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kiryan

I don't feel confident enough to wholly agree or disagree with any of the positions. I will agree most strenuously with Corth's opinion that had things been allowed to go bankrupt, we would be in a stronger position today to grow. Both because of the steep descent of the economy and from the elimina...

kiryan

Isn't a lot of that disputable? GOP and Dems both use Reaganomics to justify their point of view. gop it worked, dem it failed miserably.

kiryan

... I dunno... Are democrat voters really voting their pocket books? Will they really choose the guy who ostensibly is your enemy (GOP against all minorities and immigrants) over the guy who is being blamed for a bad economy or not moving fast enough on your agenda? Do unions, under unprecedented as...

kiryan

I always have to ask the question... why do these people need government to help them. Why don't they have anyone else who can or will help them? Why is government guaranteeing a minimum standard of living regardless of what decisions an individual makes? There should be consequences for acting in a...

kiryan

I disagree that you can break the law and then expect not to be charged or punished. I agree you should disobey an unjust order.

The concept of civil disobedience is to break the law and accept the consequences as a matter of protest. I agree with civil disobedience.

kiryan

Debating the death penalty, Hugo Bedau and Paul Cassell page 27 average per year over the decade of the 1990s 22,000 # of murders 15,000 # of arrests 13,500 # of prosecutions 10,000 # of convictions 2-4,000 guesswork on the # for the death penalty 300 # sentenced to death 55 # executed Now my proble...

kiryan

Criminals in general may not, but some criminals do and there is anecdotal evidence of the deterrent effect. Diane Feinstein once said that. There is statistical evidence of this as well. I recently read a book with 8 points of view, 4 pro 4 con, lawyers, judges, and that governor who commuted all d...

kiryan

because we are free citizens, entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness, free from intrusion by government ... or at least we used to / should be. While you may be able to justify intrusion on this woman's liberty ... by saying its not necessary because the police record themselves or be...

kiryan

I disagree with you on police. The more power you wield, the more transparent you must be. Police have extreme amounts of power and exercise it constnatly. There should be no law against videotaping or recording officers of the public... whether in the employment office, welfare office, department h...

kiryan

(and again, asshat, we're talking about union members here which are almost guaranteed to be mixed among ideology... unless you think there are no Republican educators in New Jersey? ) Good point. then why do they give 99% of their contributions to Democrat candidates? Are the GOP minority in union...

kiryan

Yes he started his show with bashing the right. In the last year he's diversified. You explain it. Bipartsianship by year? Try some intellectual honesty.

kiryan

are you saying with a straight face that john is equal opportunity? non partsian? srlsy? his demographic is young educated people who tend to vote democrat. its no wonder he sources all his material on making fun of the right. Its what his viewers want to see. He built up his show enough that he can...

kiryan

Sarvis' world,

We Are Right.

also featured

Its not discrimination when we do it because we're bona fide civil rights champions.

kiryan

and the two guys who showed up at a rally in AZ with their legally owned and legally carried guns less than 2 miles from an obama event were just protesting, engaged in free speech too right? Nope, thats automatically violent because it involves a legally carried gun. Same with that kid who was enga...

kiryan

Yea I don't see him so much as a hack.

however, I agree with adriorn, he mostly attacks republicans. Recently, like in the last year, i've seen him start calling Democrats and Obama out... but what is it that the chinese say about a drop in the ocean? its still a big blue ocean dude.

kiryan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/2 ... 82122.html

or apparently in your front yard in Rochester, NY.

although its unclear, she may have been arrested for refusing to comply with an officer's order... still he had no business giving that order.

kiryan

An isolated incident yea right... isolated only because their power base is finally being affected where it was effectively untouchable before. or was Wisconsin also an isolated incident? Were the protests in England and Greece also isolated? cuz it all looks the same to me. demcorats calling for ci...

kiryan

/agree on the partsian /doubley so on the funny to a lesser degree a hack. He's somewhere between legitimate and a hack. I don't watch his show regularly. He is however straight from the liberal play book. Promote a liberal agenda while passing yourself off as somethign else... a comedy show a teach...

kiryan

lol and you see the same.

Conservatives defending their country and family values = assault on immigrants and gays.

hipocrite.

kiryan

oh that guy i was talkign about also volunteers as an EMT for his small town and does ski patrol (he gets free lift tickets so thats not that egalitarian). He tutors 20 hours or so a week... for no reason other than it helps him study and he likes helping people (he owns outright everything he has i...

kiryan

port of call was pretty cool... i have to say that and halloween were the highlight of our time in NO.

If I had to choose between the cruise and NO, I choose the cruise... so you certainly didn't miss the best part.

kiryan

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/20/jon-stewart/jon-stewart-says-those-who-watch-fox-news-are-most/ Jon Stewart says those who watch Fox News are the "most consistently misinformed media viewers" rated FALSE. basically, fox is not bottom and specifically some of ...

kiryan

lol Thanks kiryan. ill put that on my next application to the RCMP see if that helps at all. When i went to university my sociology prof was a huge feminist, she got off on the wrong foot with me right off the bat. Did the old studies show woman are still underpaid. Of course i pipe up well show me...

kiryan

funny i was thinking the same thing about you.

despite for your stated distaste for hipocrisy, you sure are willing to cast anything a democrat does in a favorable light.

I know im a hipocrite and I'm unapologetic because at the end o the day, I have to live in this world, not a world of my ideals.

kiryan

yep...

i was thinking about it a couple months ago...

we were f*king stupid to leave that place and walk home that night half drunk (well I was half drunk you and Laurel were wasted out of your mind)... absolutely mind boggling stupid given the incident you photographed.

kiryan

right these guys actually made a show of force in public by symbolically "crossing the delaware" which is an obvious throwback to declaring war. Do you see the difference? If palin said that, she said get ready. The union actually is holding public shows of force. also, civil disobedience ...

kiryan

someone, probably sarvis and ragorn shared a gem with us once before. When you run on family values, then get caught solicting in a mens bathroom, you get roundly and vocally criticized by folks for being hipocrites. What I didn't understand was the corollary to their theory which is unless your a D...

kiryan

No Sarvis its more like civil disobedience than freedom of speech. When you intend to disrupt the normal operation, you are not peacefully protesting or expressing free speech. You are engaged in conflict with the government... You are extorting and blackmailing. Its still funny theres no cries for ...

kiryan

That is the point... liberals can spot a lie on the conservative side even when its not (definition of lie includes intent to deceive which it is very unclear Bush was engaged in despite the media drive by) but they can't seem to see one on their own side when its clear they are engaged in one. No o...

kiryan

First, I don't think your statement about Palin is accurate. You don't see a problem with the union folks symbolically declared war on NJ? What if they crossed the delaware with guns? or say swamped government buildings with thousands of people intentially trying to shut government down until their ...

kiryan

That's a good one... so is the "enhanced interrogation", but I think lie is the appropriate word for what Obama is doing with Libya. Especially if "lie" was the word used to describe Bush's statements made relying on "bad intelligence." He has several legal opinions tha...

kiryan

Ok now go search "bush lie iraq" then compare to "obama lie libya" Kucinich gets my respect for using the same tone with Obama he did with Bush. The rest of those articles try are treating Obama with kiddy gloves. Its all about authority... its not about Obama lieing about what w...

kiryan

This is hillarious... and a great question. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/az-sheriff-why-more-troops-korean-border Babeu said that only 520 guardsmen are deployed in Arizona, a state with a 276-mile border with Mexico and the state that has, according to the Department of Homeland Security, th...

kiryan

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-624367?hpt=hp_bn1 I'm wondering what the liberals would've thought last year if the tea party "crossed the delaware". Symbolically declaring war on NJ? Boy those lofty calls of bringing civility back to the debate when they thought they had a GOP inspired sh...

kiryan

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/21/green.card.lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1 A Russian woman, who did not want to be named because the issue is still under review, said she's been distressed since the decision was revoked. "I can't eat or sleep well, all my hopes are gone," she said. == man t...

kiryan

... the left is not attacking Obama. Is not calling him out on this lie. You have some very isolated complaints, but I've yet to see anyone even come close to calling Obama a liar and certainly not on any of the liberal media vanguards. Imagine if a Republican pulled this crap in office what the hea...

kiryan

I read the leftists sites too. I haven't seen anything like they excoriated Bush. Specifically i read huffingtonpost and politico daily as well as msnbc, cnn. Also, the difference between what Bush did and what Obama did... was "faulty intelligence" was what Bush used to justify the war an...

kiryan

This is good. Where is the left? I mean we have a guy here, bombing another country, a country full of what would be minorities in our neck of the woods... and bold face LIEING to us that its not "hostilities" despite having several lawyers at several departments telling him otherwise. Whe...

kiryan

lol

you can only have discrimination against a protected class. white male is not protected, but maybe... just maybe deep down you're a non-practicing homosexual? Now you've got something.

kiryan

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/21/man-urinates-in-water-city-flushes-8m-gallons/ Oregon's biggest city is sending 8 million gallons of treated drinking water down the drain. == thats a lot of water Portland officials defended the decision Monday, saying they didn't want to send city residents...

kiryan

I had to evict someone in Oregon, took i wanna say 4 weeks. 2 week notice of pay or quit, then a hearing 2 weeks later and an order for him to leave. He decided to leave instead of having the Sheriff come out to evict him, that could've taken another 2 weeks... but I've heard you can make it take ab...

kiryan

Few years, maybe a decade ago i read a story about homeless people doing the same thing. One guy even got thrown in jail during the winter cuz he didn't want to sleep in the cold/rain. I don't think the risk vs reward equation works even for these guys... There are shelters. Also consider retarded t...

kiryan

Wow this just keeps getting better. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/world/africa/18powers.html?_r=1 Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, had told the White House that they believed that the United ...

kiryan

I wouldn't mention lawyer. You can always do that later. Mention the housing board, a lesser known tool. It demonstrates some sort of intelligence or knowledge that could be dangerous to them. You want them to think you are a capable individual who will give them trouble... not a blow hard who they ...

kiryan

Oh.. I didn't realize you're moving out. Yea you're pretty much screwed at this point. Your best bet is to threaten to file a complaint if they don't refund you the $400. The file the complaint. If they lose, they owe you the $400 plus in some states like $30 a day for each day they fail to return y...

kiryan

What are you talking about you crack smoking asian? They sold the deal for $4 billion to Ben Nelson of Nebraska and 170 million to Mary Landrieu of Louisana. lol, whats really funny is the obvious inequality of pay, the white man got 23x more payment than the woman. damn you gender pay discriminatio...

kiryan

I'd argue that they never provided you with timely notice which took away from your ability to address the issue. I wouldn't pay any of the fees, but I'm not exactly a rule follower. I do believe they have a duty to notify you when you are "delinquent" or when you have a past due balance. ...

kiryan

Thats the problem with C#... its in between C++ and VB. I still don't see the point.

I suppose the moral of this story is a great team makes a dominant programming language.

kiryan

There was a couple of citations in a death penalty book I just read. One was Diane Feinstein another was from England. basically, thieves pulling jobs would be sure not to have guns because in England it was a much more severe penalty. Forget what the Feinstein one was, but she made a statement to t...

kiryan

I'll do my damndest to get an elk with my bow so I can get out there with Laurel and the kids. I second a hot spring trip. The oregon aquarium is pretty decent actually, but you can stretch the whole thing into 2 hours. Sea world is way better. Hiking sounds interesting, I usually didn't do a lot be...

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