Venneh Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Here's the way I see it. If you're gonna be an ass to me about the whole thing, or I can't see probably cause for me being called off to get sexually assaulted, I'm gonna give you shit every step of the way. But if you don't look like you're enjoying it, I can cut you a bit of slack. Still, people. COMPLAIN TO YOUR FREAKING SUPERIORS. WALK OUT. Don't take that shit lying down. Shaun, who knows? The parent was pretty fucking furious that it was happening in the first place, from what I saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 I'll admit this is me arguing just to balance the debate, but in a country with unemployment above 10%, it's hard to tell someone to walk off the job if they don't like it. NOW, if the unions actually, you know, cared about workers, society, common man, they would actually have every single one of their members refuse to conduct the sexual assaults, I mean security checks, and they would be gone in a matter of days. On a side note, and I bring this up every time there safety is ramped up against terrorism, but someone could explode a suicide bomb on the NY subway under the hudson river and it would kill thousands and paralyse the city. But do you see anyone scanning every single user the subway? No, because it would cause a fucking outcry and isn't logistically possible. Just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunKL Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Police chief investigates 'most grisly murder in 35 years' before discovering blood-spattered scene is a horror movie set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Superman's best friend is in hot water for allegedly dealing drugs. Sam Jones 3rd, who played Clark Kent's buddy on the CW show "Smallville," was arrested Wednesday morning in a federal drug sting, TMZ.com reported. The Drug Enforcement Agency said Jones, 26, was accused of being a "co-conspirator" in several major drug deals last year. According to court documents, the actor and several others devised a plan to purchase and distribute more than 10,000 oxycodone pills. Jones was reportedly taken into custody by DEA agents who described him as the "Hollywood connection" to the plot. The 26-year-old actor has been charged with conspiracy to possess illegal drugs with the intent to distribute. If convicted, Jones faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 While watching the 2nd and 3rd seasons of Smallville, I always suspected that Sam Jones was into drugs of some kind. Something about the expression of disconnectedness he always had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunKL Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 Well... we now know one character who won't be showing up in season 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 It amazes me that even in 2010 schools still think they can do stuff like this. LOUISVILLE (CN) - A school district spent $1 million tax dollars on a new fieldhouse, but there's "No Girls Allowed" - it has no locker room for girls, or even a girls' bathroom, high school students and their parents say. North Oldham High School in Goshen, Ky., spent the public money "strictly for the use of boys and boys' athletics," according to the federal complaint. Two girls and their parents sued the Oldham County Board of Education, its Superintendent Paul Upchurch and North Oldham High School Principal Lisa Jarrett. Both girls run cross-country and track. The School Board spent $1 million of public money on the fieldhouse, which was completed in October 2008. "The Fieldhouse was constructed and designed strictly for the use of boys and boys' athletics," according to the complaint. "The Fieldhouse contains a locker room for football, shower and restroom facilities for boys only, offices for coaches of boys' sports only, a film and meeting room for use of boys and boys' sports only, a training room for use for boys' sports only, a laundry room used for boys' sports only, and even a separate locker room and shower/bathroom for use by visiting boys' teams. "The Fieldhouse has no facilities for girls or for girls' athletics, and in fact does not even have a girls' or women's bathroom in it. "The defendants have failed and refused to allow girls at North Oldham High School, including the minor plaintiffs, any use of the Fieldhouse, employing a 'No Girls Allowed' policy, except briefly during the spring, when the defendants allow the girls' track team to use the visiting boys' locker room. For the majority of the school year, girls are excluded from the Fieldhouse, and even the locker room for visiting football teams is off limits to girls, even though that visiting locker room is superior to any facility open to girls at North Oldham High School. "Girls at North Oldham High School have for their use no facility equal or even remotely comparable to the Fieldhouse. [Plaintiffs] C.P.R. and L.J.W. and other girls on the cross-country team, for example, must change clothes in their coach's office closet or in the hallway or faculty bathrooms. This policy has created a situation in which girls are assigned and restricted to clearly inferior athletic facilities, because changing clothes in an office closet is simply not equal or even comparable to changing in a modern $1,000,000 Fieldhouse." Parent-plaintiffs Richard F. Richards and Christine Wattley say the school and district violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Kentucky Civil Rights Act. They seek an injunction requiring the school to "(a) cease and desist from all further discrimination against girls in the use of the Fieldhouse and any other facility; (b) build a comparable fieldhouse for girls' teams or retrofit the Fieldhouse to convert approximately one-half of its floor space for use by girls' athletics, including equal use of coaches offices, training rooms, and conference/film space; and © implement policies at North Oldham High School and throughout the school system that ensure future compliance with Title IX and similar laws." The families are represented by E. Douglas Richards of Lexington. http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/30/32974.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 The "N-word" is being censored in a new edition of Huckleberry Finn. Screw people and their political correctness; that's classic literature they're censoring, dammit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 The "N-word" is being censored in a new edition of Huckleberry Finn. Screw people and their political correctness; that's classic literature they're censoring, dammit! Next they'll be censoring the name of the dog in Dambusters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 The "N-word" is being censored in a new edition of Huckleberry Finn. Screw people and their political correctness; that's classic literature they're censoring, dammit! They'll be censoring Birth of a Nation next!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 And the quest to sweep the racist history of America under the rug continues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Arizona Congresswoman killed and twelve others injured in Tuscon grocery store/public event shooting rampage. .... EDIT: She's apparently in critical, not dead yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Arizona Congresswoman killed and twelve others injured in Tuscon grocery store/public event shooting rampage. .... EDIT: She's apparently in critical, not dead yet. The asshole shot and killed a nine year old. He shot a nine year old in the head. It kills me that there are people capable of that in this world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 ...Oh wow. The random crazy theory seems to abound with this, and here's hoping that the case, but there's some REALLY unfortunate connections to the Tea Partiers, cause the woman was on Sarah Palin's list of targets cause they voted for the health care bill. Said target list also had crosshairs on it for each target. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Both the Congresswoman and Judge had past threats from the far right fringe groups. The judge was actually under federal protection at the time of his death from threats made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 I think at this point, everyone and their grandmother has "connections to the Tea Partiers." Crazy people are crazy people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Precisely. I'm not one to generally go after the liberal media, but trying to call this psycho anything but a psycho is just propaganda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 The Westboro Baptist Chrurch is planning to picket the shooting victims funerals. Seriously, can someone just show these people the definition of good taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Or just non-inflammatory rhetoric, that would be nice. I think at this point, everyone and their grandmother has "connections to the Tea Partiers." Crazy people are crazy people. Crazy people are indeed crazy, but you have to recognize that if you have a map up with the words "don't retreat, reload", and gun sights over certain districts/senators, people might take you at your word and do something crazy/stupid. I am NOT saying that Loughner is connected to the Tea Partiers, it's just looking like he's pretty batshit at this point in general, what with the YouTube videos about mind control and illiteracy. What I AM saying is that the inflammatory/elimination rhetoric on all sides of politics should stop, cause it's not surprising that something like this happened, lone crazy or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunKL Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 The Westboro Baptist Chrurch is planning to picket the shooting victims funerals. Seriously, can someone just show these people the definition of good taste? I want to know why that place is still considered a church. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 What I AM saying is that the inflammatory/elimination rhetoric on all sides of politics should stop, cause it's not surprising that something like this happened, lone crazy or not. Sounds good to me. When inflammatory rhetoric stops getting votes, that'll probably happen. Never! The Westboro Baptist Chrurch is planning to picket the shooting victims funerals. Seriously, can someone just show these people the definition of good taste? I'm pretty sure they just picket everything acknowledged to be good and just, for the sake of doing it. Gives 'em attention. I want to know why that place is still considered a church. A) Because, unfortunately, that's what they call themselves. B) Because the term "church" is not required to mean "nice people." C) That way anti-religious people can use them for finger-pointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 It's funny though. There are a shit-ton of churches in North America that have a stance against things like gay marriage. And people go there and support that. I find that just as bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 At least with that sort of thing, it's not usually from a place of outright hatred. Most of my friends around here are churchgoers that don't support gay marriage, but it's not because of any type of hate or fear towards gays; it's just that they have a very different perspective on the concept of marriage itself. You can say that their views are incorrect or even immoral, but that doesn't make them hate-mongerers the same way that the Westboro psychos are. It's the personal factor that makes it go completely over the edge. It's one thing to say "I support/don't support Issue X because of factor Y," but it's another thing when factor Y is "we/God/whomever hates Group Z." I've been doing some thinking on the whole church definition thing, though, and something struck me. Near as I can tell, the sort of "central" Christian belief (as far as personal action is concerned) is that "love" is the most important ideal for personal behavior. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 lists the qualities of love (and, therefore, the way Christians are supposed to act): Patience Kindness Not Envious Not Boastful Does not Dishonor others Not Selfish Not Easily Angered Keeps no record of others' wrongs Always protects Always trusts Always hopes Always perseveres. The Westboros pretty much break all those. (Except maybe perseverance. They sure don't seem to ever quit.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 There's no excuse for anyone to try to pin the blame for the Tuscon shooting on anyone in mainstream politics. Any person trying to score political points is an asshole cynically trying to score political points on a horrible crime and a great tragedy. These people should be ashamed. Our thoughts should only be with the families of the victims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 There is also no need for anyone in mainstream politics to be using gun metaphors when it comes to campaigns. Crazy people don't hear what you meant, only what you say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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