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A site devoted to user-generated comics. I don't think I'm gonna use it, but I did play around with their Avatar creator for awhile. It still doesn't quite look like me. I'm open to suggestions as to how to make this look like me (Besides changing the white shoes, which I never wear).
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Good luck winning that war against the 100 Al Queda left in Afghanistan. Our next Vietnam is not going to be won. When Obama goes out of office, and Afghanistan still isn't at peace. this will be yet another failure for both Obama and Bush. We're losing more American troops in these wars than we lost in 911 — three wrongs make a right?
April 2010
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April 30, 2010
April 29, 2010
links for 2010-04-29 [one of 2 posts, thank you for screwing up today, delicious]
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Good thing we’re a tobacco state, or this would rule differently. Public smoking laws have little to do with health, and more to do with people’s emotional desire to control behavior of others they find offensive. They just banned wearing deodorant in a Michigan city, because people have now learned that they have the “right” to control other people’s actions [smells] they find offensive.
Don’t like something? Avoid it. Don’t like violence on movies? Don’t watch them. Don’t like smoke? Go someplace where there isn’t — there’s plenty of places. Of course, the people who don’t like smoke aren’t playing fair. They want to make it so that those who WANT smoke in public DON’T have a choice. “My way or the highway.” Typical fascist bullshit.
For once, I say: Go Republicans! And for once, I say: Boo American Cancer Society. What a turnabout…
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First off, I am absolutely against illegal immigration. With all the money we spend on the war on terror, the real threat to security is someone coming across our unenforced border and attacking us that way. Iraq or Afghanistan are not threats to us; Mexico and Canada are.
And it’s nothing to do with race: I’d vote to send every illegal back RIGHT THIS SECOND, if that was an option. MY grandparents came here legally. You want to live here? You do the same.
HOWEVER, the way it is written, this law is a total bullshit police state unconstitutional racial-profile-inducing piece of shit law that is going to result in justified lawsuits costing taxpayers tons of money.
This law will be struck down. Look forward to YouTube videos of brown americans getting their rights trodden on by police. There is no legal requirement to carry ID when you’re not driving, so people are going to be detained. Immigration detentions do not give you a right to a lawyer, you know…
Interesting comments.
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Martha Traxler’s email address is martha.traxler@copiah.ms. She also shows up in a poorly-copy-edited article about the issue from October of last year: http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1… wherein she claimed that “the issue goes beyond just clothing.”Email her. Tell her she’s a discriminatory cunt. I did. Fuck this shit, and fuck the south for perpetuating conservative ideals of racism and discrimination. Of course this shit still happens in the north, but you just don’t hear about it as often, do you?
- Delicious fucked up today. Made 2 posts, neither identical. Great. Manually fixed it finally.
April 29, 2010
links for 2010-04-29 [one of 2 posts, thank you delicious for screwing up today]
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Bart wrote “South Park – We’d stand beside you if we weren’t so scared” on the chalkboard in one of the latest Simpsons episodes. After having South Park talk about Simpsons AND Family Guy, it’s nice to see a FOX cartoon giving a shoutout back to Comedy Central! Go cartoons! Fuck all religion!
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GOOD! Sony, Apple, and other companies are leading the charge in a new kind of legal wrangling: “We tell you what you can do with your property after you buy it.” It’s a techno-legal wrangle to get past the first sale doctrine and other legal protections. It is not deserved. This firmware update takes away functionality that people paid for. I still will not buy a PS3 [or XBOX360] due to the amount of freedom you are supposed to voluntarily give away for the privilege of paying them to own their product. Let’s see Sony fry on this one.
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… Foot, insert into mouth.
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Remember when Obama promised Guantanamo closed in a year…. a year and a half ago?
Interrogated 142 times starting at age 15, I’d admit to throwing a grenade too. If he actually did it, his own testimony is invalid due to torture. Way to go, guys.
International law treats child soldiers as victims.
I don’t really care if this guy IS guilty: He wouldn’t have killed that American soldiers if we hadn’t invaded the wrong country in the first place: 99% of Afghanistan has nothing to do with 911. It was mostly Saudis who caused 911. The Taliban just let Al Queda set up camp there. But Al-Queda is gone from Afghanistan now — less than 100 there according to the Obama Administration. So why are we sending more troops again?
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Yay! 100 eps is a good milestone! If only every great AdultSwim show would last this long!
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More goodness!
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<3 Cracked!
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As much as I don’t like the sound of Arizona’s new immigration law — this is the county I grew up in, and a similar but not identical law gave measurable results in drastically decreasing crime and saving money.
Interesting to me was that they saved at least $6M in ESL teaching. Want to come to our country? English is a requirement. But you gotta learn it on YOUR dollar, not ours.
This link was used against me in an argument, but it’s a good link.
- Delicious fucked up today. Made 2 posts, neither identical. Great. Manually fixed it finally.
April 29, 2010
VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
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[PEOPLE: Directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Farrel — who both worked on Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy and Wake Up Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie. With John C. Reilly (aka Dr. Steve Brule from Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job); Jane Lynch, who we just saw in the Area 57 pilot; David Koechner, who professed his love to Ron Burgundy in the Anchorman deleted movie; Michael Clarke Duncan, who we just saw as Kingpin in the excellent DareDevil movie (he was also Balactus in Minoriteam, and in Sin City, The Scorpion King, Armageddon); the lovely Leslie Bibb (Sex & Death 101, Iron Man, Wristcutters: A Love Story); Molly Shannon (SNL) as a drunk wife; the very lovely (but repressed in this movie) Amy Adams (who was in a few episodes of The Office, described as “Pam 6.0” by Michael Shott); Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat) as the “bad guy”; Andy Richter as the bad guy’s gay lover. A pretty good cast for a comedy movie.
QUIRKS: This is, unfortunately, a sports-themed movie — NASCAR. That counts against it. But it’s also a movie full of non-stop laughs — and the comedy doesn’t ever stop. Even the child stars are hilarious. And Borat makes an excellent annoying French villian.
CONCLUSION: This was quite funny. I’d give it 4/5 stars on Netflix, though it might only deserve 3 due to us not caring about sports. And I’d give it 7.5/10 on IMDB. It’s definitely a grade-A comedy, but at the same time, it’s not a masterpiece. Anchorman was funnier.
RECOMMENDATION: If you like Will Farrel or John C. Reilly, you should probably check this out.
SIMILAR MOVIES: This movie very much has the same feel as Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy. You put the same people together, and it’s no surprise that they make a similar movie. It also reminds me of Walk Hard:The Dewey Cox Story (especially with John C. Reilly starring!).
MOVIE QUOTE: Ricky Bobby: [television commercial] Hi, I’m Ricky Bobby. If you don’t chew Big Red, then FUCK YOU!
FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Scott loved it. Tatiana, Wayne, Eric M, Christian D really liked it. Metinee, Benj, Ian, and Rebekah liked it. Everyone seemed to at least like this. (more…)
April 28, 2010
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Nevermind that there is no legal requirement to show your ID, unless you are driving. Pepperspraying someone in the face for trying to call their mother is over the top. And the city agrees: Ms. Screven just won a $65,000 settlement.
But do you really think that will stop the police, when Elix Hernandez won't have to pay the money himself?
Or the taxpayers, when settlements come out of insurance funds?Isn't it interesting how new forms of police douchebaggery always seem to happen to someone who is black or latino? Especially interesting since the cop who did this is named Hernandez….
Major asshole comments on the article, too. "The woman obviously was deliberately breaking the rules for a payday! How dare she not show ID! Pepper spray is less force then putting an arm on her — it has no chemicals!" Wow. No wonder this shit happens. We're fucking retards.
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THREE separate rulings — going back to 1983 — found the law unconstitutional.
But what do the police care about actual laws? They consider themselves legislator, judge, jury, and executioner.
It took 27 years, but now New York City will be found in contempt of court every time they do this. A $500 fine each time, increasing by $500 every 3 months, up to $5000. So in 27 months, New York will have to pay $5000 if they try this unconstitutional bullshit again.
But what about the rest of the country? Funny how when a law restricts freedom, it is applied everywhere. But when an exemption is granted via lawsuit, it applies only to the locale where the lawsuit was won.
This is also proof that strong fines are the only way to control the police. This is exactly why suing the police is the right thing to do — it's the only way to control them.
Then again, if the cops themselves don't pay the fine, won't this just come out of the city's insurance fund? Pfffft.
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An AOL article about X-Day and The Church Of The SubGenius! Good luck getting this kind of coverage, Pastafarians! You got nothin' on "Bob".
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Even after unanimous Republican support for this new law, Republicans still don't follow their own law, and are sending out documents saying "census document" on non-census bag-for-money Republican materials. Is this how desperate the party is?
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Wow. Way to trample multiple constitutional rights at once! Ban him from talking about his religious beliefs to his own child!
The ban against polygamy is about as dumb as the ban against gay marriage. Here's an idea: Let consenting adults have their own beliefs, and live their own lives.
Freedom of choice — unless someone disagrees with your choice. Then it's okay to trample it if your choice is unpopular – like smoking on your own property.
Judge Donald J. Eyre seems to have forgotten that his primary job is not to dictate how children are raised. He has a stick up his ass.
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Apple people might have missed these :D
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pwned! So glad I don't have Comcast!
April 27, 2010
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Catholicism: Becoming a stupider club to be in with every passing day.
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"I don't care. I am going to take you out and throw you on the ground.", is what the disabled man said the officers said to him.
"Officers also told their supervisors that they offered to help the family get another ride, authorities said. The family said that did not happen."
Yeah — they're liars too. They also didn't have their microphones on, which is law there. Or maybe they just "lost" the recordings, taking a page from the Seattle police's playbook?
Funny how these stories are almost never about white people. And seem to come out of Texas… a LOT.
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The screenplay for the unreleased Sex Pistols / Russ Meyer movie is finally released.
April 26, 2010
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Yup. Banning consenting activities between adults on private property reduces choice for those may attend such places.
The people who claim their choice is taken away by going to places where people smoke have successfully taken the choice away from those who want to. You could have simply NOT GONE TO PLACES YOU DON'T LIKE, but instead, you've made it so people who do like it can't go either.
Two wrongs make a right? Tyranny of the majority wins? Less freedom in the name of more freedom? You gotta love the rationalizations prohibitionists use.
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"In short, GM is using government money to pay back government money to get more government money. And at a 2% lower interest rate at that. This is a nifty scheme to refinance GM's government debt–not pay it back!"
Hey — can I do that with my house somehow?
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100M DSL coming soon? Good. We need as much competition as possible. American internet — like our medicine — is a rip-off compared to most of the civilized world. We spend more and get less.
