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  1. No, I don't ascribe a personal opinion to you on these issues any more than I subscribe to one of my own, this, as with almost all of my posts (AOD related notwithstanding) it's all just 'news analysis'... sometimes my opinions show through but as much as I can I save that for paying customers and very close friends. If you look back you'll find I've argued vehemently for positions I fully disagree with based entirely on the fact that I was arguing with someone like AOD or DAO. I am interested in Myanmar but I just focus on places that are actively exploding and my other pet projects (the Americas), I'll look into it more though, promise. Yes the Kerry Lugar bill but also the tacit support we're going to owe the entire region, they know we can't afford to disappear the way we did when the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan, especially with the particularly dicey detente between Pakistan and India.
  2. See, I personally agree with that position Christo-f but not from a legal standpoint. Legally it opens the doors to a raft of crap. People's animals get hurt by other people everyday, the vast majority of these cases are obvious accidents but that doesn't stop people from suing for 'pain and suffering' on their animal's behalf. I think there should be a reduced award (if only based on the stress it causes the humans around the animal) but animals are chattel. The ONLY difference, legally, is that there's no form of cruelty to books or cruelty to chairs legislation. We recognize that animals feel pain and therefore the cruelty statutes but it really has to cross over into truly negligent treatment. I have no problem with 'the people' bringing charges against the bullshit 'PETA shelter dog' perpetrators (not gonna happen) or the various puppy mills or animal hoarders who maintain obviously inhumane conditions (ironic word, that, inhumane). The thing is, apart from the piercing the kittens aren't covered in feces or starved to the bone, she seems to be a genuinely misguided idiot or, as I previously surmised, a politically concieved 'case waiting to happen'.
  3. I am also aware of the climate but, in re: China proper I'm dubious of their domestic efforts to curb the hacking, if I'm not outwardly pointing out that these high level hackers seem like possible govt. employees. Damn right we sell arms to our allies, as we have in the past. Plus the valuation of the currency IS suspect (plus trade deficits and govt. subsidies). Further, really, the Dalai Lama issue AGAIN? Fuck them, he's a world leader, deal with it, we meet who we want. The backdrop, China actively selling arms to 'mid-east' powers and Africa AND providing tacit support for N. Korean arms manufacturers who in turn smuggle arms to west Asia,the Mid-East and Africa. *switching to bullets -personally, no real opinion on the Burma talks (It'll ALWAYS be Burma to me), I'm uninformed at best. - That's probably just posturing from Beijing to gain political capital when the talks fail. - Yeah! - Shitfire son, we can practically do that from spcae, mapping I mean, and if you think there aren't Chinese subs in other's territorial waters all over the globe it's only because China can't make a decent sub. (or buy enough from the Ruskies [who can't afford to produce them] or manage to steal the blueprints) - Not gonna happen, the EU wants concessions that China will never give. - We'll see how that goes, the Paks need money but they have the US and the EU with open checkbooks (to an extent) PLUS the Chinese persecution of indigenous muslims.
  4. Age ain't nothing but a number. Old dudes were marrying 15yr old girls left and right in the 1800's, turns out, America prospered. This is all just a sign of the growing rebirth of puritanism (who, btw, married 'underage' girls too) but it doesn't really affect me as I'm not interested in having sex with girls that can't drink legally and I don't want a second date with anyone under 25... but that's me. You know what else should be a big problem, pasting children's faces onto pictures of naked adults because it hurts the... uh... makes the... um... anyway, I don't agree with it so it should be illegal, like being Mexican or pasting children's faces on pictures of animals because animals are 'naturally' naked. p.s. I do want to have sex with Lily (because her name is so awesome) but she's known that forever and as soon as I get a picture of her face pasted on a naked tree IT IS SO ON!
  5. This seems like another attempt to change the sovereign law that animals are property. I know it's hard to deal with but animals have little more legal standing than furniture. For all the talk about 'cruelty' there seems to be no real cruel intent, just stupidity. I know farmers sometimes use elastic bands or strings to neuter their animals, but nowdays, there's a much more effecient device. It's a really brutal pair of pliers that just crushes the gonads with one good squeeze, and that's the way that's done. As far as docking tails, I dunno to much about that but I thought it was supposed to be done much earlier in the animal's life with some snipper device but I don't know if there's a law that applies. As for the piercings, I've seen news stories about mothers having infants ears pierced, never heard of any sort of convition. As a nation we regularly tatoo animals but tatooing a human minor is an offense. Do we want this double standard? We want the people in court with the tattoo face baby to use the 'baby animals get tatooed' defense? It's the same shit I'm bitching about giving corporations the same rights as humans... These things are NOT human. It sounds cold to say but it's just the way it has to be. "Your honor, that corporation called my dog 'butt ugly' and now none of the bitches will 'marry' him. I respectfully request $4.5m for slander, mental cruelty and loss of income." What's more, even for Wilkes Barre standards that chick doesn't look 'Goth' in the slightest, she looks like a dirty hippy.
  6. Wow, I am of 2 minds on this... I can see Google's position based on their own survival/protection and even protection of Google subscriber's rights but with the already shady rep of the NSA... We've all heard about alleged NSA abuses of privacy since 2001... I'm uncomfortable at best.
  7. This bitch probably works for PETA, it's all a plant. There was a "PETA investigation"? Like when PETA 'rescued' all those shelter dogs and then let them starve to death, it's just sensationalist crap. I mean really, rehabilitating them? Why rehabilitate these already fucked up kittens when they can just euthanize them like they do to so many healthy undeformed kittens everyday? Everyone run home and get your brooms, I call shenanigans.
  8. I'm holding out for the 'cuddle me or I'm shutting down' update... features I'd like to see: 'you can sleep on the couch' 'NOT BACK THERE! What. you think I'm some kind of robo-hooker?' 'Donkey Punch, now with electroshock.' (ZZaap!) I'm expecting all that and more in ver. 2.0. The thing is though, even with the flesh lights, you have to clean all that up yourself. Maybe a Roomba attachment or a 'I'm gonna take a shower, leave $200 on the dresser' module. The coolest thing about that is; in the morning it'd be clean and safely stowed wherever you hide your shame PLUS the money would still be on the dresser...
  9. I'm pretty sure the Tease approved method involves hitting her in the head with a brick. 'no vagina, two boyfriends?' DUH! It's all head and buttsecks, no kids until someone gets stabby... what could go wrong? I mean, apart from whatever happened when they all got stabby.
  10. He's never had to wear a tie to work, probablly doesn't wear one at funerals. He's never seen even a single episode of 'The Office'. He's as paranoid but not as intelligent as Dwight Schrute... come to think of it, we're probably arguing with Mose.
  11. AOD is willfully ignorant. He lives and dies by the generalizations he invents to fit his worldview. His lack of even a basic understanding of contract law, much less than his understanding of the business world at large, simply proves that we're wasting our time arguing with a pig farmer who's never been to market. How did Obama say it? He 'clings to his guns and old time religion'? We can't be smarter than the people he knows in real life because he's never even seen us. We're prolly haints! Fancy ass computer haints w/ uppity ideas about how the real world works 'from beyond the ether'. He just doesn't have the vision to see beyond the mere clothes horse and fancy dress trotted out for a trial to recognize the actual implications of a SCOTUS ruling. This is the person who thinks his DUI conviction is wrong because the cops weren't even supposed to pull him over. He'll spend his entire life telling everyone who'll listen that, even though he was drunk and driving, none of that matters because the cops 'done him wrong'. He can't even decide what side of the fence he's on. He's so pissed at the 'liberal media' for having free speech and worried about Obama taking his rifle that he barely has time to demand Decy pay $25 for a cup of coffee so some farmer in Venezuela can give all his profits to the government (their government). About that Venezuela thing, it's those farmer's own fault right? They should been around when we wrote the Preamble or some shit... I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest he may even be an active member over on the Stormfront boards, possible Tea bagger, Glenn Beck fan club member. He MAY be North Korean, or at least in KJI's employ.
  12. Iraqi Govt: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working. McCormick: That's specious reasoning, Iraqi Govt. Iraqi Govt: Thank you, honey. McCormick: By your logic, this rock keeps tigers away. Iraqi Govt: Oh? How does it work? McCormick: It doesn't work. Iraqi Govt: Uh-huh. McCormick: It's just a stupid rock. Iraqi Govt: Uh-huh. McCormick: But I don't see any tigers around here, do you? [pause] Iraqi Govt: McCormick, I want to buy your rock!
  13. I see, so fraudulent claims are not actually a form of speech? Please explain further what exactly the 'fraud laws' are regulating. Well, that's not entirely true. There are many arguments that simply can't be won if you're on the wrong side of the truth (notice I didn't say 'facts'). I don't remember saying that. OK, apart from the entire sentence, mostly the part that boggles me, assuming you're facts are correct, is how the fuck these guys in Congress have been writing laws for the last 230 years? Seriously, WTF? Sounds like somebody really dropped the ball on that one, maybe we should form some sort of oversight comittie so they don't make any laws in the future. Nope, didn't say that either... No need to repeat the quote because it's not what I was getting at but... just in re: It's a good thing no Americans have EVER willfully undeminded our country's interests for something as petty as financial gain or due to some ideological difference. God forbid we finally find a traitor in our midst and then discover he had incorporated. I mean, shit, it might even turn out that it wasn't this individual traitor who betrayed us if it was instead the corporation. That would, of course, limit his liability because THAT'S WHAT A CORPORATION IS. It's a legal way to limit liability. Uh, no, that wasn't 'free speech' it was political speech, propaganda from an ADVOCACY GROUP. Advocacy groups have not previously been recognized as having individual rights because they are by definition A GROUP. This is why it's OK for your History teacher to wear a crucifix around her neck but not OK for the Catholic church to produce and provide the History books for your local public school system. Yeah, you didn't do that, and what if it's just domestic corporations? That's not a problem? You've got no problem with signs that say stuff like "Welcome to Florida, by Disney" or "You are now entering Kentucky Fried Chicken's state of Kentucky!"? You obviously don't know who the fuck I am or what I really stand for so QUIT putting words in my mouth and mischaracterizing me to pump up your moronic arguments. Uh... what? Who do you suggest? (I'm just asking to say something because that sentence makes no sense.) Again, what? Do you understand the meaning of the word 'contract'? What the hell does 'the right to rule on the authority of the contract' even mean? Did your brain just step on a duck at the end of your post or are you actually trying to say something? You basically put out nothing but gibberish in these last couple paragraphs.
  14. Maybe see what all the buzz is about with "The Great Gatsby" too, ya bunch of illeterate fucksticks.
  15. Smart

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    I dunno, I'm torn... Sounds like your 'used to bang a lot of college chicks' era ended way before this. I'm not sure if I should mourn both equally but, seriously, I'm sad for you... On a lighter note, I still bang lots of college chicks but I find looking at their bookshelves to be a wholly depressing endeavour so... I don't. Anyway, good luck with that 'not fucking college girls' lifestyle.
  16. You know , I tried to confirm this rumor but my interview request was declined... I pressed about the veracity of the story but I was told he had "no comment".
  17. Actually, you're right. I dont think the NFL has initiated those claims in real courts but it's possible for them... but, it's not. Once something is 'common parlance' it's really tough to suddenly claim ownership... I can't think of a specific case right now but I know there's been one in the natonal news in the last six months... On a side note: The NFL has officially copywrited brown paper bags with eye holes. Unless it bears the official NFL logo and a verification hologram your paper bags with eye holes will NOT be permitted at the Superbowl. Listen, I'm so at odds with this declaration. I've said it before but never so blatanly. I lived 'on the gulf coast' all my life, but from 10-20 I lived by Mobile and we don't love no Atlanta Falcons. There was only one game to watch on Sunday... since I was a kid I was forced to observe and report, and.. almost every episode the Saints lost. Eventually I moved back down by Tampa and my G'pa and Uncle supported the Bucs, plus I was used to supporting the perrenial losers so after a couple years I just pledged to my new home, I've never looked back but I have never forgotten the 'lost sundays' where I reported every fuck up from the Saints real time to parental types and even drank beers (yes, entire beers at age 12) to commemorate the stomping the Saints got... plus I never root against the NFC in the Superbowl... That said... It can't be the Bucs, so I WANT it to be the Saints... so, Yat's on it too!
  18. Know how I know you're gay? Because you never clicked this link...
  19. yeah, this case is murky at best, I say Man-2 but... mostly I thought this thread was gonna be about Dustin Diamond and his new 'tell-all' book about the behind the scenes action on Saved By The Bell,,, I never really watched that show but I did ocassionally stare at Tiffany Amber Thiessen's tits/ass/crotch/body/face, in that order...but still, I'm not sure why my mind made that jump, nevertheless... isn't that the most awesome word 'nevertheless' if it didn't have so many repeated letters that would be my tag name... anyway... Screech.
  20. fucking 'clinton years' crap... NO, before 9/11 there was really not that much national port security apart from what you'd expect, for a thousand years we've all been sending our shit hither and yon and relying on the 'local' port authorities to protect it... all the deals about foreign security concerning foreign interests came after 9/11, obviously not ALL, there's always been smuggling and stuff but, generally... only after 9/11 and the patriot act did foreign governments actually have to start DECLARING that the security forces surrounding various businesses were either wholly owned or at least funded by their respective governments. This was never really a secret but after 9/11 you suddenly had to declare it, or not.. creating a sort of black market for foerign intelligence in our country. As long as you're paying taxes we don't care wo your securit guards are... and that's where we're at.
  21. A corporation need be no more (but no less) than three people. That's just a fun fact. Now for facts that are less fun. First, let's talk about "free speech". Since the 'Trust Busters' rolled through in the late 19th century, corporate speech has been limited FOR GOOD REASON. Rulings that followed this reasoning include the 'Truth in Advertising' laws you sometimes hear about. Lately, Cherrios had to recall and change a bunch of cereal boxes because they claimed to actually IMPROVE (operative word) heart health. I think now they've complied by saying it 'benefits a heart healthy diet' or some other corporate euphamism designed to convey the same message. Whatever, right? I have no problem parsing the grammar of advertising claims and I feel sorry for those that don't (looking at you compulsive Lotto players), but corporations can obviously only go SO FAR in the claims they make about their product. Not so much in 1890, back then it wasn't just oatmeal, it was a genuine, bonafide, electrified six car MONORAIL! What's that word? OATMEAL!... So sit down with the 'corporate free speech' argument, I can defeat that about a hundered ways without any research. Seriously, I would like to exaggerate and say 'thousands of ways' but, realistically, I bet there are at least a hundred legal precedents establishing limitations on corporate speech relating to advertising claims and probably the manner in which stuff like earnings and losses are reported. Let's move on to 'So, you wanna form a corporation 101'... in America ANY 3 people can form a corporation! AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! However, in America, ANY 3 people can form a corporation. They don't need to be American at all, a guy from China, a guy from North Korea and a guy from Iran can totally form a corporation. It's really just some fees and registration, pay the lawyer, send the forms, baddah bing. Now let's get to the heart of the matter, the ruling. Corporations now enjoy the same rights as ANY INDIVIDUAL PERSON. Person, not "American", just "person". That's the ruling, it was a free speech case which should have been cut and dried (and ruled AGAINST) but the OBVIOUSLY politicized Judiciary ruled favoring Repulicans and 'Corporate America' without considering the true ramifications. *I can cite another case ruled against precedents favoring the Repulicans by what we're farcically calling a 'conservative court' but we all know Cheney and his goons didn't really kidnap or totrture anyone so... moving on... Now let's talk political ramifications... Let's say I'm Bill Gates, richer than God. I decide to run for office and there is NO LIMIT on the amount of my own funds I can dump into my campaign coffers. Usually that act is dressed up with the phrase 'borrowed from themselves'. This, of course, is a shill game, advertising sleight of hand. It's like any person that relies on the 'tip jar'... Cardinal rule, if it's empty it stays empty... so when you show up fpr yous shift you toss in $1.41 and 'prime the pump'. In the world of political campaigns you can do this to the extreme, say dropping $1.4m into the kitty and watching other contributions pile up. So, I'm Bill Gates, I wanna be President. I borrow as much as I need and I do my thing... all good right? My money, I'm an American, I posess all the rights as any other "person" in America... good to go. I can spend/borrow/collect as much money as I want to finance my campaign... I may lose but since the dawn of time usually the party that outspends the other prevails. There are also many examples that go against that rule but, generally it's true. So, now I'm Gill Bates Inc. and I'm those three foreign guys I mentioned earlier who formed a corporation (Really I'm 3 guys who are straw men for the goverments of China, North Korea and Iran but SHHHH!). Lucky for us 3 guys tha we happen to have the combined influence, monetarily, to borrow BILLIONS of dollars from ourselves to dump in our campaign coffers. What am I saying, I mean TRILLIONS! I have every right because as a corporation I enjoy the same rights as any individual person. AND THAT is the story of how Mr. ChIraNorthKorea Inc. became Americas 45 President. AND IT'S TOTALLY LEGAL! Before you say that this is fantasy talk and general crap, consider the McRib, universally hated, it's on it's 3rd 'comeback' but now it's been elected to the permanent menu. That could just as easly be China and the oval office. This is SO much bigger than whether we torture people (legal, despite the Geneva Conventions) or try them in civil courts (the TRUE place to try individual acts of terrorism) versus holding them indefinately in military prisons. Wrong is wrong, but this is WRONG! Stop telling yourself that this country is ruled by people like you with their trusty rifle 'Bessy' and their sidearm in holster. Wake up to the political reality of, well, REALITY! The Supreme Court has shafted all of us, but most significantly the 'conservatives' (read:Republicans) they are BOUND BY LAW NOT to support, hence the whole apolitical stance and the 3 SEPERATE powers of government... The Supreme Court has undeniably put us face down, ass up. America is doomed. AoD needs to keep his powder dry and his guns clean becuase this absolutely opens the door. Look at Starbucks, look at McDicks, Haliburton, Xe... 'et tu Brutus'...
  22. Uh, might want to check your history books concerning the origin date but you're correct when you say that the phrase is wholly owned by the public and the NFL has zero copntrol over it...
  23. Aaaand it begins... Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress First Test of “Corporate Personhood” In Politics Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill Inc. today announced it was filing to run for U.S. Congress and released its first campaign video on Youtube... Murray Hill “Until now,” Murray Hill Inc. said in a statement, “corporate interests had to rely on campaign contributions and influence peddling to achieve their goals in Washington. But thanks to an enlightened Supreme Court, now we can eliminate the middle-man and run for office ourselves.” Murray Hill Inc. is believed to be the first “corporate person” to exercise its constitutional right to run for office. As Supreme Court observer Lyle Denniston wrote in his SCOTUSblog, “If anything, the decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission conferred new dignity on corporate “persons,” treating them — under the First Amendment free-speech clause — as the equal of human beings.” Murray Hill Inc. agrees. “The strength of America,” Murray Hill Inc. says, “is in the boardrooms, country clubs and Lear jets of America’s great corporations. We’re saying to Wal-Mart, AIG and Pfizer, if not you, who? If not now, when?” Murray Hill Inc. plans on spending “top dollar” to protect its investment. “It’s our democracy,” Murray Hill Inc. says, “We bought it, we paid for it, and we’re going to keep it.” Murray Hill Inc., a diversifying corporation in the Washington, D.C. area, has long held an interest in politics and sees corporate candidacy as an emerging new market. The campaign’s designated human, Eric Hensal, will help the corporation conform to antiquated “human only” procedures and sign the necessary voter registration and candidacy paperwork. Hensal is excited by this new opportunity. “We want to get in on the ground floor of the democracy market before the whole store is bought by China.” Murray Hill Inc. plans on filing to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. Campaign Manager William Klein promises an aggressive, historic campaign that “puts people second” or even third. “The business of America is business, as we all know,” Klein says. “But now, it’s the business of democracy too.” Klein plans to use automated robo-calls, “Astroturf” lobbying and computer-generated avatars to get out the vote. Murray Hill Inc. is launching the campaign with a website, Facebook page and Youtube video.
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