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Re: Administration drills down to find the uninsured

kill_the_wabbit — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:06:56 -0000

So... A map of the United States that shows the counties with the largest populations. You've published a map of the counties with the largest populations. That is what you have done.

Re: The weapon of the new Cold War: gay athletes

kill_the_wabbit — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:29:58 -0000

Shorter IOC: It makes our accounting and marketing departments nervous when the Olympics are associated with anything other than emotional treacle and national chauvinism. This is why we are able to pass off cutthroat competition among large and wealthy nations as "togetherness." It is immaterial to this conversation on violations of individual rights that the IOC presents all countries as political equals even though it's an open secret that several of participating countries routinely commit atrocities against the very athletes we ostensibly celebrate. Now stop asking questions and get into the freaking gift shop.

(Okay, not "shorter.")

Re: Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Says He Won't 'Go To The Strip Clubs Anymore' (VIDEO)

kill_the_wabbit — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:25:21 -0000

Yep. That looks like Hidden Beach to me, too. Also, it's entirely too easy to get your name on the ballot in this city. Also, I know ranked-choice voting only allows us to pick our top three candidates, but now I want to have a spot for a Jesse Ventura Award for Most Appealingly Incoherent Candidate.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:23:05 -0000

Yeah! Quiet down, everyone else, because Death_Star is telling us when we have the right to express our opinions.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:14:22 -0000

So if the Japanese named one of their baseball teams the Pearl Harbor Drowning Sailors, you'd congratulate them for how rough 'n' tough they were?

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:12:14 -0000

Well, the difference is that Norwegians weren't routinely forced onto reservations and had their entire ways of life taken away from them by force. This would sort of be like the PLO having a basketball teamed named the Beirut Jesus Freaks, and they dressed up like Christ on the cross. Then when somebody complained, they told them to grow a thick skin, because they were just "honoring" Christians.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:07:01 -0000

So the single most important issue to you is whether or not you can call baseball players a name that a bunch of people find offensive?

You already sound like a Republican, dude.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:03:43 -0000

Gold miners aren't an ethnic group. Gold miners have never been forced off their land, had their children, religion and language taken away and signed treaties with the U.S. government that were subsequently broken. If this had happened to angels, it might be a different story. But it didn't.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:03:29 -0000

Bird lovers aren't an ethnic group. Bird lovers have never been forced off their land, had their children, religion and language taken away and signed treaties with the U.S. government that were subsequently broken. If this had happened to angels, it might be a different story. But it didn't.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:03:13 -0000

Angels aren't an ethnic group. Angels have never been forced off their land, had their children, religion and language taken away and signed treaties with the U.S. government that were subsequently broken. If this had happened to angels, it might be a different story. But it didn't.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:02:04 -0000

Sailors aren't an ethnic group. Sailors were never forced off their land, had their children taken away, and forbidden to practice their religion or speak their language. Had they, I think it'd be a different story. But they didn't.

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:58:57 -0000

So a lot of the people this is supposed to honor are telling everyone that this doesn't honor them, and they're the jerks?

Re: Five Sports Mascots that Stir Up Controversy - ABC News

kill_the_wabbit — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:57:42 -0000

Do you always make decisions about how other people should feel? That sounds exhausting, too.

Re: Photos Of Wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev As He Was Captured By Police

kill_the_wabbit — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:33:26 -0000

Because due process is the root of radical Islamism.

Re: Colorado Counties Consider Secession Over Gun Laws, Oil Regulations

kill_the_wabbit — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:49:58 -0000

If you were to combine South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana, that's still a quarter million fewer people than in Minnesota. And right now, Minnesota has 10 electoral votes to those states' combined 17. These places seriously need to have their statehoods reexamined. (And I say that as someone who grew up in one of those states.)

Re: Oklahoma Toddler Shot In Shoulder While Watching Fireworks Show

kill_the_wabbit — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:35:25 -0000

When I can drive a gun to work, I'll believe you.

Re: Netflix Looks To Hook Subscribers With ‘Arrested Development’

kill_the_wabbit — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:08:23 -0000

"Empowering" people to watch a whole series in a few days? Really, AP?

Re: How the Mormons Ensured Victory for Gay Marriage

kill_the_wabbit — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:07:42 -0000

The Bible doesn't back up many claims unambiguously. That was my point.

Re: How the Mormons Ensured Victory for Gay Marriage

kill_the_wabbit — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:48:40 -0000

Matthew 6:1 "Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Luke 6:41 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

Romans 14:10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.

Re: Sioux City SUX, and that's OK

kill_the_wabbit — Sun, 05 May 2013 13:27:25 -0000

I hope the first thing that shrinks is ethanol subsidies for Iowa farmers.

Re: Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary

kill_the_wabbit — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:27:41 -0000

Historically speaking, however, leftists have much better aim.

Re: Wisconsin leads nation in black male incarceration rates

kill_the_wabbit — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:40:06 -0000

I like how you think the ugliest idea is the one that's the most true.

Re: Authorities respond to reports of gunfire on MIT campus

kill_the_wabbit — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:15:26 -0000

Deterrents, by definition, are just things that are effective at stopping crimes from happening. The death penalty by definition isn't a deterrent. It's revenge. So there's that.

Re: Boston Marathon bombs have hallmarks of 'lone wolf' devices, experts say

kill_the_wabbit — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:29:39 -0000

It's sad because guns, like nails and pressure cookers, are primarily used to build houses and fry chicken.

Re: The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

kill_the_wabbit — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:54:23 -0000

No, I really don't.