Tatonka posted:Russ Kent is a copy editor and paginator for the Media Network of Central Ohio. He is more conservative than liberal. And he has a dry, sarcastic sense of humor. You may not agree with his views. That's fine. He probably doesn't agree with you. But that's what this page is all about. Share your feelings by commenting on this column at MansfieldNewsJournal.com. Just respond with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taz1ANj6X7Y&feature=related Harry Truman posted:In the speech Senator Truman delivered on the floor of the Senate in December, 1937, he said in part:
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I always imagine that these people are arguing about Jupiter and Hera and Saturnalia and Caesar Augustus and the perspective just waaaashes over me.
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# ? Dec 13, 2011 07:16 |
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ThePeteEffect posted:If you ever thought that creepy MRA bullshit was contained to Reddit, think again: http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35389 Men's associations will never take off because of the company they keep. I have yet to see a leader of one of these movements who struck me as a balanced, rational person. That letter is so mind blowingly misogynistic, I can't imagine how the author functions in day-to-day life. Men are as opressed in the west as women are in Sharia countries because we have political correctness. After all, men being discouraged from harassing woman is pretty much the same as lashing or stoning a woman who dares to poke her head out of the bag she must wear in public.
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 01:36 |
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An article on narrowing streets and colour-coding bike lanes in order to socially engineer traffic to slow down in one of America's sprawling post-war cities. Reader Comment: quote:Bike riders are a pain in the pocket. How much has been spent on bike lanes? Too much. Helloooothe year is 2011, we drive cars now. When I was just starting to drive there were signs on Freeway ramps reading "No Equestrians". Why because nobody rode a horse on the freeway, now they seldom ride them to work. Bikes will be the same, a thing of the past. There will be a few holdouts. That will be because they think they look good in the plastic wrap costume they wear.
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 06:00 |
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You'd miss the point that badly, too, if you were older than the Highlander.
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 06:41 |
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quote:How much has been spent on bike lanes? Too much. He's got a point. Bike lane expenditures are the fourth highest in the federal budget behind Social Security, Medicare, and military spending. Paint and asphalt don't grow on trees.
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Armyman25 posted:Just respond with this video: I know I'm getting to used to modern politics because its honestly shocking that a US President actually said those words.
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 16:33 |
Shalebridge Cradle posted:I know I'm getting to used to modern politics because its honestly shocking that a US President actually said those words. He was a Senator at the time.
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 19:42 |
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This one pissed me off from the local paper's right-wing hacks.quote:Rejoicing as U.S. troops honorably leave Iraq
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# ? Dec 17, 2011 15:16 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:This one pissed me off from the local paper's right-wing hacks. I know the withdrawal of most troops was part of the agreement previously made with the Iraqi government, but wasn't the US military going to leave far more troops stationed in Iraq before the Iraqi government refused to give all American soldiers blanket immunity for crimes committed in Iraq? That seems far less like "honorably leaving" and more like "let's get the gently caress out of here before we get arrested and put on trial for the hundreds of thousands of people who died directly and indirectly due to our actions."
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# ? Dec 18, 2011 12:29 |
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quote:As a result, today the Iraqi people hold their prospects for peace and freedom in their own hands. Roughly 4,500 American troops made the ultimate sacrifice and thousands more were wounded to provide that marvelous opportunity to the Iraqis. No mention of the six figure death toll for Iraqis. Yep, if anything goes wrong, it's their fault. They haven't sacrificed enough or something.
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Bruce Leroy posted:I know the withdrawal of most troops was part of the agreement previously made with the Iraqi government, but wasn't the US military going to leave far more troops stationed in Iraq before the Iraqi government refused to give all American soldiers blanket immunity for crimes committed in Iraq? While the Status of Force Agreements(SOFA) between the US and various countries like Germany, Japan, and Korea vary, I wouldn't put much faith in the Iraqi criminal justice system. It wasn't that great under Saddam, and I doubt it's gotten better after 8 years of war and occupation.
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Bruce Leroy posted:I know the withdrawal of most troops was part of the agreement previously made with the Iraqi government, but wasn't the US military going to leave far more troops stationed in Iraq before the Iraqi government refused to give all American soldiers blanket immunity for crimes committed in Iraq? It's not blanket immunity, but troops who commit crimes in Iraq would be tried in a US court instead of an Iraqi court. Standard clause in any SOF agreement that we have anywhere in the world.
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Borneo Jimmy posted:This is horrible on so many levels This is hilariously close to an onion article from years back. And when I say "hilariously" I mean "disgustingly." http://www.theonion.com/articles/an-open-letter-to-a-starving-child,10972/
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# ? Dec 19, 2011 02:55 |
e: nvm this is dumb I don't care
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# ? Dec 20, 2011 00:09 |
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quote:We hope the people of Iraq make the most of that chance. But if they do not, it will not be the fault of U.S. troops. This is so incredible spiteful that I don't know what to say. In a way it's true that the US troops themselves aren't ultimately responsible over the clusterfuck that present day Iraq has become. But it sounds like trying to avoid taking any responsibility over the whole thing, and of course Abu Ghraib never happened.
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# ? Dec 20, 2011 01:48 |
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This letter to the editor was in my newspaper yesterdayquote:Regarding the letter "Veterans Day tribute forgets to mention women" from Margaret Ellen Mayo concerning your annual tribute to our veterans: Her many comments were valid. But what she fails to realize, or admit to, is that during all of our nation's conflicts women may have served, but men did the dying.
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Augster posted:This letter to the editor was in my newspaper yesterday Well ignoring that Veterans Day is for all who served in the armed forces and not just those who died (that's for memorial day), women died in service to the US during the Vietnam War most noticeably with their own memorial, during plenty of other wars, and they're serving in combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan while being raped by their own comrades. In other words:
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# ? Dec 20, 2011 05:36 |
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Hey guys, I have an idea. Why not let the people overturn Supreme Court rulings?quote:For instance, such a veto could be reserved for 5 to 4 decisions of the Supreme Court on constitutional issues — in other words, decisions in which the majority is often attempting to push constitutional doctrine in a new direction. A People’s Veto would permit the public to weigh in, perhaps following a national petition drive or congressional authorization. I can see no way that this could go wrong!
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Presto posted:Hey guys, I have an idea. Why not let the people overturn Supreme Court rulings? 1. Was wondering who wrote that piece, George Will or Marc Theissen. Never heard of this douche. 2. If 'the people' would be able to decide SC cases, then what the hell would be the point of the SC?
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# ? Dec 31, 2011 09:29 |
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quote:Obama is a traitor! Don't really know what to say.
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# ? Jan 1, 2012 04:24 |
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quote:the home of Jesus and Moses Hahahaha these loving fundies are so stupid, they don't even read the books they claim to turn to for so much life guidance! Your Moses character never set foot in Israel, ever. The story goes that he was born in Egypt and died before reaching the promised land (at age 120, no less!). These people are so loving dumb, "guys we need to make israel a JEWISH state IT SAYS IT IN MY BOOK" which i have not read
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Israel, the home of Anne Frank
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Presto posted:Hey guys, I have an idea. Why not let the people overturn Supreme Court rulings? So, this person is basically proposing some way to change the constitution so that it is more in line with what the nation currently wants/believes, rather than how the document currently is and how it is interpreted? Isn't this exactly what the constitutional amendment process is? spacetimecontinuu posted:Hahahaha these loving fundies are so stupid, they don't even read the books they claim to turn to for so much life guidance! Your Moses character never set foot in Israel, ever. The story goes that he was born in Egypt and died before reaching the promised land (at age 120, no less!). These people are so loving dumb, "guys we need to make israel a JEWISH state IT SAYS IT IN MY BOOK" which i have not read There are so many blatant factual errors there, but that is probably the most egregious one. You'd think that these people who go on and on about their religion would actually know anything about it.
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quote:In this regard, Freedom Watch recently scored a big victory in court in our case against the radical mullahs in Iran. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered that evidence be presented into the atrocities committed by the Iranian terrorist regime. These atrocities are being committed each day with Obama's apparent blessing! This trial, to be held in the next few months, will, like the Nuremberg Nazi trials after World War II, expose the horrors of the Islamic Iranian regime, which is obviously supported by Obama. What the gently caress? Has this guy gone to a federal court to sue Iran? Edit: Yes, he has. Qwertycoatl fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Qwertycoatl posted:What the gently caress? Has this guy gone to a federal court to sue Iran? I don't really understand how there is any standing to file charges in an American court. The victim wasn't an American citizen, tortured/murdered on US soil or territory, victimized by the American government or an American citizen, or virtually anything else to do with the United States.
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quote:U.S. was correct on Iraq agreed. we did great work in cambodia making sure that innocent people were not slaughtered by despots http://www.newstatesman.com/200004170017
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ts12 posted:agreed. we did great work in cambodia making sure that innocent people were not slaughtered by despots Wow, it's like someone who either has complete amnesia for what happened between 1991 and 2003 or was cryogenically frozen during the same period. The UN, along with the IAEA, was instrumental in basically shutting down all of Saddam's WMD production, which is why US forces basically found nothing (other than expired and useless, old chemical weapons) after the invasion in 2003. They also prevented Saddam from being a threat to anyone but his own country, so I'm not sure what is with the analogy to Hitler. It's also ironic that he brings up Darfur, because we could have better spent the same or even less resources stopping the genocide in Darfur if we hadn't wasted time, lives, and resources going into Iraq to implement neoconservative foreign policy.
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Bruce Leroy posted:I don't really understand how there is any standing to file charges in an American court. US courts in recent years have gone hard into the "long arm of the Court" idea, deciding they have jurisdiction to hear matters occurring entirely in foreign countries, involving mostly foreign individuals. Curiously, at the same time there's Scalia on the SCOTUS who thinks it's rediculous to look at the laws of Canada, Australia or New Zealand, as well as modern UK law, for help on anything because it's foreign law. Technically correct, but a petty reason not to look at how another country with a very similar legal regime has confronted an issue.
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Qwertycoatl posted:What the gently caress? Has this guy gone to a federal court to sue Iran? Is there any better source about what happened? It says that it was filed back in 2009, but without paying to check the court records, there's no more mention of the case in the last 2 years.
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Maneck posted:US courts in recent years have gone hard into the "long arm of the Court" idea, deciding they have jurisdiction to hear matters occurring entirely in foreign countries, involving mostly foreign individuals. Curiously, at the same time there's Scalia on the SCOTUS who thinks it's rediculous to look at the laws of Canada, Australia or New Zealand, as well as modern UK law, for help on anything because it's foreign law. Technically correct, but a petty reason not to look at how another country with a very similar legal regime has confronted an issue. I understand why the courts would get involved if the matter concerned an American citizen or legal resident being abused/killed in a foreign jurisdiction, but there's nothing linking that particular case in Iran other than one of the victim's sisters being an American citizen. It would make sense for the State Department to intervene, but it's just nonsensical for an American court to take jurisdiction in such a case.
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This isn't a terrible article (in fact, it's quite the opposite!) but rather an article ABOUT terrible articles. In this case, all of them involve David Brooks: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-bines/david-brooks-satire_b_1176603.html
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Mr Interweb posted:This isn't a terrible article (in fact, it's quite the opposite!) but rather an article ABOUT terrible articles. In this case, all of them involve David Brooks: Taibbi's been knocking Brooks for a long time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/18/matt-taibbi-david-brooks-haiti_n_427607.html http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/04/10/brooks-let-them-eat-work/ It's almost worth having Brooks around just to see everyone else write hilarious rebuttals.
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Edit: wrong thread
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Comments on any article in Jacksonville's Florida Times Union are atrocious. http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2011-11-23/story/teen-accused-jacksonville-vehicular-homicide-angry-depressed quote:Chelsea Lambert talked Tuesday night with her brother Zachary about making plans for Thanksgiving dinner. Pretty sad. The crowd's reaction: quote:The kid that did this needs a life sentence for this murder. quote:I'm finding it difficult to have any sympathy or any excuses for this 16 year old. Let the punishment fit the crime. No youthful offender status should be considered in this case. quote:X2 agree with both above. I wonder if the truck was stolen? Pretty nice ride for a 16 year old. quote:The driver of the truck should be pushed off a bridge in front of an oncoming tractor trailer. An eye for an eye is the only way we are going to bring society back around to where they respect our laws and the the rights of those around them. quote:We all agree that the 16 year old should get the maximum punishment possible, but in reality we all know he won't spend much, if any time past his 21st birthday in jail or a halfway "house" quote:Meet your new girlfriend for life - Bubba Ben Dover. Yeah, send him to the chair, or to prison for life, that will send a message to all of those troubled neglected and abused emotionally handicapped teenage kids who make fully informed rational decisions about things that they do on impulse. This sounds like a fit of authoritarian aggression.
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from Boston.com today
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Riptor posted:from Boston.com today Gut clenched thinking he was gonna make some 'murder everyone crossing the border' thing, found he literally meant the animal, couldn't stop laughing.
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From my former local paper, it's the ultimate "I'm just saying" letter. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To the Editor: Cumberland Times-News Its very frustrating to read and hear disgusting statements about the administration. However, I wonder if there is any truth in what is being passed around on the Internet, written in emails, and transmitted in other electronic devices. Questions such as: “Was Barrack Obama born in the United States?”; “Is President Obama a mid-eastern plant within our government ?”; “Is the goal for our president to turn our country into a European style social state?”; “Does Obama practice Islam, and not Christianity?” And there are more! So I wonder, why, with all these accusations and bewildering statements being so widespread, and in some cases rather convincing, would any one in the United States of America, consider voting for such a person. For me, I think he's a great orator, politician, and in good health! These are displayed frequently! But, as an American, should we really put these outstanding attributes first on the list for our choice as our leader. Would it not be wiser and more rewarding to consider someone, who without question, is American and wants what we want: to maintain the guidelines for a democracy that represents the majority; practices and believes the same spiritual philosophy that most of us do; promotes the type of economy that our mothers and fathers, and their mothers and fathers pursued, attained and sustained. Are the rumors well founded or are they just political ploys? Makes me wonder. It's certainly more comforting to be sure, without any reason to wonder, will our next president represent America and stand up for us, and protect our way of life.
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Glitterbomber posted:Gut clenched thinking he was gonna make some 'murder everyone crossing the border' thing, found he literally meant the animal, couldn't stop laughing.
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Glitterbomber posted:Gut clenched thinking he was gonna make some 'murder everyone crossing the border' thing, found he literally meant the animal, couldn't stop laughing. But it's still pretty awful. It's emblematic of myopic morons who prefer "simple" solutions (i.e. killing off an entire species because it's inconvenient) to more appropriate, nuanced approaches (i.e. keeping taking proper care of your pets and children even if there weren't coyotes and dealing with the individual coyotes who are causing problems). You see this same kind of crap on pretty much every issue, e.g. immigration ("Build the drat fence!!"), foreign policy ("Just nuke anyone who doesn't do what we want"), healthcare reform ("I shouldn't have to pay for anyone's healthcare! NO DEATH PANELS!"), etc.
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