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Getting Muslim countries to sign on to a free-speech resolution is impressive in the first place.

Yes, they should do away with theocracies and blasphemy laws, but how do you guys recommend we do it?  Should we follow Ann Coulter's advice to "invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them all" to discordianism.  The resolution would be better if it didn't contain this exception.  The article seems intentionally misleading, as it's extremely short on the content of the resolution and the nature of Obama's support and very longwinded on the fact that blasphemy laws are bad (thanks guys, I didn't already know that).

This is how diplomacy works.  Compromises and baby steps.

I'm kind of new to the forum, so I don't know if there was some subtext here I was missing.  Can anyone explain what the big deal is here?

[restore the constitution]

Sik bump, I somehow completely missed this story the first time through.

The irony is staggering.  The argument is that Obama is a socialist/fascist/tyrant/foreigner take your pick who is destroying the constitution.  So the best way to restore the constitution is to override the popularly elected gov't with a military coup?  The only way that freedom can be protected and fascism averted is for the generals to rule?   


Anyhoo I think we can take them.

Sooo...Limbaugh compares football  to crips and bloods fighting, and tells a caller to take the bone out of his nose, and then gets smacked for being a racist and shut down by his own side of the fence and it is a Liberal Conspiracy?  I like to play the Devils Advocate, and I honestly cannot find a way to back this play.

You forgot the part where he got a job commentating on football, and said Philadelphia quarterback Donovan McNabb (who is regularly near the top of statistical categories but has yet to win a Super Bowl) is overrated because

"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well,'' Limbaugh said. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."

Over in realityville, the Philly media booed McNabb on draft day and continue to call for his head immediately whenever things go slightly wrong.  He's the last person in the world who you could say gets a free pass from the media due to race.

If only committee chairmen had the stones to make these "moderate and conservative dems" vote down the amendments and out themselves as lobbyist-slaves.  Then their constituents could toss them out in the primaries.

This amendment doesn't seem as horrible as it sounds on first glance though.  Reading the article it says the "exemption" is for "...banks with assets of less than $10 billion and credit unions smaller than $1.5 billion..."  Sounds like the 2% of banks the legislation would regulate are the tremendous, evil giants like BoA and WF that need regulation the most desperately. What I want to know is what percentage of the money falls into the category of "small banks", and what percentage of the population uses them?

While an exemption this huge is pretty outrageous, it doesn't totally neuter the bill.

Different racism:



Yes, that is Tammy Bruce making a not very subtle reference to Barack Obama being a "coon". 

http://tammybruce.com/2009/10/breaking-nobel-committee-announces-another-peace-prize-winner.html  Leave some love in the comments, if they're still open.  I know the seething masses of Sadly, No! have already visited, but adding your own 2 cents can't hurt.

>"What, this isn't racist!  It's just a statement that the nobel peace prize is as easily procured as a cracker jack prize!  Just because it's a racoon, and that was used as an epithet for black people for decades, doesn't mean that it's "racist"..."

Oh wait none of that made any sense whatsoever.

She looks nice in that shot.  The real "problem" is she's reading something to do with Andy Warhol.

Right, free speech for Limbaugh's opponents comes in "free speech zones" and is very narrowly defined.

Free speech for Limbaugh and co. means they say and do whatever they want, and everyone will listen and like it.

Funny how the zealots are always trying to "protect" schools when out of power, then deconstruct them as much as possible when in power.

Umm, yeah, it wasn't the left, it was all of the OTHER Conservative NFL owners (read, most of them) who didn't want their bottom lines affected by his fat, racist bottom line.  It's called the Free Market.  Now suck it!

This +1 million.

When O'Reilly led a massive boycott of Pepsi, that was okay, but whenever the market works against them, the fringe right cries victim with the skill of an Ivy league educated minority transgendered welfare queen.

Bump.

I got directed to Principia Discordia by a friend recently, and principiadiscordia.com was the first site I found.  Way to pick the eponymous domain name.

Anyway, I absolutely loved the entire wiki, and wrote a pretty long thread myself.  There was an entire section left undone about two clicks in from page 101, right in the "main tree" of the story, so I went nuts.  I can't get the images I linked to work though (they're of my girlfriend's cat, who plays a ferocious sphinx with poor grammar and a purple collar).  I hope you guys don't have any hard and fast rules about LOLspeak, and if you do, I think you should revise your policy on hard and fast rules.

Unfortunately, it's some of the least vulgar fiction that a man has ever posted anonymously on the internet about his girlfriend's pussy.

I hope you enjoy my stuff at least half as much as I enjoyed yours.