Personal arguements will end, right now

It adds some variety to the otherwise McFarlane dominated line up. I miss King of the Hill.

@Jermofoot:

How would a guy under a pile of cops hurt anyone? He wasn’t even on PCP.

I think CC covered this, should they sit on him for 10 minutes? 20? 2 hours?

@Jermofoot:

Actually, there has been much debate about not only the lethality of a taser, but also the excessive employment of them.  People have died from being tased, there are records showing that cops are more likely to use the taser since it is considered nonlethal.

I don’t know how the laws are inother places, but in AZ you can’t use “less than lethal” on someone unless it has been used on you.  In other words the cops here have all been tazed and pepper sprayed.  They know exactly what it does and how it works.

@Jermofoot:

Unfortunately, we can’t just silence what we don’t want to hear.  A discussion must include even the fringe arguments that are unlikely.

Yeah we can.  You may have freedom of speech, but I also have the freedom to tell you to be quiet if I don’t want to hear it in my house.  I can hold my hands over my ears, mI can turn off the TV/Radio.  And if you’re on my property I can tell you to shut up or leave.

@Jermofoot:

What could possibly be more to the story?  You can see everything from start to finish on the video.

Of course there’s more to the story, unless you were there, you don’t know what was happening outside of the camera view.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane223

Granted BET ain’t ABC, cBS, or NBC, but they made a decision based on the bottom line…
or the viewership line.  Which due to advertising works out to about the same thing.

What? They don’t want to edgykate de bros about the evils of W, Republicans, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Clarence Thomas??

I seem to recall one or more of the major networks going through financial struggles and having to cut the budget so the news wasn’t such a drag on the bottom line$$$$.

And now we may soon have Perky Katie Kouric(sp?) taking the anchor news_reader_ chair @ one network and the Survivor Celebrity Newstarget(who was set up for an assassination attempt by his own network) taking another news_reader_ chair.

More big money to a losing cause.
Just like Leno($14M/year) and Letterman($17M/year.)

@marine36:

It sounds messy, and most people wouldnt dream of such drastic measures. But if an event like what Zooey said occured, we wouldnt be playing around anymore, if some innocents get in the way, well thats to bad.

An “incident” like Zooey is discussing is the action of a few individuals, not even members of a government.  Just individual nut balls.

And you say that a few individuals hitting us would merit nuking the entire Muslim world???

What if Tim McVey had parked his Ryder Truck in front of some Russian government building in Vladivostok?  Would the Russians have been justified in nuking the US for it?  At the very least, we have to seperate the actions of a government from the actions of individuals.  At least in the case of government action, the people of that nation can be held partially responsible because they ALLOWED the government to act that way, either by electing the idiot leaders, or by failing to overthrow tyranical nut cases.

Last month a guy blew away a man and woman in their home in order to get their daughter.  The guy was a resident of Pennsylvania.  Are we going to nuke Pittsburgh and Philly because that guy was from there?  THAT is what you are advocating.

So I guess Japan is free to attack us because of all the things our solidiers have done in Okinawa in the past several years (getting tired of reading about soldiers who can;t keep their dick in their pants and keep raping local girls, is becoming an annual event apparently).  And Libya is allowed to attack us for what we did to Tripoli in '86?  And Iraq is totally justified in hitting us since we have killed, according to the Bush Adminsitration’s estimates 35,000 of them???

Hell, I guess you are justified in bombing MY house since I live in North Carolina and Eric Robert Rudolph is from here.  He was a terrorist, bombed clinics and the Olympics.  But he was North Carolinian, so I guess you have to nuke this state off the map and damn the innocents who live here.

For gods sake Marine… you had a brain once before your buried it with a sand flea on Parris Island.  THINK about what you are advocating!

Byline : Detroit

Q : Is he dead yet?
A : No, just mentally incompetent.
Q : Mark his ballot Democratic.
A : Yes, mama.

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/currie9e_20050909.htm

@Janus1:

is he a political expert? or just a right-wing commentator who just thinks he is an expert?

He’s just a radio political commentator who got hired by ESPN to be controversial and boost ratings. Unfortunately, he was too controversial and got fired.

It frightens me cause my daughter is 17.
Janus, you come near her n i’ll break your ( )!

Dont worry, lol, im not looking right now anyway.

@ZimZaxZeo:

@El:

Now, now, JZ! If It weren’t for Cauliflournia the rest of the post-civilized world would be at war with the USA as the New Fourth Reich. Seig Bush!

Be grateful for the balance they bring to our country.

I, for one, am glad of the balance that lovely ol’ Canada brings to our continent – thanks y’all from up north there!

WHAT THE %$##@*^!?!? Did you post on the wrong thread?

Jan__, I believe Saddam’s last two approval ratings(taken at election time, therefore, equaling his vote percentages were 99.6%(1995, I think) and 99.9%(2000, I think.) Interestingly enough, immediately after both elections, 0.4%(1995) and 0.1%(2000) of the voters shot themselves in the back of their heads. There has been some idle speculation due to the fact that when these #s are added together they equal 100.0% for both elections. No complete cross-referencing has been done to verify that all these distraught voters did not support Saddam. There has been some support for the idea that these unfortunate voters were upset that Saddam did not get unanamous approval.