protested the Passion of the Christ, but it still got made. Seems noone was worried about wacko Christians blowing up the studio in response. They come to the US and demand religious tolerance, but do not tolerate others. Kind nof a do-as-I-say, not-as - do approach to things. Yes, you have some wacko right to lifers who blow up abortion clinics and shoot doctors. You don't have the Pope preaching genocide to all non-believers. I am thru being tolerant. They can all kiss my ass, right after I rub some bacon on it. We've had plenty of Popes saying that we need to eradicate Muslims. Hell, we've got different congregations preaching that it is okay to attack homosexuals because they're unclean. Let's change Muslim to Christian and take some examples: if you want to talk about evangelical Christians protesting things they didn't like, look no further than exhibit A: Lenny Bruce. Or how about arresting Larry Flynt for publishing Hustler? Or my personal favorite right now, using the Patriot Act to go after the porn industry. I've got whacko-right-to-lifers murdering people, white supremacists and religious fundamentalists going into synagogues and slaughtering people. That's the thing...EVERY RELIGION does this sort of s***. Fundamentalist zealots destroy the concepts for every sane, rational thinking person. So don't make it into a Muslim vs everybody else frame. Make it into a "sane, rational member of a society" vs fundamentalist zealots frame so you're really all inclusive of hacks of all religions instead of really coming off as a partisan hack.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 05:34 PM) I know. Republicans are in power so good news is no news. Yeah, it is too bad the people that will be paying back the massive deficit can't stay up to watch the news or read since they are infants right now.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 06:19 PM) And just how do you prove that? Ask all the jurors when the case was over? "Hey, juror #4! If the defendant had killed a brother instead of a cracker, would you still have wanted to fry his ass?" Look up the Baldus study and read for yourself. The Baldus study was actually not one study, but two sophisticated statistical analyses of more than 2,000 Georgia murder cases. What the Baldus studies showed was that, even after taking account of 39 nonracial factors, defendants charged with killing white victims were 4.3 times as likely to receive a death sentence as defendants charged with killing black victims. The capital sentencing rate for all white victim cases was almost 11 times greater than the rate for black victim cases. Blacks who killed whites were sentenced to death at nearly 22 times the rate of blacks who kill blacks, and more than 7 times the rate of whites who kill blacks. In addition, prosecutors sought the death penalty for 70 percent of black defendants with white victims, but for only 15 percent of black defendants with black victims. Keep in mind that during the period of time involved in the Baldus study only 9.2 percent of Georgia homicides involved black defendants and white victims.

Don't make me dig up the research I did when 2K5 got an anti-Muslim e-mail that shows that radical Christians can do the same, if not worse, crazy s*** in the past decades and into the current era. Organized fundamentalist religions -- the cause of the world's problems. You're never going to turn on a TV and hear the anchor say "Today the atheists suffered heavy shelling and large amounts of casualties from the agnostic forces in the north."

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Oct 30, 2005 -> 03:47 PM) So you would rather a form of justice that allows monsters like John Wayne Gacy to still sit in his cell, painting his clown art, sending his perverse letters to the families of the victims. I am pretty convinced that he was guilty. And if you dont believe it, maybe you can figure out where the 28 bodies appeared in his crawl space. Or the victims rings, necklaces why they were up on his dresser like a trophycase. Some of these monsters are guilty, and some of them should be killed. What we should do is work better on the science of forensics to help guard against evidence issues, and work on the appeals process so attorneys do not have the ability to scratch this out for decades. And as for the detterent value, I am sure that Gacy is no longer a threat to anymore teenagers. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=6&did=110 -- List of people freed from Death Row for the little fact of being innocent of the crime. And let's get philosophical with Camus (tips hat to ChiSoxy): Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall stated: "The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment...It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant, and the underprivileged members of society." A recent study of death sentences in Philadelphia found that African American defendents were almost FOUR times more likely to receive the death penalty than were people of other ethnic origins who committed similar crimes. Over 80% of people executed since 1976 were convicted of killing white victims, although people of color make up more than half of all homicide victims in the US. A defendant who can afford his or her own attorney is much less likely to be sentenced to die. 95% of all people sentenced to death in the US could not afford their own attorney. In 1987, McCleskey v. Kemp, a Supreme Court case brought forth the famous Baldus study that revealed facts that proved the following: "(1) defendants charged with killing white victims in GA are 4.3 times as likely to be sentenced to death as defendants charged with killing blacks; (2) 6 of every 11 defendants convicted of killing a white person would not have received the death penalty if their victim had been black; and (3) cases involving black defendants and white victims are more likely to result in a death sentence than cases featuring any other racial combination of defendant and victim. This case was defeated by a 5-4 vote given the reason by Justice Powell: "McCleskey's claim, taken to its logical conclusion, throws into serious question the principles that underlie our entire criminal justice system." How true. McCleskey can't be correct or else the whole system would be incorrect.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 28, 2005 -> 01:14 PM) First thing is Israel would have to have enough time to pick up the launch and fire back. Second thing is that dying in defense of Islam is the ultimate sacrifice. People have been committing suicide in Israel to kill Jews for how long? Think of this as the same idea, only on a bigger scale. Half a dozen nukes tops would destroy Israel, and then it won't matter what happens to Iran, the Zionist state would be dead. I doubt they'd nuke it cuz of some of their holy sites being similar (Islam, Judaism and Christianity that is) As much as they want to kill the Jews, they want to get their meathooks on that territory. Irradiated terrority would be difficult to have for worship.

QUOTE(mkalk @ Oct 26, 2005 -> 10:13 PM) No. there was only one other team to go 11-1, and it was one of the Yankees teams. '99 Yanks went 11-1. The only other team with a higher winning percentage was the '72 Reds who went 7-0.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 25, 2005 -> 12:11 AM) I figured it would be something silly like this. Thats why I stayed out of this thread until now. It was fun to watch the leftist crowd here scream bloody murder and its even more fun to know that they, yet again, did it over nothing. :rolly Logistically, stinking bodies -- okay...but this? Fueling the furor was the fact that the TV report showed that after the bodies were torched, a U.S. Psychological-Operations team descended on Gonbaz in Humvees with their loudspeakers booming: "Taliban, you are cowardly dogs. You are too scared to come down and retrieve the bodies. This just proves you are the lady-boys we always believed you to be." With that sort of sentiment joining the burning, how are we better than the terrorists who torched US bodies again?

Fast track to Hell but: She's going to have to ride in the back of the hearse no matter how much protest there is. /punches.ticket But in all seriousness, America has lost a wonderful human being.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 24, 2005 -> 12:18 PM) See, we are back to that again. With everything that man was into, no one cared about anything but this. You couldn't get the presses attention for anything but sex. So of course they make it look like it was the Republicans who were only interested in the sex stuff, forget the lying under oath to Congress and the nation, not to mention all of the stuff that Janet Reno ignored, and the Clinton administration stonewalled, but hey if you are all satisfied with all of the Clinton scandals being "just a blowjob", maybe I should start characterizing the Bush scandals as "just a misunderstanding". I guess if I say it long enough and loud enough, people will remember it that way. :puke SS, I had to eat lunch before class. It was easier to type that than discuss the focused campaign of every night on the news hearing a new claim against Clinton (and lest we forget the Arkansas Project). Don't get me wrong, I didn't like what Clinton did but when Clinton lied, it didn't compromise national security.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 24, 2005 -> 11:01 AM) I think it's funny that all this stuff is leaking out - people want this to BURN BAD. That's why it's all coming out so fast. If this were a Democrat, we wouldn't even know about it. Two words, Kap. Clinton's.Penis.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Oct 23, 2005 -> 03:32 PM) Earth to LCR, We've been over this before. There's an entire thread in here somewhere that has discussed this in great detail. You can look it up. Washington made many speeches supporting the notion we WERE a Christian nation. The founders rountinely attended services & even made use of parishes for political purposes. The Treaty of Tripoli was designed to appease Muslims directly. To do that you have to downplay your Christian roots. The Treaty of Paris was designed to appease the French. To do that you emphasize your Christian roots. Pretty basic stuff. They pander for votes, pretty basic stuff. Privately they were all not Christian but they did it publically to get votes (like Bush whoring the religion to get votes from fundies) For example, take the case of Abe Lincoln who said: "The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Oct 23, 2005 -> 02:30 PM) Being black, white, yellow, red, or any other variation of race does NOT make you immoral. Being male or female does NOT make you immoral. A person's actions determine whether they are moral or immoral. What determines whether an action is moral or immoral? This is pretty simple. If a person is a member of a faith, creed, or organization rooted in philosophy then morality & immorality is defined by that institution. In the case of Christianity most institutions view the act of sodomy as immoral. Regardless of whether it be same-sex or between a man & a woman. Sodomy is likewise considered immoral in many non-Christian faiths. So we can safely say as a general rule of faith-borne society that sodomy is looked upon as an immoral act. If a person is not a member of a faith, creed, or an organization rooted in any one philosophy then morality & immorality is defined by society. I doubt very much that state & local governments have done or said anything to encourage the act of sodomy. Furthermore given the medical risks & general consensus of practioners it can hardly be considered a healthy behavior. So whether you look upon it from a faith perspective, a medical perspective, or a general societal perspective sodomy is considered immoral or unfavorable behavior for one to partake in. Earth to Juggs, we're not a Christian founded nation. Treaty.of.Tripoli.1793 (written by George Washington) "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." It was unanimously passed and there was no debate or outcry from the public. What people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms with consenting adults should not be the business of government. Big business somehow doesn't need regulations but the US government suddenly wants to be in every woman's vagina and on every guy's penis. US OUT OF ANUSES! And as we've learned before, society can choose "disturbed" concepts of morality (i.e. being staunchly in favor of Jim Crow, etc.) And oh yeah...James Madison: "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1231684&page=1 Songs like "Sacrifice" — a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer — clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up." Don't get me wrong, I endorse their right to say such things -- but then I in turn get to laugh my f***ing ass off at the stupid s*** they spew.

I can only hope this is a promise and not a threat... WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, vowed Thursday to resign from the Senate if his fellow lawmakers followed through on threats to cancel spending on a $230 million "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska that was stuck into a pork-filled highway bill earlier this year.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 19, 2005 -> 08:46 PM) If it's true, #1, I'm sure the media will be blitzing the s*** out of it because it's negative, and we all know what that means. And more importantly, #2, these bastards deserve the same treatement IF it's true. If it is true then I don't have to hear the talking point from Nuke about how the US forces don't tie corpses up from bridges and light them on fire... And that's a damned thing. f***ing goddamn idiots. /waits for the outrage from the talking heads over the story being published rather than seeing outrage for the horrific crimes, if they did indeed occur

Surprisingly somebody somewhere actually gives a good goddamn what the Parents TV Council thinks.

OK. I'm in dire need of some good online resources regarding how "Lone Wolf and Cub: Vol. 1 (Sword of Vengeance) fits the basic ideas of what a chambara film should be. In particular, I'm looking as to why it was so much gorier and violent than the previous chambara films made (i.e. the limbs getting chopped off, etc.) Any assistance would be much appreciated. I know we've got a few film nuts that have seen the movie and know their s*** about film so I am hoping they can come through for me.

Earth to Juggs: RELIGION CANNOT BE USED AS A MEANS TO FIRE PEOPLE IN FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS. They have no legal right to fire a person because they don't have the same religion. The church in the setting of Head Start is merely a building with four walls and a roof. There is no discussion of religion with the students and there is no discussion of religion with the teachers/bosses. They have no legal right to fire somebody because they don't pray to the same invisible man in the sky as their bosses do because religion plays no role in the job that they are performing.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Oct 15, 2005 -> 01:52 AM) Yes, Tom and Katie are in the news again. No, not for the miraculous conception. For the wacky Scientologist "silent birth" method they've apparently chosen. Just bite your tongue, girlfriend! You couldn't make this stuff up, could you? http://slate.msn.com/id/2128041/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/sto...2p-300956c.html Holy sweet merciful Xenu! And I found this part hilarious -- Given that her own silent-birth story ended in what was presumably high-volume begging, Preston's advice to Holmes sounds about as useful as her character's diet tips to Kirstie Alley on HBO's Fat Actress (where, as the weight-loss guru Quinn Taylor Scott, Preston recommends her client try eating tissue paper or catching an intestinal parasite)

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 10:35 PM) Question: How would this 'sacrafice' the program? if anything, it will make theoverall program stronger as there will be more places available. Another question: Your opening quote, was it an actual quote, or something you made up to increase the dramatic appeal of the article? If this is put in, it will greatly increase the time that Congress will have to take to reauthorize it. (because the Senate likely will not allow for that language to be in the re-authorization) Funny story is that Rep. Boehner voted for re-authorizing HS in 1994 and 1998 without trying to add this sort of stuff. It wasn't until he got the marching orders re: faith based initiatives that he tried any of this. Not to mention that potentially, if this passes the Senate intact with the Boehner rider in it, thousands of HS teachers all over the US could be fired from their positions -- not because they don't work effectively with children but because they don't pray to the same deity as their boss. The teacher's faith should have nothing to do with their work in Head Start because religious indoctrination is not brought up in a state school system -- which Head Start is part of (since it is federally funded) And the quote is made by me -- I was taking what the legislation in the re-authorization is really trying to do & verbalize it bluntly.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) should we blame ANY of these political twits that are using everything in their power to sway public opinion? Bush, Clinton, they're all doing the exact same thing. Clinton gets a free pass on anything that's staged; Bush is the anti-Christ. WTF is the difference? Absolutely nothing. In Clinton's defense, he did do some PR moves where his ass was in the fire a bit (i.e. when he gave a speech at the Vietnam memorial and hawks were there heckling him the whole time) You're right -- Bush and Clinton were (are) both f***ing us. Clinton just had the decency to buy us flowers and occassionally call. And I think a lot of the Bush bashing is about his claims to restore honor and dignity to the White House (an obvious stab @ Clinton)...and with that rhetoric and these types of actions -- He's one big f***ing hypocrite.