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Posted: Nov 15 2008 09:45 pm

JRA wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

One of those barrett rifles has a range of several miles. Private Pyle's dumb ass could do it.

Miles? That'd have to be from a Helicopter. There's no urban area in theis country where that could be pulled off.

I'm no military expert, but I'm pretty sure that's what I read. It could be done in mountainous regions.

Posted: Nov 15 2008 09:49 pm

I like how everyone is looking into the logistics of killing our president elect Rolling Eyes

Posted: Nov 15 2008 09:58 pm

Ermac wrote:

I like how everyone is looking into the logistics of killing our president elect Rolling Eyes

It's more about pondering the logistics of how someone of sub-par intelligence could still pull it off.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Syd, you are truly blessed to have grown up without seeing racism around you. I have seen it in non-violent forms a few times in my life. Sadly some of those experiences were in Massachussets, though the majority of them were not.

As far as our President Elect is concerned, I am eager for him to take office and am proud to call him President. I will say that although I voted against President Bush (Jr), I was proud to call him President until he disappointed me through action.

While I wish that Americans with hatred towards other races would suddenly be enlightened, I at least want them to judge Obama by his actions and not by his color.

I don't know enough about the security situation with the President to comment on what is realistic as far as his safety is concerned, but I hope that he is in fact guarded well and that he is able to run a full term in office without being attacked in any way.

What scares me is that the will of man is an amazing thing:

* David Blaine holding his breath for 17+ minutes

* Joey Chestnut eating 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.

* Dean Karnazes running 350 miles non stop.

These people all pushed the limits of their abilities. They each did it for their own reasons. Someone who had a bad reason and motivation could be very deadly.

Posted: Nov 15 2008 10:31 pm

Oh man, don't even get me started about the rascism in this town. I grew up in Arizona so I grew up with a lot of mexican and black friends. Moving to a somewhat small Wisconsin town after that is kind of a shock. So many people around here have this idea that every hispanic in this town (there are like, 10) is a thief. I brought a kid over to my house once to play games and he was amazed my bike hadn't gotten stolen since my apartment building has hispanics in it. The kids at my school pull this shit with Obama too. We had a mock election at out school a couple weeks ago. When they announced that Obama won everyone started stomping around and complaining, and I heard a kid say "Stupid n*****" It really makes me sick sometimes.

Joined: Apr 01 2008 Posts: 67

I don't think anybody expected this election to eliminate racism entirely. Racism will last a few more generations at least - hell a lot of Americans alive today were around for the civil rights movement and desegregation. The fact of the matter is that this election IS a triumph over racism, the presence of backwoods hillbilly retards notwithstanding.

Frankly, a barrage of death threats and assassination attempts comes with the territory of being the first black president, and I think Obama himself has know that from the start. Just as long as he lives to be sworn in, I'll take this whole thing as a step in the right direction.

Oh, and on a side note, does anyone else know like, a ton of actual racists who voted for Obama?

Actual conversation:

"The President of the United States is a FUCKIN N****R!!"

"Who did you vote for then?"

"The n****r!"

HAHAHAHA!! Thank god white supremacy seems to be on fucking life support right now.[/i]

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

This is the reason other countries think Americans are retarded. We like to preach equality and that we are better then everyone else when it come to diversity but in reality we are probably more racist then other counties. Look at this, it took 43 terms of the presidency to final have some one who is not a white male to be elected and now we have the people out in the planes thinking the world is coming to an end. The next 4 years are going to really test american belief system.

Also, Obama knew his life would be on the line when he got elected, more so then any other president in decades. So does the government and Obama's safety is going to be number one.

Posted: Nov 16 2008 02:13 am

We are definitely less racist than other countries. Japan is pretty bad, french can't stand anyone that even speaks their language incorrectly, and theres a who's who of countries that wage near perpetual wars between what to the outsider seem to be nominal differences in culture.

The racist people I've met are old white people and mexicans. One said "I voted for the monkey", and I'm trying to wean more than one off one their more colorful phrases to "juryrigging" as in an impromtu repair.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Rural Central PA is weird with the racism. They toss out the N word like nobody would believe, but it doesn't really speak about their hatred. It was funny how everybody in my old town was like "I hate that socialist n****r," then the week after his big television thing, the same people were saying "I'm going to vote for that n****r." Exact words, not joking.

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Also, someone mentioned REAL progress with race, and I agree completely. Obama's election isn't going to change squat. If he does well, then maybe that will convert a lot of people away from their ignorance. The problem is, people are putting too much into "firsts" when it comes to equality in this country. It was like that with the vice-presidents this year. For women's rights, you had the choice of sending the first female VP who was against abortion, probably against equal pay laws (don't know, but she is pretty far-right), and made women pay for rape treatment. Or you could have another musty old male VP, but who had a pretty big laundry list of female equality legislation under his belt. It's a complicated bag, and different in degrees.

Title: Wise Ass Joined: Jul 23 2007 Posts: 553

I really hate racism and racist people. When will people understand that it doesn't matter if you are black or white, the only color that matters is green?

Yeah, I stole that from Family Guy, but I find it a good line from back when the show was really good.

Posted: Nov 16 2008 01:55 pm

I just think it's funny that racism is a problem at all in this day and age. I mean, really? Literally, the only thing that makes us different from anyone else is surface skin color, that's it; white people aren't smarter, Muslims aren't terrorists, black people aren't dumber, Hispanic people aren't lazy thieves, Asians aren't mathematical whizzes with small dicks, people are who they are because of their personalities and their upbringing (not only those two factors obviously, but I'm simplifying.) If anything, I'd say that I hate more white people I know than people of any other race I know.

I think the best is the people who don't think they're racist but if you listen to them for five seconds, it's obvious that they are. Like I work with a trashbag of a woman whom I hate (for many reasons), and she'll jump at any chance to point out to you that she's not racist, yet I've overheard her saying that if her daughter ever dated a black man, she'd never talk to her again and the other day, when I was trying to point out how stupid it is to be racist in fact, she had been nodding along and agreeing with everything I said until I said "Every Muslim is not a terrorist", then she sucked in her breath in a disapproving hiss and said "Well..." When I confronted her on it and said again EVERY MUSLIM IS NOT A TERRORIST, she just backed down and wouldn't answer.

Joined: Apr 01 2008 Posts: 67

Greg the White wrote:

For women's rights, you had the choice of sending the first female VP who was against abortion, probably against equal pay laws (don't know, but she is pretty far-right), and made women pay for rape treatment.

I though this was pretty funny:

As for the record, yes, the Eskimo whore was against equal pay laws.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

AncientAtBirth wrote:

Greg the White wrote:

For women's rights, you had the choice of sending the first female VP who was against abortion, probably against equal pay laws (don't know, but she is pretty far-right), and made women pay for rape treatment.

I though this was pretty funny:

As for the record, yes, the Eskimo whore was against equal pay laws.

So wait, palin was brought on board to get the feminist vote yet she was completely against most of their beliefs. Damn . . . the republicans really screwed up this time around!

Posted: Nov 16 2008 05:28 pm

She wasn't brought on board to get feminists. Feminazis are all PAINFULLY liberal, so they knew going in she wouldn't get them that vote. She was brought on board to add diversity to the ticket and to energize the conservative base.

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AncientAtBirth wrote:

As for the record, yes, the Eskimo whore was against equal pay laws.

I'm not sure about the accuracy of this. There's been a lot of B.S. floating around about her lately, and the mainstream media hasn't been helpful. She's a threat so she's been targeted.

...And how is she a whore? She's a married woman. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Nov 17 2008 11:34 am

They were also hoping to pick up Hillary supporters, and it worked at the time. Working white women saw their story in her. Later they voted democrat anyway so thats the end of that.

Feminists hated her from the start, and it was a constant battle between them to defend her from sexist attacks from the progressive side calling her an ignorant cunt and whatnot or to throw up their hands and join in the full blown assault due to her pretty much completely antifeminist agenda.

Joined: Apr 01 2008 Posts: 67

Syd Lexia wrote:

She wasn't brought on board to get feminists. Feminazis are all PAINFULLY liberal, so they knew going in she wouldn't get them that vote.

I don't know that she was brought on to get the femminist vote, but she was pretty clearly put on the ticket to get the 'Hillary democrats' vote. There's no other explanation as to why John McCain would undercut all of his best campaign arguments (Obama lacks experience, etc.) with his VP choice.

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I'm not sure about the accuracy of this. There's been a lot of B.S. floating around about her lately, and the mainstream media hasn't been helpful.

From Wikipedia:

According to the McCain campaign, Palin favors the concept of equal pay for women. However, she opposes the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would allow more time for victims of employment discrimination to bring suit under the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The bill would overturn the United States Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. There the Court held that the time period of 180 days within which to bring suit was to be calculated from the first affected paycheck, even if the plaintiff had not yet discovered the discrimination. The bill would begin this statute of limitations period from the receipt of the most recent affected paycheck.

Although like Obama on a number of issues, she hasn't really been in office long enough for anyone to get a solid idea of where she stands.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

AncientAtBirth wrote:

Although like Obama on a number of issues, she hasn't really been in office long enough for anyone to get a solid idea of where she stands.

Agreed, but the opposition to the Ledbetter Act is most likely an ideological dispute for her, siding with management opposed to an act favoring labor and giving an employee almost no statute of limitations to file a claim. Do you know how many frivolous Title VII lawsuits my firm deals with all the time? We have one large class action over this issue that has lasted almost five years. These things clog the courts and delay valid Title VII violations and cast a cloud of suspicion around real victims. The Ledbetter decision is good law; it decreases the amount of frivolous lawsuits by bitter former employees.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Whatever, I really don't like what she stood for. I can at least respect conservatives like the Buckleys, because they upheld that conservatives benefit from being well-read, intelligent beings who embrace all walks of life. According to Palin and others of her ilk (I forget that Virginia guy's name now), because I did well in school and lean left politically, I'm not a "real" American like my fellow rural Pennsylvanians, and should be forgotten. I really hope that disapproval of her in this election politically destroys the neo-cons, and allows more reasonable conservatives to gain hold on their parties (I actually am in agreeance with certain fiscal and economic conservative ideals, and I voted for Glenn Thompson in my district, so, yeah...).

Posted: Nov 17 2008 06:10 pm

2 fun facts for you. I live in the same state as Greg, but where I live currently, in Dauphin County, where the Capital Harrisburg is, African Americans are not the minority, statistically speaking for those that live within the county. Also, by 2042, from what I have read is the trends continue, Caucasians will be the minority. It's the browning of the world folks, and I for one am happy about it.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

...yes, because all white people are evil & racist. Rolling Eyes

Joined: Aug 04 2008 Posts: 18

I know racism is alive and well in America. As a Hispanic I've had a couple racial slurs thrown my way(and immigration issues aren't helping). Though to be honest I've never really been that offened by them.

A lot of elderly people are racist but some are just stuck in old ways. An old women next door uses some words that could be thought of as racist. It was shocking at first, until I relized that that was just the way they spoke when she was growing up and she is really a good hearted lady.

Also, I hate people who accuse others of being racist over nothing. A black friend of mine thinks any white person who doesn't get on their knees and kiss his feet are racist.

Posted: Nov 17 2008 09:52 pm

I never saw any point to hating a whole race, every racist I've ever talked to gives a personal example of someone from another race harming them as their justification for their racism, but they never answer YES to my question of "If I and all my white friends robbed you at gunpoint, would you hate your own race?. So I still can't wrap my brain around how it makes sense to them. The way I look at it is this, everyone bleeds the same color, we all cry and laugh and rant and poop. So I don't see different skin tones / cultural differences as a hurdle or something negative when meeting someone, I kind of think it's neat to hear about different places and things. and stuff and junk. Neutral

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Blackout wrote:

I never saw any point to hating a whole race, every racist I've ever talked to gives a personal example of someone from another race harming them as their justification for their racism, but they never answer YES to my question of "If I and all my white friends robbed you at gunpoint, would you hate your own race?. So I still can't wrap my brain around how it makes sense to them. The way I look at it is this, everyone bleeds the same color, we all cry and laugh and rant and poop. So I don't see different skin tones / cultural differences as a hurdle or something negative when meeting someone, I kind of think it's neat to hear about different places and things. and stuff and junk. Neutral

I think it's got to do with stereotypes. At first most are harmless assumptions but when people see real life examples, like a black man robs a 7-11 or an Asian Scientist creating the ultimate death machine, people start to become racist out of fear, thinking the whole race is like that out of assumption.

Posted: Nov 17 2008 10:06 pm

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

Blackout wrote:

I never saw any point to hating a whole race, every racist I've ever talked to gives a personal example of someone from another race harming them as their justification for their racism, but they never answer YES to my question of "If I and all my white friends robbed you at gunpoint, would you hate your own race?. So I still can't wrap my brain around how it makes sense to them. The way I look at it is this, everyone bleeds the same color, we all cry and laugh and rant and poop. So I don't see different skin tones / cultural differences as a hurdle or something negative when meeting someone, I kind of think it's neat to hear about different places and things. and stuff and junk. Neutral

I think it's got to do with stereotypes. At first most are harmless assumptions but when people see real life examples, like a black man robs a 7-11 or an Asian Scientist creating the ultimate death machine, people start to become racist out of fear, thinking the whole race is like that out of assumption.

Yeah really, who remembers all the paranoia about Arab Americans after 911? Rolling Eyes

There's a dude with a turban and a giant beard that's worked in one of the 711 in my part of town for years, and as soon as 911 happened and all those stupid attacks against Arab Americans happened, he shaved his beard took off his turban and now looks like everyone else. It's pretty lame he felt threatened enough to go through that imo. Sadly no