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This is not the first time that straw man has been posted on this forum.

Again, ironic considering the conservative state of Texas is probably CHOCK full of people proclaiming this to be a state sanctioned murder, yet they couldn't vote for this issue back then.

whoever is doing the parenting = the parents. obviously.

Terry Schaivo isn't a goldfish... is she???

There are other things that happened since the 60's that may have caused the explosion of illegitamacy, Mike. I don't ahve the answer. I don't know. But not everything is economics. There's cultural things as well. Hundreds of signifigant things happened since then. I'm not saying, per se, that you're wrong (THIS TIME) but you haven't proven you're right. From what I know, most kids raised out of wedlock have to do with deadbeat/arrested/dead father figures. That and total idiocy regarding birth control from both sides male and female. That has nothing to do with welfare.

Bitter much? Thats okay, that thread was ruined, and I agree. This event? The kid was obviously warped, and the parents are at fault, at least in part. A LARGE part. There is a difference, however, with a kid who "acts" evil, and a kid who "does" evil. I had plenty of friends in highschool who did, any some still do, acts that would be considered offensive or indicitive of craziness. Because they enjoyed the irony. They didn't do anything actually bad. But I hear the newspeople talking about how the shooter spiked his hair into horns to look evil. Maybe this kid deserved watching, and maybe if his parents had done so, he could have gotten help. But don't try and act like every kid who worships Satan is a future mass murderer.

I haven't gotten involved with this before, because I don't know all of the specifics. If one person says she's a veg and one person says she's not, who do I believe? I don't know. Personally I believe that if she is a vegitable, then she should be allowed to die, or even euthanized. Personally if I have to go slowly through starvation or quickly through some sort of painless O.D., I know which one I THINK I'd prefer. They say where there's life, there's hope. But what is life? A beating heart and pumping lungs isn't life. Life is communication, and interaction. Life is thought. Who do I believe? I think people are letting themselves believe who they WANT to believe, so the same people are arguing the same points. The pro-life people arguing that aspect and others arguing that she should be allowed to die on her own. But I don't know who's right, so I won't say. But I think it's fucking odd that at the same time Reps can fight for putting this women on a feeding tube at this time and Bush could fight for keeping people off respirators another. If the circumstances are different, the outcome is the SAME. Especially because Bush's had to do with money. I mean, I don't like Bush at all, and this doesn't surprise me. But what are the REPUBLCIANS supposed to do besides (maybe?) ignore it? That's not always so easy...

My god, Mike, could you please learn to abridge your tripe? I mean, you are seriously clogging up these threads. I always START off reading everything everyone posts, but eventually I just have to stop reading your threads, and the peoples' who are responding to you for two main reasons: One, your points are all incredibly stupid Two, you are terribly long winded and quote like a demon. I seriously won't skip anything if you would just consolidate everything into paragraphs, preferably not LBL, And don't repost to everyone's posts! I don't see what all the hubbub is about African American Studies, Womens Studies, Asian American Studies, Arab American studies (?) and the like. As previously stated, they're similar to White American studies, with a focus on various minorities. They all demand the same level of coursework, on various topics. Succeeding in them proves that you have the ability to write good papers and pass tests. I'm going to let the Environmentalism issue pass because I severely doubt that you've taken *any* environmentalism classes in your day. I'm sorry your friend got blasted by the professor, anyone accused of plagerism SHOULD go to a board and get a hearing. If he was innocent he should have been found innocent. What can I say, to implicate that one event has anything having to do with a trend is just silly. Similarly all your ranting and raving about Ultra Liberal professors and their pervasiveness doesn't really hold water. For every example you have, I have another, at least when it comes to personal ones. And I'm sure you could find a hundred, two hundred cruddy crazy leftist Professors. That doesn't mean that the thousands and thousands left over aren't fair and reasonable. In regards to, "Why are more professors liberal?" I think it comes down to Liberals traditionally being more "free spirited" or perhaps, Conservatives being more "Business oriented." A lot of liberals totally fear working in an office, or being part of any large company. Where some conservatives see progression and opportunity to grow, soem liberals would just see a boring future. I know I do. And one avenue away from the business world is the college campus. Always working with what you loved to learn about and argue about, be it Asian American studies or American history since 1945. I've just always gotten the impression that liberals are more "hippy-ish" than conservatives. GUESS WHAT? Teaching Liberal Arts is a pretty "hippy-ish" thing to do. I'll bet you'd find more liberals applying for those jobs than conservatives. I would LOVE to mail you a copy of some of my Enviro texts, mike. You might be suprised about how much of it is pure science, and how much of it is theoretical ideas. Please, let me know if you've seen one.

Uh, I'd say that in the movies, he will be WORSE, because of one reason: Genndy T. is a fucking action GOD when it comes to cartoons. See: Samurai Jack, as well as all the fights in this season of Clone Wars. Seeing General Grevious weaving back 'n forth, weilding a light saber in each hand and one in a foot, with the one jedi just like backing away fearfully was QUITE an ending to the first season. But this season has been crazy with the action. Go to cartoonnetwork.com and stream them asap. I tell you, the Clone Wars cartoon is far better than the Clone Wars movie.

Battle Arena Toshinden called, they want their character designs back.

Whatever, Jobber. I may hate it's trendiness, but I also hate it's pricetag. It's just not worth it.

Actually, many if not all environmental engineering applications, from specific solar energy uses to proper water management in farming, etc. cost less in the long term than more immediate solutions. For example, installing a solar heater for water in a sunny area costs more immediately, but over a few years you'll save hundreds of dollars. Pollution is only cheap until you have to clean it up. Then it gets REAL expensive REAL quickly.

Well, Four hundred for the system, plus tax and all, plus a game, since it won't come with one. Thats gotta be at LEAST 500. Add to that another controller if you have any friends at all, and that's at least 550. Won't it NOT have a HD? Then thirty for a memory card.

He's an idiot because he raised an outdated and wrongheaded idea. There are huge differences between how boys and girls, men and women think. This is mostly because young girls are basically taught from the age of three to be nurterers (sp?) and young boys are taught to be like either football players or engineers and CS majors.

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It's sad, thats very young.

Shut the fuck up Mike, I'm sick of your religion environmentalism bullshit. Not only do you refuse to acknowledge monotheism, with the suffix THEISM as in the belief in god as a religion, or a religious stance, but you attempt to troll into convincing people that a science is a religion on par with Christianity. Hey, there are people trying to get evolution thrown out of schools even in today's Post, because it's what they want to believe. I'm totally sure you're the same way about environmentalism. But you need to shut up about that which you are grossly uninformed and stop POLLUTING these halfway decent threads with your incessant (as in neverending) arguments based on nothing.

I knew it! So corny... Well I hope they catch this guy, or actually I hope he surrenders. What the fuck is he running to???

Hey does anyone from Atlanta still call it "hot-lanta" or is that done? Maybe just in the summer time? I've always thought that its kind of stupid

The short story by King most influenced by Lovecraft is called "Jerusalem's Lot" which is in the Night Shift[/i] short stories collection. There is also, I believe in the same collection, Crouch End, which is the other King Lovecraft tale. It IS definitely about Lovecraft material, but not as clearly. Those two stories directly referencing the same Old Ones.

Mike how can you continue to miss the entire point. He is saying he doesn't think the government should have anything to do with anything sponsering ANY religion. Certainly not in a way as clear as having the ten commandments on the front of the courthouse. You obviously believe that the statue of the commandments supports a religion, in fact, you continue to support that in infact supports MANY religions. RJ's point is that the government shouldn't not support ANY religions. Not many, not a few, not one. NONE. ZERO. No religion, nothing religious, nada. And there are reasons this makes sense. I just want to clarify so that you can try and concede a point. He's NOT making your point for you when he says the govt doesn't just support ONE branch of one religion. When he says, for instance, that the government supports seventy six religions (a random number) then that is seventy six religions too many.

But what about games like Katamari Damacy, that obviously don't push the graphics boundry in any way? KD has soem good visuals, but they're just creative, not high-poly. I feel like the designers made do with old tech, which is why the game retails at $20. Is this where games may have to go to hit one million copies?

Or perhaps Mike is right, and the Reps are just trying to do the wrong thing so that Dems will have to do the right thing and at the same time, go against the US in favor of the UN?

How anyone can spend $550 on a new system and a game is beyond me. That's rent people. I mean, come on.

Mike, would you prefer (or perhaps find it more constitutional) if all executions were deemed (redeemed?) illegal due to Cruel and Unusual? Is it just the numbers game that you dislike?