Big Ol' Smitty

Man, for once...I totally agree with Czech in a thread on rap. Carlito Brigante is the worst.

This encyclopedia is actually pretty good so far.

This thread is likely to go astray soon.

I hate how nobody ever compares Iraq to the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, or World War I. I think that the insurgency in the Phillipines following the Spanish-American war is a good parallel.

That's a bold position you're staking out there, I3K.

Interesting. Two of the most discussion-provoking threads I have ever started (other than ones on big issues like Iraq) have been about school lunches & prison rape.

This argument, used by many in this thread, could be used to fit any punishment for any crime. Let's say we make the penalty for jaywalking death by stoning... "Well, it's fucked up, but you know that's the penalty so if you jaywalk you have it coming."

Nobody is arguing that drunk driving isn't stupid. We're just arguing that the sentence for it shouldn't be years of coerced anal sex.

So, essentially, when we sentence someone to prison, today, we're sentencing them to a distinct possibility of repeated gang rape.

lol French again

Touche.

I love how this thread turns you all into sorority girls. You nancies would probably like this blog.

Good point.

These stories of truck loads of money disappearing during the reign of the CPA & Viceroy Bremer are somewhat disconcerting.

There should be a rule that you can't get married in an English speaking country if you can't spell fiancee correctly.

Why? He doesn't look, talk or act like the Rock. Does he? This is from the talk page of Obama's entry at wikipedia, oddly enough:

Man, Crossfire sucked.

Good point. I'm pretty politically aware & I still don't completely understand how the hell a parliamentary system works.

Oh shit, now I'm roflmfao.

I don't know if I'd go as far as to say it warrents a ROFL.

Don't you hate it when countries poke their noses into other countries politics? Invading is one thing, but to go ahead and CRITICIZE a guy.... Saying that Al-Qaeda wants someone elected goes a little beyond criticism. And I'm not sure where this whole meme of Al-Qaeda <3 Democrats came from (although I would suspect talk radio) given that Al-Qaeda put out a press release before the '04 election expressly saying that they wanted Bush elected and that CIA analysis suggested that Bin Laden was trying to swing the election to Bush with the tape released before the election.

Thinking about this game makes me sad. How come games aren't good like this anymore? Am I just being nostalgic?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/mi...amp;oref=slogin

This chart is funny. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/09/anna-n...a-embarassment/

Obama pwns Australian Prime Minister John Howard: Howard: Obama: WTF is this Aussie prick doing poking his nose into American politics anyway?