In the news today

[XanBcoo]

"The planet is fine....the PEOPLE are fucked." George Carlin

Oh, you asshole, I was JUST searching for that clip and about to post it when you beat me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw#t=2m25s

[The Heretic Azazel]

The planet isn't going anywhere... WE ARE.

Win.

[Pandadice]

O'Railly hates Gays

[XanBcoo]

No one should care. Before that he made a comment comparing Transgendered people to Ewoks.

Bill O'Reilly and his Fox friends should be treated like an old, racist, senile person at a family gathering who won't stop going on about how things were much better before the darkies got the vote.

Paying attention to dumb comments like that is the worst thing you can do.

[Penner]

lol "the darkies", never heard that one before :P

[XanBcoo]

Speaking of racism, not to be outdone by the rest of the South, Arizona quickly pulls ahead in the "Most Racist State" competition:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html

An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin.

Really, the exact words were more like "Lighten the skin," as if that makes it any better.

[Pandadice]

Speaking of racism, not to be outdone by the rest of the South, Arizona quickly pulls ahead in the "Most Racist State" competition:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html



Really, the exact words were more like "Lighten the skin," as if that makes it any better.

there are no "two sides to this story." This is not something you need to have a panel discussion about. CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced."

rofl, it reminds me of that time they talked about blackface...

[The Heretic Azazel]

Speaking of racism, not to be outdone by the rest of the South, Arizona quickly pulls ahead in the "Most Racist State" competition:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html

Really, the exact words were more like "Lighten the skin," as if that makes it any better.

Attention non-whites:

You are not fucking welcome in Arizona. Steer clear.

[Assertn]

Well I'm not sure what their beef is with blacks, but Arizona has been subjected to a lot of state-wide problems involving illegal mexican immigrants, so I wouldn't say that racism would be unfounded.

[XanBcoo]

lol, there is a difference between thinking "There are so many Mexicans here, Goddamn" and a school official lightening the skin color on a mural.

[Sapphire]

UPDATE: Good news. The gutless, carbound racists lost, and the mural is being restored to its "original theme." Jeff Lane, the principal of Miller Valley Elementary School, and Kevin Kapp, the school superintendent, showed up at a protest today to apologize for giving in to whims of mentally deranged adults, spewing racial epithets at a painting:

It looks like the racists lost this time.

[Death BOO Z]

but they lost to wide spread public uproar, not to common sense.

which means that decent humanity isn't enough.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Autistic Boy Faces Felony Rap for Stick-Figure Sketch

[Death BOO Z]

I'm getting a feeling that whenever Americans say "zero tolerance", they actually that they aren't going to invest the tiniest bits of common sense to the subject.
seriously, USA, get your shit together, people are looking up to you.

[rockmanj]

I'm getting a feeling that whenever Americans say "zero tolerance", they actually that they aren't going to invest the tiniest bits of common sense to the subject.
seriously, USA, get your shit together, people are looking up to you.

I think it is high time people stop looking up to the US, but I am probably in the minority.

[Animeniax]

I think it is high time people stop looking up to the US, but I am probably in the minority.

I agree, though I'd prefer the US made changes to become that beacon that it once was so people would be justified in looking up to the US again.

[Ryllharu]

I think it would be pretty funny to see what happens to the world if the US goes isolationist. Recall all troops from all foreign bases, end all foreign aid, close borders, etc.

I don't really think I'd be that wrong saying that the US is relied on for a lot of things, and while people from other countries sure like to complain about the US being here or there, when it comes down to it, a lot of things the US does are taken for granted.

Yes, the US can do a lot to improve its image and relationship with the world. It remains possible for the US to become that ideal it once seemed to be, but it isn't going to happen tomorrow, one political leader isn't going to make a difference, and it is going to be a very painful wake-up call for a lot of Americans.

I think that certain other countries may want to think twice about what would happen if they told the US to fuck off and someone in power over here actually listened.


(This soapbox rant didn't have much to do with the topic at hand, but I was on a roll for some reason.)

[Penner]

The recurring prop newspaper

My mind just got blown!

[Death BOO Z]

hmm, I thought it was going to be the one with taxes from the old movies, where's there's always a headline about alien zombies, with a side story about 'petition against taxes'.

[darkshadow]

Yeah I noticed that a few years ago, when watching scrubs and 70's show back to back on comedy central. Since then I can't really unsee it ;P.

I think it's become somewhat of a "wilhelm scream" that also get's reused in media till infinity.