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04-22-2012 , 11:19 PM

#1626

Hamish McBagpipe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ

Look this is clearly a difference in vernacular.

That may not be as "mobile" as, say, a Honda Civic...

Anyhow, I wouldn't have said that couple's house is a mobile home at first but I guess some areas call it that. That basement is just like a hole it sits on, I've seen that. But 4 bedrooms in that thing, Phil? You've got to be joking.

Last edited by Hamish McBagpipe; 04-22-2012 at 11:25 PM.

04-22-2012 , 11:19 PM

#1627

DblBarrelJ

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It was fear ignorance alcohol and dumbassery

04-22-2012 , 11:25 PM

#1628

will1530

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish McBagpipe

I want one

04-23-2012 , 12:01 AM

#1629

VayaConDios

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish McBagpipe

Buy a house, start working on it, have the neighbors hold you at gunpoint and then spend the night in jail for prowling and loitering. lol Georgia.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012...he-new-owners/

I can't imagine the level of outrage from certain quarters if those yahoos had been arrested for assault and false imprisonment

04-23-2012 , 12:18 AM

#1630

JayTeeMe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish McBagpipe

Yes. I'm outside in the nice semi-rural Georgian sun sitting around having a 6 pack of Pabst and grilling up some roadkill when someone starts tinkering around with the door of a house that's been unoccupied since Cletus moved his brood back to the family dirt farm.

Can't stop laughing...!!

04-23-2012 , 12:26 AM

#1631

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish McBagpipe

Once they explain that it's their house Sam doesn't believe them and calls the cops because he's been told to be on the lookout for any suspicious Congolese tribal activity in the area.
Sheriff J. W. Pepper takes the cake though in deciding that Yaphet Kotto and his family have to spend the night in jail instead of resolving the matter in about 100 different ways.

Does Georgia have a Stand Your Ground Law? If Mr. Big was like from some hard-core Congolese Liberation Front back in the day there might have been a bloodbath.

04-23-2012 , 01:22 AM

#1632

EricLindros

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ

Yes, refusing to protect your family out of fear and ignorance and being a sheep is cowardly behavior fly.

Wait, let me get this straight.

The stand your ground laws are in place because Georgia "rejects the notion of cowardly behavior in the face of danger."

Stand your ground laws basically state that you can use force to defend yourself if you reasonably believe that you are facing a threat.

So "rejection of cowardly behavior" means that you can use force against people that scare you? And that force includes firearms?

Seems to me that the cowardly people here are the ones strapped because they're afraid of black people things that go bump in the night, and that these laws are in place to protect these fraidy cats.

04-23-2012 , 03:16 AM

#1633

Brons

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The real question here is: did the black people wear hoodies?

04-23-2012 , 07:54 AM

#1634

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by Brons

The real question here is: did the black people wear hoodies?

I'm reserving judgment until I see if they had any gangsta facebook postings.

04-23-2012 , 10:36 AM

#1635

pvn

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FWIW, when I hear "trailer park" I think toothless white trash.

04-23-2012 , 10:36 AM

#1636

pvn

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case in point:

Spoiler:

04-23-2012 , 11:00 AM

#1637

Autocratic

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OMFG Tom Friedman:

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has American gone...from a system designed to prevent anyone in government from amassing too much power to a system in which no one can aggregate enough power to make any important decisions at all?

No worse person exists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/op...hing.html?_r=1

04-23-2012 , 11:13 AM

#1638

pvn

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04-23-2012 , 11:15 AM

#1639

13ball

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish McBagpipe

Sorry, Rache, but I'm gonna go ahead and book a different flight...

Not really interested in a pilot who wants to "impact the world."

04-23-2012 , 12:22 PM

#1640

suzzer99

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...for Christ!

04-23-2012 , 12:39 PM

#1641

Namath12

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University of Florida to Eliminate Computer Science Department, Increase Athletic Budget

GO GATORS!!

04-23-2012 , 12:41 PM

#1642

ikestoys

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Without looking, I'd be shocked if the uf ad wasn't self sufficient

04-23-2012 , 12:47 PM

#1643

Ineedaride2

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Obama targets foreign nationals’ use of new technologies in human rights abuses - Washington Post

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President Obama issued an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking to Internet monitoring, to help carry out grave human rights abuses.

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But authoritarian governments, particularly in Syria and Iran, have shown that their security services can also harness technology to help crack down on dissent — by conducting surveillance, blocking access to the Internet or tracking the movements of opposition figures.

Obama’s executive order, which he announced during a Monday speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, is an acknowledgment of those dangers and of the need to adapt American national security policy to a world being remade rapidly by technology, according to senior administration officials familiar with the plans. Although the order is designed to target companies and individuals assisting the governments of Iran and Syria, they said, future executive orders could name others aiding other countries through technology in crackdowns on dissent.

Bravo, President Obama. It's about time somebody was an advocate for the people against the abuses of governments with regards to technological surveillance.

04-23-2012 , 12:52 PM

#1644

bobman0330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ikestoys

Without looking, I'd be shocked if the uf ad wasn't self sufficient

If only the CS department could set up a legal cartel to avoid paying their profs any money.

04-23-2012 , 12:52 PM

#1645

pvn

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Change you can believe in.

04-23-2012 , 01:07 PM

#1646

BornToPun

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Remember kids, it's only bad when the other guys do it!

04-23-2012 , 01:24 PM

#1647

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashington

University of Florida to Eliminate Computer Science Department, Increase Athletic Budget

GO GATORS!!

CISE building was taking up prime tailgating realestate, IMO. Hopefully they'll level it and pave it so I will have space to park my 18-wheeler fuel tanker that I'm converting into a smoker this offseason.

04-23-2012 , 01:27 PM

#1648

[Phill]

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Computer science shoulda gotten better at wii bowling if they expected to survive.

04-23-2012 , 01:55 PM

#1649

razrback

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EricLindros

Wait, let me get this straight.

The stand your ground laws are in place because Georgia "rejects the notion of cowardly behavior in the face of danger."

Stand your ground laws basically state that you can use force to defend yourself if you reasonably believe that you are facing a threat.

So "rejection of cowardly behavior" means that you can use force against people that scare you? And that force includes firearms?

Seems to me that the cowardly people here are the ones strapped because they're afraid of black people things that go bump in the night, and that these laws are in place to protect these fraidy cats.

So in this post: reasonably believe you are facing a threat = being scared = being afraid of black people = being afraid of snark snark something something

Why dont you just come out and say its impossible for any human being to ever reasonably believe they are facing a threat, unless that human being is a government agent acting on behalf of the collective good? I know thats what you're thinking.