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http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=13134384 The home of Carol and Laura Stutte on County Road 320 in Vonore was destroyed by fire last Saturday. The word "queers" was also spray painted in large letters on their garage. The couple feels they're victims of a hate crime, and were targete...

I'm not typically a fan of this guy - he's a member of what can be called the "Religious Left", which in my mind isn't too far off from populism - but when he's right, he's right. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/do_not_pity_the_democrats_20100913/ There are no longer any major institut...

The State using its monopoly of force (manifested in this case by its power of censorship) to the benefit of the titans of industry and against radicals? Color me shocked.

As the old cliché goes, I've said it before and I'll say it again: the reason for the repeated failures of the Democratic Party to tangibly advance the goals of "the Left" is because it has made no attempt to modernize its ideology (and rhetoric). Any Party that thinks the problems of 2010...

I have never , myself, understood lumping Castro in with the other Communist dic(k)tators. Castro's political career in Cuba began, not as a Communist ideologue, but as a populist-nationalist in an alliance of convenience with Cuba's Communists. As a matter of fact, Batista, the guy he led the revol...

Interesting. So they are, to use the parlance I've picked up on from various forums, 'shooty', as opposed to CQC-oriented? Bear in mind that I have almost no knowledge of the game mechanics of WH40k; I intend to devote a pretty good amount of my free-time to doing nothing more than going over those ...

Preface: I have never so much as looked upon a game of Warhammer 40,000 , and know relatively little about either its game mechanics or its fluff. Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin. That said, I think I'd like to get into it, and having done a very general survey of the setting, I feel that the D...

http://www.ocala.com/article/20100909/ARTICLES/100909743/1412?Title=Westboro-Baptish-Church-to-burn-Qurans-if-Dove-doesn-t Dove World is one of the few groups to join forces with Westboro members, who have protested at funerals across the country. In April, a handful of Westboro members picketed out...

And lo, Chocula stampedes into the thread with the might of a hundred stallions to defend the Tea Baggers and their asininity. I really have to question why any sane, self-concerned economic conservative would want to associate themselves with such collectivists. Implicit in questioning Obama's Chri...

Yes, yes, I know this is a lame thread, and if any of the moderators think it ought to be punted to Off-Topic, then please do so. But my friend and I had a rather heated argument earlier today about which of these famous athletes would win in a legitimate fight at their respective peaks. He seems to...

Earlier in this thread, I posted an article where researchers believed that people's personalities can be set as early as seven years old. By TPM, Anakin has already been influenced by a childhood as a slave. Three or four years is a lot in terms of child development; furthermore there is nothing s...

Did you have the pull the stake out, now this thread has come back from the dead! :P Sorry about that. I felt like talking vampires and didn't want to create my own thread. >.> But yeah, sadly showing emotion too often now equates to being emo, when it traditionally only applies to whinny white mid...

I'll do this character by character and film by film, so that it's cohesive throughout The Phantom Menace : Anakin: When Luke first meets Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back , Yoda initially seems hesitant about training Luke - "too old to begin the training" and all that. Whether or not those...

Bram Stoker's Dracula was the Twilight of its day, and about as accurate to the vampire mythos as well. While you're right about Dracula not adhering to the 'traditional' vampire mythos (either folkloric or as embodied in earlier literary accounts of vampirism ala Sheridan Le Fanu), Bram Stoker's C...

Uh-oh.

Tea Baggers assault non-Muslim black carpenter who just happened to be on the site.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0821/fox-shareholder-funded-mosque-imam/ The second largest shareholder in News Corp. — the parent company of Fox News — has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Ma...

Or it could just be that the guy's a suspect in a rape investigation and the Swedish authorities want to talk to him. Seriously, why the knee-jerk assumption that it's part of some conspiracy? Either way, fuck Assange and if the allegations are true I hope the Swedish prison system issues inmates l...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100817/wl_afp/irannuclearpoliticsisraelusmilitary_20100817120240 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the ...

http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/kelly/95748769_On_this_ground__zero_tolerance.html?c=y&page=2 At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims. "Go home," several shouted from the crowd. "G...

So in other words, "Patrick Limbaugh" is Mike Huckabee. Or Pat Buchanan. Or any other of a number of Christian fundamentalists who advocate market-killing protectionist and interventionist measures because "God told them to." Needless to say I would oppose them with everything I ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/24/war-crimes-us-soldiers-iraq Here are the relevant parts: Sneaking up on the house, the soldiers corralled the whole family into the bedroom. After they had recovered the family's AK-47 and Green had confirmed it was locked and loaded, Barker and Cortez lef...

I just got back from seeing this, and I thoroughly enjoyed it; I liked that it moved away from a lot of the Predator-as-honorable-samurai-warrior bullshit of the past few movies and focused on their tribalistic barbarism as in the first film. One thing I didn't understand was the relationship betwee...

How does "ObamaCare" discriminate against a recognized minority group? The DOMA did just exactly that. Requiring everyone to purchase health insurance is something the conservatives will find easy to accomodate. DOMA was overturned because it violated the 10th Amendment - the Amendment th...

http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/103076-fighting-back/ Gay-rights supporters won a huge victory on July 8, when a federal judge in Boston ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — the federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman, thereby denying legally married same-sex ...

Anything to avoid addressing my points, eh? :lol: He is rude, and that colors my judgement of him right off the bat. Maybe I would be more polite to him if he would be more polite to me. Its possible to disagree about politics while remaining civil about it, but that doesn't seem to have occured to ...