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    Bush Tapes Released

    in General Politics

    Ok, that's the last time I use google to spell-check my words....too many other idiots spelled it wrong and google never fixed it because there were a few hundred hits on my, erm, nonconventional spelling of the word.....:bang:

    Bush Tapes Released

    in General Politics

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    This is all hearsay and ad-homs because the tapes were never released. It does raise a few questions though. A grand jury investigation to have the tapes subpoena would mean nothing now, as the possiblity of questionable actions were at least a decade or two before the Presidency, and irrelevant to the acting Presidency (like the subpoena of Clinton during his administration *cough). Although if it was found that he actually used drugs, he would look like a giant hippocrite for appointing John P. Walters as the "Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)", who has supported draconian drug laws and policies, as well as federal raids on medical marijuana users.

     

    EDIT: grammar

     

    DOUBLE EDIT: THANK YOU DWEEZ :blink:

    Supreme Court Decision

    in General Politics

    And soul, would you really bring back things like chain gangs for things like nonviolent or victimless crimes (drug use etc.)? Our legal system is already somewhat of a joke. Manslaughter will usually get you less time than cocaine use.

    Supreme Court Decision

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    He had halted executions three years ago, after courts found that 13 death row inmates had been wrongly convicted, since Illinois resumed capital punishment in 1977.

     

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2649125.stm

     

    I do not support the death penalty for this reason alone. I would only find the death penalty only possibly appropriate possibly for the most extreme cases, the most henious acts where there is absolutely no question of the defendant being guilty. But big suprise: our legal system sometimes convicts innocent people, including some of those on death row. Thankfully we at least allow for a very long appeals process to help make sure that if you are innocent and convicted, you have a chance to try and prove yourself innocent before you are executed. Recently in China, a man was convicted, sentenced, appealed, and executed all within 28 days. Do we really want something so....streamlined? Of course, we Americans are always looking to increase efficiency, so why not? :glare:

     

    Agreed, 18 is an arbitrary number. And I also agree that the death penalty falls under "Cruel and Unusual punishment". I am not totally sure, but aren't we the only industrialized democracy that is executing people on a regular basis? I am pretty sure it still exists in, say, England, but hasn't been used for a long time because the only offense that is punishable by the death penalty there is for high treason. And we are (*were) alone in the world when it comes to executing kids...I just read in the NYT that only 7 nations have executed people for crimes committed when they were minors after 1990, and since then all of those nations (with the exception of the US of course) have condemned the practice. We last did it in 2003.

    NFL Post Season

    in Sports Bar and Grill

    That Randy Moss trade still has me rolling on the floor laughing in tears :laughcry:

    There was little justification for trading one of the best wide recievers ever for an average Napoleon Harris and a first-round draft pick, especially when Minnesota was already about $23 million under the cap, even with attitude concerns. You don't just trade away the best player on your team for peanuts. Perhaps this was a parting gift to the rest of the NFC North from parting Vikings owner Red McCombs?

     

    With some actual defensive coaching (picked up Jim Bates, an excellent defensive coordinator from Dolphins) and a new GM (better draft picks ahoy!) things are shaping up pretty well for the Packers, as long as Favre decides to stay with the team this season.

    anyone excited for baseball?

    in Sports Bar and Grill

    Yeah being from Wisconsin...um yeah. We don't follow baseball too closely here outside of the Milwaukee area. The Brewers are kind of like that ill-tempered step child one keeps locked in the closet when guests are over...we just pretend they don't exist.

     

    Oh, and GO PACKERS! :blink:

    Mayhem Mapcycle Discussion

    in Midwest FF CS:S - Scopeless - PROJECT MAYHEM - Chicago

    · Edited by 00b3rN00b

    My gripe with prodigy is if the ct's are patient, there is no reason for them to lose. There are two great camping spots for ct's - a stack of spools near the end of the long hall that provides nearly 100% cover, and the roof of the guard building on the other side of the map which provides cover and easy headshots for the ct's. There are only 2 choke points in Prodigy. It is totally different from Dust, where there are 3-4 choke points on the map to defend, and the ct's do not have a significant advantage on those points like in Prodigy.

     

    It doesn't seem to play like the old prodigy either...the hallway seems much more narrow and harder to get through than it used to back in 1.6.

     

    I love train. I just need to figure out how to play it now :)

    Global Warming

    in General Politics

    · Edited by 00b3rN00b

    The frequency and strength of storms is directly related to the amount of water in the air. Higher temps = lower water vapor pressure in air = more water evaporating off of ocean = more frequent and stronger storms.

    Global Warming

    in General Politics

    · Edited by 00b3rN00b

    I read those articles from the cato institute, and they were utter tripe. Par for a conservative think tank just trying to push it's agenda and biased opinions on the masses. The second article talked about a study that found an increase in hurricane wind speeds of 6 mph, and harped on it's irrelevance. The real threats global warming poses are:

    1. the melting of antartic glacial ice flows on the mainland, which are melting at an incredible rate (in meters per year) and since major pieces of ice shelfs are breaking off (2 major ones the size of Deleware and Rhode Island have broken off), there is nothing impeding their flow into the sea. This could raise the sea level by as much as 1-4 meters, which would flood many costal cities and cause a mass migration of up to a billion people inland.

    2. Increased frequency of storms driven by global warming has already caused billions of dollars worth of damages with the frequent strong hurricanes that have occured - and there are sure to be more.

    3. The expansion of deserts.

    The Cato institute is more concerned with the economic consequences of global warming in it's articles - because it's agenda (among other things) is to protect the big oil intrests. The economic and social implications of global warming in the next 100 years dwarf those of our reliance on oil.

     

    From the article from the telegraph:

    Most scientists agree that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels have contributed to the warming of the planet in the past few decades but have questioned whether a brighter Sun is also responsible for rising temperatures.

     

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    He says that the increased solar brightness over the past 20 years has not been enough to cause the observed climate changes but believes that the impact of more intense sunshine on the ozone layer and on cloud cover could be affecting the climate more than the sunlight itself.

     

    Dr Bill Burrows, a climatologist and a member of the Royal Meteorological Society, welcomed Dr Solanki's research. "While the established view remains that the sun cannot be responsible for all the climate changes we have seen in the past 50 years or so, this study is certainly significant," he said.

     

    "It shows that there is enough happening on the solar front to merit further research. Perhaps we are devoting too many resources to correcting human effects on the climate without being sure that we are the major contributor."

     

    BUT we should still rely on the current model to address the concerns of global warming until more research is done. This is one study, but it's results have yet to be confirmed or repeated. The study does not address to what extent the sun is/could be affecting global warming, and even says that their model doesn't account for all or even most of the temperature increase, although they do make some speculation.

     

    And the PBS article is one that expresses just one opinion on global warming. The rest of the articles (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/) pretty much accept the fact that global warming is happening and that greenhouse gasses from the burning of fossil fuels is what is causing global warming to happen.

     

    EDIT:

    The oil we purchase is subsidized through a lower income tax for oil companies as well as decreased sales tax on gasoline. This accounts for over $6 billon. Cleaner and more efficient ways of transport are not being utilized, in part, because the government has made it almost impossible to compete with the lower costs supported by taxpayers.

     

    http://dirp3.pids.gov.ph/ris/pitn/yehey_dec20.pdf

    http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/archi....cfm?pageID=817

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