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Post by Brendan Anderson on Apr 27, 2010 20:05:33 GMT -8
I do believe this is a decade-in-the-making internet first - the revealing of Hook's true face! ...or is it? Wait...are you just trying to distract me from the fact that you're agreeing with me? I'm glad you had a chance to read the bill. I wish the protesters surrounding the Capitol building would take the time to do the same...oh wait, they're too busy skipping school and getting their face on TV. Sorry...my mistake... -Brendan p.s. I can't believe you're showing your face, dude. S*** just got real up in here, yo...
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Post by Hook on Apr 27, 2010 22:19:03 GMT -8
I like that screenshot because of the bad lighting. It looks like I have stubble and that implies I could grow a beard and have the copious amounts of testosterone to achieve that. I don't.
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Post by Brendan Anderson on Apr 28, 2010 15:27:57 GMT -8
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Post by Chris Tilton on May 1, 2010 14:35:06 GMT -8
Brendan, can you shed some light on the whole education debate going on right now in AZ?
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on May 1, 2010 18:32:42 GMT -8
the AZ State Legislature decided to empower local law-enforcement to have the ability to detain/arrest someone if it was discovered among their usual course of investigation/law-enforcement that someone was illegal. I read the KOBACH article. It seems like this law doesn't change anything. Is that correct? If an "illegal" commits a crime, then local law-enforcement, have the ability to detain/arrest them, and, like previously, the illegal individual risks deportation... I'm not familiar with Arizona laws, but how does the new law deal with the "enforcement" issue? Ha! "Buckle Up, it's the law." In NJ, and a lot of other Eastern states, an officer can pull you over and give you a hefty ticket if you, or any of your passengers, don't have a seat beat on. I guess a better analogy would be drinking and driving. If there's reasonable suspicion, then an officer can pull you over, but he just can't stop your car, pull you over, and sniff around and search for alcohol. Actually, I have seen law enforcement do sobriety checkpoints, so this is kind of a bad example. Do, they do those in Arizona? Oh, drugs, a drug analogy would work. I guess it depends what state your in, but it seems like an officer can pull you over anything... No, the Phoenix police will be stalking them until they commit a traffic offense. ;D But all kidding aside, ah man, Al Sharpton in Arizona? Does anyone have any footage of this? I guess this will have to hold me over! www.hulu.com/watch/5015/in-living-color-al-sharptons-hunger-strike-Carlton PS: I don't follow how the "new" law will reduce the likelihood of racial profiling.
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on May 3, 2010 17:34:02 GMT -8
I like that screenshot because of the bad lighting. It looks like I have stubble and that implies I could grow a beard and have the copious amounts of testosterone to achieve that. I don't. Cool eyes!
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Post by Hook on May 18, 2010 14:55:21 GMT -8
I know I sound like a broken record, but this place seems dead, anyway. After being drunk on meds from the hospital (I was in on Wednesday and, by that very same week's Thursday, I had a CT scan, an ultrasound, and some X rays done... scary stuff for an American to contemplate, amirrite? All that low cost, efficiency? Socialism?) and forgetting a few things, I come across this and it's real: [Female Pitbull's (aka Bitch)(Hockey Mom)] daughter is getting $30 grand for giving speeches about her pregnancy mistake. Check it: voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/05/bristol_palin_to_hit_the_paid.html I'm sure this will be defended somehow, because no one's thinking about the poor kid. Reason I post it is because of this comment on Reddit: "Mommy, was I a mistake?" "No! Of course not, honey. Where'd you get that idea?" "The many speeches you gave about how I was." Oh, and the nurses were beautiful. Scary shit, America.
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Post by Hook on May 26, 2010 10:25:21 GMT -8
Humans, ladies and gentlemen (video is going to mess up your mind, be warned, it is NSFL):
I don't like my species.
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Post by Hook on May 31, 2010 14:04:03 GMT -8
Israel That is all. ... Ok, ok... the Israeli government. edit: WTF? This: www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896796,00.html If I didn't know any better, I'd confuse this "report" for the state-run media propaganda that comes out of North Korea.
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Post by Brendan Anderson on May 31, 2010 15:08:03 GMT -8
Israel That is all. Ok, ok... the Israeli government. edit: WTF? The reporting on all sides of this reeks of wag-the-dog, and it seems both sides screwed themselves. You have a group of 'peace activists' on boats to render aid, knowingly sailing head-first into an established Israel blockade, who also happen to have knives and clubs at the ready along with plenty of video cameras (update: and an al-jazeera reporter...how convenient) to capture the whole thing (some videos I've seen, the yelling is in English...do you think someone is trying to reach a specific international audience here?). Meanwhile, you have Israel's navy sending in a pitifully small squad of troops into an unknown situation in order to "take the bridge" of the ship and force it to stop - a strange move for a country known for using relatively strong showings of force. None of it adds up, and both sides have been frighteningly fast to get their PR machines into gear. I'm surprised it's taken activists this long to realize how easy it is to send U.S. media (and other world media outlets) into a frenzy of speculation that works to their favor. The best part, of course, is that we still have no freaking idea what actually was going on here. Thanks news media. Bang up job once again... -Brendan, who is obviously making the answer to this entire "What the Hell is Wrong With the World" thread: the news media.
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Post by Hook on Jun 2, 2010 11:11:40 GMT -8
Nope, sorry, but this is Israel's wrongdoing. Their blockade is immoral, some would say illegal, but it's definitely a sort of depravity against one specific group of people. Call the "peace activists" whatever you want, but you seem to be forgetting you guys gave a ton of aid to Germany just 3 years after WW2, you know, where they acted like really big dicks?
I purposefully avoided American "news". I watched footage from the boat translated by helpful (and shocked) Turkish members from several internet communities. At worst, Israeli military followed a Turkish boat loaded with aid on international waters, asked them to stop, shot them before boarding them, killing at least 1, injuring who knows how many more, then confronted the crew in the midst of chaos where many were scared for their lives (make fun of them by adding quotes to "peace activists", but if you don't fight back when you have no idea what's going on around except that your life, like that other guy's who was just shot to death, is at stake and you don't fight back, then you're both a pussy and not human), injured many more, including themselves, as they also tried to bring down the boat's communications dish.
At best, the boat did break the law (I read the portions Israel claims it did and the only one that sort of makes sense is that this particular boat didn't come from a "pre-approved" aid organization like the Red Cross) by showing their intent to violate the blockade and the IDF fucked up and behaved in a very mediocre fashion.
Both instances are completely unacceptable as they resulted in human casualties and the intent of the operation was to further bully the world and, forgive the pun, test the waters to see what else this oppressive government can get away with. That is Israel's responsibility. Mock the activists, let them identify themselves as "Hugga-huggy Love Teddy Bears", their mission was a peaceful one.
I don't much care for American or Israeli propaganda. This was wrong. Period.
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Post by Hook on Jun 3, 2010 16:52:06 GMT -8
I've got to be fair, though, and say the people on this flotilla appear to be mentally challenged or part of a crazy cult. Yes, now I'm making fun of them, you might say, but I'm not. I'm insulting them. There's nothing funny about this: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10206802.stm"Yes, we took their guns. It would be self-defence even if we fired their guns. We told our friends on board: 'We will die, become martyrs, but never let us be shown... as the ones who used guns'. By this decision, our friends accepted death, and we threw all the guns we took from them into the sea." W.T.F? This matter just gets weirder and weirder. Yeah, you know, maybe, perhaps, you guys should have polled other people on the ship whether they were ok with the whole martyr complex and the attacking trained Navy SEALs bit of your act? Corroborate whether they were cool with it? Y'know, I'm being harsh. That crazy lady brought her baby on, you knew your audience. Now, seriously, I can't imagined a more f-ed up catastro... www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html#photo1Oh, right. Never mind, let's move on. “This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a natural phenomenon. Oil has seeped into this ocean for centuries, will continue to do it. We will lose some birds, we will lose some fixed sealife, but overall it will recover.” -Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) Dammit! edit: Ok, I give up. I am totally lost. Look at: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/06/21_miles_off_the_coast_of_pale.html ಠ_ಠ This is like the most terrible attempt made by a film producer to cash in on The Terminator franchise's success by completely missing the point of why the films are fun in the first place and adding the revised history and time travel paradoxes to real world politics and the fact that it makes me think of something like that is just weird.
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Post by Hook on Jul 3, 2010 21:53:52 GMT -8
Uh... my country is like, uh, being invaded by the U.S. Sorta. In December of 2009, our legislators authorized the U.S. government to use our shores as "parking lots" for various National Guard ships and a couple of MH-65Cs. That's not exactly right though, those are the ships that have arrived so far. The legislature greenlit the arrival of the USS Makin Island, an amphibious assault ship, not to mention the potential deployment of 7.000 marines, some Blackhawks, several other planes and ships, and AV-8B Harriers. Look at that last one: Trust me when I say this isn't some convoluted and misrepresented conspiracy theory. It's real. They're there and more are coming this way. The pretense? Toughen the "war on drugs". You know, lay a couple of eyes here and there. I don't know what the real deal is. I don't think you need an aircraft carrier to handle regular, Colombian boats full of coke. But whatever. Because my country is and has always been pussy-whipped by the U.S. my fear is not what kind of assault will come to us from our compliance with the military by the military, but the repercussions from other countries from whatever actions they take and our complete willingness to allow it. Whatever. tl;drIf you see a Central/South American country getting their ass handed to them by American forces, you now know where they came from. edit: Don't get me wrong, I agree with what some guy on a website says: "My guess is that the government is secretly terrified it is losing control of the security situation. They probably should be. "A proportionally very large amount of cocaine is busted in Costa Rica every year, and the country has become something of a bodega for Mexican and Colombian drug smugglers, what with its good infrastructure, weak judicial system, ill-equipped police force, long coastlines, remote beaches, terrible immigration enforcement, and ample opportunities for laundering money through real estate transactions and layers of shell corporations." I don't know what going all Maverick and Goose on our skies is going to do in helping change the increasing drug problem, but if you guys are serious about this, you better be in it for the long run. Yes, I fear the cartels and you better bomb the crap out of them if terrorism enters our borders. Mexico and Colombia have long been lost to the power drug "businessmen" yield and I don't want that happening here. On the other hand, I sincerely believe all that crap should be legalized and there, be done with it, tax it, the hell with the junkies, but for now: marines, don't screw us over.
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Post by Hook on Oct 8, 2010 18:10:26 GMT -8
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