EvilMonkey

Just a face-palm moment, Chris Cuomo on CNN just called the black, French-Muslim gunman an 'African-American'.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 08:21 AM) I agree. Alpha's point is everyone should do it and if they do not they are cowards, liberal etc. I am defending the above bold. My point was if you report on the story and only report half of it, then you are doing a half-assed job and a disservice to your readers. Newspapers here sure seem to be strong and brave when it comes to revealing government secrets or blasting the Vatican, but God forbid (or Allah forbid?) they publish anything that insults Islam...

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 08:19 AM) Alpha put forth that being asked to make a delivery in bad weather the same as reprinting a cartoon that by Alpha's own estimate will enrage hundreds of millions of people. I never said they were one and the same. The level of danger is obviously different, but there is still an inherent danger in having to drive in inclement weather. As for Charlie, the magazine didn't 'order' them to draw those toons, but the magazine sure printed them. Even tried to take steps to protect them. Sure would have been interesting had some of the office staff been packing heat, but I am sure they are happy that the comfort of a gun free zone and strict guns laws protected them. I mean, all those laws they have over there against automatic weapons and rocket launchers sure worked, right?

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 04:57 PM) If there is a murder with a dismembered corpse, do we need to see the corpse for the news organization to report the killing? Bush decided that news organizations didn't need to show pictures of fallen soldiers arriving in flag draped coffins. Now answer my question. Does your employer have the right to put your life in danger? I get sent out on deliveries most days, plenty of danger there, Especially last few days with this snow.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 04:49 PM) Does your employer have the right to put your life in danger? If they are a news reporting organization, shouldn't they be reporting the news? And if a cartoon is news, shouldn't they show and report on that cartoon?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 04:49 PM) After Charlie Hebdo attack, U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists ‘provoked’ slaughter Bill Donohue said something similar. Bill Donohue is a self promoter. He isn't in some sort of official position that catholics voted on or anything, just a guy with a limited skill-set who realized that the easiest way for him to make a lot of money was to open a public advocacy firm and start living large off the donations of people whose commitment to a cause exceeds their judgment and skepticism.

Anjem Choudary, a very prominent cleric in the UK, has penned an oped blaming the newspaper saying they should have known what was going to happen. There will be many non muslims who will agree with that. He is just one person. but one person with thousands of devoted followers in the UK. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015...bates/21417461/ Well Mr. Choudary, you can do whatever you want back in your home country. In most of the civilized world, you don't kill people because you were 'insulted'. If you do, you go to jail. if you want to live in that system, go where it is. I for one will feel free to insult your religion, as it barely qualifies above cult status, as practiced by you and those like you. Why the people of England let him live off their Welfare and preach hatred is beyond me.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 04:04 PM) That's not what he said. The 20% includes both of those. Doesn't matter. it is way more than 1/10 of 1% and less than all. And it is a tragically large number that is enabled by an even higher number that have no issue with violence in the name of their religion, enjoy violence in the name of their religion or are too scared to say anything about it other than token words against it in the days immediately following an incident such as this and then shutting up again and keeping to themselves.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) You said "Even at the low end, that is hundreds of millions who would like to kill people over a cartoon." The only people I blame in this are the two or three people that did it. I didn't blame all Christians when Anders Breivik murdered 77 people back in 2011. Just like I'm not going to blame all Muslims for this. Nobody anywhere said all, except you.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 03:29 PM) Hundreds of millions of Muslims will kill over a cartoon? Ok. Being obtuse on purpose or just have trouble comprehending what was written? Let me quote you here. "International intelligence estimates anywhere from 10 to 25% of the Muslim population is either for or strongly sympathetic towards this type of action" Quite different from what you just wrote. *edit* Math and reading aside, do you think it is OK or justifiable or anything like that what they did to the people in that office? Are you assigning any of the 'blame' to the editors and people who did the cartoon?

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jan 7, 2015 -> 09:07 PM) The victims here are the other 99.9% of the world's Muslim population who have already been lumped in with these scum outliers for a while now, and for anyone fortunate enough to live in the free world. You can not be more wrong in that statement. First, that percentage is so wrong it is almost laughable. International intelligence estimates anywhere from 10 to 25% of the Muslim population is either for or strongly sympathetic towards this type of action. Even at the low end, that is hundreds of millions who would like to kill people over a cartoon. The other percent are not victims here at all, but many are in some way enablers themselves. In other threads thew 'blue wall' was decried of cops standing up and covering for other cops regardless. Well that same situation applies here, as many of these so called peaceful Muslims will try and find ways to defend this, excuse this or just outright dismiss this. They will circle the wagons and cry 'racism!', when Islam isn't a damn race to begin with, because we all know the racism card still plays. CAIR will come out and worry about all the poor Musdlims who will now be attacked in retribution, when up to this point it has rarely happened. And many of the supposed cases of it happening have been found to have been self-made to go for the sympathy, because you know, the narrative is good.. Gee, wonder where they learned that? In this day and age the type of acts regularly committed in the name of Islam by its radical elements is unacceptable. You have no right to NOT be offended. You have no right to kill someone because they think your religion is a cult. You have no right to kill someone because they like bacon, show some skin or drink booze. This cannot be excused at all.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 2, 2015 -> 05:16 PM) So how about you apply that standard to whether or not a guy should be put in a chokehold for selling loose cigarettes? NYC wants all those liberal benefits to flow to it's people, it has to pay for them somehow. Pick one. You need tax revenue to pay for your utopia. Selling loosies avoids that tax.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 31, 2014 -> 08:35 AM) Meanwhile, the NYPD isn't exactly covering themselves in glory right now. From turning the funeral of a slain fellow officer into a petty protest to a work slowdown that's meant to demonstrate....something?, they're only making themselves look silly. From the NYT So, the city isn't falling apart yet, despite their being 90%+ fewer citations for pretty minor offenses. I don't know that this demonstrates what the police want it to demonstrate. The police have also said that they are not making arrests unless absolutely necessary; uh, shouldn't that be the case always, that you don't make unnecessary arrests? And all this because what appears to be a majority of the NYPD perceives protests and rallies over lack of accountability for specific cases of excessive use of force sometimes resulting in death as being "anti-police," and ending racial 'stop-and-frisk' as being "anti-police." DeBlasio even supports the "broken windows" policing that the NYPD wants. And this follows on the heels of this admission from an ongoing corruption investigation into the NYPD drug units: We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies Soooo, here is a crisis that SHOULD have gone to waste? Come on. If it would have somehow benefited a Democrat you would have had zero problems with police turning their backs. Hell the whole Democratic party turned a funeral in Minnesota into a huge campaign event. Don't remember any talk of that being bad by the left.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 28, 2014 -> 12:37 PM) Just a day or two ago someone drove over the "memorials" in the street where he was killed and a police officer interviewed by the post scoffed at it as a bunch of trash. Well it has no business being in the middle of a street.

Maybe Kim can find him some ninjas...

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 21, 2014 -> 07:35 AM) #AllLivesMatter http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/10/colle...l-lives-matter/

So a University of Michigan department chairwoman has published an article titled, "It's Okay To Hate Republicans". How can any conservative student in any of her classes be assured that they are being graded fairly from now on? And if the University doesn't distance itself from this, how can the college claim to treat all fairly when they would clearly endorse hating Republicans? http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3947...katherine-timpf This teacher does a LOT of projection in her writing. She really needs to look in a mirror.

If you oppose nuclear energy, you really don't care about the environment, or so says a bunch of climate scientists. http://bravenewclimate.com/2014/12/15/an-o...nuclear-energy/

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 09:17 AM) He didn't. I do know for sure. In a broader sense, this is an interesting case. I know more and more people are getting hit for what they do in their personal lives. I have read about female teachers being fired for posing topless, for example. And maintenance workers being fired because they dare to own a gun.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 12, 2014 -> 12:38 PM) Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP MorganChase, was personally calling DEMOCRATS in Congress to whip for votes on that bill last night. Remember how I said that I had no real good way of convincing a person who thought their vote didn't count why they should actually vote? Yup. Fixed that for ya.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 11, 2014 -> 09:43 PM) Lol, trying to blame it on the minority democrats in the house. Republicans don't need a single democrat to vote yes to pass this in the house. And yet when the Democrats didn't need a single Republican vote to pass ANYTHING, it was always the eeeeevil Republicans fault for obstructing.

Just an interesting read. http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/11/new-do...-be-victimized/

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 11, 2014 -> 10:26 AM) This sounds like Diplomacy on steroids. I can't find anything about it online though. I love/hate Diplomacy. I still have it. I have a friend that will never play it with me again as no matter what the situation, I always seem to turn on him, or have anticipated when he will turn on me. There was just a big story on Diplomacy somewhere. Didn't know they have leagues, scoring and world tournaments.

OK, it was called World Campaign.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 08:53 PM) That game sounds really cool. yeah, I can't remember the name either, but everyone had a 'country', and your country had points for food, production, minerals and oil. you had to allocate various things to have enough food for your peeps, but army, navy or air units, bases, or invest in tech to build better units. Moves such as invading other countries or shoring up city defenses (for simplicity you had only several major cities in each country that could be bases, etc.) had to be written down and sent in to whoever was moderating the game. Invasions were done with some program where they entered the units, how many and the strength and it gave them out the outcome. I can remember one time I was Mexico and had controlled all of central and south America as well as the desolation of North America (for a buffer of protection), but for some reason could not get Cuba. We had a friend back in the day that tried to make a battle program for that game on his own, and it worked, but it took way too much of his time with 40 or more players.