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shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:10 am

US government official sentenced to 13 years prison for corruption.

1 down, 600+ to go.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:53 am

Join the US marines and you can get away with what Roman Polanski didn't! We will even find the girl for you!

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:43 pm

shadzar wrote:US government official sentenced to 13 years prison for corruption.

1 down, 600+ to go.

He'll be out inside of a year.

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:45 pm

Marine reservist chases, assaults Greek Orthodox priest whom he "mistook" for an Arab terrorist.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:42 pm

Well, I now know never to yell Admiral Akbar anywhere if I want to be safe. So to prevent yourself from being thought a terrorist never mention the fish faced guy in Star Wars.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:48 pm

Ganbare Gincun wrote:Marine reservist chases, assaults Greek Orthodox priest whom he "mistook" for an Arab terrorist.

In one of my first classes on the cultures in the Middle East, the teacher showed us a whole bunch of slides of people and asked us to identify the Muslims.

We all flubbed it pretty hard because the stereotypical clothing is more cultural/environmental than religious, though some religions adopt the dress as part of their religion (Greex Orthodox nun was an example).

I wonder if the priest knew the guy was military and asked him because he [the priest] figured he [the marine] wouldn't be a mugger.

Data Vampire · Post by **Data Vampire** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:47 am

Chavez asking Cubans to 'bomb clouds' amid drought

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:30 am

Maj wrote:
Ganbare Gincun wrote:Marine reservist chases, assaults Greek Orthodox priest whom he "mistook" for an Arab terrorist.
In one of my first classes on the cultures in the Middle East, the teacher showed us a whole bunch of slides of people and asked us to identify the Muslims.

We all flubbed it pretty hard because the stereotypical clothing is more cultural/environmental than religious, though some religions adopt the dress as part of their religion (Greex Orthodox nun was an example).

I wonder if the priest knew the guy was military and asked him because he [the priest] figured he [the marine] wouldn't be a mugger.

I don't buy that explanation. I mean, this was a Greek Orthodox priest. The guy was probably DRIPPING with crucifixes.

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:32 am

An interesting piece about substituting pop-Christianity for clinical treatment of war-induced psychological disorders. And by interesting, I mean horrific. Love this quote from this from VA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Michael McLendon:

The claims, he said, are “costing us too much money,” and if the veterans “believed in God and country . . . they would not come home with PTSD.”

Wow.

Data Vampire · Post by **Data Vampire** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:17 am

A dihydrogen monoxide overdose can be fatal.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:23 am

Hey, congrats on your baby, we are shipping you out in 4 months, and the newborn will have to fend for itself! We are the US Army, here to protect America, but don't really care about people, just the dirt you live on.

No wonder military personnel are reaching all time high suicide rates.

Luckily fat people, drop-outs, and criminals don't have to worry about going into the army.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:33 pm

Data Vampire wrote:A dihydrogen monoxide overdose can be fatal.

The old ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ story? If it wasn’t so tragic I’d be peeing my pants laughing out loud, and in fact I almost did at the time. We can argue the technical details; it’s the dilution of natural salts in the body that is the major problem here. This is a major (and I mean major) problem for all athletes which is why Gator Ade and not regular Water is given to them on the field.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:54 pm

tzor wrote:
Data Vampire wrote:A dihydrogen monoxide overdose can be fatal.
The old ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ story? If it wasn’t so tragic I’d be peeing my pants laughing out loud, and in fact I almost did at the time. We can argue the technical details; it’s the dilution of natural salts in the body that is the major problem here. This is a major (and I mean major) problem for all athletes which is why Gator Ade and not regular Water is given to them on the field.

What I found so weird about that story (if it's the same one I'm thinking of) is that the woman seemed a bit concerned, and the guys on the radio kept reassuring her everything would be fine. It's not like they knew at the time, but listening the the audio after the fact knowing what would happen, it's really quite dark.

Woman: Are you sure it's okay to drink this much water.

Radio host: Sure. It's just water. You'll be fine.

* woman dies later from too much water *

Oops!

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:58 am

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... onths.html

It's like "The Day After Tomorrow", only not retardedly and laughably fast. Kinda scary, really since this could happen again soon-ish.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:45 am

Republicans stall on Vets' Healthcare, demanding that it be deficit neutral and without adding taxes.

-Crissa

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:10 am

I think Republicans should have the same health care as Vets.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:38 am

Oh, they do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attending_ ... s_Congress

They just never get denied. Or run out of money.

Unlike Vets or the VA.

-Crissa

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:55 am

Interesting.....

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:09 am

One in four children in the US do not have enough food.

One in four, tzor would like to make it more.

-Crissa

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:18 am

Why do Conservatives hate America?

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:34 am

Ganbare Gincun wrote:Why do Conservatives hate America?

The neoconservative movement was originally conceived to be all about lying to people in order to create simple good-vs-evil scenarios where America wears the white hat and someone else wears the black hat. This was supposed to restore the American public's faith in America's moral superiority and in so doing promote moral majority values and stop the kids from growing their hair long and such.

And while that was insulting patriarchal garbage, it was at least functional - for a while. The Communists (particularly the Soviet Union) were fitted with the black hats, and that was that... until the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall came down, and the neocons needed a new existential enemy to promote as the antithesis of everything that was wholesome and American. They chose Bill Clinton.

And when the Neocons turned their crazy beam on their own countryman, the original goal broke down and the whole system became an excuse to put black hats on their political opposition and so justify *any* behavior against them.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:49 am

angel wrote:The neoconservative movement was originally conceived to be all about lying to people in order to create simple good-vs-evil scenarios where America wears the white hat and someone else wears the black hat.

And when the Neocons turned their crazy beam on their own countryman, the original goal broke down and the whole system became an excuse to put black hats on their political opposition and so justify *any* behavior against them.

So now Americans wear the ass hat.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:36 am

Ganbare Gincun wrote:Why do Conservatives hate America?

It is more to the point that nobody likes America, just people like money.

Money talks and bullshit walks....so unless you have money, then nobody will listen to you. That is why people are getting arrested daily at sit-ins at their congressmens offices about health care.

The people don't matter, because they don't spend enough lobbying to the politicians.

America is driven by money, that is all.

The only thing that will change it, is a nationwide strike, where all businesses close down until things are fixed; which wont happen because Americans live in fear. Or another civil war.

After congress kills many Americans using the US Army against its own people then maybe the ones that aren't pissed about Afghanistan and having to fight it, will think about what they will doing and turn on the politicians, so we can actually remove them, like many tried to impeach Bush, but the politicians faield to listen then as well.

So Americans have no power in America. Only multi-billion dollar businesses have any power.

Data Vampire · Post by **Data Vampire** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:23 am

President Barack Obama to end war with Fox News by sitting down for Major Garrett interview
Now for the lighter side.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:34 am

Marriage banned in Texas since 2005.

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