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Posted on 01/31/2003 8:29:24 AM PST by Servant of the Nine
When President Bush first publicly contemplated going to war with Iraq, some members of his administration said he need not obtain approval from Congress before doing so. But liberals insisted, rightly, that a war would lack constitutional or popular legitimacy if the president did not first receive explicit authorization from Congress. Bush complied. Later, some administration officials maintained that the United States could attack Iraq without giving Saddam Hussein one more chance to disarm peacefully through U.N. weapons inspections. But liberals argued, again rightly, that a final push for inspections was necessary to demonstrate that the United States desired war only as a last resort. And Bush complied again, persuading the U.N. Security Council to unanimously approve Resolution 1441, which offered Iraq a "final opportunity" to dismantle its nonconventional weapons. Bush may now dismiss the importance of these steps--"America's purpose is more than to follow a process," he said in his State of the Union address. But, in fact, so far the process of disarming Saddam has gone exactly as liberals rightly demanded.
The day before the president's address, the world received what should have been the final word on that process in the form of a report by chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix. Blix's verdict is positively devastating. Iraq, he writes, "appears not to have come to genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament which was demanded of it." Blix produces a litany of noncooperation: Iraq has failed to provide a full accounting of its weapons, as demanded; it has denied private interviews with its scientists; it has hidden crucial documents in private homes; and it has whipped up demonstrators to harass the inspectors with slanderous charges. (Some, hilariously, have described this report as "mixed." By this standard, Saddam's record of aggression is also mixed--we must consider the lengthy list of countries he has not invaded.) All these actions unquestionably fulfill the definition of a material breach agreed to under Resolution 1441.
So we now have reached the conditions under which, according to the standards once urged by most liberals, the United States must disarm Iraq by force. Yet the moderate, respectable opponents of the war--those who claimed they would favor military action if other steps failed--remain, for the most part, unmoved. Their predominant view now is that the only thing preventing a bloodless disarmament of Iraq is Bush's precipitous rush to war. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle summed up this sentiment when he asked this week, "How are our efforts to deal with this threat helped by short-circuiting an inspections process we demanded in the first place?"--as if the inspections were being stymied by Bush rather than by Saddam. It is now clear that Bush's critics didn't mean what they said all along: The mask of nuanced criticism has been pulled off the moderate antiwar position, exposing it for the abject pacifism it truly is.
The editorials of The New York Times are a good showcase of the intellectual incoherence of the liberal war critics. The Times is worth dwelling on not only because of its great influence but also because its opposition to war is carefully calibrated, closely matching the views of mainstream Democrats rather than those of angry street demonstrators. In fact, as the Iraq debate raged last fall, the paper's editorials professed to share the same goals as the administration. Last September the Times declared, "What really counts in this conflict ... is the destruction of Iraq's unconventional weapons and the dismantling of its program to develop nuclear arms." The Times stressed that Iraqis must cooperate actively, not merely fail to put up resistance, in order to avoid war. Iraq "must provide a full and accurate list of its unconventional weapons programs," the Times insisted on November 9. The following month it added that, to succeed, the inspectors "will need cooperation from knowledgeable Iraqis." Indeed, in its November editorial the Times explicitly sanctioned a unilateral war if Iraq failed to actively disarm: "If Baghdad violates any of these provisions [emphasis added], Washington should insist that the Security Council enforce its decision. Only if the council fails to approve the serious consequences it now invokes--generally understood to be military measures--should Washington consider acting alone."
The time to "judge Baghdad's overall cooperation and decide whether Iraq can be disarmed by peaceful means alone," the Times noted in late December, would be when Blix offered his report to the Security Council after the first 60 days of inspections. Now that moment has arrived-- and with it undeniable proof that Baghdad has not offered the active cooperation deemed essential by the Times. You might think, then, that the paper would cite its previous criteria and endorse war. Not at all. Instead, the Times has already raised the bar. An editorial published the day after Blix's report pleaded that "the inspectors should be granted additional time" so they can "produce evidence that would mobilize an international consensus for additional steps." This echoed the logic of the previous Sunday's editorial, which declared, "There are some threats and some causes that require fighting even if America has to fight alone, but this isn't one of them." Disarmament, which the paper previously called "the unwavering goal" and "the lodestar of American and United Nations policy," has been reduced to a mere preference to be undertaken only if or when international opinion embraces it.
The most curious feature of moderate anti-war sentiment, at the Times and elsewhere, is its refusal to engage with the central question: Would Iraq, if permitted to rebuild its nuclear, biological, and chemical arsenal, pose a threat to the United States? We believe the answer is yes. The example of North Korea demonstrates that when a hostile, irrational state obtains nuclear weapons, it immediately intimidates its neighbors, opens the possibility of passing such weapons to terrorists or other enemy regimes, and leaves the United States with few diplomatic tools to work with other than appeasement. Saddam's megalomaniacal aspirations and repeated pattern of aggression make him an even less attractive candidate to join the nuclear club than Kim Jong Il.
Antiwar liberals do not dispute this logic, they elide it. Liberals' most pervasive intellectual tic has been to argue against war on the grounds that somebody else is against it. Usually, that somebody else is our international allies, whom war critics have granted not merely consultation but full veto power over any military action. Earlier this week, the Times threw up another impediment: "The American public has not signed on," argued Sunday's editorial--an odd new standard, given that the paper has previously endorsed interventions both real (Kosovo) and hypothetical (Rwanda) that notched even lower levels of public approval. But if a nuclear-armed Iraq does pose a threat, then surely it's a threat worth diffusing, not only through inspectors but, if need be, unilaterally or without overwhelming public support.
Recently antiwar liberals have found yet another way to oppose the war without seeming to oppose the war: They say the United States should wait and "let the inspections work." Waiting would indeed be worthwhile if it boosted the odds of gaining world support for war or of Iraq's agreeing to disarm. But the truth is that, in either case, delaying is likely to have the opposite effect.
Nobody seriously disputes that Iraq is in material breach of the U.N. disarmament resolutions. The logic of waiting, after a dozen years of Iraqi refusal to disarm, is that somehow Saddam will become "more" in material breach. But Iraqi violations to date hardly constitute a technicality. Weapons inspections simply can't work against the will of the host country. Previous inspectors owed whatever breakthroughs they achieved to conditions--such as the unexpected defection of Saddam's brother-in-law--that are unlikely to be repeated. It would be ideal if Saddam could be persuaded to make a clean breast of it and disarm voluntarily. But letting his current recalcitrance continue indefinitely is probably the worst imaginable strategy to persuade him to do so. Allowing Iraq's current noncooperation to go unpunished would codify it as the new baseline, and only a more flagrant defiance would then constitute a casus belli. The level of defiance most objectors seem to have in mind is the "smoking gun." But the chance of finding such a thing without Iraqi help is small. For one thing, Iraqi intelligence may well have infiltrated the weapons inspectors, as it did with previous U.N. teams. For another, it would take an astonishing blunder by Iraq to allow inspectors to uncover a weapons program of real note. Suppose the inspectors did get a tip on, say, a nuclear weapons plant and managed to descend upon it unannounced. No doubt the Iraqis would simply refuse the inspectors entry while they smuggled out or destroyed incriminating evidence. The most incriminating thing Iraq will ever be accused of is denying access to a sensitive site.
Indeed, the supposition that any level of Iraqi defiance would spur the Security Council to authorize war is ahistorical. During the 1990s, our non-British allies compiled a record of consistent appeasement. After Iraq whittled away at the prerogatives of weapons inspectors, going so far as to deem areas as large as Washington "presidential palaces" and thus off-limits, China, France, and Russia refused to back even a toothless resolution admonishing Iraq for its lack of cooperation. After Iraq expelled the inspectors, France and Russia opposed pinprick bombing. If they considered bombing too strong a response to massive violations then, why would they support the vastly stronger alternative of full invasion in response to weaker violations now? It may be that our allies' reluctance to enforce Iraqi disarmament stems in part from their distaste for Bush and his cowboy style, disregard for environmental accords, and fondness for protectionism. But the lack of commitment to Iraqi disarmament on the part of France, Germany, and Russia long predates the Bush administration. And yet many American liberals prefer to reside in an alternate universe where the United Nations stands poised to defang Saddam if only the United States would be just a bit more reasonable.
There is one sentence in Tuesday's Times editorial that comes closest to expressing the true sentiments of antiwar liberals: "The world must be reassured that every possibility of a peaceful solution has been fully explored." Consider the implications: The character of the Iraqi crisis is such that there is always the possibility of a peaceful solution. At every point in time, Saddam permits the minimal level of inspections cooperation he can get away with. Whenever he is threatened, he backs down until the crisis subsides, only to ratchet up his defiance later. The only logical end to this cycle is Saddam's successful acquisition of a nuclear weapon, at which point disarmament, forcible or otherwise, will no longer be an option. Indeed, this would be the actual result of the policy favored by antiwar liberals--whether they consciously desire it or not.
But why bother you with such trivialities...We have a Veto on the Security Council.
None of those treaties are valid if they contravene the US Constitution.
You are hyperventilating over PR and diplomatic Blather.
International Law comes out of the barrel of a gun. Right now that makes The President of the United States, in consultation with Congress, the Supreme Panjamdrum and Ultimate Arbiter.
Nothing else is real. Nothing else counts.
My Tag Line says it all.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 13, 2001: "Stop the world's gun runners" "It's pretty hard to see a downside to slowing the flow of grenade launchers and AK-47s to the world's civil wars. Yet somehow Bush has managed. This must be because he's looking through NRA glasses, which can make almost anything look like a threat to American gun owners."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 16,2001: "Exporting Bloodshed" "As it did in rejecting the Kyoto protocol on global warming, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and the formation of a permanent International Criminal Court for war crimes at The Hague, the Bush administration again has displayed arrogant apathy toward the rest of the world's problems and a refusal to take a more productive role in resolving them."
A bunch more in there. Take your fight to the right place, trite boy!
When the Black Helicopter landed you obviously bumped your head on a rotor blade. Get your tin foil repaired before it is too late.
We are going to war in Iraq without a new UN resolution. We would be going even without the older ones.
Are you deficient in reading comprehension skills?
The UN blathers, the Liberal Papers editorialize, and we keep on doing just as we damned well please.
The UN has less real world significance than the French. It has no power, whatever it thinks or votes. It is a pacifier for the loser nations of the world.
You have become a panicky bedwetter afraid of the Boogie Man.
I am that I am.
You, however, seem to have gone over the top into Clinical Paranoia.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of the Times, spends his time on other matters.
For example, the parent company website lists among its company awards, The New York Times Company has been selected by the Gay Financial Network for their 2001 gfn.com 500 - their annual listing of the most powerful and gay-friendly companies within the Fortune 500.
Supposedly the gay agenda occupies a lot of their time, and their editorial writers are expected to toe that line above all others.
If your main editorial criterion has to do with a certain sexual orientation, it's not surprising that you'd end up with inconsistencies elsewhere.
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HAYWARD -- The surging Cal State East Bay women's basketball team enters Thursday's California Collegiate Athletic Association showdown against visiting Chico State riding a nine-game winning streak.
The fourth-place Pioneers (15-9, 13-7 CCAA) will conclude the regular season against visiting Cal State Stanislaus on Friday. Both games will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Cal State East Bay only trails third-place Cal State Monterey Bay by one game in the standings.
Pioneers coach Suzy Barcomb credits defense and depth as the key reasons for the team's emergence after a sluggish start to the season
"There's a couple of factors than have gone into it," she said. "One is the athletes understand their roles a little bit better. We've had some pretty dynamic bench play, and I think the key for us is they've really brought into the defensive scheme that we've been running."
The Pioneers boast the top-ranked defense in the CCAA, holding opponents to under 50 points a game. Chico State has the top-ranked offense in the conference.
Brianna Terrance, who was recently named CCAA Player of the Week for her play against Cal Poly Pomona and Humboldt State, has been the Pioneers' leading scorer during the winning streak averaging 10.6 points per game.
The Pioneers are coming off wins over CCAA co-leader UC San Diego 59-44, in which Marlene MacMillan had 14 points and seven rebounds, and Cal State San Bernardino 42-39 last week.
In January, the Pioneers lost to Chico State 56-50 and beat Cal State Stanislaus 53-35.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Junior College transfer Cullen Park was named one of the Ohio Valley Conference's Co-Pitchers of the Week for his relief efforts on the hill in three of Tech's four straight wins last week.
In his three outings, Park pitched eight total innings, picking up a win and a save as Tennessee Tech completed a perfect 4-0 week and clinched a spot in the OVC Tournament field with a three-game sweep of UT Martin. On the week, he allowed only two hits and two walks while striking out nine batters.
The junior right hander started the week by pitching the final 2.1 innings and picking up the save against Lipscomb, his third of the season. Park did not allow a hit in that game and struck out two as TTU won 12-9.
In the first game of Saturday's doubleheader with UTM, Park pitched two innings and struck out a batter. He returned in the nightcap of the twin bill to toss 3.2 innings of relief, allowing only one hit and striking out six as he picked up the victory in the Golden Eagles 8-7, 12-inning victory.
On the season, Park leads the Tech bullpen with a 3.96 ERA in 24 appearances. He has hurled 52.1 innings for the Golden Eagles, amassing a 3-2 record and striking out a team-high 65 batters. Additionally, his opposing batting average of .228 is the lowest in the conference.
The award is the first of Park's career and the third for Tennessee Tech's pitching staff this season. Tristan Archer (week two) and Matt Shepherd (week four) also earned Pitcher of the Week honors this year.
Having already clinched a trip to the OVC Tournament in Jackson, the Golden Eagles will finish out the regular season at Murray State this weekend, playing a twin bill on Friday starting at 1 p.m. and capping of the series on Saturday afternoon.


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So because guido is down, bills are due and the truck drank so much fuel i resorted to drastic measures. Sold the truck, paid off some bills and saved some money asside for guidos repair bill. So what now, well i had to get something to get me to work, bus doesnt run at 1 in the morning. Friend of mine had this thing. 1992 Buick Lesabre with 3800 motor. To say this thing is a turd is an understatement. Ive just began sorting through the cheep problems. 1st off it had no brakes because its been sitting for a few years, was covered in tree sap and leaves. Inside was grungy, cd player had a cd stuck in it, no door or trunk key, only 1 working window.
So first thing we do is take it over to my buddy rons house and work in the brakes. After replaceing a master cylinder which was so rusted on i thought that was gonna be it right there we start pumping up the brakes and bleeding them when pow a brake line up front ruptures. Teriffic so another parts store run and 2 hours latter due to rusty connections thats back on but all the air went to the back now so forget it well mess with it another day. Im looking this thing over all weekend to try and see why it has such a bad miss hopeing its not the expensive coil pack. Started notice coolant leaking only to discover the rad has a pinhole crack on the side of it. Teriffic, and i took off a plug wire only to realize i only needed to remove 1 to see the problem. There is enough carbon on the plug end to stop a lightning strike from going through, and the plugs look like they were on there since cliniton was in office. All in all the only good thing about this thing is that it does have working a/c and despite all the problems it still does run and drive somewhat so it can atleast get me to work.
Heres a photo of it after a much needed bath, and believe me this picture makes it look alot better then it is.
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What a Turd
Started by The Dude Abides , May 23 2011 10:41 AM
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Posted 23 May 2011 - 12:40 PM
Spend 30 minutes cleaning the leftover tint glue off of the drivers side window, next is the passanger side when i have a moment. The previous owner had a nice tint job put on but man is it dark.
Posted 23 May 2011 - 04:44 PM
I like the 3.8, but why not buy a good awd subaru that is 110% on upkeep?
this looks like no rust so good start, but how many miles. it may need about 2500 in repairs just for roadworthy, shocks, struts, brakes, timing chain sprockets (they are plastic sprockets and let go) tires, etc.
ammoina works good for tint gunk. razor blades work too.
this looks like no rust so good start, but how many miles. it may need about 2500 in repairs just for roadworthy, shocks, struts, brakes, timing chain sprockets (they are plastic sprockets and let go) tires, etc.
ammoina works good for tint gunk. razor blades work too.
Posted 24 May 2011 - 02:03 AM
Brent i would love an awd subaru and i would of even took an automatic. "But there just to expensive and the only cheep one i had any type of bite on was your Rs (maybe) and a brighton in milwaukee. After the subaru S**t out on me i was up a creek without a paddle. Im not putting 2500 bucks into this thing at all. Ive got 500 into it includeing what a i bought it for. That leaves me hopefully enough to pay to have my subaru fixed and bills. Im going to need to wait a few years until i can afford a nice car. IM even thinking about getting a 2nd job, things are just terrible money wise now and i dont see them getting any better. But hopefully this car will last a while.
Posted 28 June 2011 - 02:56 PM
Windex does a pretty mean job on pine sap.
Posted 13 July 2011 - 08:12 AM
Those 3.8 V6s are pretty good motors. I have two of them in my life time, put well over 250,000 on both. Had friends that had them too that put well over that mileage as well. When I was in high school we took my friends 1988 Buick with 3.8 down to St. Louis and back to Milwaukee area, it had 388,000 on it at the time, had no issues. Pretty solid transmissions in those cars too.
Posted 13 July 2011 - 11:19 AM
After i tuned it up and fixed the windows it worked perfect. But then my grandma decided to trade in her car and that had lower miles and got better gas mileage. I still wouldnt be getting rid of this car if the other one wasnt slightly better. Get over 35mpg in the thing.
Posted 13 July 2011 - 12:01 PM
my dad put over 460k miles on his 88 olds ciera 3.8 But after i switchd my parents over to subarus, they sold it and it is still running around it is a daily driver for who they sold it too. yes, 460k and counting, but my dad was a GM mechanic for 41 years so he maintained it to perfection.
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CARSON CITY, NV - A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in Carson City, accused of stabbing a man Wednesday night.
Sheriff's investigators say about 9:30PM, the boy and an 18-year-old, originally thought to be younger, had a fight over a heroin deal at the corner of Colorado and Arizona Streets in south Carson City. Sheriff's deputies and paramedics found the victim at a nearby home with a wound to the stomach. He was flown by Care Flight to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, but has since been released, as the wound was not as serious as first thought.
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Steffi Wahl (Patrik / Sailloft Hamburg) finished the 2012 season in fifth place on the PWA Wave World Tour. This is made all the more impressive when you consider the fact that she juggles a separate full-time profession alongside being a successful windsurfing pro. The German impressed for the duration of the season, with her backside waveriding drawing plenty of praise from the judges on numerous occasions. Read our interview with her below:
PWA: Firstly, what are your thoughts on how the 2012 season has gone and how would you rate your results?
SW: "Actually I really really enjoyed sailing in the 2012 PWA tour again. Firstly I?m still really happy that Gran Canaria took place and that the Moreno Twins made such an effort to make this happen. I booked my vacation in advance, so I would have been really sad not to go to Gran Canaria to compete. It was a great event and on top of that I decided to go to Teneriffe, which was my first time. 3 weeks sailing in summer is just awesome and I was very happy. I had such a good time with all the girls and my equipment worked out really well. Becoming 4th in Pozo and 5th in Tenerife was more than I expected, because I did not spend the winter somewhere to train. It seems that I can somehow rely on my basics which are still somewhere sleeping inside... After competing this year I?m super motivated to learn something new... let?s see how it goes."
PWA: How long have you been windsurfing?
SW: "Good question. I started age 11 on a lake, but living in the south of Germany made it not so easy to stick to it. It was kind of an up and down with my sailing and finally after finishing school I decided to move to the north of Germany to come closer to the sea.. I wanted to learn how to sail in waves and I did it here in the north and in Denmark."
PWA: Who has been you biggest influence on your sailing?
SW: "Not really a person influenced me, maybe the style of some persons. I really like the attitude and style of Kauli Seadi (JP / NeilPryde). He is always on the water, even if it?s 9 degrees and raining in Sylt and he is always loving the conditions. I like the waveriding style of Nayra Alonso (Fanatic / Severne) a lot and I like to see that somebody who is good in surfing (not windsurfing) has a really fluid style in waveriding. That?s why I keep pushing my surfing... I think it will help me a lot with windsurfing."
PWA: What would you be doing if you weren't windsurfing?
SW: "This question is not my favourite one: actually I have a proper 9-5 job.... with some flexibility if it?s windy. Living in Germany you need to have some free days otherwise you won?t make it on the water very often. The question fits better the other way round: what would you be doing if you weren?t working? . Windsurfing!!"
PWA: Where is your favorite place to windsurf and why?
SW: "So far I love sailing in South Africa the best. There are so many different conditions from high wind to big waves or both together and all of that in between a couple of kilometers. You don?t have to drive for ages to get to a spot and you always find a place where there are only a few people out. Living in Europe it?s easy to reach with just a short travel time. Besides that I love sailing in Denmark, Cold Hawaii. It?s just so good that it?s only 400km from my hometown, so if it?s on it?s easy to go there and the conditions are very nice."
PWA: What is your favorite move and why?
SW: "I love waveriding and this is my favourite move. I like to feel that you need your whole body and full body tension to do a proper bottom turn with speed. It?s so intense, that you don?t think of anything else in that moment."
PWA: What new moves are you currently learning?
SW: "I have to improve my jumping, and I guess I need to work on my pushloop. That?s a start."
PWA: How do you learn your moves and improve your sailing? Videos? Watching others?
SW: "I just realized that I only learn new moves if I see other girls or my boyfriend doing them. Being on the competitions this summer was the best for me. I got really motivated again and tried things, which I would not when sailing for myself. Watching videos and then going straight on the water is the best...."
PWA: Where is your favorite spot on the PWA Tour?
SW: "If I look at the conditions I must say that I enjoyed Tenerife a lot, because it was proper sideshore waveriding with a decent wave. But I like Pozo too for this amazing high wind and that you feel your whole body after one week full power sailing there. For the surrounding I like Sylt the best, because it?s in Germany and there are a lot of people and because it has so much diversity. Everything and anything can happen there."
PWA: How does competition make you feel? And how do you prepare for your heats?
SW: "I just want to do my best in a heat. But I?m a very realistic person and I know in the first couple of minutes if the heat will be good or not. I have to work on that, because you can change a lot in 10 minutes. I have to have all my stuff ready very early on in the day and need to go out way the competition starts, just to make sure I can do it. In Pozo I love to sail early in the mornings, nobody is out and the event site is empty.... if I could not do that, then I start to get nervous somehow."
PWA: How do you find trying to split your time between your job, training and competing?
SW: "Windsurfing is my main sport and for this I will always try to make some spare time. During the competitions I try to keep up to date with my job in the evenings, so that I?m not fully lost after."
PWA: What do you do when you're not windsurfing?
SW: "Sitting in the office, try to get some swells in Denmark no matter what time of the year to surf, spending time with my dog on the beach...."
PWA: What are your goals for 2013 and the future?
SW: "I only plan for one year in advance. Having so much fun in 2012 on the PWA tour I really love to compete again this year in all locations. Let's see what happens after...."
PWA: Thanks Steffi and good luck for 2013.


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ROCHESTER — The following items are based on 1,007 entries on the Rochester Police Log from April 28 to May 4:
Sunday, April 28
2:03 a.m. — Two men are playing baseball in Lowe's parking lot. They're moving along.
8:23 a.m. — A dart is found in a Copeland Drive yard.
11:25 a.m. — A money order has been stolen from a Northgate apartment.
11:32 a.m. — Tyler Meserve, 21, of 38 Union St., Somersworth, is charged with reckless operation, driving after suspension and resisting arrest or detention.
12:05 p.m. — The 103 Restaurant owner says the property owner has changed the locks and he has been texted not to go back there. Police deem it a civil issue. (Later that week, a new occupant was announced.)
2:28 p.m. — A female shoplifter takes off from Walgreens.
3:27 p.m. — An apartment on Wakefield Street is deliberately flooded by blocking sinks, causing a ceiling collapse in a business below.
4:35 p.m. — Jacob T. Finenco, 21, of 230 Pleasant St., Eliot, Maine, is charged with willful concealment and simple assault at Headlines.
4:47 p.m. — Patrick K. Conway, Jr., 31, of 11 Ash St., Somersworth, is charged with willful concealment, habitual offender and driving without giving proof.
7:19 p.m. — Fireworks on Beaudoin Court grate on the nerves.
8:01 p.m. — Meds have been stolen from a Western Avenue woman.
8:21 p.m. — On Maple Street a boyfriend screams, fights and leaves.
8:46 p.m. — People on a North Main roof are looking for a fight, they are warned to keep down for the remainder of the night.
8:53 p.m. — One lady warns another that if she talks to her ex-boyfriend, she will kill her son. Plus smash her windshield.
Monday, April 29
1:02 a.m. — Christopher John Archambault, 47, of 511 Ten Rod Road, Farmington, is charged with simple assault, resisting arrest and criminal mischief.
2:10 a.m. — Joseph C. Mercer, 26, of 7B Lafayette St., is charged with DWI.
8:30 a.m. — On Ridgewood Drive a man lets his dog despoil someone's property.
8:45 a.m. — A toter on Rochester Hill Road is missing ... it fell into the WM truck.
8:56 a.m. — A Baxter Lake camp owner reports his trailer has been vandalized.
10:32 a.m. — A bike left on a Tingley Street lot is only good for scrap.
11:16 a.m. — Barney, a dog from Washington Street, has slipped his collar.
11:31 a.m. — A school bus didn't pick up a kid from tutoring. His mom said he should walk home, but now he's at Martin's Drive In and lost. An officer runs him home.
2:52 p.m. — Kids defy no trespassing signs and cut through a Chestnut Street yard.
4:02 p.m. — Scrap wire worth $600 has been stolen on Maple Street.
5:12 p.m. — A thief takes off from Walmart.
5:38 p.m. — Demetrius Paris, 20, of 10 Patton St., is charged with driving after suspension and driving without giving proof.
9:04 p.m. — A woman has stolen over $500 from a Congress Street home.
9:14 p.m. — A man smashes a lady's door on South Main Street.
10:11 p.m. — A woman has stolen $240 from a home on Prospect Street.
11:52 p.m. — On Chestnut Street a poor raccoon is wobbling like it's 'bout to swoon.
Tuesday, April 30
11:48 a.m. — A debit card is found lying on Wakefield Street.
1:00 p.m. — A pitbull has bitten someone on River Street.
1:47 p.m. — Walgreens reports another bogus prescription.
2:42 p.m. — Danny Ackerman, 34, of 11 Crowley St., Apt. 1, Farmington, is charged with criminal threatening.
2:45 p.m. — Leon Acholes, 18, of 5B Lafayette St., is charged with resisting arrest and arrested on a warrant; Michale Carone, 20, of 6 North Main St., Apt. 105, is arrested on a warrant. All this after the report of a fight on the Square and a foot pursuit.
2:50 p.m. — A chap who's trying to pump gas has put in his card twice, the clerk has yelled profanities which isn't very nice, and in a foreign lingo too, what should that poor gas pumper do? Explain it to his friendly bank, and not pay for an empty tank.
3:30 p.m. — A Flat Rock Bridge Road resident has unfamiliar charges on her credit card.
4:21 p.m. — Walmart reports a theft and has evidence to hand over.
5:36 p.m. — Juanita Deraps, 60, of 50 Moose Lane, is charged with contempt.
6:01 p.m. — Terale Lofton, 31, of Portsmouth, is charged with simple assault.
7:26 p.m. — There's blasted music on South Main Street.
7:42 p.m. — In a Washington Street yard there are two bears laying next to a trampoline. (If they venture onto the trampoline, please call the Rochester Times at once.)
8:03 p.m. — A car's side mirror has been damaged on High Street.
8:38 p.m. — Jonathan C. Diprizio, 32, of 100 Northeast Pond Road, Milton, is charged with resisting arrest.
9:40 p.m. — Samuel O. Joy, 59, of 21B Chestnut St., is charged with conduct after an accident.
Wednesday, May 1
9:13 a.m. — A Crown Point Road resident is being threatened via the phone by an ex-spouse.
10:28 a.m. — A Winchester 12-gauge has been stolen from an Autumn Street home.
12:54 p.m. — A Rochester Hill Road home has been burgled.
1:44 p.m. — Jacob Miller, 33, of 57 Pleasant St., Epping, is charged with habitual offender and driver's license prohibitions.
2:00 p.m. — Goats do roam on Chesley Hill.
4:18 p.m. — A credit card has been found at Cumby's on Knight Street.
4:22 p.m. — On Chesley Hill, where goats did roam, there's sheep, Bo Peep, please get them home.
5:49 p.m. — A large pile of wire has been left on Maple Street.
6:04 p.m. — A PlayStation stolen from Henry Drive has been found in a pawnshop.
7:34 p.m. — On Estes Road a fallen tree is on the log.
Thursday, May 2
12:08 a.m. — A noise warning is dished out on Wakefield Street.
7:18 a.m. — A named someone has forged checks totalling $130 to buy drugs.
8:22 a.m. — A Pine Street car is vandalized.
8:40 a.m. — At School Street School there's graffiti on a playground slide.
9:52 a.m. — A Wakefield Street accountant (Hi, Greg) has found a rather nice bicycle.
11:24 a.m. — A wallet is found outside the Methodist Church, downtown.
12:04 p.m. — A toter is missing from Chestnut Street.
3:16 p.m. — At Roger Allen Ball Park, a lady made a scene, 'twas back Tuesday evening-o, what's happened in between?
5:37 p.m. — There's a hit-and-run at D'Angelo's.
5:46 p.m. — On the Common, kids are "destroying the gazebo," the very gazebo a carpenter fixed yesterday.
6:06 p.m. — Music thumps away on Heaton Street.
6:29 p.m. — A parent calls to say their young teen has been given pot.
6:38 p.m. — Kids are still cutting through that yard on Chestnut Street.
6:49 p.m. — Shoplifters grab goods and run at Hannaford on Milton Road. Barrington police are asked to follow up.
7:09 p.m. — People are climbing trees near the Post Office.
7:35 p.m. — A Congress Street man thinks he has a dud $5 bill.
8:31 p.m. — Cheryl Dugan, 31, of 29A River St., is charged with simple assault.
8:35 p.m. — A Northgate apartment is the focus of criminal trespassing.
8:52 p.m. — Craig L. Tinsley, 29, of 583 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton, is charged with three counts of simple assault.
8:57 p.m. — Four gentlemen (or maybe not) are on a Maple Street porch, drinking and yelling profanities at ladies.
Friday, May 3
8:30 a.m. — A stray dog is handed in at the station.
9:56 a.m. — A trash toter has vanished from Brock Street.
11:08 a.m. — Andrew Lawrence Fitzgerald, 27, of 24B Academy St., is charged with willful concealment.
11:21 a.m. — There's been an attempt to steal a wallet from a vehicle at Market Basket, a video shows.
11:35 a.m. — A skateboarder clad all in black, on Route 11 glides, they say — a hazard who deserves some flak — when police arrive he's slipped away.
12:33 p.m. — A female is driving up and down Lafayette Street, yelling at a man.
12:43 p.m. — A pocketbook has been stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Signal Street.
1:52 p.m. — A tiger cat called Tucker has strayed from Pineknoll Drive.
2:50 p.m. — Tools have been lost from a truck near Ten Rod Road.
7:48 p.m. — Near Citizens Bank someone finds a debit card and $300.
9:58 p.m. — Someone is cranking the tunes on Lafayette Street.
Saturday, May 4
1:06 a.m. — After a traffic stop near Wendy's, Tammy Lee Goss, 42, of 13 Gully Oven Road, Lebanon Maine, is charged with driving under the influence and speed; Jordan Paul Edward Stacey, 26, of 175 TM Wentworth, Lebanon, Maine, is arrested on a warrant.
9:13 a.m. — After a police raid on a Charles Street apartment, the residents have not been seen. Neighbors are worried about a ferret and fish not being fed.
9:30 a.m. — Rene Roland Adrien, 47, of 121 Jamey Drive, #0, is charged with disobeying a police officer and resisting arrest.
11:05 a.m. — A cellphone and ciggies have been stolen from an unlocked car on Congress Street.
11:17 a.m. — On North Main Street, it is confirmed that an older man with two shovels is indeed a legitimate worker. Suspicions may have arisen when he was not leaning on one.
11:21 a.m. — Two big dogs came into a Dewey Street yard and attacked another dog that was tied up. It seems to have held its own.
11:35 a.m. — At the K of C Hall, a belligerent panhandler disturbs the Comic Book Day crowd.
11:57 a.m. — At Jet Pack Comics a man is screaming ... he is wearing a white shirt. That seems an odd thing to scream.
2:43 p.m. — A man with a backpack and a suitcase is sitting suspiciously on the side of Meaderboro Road.
4:09 p.m. — Generators have been stolen from an Estes Road garage.
4:13 p.m. — There's an injured woodchuck in Bridle Woods parking lot. It has been "removed."
4:52 p.m. — A wallet is found near TD Bank and returned to the owner.
5:36 p.m. — Gunplay is heard from Monadnock Drive.
6:41 p.m. — A phone is found at Pickering Pond and given to its owner.
7:13 p.m. — A wallet's found on Bridge Street and its owner comes to get it.
Rochester Police Log
ROCHESTER — The following items are based on 1,007 entries on the Rochester Police Log from April 28 to May 4:


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The second annual ICompete Wine Tasting Fundraiser will be held on Thursday, Jan. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Wine Cellar, 361 W. Northwest Hwy., Palatine.
Proceeds from the event will benefit ICompete Youth Programs. Tickets are $20 per person for tastings and appetizers. The event, for those 21 and older, will also include raffle prizes and a 50/50 raffle, and 10% of all store sales will be donated to ICompete.
To purchase tickets, or for more information, please contact Cristina Lara at 847-496-6305 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
ICompete is a collaborative partnership with the Palatine Park District, Palatine Opportunity Center, Palatine High School, District 15, and Buehler YMCA. Each partner provides a unique and integral part in the development, implementation, funding, and support of each program. ICompete programs include the after school club, summer athletic clinics, special events, swim program, teen nights, summer camp, the Pirate Passport program, and more.
The mission of ICompete is to introduce underserved families to athletics, arts, and academics by breaking down the barriers of access to better prepare for life experiences. The goal of the program is to stimulate interest, provide academic support, and increase opportunities to participate in organized sports, clubs or community programs.
According to Cristina Lara, Community Outreach Coordinator at Palatine Park District, "ICompete has touched the lives of over 6,192 people over the last six years." This number includes the children and families that participated in the programs along with the high school volunteers who gave back their time through teaching, tutoring, and mentoring. Reaching out to these families has increased personal involvement and growth in community participation.
Ms. Lara added, "ICompete programs allow participants to develop the skills to make safe choices, get involved in their school and community, and learn how to be competitive in this complex world. Proceeds from the annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser allow us to achieve these goals."
ICompete is a partner of Palatine Park District. The mission of Palatine Park District is to provide a variety of safe, enjoyable and affordable parks and recreation facilities and activities that will enhance the quality of life by promoting good health and well-being for all residents and visitors of the Palatine Park District.


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A SOLICITOR who tried to save her ice addict client from jail for stealing from a Wodonga couple as they slept in their home was yesterday told by a magistrate she "had to be joking".
In Wodonga court, magistrate John Murphy said a person's home was their castle, and people had the right to be safe in their beds.
Mr Murphy was told Benjamin Kennedy, 25, broke into a home in Delatite Court on March 13 last year, entering through an unlocked side gate and then an open sliding door.
Kennedy, who is due to become a father for the first time in just weeks, stole two mobile phones from a dining table and then entered the bedroom where a man and woman slept.
Police said he took a handbag from the foot of the bed but solicitor Sally Wilson said Kennedy claimed the bag was stolen from a lounge room.
Kennedy later used credit cards to buy an online porn membership, $556 worth of Gold Class cinema tickets, $191 in items from Safeway and a $697 notebook computer from Officeworks.
Ms Wilson said Kennedy and his now pregnant partner had been having issues at the time of the offence.
She told Mr Murphy that Kennedy had accumulated a big list of priors for his young age.
But she said it was hoped his relationship and impending fatherhood would be a turning point.
"He is devastated that he may miss the birth of his child," she told the court.
"This is the first time that he's actually had something to get out of jail for; the first time he has had a reason to stay out of trouble."
Kennedy had just finished serving seven months in jail in NSW when he was extradited for the Wodonga offences.
He was released and paroled on December 20 but was immediately taken into custody in Victoria.
Ms Wilson's plea for a community corrections order was met with a stern "no" from Mr Murphy, who said the victims had to be considered.
"What about the poor woman lying in her bed?" he said.
"Your home is your castle.
"We're in a hell of a lot of trouble in this society if something is not done about ice.
"This is an aggravated burglary. It is too serious for a community corrections order."
Mr Murphy said any police officer would attest to the "huge problem" ice had created.
"I don't sit here as a social worker, I can't just be making decisions based on sympathy.
"People have a right to go to sleep at night in their homes without people coming in."
Kennedy was sentenced to 18 months' jail, with a non-parole period of six months and ordered to pay $1984 in compensation for the stolen goods.


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tell me a character, or text, and i'll make an avvie for you. also, read the description for this topic for more.
If I can't find it, I'll tell you, or search it on google.
get an awsome avvie from me...
Started by Kuchipatchi5 , Nov 22 2007 11:55 AM
Started22 Nov 2007
Last Post23 Nov 2007
Posted 22 November 2007 - 12:50 PM ( #2 )
I'd like a picture of some really cute animal yawning. xD Any animal at all, it doesn't matter to me as long as they're cute.
Posted 23 November 2007 - 09:44 AM ( #3 )
I made a yaning lion.
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Edited by Kuchipatchi5, 23 November 2007 - 09:44 AM.


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At least one journalist was detained for two hours in
The Beijing-based Foreign Correspondents Club of China said Tuesday it had received reports that security forces in Xinjiang had "detained TV crews and other reporters," confiscated or damaged equipment, and interfered with interviews in the past two days.
An official in Urumqi confirmed Tuesday that Internet connections had been cut in parts of the city in response to outbreaks of violence involving the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority, police, and Han Chinese residents, according to the official news agency Xinhua. The official did not say when access would be restored.
Journalists remain at risk from armed vigilantes who continue to roam the streets amid a high security presence, according to international news reports.
"Authorities in Xinjiang should allow journalists to do
their jobs in covering the unfolding events," said
Foreign journalists were not barred from the autonomous
region as they were during ethnic riots in
"Crowd now turning on Telegraph
reporter and assistant. Anti-foreigner attack,"
Other Internet users reported that access to Twitter and
other social networking sites, including Facebook, had been restricted in parts
Exile Uighur groups say local residents initiated peaceful protests against Chinese rule in the historically tense region on Sunday. It remained unclear on Tuesday why the protests escalated into rioting, which the government says killed at least 150 people, according to international news reports. Journalists have not independently confirmed the death toll; neither the ethnic breakdown of the victims nor evidence of who was responsible for the deadly violence has been established, according to news reports.


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Mounds, OK – Liberty is 5th state district to go to 4-day week
MOUNDS, Okla. (AP) The Liberty school district is joining four others in Oklahoma in changing to a four-day week.
The Liberty school board cited declining state revenues as the primary reason for the switch. The new schedule for Liberty students will start on Jan. 5.
The change is expected to save the district money on transportation, utilities and food. Also, bus drivers and cafeteria workers are paid for one less day per week.
Superintendent Donna Campo says the district expects to save about $45,000 this school year because of the switch.
The Liberty district has about 600 students from pre-kindergarten through high school. It is located south of Bixby and east of Mounds.
The Prue, Barnsdall, Gore and Central High districts all previously have decided to move to a four-day week.
Information from: Tulsa World, http://www.tulsaworld.com


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43 U.S. Code § 647 - Grant extended to desert lands within part of former Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado
The provisions of sections 641, 642 and 643 [1] of this title are extended over and shall apply to the desert lands within the limits of all that portion of the former Ute Indian Reservation, not included in any national forest, in the State of Colorado, described and embraced in the Act entitled "An Act relating to lands in Colorado lately occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Ute Indians," approved July 28, 1882: Provided, That before a patent shall issue for any of the lands aforesaid under the terms of the said sections the State of Colorado shall pay into the Treasury of the United States the sum of $1.25 per acre for the lands so patented, and the money so paid shall be subject to the provisions of section 3 of the Act of June 15, 1880, entitled "An Act to accept and ratify the agreements submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriation for carrying out same."
No lands shall be included in any tract to be segregated under the provisions of this section on which the United States Government has valuable improvements, or which have been reserved for any Indian schools or farm purposes.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Section 643 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.
Act approved July 28, 1882, referred to in text, is act July 28, 1882, ch. 357, 22 Stat. 178, which is not classified to the Code.
Section 3 of the Act of June 15, 1880, referred to in text, is section 3 of act June 15, 1880, ch. 223, 21 Stat. 199, which is not classified to the Code.
LII has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references LII.


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East Hampton Town
Lifeline for Life Saving Station
Exterior repairs and restoration of the historic Amagansett Life Saving Station will be done gratis by Ben Krupinski, an East Hampton resident and contractor.
After attending a recent re-enactment of the Nazi landing on nearby Atlantic Avenue beach during World War II, Mr. Krupinski offered to do the work, which will include installing authentic window replacements.
The life-saving station, which was a private residence off Bluff Road for many years, was donated to the town by the Carmichael family and moved to its original location on Atlantic Avenue. A committee has been formed to raise money so that it can be restored and opened to the public.
Sloppy Tuna in Trouble
The East Hampton Town Board will hold a hearing on Aug. 14 on whether to suspend a music permit issued to the Sloppy Tuna in Montauk, which has received its fourth citation for violating the town noise ordinance this summer.
The town code calls for a mandatory hearing to occur after a fourth alleged violation. Members of the public may attend and comment. The hearing will be held during a regularly scheduled town board work session at the Montauk Firehouse, which begins at 10 a.m.


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True religion at work.
Superstition is slavery.
. . . theophobic (yep I just coined a word) . .
No, you didn't. You just discovered a word you had never heard before.
. . . theophobic (yep I just coined a word) . . .
No, you didn't. You just discovered a word you had never heard before.
And the AC used it wrongly, too. Theophobia [wiktionary.org] is the fear of one or more gods, and is therefore an attribute of a pious follower of some religion, and would likely be approved by that religion. More likely, the AC meant religiophobic, as religiophobia [wiktionary.org] is the fear of religions.
Hijacking the thread here. The Twitter ban has been lifted.
"Pakistan's telecommunications regulators shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday because the social networking site would not remove content the government found objectionable to Muslims, but the nation's prime minister stepped in to reverse the ban, officials said."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-blocks-then-restores-twitter-access/2012/05/20/gIQAPqBPdU_story.html [washingtonpost.com]
This type of comment reduces complex issues to simple bitter theophobic (yep I just coined a word) rhetoric and it is no better than the folks who force their religious beliefs on other through institutionalized oppression and social shunning.
Nonsense. Your assertion that absence of superstition is no better than any of the contradictory superstitions which cripple our societies is a contemptible form of moral relativism.
A little introspection in the world would be a revolutionary thing.
And is explicitly banned by most of the big religions extant today ("don't ask the wrong questions or you're an apostate/heathen/whatever"), thus reinforcing GP's point that "superstition is slavery". Which was the point you disagreed with, and must confuse you quite a bit.
Also, most atheists confuse "lack of belief" with "disbelief." Lack of belief is rational and not in any way equivalent with belief. Disbelief is in the same category as belief in that you take it to be true even though you do not know it is true. Most atheists
Most people who believe in God/god(s) also don't believe in God/god(s). It's just the atheists are more thorough in their disbelief.
Christians/Muslims/Jews don't believe in Odin, Zeus, Ra or Shiva. Atheists don't either, they just add one more god to the list of gods they don't believe in. Which, if you think about it what's the difference in not believing in 1000 vs 1001 gods. If the first thousand don't exist, why would you believe in the thousand and first.
Most atheists fall into the disbelief category and have more in common with religious believers than they are willing to recognize.
I've found the reverse to be true. Atheism covers a pretty broad range. As with religious believers, there'll be plenty of atheists who don't realize how stupid it is to voluntarily assume the burden of evidence. If some guy tells me that he's in personal communication with Grabxil, Supreme Warlord of Venus, then why should I be the one paying for the ticket to visit Venus in order to disprove this guy's existence?
Of course it also depends on the nature of the God. In internally inconsistent god (all forgiving, yet refuses to forgive certain actions) is not disproven, but certainly cannot reasonably exist. Believers will most likely adopt special pleading or interpret away these inconsistencies. Why does a loving God send us to Hell? Why, he doesn't! We send ourselves there. Why was a loving God such a cunt back in the Old Testament days? Well, it's obviously because the Hebrews were barbaric, and for some reason or other God had to abide by that. Hey, perhaps it's all about free will and stuff? Why does an all loving god permit suffering to exist? Well, that's definitely free will, isn't it? Hey, it's the corruption of the world cause by man. Yep, your child is dying painfully of leukemia because two simpletons a few thousand years ago had a fruity snack, and certainly God couldn't possibly intervene to avoid blaming the innocent for something done by someone else. That's how the stuff goes.
From personal experiences, it's pointless trying to disprove the existence of gods. One can spend hours debating, running through arguments and "evidence", to end up with the frustrating last ditch defense that it requires faith. Fuck it, why not just say that right from the beginning! You have no evidence, and you believe this because you have faith - fine. Then why waste time with this evidence and these fancy arguments you picked-up from a William Lane Craig book, when they're simply not relevant to why you personally belief this stuff? I can see the value in Jeff Dee's approach of asking people to provide their best argument first. What is it that actually makes them believe in their God - not what is it that they think will convert me?
Put another way, not believing in God/god(s) is not the same as believing there is/are no God/god(s).
Not even in the same league. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, yet a lack of evidence is reasonable grounds to assert disbelief. Let's say a guy is claiming that his car can fly. He believes this to be true, and I feel confident in asserting the opposite. He tells me that he can't give me a demonstration because the government radar will detect him. He claims the car has a super secret CIA made engine. I pop the hood and see nothing out of the ordinary. Overall, this appears to be a regular Chevy. Is my disbelief of his flying car the same as his positive beliefs? If not, then why is this any different to a belief in gods?
And you failed to listen.
If you have no proof of something existing or not existing, you do not know whether it exists or not.
Thus it is a matter of belief.
Disbelief is having a belief, in an atheists case, the active belief that there can be no god in a traditional sense.
Lack of belief would be the case for an agnostic, not believing in the existence or non-existence of a deity but simply stating that you are open to evidence either way, but up until that point, no steps will be taken assumiing a deity exi
>Disbelief is having a belief, in an atheists case, the active belief that there can be no god in a traditional sense.
This sentence is fundamentally incorrect. The dictionary meaning of the suffix "dis" is "the opposite or absence of". Therefore "disbelief" is the opposite or absence of belief. "Absence" can be described as a lack of something. Thus "disbelief" is essentially "a lack of belief".
The dictionary meaning of the word "disbelief" is the rejection of belief. How you think that disbelief is a belief is beyond me...
I find it instructive to reframe discussions regarding belief in god as discussions regarding belief in unicorns.
"Not believing in Unicorn/unicorn(s) is not the the same as believing there is/are no Unicorn/unicorn(s)." is thus easily revealed as the semantic niggling that it is. Either there's unicorns or there ain't; if there are, you believe in them.
Also, Christianity in the U.S. only seems benevolent to the extent that it does because Christianity's become a toothless tiger after 200+ years of secular l
Once you understand why you reject all other gods as possible, you will understand why I reject yours.
No they don't. They are "intro" in the sense that they think only inside their own safe definitions. There's no bible colleges where they teach Creationism instead of evolution, and have honest introspective debates about fossil and experimental evidence of evolution. They don't have honest introspective debates about the history of religions gradually dropping opposition to one or another scientific theory as their superstition became laughable and a net liability. They're not really introspective about th
Superstition is nonsense, unsupported by evidence and therefore deserving NO respect.
If it's not truth then propagating it is bad, end of story.
The only people who defend superstition ARE superstitionists. I have no use for the unsupported beliefs of flat-earthers.
Prove a deity exists and I'll recant then grovellingly kiss his/her/it's Noodly Appendage. Until then, fuck off.
Yours is a false equivalence (and a false claim to inventing an existing word "theophobia" that means something different). There is a very substantial difference between insisting everyone believe in the same imaginary god as you, instead of their own imaginary gods, vs pointing out that any religion is slavery.
First, pointing out that religion is slavery doesn't insist anyone stop believing in it. It does say that religion isn't worth believing in, but it doesn't insist anyone stop.
Second, that's vastly d
True religion at work.
Your definition of "True religion". Not mine: I'd call it "bad religion at work".
If anything the age of the law lends it credit. Let me guess, the concept that murder is immoral is outdated because it was considered bad since the beginning of civilization?
Pakistan blocks yet another place for failing to obey diktats from the stone-age. Maybe they'll just discard everything with origin from the Renaissance onwards.
I'm guessing they'll be holding on to the modern weaponry.
They will probably need to ask God which way to point their weapons. Damn near every Muslim state militarises are incompetent in the extreme. The only thing they do well is kill their own people.
The first is the rights of a country to limit internet access in line with their own laws
Country also doesn't have the right to dictate own laws to companies in other countries. Pakistanis asked for good will gesture. Twitter refused as it would violate rights stated in their country laws.
I'm sorry but I fail to see how depicting an image of a dude is the same as advocating the extermination of a people or copyright violations.
I think a better comparison would be the depiction of nudity in public in the US. Ashcroft even covered up lady justice because of her filthy boobs.
We have the same idol hang-ups as the Pakistanis and they're driven by retarded right wing extremist assholes. The constitution is intended to protect us from them, but it even fails to work in the US.
There's only one main issue, and that's the basic human right of free expression, unfettered by state or religion sponsored oppression.
The examples you cite aren't even remotely related and none actually justify morally or practically suppression of free speech.
Criminalizing Holocaust Denial, whatever it's achieved or claimed sociological benefits in Germany, is a political restraint on free speech probably no longer justifiable in Germany, even by it's supporters' standards. Now it's merely a technique to
Criminalizing Holocaust denial is a lazy shortcut. It obviously failed to stop some Germans from being Nazis, since there are still plenty. Meanwhile its abuse of free expression undermines the governments that enforce it.
It's much harder to actually stop nazism, especially in Germany where it has an actual legacy in families. But of course the harder course is necessary. Germany is at fault both for opposing liberty and for failing to snap all Germans out of their interest in one of the most hideous opposi
Pakistan isn't going to promote itself as a regional center in Asia. Eventually its power to cause problems for everyone that's based on its nukes will be circumvented by everyone else's interests that oppose it. The nukes that Reagan helped it get to promote the Star Wars "missile defense" will have run the course of their purpose and they'll be taken away. Iran, India, Russia and China will carve it up, either into actual countries or just markets.
If Pakistan really did promote itself as a regional center
I actually read TFA, hoping to see what, exactly, pissed them off, but apparently Pakistan's not telling.
Either Pakistan found a way to get around the Streisand Effect (if you just mass-block an entire large site and never say which particulars caused it, it gets no publicity), or they just wanted to censor it and found blasphemy to be a decent excuse.
I almost missed that it was back again today [battleswarmblog.com]. I participated in 2010 [battleswarmblog.com], but nobody seemed to be doing it in 2011. Glad to see it's back, and I would have missed it if Pakistan hadn't brought attention to it.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day serves three important purposes:
1. It reaffirms that the First Amendment is alive and well, and that the United States legal system cannot, should not, and will not knuckle under to transnational demands for Sharia-compliant suppression of "blasphemy" as defined by oppressive theocratic Islamic states.
2. To prove that in the 21st century censorship is self-defeating, as it only draws more attention to whatever is being censored than ignoring it would.
3. To provide so many targets for would-be jihadists to assault that the give up due to the futility of the task. Theo Van Gogh is dead [city-journal.org] and Molly Norris is still in hiding [battleswarmblog.com]. Standing in solidarity with them proves to jihadists that using violence to achieve political ends in a free society is counter-productive (something people eager to attack Chicago cops with Molotov cocktails evidently haven't learned).
Where are Sharia courts established that are recognized as replacements for UK law?
Every democracy has groups that try to replace existing law with ones derived from their own personal heritage or interest, and many of those conflict with universal liberty as much as Sharia and other theocracy. Yes the US faces far more threats from Christian theocrats, atop existing laws that are just only according to Christianity (No alcohol sales on Sunday? No gay marriage?), than from Sharia. Anyone bringing up Sharia
Don't worry Islam apologist. If you want to see what happens when sharia law is in place, please look at: Pakistan, Malaysia, Maldives, Iran, Saudi Arabia, various African countries, etc.
Remember, a women's testimony is only worth half of that of a mans. And is worth less than that of a non-believer. Remember that treating women like chattel, is perfectly a-okay. Remember that beating your chattel, is perfectly a-okay, the Ulama happily point out the ways and publish materials on how to do this so you
>upset about Sharia and consider it a threat
I don't see why you Christfags don't get all bent out of shape about Dominionism and Prosperity Gospel and all the other shit the Evangelicals seem to keep trying to shove down everyone's throats.
I don't see why you Christfags don't get all bent out of shape about Dominionism and Prosperity Gospel and all the other shit the Evangelicals seem to keep trying to shove down everyone's throats.
So, want to feel and look like an asshole now? Well that's okay. I'm not christian, sorry to burst your bubble. I'm Jewish, reform at that.
As for priorities? Perhaps you'll get off your ass, and look at the cases of judges in the US trampling all over individual rights of people in the name of sharia law. Remember that guy in Ohio who was assaulted for wearing a Mohammed costume? No? Well google is there for you! Look it up. How about the mandatory prayer groups that are being forced on kids in var
Oh, and I'm Canadian.
Then you should be aware of the Dominionsts in Canada who would subjugate your ass.
http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2011/08/30/why-dominionism-matters/ [benedictionblogson.com]
They have been influencing the Harper government a fucking whole lot more than you think.
you aren't allowed to be disgusted when the islamic world responds with an International Holocaust Cartoon Competition.
Of course you are. And the Muslims are allowed to be disgusted by the Mohammed competition. It's when you move from disgust to censorship that there's a problem. By the way, I *do* feel the European decisions to censor Holocaust deniers is wrong.
As an European, so do I.
you aren't allowed to be disgusted when the islamic world responds with an International Holocaust Cartoon Competition.
On one level, that is correct, tit for tat, on another it really isn't (IMHO). Drawing pictures of Mohammad is more like when Family Guy makes fun of Jesus, it is kind of taboo, and bothers people, but in the end no harm done. Making fun of 6 million people dying is on a completely different level, infinitely worse then "cartoons".
you aren't allowed to be disgusted
Your reasoning unraveled right there. By juxtaposing offended feelings in the second paragraph with censorship taken to limit offended feelings, you blur the moral distinction between feeling offended and taking action upon others to prevent feeling offended. People have the right to give and take offense, there's nothing wrong with Europeans taking offense at Holocaust denial, nor is there anything wrong with Muslims taking offense at blasphemy. The trouble comes from the action of silencing others. By tra
I am from Pakistan, Twitter is working for me.
My ISP is the local telecom monopoly(PTCL), so I doubt it's a case of selective application by ISP's.
https://twitter.com/#!/SenRehmanMalik/status/203961375087788032 [twitter.com]
@Rehman Malik
Dear all, I assure u that Twitter and FB will continue in our country and it will not be blocked. Pl do not believe in rumors.
So that Douchebag Minister of ours is finally good for something
Now while I really hate the Indo-Pak rivarly that pops up on the internet, I have to say, that source in the link is an Indian newspaper.
Should I pull out my tinfoil hat?
Religion can be a force for good (even if it's accidental).
God I love sarcasm.
Depict MLK as an ape
See the reaction in the US (and elsewhere).
There's a whole genre of racist cartoons depicting blacks as primitive creatures. It goes back before the Civil War and is much in evidence on the internet:
http://www.resist.com/CARTOON%20GALLERY/NIGGERS/page_0002.html [resist.com]
Trayvon Target:
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/national/hiller-armament-uses-trayvon-martin-image-as-gun-target/article_697026a6-9fa4-11e1-b3 [amsterdamnews.com]
Nobody's forcing anyone to look at these images. Anyone who really wants to will anyway. By making unenforceable laws, you simply make yourself look foolish, weak and powerless.
In the USA the Catholic Church and other cults are working hard to prevent health insurers from paying for women's healthcare like contraception, even though that investment reduces payouts for the prevented conditions and reduces the amount the cult churches pay for the insurance. Despite the economics, logic and compassion arguing for the coverage, these cults are obsessed with preventing anyone from "blaspheming", even if the blasphemers aren't part of their cult.
Pakistan is far worse. But it's more a difference of degree than of category compared to the modern USA. Theocrats everywhere have more in common than divides them.
An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.


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It's been more than 50 years since Spartanburg High School students walked the hallways inside the historic Evans Building — the high school's original location — but come fall, that's going to change.
It's been more than 50 years since Spartanburg High School students walked the hallways inside the historic Evans Building — the high school's original location — but come fall, that's going to change.
A select group of Spartanburg High students will become the first to enroll in the Viking Early College, a program that will allow students to earn up to two year's worth of college credits while working their way toward a high school diploma. The initiative is a partnership between Spartanburg School District 7 and Spartanburg Community College, which is in the process of renovating the Evans Building for its new downtown campus.
The early college will be located on a portion of the building's third floor and open to its first class of about 20 male students this fall. Students selected for the program will earn dual credits and divide time between Spartanburg High and the Community College.
The building, located at the intersection of South Dean and Kennedy streets, was originally Frank Evans High School, then changed to Spartanburg High School in the early 30s. When the high school moved to its current location on Dupre Drive in 1959, the building served as a junior high school and later housed county offices.
Spartanburg Community College announced its plans to renovate the building back to its roots as a school in 2009. Already, construction efforts have uncovered the name "Spartanburg High School" etched above the school's Kennedy Street entrance. An engraving for "Frank Evans High School" is visible on the Dean Street side.
"One small part of it is going to be a high school again," said Cheryl Cox, SCC vice president of academic affairs.
The Viking Early College will target young men who are driven, but may need an extra push toward post-secondary education. Students might come from low-income families, be first-generation college-goers or from groups statistically underrepresented in higher education.
There will be no cost to students to participate, and transportation will be provided. The program's first cohort of 20 will be named in May, and a new class will be added with every following year.
"When we look at our data in terms of students graduating on time and matriculation to college, it's our male students we're looking at," said Terry Pruitt, District 7 deputy superintendent. "… It's the student we look at and they're a really good student. They may or may not have made up their mind if they're going to college, but they could, and this would give them that push."
Cox called the early college an "exceptional opportunity" for select students.
"We're looking for students who have the potential to succeed, but they just might not be terribly engaged, or they might succeed in a different environment, like at the Evans Building," Cox said. "From our perspective, this is an opportunity to address a population we're having trouble attracting … The ultimate goal on both sides is for these students to have an exceptional experience and to be successful."
Applications for the program will be available to rising ninth-grade students this week, but teachers and counselors can also nominate qualified candidates. Those selected after an interview process will begin taking college-level courses as soon as their high school career begins.
How much time students spend on SCC's campus will increase with time and grade level. Younger students will spend about half their day on the college campus, while upperclassmen are expected to spend most of their academic time at SCC, with the exception of some extracurricular courses.
After four years, early college students will have earned an associate's degree or up to two years of transferable college credit. Pruitt said every course students take must be carefully aligned to both high school and college requirements.
"This will be true dual credit," Pruitt explained. "When they take English 101 (at SCC), it'll be satisfying a high school English requirement as well."
The early college portion of the building will include four classrooms, office space and a student common area with seating and study carrels. The district will lease the space from SCC and set aside funds for coursework, personnel, equipment and transportation. District 7 Superintendent Russell Booker said roughly $150,000 has been budgeted for the program's first year, although that figure is expected to increase as students begin taking more courses at SCC. He also hopes to explore community partnerships to strengthen the effort.
Already, a multi-year financial commitment from a local family will set up a scholarship fund for students' coursework. The family of George Dean Johnson, Sr. — chairman of District 7 School Board from 1950 to 1963 and one of the first presidents of the South Carolina School Boards Association — made the gift in his honor.
"The support of the Johnson family in this community has been tremendous," Booker said. "This is a wonderful way to honor the legacy of Dr. Johnson as well as the Johnson's ongoing commitment to raising the level of college attainment in this community."
Leaders see the program as an opportunity for community collaboration and involvement, through mentoring, internships, volunteer opportunities, guest speakers and civic engagement. Pruitt and Booker said the district will look to business professionals, area colleges and other community groups to enhance and expand students' overall experience.
"One of the key components of the college will be the students level involvement in the community. We want to expose them to real world opportunities on a regular basis," Booker said. "We have an extremely supportive community, and this college will take that support to another level."


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Is this assuming every atheist is the same? I don't think I'm just like every other atheist any more than I was just like every other christian when I was a believer. Have I missed something? Is there a rulebook or a decoder ring to being a nonbeliever? Why can't people just relate to people as individuals. We both like Italian food - Yay. You like the Red Sox - Boo. I like Ozzy, You like the Beach Boys, Can we settle on Bon Jovi? You believe in something by faith but I need evidence - let's agree to disagree and go get some pizza.


text: Tragedy Strikes: In January 2001, George W. Bush became the first son of a president to serve in the White House since John Quincy Adams. Less than eight months later, on September 11, terrorists hijacked American passenger airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, killing nearly 3,000 people. President Bush sent troops to Afghanistan to track down members of al Qaeda, the group responsible for the attacks, and to overthrow the regime that harbored them. In 2002, the Bush administration announced that the United States would act to prevent future terrorist attacks by countries holding chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. U.S. troops entered Iraq the following year. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, but the weapons were never found. Fighting in Iraq continued to dominate Bush's presidency after his reelection in 2004. He maintained that "the success of a free Iraq is critical to the security of the United States."


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Cameras mounted INSIDE the starting gate on Preakness Day! [01:16]
Using a GoPro and several Keychain #11 cameras, I put them inside and around the starting gate.
Went the Day Well: Target Preakness [00:54]
Fair Hill, Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion talks about Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Went the Day Well, Motion's contender for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course, before his short trip to Baltimore on Wednesday.
Winning Team: Comments from Preakness-Winning Connections [01:22]
Winning trainer Doug O'Neill, jockey Mario Gutierrez, and owner J. Paul Reddam relive I'll Have Another's thrilling Preakness Stakes (G1) victory.
Fantasy Preakness Stakes [04:09]
Horse Racing Simulation, LLC in association with the NTRA and NBC Sports created a virtual simulation of the Preakness Stakes with 14 recent winners in head to head competition just before the running of the Preakness Stakes on the May 21, 2011. Here's the line up of these great horses along with the year they captured the Preakness. Lane 1 - Rachel Alexandra (2009) Lane 2 - Big Brown (2008) Lane 3 - Curlin (2007) Lane 4 - Bernardini (2006) Lane 5 - Afleet Alex (2005) Lane 6 - Smarty Jones (2004) Lane 7 - Funny Cide (2003) Lane 8 - War Emblem (2002) Lane 9 - Point Given (2001) Lane 10 - Red Bullet (2000) Lane 11 - Charismatic (1999) Lane 12 - Silver Charm (1997) Lane 13 - Louis Quatorze (1996) Lane 14 - Hansel (1991)
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Last Saturday afternoon at Pimlico following Spectacular Bid's 5�-length victory in the Preakness, one could almost hear the flapping of wings as the last of the colt's detractors took off for parts unknown. Bid ran his best race yet. By picking up first money of $165300, he pushed his bankroll over $1 million to become the youngest millionaire in racing history, and he ran the mile and [3/16]ths in 1:54[1/5], the second-fastest time in a race that is 104 years old. Appearing to toy with four opponents, Spectacular Bid rolled easily to the finish line to a tremendous ovation from his owners' neighbors in Baltimore, where this handsome gray colt has now become as much of a hero as Brooks Robinson, John Unitas and the blue crab. With the first two legs tucked away, Spectacular Bid must now be considered odds-on to become the third Triple Crown winner in the past three years. On June 9, he will try to complete the sweep in the Belmont Stakes. The main question about that race is how many opponents the New York Racing Association can muster to run against him. There won't be a bunch. An hour after the Preakness, LeRoy Jolley, the trainer of fifth-place finisher General Assembly, reflected on what he had witnessed. "There were times when I had doubts about Spectacular Bid," he said. "No more. My horse couldn't have beaten him if he had cut through the infield. I've had enough of running against Spectacular Bid for a while. So has the General. Spectacular Bid's Preakness was ...


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- High school students are getting a different kind of lesson in the classroom, after authorities look to spread awareness about a new dangerous drug they're seeing in Grand Valley schools.
Drug education is nothing new to students, but when there's urgency, sometimes the message becomes clearer.
"It's one thing when you hear, don't do this, don't do that," Central High School sophomore Blake Rogers said. "It was sort of shocking to know that it's starting to come about and that kids are actually using [this new drug]."
The Mesa County Sheriff's Office is working to spread awareness about a new synthetic drug after it was found in local schools, known as 25-i or N-Bome by its street names.
Dangerous because of its microgram dosages, it's already caused hundreds of overdoses and dozens of deaths across the country.
"The dosage is so small that it's very easy to overdose on," Mesa County Sheriff deputy Chad Williams said. "Let's get ahead of it and get the information out on it so kids are wise to what they're looking at."
Now for the first time in 12 years, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office is taking its message into the classroom.
"We exposed the whole student body basically today during one of their classes," Central High School counselor Misty Sellden said. Counselors and administrators went class to class showing a movie produced by the sheriff's office about the drug that discussed the dangers, risks and other information about the drug.
The hope is to make students more aware of the drug so they can make the smart decision should it ever cross their path.
"The immediacy of it is because of the strength of the drug and the potency and really having an awareness campaign with the students," Sellden said.
Though the video was shocking, some students are hopeful the message will be heard by their peers.
"Hopefully with this message going out, this is maybe going to influence kids to maybe not try it," Rogers said.
Others say it's already sparked discussions among students, raising new awareness on the dangers of N-Bome.
"I've had conversations with people now. Like I said, I went home and talked to my little brother about it, so I think it's spreading the awareness," Central High senior Lynzee Dwyer said.
For authorities, ultimately it's a message they want to get out before it becomes too late.
"You don't want to wait until some tragedy happens and then we have to go through the schools and talk about this," Williams said.
Authorities say the drug can also be purchased online which may give some the misconception that it's a legal drug. That is not the case, as it is still very much illegal in the eyes of law enforcement.


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Feb. 14, 2013 Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge paved the way on Thursday for federal authorities to seek the closure of a medical marijuana dispensary in California, dismissing a challenge by the city of Oakland to a federal crackdown targeting the facility, court papers showed.
But the executive director of the Harborside Health Center pledged that he would not close the Oakland outfit that bills itself as the world's largest medical pot dispensary and was featured in the Discovery Channel television series "Weed Wars."
Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James wrote in a 10-page ruling that a local U.S. attorney had successfully argued the federal government was immune from Oakland's lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act, which sets out how U.S. agencies develop and issue regulations.
California is one of 18 states which, in addition to the District of Columbia, allow medical marijuana. But the federal government holds the drug is illegal and liable to be abused.
A representative for the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California declined to comment on the ruling.
Oakland, in a novel lawsuit filed in October, sought to halt federal prosecutors' efforts to shutter Harborside. The dispensary was expected to generate an estimated $1.4 million in sales tax revenues for the city this year.


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7 Arrested in Linden Nightclub Brawl
Authorities say seven people were arrested and two police officers were assaulted when a melee broke out at a northern New Jersey nightclub last weekend.
Linden police went to the Dragonfly restaurant and nightclub around 2:10 a.m. Saturday after receiving reports of a large fight. They found an unruly crowd of about 200 people there, and several new fights soon broke out as officers tried to disperse the crowd with the assistance of police from several nearby towns.
Authorities say two officers were assaulted as the crowd was being dispersed, including a Linden officer who was taken to a hospital with a knee injury. He was later released.
Six of the seven people arrested face rioting charges, while two of them were charged with aggravated assault on a police officer.
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Laugh, my friends.
Laugh hard.
I laughed so hard at the first one.
The forklift is my favorite.
A couple weeks ago, I was at a bar called Pelican's Nest. The smoking tent is out front, so I'm out there eying up the 'bad girls', and there's this douche on a bike who's just revving the thing up for a good five minutes or so. When He finally got off to leave he was just l;ike that last jackass. The whole crowd erupted in laughter and applause. The guy did the only thing he could do, take a bow and try to leave. But he flooded out the thing and had to keep trying while a bunch of us hounded him unmercifully. He finally got it going, and I have to admit, gave every guy there a nice ice-breaker.
Good find, John. Keep up the good work and you'll be right up there with Dimitri.
A few are funny, many probably led to trips to the hospital. A few probably led to serious injuires hopefully no permanent deficits. Thanks for sharing the misfortunes of others. It is this kind of stupidity that keeps me employed.
I thought this thread would be about reading DWCs posts.
Bottom line is if you are going to build yourself a plywood and cinderblock ramp or such nonsense...I can't be emotionally invested in you after that point. I mean I hope you don't have any long term injuries, but some temporary pain might actually teach you a very valuable lesson. AMIRITE?
I cried. Oh, the pfailings of teh humanity.
I can all but guarantee that nobody on this website knows anybody on that video. Just laugh, and stop looking further into things.
Don't get me wrong. Most of those people found themslves in those situations due to their own stupidity. Stupid people don't know they're stupid. It is this law of nature that keeps me employed.


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BB never tried to hide what he was doing, the guy was decked from head to toe in Patriots gear, he never try to be secretive at all. If he thought it was so wrong, why would he be so upfront about it. He was not hiding anything he was doing at anytime, he was actually very out front about it. Explain to me why he would not even try and be a little bit deceptive about the practice.
Willie McGinest made the point: if they knew all of the incoming plays, doesn't it stand to reason the Pats would have blown those teams out? Why the need for heroic field goals when you've got all the plays? Were they just not that good at cheating? Did they cheat juuuuust enough to make it purposely close? Enlighten us.
"I understand Bill [Belichick] is a great coach," Faulk told Curran. "But No. 13 [Kurt Warner] will tell you ... Mike Martz will tell you ... We had some plays in the red zone that we hadn't ran. I think we got to fourth down -- we ran three plays that we hadn't ran, that Mike drew up for that game. Bill's a helluva coach we hadn't ran them the whole year [and the Patriots were ready for them]." And the only time that Rams practiced those plays? At the walkthrough.
I can't believe you guys still obsess over this stuff. Spygate was almost 6 years ago. The Super Bowl in question was 11 years ago.
The fact of the matter is that the Rams lost the Super Bowl because of the following reasons:
- The Pats smacked Bruce, Holt, and Faulk on every passing play and they didn't like to get hit. Back in 2001 rules, that was legal.
- Mike Martz inexplicably forgot that Marshall Faulk was actually a pretty good RB and only ran him 17 times.
The Pats did what they did for most of the early 2000s. They were a hard hitting defense that beat up on finesse offenses like the Greatest Show on Turf. They beat up the Colts' offense the same way for the first half of last decade until the core of the Pats' defense got old or moved on.
Faulk is just a bitter man who can't accept that even though they had what they thought was a great game plan, the Pats just had a better one. It didn't take cheating for the Pats to assign Willie McGinest to follow Faulk and smack him on every play whether he got the ball or not.
As for the Spygate stuff. I ain't touching that anymore and leave it to Illuminati cabala of Bigfoot, Loch Ness, and the gunman in the grass knoll in their lair at Area 51 to break down some of these conspiracy theories propagated on this board.
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4. Take a big steamy dump. I'm as regular as the German train system.
5. profit? If your meaning is that I make as much $$ while doing #4 than many here do in a week, you'd be correct.
It seems to me the Pats' gameplan was perfect to counter anything that the Rams wanted to run. Again hitting Faulk on every down took no cheating whatsoever to come up with.
I don't get why Jets fans think 18-1 is such an insult since that would be the best season the Jets have had since before man walked on the moon.
Why not just state the Pats suck, but just not as bad as the Jets.
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Also the 18 wins happened post spygate.