he's a kraut spy!

/throws Einstein at the goon towers with cans on his legs

sad

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(19 replies, posted in Politics)

LOL that's a quote from "Network" it was made in 1970 about a anchorman who goes crazy on camera

actually it is quite outdated

it said suppose big corporations bought networks (which happened) and the news was run by the entertainment division (which happened) and the news got stupid and tabloid and did polls and put on psychics (which happened) and censored the news to keep attention away from deals the big corporation made with US enemies (which happened)

but back then that was crazy impossible stuff

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(4 replies, posted in General)

Unless we can figure out a way to pass him off to the Russians, it looks like America is stuck with Justin Bieber. Canada's not taking him back — not after their men's Olympic hockey team shut out Team USA 1-0 in the semifinals in Sochi.

Now Team USA won't advance to the gold-medal game, and it lost the not-so-real Bieber bet dreamt up by Chicago's Command Transportation. Rats, because a gold medal and no more Bieber would have been like winning a gold medal, a platinum medal and a bacon medal all in one.


Command Transportation was quick to update its electronic billboard Friday after the loss. The new version is a bit sad, but we can't lie, it's also pretty funny.

Two out of the three doesn't work, because as Canadian hockey will tell you, their teams already beat the Americans twice in the best two days. It seems like our best bet is selling The Biebs to the Russians so he can perform a 40-year residency at Fisht Olympic Stadium. They'll need something to do with it once the Sochi Games are finished. Heck, the "Nightmare Bear" Olympics mascot can be his opening act.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics- … 04934.html


3 out of 5?  Please?

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(19 replies, posted in Politics)

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy. 

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad! 

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, 

"I'm as mad as hell,

and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

Soviet psychiatric hospitals did exactly that, but quoting facts in arguments breaks some sort of meme

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

It's a legal euthanasia thread.   Certain topics, like "ethnocentric dictatorships in Europe, Yes or No" have a prime example that pops up like a smart kid full of pixie sticks

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

??

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eutha … aganda.jpg

Why is the word "undisputed" in your post?  Do you know what "undisputed" means?  Do you think it different from people who "discount" your opinions?

I'm a loser because I didn't read the proof you didn't bother to post.  Huh?

"Then you go on to misquote the 41% reference which is not "drug users" but merely "people who have tried pot at least once." It's plain to see that you did not, in fact, read anything I wrote."

Where did you write that before? Didn't you just try to club me with 41% without explaining it?  What's the actual number of regular illegal drug users?  If you can't know, then what business do you have arguing I have to accept that it won't increase after legalization?  What if it has every time, but the difference between unknown and known can't be measured?

Every read "Wiseguy", the book they made "Goodfellas" off of?  You know what they got Jimmy the Gent for?  He killed a guy for selling him bad coke.  He paid $250,000 for wholesale cocaine to retail and it was garbage powder.   I don't think he whacked him because he was denied the opportunity to sue him in federal court.  Jimmy the Gent also hijacked trucks of legal goods and fenced the swag.  I suppose there's a way to legalize that to knock the bottom out of his market, but it escapes me.

I don't think 20-40% of the public uses $700/oz. legal pharmaceuticals.  If they did, there'd be violence involved there too.

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(38 replies, posted in Politics)

The Davy Crockett recoilless spigot gun was developed in the late 1950s for use against Soviet armor and troops if war broke out in Europe. Davy Crockett Sections were assigned to USAREUR (United States Army Europe) armor and mechanized and non-mechanized infantry battalions. During alerts to the Inner German border in the Fulda Gap the Davy Crocketts accompanied their battalions.

...The M-388 round used a version of the W54 warhead, a very small sub-kiloton fission device. The Mk-54 weighed about 51 lb (23 kg), with a yield equivalent to somewhere between 10 or 20 tons of TNT— very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead.

The M-388 could be launched from either of two launchers known as the Davy Crockett Weapon System(s): the 4-inch (120 mm) M28, with a range of about 1.25 mi (2 km), or the 6.1-in (155 mm) M29, with a range of 2.5 mi (4 km).

...Both recoilless guns proved to have poor accuracy in testing, so the shell's greatest effect would have been its extreme radiation hazard. The M-388 would produce an almost instantly lethal radiation dosage (in excess of 10,000 rem) within 500 feet (150 m), and a probably fatal dose (around 600 rem) within a quarter mile (400 m).[3]

At 2km the crew would have suffered 2nd degree burns and probable blast damage if not fatal radiation.

I think things like that are why Europe grew up to hold us at arms length

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(38 replies, posted in Politics)

If an American buys tax-free cigarettes off an Indian reservation, packs them in a boat, ships them to Europe and doesn't pay European import duties on them, or European sales tax, when is the crime committed? And when is the US govt supposed to intervene?

BTW Einstein next time you're headed to Los Angeles can you get me some cigarettes? Say, 400 cartons

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(38 replies, posted in Politics)

Mexicans get paid by Obama to take your job Einstein

389

(38 replies, posted in Politics)

I agree with Jesse Jackson when he says we have no free trade, we have managed trade

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

Those examples involve thousands of people in the profession at the highest level. 

yeah I have no blind faith in any professional

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

look it up Einstein

Japan had a biowar unit that created fleas with bubonic plague, put them in clay pots and dropped them into Chinese villages

Hitler didn't go to German doctors and order them to kill the retarded and experiment giving disease to pregnant Jews and checking the effect of the disease at different stages of pregnancy by having scheduled abortions, adn freezing healthy people to death-- the doctors asked Hitler to be allowed to do those experiments

and of course you've heard about Tuskegee experiment, where healthy American blacks were given syphillis and no treatment by the Roosevelt Administration, and the bureaucrats in the Truman kept it going without telling them, and so did the Kennedy Admin, the Johnson Admin, and the Nixon Admin.  Did you also know that in 1922 the US Supreme Court upheld the mandatory involuntary sterilization of a mentally retarded woman because the state of Maryland had a compelling interest in her genes dying out?

and only recently they decided to experiment on millions of Americans needing CPR -- there's the old way, but they came up with a new way to save unconscious people.  Only, they don't know if it will work so well...so what they did was, you call 911, they show up, and half the time they use old CPR and half the time they'll use new CPR, and after a couple million tries they'll know if the new one is better or as good as the old one.  Let's hope they don't turn out to kill people who could have been saved if they just stuck to the old way.

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

holds no weight with me, because I remember when no decent psychiatrist supported euthanasia.

The medical profession has no innate sense of morals, they must be governed by others not in their profession.  They proved that in the 20th century by supporting mass ethnic cleansing, euthanasia of "undesirables" and experimenting on lesser races, both in America and Europe and Asia

If he'd been able to go to Walgreens he'd have got a list of drugs not to take with heroin

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

children need to hear that life is worth living and their despair can be corrected as a learned behavior

anything else is cruel and a waste of humans

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

"I hate my life! I want to DIE"

"OK let's see...nope sorry you don't qualify to die"

Yeah that'll help.

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

>.you are aware this involuntary euthanasia thing in holland is fictional, right?<<

Not according to the Dutch government.

>>as far as lonely fat girls requesting euthanasia en masse (teehee), surely that'd be stopped by either their parents and/or the psychological report. its not a matter of feeling blue for 5 minutes, walking to the local apothecary and being served with a lethal dose.<<

I worked copying medical records in ahospital with a bulimic unit.  I'd have to go up there to copy the files for the court appearance because the girl was being committed.  It's not cheerful seeing a 45 kilo teen who drinks 12 cans of soda to vomit all her food up to lose fat.  Right now, if they wanted actually to die,  it would be proof of mental illness. The desire itself would be mental illness.  We gain nothing by saying, "OK wait, maybe she's got a point".

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

United Kingdom

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

What I can choose for myself, the state can ordain for me.  Especially medical care if I'm "incapable" of deciding, in the state's opinion.

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And before someone says "what about ____'s general interest in preserving life," that isn't a discussion germane to this debate because it's true of all euthanasia, not Belgium's issue here of expanding an existing euthanasia regime to include minors.  Sure, that's a debate that can be had, but it's not the interesting debate in this thread.

That is like opening a thread on Dutch sex slaves and then saying you don't want to hear about the UN Charter cause that goes beyond the fun of Dutch sex slavery.

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(35 replies, posted in Politics)

If they want to die they are not in full possession of their mental faculties.   This sort of nonsense is going to lead to hundreds of teen girls killing themselves for being fat and lonely and the authorities refusing to step in.  It's their RIGHT!

We know from the Dutch example that dozens of patients were killed without making a request.  And then we have the example of the Liverpool Care Pathway which does the same thing by withholding water, without patient's requesting it.