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11-17-2009 , 11:19 AM
Here is another one. If you disapprove of cutting in line, acting up, refusing to leave a place of business, and resisting arrest are bad things, then you are racist!
11-17-2009 , 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
That does bring up another "who will build teh roadz" question - what stops any jackass with a radio transmitter from screwing up a radio station's reception (or the more likely scenario, one station from trying to sabotage another's signal by drowning it out on their frequency) if airwaves were unregulated?

I'm sure someone's brought it up before, just curious.
I know Montius posted an article, but in case you don't want to read the whole thing:

Radio frequencies are a scarce resource and thus can be legitimately owned.
11-17-2009 , 03:25 PM
Line up a babysitter, fill up the dog food bowls extra high, and take out a third mortgage on that double wide...because O'Reilly and Beck are going on tour!



http://www.boldfreshtour.com/bold-fresh-tour-info.html

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Bold & Fresh Tour 2010

There's no shortage of people talking about what's going on in the world today, but there are far too few who are actually saying anything of substance. Faceless pundits talk around the issues, not about them... celebrity gossip passes as breaking news... and the liberal bias spewed by the mainstream media makes them less like a public service and more like an extension of the White House Press Office. Enough is enough—it's time for the truth from somebody who'll give it to you straight, whether you like it or not. Actually, make that... somebodys—Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck. This January, they're coming out from behind their desks and going on tour. Your town may never be the same...
Don't know about you guys, but Bold & Fresh sounds like an awesome shampoo.
11-17-2009 , 03:28 PM
Bold and Fresh: 80's rap duo.
11-17-2009 , 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Don't know about you guys, but Bold & Fresh sounds like an awesome shampoo.
Super Mentos LDO.
11-17-2009 , 03:30 PM
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Enough is enough—it's time for the truth from somebody who'll give it to you straight, whether you like it or not.
lolol

If only Bill and Glenn had a means of talking straight with the American people on a regular basis.
11-17-2009 , 03:38 PM
Wonder how many old woman groupies Papa Bear and Beck are going to tag team after the shows. Maybe Bill makes them bring their own loofahs.
11-17-2009 , 03:40 PM
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Glenn wears his heart on his sleeve, and no matter what he says—whether it's about politics or pop culture—you can bet he's got the facts to back it up.
You can? Where? I'd love to make some wagers on this.
11-17-2009 , 03:53 PM
We're winning.

BBC reports that only 11% of people surveyed think the status quo system of government intervention is working well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8347409.stm
11-17-2009 , 03:54 PM


Germany new ACism hotspot imo
11-17-2009 , 03:55 PM
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/her...wyer-dies-jail

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Mr. Magnitsky, a 37-year-old partner at Moscow firm Firestone Duncan, was jailed nearly a year ago on charges of tax evasion related to his work for Hermitage. At a court hearing on extending his detention in September, he complained that he had been denied medical treatment for weeks for serious stomach pancreatic illnesses that he hadn't suffered from before his imprisonment. He also complained of inhumane conditions -- including the absence of toilet, hot water and windows -- at the Butyrskaya jail where he was then being held.
Pretty scary story all around.
11-17-2009 , 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1


Germany new ACism hotspot imo
US actually AC hotspot based on that graph. Pakistan close 2nd?
11-17-2009 , 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by SL__72
I know Montius posted an article, but in case you don't want to read the whole thing:
Haha, this

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Originally Posted by SL__72
Radio frequencies are a scarce resource and thus can be legitimately owned.
In the absence of government, who "sells" it? Or is it first come first serve?
11-17-2009 , 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
In the absence of government, who "sells" it? Or is it first come first serve?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle

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The Homestead principle in law is the concept that one can gain ownership of a natural thing that currently has no owner by using it or building something out of it.
So yeah, first to use it in an area owns it.
11-17-2009 , 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by pvn
We're winning.

BBC reports that only 11% of people surveyed think the status quo system of government intervention is working well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8347409.stm
They think the status quo system is a free market though.
11-17-2009 , 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1


Germany new ACism hotspot imo
What a bizarre question. Option A: "free market capitalism is fatally flawed and a different system is needed". So the wall fell in Germany and suddenly we had free market capitalism? O RLY
11-17-2009 , 04:25 PM
looked at another way, we are right on the heels of mother Russia...
11-17-2009 , 05:34 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBrfql3pnU

^ Andrew Napolitano and Bill O'Reilly talk about whether or not KSM should be tried in the US. The discussion obviously hinges on such things like "the law" and "the Constitution", but those are pinhead terms that pinheads use, per Bill O'Reilly. So Napolitano and O'Reilly have a funny conversation where Bill O'Reilly tells Napolitano he doesn't care about the Constitution and that "the Constitution isn't here but you are", then asks Napolitano why he wants KSM tried in the US, at which point Napolitano strains to explain why he believes KSM should be tried in the US without referencing the Constitution by name.

Breathtaking imo.
11-17-2009 , 05:38 PM
Bill is a pinhead but dude he was trying to get the guy to answer a question and did not literally mean he doesn't care about the constitution. He wanted the man's opinion but he kept referencing the constitution without any reference as to how the constitution applies.
11-17-2009 , 05:52 PM
lol wat? Napolitano is crystal clear how the Constitution applies. You can't explain that any clearer.
11-17-2009 , 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
lol wat? Napolitano is crystal clear how the Constitution applies. You can't explain that any clearer.

Yeah I saw this and obv had a facepalm type reaction. iirc the Judge said the main issue is that there is no formally declared "war" on AQ thus making them ineligible for tribunals. Are the Constitutional issues properly addressed if we:

1) Formally declare war on Al Qaeda
2) Try all AQ/unlawful combatants in military tribunals
3) ??????
4) Profit.
11-17-2009 , 06:11 PM
In an age of talking heads spewing bile on the left and right, we can count on CNN to always deliver straight, hard-nosed reporting.

11-17-2009 , 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Bigdaddydvo
Yeah I saw this and obv had a facepalm type reaction. iirc the Judge said the main issue is that there is no formally declared "war" on AQ thus making them ineligible for tribunals. Are the Constitutional issues properly addressed if we:

1) Formally declare war on Al Qaeda
2) Try all AQ/unlawful combatants in military tribunals
3) ??????
4) Profit.
That's an interesting question, actually.

I'm not certain that the Constitution actually allows for, or contemplates, a formal legal declaration of war against an entity that is not an actual nation-state.

It's one thing to declare war against Germany or Japan (or even Canada, hehe), but another to declare war (and as such invoking stuff like the War Powers Act) against a loose affiliated organization that, by at least some counts, is actually only comprised of a few hundred people.

I'd like to see the strict constructionists form an argument that the Constitution actually allows for that.
11-17-2009 , 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Mondogarage
That's an interesting question, actually.

I'm not certain that the Constitution actually allows for, or contemplates, a formal legal declaration of war against an entity that is not an actual nation-state.

It's one thing to declare war against Germany or Japan (or even Canada, hehe), but another to declare war (and as such invoking stuff like the War Powers Act) against a loose affiliated organization that, by at least some counts, is actually only comprised of a few hundred people.

I'd like to see the strict constructionists form an argument that the Constitution actually allows for that.
I don't care about the Constitution. The Constitution isn't here, you are. KSM is a terrorist who killed Americans. We arrested KSM in Pakistan! Why is he allowed to be tried in NYC?!?

FWIW, this is actually a very skilled maneuver by O'Reilly. You can either sit there and be like "WTF BIll O, your question doesn't make any sense, I can't answer as to what's allowed and what's not without talking about the Constitution", which Bill O just told you not to do. Or you can keep talking about the Constitution, at which point you're a pinhead who just can't state a simple opinion without pinheading it up by talking about some document that isn't even there.

This is why he's selling out stadiums with Beck imo. Can't beat him.
11-17-2009 , 06:23 PM
The biggest LOL-worth part of this entire debate is the complete glossing over, by the right, of the fact that we've successfully conducted multiple trials of Islamist terrorists in the U.S. since 9/11, and even well before.

Sure, it's inconvenient, but justice isn't always "convenient".

I can't remember the specific accused, but back when I was living in Virginia and working at a firm that used the EDVA rocket docket a ton, it was a real pain in the ass to get in the federal courthouse for weeks and weeks, because the whole area was ringed with machine gun wielding marshals, as one of those trials was going on during...oh...2002 or 2003. And parking was tough because of closed street surrounding it. But the courthouse remained open for business, the wheels of justice continued to spin, and oh yeah, the convict is now in SuperMax and never going anywhere.

The cold hard truth is this...it's not that the Republicans and their far right pundits don't actually think justice can't be carried out. It's that, after eight years, they're still trying to use 9/11 as a cheap source of even cheaper political points, and that their the only item on their intellectually bankrupt agenda is attempting to politicize every action or decision of the Obama administration, in any way possible. Because god forbid if the country actually somehow improves between now and 2012.

      
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