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Saying there are differences between races isn't being a racist, it's pointing out the obvious. Of course there are differences between races! Pointing out statistical differences isn't racist either.

What is racist, though, is using those differences as reasoning for hate or contempt.

It's kinda stupid really. We try so hard to assist interracial relations, but it seems like every race embraces their own differences, but when other races want to learn about or participate in or discuss those differences, they're shunned.

That coupled with the broadening of racism to include people that just discuss racial differences, and it's no wonder we still have interracial issues today.

At 1/21/06 08:54 AM, mackid wrote:

At 1/21/06 07:31 AM, Noob-Antichrist wrote: if a little girl is protecting Osama Bin laden, it doesnt matter whether she dies as long as Osama Bin Laden dies - a decent yet flawed saying from me

But the US government, the Israeli government or any rational government, would make a concerted effort to kill Osama with no more physical damage to the girl than a bit of blood and brains on her shoulder.

No, not only should the US consider the effects on the people around the target, but it should also consider how effective that method would be, and the chances of failure of that method.

If you can kill Osama, and just Osama with one weapon, but that weapon only has a 75% chance of killing him, or if you can kill Osama, but possibly kill or injure others in the cave he's hiding in, but the weapon has a 99.5% chance of killing him, I would go with the one with the 99.5% chance.

Moreover, you might kill the little girl, but by taking Osama out now, rather than waiting for other opportunities, you might save more lives.

No, vigilante justice is and should be a crime. Criminals should receive fair and impartial judgement through a court of law.

However, I wouldn't have any problem with people who take it upon themselves to take out a known, wanted criminal who has already been convicted, yet not served his full sentence (either through technicalities or prison escape) possibly receiving a somewhat lighter sentence than someone who just shoots a person out of the blue.

At 1/20/06 08:25 PM, BeFell wrote: That's just stupid, hospitals will kick you out on your ass. Pay the 45 bucks a month for the cheapest Blue Cross. Sure you can't afford the $5000 dollar deductable but the emergancy room staff doesn't know that.

Gee whiz, I only pay about $20 a month for a $1000 deductible plan through Wal*Mart. Plus you get three free office visits and prescriptions before you even start paying towards your deductible under the plan. And people talk about how bad Wal*Mart's health coverage is?

At 1/20/06 05:57 PM, someoneudontknow1 wrote: Id say hillary or kerry for the dems, condi rice for the gop. Ugh, thats a scary thought, darth condi in power...

Condi Rice, when suggested by Laura Bush earlier that she should be the next Republican presidential candidate, called Bush's comments flattering, but insists she has no desire to be president.

Of course, Hillary Clinton has said on numerous occasions she's not going to run for president. Of course, she has been giving indications otherwise.

Might it be possible Hillary could position herself as a decoy and target of Republican debate and dismissal, allowing the actual candidate to skate by relatively unscathed until after the primaries?

Tom Fulp has the ability to reproduce by asexual reproduction. Of course, he never needs to, due to his harem of 1,283 gorgeous Scandinavian contortionists.

Tom Fulp doesn't fart, he sonic booms.

Tom Fulp's so tough, he escaped to Alcatraz.

Tom Fulp can draw a perfect circle on an Etch A Sketch.

Tom Fulp's chewing gum does not lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight.

Tom Fulp made the mistake of wearing golf cleats to a speed skating match. He ended up only winning by a furlong.

Tom Fulp knows how every magic trick is done, except for pulling a quarter out of a person's ear. A magician pulled a quarter out of Tom's ear once, and Tom responded by pulling several crisp $50 bills from his left nostril.

Hi, I'm YoinK.

At 1/20/06 12:12 AM, red_skunk wrote: I must say illustrious, I'm not very impressed with the bit that you can preview. I think I might just take my eight bucks elsewhere.

That's okay, the full PDF's here:

http://home.comcast...gatwister/220552.pdf

The book thing's just for laughs, I could just see some gullible person spending 8 bucks on what amounts to a bunch of old posts copy and pasted into MSword.

Though the cover art kicks ass. The full, 300dpi 6x9" images are astounding. The front cover took 6 minutes to render.

PS. Your blog stinks.

Of that I'm fully aware.

Few people realize that Angelina's graceful moves in Tomb Raider came through years of ballet training.

At 1/19/06 11:41 PM, -Michael- wrote: do you have a blog that i can add to my site. actually, a more broad question

Yes, I do. But it's nothing you'd want to add on your site.

http://i11u57ri0u5.livejournal.com/

It's been exactly 1 year, 1 day, and 2 hours since I've updated it.

At 1/19/06 07:26 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: Hey, that gives me an idea.

Idea Manifested.

Heh heh heh!

At 1/19/06 09:46 PM, Elfer wrote: Anyway, the point is, it doesn't matter, because nobody likes listening to those cunts anyway.

Not all valedictorians give speeches at their graduation ceremonies, ours didn't. Even for the ones who do give speeches, there's more to the honor than just that.

At 1/19/06 01:57 PM, -Michael- wrote: I have:
Justice of Sarcasm (His new post on his blog has taken up 2/4 of the news page :( )

Four words:

Tee Ell Dee Arr

My god, that's a lot of text. 11 pages in MSWord.
30000+ characters! V Pic V

Hey, that gives me an idea.

At 1/19/06 07:11 PM, theabominablematt wrote: I'm past the whole mindless devotion to Chuk ever since he used a public statement about the fact generator to pimp out his new book.

So I'm going with the correct answer of Clint Eastwood.

Except Clint Eastwood doesn't even have a fact generator to use to pimp out, nor does he even have a book.

Clint Eastwood is close, but he's like the Beta version of Chuck Norris. Great, but not as great as the production model.

At 1/19/06 07:04 PM, TehChahlesh wrote: No, people are too ignorant. I think there should be a civics test before you're allowed to vote and you need to pay taxes(provided you have the capability). Anyone who see's this as a bad thing obviously does not know politics or does not pay taxes.

Heh heh heh, way ahead of you, buddy.

(Gah! It's been nearly 2 years!)

At 1/19/06 06:46 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: Not every town has communtiy sports teams. For example, once you hit 9th grade, all town sports have been shut off from you.

Of course they are, because of high school teams. If taxpayers didn't have to spend money on school sports teams, there would be a much larger demand for teen leagues.

Anyways, it's not the same amount of work, competion, reward and memory.

But the purpose of high school isn't to provide you with memories. It's supposed to be there to educate you. That's one of the biggest problems in the school system today, there is too much emphasis on sports, and other activities, and not enough on education. Kids don't need to be in football class, they need to be in math, or reading. Kids don't need to be losing class periods to pep rallies, spirit rallies, club meetings, etc. If they are going to be extracirricular activities, then they need to stay out of the education time at school. Period.

:: But anyways, this isn't about sports. This is about rankings.

And the most relevant and important rankings should be academic rankings, not sports rankings, because the academic rankings count. Your high SAT, your high GPA, being a valedictorian should be much more important than anything you do in student council, in football, etc, because school is there for the express purpose of academic study and (ostensibly) success.

Yet the topic at hand, and what we're boiling back down to, is this Florida county eliminating one of the most important rankings. Yet, while they do this, they have no problem continuing student council elections, football stats, etc.

This means that Pinellas Co. doesn't place enough weight on academic success, and/or feels that "self-esteem" is more important than academic success.

At 1/19/06 06:25 PM, fenrus1989 wrote:

At 1/19/06 06:07 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote:

At 1/19/06 05:49 PM, fenrus1989 wrote:

I said irrelevant, not useless. There's a difference. Sports have plenty of uses. They promote fitness, teamwork, cooperation, and boost pride. However, they're irrelevant unless you are going to be a pro athlete. Even then, there's nothing high school sports can provide that community and local youth and teen leagues can't.

Other then the above wich you mentioned, pride in something, memories from highschool that aren't about grades.

It isn't possible to have pride and fond memories of you playing on a local or community sports team?

After all, when you got a job, which did your employer consider more, your grades, or the fact that you played sports?

But sports look good, with grades on college applications.

As does any other extracirricular or community activity. However, unless you're good enough to be offered a sports scholarship, your participation in school sports isn't going to have that much of an effect on your chances of getting into college, and it definitely won't matter when you graduate from college.

At 1/19/06 06:17 PM, red_skunk wrote: That's odd, illustrious, you'd figure that the VP would have a better chance as de facto incumbent. Prolly has something to do with the fact that, after eight years of one president (supposing things were great then (warranting two terms)), the economy would be in a downturn. Or something. Hum.

That, and plus, you just have to change the sheets every once in a while. Sometimes, one candidate can be more charming and influential (like Kennedy) which will give him an advantage over the VP. Of course, some VP's run 4 years after their term ended, which is a guaranteed disaster. The VP isn't a very high profile position, and it's definitely not after being out of it for four years. The only possible exception to this is Nixon. (His disaster was of other causes.)

Another odd thing is all 5 incumbent Presidents this past century who have lost their reelection bid have lost it to a governor. Bush I, Carter, Ford, Hoover, Taft--all lost to governors. That really says something about how shoddy those presidents were that, though being nationally known, lost to someone known mainly in one state. You would think that other national figures, such as high ranking Congress members, former VP's, etc, would be more apt to beat an incumbent president, as they have more of a national presence.

By the way, for the list of state governors, mackid:

http://en.wikipedia...U.S._state_governors

It should be noted, however, that most of these seats are up for (re)election this year.

At 1/19/06 05:49 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: We're living in a PC world, were no one can be offended or made to feel inferior.

But excuse me, useless high school sports. You try playing three sports a year and still balancing off accelerated and AP classes with a job.

I said irrelevant, not useless. There's a difference. Sports have plenty of uses. They promote fitness, teamwork, cooperation, and boost pride. However, they're irrelevant unless you are going to be a pro athlete. Even then, there's nothing high school sports can provide that community and local youth and teen leagues can't.

After all, when you got a job, which did your employer consider more, your grades, or the fact that you played sports?

At 1/19/06 04:16 PM, Proteas wrote: If this really worries you, then I've got a simple solution then; DON'T USE GOOGLE. Use Dogpile, Yahoo! search, Webcrawler or something else.

Or don't use your computer. Use a friends, or a web cafe, or free wireless hot spots.

You shouldn't share any real, confidential information through email anyway. It has the potential to be read by others, be it the federal government, your ISP, hackers, etc.

History tells us that people that were most recently governors tend to do better than former vice presidents, who in turn tend to do better than Congressmen:

2004, 2000: W. Bush, Gov. TX (Over Kerry, Sen. MA, and Gore, VP)
1996, 1992: Clinton, Gov. AR (Over Dole, Sen. KS, and Bush, VP)
1988: H.W. Bush, VP under Reagan (Over Dukakis, Gov. MA)
1984, 1980: Reagan, Gov. CA (Over Mondale, VP under Carter, and Carter)
1976: Carter, Gov. GA (Over Ford, unelected Pres. and VP)
1972, 1968: Nixon, VP under Eisenhower (Over McGovern, Sen. SD, and Humphrey, VP under LBJ)
1964: Johnson, VP under Kennedy (Over Goldwater, Sen. AZ)
1960: Kennedy, Sen. MA (Over Nixon, VP under Eisenhower)
1956, 1952, Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff (Over Stevenson, Gov. Ill.)

Final tally, in the past 14 elections, people who were most recently governors before becoming Pres. won the election 7 of those times, and lost the election 4 times, of which 1 was to another former governor (Carter losing to Reagan).

The people who were most recently VP won the electon 4 times, and lost it 6 times, 4 to governors, and once each to another VP and Senator.

The people who were most recently Senators have only 1 one election, (over a VP), and have lost the election 4 times, twice each to a governor and VP.

Nobody coming directly from the House of Representatives has had a presidential nomination in 50 years.

Looking back further in a less detailed look:
1948: Truman, VP under FDR
1944, 1940, 1936, 1932: FDR, Gov. NY
1928: Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, under Harding and Coolidge
1924: Coolidge, VP (before, Gov. VT)
1920: Harding, Sen. OH
1916, 1912: Wilson, Gov. NJ
1908: Taft, Sec. of War and Gov. of Cuba, under Roosevelt
1904: T. Roosevelt, Gov., NY
1900, 1896: McKinley, Gov. OH
1892, 1884: Cleveland, Gov. NY
1888: B. Harrison, Sen. IN
1880: Garfield, Sen. -Elect, OH
1876: Hayes, Gov. OH
1872, 1868: Grant, General
1864, 1860: Lincoln, Rep. IL
1856: Buchanan, Minister to Britain

4 Senators elected to President in 150 years. And only one person from the House--Lincoln.

When you think about it, though, it's not that unusual. After all, governors and vice presidents have executive branch experience, be it at the state or federal level. Senators and representatives don't, unless they were former governors or vice presidents.

To me, the best bet for the parties would be to pick a governor from one of that party's largest states, with somewhat moderate, but not completely centrist, policies.

I'm not sure how Hillary Clinton would fit into this, because, though she is a Senator, she is also the former first lady. So if she runs, we'll know what to expect should (God forbid) say, Laura Bush decide to run for president in 2016.

Simple! CC a copy of every e-mail you send, and forward a copy of every e-mail you receive to your Senators' and Representative's office. They want to know what you're doing, so indulge their curiosity! I'm sure they would like to learn more on how to lose weight (67% of Congress is overweight), how to make $14 million in campaign contributions (all they have to do is speak to PRINCE ABUDLALA of NIGERIA), and add inches to their penis size (the average length of a Congressman's penis is a scant 2.2")
I'm sure they'd be thrilled seeing all 482 pictures of your Aunt Maud's cat she sent you, and that email Re: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Amazing Story! about the girl born blind and deaf without limbs who perservered and became the gold medal figure skater and Princess of Leichtenstein.

http://www.tampabays..e.aspx?storyid=23996

St Petersburg, Florida - High achieving students often have that top honor in sight, valedictorian of their senior class.

Connie Boyle, Guidance Counselor:
"Some of the students are separated by a fraction, fraction of a percentage point, fraction of thousandth percentage point. How fair is that?"

Ugh. This disgusts me. As salutatorian myself of my senior class, I know how much hard work it takes and what an honor it is to be one of these. I also know what it's like miss valedictorian by just a fraction of a percentage point.

How fair is that? It's completely fair! I took one less AP course than the valedictorian, I ended up with a GPA of 4.375, hers was 4.378. She worked that little bit harder than I did, and got that extra .003 GPA. She deserved it. But according to Connie Boyle, that wasn't fair.

I don't get it. The salutatorian and valedictorian positions are one of the few awards and accomplishments you get in high school for being the best at what you go to school to do, to learn, rather than being popular or playing irrelevant high school sports.

You know what though? Why stop at getting rid of the valedictorian? Let's get rid of grades, too. After all, a small point, or even 1 question can make the difference between passing and failing. And let's get rid of passing and failing too, because it's not fair that some of us are more motivated than the motivation-impaired. Oh, and get rid of the score at games too, because games can be decided by inches. What's important is that we all get recognized for our participation, even if we did fumble the ball 5 times, strike out at 43 consecutive at-bats, or go 0/20 from the free throw line.

After all, if we're going to turn into a nation of lily-livered wusses who, instead of using failure as a motivation to improve and try harder, use it as a proxy for actual success on the grounds that we were just "unlucky" , we might as well go all out instead of half-assed doing it.

At 1/19/06 03:08 PM, -Michael- wrote: Unfortunately, our administration fights war like the terrorists do, more deaths, less negotiations. I mean, what's wrong, at least sit down at the table with them instead of being a romantic.

I really don't see the point in sitting down with a group of people who have already committed several major terror attacks, killing thousands of people, and who, in the very same statement, are threating more attacks against us, and wager our nation's security on these guys' word. "Oh, we promise we won't do any more attacks!"

At 1/19/06 12:40 PM, crankytoad wrote: I’m 13 as well and it affects everyone. If all our mummies and daddies can’t buy us an Xbox 360 because 17½% of what they buy and 40% of what they earn is going to Blair’s back pocket people are going to be annoyed whether they pay it or not

You mean the UK has an income tax of 40% and a sales tax of 17.5%?!?

Yes, let's negotiate a truce and leave Al-Qaida alone. That way, they can go about planning, without interruption, future attacks on the U.S.

If there's any group we can trust to uphold a truce, Al-Qaida would have to be it.

</sarcasm>

At 1/18/06 07:01 PM, red_skunk wrote: And I wasn't aware that the "choice not to vote" was a very meaningful one, or one even covered in, say, the constitution. And if you didn't like the choices on the ballet, you can always write in fictional cartoon characters.

Or cast an empty ballot. Which if, you disagree with all the choices on the ballot, speaks more about your disagreement than it would if you just stayed at home and didn't vote at all. If 25% of the people disagreed with the choices, and cast an empty ballot, politicians would listen more to them than they would if they just sat at home refraining from voting, and end up being lumped in with apathetic people.

I'm not sure it would really benefit the US, though. People may be obligated to vote, but that doesn't necessarily translate into an obligation to be informed. Voting is a civic duty to me only when you go to the polls with an understanding of the issues and candidates, and vote based on the understanding and research you have done. There's no way to make informed voting compulsory, so it would have minimal effect on the number of people fulfilling their civic duty by making informed votes. Just increasing the number of voters doesn't make the process any better, or make the resulting laws or candidates any better. Nor does it make the people that didn't care before suddenly care.

At 1/18/06 06:01 PM, SheffieldWednesday wrote: The Goverment are saying that they are gonna build schools but i have a few questions
1.where is the money comming from? schools aint free
2. Maintinence! we dont want another health scare happening? and where are we gonna fund it from?
3. sercurity it takes a lot of sercurity to make a school safe from attack wheres that cash coming from?

You could apply the same logic to anything the government builds. Schools, clinics, police, firefighters, they cost money. Objecting to something just because it costs money isn't a valid objection, because everything has a cost. If you want to object to the cost of a nuclear power plant, then contrast it to other methods that are cheaper, require less maintainance, and pose less of a security threat.

How do you have two Microsoft XP's on your computer at once? If you reinstalled, it should have just overwritten the existing files and not taken up any more space. Do you have two different folders, each with all the Windows files?

http://www.cnn.com/2..plants.ap/index.html

This is absurd. The lady becomes the first to receive a face transplant. A medical marvel. Amazing. Astounding. What does she do with it?

Goes back to smoking cigarettes. Not only is this bad for her health of course, but it makes it more likely her transplant will have trouble healing and increases the risk that her body will reject it.

A wonder of medical science, and it's wasted on someone who doesn't even care enough about it to stop smoking cancer sticks.

Maybe she's trying to be the first face and lung transplant recipient. Who knows.

I wonder if there's any way to revert the surgery, and donate the transplant to another, more appreciative patient?