Big Ol' Smitty

6' and 160 here. We're both well into the normal body weight. Hey we finally have something in common!

6' 157 lbs. here. I'm lean.

Do you even know what the cartoon is referring to?

Wait for it... Yep you guessed it:

Guess who voted in favor of the Paez filibuster?

MikeSC Me MikeSC I love how erudite the level of debate is here sometimes.

Republicans filibustered Clinton appointee Richard Paez who was nominated for the 9th Circuit Court. -Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH)

Subtle.

A conservative think tank doesn't like environmentalism. NOOOOOO!

Cerebus, I'm interested in some of your views given your conservatism and your devout Catholicism. How do you feel about the church's views on the war in Iraq? The death penalty? Birth control? I was raised in a conservative Southern Baptist church. I think a lot of my resentment and distrust toward authority came from my youth in the church. I was actually quite conservative until my late teen years, when I started to question everything I'd been taught. In 2000, when I was about 17 years old, I went into church and read a little slip of paper given out by the deacons that endorsed Bush for president. I was pretty pissed. Also, a while back I went to my grandma's Pentecostal church with her. The preacher basically gave a pro-war in Iraq sermon. I had to bite my tongue. I still go to the church occassionally, but only when I'm back home and only to make my mom happy--I'm actually agnostic. I don't think I would function well as a member of that church anymore.

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Did you play open palm or closed fist? I just beat it open palm. It was fun, but really easy. I think I'm gonna sell it back to the store and get God of War or something.

Profound.

I'm actually pretty proud that liberals aren't listening to this crap. I know that I, for one, don't need my opinions told to me. If I was conservative, I would find it troubling that Michael Savage gets such high ratings and writes NYT bestsellers.

Brown-Nike vs. Kasky Owen- http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin...eature_1-2.html

95% of Bush's nominees have been approved (Clinton got 85%). Let's take a look at some of the nominees being blocked: California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown: argues that the 1st Amendment allows corporations to make false and/or misleading representations without legal penalties. Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen: her moves to undermine protection for women trying to get abortions were so radical that none other than Alberto "Naked Pyramid" Gonzales called one of them an "unconscionable act of judicial activism."

'S what I was gonna say.

House of Scandal

But I understand it so much less after reading what he said. He would need to dumb it down further, I suppose. -=Mike AHHH! The flames are consuming me! Love you too, sweetie. Nightie night.

But I understand it so much less after reading what he said.

Of course, this criticism is from the same side who said there was a crisis pretty constantly in the 1990's --- but, apparently, Bush's tax cuts generates so much more tax revenue than Clinton ever did that the crisis is gone. -=Mike That has nothing to do with what I posted. What criticism? All I posted was Bush talking (horribly) about his plan.

But prosecuting someone for political genocide would still be prosecuting them based on why they killed. No, it's simply making genocide for ANY reason punishable. Political covers a ton of ground. -=Mike Why does the definiton even need to include that it's killing a "racial, ethnic, political, national, or cultural group" then? Why isn't is it just defined as mass murder? These semantics arguments are boring

But prosecuting someone for political genocide would still be prosecuting them based on why they killed.

And what the hell, I'll ask again... Should spraypainting "Yankees Suck!" on a bridge be punished the same as spraypainting "Death to Christians!" on the same bridge? Same crime...

Genocide *is* hate crimes, essentially. Look it up. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=genocide synonyms: race murder, racial extermination The term didn't even exist until after WWII--when Hitler revolutionized the practice. The UN said that what happened in Darfur wasn't genocide, but that the perpetrators should still be punished harshly according to the crimes that they committed.