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http://www.2bangkok.com/wwiipropaganda.shtml It is a copy of a Japanese propaganda manual from World War II. Pretty interesting stuff, especially since I'm a huge history nerd. Felt the need to share it. Although my favorite part is #10 on the list at the bottom. Don't eat your own excrement or drink your own urine in the presence of others. If you do, you are sure to be branded as a lunatic, however warmly you may protest. Now...I'm glad they are saying to not eat your own s*** & piss but I'm concerned about one thing. They said not to do it in front of others -- does that mean it is okay for them to do it when they are alone then?

QUOTE(SnB @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 01:40 PM) i wish i had 2 joke classes super senior. The Cine classes look like the ones that are going to be the most interesting. The other 4 are the joke classes.

Luckily for me my job subsidizes my gas every month cutting me a check for the mileage that I use. Otherwise, I'd be hardcore screwed since I don't use my car much outside of work.

CI 401 - Teaching Diverse High School Students CI 473 - Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Literacy SPED 405 - General Educator's Role in Special Education EPSY 485 - Assessing Student Performance CINE 300 - Pan Chinese Cinema CINE 466 - Japanese Cinema

Legos Old WWF action figures (Rowdy Roddy Piper kicked major league ass) Nintendo TMNT

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 09:58 AM) How sad. :headshake Whatever gets you through your day but plenty of people have figured out that the more fanatical they are as a believer in a religion, the more the whole "Thou shalt not kill" thing is negotiable. As the late, great Lenny Bruce said "I always thought it was thou shalt not kill not thou shalt not kill amend section A."

Surprisingly, the camera didn't break.

It is some pretty funny stuff. I like "Harmful if Swallowed" better but it is alright. Although not too much holds a torch to my favorite album "Rant in E-Minor" from Bill Hicks.

Morgan Webb from G4 Tech TV "X-Play" and other shows...

No children, I'm not crazy writing an upside down e on the board. It is the schwa. Congrats!

I'm going to be a super senior at the University of Illinois. History and Secondary Education -- one last semester of classes and then a spring semester of student teaching. It is a fun place because of the bar scene (hit up the Office, etc. -- good stuff) but there are a whole lot of idiots here.

I think we all just need to take a breath and realize this is a debate about a film from Michael "I shouldn't be allowed to make any more movies because all of mine are crap" Bay.

I for applaud our new Hoosier overlords. Congrats.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Aug 7, 2005 -> 02:59 PM) Dumb & stupid. The sadest thing is you are clueless as to why. :rolly What all of your posts pertaining to religion strongly suggest though is that you have little to no tolerance for those of us who are registered members of a faith. All 5 billion+ of us in this world. Is it unreasonable to call you a hate-monger? Is it unreasonable to suggest that if you had the power to eliminate those of us who belong to a faith you would use it? I'll God blesses you with wisdom to study history from an impartial perspective. Being called a hatemonger by one of the people who spews the most venom on this board. And being called dumb and stupid, at least I know how to spell "saddest" there, champ. We've got the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Jonestown, bombings of clinics, the Olympic bombing. I don't have a problem if you pray to invisible squirrels in your pants -- whatever gets you through your day. But I also recognize the threat of fundamentalism in the world since it has caused many of the world's most violent activities. When religion gets mixed into government and there are attempts to put a certain moral code into law (i.e. we need government to tell us what video games people can buy, what women can do with their bodies etc.) to suit a certain religious ideology, especially in a secular society -- that is when I have a problem with it. Organized religion with as much blood on its hands as it has cannot be called "naturally good".

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Aug 7, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) Quote: "Stop stealing our oil and wealth and stop supporting corrupt rulers." The bad guys are getting smarter in their rhetoric. Painting Haliburton as a group of pirates pillaging your lands is an effective means for recruitment. LCR's quote on religion is dumber than a box of rocks. The best analogy to religion is nuclear power. It's benefit to mankind far outweighs it's destructive capability. Both can leave a wake of horrific violence in their path when used for evil/greedy purposes. But absent of man's evil intentions both are naturally good. Yeah cuz religion never caused mass slaughters or violence at all Please, religion and fundamentalism are the two greatest scourges facing the world today because all they have been and all they are are scapegoats for people to get away with bigotry, hate, violence, death and destruction. To quote the immortal Lenny Bruce: All religions teach what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is "what should be." Now, if you're taught to live up to a "what should be" that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this "should be" -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, [snaps fingers] like that! You can't say organized religion is "naturally good" when its violence far outweighs any positives. More people have been killed in the name of God than anything else.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 04:47 PM) If it is Giambi, he should be suspended longer than the first offense of 10 days based on his testimony. It was supposed to be sealed -- so I dunno that MLB could use it.

Saw "Wedding Crashers" yesterday. Pretty funny stuff -- and that cameo was great.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Aug 6, 2005 -> 09:16 AM) and in response to Lcr's long and smart post, i'll respond with this: "I'd like to buy the world a coke, take time to stop and smile." God i hate tha commercial That'd be a real expensive venture to buy the world a Coke. But do you know who else isn't buying the world a Coke? Coke.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 07:23 PM) youppi rules. but LCR, i do understand the beef about the chief at halftime during games, but that would be the only complaint i understand. I understand that side since it is a white student doing it But the other stuff i just don't get. Does saying the word illini really offend them? Does a pretty symbolic logo offend them? It's nothing like the cleveland indians logo. Guess i just don't understand how its offensive. And your right, Lincoln hall is a dump and a half There other comment is really just that the outfit isn't technically an Illini outfit so it isn't really a "fighting Illini". Plus, a lot of the times that Native Americans are mentioned or represented in sports it is always with fighting or militancy. Although the anti-Chiefers never like it when I say "Well, hey -- there are military recruiters on the Quad. We could go f*** with them since that is a direct form of militancy that is wreaking havoc." The chief was/is the spiritual etc. head of the society -- it is kind of like marketing Jesus for a school (i.e. Buddy Christ in "Dogma"). I remember living in ISR last year and getting into it with these two fat, spiteful, hateful girls about the Chief. If you were in the dorms last year, you probably remember Project: Segregate that the RAs did in February to try to raise awareness of racism, race relations etc. and that the "Whites Only" and "Coloreds Only" was not that far in the past. They had informational signs up explaining the project etc. But, a few of the white kids felt that the signs made them racist (kinda funny -- if a sign makes you feel racist then perhaps there are deeper issues to deal with) so they began acting out. The signs were defaced, torn down and nasty e-mails were sent to some of the RAs. The two girls I mentioned above went to their RAs room and harassed her with screaming at her, phone calls, e-mails etc. It got to the point that the RA wanted to quit and she had to be talked out of it by a bunch of us. The girls engineered something called "the white revolution" to protest this Project Segregate idea. So, I laughed about it and went to late night. Lo and behold I ran into them and sat there in awe hearing them discuss numerous racial epithets. They even referred to the RA as a dumb "n*gger". A simple cough*whiterevolutionf***ingracists* really got their attention and they started whining about how oppressed they were. It was f***ing hilarious. And you're right about the Cleveland mascot. I think a more offensive one would be gee...the "Redskins". Some of the Native Americans that come to assist with the anti-Chief work, I had an opportunity to talk to them and a lot of them travel to different areas working against the Wahoo and the Redskins as well. But the thing with the voting about the Chief, they never really look at the data. Data from the Spring 2004 referendum... 36,712 students were enrolled at the University when the Chief referendum happened in February 2004. From Honor the Chief site, the following vote tallies were found: *9,161 (24.9%) voted in favor of keeping the Chief. *4,027 (10.9%) voted to remove the Chief. So that makes... *23,524 (64.2%) people don't care since there are many other more pressing issues than a halftime show like: 1. tuition & class funding problems 2. lack of discussion sections and mid-sized lectures 3. Lincoln Hall violating numerous building and fire codes 4. Our soda contractor, Coke, sponsoring death squads in Colombia among other insidious crimes. Their endorsement of union busting via murder, kidnapping and harassment is much more dangerous and life threatening than a dancing caricature. Hell, Coke was even in bed supporting the Nazis during World War II. Coca-Cola Germany owner Max Keith in April 1939 ordered a mass Seig Heil for Hitler's 50th birthday at the 10th anniversary party for Coke in Germany. He followed this up saying it was "to commemorate our deepest admiration and gratitude for our Fuhrer who has led our nation into a brilliant higher sphere." As if having this much blood on their hands, Coke is an even bigger criminal. Coke has been linked to being the greatest polluter of groundwater in India. Indian scientists also found high levels of toxins and pesticides in Coke products which made them unsafe for drinking (think 30 times higher than the amount regulated by the EU). And what toxic sludge they don't use in their drinks, they sell to farmers as fertilizer. 5. Hypocritical UIUC investments: With our focus on engineering at U of I, would it surprise you to find investments in defense contractors responsible for designing weapons capable of killing countless tan people the world over? It is just the extremists on both sides of this that really tick me off because they won't shut the f*** up. If one's life is that attached to a mascot -- put a bullet in your damn head and stopping stealing precious oxygen.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 05:29 PM) The Illini tribe gave illionis the rights to use there name this is bs While I'm thoroughly on the "Aren't there more important things to deal with on the UIUC campus" side of the fence, I do have to say that: a. the outfit worn by the Chief is not an authentic Illini outfit b. the Illini have very thin numbers population wise so odds are they probably weren't asked c. friends of mine in the Native American house got harassed just walking down the street (not saying word one about the Chief) and had people giving some snide and racist remarks. I don't really care about the Chief...I just like that I won't have to hear the endless amounts of bulls*** from either side making this the most important issue on the campus. Hell, LAS is losing midsize lectures, tuition is increasing, TAs are trying to be recognized as a legitimate union, some of the buildings on the Quad are violating fire codes, Coca-Cola's implications in working with Colombian death squads...there are many more important issues than either side of the debate whining about Chief Flips-A-Lot. Besides, I'd much rather have Youppi -- (written by a friend of mine) http://virarenae.blogspot.com/2005/03/chie...e-analysis.html

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 12:57 PM) I had them demoted... Baaahaaaahaaaahaaaaa..... After somebody reads that post -- If you can listen closely you can almost hear the clacking of keyboard keys writing a rant coming clearly out of Michigan. I kid because I care.

QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) As many of you know, my first daughter, Reagan, was named after our 40th President. I'm not the first, and probably not the last, to do this. There are A LOT of kids out there named after Reagan. I was trying to see if there is a web site out there devoted to these kids. I'm usually pretty good at Google searches like this, but have come up empty this time. Anyone have any suggestions? I've seen news stories about how everyone named John Smith or something average like that have a big get-together every year. So, I was wondering if there's anything like that for the "Reagans." You can use the Social Security Administration page and look at popularity of the name per state and you might be able to fine tune your search that way.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 12:12 PM) Where would one find this to see it? That sounds really funny It is on DVD at most video stores. Just look for "The Awful Truth". It is in Episode 2 in the first season.

So I take it that we're gonna be reading the book Cheat picked ("The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime")? Give us 3 weeks from today -- have a wrap up discussion starting like the 26th of August? That work for everybody?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 07:53 AM) In a messed up sort of way, he's right. They attack us because of our way of life, not because of where we are. If by way of life you mean continued intervention in the region (i.e. keeping the Shah of Iran in power etc. -- the 1950s were a huge time for US interventionalism there for no real reason except oil and suppressing the Palestinians) For more info check out former high level State Department employee William Blum's book "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II". It is a very well researched book on the subject.