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Murph

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the way I see it,

 

 

this guy pretty much nails it......

 

Bingo.

 

I can't, for the life of me, understand why it's taking so long for people to get this. My generation protested for the Government to get out of our lives, now people protest AGAINST free speech, FOR more Government and FOR LESS freedom.

 

It's really weird. All of us are losing our cultures.

 

Maybe the NEXT generation is coming around.

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SteveFord

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I'm happy to say I've never eaten a Tiger's penis nor have I sucked on a baby's bleeding wiener nor had the thought ever crossed my mind.

 

This fellow will probably be accused of xenophobia but I think he's right - there's civilized cultures and then there's are you people insane?

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I'm happy to say I've never eaten a Tiger's penis nor have I sucked on a baby's bleeding wiener nor had the thought ever crossed my mind.

 

This fellow will probably be accused of xenophobia but I think he's right - there's civilized cultures and then there's are you people insane?

 

 

there's no doubt he will be

 

does not mean what he says is not true

 

an illegal immigrant doesn't want to be called an illegal immigrant, yet, by definition, it's what they are.

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SteveFord

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One of my favorite authors is Voltaire and if you haven't read Candide, it's about a young man who travels about and sees the craziness that actually exists in the world.

At the end of the book he decides that it's best to tend his own garden and I think that's the course for me.

 

I think I'll put on Alvin Lee's I'd Love To Change The World and call it a day.

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I'm happy to say I've never eaten a Tiger's penis nor have I sucked on a baby's bleeding wiener nor had the thought ever crossed my mind.

 

This fellow will probably be accused of xenophobia but I think he's right - there's civilized cultures and then there's are you people insane?

 

xenepobia = words that are designed to stifle free speech! If they can control our thoughts then they will do that next!

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msp_confused.gif What? When you don't know what to say, the word is: "SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIELADOCIOUS." My wife used to give our last dog, Smokey, these Bully bones from Petco and he loved them. They did really stink though, I thought. Later on, we found out that they were a dried Bull penis. We didn't know and since they stunk so bad, we quit giving them to him.
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badbluesplayer

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Yeah, we have it pretty easy in the US when it comes to people doing really weird stuff. Our culture's pretty decent overall.

 

As I'm getting older though, I'm starting to realize that we put way too many people in jail here. I always felt like that, but now it's more obvious.

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SteveFord

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Speaking of people being thrown in jail, whatever happened to those Axis Of Evil guys from Gibson USA (the ones seen in the videos at the trade shows)?

Are they still running loose or did the cops finally pick them up?

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american cheez

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Yeah, we have it pretty easy in the US when it comes to people doing really weird stuff. Our culture's pretty decent overall.

 

As I'm getting older though, I'm starting to realize that we put way too many people in jail here. I always felt like that, but now it's more obvious.

 

 

if you look it up, america jails more citizens per capita than any other nation on the entire earth. that's an easily verifiable, undeniable fact. it's because the prisons are privately owned. a fine example of corporate hegemony if there ever was one. i wonder what other countries think of that? i doubt that would be something they'd view and come to the same conclusion, that our culture is pretty decent after all. i mean, when you jail more of your citizens, in a supposedly free country, than north korea, (where they execute people with anti aircraft guns, and tiger pits) i'd say the culture has some serious flaws that need immediate correction.

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The problem isn't that the prisons are privately owned. The problem is that we (Americans) demand everything we don't like be made illegal and then demand harsh sentences for those to still do the things we don't like. Prison privatization came as a result of prison over population. Prison over population came as a result of "get tough on crime" politicians passing Three Strikes = You're Out laws and Mandatory Minimum sentencing laws.

 

There is currently a man sitting in prison serving 25 years to life for stealing VHS tapes. If he's out in 25 it will cost the tax payers $1,100,000. So now we need to raise taxes.. Privet prisons didn't put him there... Laws did.

 

Here in Tennessee we have a law that says you can not drive faster that 65MPH on Bailey Parkway. We just passed another law that says if you in the left lane doing 70MPH trying to overtake a car that's dong 60MPH in the right hand lane and someone comes up behind you doing 85MPH you are breaking the law by being in the 85MPH cars way. We have a law that says it's illegal to drive while distracted. Then we pass another law to say it's illegal to drive while distracted by texting on a cell phone. We do not have another law making it illegal to drive while distracted by talking on a cell phone. However, even without the law about driving while distracted while talking on the cell phone, it's still illegal to drive while distracted by talking on a cell phone because it's illegal to drive while distracted. It's also illegal to drive while distracted by eating a cheese burger even though there is no special provisions regarding cheese burgers on the books.

 

We pass laws on top of laws on top of laws... To the thunderous applause of the masses. Every time anything happened in the US that captures headlines we say "There should be a law!!!" because some 15 year old crashed while driving and texting.

 

It's what we want so it's what our law makers give us.

 

Then we wonder why our jails are full. :rolleyes:

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OldCowboy

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This thread reminds me of a topic I used to pose to my writing students when they were learning logical development: What do you get when you enact more laws? The answer, usually developed in the most logical fashion, that didn't appear too often in student essays was pretty simple: more criminals. Some answers - well, lots, to be fair - sounded pretty good initially, but tended to fall apart as they were developed. Support via the usual list of logical fallacies abounded simply because that was the only way to build support for the notions proposed. Sadly, to me, we appear to live in an illogical society.

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OldCowboy

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People living on the South side of Chicago might have a different opinion.

Send the really bad guys to Texas - we have ways of dealing with them; NOBODY needs to put up with a south side of Chicago environment.

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badbluesplayer

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Hey check out the new season of my favorite show - Southern Justice. A bunch of good ol' cops dealing with bad ol' choices. They follow a couple of local sheriffs' offices around here where I live. The deputies are usually rounding up the same old guys for parole violations or something. Guys stumbling around in the road holding a beer or falling through their inlaw's window. That kind of stuff.

 

The deputy will be like "Well Johnny, we've got to take you down to the courthouse. You can finish your macaroni and cheese and then you can smoke a cigarette while your wife gets your oxygen tank." The guy'll be like "It is ok if I brang a couple of beers with me?"

 

Nobody gets shot in this show and the cops couldn't bring themselves to hurt a flea. Good people.

 

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/southern-justice/

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