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- February 7, 2016, 3:41 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Mind Boggling Scale of the known universe (image intensive)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7483
Re: Mind Boggling Scale of the known universe (image intensi
Wow. Surprised this board still exists. Not surprised that, if anyone, Winnow would be posting. Is Everquest still happening anywhere for y'all? I do feel nostalgic sometimes.
- October 13, 2011, 8:22 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Occupy Wall Street Protests
- Replies: 134
- Views: 22470
Re: Pac 16
OU won't ever join the SEC. The football is too tough. They like the idea of playing 2-3 meaningful games a year ... getting through those and having a clear path the MNC. Same goes for UT. Okie lite will do whatever OU says.
UT won't join SEC because of academics.
UT won't join SEC because of academics.
Re: Pac 16
UT will end the superconference discussion, not start it. That's advantageous for my school keeping the Longhorn Network (which I've heard so much about and never seen ... and I live in Austin). This whole debacle is disgusting IMO. The Big 12 (-2-1) lives!!! PAC won't take OU without UT. That's the...
- September 23, 2011, 11:28 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: I'm simply blown away...
- Replies: 86
- Views: 33633
Re: I'm simply blown away...
she is quite dense ... i think you're onto something
- September 23, 2011, 11:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
- Replies: 257
- Views: 46005
Re: Batshit Insane 2012
read it twice shit heads
- September 23, 2011, 11:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
- Replies: 257
- Views: 46005
Re: Batshit Insane 2012
Government is out last protection from the free market. De-regulation caused this recession. The GOP is a party based in fear. Fear of homosexuals, fear of blacks, fear that someone is trying to steal your grub. Rick Santorum will tell you he supports the soldiers as long as they're heterosexual. Th...
- September 23, 2011, 11:26 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
- Replies: 257
- Views: 46005
Re: Batshit Insane 2012
Government is out last protection from the free market. De-regulation caused this recession. The GOP is a party based in fear. Fear of homosexuals, fear of blacks, fear that someone is trying to steal your grub. Rick Santorum will tell you he supports the soldiers as long as they're heterosexual. Th...
- July 14, 2011, 8:23 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: I just wish light bulbs were a partisan issue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 979
Re: I just wish light bulbs were a partisan issue
I don't vote for those shit bags. Don't blame me
- June 13, 2011, 3:54 am
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Grats Miami!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 22106
Re: Grats Miami!
I love everyone tonight.
All I can say on a "Grats Miami" thread right now is
GRATS DALLAS!
All I can say on a "Grats Miami" thread right now is
GRATS DALLAS!
- June 11, 2011, 2:53 am
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Grats Miami!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 22106
Re: Grats Miami!
not me. I am a lifelong mavericks fan, since I went to Derek Harper's All Star Basketball Camp after 5th grade. This series has been great. I am hoping I can make it through without having a heart attack. Rick Carlisle is coaching out of his mind. The zone defense is keeping bron bron out of the pai...
- May 9, 2011, 8:35 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Osama Bin Laden Dead
- Replies: 96
- Views: 14062
Re: Osama Bin Laden Dead
Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden is quite dead: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/us-obama-statement-idUSTRE74107920110506 That was a really retarded thing to post Winnow, and I'm guessing you did it in jest, but I can;t always tell. Should the US release the picture? Um, what does that prove? I...
- May 9, 2011, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Osama Bin Laden Dead
- Replies: 96
- Views: 14062
Re: Osama Bin Laden Dead
Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden is quite dead:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/ ... 7920110506
That was a really retarded thing to post Winnow, and I'm guessing you did it in jest, but I can;t always tell.
Should the US release the picture?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/ ... 7920110506
That was a really retarded thing to post Winnow, and I'm guessing you did it in jest, but I can;t always tell.
Should the US release the picture?
- April 16, 2011, 7:16 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Taxation
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11010
Re: Taxation
Seriously, *I* don't question Obama's citizenship in any way. I do love how y'all get riled up about stupid shit though. Why get riled up? Because his birth certificate has been out there since 2008. Why? because the birther movement is nothing but veiled racism. If Obama was white, there would be ...
- April 15, 2011, 8:22 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Taxation
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11010
Re: Taxation
I don't truly believe Donald Trump is a birther either. But still, he's williong to trot down that road to earn points in the polls. That his strategy is working is bolth an indictment of him and the Republican party.
- March 14, 2011, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Japan Earthquake/Tsunami
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7978
Re: Japan Earthquake/Tsunami
Here's an interesting before and after interactive satellite photo thing posted to the Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?hp?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB I wonder how this will affect nuclear power in the U.S. There had...
- February 16, 2011, 9:03 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Super Bowl XLV
- Replies: 62
- Views: 24750
Re: Super Bowl XLV
Top five QBs: 1. Peyton 2. Brady 3. Rodgers 4. Brees 5. Rivers I agree with this list, but I would put Brady on top and Rogers at the bottom. Its easy to rack up passing stats when your coach doesn't run the ball and you have really good recievers in abundance, like Rogers. Its a lot harder when yo...
- February 12, 2011, 6:50 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Super Bowl XLV
- Replies: 62
- Views: 24750
Re: Super Bowl XLV
Top five QBs:
1. Peyton
2. Brady
3. Rodgers
4. Brees
5. Rivers
1. Peyton
2. Brady
3. Rodgers
4. Brees
5. Rivers
- February 9, 2011, 5:17 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Super Bowl XLV
- Replies: 62
- Views: 24750
Re: Super Bowl XLV
I like y'all's attitude. Maybe we can rematch next year. Go Pack!
- February 8, 2011, 8:13 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Super Bowl XLV
- Replies: 62
- Views: 24750
Re: Super Bowl XLV
The game would have been a full blown ass whipping if Shields was 100% and Woodson stayed in. Donald Driver being out was no small loss either. Loved it how Jennings referred to him as the number 1 wide out. Respect for the veteran players shows a great attitude (especially from the obvious #1 wide ...
- February 3, 2011, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: NFL Playoffs
- Replies: 73
- Views: 29427
Re: NFL Playoffs
Predictions! Steelers 27 Packers 31 MVP: Aaron Rogers Betting line is Packers -2.5 Over under is 44.5 points. I'd take the Steelers and the over. I will not bet on this game though. I am a huge Packers fan. It is pretty surreal to me that they've made it this far. Hell, this team lost 7-3 to the Li...
- January 27, 2011, 5:20 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sports fanatics as bad as religious fanatics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2275
Re: Sports fanatics as bad as religious fanatics
At-will firing still requires a legitimate reason. For instance, my friend Mike was fired from a management job literally because he threw a party the same night that his company was throwing their Christmas party. They were pissed because his party was waaaay better and lots of employees chose goin...
- January 25, 2011, 8:21 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Sports fanatics as bad as religious fanatics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2275
Re: Sports fanatics as bad as religious fanatics
As long as the tie was not lewd or offensive, this man is likely entitled to a nice chunk of change for wrongful termination.
GO PACK
GO PACK
- January 18, 2011, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Reshoring (protectionism)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2368
Re: Reshoring (protectionism)
The US's manufacturing sector is actually growing quite steadily over the past 1 to 1.5 years. However, growth in the sector does not mean jobs. Unlike China, un-developed, and industrializing nations, the US manufactures very sophisticated products like health care equipment as an example. These pr...
- January 18, 2011, 3:39 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Reshoring (protectionism)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2368
Re: Reshoring (protectionism)
I'd go further and state that Wall Street is completely detachted from the economic reality of America. But why should they care? The evidence is as easy to see as looking at the Dow Jones index from Fall '08 to present day. Wall Street has made a complete bounce back, and many shares are now tradin...
- December 30, 2010, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: UN panel advises giving up on peace in the Mid East
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1440
Re: UN panel advises giving up on peace in the Mid East
Neat map. Been clicking on it, and it appears to have no information about actual casualties sustained during official coalition/US ops. Mostly reported murders and IEDs. Sad stuff, but fascinating. Edit: I should add that that makes the map's title "every death mapped" very misleading. It...
- December 22, 2010, 5:35 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: FCC approves 'net neutrality' rules
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1219
Re: FCC approves 'net neutrality' rules
"Collision course with congress" is what I read a lot yesterday. Personally, I don't think it's a big deal. I'm a free marketeer on this one.
- December 20, 2010, 7:43 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Judge Calls Health Law Unconstitutional
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1885
Re: Judge Calls Health Law Unconstitutional
Also there's the liability issue. Car and health insurance are not analogous. I can't kill you with my cancer. I can kill you with my Toyota.
- December 10, 2010, 4:40 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: The senate is broken
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1331
Re: The senate is broken
I should've been more specific in the OP. What I was speaking to was the filibuster "threat" that strangles the Senate these days. I believe the rule change was enacted in the mid 80s allowing for the minority (a 40+ senator bloc) to just threaten filibuster rather than actually hitting th...
- December 10, 2010, 4:09 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Xatrei: maybe my internets are gay
funny development:
Hacker group Anonymous attacks financial detractors of Wikileaks
funny development:
Hacker group Anonymous attacks financial detractors of Wikileaks
- December 9, 2010, 6:42 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: The senate is broken
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1331
The senate is broken
The filibuster threat is strangling common-sense legislation.
9/11 worker aide bill halted
Fuck you patriots 'cause you like show tunes
9/11 worker aide bill halted
Fuck you patriots 'cause you like show tunes
- December 9, 2010, 6:36 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
- Replies: 63
- Views: 6581
Re: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
rich/not rich. whatever. if you're household is earning 250k a year, you're doing just fine whether in Oklahoma, NY, Paris or Tokyo.
- December 9, 2010, 6:46 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: North Korea
- Replies: 69
- Views: 21301
Re: North Korea
the fact of the matter is this conflict would go nuclear if the house of cards fell. where those nukes would land is another question entirely. As Madeleine Albright put it once, the reason we are so scared of NK is that we know they have nukes. If we knew Iraq had nukes, we would have never invaded.
- December 9, 2010, 6:42 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
sorry for post #3 in a row. yeah bad VV etiquette. Fuck you slut. you know what grinds my gears? I want to look at these cables. 2 years ago, wikileaks would post it's primary sources and let everyone else decide. it has since created a media arm, and it's website, now http://www.wikilieaks.ch since...
- December 9, 2010, 6:29 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
- Replies: 63
- Views: 6581
Re: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
This has been totally derailed by one person's story. I have 3 points. 1. For the supporters of this extension who claim it is in business' best interest, these taxes having nothing to do with businesses. It's personal income. 2. For the wealthiest 1%, a revert to the old tax bracket will not affect...
- December 9, 2010, 6:17 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Wasn't I reading where one of the leaks was about US taxpayer money paying for drugs and providing underage boys for homosexual pedophiles in Afghanistan? That seems kind of bad to me. I'm finding less and less reasons to think these leaks are wrong. Why is it ok for our government to freely spy on...
- December 9, 2010, 6:15 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
BTW Kilmoll, it's not treason if you're not a citizen of that country (e.g. Assange and the US). Just saying. Here's a good one. Somali pirates discover Ukrainian pipeline of arms to Sudan: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/africa/09wikileaks-tank.html?_r=1&hp Edit: You said the guy who le...
- December 7, 2010, 2:08 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
- Replies: 63
- Views: 6581
Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/opinion/06krugman.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB&adxnnlx=1291698211-1e12UkBFF88iquVSf2n7iw Back in 2001, former President George W. Bush pulled a fast one. He wanted to enact an irresponsible tax cut, largely for the benefit of the wealthiest ...
- December 5, 2010, 7:26 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
I'll post more when I'm not drunk, but wikileaks posting the names of Afghan and Iraq informants is not cool. that's where the "blood on their hands" argument comes from. This info is being accessed from the 1st world as it is the the countries where my nation's combat missions are taking ...
- December 3, 2010, 8:25 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Enlighten me oh Nick the wise. What should us Plebeian Americans take from these cables? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-cables-us-embassy-seven-key-things That's just a simple, quick and basic run down of about 1/100 of what to take from the cables. We all have google...
- December 3, 2010, 7:05 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Enlighten me oh Nick the wise. What should us Plebeian Americans take from these cables?
- December 2, 2010, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
Re: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Funny stuff. Cables confirm, Canadians are like insecure teenagers when they think of their relations to the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world ... .html?_r=1
- November 29, 2010, 6:40 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19866
US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
The wikileaks deluge continued Sunday with the first portion of a release of about 250,000 diplomatic communiques from the US, giving an almost uncomfortably blunt inside look at our foreign policy, intelligence community and diplomatic procedures. Spying on the UN: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2...
- November 11, 2010, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: PA first state caught abusing the Patriot Act
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2309
Re: PA first state caught abusing the Patriot Act
Ok, did you guys even read the article? None of it points towards Obama or Bush. Let's be fair here, this private company was hired by Pennsylvania! There were no illegal wiretaps, and more often than not the company targeted left-leaning causes rather than right-leaning causes. It went after enviro...
- November 11, 2010, 8:31 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: A word of thanks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4772
Re: A word of thanks
I do believe the health care bill as it is written will be gone. I don't think they will repeal it, but I do believe they will strip some of the shit parts off it. The dems now know they have to work more with what the people want or they and Obama are gone in 2012. Lets face it, the US is a busine...
- October 28, 2010, 4:11 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Stuff my dad would say!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2606
Re: Stuff my dad would say!
My dead dad thinks your dead dad is a faggot
- October 25, 2010, 5:09 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: college football 2010
- Replies: 74
- Views: 24300
Re: college football 2010
This is all I thought of this week during UT's loss to Iowa State:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4jGSvxCRp4
what a shit ass season. At least we beat Nebraska. God I think Baylor is gonna beat us. /shiver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4jGSvxCRp4
what a shit ass season. At least we beat Nebraska. God I think Baylor is gonna beat us. /shiver
- October 18, 2010, 8:26 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: college football 2010
- Replies: 74
- Views: 24300
Re: college football 2010
To any Nebraska fans out there, have fun in the Big 10(12). I hope you enjoyed being 1-9 vs Texas Longhorns. Oooo must be so butt hurt. haha
I predict 10 years they leave Big 10 after Ohio St. screws them over and over. Lol @ Corn Aggies
I predict 10 years they leave Big 10 after Ohio St. screws them over and over. Lol @ Corn Aggies
- October 15, 2010, 7:53 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: New York gubernatorial hopeful slams gays
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11831
Re: New York gubernatorial hopeful slams gays
Just thought I'd chime in a bit.. From my personal experience, the black people I know, generally speaking will make much more vicious racist comments, ESPECIALLY in front of people of said other race than white people I know. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been around a black friend that ...
- October 15, 2010, 7:49 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: New York gubernatorial hopeful slams gays
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11831
Re: New York gubernatorial hopeful slams gays
Dude, racism as historically portrayed is over. There is no massive whites being racist and keeping the brother down conspiracy going on. Over the last 30 years or so, there has been nothing of the kind going on unless it has been in some backwater hillbilly town in Missouri or Louisiana somewhere....