11,660 Forum Posts by "MortifiedPenguins"
At 5/14/08 12:16 AM, JoS wrote:At 5/13/08 08:59 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
We arent talking about standards that work for one state but do not work for another. We are talking about criminal law. Explain how a unified criminal code would not work? How different is Maine and California that something should be legal in one state but not legal in the other. Is California somehow so fundamentally different then the rest of the country that they need to have their own penal code? You all have basically the same background, prodiminatly Christian. This isn't fucking Lebanon (which has a unified penal code if I am not mistaken).
Because as we have seen, Lebanon is at the top of the fuckign world right now. Simply put, I"m a residence of one state. I vote for that states legislature, I vote for that states Governor and I pay taxes to that state. I expect laws to be accustomed to the residents of this state and not have someone from another state write them.
Also explain to me how the federal government creating the penal code for the country makes them bloated and incompentent? Its just a law, it doesn't mean they are going to have to enforce the laws themselves. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies will merely carry out the United States Penal Code, rather than the state penal codes. I Serioulsy see very little groudns on which you have based these assumptions.
I can't expect my government to due my taxes right, how can I expect them to write laws that I have no control over?
I mean, I'm letting people that I didn't vote for decide the crime the punishment and the nature of the crime. Last time I checked we lived in States in a Union, not just a fucking union you dip.
No, then you get fucked up discrepancies. In one state the crime may not even be illegal, while in another you could get life. Example, sodomy laws pre-Lawernce. Idaho 5-life, Michigan 15 years max life for repeat offense, Oklahoma 10 years just to name a few. At the same time most states had no laws still on the books about sodomy.
Could it be that thats what those residents of the states wanted?
I understand your hesitancy of allowing people to have a say in government but eh gad mate.
I woul rather live in a place where I can elect the people that write my laws, not have someone from Kentucky to do so. Regardless, why the fuck do you care? You don't even live here?
At 5/13/08 08:23 PM, JoS wrote: I am saying only the federal government should enact criminal law. While some things are covered now under federal law (drugs, tax evasion etc) most things that do not cross state lines are responsibility of the state, not federal government. I think criminal code should be the sole jurisdiction of the federal government.
Why?
Why make a Federal government even more bloated and incompetent.
We are a Federalist government and power is shared to local state legislatures that have rights to make thier own laws as long as they dont' transgress the Federal ones. The Federal government can't make a comprehensive set of laws that can meet the standards for some states such as California, and then enforce those very same laws on Maine.
It's simply an easier method to lay the power to make local and regional laws to the people of that region.
At 5/13/08 06:21 PM, JoS wrote:
I think criminal law should be federally done so that its equal and fair across a country.
There is for all federal laws due to the incorporation clause in the fourteenth amendment of the United States.
But States can still have there own laws (as long as they don't infringe on Federal laws) and are able to prosecute them in thier state.
At 5/12/08 11:57 PM, Imperator wrote:
They've got oil there, right?
No, just rice.
At 5/12/08 11:25 PM, Cuppa-LettuceNog wrote:At 3/16/08 09:45 AM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
We're talking 200+ years in a nation founded on the ideals of these men, who's laws all stem by a document written by these men, and which constantly asks itself "would these men approve?", these men who fought and gave their lives for the ideal of "No Taxation without Representation".
So why didn't they write it into the constitution then?
I mean, if they gave thier lives for it, why didn't they? They put in other ideas that they gave thier lives for; a weak central government, a representitive government, rights and powers to the people, why didn't they add it if it was such a big deal.
Regardless, your not even arguing law anymore on a debate on taxation and the powers of legislation. Your bringing up things that have no legal basis and expecting us and the government to now give them legal grounding because you would like to.
If your subject to going on emoitions in a legal debate, you need to change your defense.
At 5/12/08 02:29 PM, BeFell wrote: I graduated!... Again!
You still have a baby face.
Not that thats creepy or anything.
At 5/11/08 10:33 PM, Proteas wrote:At 5/11/08 10:20 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: just No Doz and Bacardi Watermellon Vodka.Studies have shown that the combination of a depressant such as alcohol and stimulants like caffiene can do heart damage if done over long periods of time.
So... blegh, nevermind.
Eh..
The alchohol is new in this combination. I've been supercharging my body with caffenine for ages.
I mean, it's not drugs in essence.
I have this spurts every so often: philosophical ones, questioning ones.
It just happens
At 5/11/08 10:06 PM, stafffighter wrote:At 5/11/08 09:46 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
How high are you?
No drugs just No Doz and Bacardi Watermellon Vodka.
Alright, this just came to me.
Give it a minute.
Life is made up of all these small bits of small talk, pointless exchanges on the weather, asking how the person giving you your coffee is doing and all of that. We've been brought up to think that such an ideas are good, full of common decensy and nice thoughts and happy emoitions.
But why do we lie like this. Why do we surrond ourselves by pointelss thoughts, empy talks and meaningless conversations. Why do we not direct what is truley going on instead of acting.
These Acts, that we all participate in have become us. We act when we go to work, the gym or anything. We never let who we are out and instead put up a facade instead.
This brings to mind then, if all of life is composes of these acts and facades then couldn't life itself be a act or a facade and just a compisation of all of this?
Alright no more genetics for you people, I don't want to learn any more biology.
Simply put, there Greek. We can ignore them and no on will care.
At 5/10/08 10:15 PM, SevenSeize wrote:At 5/10/08 09:37 PM, Malachy wrote: damnit, I sent that message to you instead of Proteas?! :xI really enjoy the picture messages you always "accidentally" send me.
Yeah, I've been wanting to bring those up.
You keep forwarding them to me.
I've seen some things in those pictures that would make....Befeel cry.
So many bears.
At 5/9/08 11:19 PM, thefellid wrote: Wow don't write Sappho off as just a horny poet...
Her works are an important piece of history. She is one of the few extant female ancient sources and she is one of the first lesbians to talk about her sexuality.
She was a porn writer.
Regardless there Greeks, they haven't had any importance on the world scale since Alexander.
We've been using GM plants for generations upon generations.
One could argue that by selecting better seeds and grains and thus steering crops through evolutionary phases to get higher yealds, that it's already been going on.
This is just a new advanced procedure for a system that we've been doing since the foundation of Agriculture.
At 5/9/08 01:17 PM, Grammer wrote:At 5/9/08 11:21 AM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: International friendships are based on necessity and oppurtunity not how nice a country is.Doesn't that seem like making a deal with the Devil?
Sometimes the Devil is beneficial to have as a friend for a time.
At 5/9/08 10:49 AM, ThePretenders wrote:
This was unsurprising for a backward and brutal country. The fact that we consider them our ally is disgusting. We should have bombed the tyrannical monarchial state of Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq.
Why, there usefull to us.
And as long as they stay usefull, they should be our friends.
International friendships are based on necessity and oppurtunity not how nice a country is.
At 5/9/08 02:16 AM, fli wrote:At 5/8/08 09:04 PM, Christopherr wrote:
If Chaucer, and perhaps even Shakespeare, are using grammar that is supposedly bad-- what recourse do we have???
We can go back in time and kill them, thus meaning I would never have to read Canteburry Tales and thus fixing all these problems.
One man's terrorist is anothers freedom fighter I guess
People starve all the time, whats so new about this.
This is great business for the midwest and southwest United States. There bringing in great revenue for this food.
The market is dictating where the food is going and it's currently more profitable for farmers to turn it into biodiseal then it is to simply sell it as food.
At 5/7/08 09:20 PM, stafffighter wrote:At 5/7/08 09:16 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:Whatever suits you. I'm not here to judgeWait, you or her.
Shit
delete history
At 5/7/08 09:09 PM, stafffighter wrote:At 5/7/08 08:58 PM, TheMason wrote:At 5/7/08 08:21 PM, stafffighter wrote:
Aside from upskirt pictures from our 18th birthday parties I have nothing in common with that girl. Giving you and every other guy here a second to google image that..........
Wait, you or her.
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It seemed to abstract to me.
And just for Kicks, I got to do two AP Tests in the next two days (Literature and European History) as well as getting tickets for the Celtics vs Cavaliers playoff game on Thurs.
Should I just write off the Friday test or actually go.
Dear lord.
Grand Theft Auto 4 is so good, I've maybe had like four hours of sleep over the last two days becasue of it.
So, frieking good.
These don't work.
People just buy the same amount of gas as they would have in any case, just a couple days earlier.
Maybe a better plan would be to not drive your cars for those three days thus not needing to fill up earlier.
Jesus you people have problems.
At 4/27/08 09:50 PM, reviewer-general wrote:At 4/27/08 09:43 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
Take race out of it, if you will. Different children learn differently. Thus, our public school system should be set up to teach effectively using different methods which are geared towards the different (and not deficient) methods of absorbing that information.
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Ok, now you just have to identify every learning style for every child and make the necesary changes for all those children with teachers that don't care, failing infrastructure, funding difficulties and a pissed of PTA.
Oh wait.
This man is indeed correct, we should take these black children out of these schools and send them to schools with all black children.
In fact, we should do that with all of our public features. Blacks shouldn't be allowed to sit with whites in case of mixing thier learning, ditto with waterfountains.
But at least we can be sure that they are seperate but equal.
At 4/27/08 08:57 PM, JoS wrote:At 4/27/08 08:30 PM, JackPhantasm wrote:
We aren't arguing the animals rigth to privacy, we are arguing that the air is public and therefore you have no right to privacy for the odors coming from your bag, whether it is an animal or human that smells them. The SC ruled that police dogs smelling the air constitute a search of your bag and violation of your privacy and right to be protected from unresonable search.
This kinda sets up a dangerous precedent doesn't it.
Say, the smell of alchohol from an open car, or on clothes or from someone's breath can give basis to a DUI charge.
Or what about bomb components. Say someone has an amoniam-nitrate based bomb in one of thier bags and a bomb sniffing dog comes by, would that also be unreasonable search and siezure.
It just seems to set up to many dangerous precedents.
Why does it feel like summer already on the lounge.
I've felt my brain nearly die twice now.
At 4/24/08 09:46 PM, LordJaric wrote:At 4/24/08 09:25 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
Even after archaeological evidence has been found.
You mean a sketch rock drawing of what looks like a boat.
Yes, thats indeed validating proof.
