Jobber of the Week

The fruity kid had me worried, but it does appear this potentially could be good. I shall sit and hope it starts a revolution of good FFs where sappy Titanic-esque love stories were ruining the show. I don't know what's sillier in this thread, Sakura talking about how much she likes the angst when there's far better angst fiction out there than what Square has done, or Duo's lessons of "anime can teach you everything you need to know about Japan."

Because he's not supposed to do that?

Why black people? Didn't you know? No white people live in America's inner city slums. No white people at all. (obvious sarcasm)

Ah, AngleSault. Whitest man alive. No really, I don't know what it means either. My guess is it means "I came through, beat your ass, and left you wondering what hit you."

I was going to say "can't argue with the truth" but technically it's an opinion. <- (Still can't believe some people actually LIKE Bush Jr, though)

How in the blue heavens did this thread go from the role of courts in the government to a bitchfest over spending?

Well, at first I was going to sarcastically respond "Well, I'm just all in tears over that Iraqi's civil rights." but then this guy basically has stated that he's proud of what he did, so he gets what he deserves. However, chances are it'll be a slap on the wrist and a wish that it all blows over.

Kilborn fan, eh?

Well, blatant NPR bias has reared it's ugly head again. ---- TERRY GROSS: One of the more controversial things in the rap world is the use of the word "bitch" all the time. TRIUMPH THE INSULT COMIC DOG: Here we go again! GROSS: Exactly, now it's a word you use a lot in the dog world. TRIUMPH: It's a word that, look, it's a word that everyone uses in the dog world. It's a bitch. A girl is a bitch. Now should a dog be offended to be called a woman? I don't think any dog would be offended. Not even Benji. That's right, you heard me, Benji's gay. It's time people knew that. GROSS: Do you feel that you have been sexist or condescending in your treatment of female dogs? TRIUMPH: Holy christ! Listen to this! Let me ask you something: I feel like I'm being bombarded here. I know what's happening here. I know what's happening here. Did you ask the same questions to Kermit The Frog? Did you? GROSS: Kermit The Frog didn't do our show. He didn't do our show. TRIUMPH: Allright well, okay, well how about the time Beethoven did your show. Did you challenge him the way you're challenging me? GROSS: It was a different kind of interview. TRIUMPH: It was a different kind of-- Okay! Yeah, I can get what's going on here. GROSS: Beethoven's funny, no it's different. TRIUMPH: Oh, is that right? It's satire what Beethoven does. Yes, I'm just... You know, I can't believe the government is paying for this interview. That's what I can't believe. You know? My money, which could be going to Pekanese hookers, are instead going to this public radio that's obviously more slanted than my *bleep* after I've *bleep* a Saint Bernard. What are we talking about? GROSS: Triumph, I don't think you're being fair and I think if you gave public radio a chance you wouldn't feel that way. Because I think public radio has always been fair to the dog world. TRIUMPH: I'm trying to give it a chance but you keep bombarding me. You keep bombarding me. I'm evaluating this interview very closely, is what I'm doing. This is just ten minutes of defamation. Seventy minutes in dog years. GROSS: *laughs* TRIUMPH: You think it's fair, Terry? You need to get into another business! That's right, good. This is all going to be fodder for Harpers magazine, for Dog Fancy magazine, which I know is a liberally... There's liberal publishers of Dog Fancy, I mean that thing is like gay porn anyway. GROSS: Well, Triumph I don't think you're being fair and I'm going to change the subject. TRIUMPH: Good. I'm not going to walk out of this interview. I'm not going to do that. I'm better than that. But I'm going to take a poop right now. I'm going to poop in this studio right now. TERRY: I don't think that's fair. I think you should control yourself. TRIUMPH: Well, it's already happening. I ate a burrito before the interview. I came prepared for this. Link to episode. The arguement begins at approximately 12:30.

The British did offer their manpower, and they do their job well if you consider that British heads of state don't get killed that often. But the White House insists on using it's own people here.

I was looking up gatling gun on Google News but finally found it's called a "minigun" ironically enough. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffa...1086411,00.html Home Secretary David Blunkett has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers travelling to Britain as part of President Bush's entourage this week. In the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, the Americans in Bush's protection squad will face justice in a British court as would any other visitor, the Home Office has confirmed. The issue of immunity is one of a series of extraordinary US demands turned down by Ministers and Downing Street during preparations for the Bush visit. These included the closure of the Tube network, the use of US air force planes and helicopters and the shipping in of battlefield weaponry to use against rioters. (...) The White House initially demanded the closure of all Tube lines under parts of London to be visited during the trip. But British officials dismissed the idea that a suicide bomber could kill the President by blowing up a Tube train. Ministers are also believed to have dismissed suggestions that a 'sterile zone' around the President should be policed entirely by American special agents and military. Demands for the US air force to patrol above London with fighter aircraft and Black Hawk helicopters have also been turned down. The President's protection force will be armed - as Tony Blair's is when he travels abroad - and around 250 secret service agents will fly in with Bush, but operational control will remain with the Metropolitan Police. The Americans had also wanted to travel with a piece of military hardware called a 'mini-gun', which usually forms part of the mobile armoury in the presidential cavalcade. It is fired from a tank and can kill dozens of people. One manufacturer's description reads: 'Due to the small calibre of the round, the mini-gun can be used practically anywhere. This is especially helpful during peacekeeping deployments.' Peacekeeping deployments? Sure, it'll rain a hail of peace into any situation!

That one just blows me away though. You're more familiar with this kind of thing than I am. Is it normal for the Secret Service to request everything they possibly can and then mark off the more extreme measures when they get rejected? Half of me believes this is their job and this usual protocol is being blown out of proportion by the LIBERAL TABLOID MEDIA OF DEATH, and my other half thinks they actually see hostility being high enough that a situation could pop up where they suddently need a chaingun.

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Eh, sorry. I wound up seeing Jaxl and Downhome as the same person as the pointless posts ("Two words: He's fucked") and the suicide chatter started filling up a fair amount of the conversation. I overreacted in lashing out. Sorry. Watched The All-Spin Zone last night because child molestation is the kind of topic that can get that whore's blood boiling and voice rising. He took the same position I figured he would, talking like Jackson was guilty while constantly throwing little "if these are true" statements in there to try and sound like he's giving him a fair shake. The best part was when he exploded at an Us Magazine guy for treating Jackson like *gasp* a celebrity!

It was well reported in the UK press that the UK government turned down a lot of requests from the Secret Service, ranging from giving Secret Service immunity in the case of an "accidental" shooting of a protester (note that even without this immunity, they were still allowed to shoot someone who was a clear and present threat to the President), shutting down the underground train system, and even reinforcing Buckingham Palace with blast windows and the like. They also requested the presence of a US-manned gatling gun in the motorcade. All denied. Either the Secret Service is supposed to ask for everything and the kitchen sink and the British were right in denying the more crazy requests, or he thinks he's so hated over there that people will destroy B.Palace to get to him, in which case maybe it's better to simply stay here. Still, I just think of Tony Blair driving through Times Square with a gatling gun. I'm sure quite a few people here would have taken issue with that.

It's nice to see the same two posters who keep coming in and filling up the thread with useless three word posts. Sure, UYI is being a Jackson apologist, but we have another thread for post whoring. I don't believe the story above, not so much because it comes from Fox News but more because... I mean, wine? Seriously, come on now. There's how many kids going there a year? And how often does this kind of thing make the news? Exactly. Yeah, I probably wouldn't let my kid around the guy if I had one, but that's more because of the shrouds and the baby-dangling and the other signs of generally being inept (what do you mean I lost my kids in the zoo mob?) or not paying attention to anything going on around him. Well, that and my fictional kid would hate me when I can't buy him a whole toy store for his birthday. But I really doubt he's beating them up or sucking them off behind the scenes or anything. And for those going on about the guy's popularity wane, have you seen his international appeal? I'm suprised he hasn't started selling off pieces of the Ranch and moved to Europe or something by now.

A constitutional amendment to make hitching up only for the boy/girl couples will have to receive approval from a majority of the states.

http://www.playonline.com/ That song. Up there with airships and Chocobos in FF lore.

Bets that she injured herself? Anyone?

I was going to rent this until I saw the review at IGN. The review was the usual slobbering, but what the hell happened to the crystal song?

I'm pretty sure it's independant. I don't like wireless DSL though (your local station the wireless doohickey talks to can go down and your ISP might not get it restored for days) and unless you REALLY need the full bandwith going to each PC, it'd be cheaper to share one like across both PCs.

I don't think what he said was exactly the same as "let's go ask Newsweek where Osama is" but hey, it's up to your interpretation. Yes, Clark does shoot himself in the foot a lot, but I thought it was fun that he exposed the usual Fox game. This reminds me of the guy who asked the 18 year old trying to draft Hillary in a rather slow and deliberate voice (the kind that you use to talk to young infants) "Do you know that every time Hillary has been asked if she'll run that she's said no?" As though the kid was going to say "No, I didn't" and give up his whole thing right there.

Link to video is currently on this page. In case it goes away, a transcript. I don't pay attention to this station so I don't know the anchor's name or I'd type it in. Still, he caught them at their usual game. --Transcript-- ANCHOR: Well it's not easy to call a four-star general with a heroic battlefield record weak on defense, that's one reason Democrats were so pleased to see him make a run for the White House. And we're very pleased now that he could take time out to be with us. Democratic presidential candidate retired General Wesley Clark. General, thanks a lot for coming in, appreciate it. CLARK: Good to be with you. ANCHOR: Who talked you into this? CLARK: Well, it was a long process and essentially I looked in the direction the country was headed and I just wasn't pleased. I saw us going into a war we didn't need to be in, I saw tremendous problems at home, I saw tax cuts that didn't really make economics sense. I saw business problems, ethics problems in business, and I began to speak out about them and people came to me and many people asked me to run. ANCHOR: Did Bill Clinton have the deciding vote in you running? CLARK: No, he didn't. But I did talk to Bill Clinton, and I talked to Hillary, and I talked to a lot of leaders at the Democratic Party at various times over the last couple of years because like me they're very concerned about where things were, and where they're headed. ANCHOR: One thing that you must be sick of by now, but I got to play the game too is bringing up statements that you've made in the past. You're not a politician at heart, therefore you've made some more mistakes than other people have, so people throw them back at you. One of them though is just yesterday. Maybe it wasn't a mistake but it caught our attention. On Meet The Press, you said something about Iraq. You said, "President Bush has said the war in Iraq is the centerpiece for the war on terror. It isn't. It's a sideshow. It's simply their easiest means of access to attack American soliders. That's all it is." You really think Iraq is only a sideshow? CLARK: For the war on terror, it's a terrible distraction. And we should have gone directly after Osama Bin-Laden. Let's be clear about what happened. This administration decided to go to war against Saddam Hussein or at least to set all the plans in motion, while we were still bombing Afghanistan. And when Tommy Franks should have been challenged to come up with the plans to finish the job against Osama Bin-Laden, he was appearantly preparing plans to brief the President and the Seceretary of Defense on Iraq. We let Osama Bin-Laden get away, he's there in the mountains of western Pakistan, Newsweek magazine can find him, I don't know why we can't. And I propose that we have a joint US/Saudi force to go after Osama Bin-Laden. Let's finish this job on terrorism. ANCHOR: Well let me just ask you: Do you know that Newsweek knows where Osama Bin-Laden is and isn't telling the world? CLARK: Well I've seen the articles in Newsweek, I'm sure you have, and uh so you know I think we should start by talking to Newsweek. I think our US government should start. And I think we should be putting a full-court effort on Osama Bin-Laden. As for Iraq, we're in a mess. It was a war we didn't have to fight, we're there, now we got to have a success strategy. This administration hasn't had one, it called Jerry Bremmer back from Baghdad in an effort to cobble one together. It still doesn't go far enough. We need a success strategy for our foreign policy, we need a success strategy for Iraq. But don't ever make the mistake of believing that what we did in Iraq was related to the war on terrorism. It was related only tangentially and it distracted us from what we needed to do. ANCHOR: But to call it... Whi while while... CLARK: Unfortunately, now we have to finish it. ANCHOR: Yeah, but general, while our men and wo... CLARK: Now just wait a minute! You just wait a minute! ANCHOR: Excuse me just one second, I just want to add on to that... CLARK: No, I want to... ANCHOR: While our men and women are dying in Iraq, is it proper to call it a sideshow? CLARK: Our men and women in Iraq are doing a fabulous job! They're doing a great job, I love them, I respect them, and I honor them. My problem is with the President of the United States! He's the man who's responsible for this, as he told us, he was going to make the decision when to go to war, he did. Our men and women are doing everything their country are asking them to do, but for the war on terror it's not the right thing we should be asking them to do. Don't you DARE twist words into disrespect for the men and women in uniform! I love those men and women, I gave 34 years of my life to them, you better take my words the right way! This is about. the President of the United States and... ANCHOR: General, I'm just repeating your own words to you. CLARK: ...leadership. No sir, you are not! You are playing politics. ANCHOR: Didn't you say Iraq was a sideshow? CLARK: No, sir! No, sir. You are playing politics with the men and women in uniform. You are, sir! ANCHOR: I'm sorry, I just read back your own statements, General. CLARK: ...And I challenge you: take it straight. You take it straight. ANCHOR: And General let me just tell you, General, please, one thing that we have, we are, our military advisors have assured us is that there is nothing but respect they want you to have for your military career and for your respect for those now in the military. As the father of a marine, we both share that respect for men and women in the military. So don't get me wrong on that, I just wanted... CLARK: I think that you're distorting... ANCHOR: ...to make clear what you meant by that statement that you made. I just quoted you on that statement. CLARK: I think you're trying to distort my meaning, so I want to make it very clear, and I think you said I made it clear. The sideshow is not the men and women in uniform. It's the leadership of the President of the United States who would get us into this. And I think we need to be very straight in covering this. I'm not afraid to say what's right and wrong in this country, and I'm speaking out, David. And I'm telling you this: that war in Iraq was a war that did not have to be fought. ANCHOR: Okay. General, again, we're just reading back your statements. I'm sorry that you were so upset at our having done that, but that's all we did. We didn't have any implication beyond that. CLARK: You did have an implication. ANCHOR: No. And General... CLARK: And that's why... ANCHOR: We were just try to figure out what it was that you meant. CLARK: ...I think it's very unfair. ANCHOR: And I'd ask you again... CLARK: Well you know it now. ANCHOR: ...But I don't want to go through that territory once again. CLARK: Well, good. ANCHOR: But we do want to thank you for coming on, General. CLARK: Thank you, and thank you for clearing that up so there's absolutely no understand on the part of Fox or it's viewers. I love the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. But I think this administration has asked them to do the wrong thing in Iraq. We're in a mess, and I know how to get us out of it. And I will. ANCHOR: Well, General Wesley Clark, we do hope you come back to explain to us how to get out of the mess that you think we're in. We hope to have you back. CLARK: Thank you.

Ah, another terrorist convicted. Good things, good things.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/18/samesex....ling/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/18/samesex....ling/index.html Now this whole fight for an amendment ban gets interesting... Also, why did I type "turns over" instead of "overturns"? Sigh..... I need sleep