News that makes us laugh, cry, or both

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:19 am

Predatory companies mad that people are being responsible. Maybe credit card companies shouldn't exist because they only serve to cause misery.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:11 am

It's weird to read something like that - the only credit cards we have are ones actually attached to bank accounts, so I forget about fees and crap.

And for what it's worth, if you do a lot of business with Paypal, getting a debit card hooked to your account is the shit.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:43 pm

California city approves marijuana farming
6 Legal Ways Cops Can Screw You Scary stuff.
It's the World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer -- Inside a Squirrel

violence in the media · Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:31 pm

Whistleblower provision in financial reform bill.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:06 am

Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:29 am

Strange Cracked points at a 2010 ruling about guessing your speed. How else were they supposed to figure out your speed before? 'pacing' is just guessing by other means.

However, what's worse is that they don't have to prove it. If they say so, the court is by law required to accept their testimony. The court isn't required to take yours. So worse, they could lie about it and unless you have some impeachable evidence - like video from a traffic cam - there's hardly anything you can do about it. (Also, there's usually also no legal method to deal with it if you find out the office is lying when you arrive at court.)

What's really bad about all of these isn't the assumption the police are telling the truth - it's that they skip around real due process.

-Crissa

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 6:33 am

Darth Vader Holds Up Long Island Bank

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:04 am

Oliver Stone bawws about Jews.

Stone, who is half-Jewish, told the Times: “There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f---ed up United States foreign policy for years.”

"Beyond the ignorance he proves with his comments, his demonization of the Jewish people could be a sequel to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Edelstein told the Jerusalem Post. "When a man of Stone's stature says such things, it could lead to a new wave of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, and it may even cause real harm to Jewish communities and individuals."

The American Jewish Committee blasted the director, too.

"By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," said AJC executive director David Harris said in a statement. "For all of Stone's progressive pretensions, his remark is no different from one of the drunken, Jew-hating rants of his fellow Hollywood celebrity, Mel Gibson."

"We are deeply offended," Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivor, said in another statement. "These are words of hate and a disgraceful evocation of anti-Semitism. Shame on Oliver Stone."

Arizona makes criminals fear the law. Just as planned.

"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered."

The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:10 am

How exactly is calling people hard workers with a powerful lobby who stay on top of the news "demonizing?"

And as this is still the United States, it is entirely possible to be Jewish without necessarily being pro-Israel. Unlike in some less democratic mideast theocracies my tax dollars support

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:29 am

How exactly is calling people hard workers with a powerful lobby who stay on top of the news "demonizing?"

It's not. Jews constantly whine and claim anti-Semitism, though.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:34 am

Psychic Robot wrote:
How exactly is calling people hard workers with a powerful lobby who stay on top of the news "demonizing?"
It's not. Jews constantly whine and claim anti-Semitism, though.

To be fair I've never heard a Jewish person talk like this. The Neocon lobbyists who represent Israel's military are the ones to claim discrimination.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:35 am

If I had any sort of oppressed minority in my ancestry, you can bet I'd be milking it for whatever it was worth. I don't "like" it, but I'd do the exact same thing if I thought I could wheedle any sort of advantage out of it.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:45 am

The Neocon lobbyists who represent Israel's military are the ones to claim discrimination.

Really fucking annoying, ain't it? Just keep that in mind the next time you heard the word "racist" thrown around.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:18 am

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:If I had any sort of oppressed minority in my ancestry, you can bet I'd be milking it for whatever it was worth. I don't "like" it, but I'd do the exact same thing if I thought I could wheedle any sort of advantage out of it.

Do women count as an oppressed minority? You could claim that, because roughly half your ancestors were women, you're part woman, and can claim discrimination.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:04 pm

Koumei wrote:Do women count as an oppressed minority? You could claim that, because roughly half your ancestors were women, you're part woman, and can claim discrimination.

That is awesome - pure, unadulterated gold.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:38 pm

iPhone jailbreaking made legal

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:02 am

Psychic Robot wrote:Arizona makes criminals fear the law. Just as planned.
"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us cornered."

The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.

Super! And then they can get down to the business of harassing the Mexican tourists and workers that are legally visiting the state and the Mexican-Americans that permanently reside there.

Better walk around with your birth certificates, brownskins! Well, assuming that the Republicans accept it as being legitimate, that is.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:35 pm

But... but GC, the police are being given special training to make sure that they don't unduly discriminate.

That being said, training or not, I don't know how they expect this to be anything other than a cluster-fuck of racial profiling.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:34 pm

90% of web snoop document censored to stop 'premature unnecessary debate' (Australia)

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:30 pm

In response to accusations of controlling the media, Jews try to cancel Oliver Stone's upcoming series. Irony overload.

Forcing someone to go to gay pride parades because she thinks gay is wrong is probably not the best way to do things.

Clutch9800 · Post by **Clutch9800** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:07 pm

Psychic Robot wrote:In response to accusations of controlling the media, Jews try to cancel Oliver Stone's upcoming series. Irony overload.

Forcing someone to go to gay pride parades because she thinks gay is wrong is probably not the best way to do things.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/gaypri ... -gays,351/

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:42 am

Oh, sure, tar jewish people with the guy who says, “His love of [Venezuelan president Hugo] Chavez has always bothered me."

There is nothing anti-Semitic about saying, 'Israel has fucked up American foreign policy.' That part was added onto the ADL's refutation of Stones remarks by Haim.

Tho it is very ironic.

-Crissa

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:15 am

Crissa wrote:There is nothing anti-Semitic about saying, 'Israel has fucked up American foreign policy.'

The truth is often politically incorrect.

Clutch9800 · Post by **Clutch9800** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:49 am

Psychic Robot wrote:
Crissa wrote:There is nothing anti-Semitic about saying, 'Israel has fucked up American foreign policy.'
The truth is often politically incorrect.

I don't know. To criticize the Jewish State is to be anti-semetic to a lot of folks. Israel is the Jewish State.

Clutch

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:50 am

A federal judge blocked a lot of the most controversial aspects of Arizona's immigration laws yesterday, which go into effect today. I think two of the blocked portions involve having officers check the immigration status of anyone they're suspicious of if stopped for other reasons and requiring immigrants to carry papers at all times.