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by Gzette
February 7, 2016, 3:41 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Mind Boggling Scale of the known universe (image intensive)
Replies: 14
Views: 7336

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.
by Gzette
October 13, 2011, 8:22 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Occupy Wall Street Protests
Replies: 134
Views: 22329

Re: Occupy Wall Street Protests

Chill and have a laugh for a minute

Occupy Herbstreit
by Gzette
September 26, 2011, 7:36 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Pac 16
Replies: 18
Views: 8948

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.
by Gzette
September 24, 2011, 3:30 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: Pac 16
Replies: 18
Views: 8948

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...
by Gzette
September 23, 2011, 11:28 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: I'm simply blown away...
Replies: 86
Views: 33313

Re: I'm simply blown away...

she is quite dense ... i think you're onto something
by Gzette
September 23, 2011, 11:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
Replies: 257
Views: 45827

Re: Batshit Insane 2012

read it twice shit heads
by Gzette
September 23, 2011, 11:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
Replies: 257
Views: 45827

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...
by Gzette
September 23, 2011, 11:26 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
Replies: 257
Views: 45827

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...
by Gzette
July 14, 2011, 8:23 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: I just wish light bulbs were a partisan issue
Replies: 2
Views: 966

Re: I just wish light bulbs were a partisan issue

I don't vote for those shit bags. Don't blame me
by Gzette
June 13, 2011, 3:54 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: Grats Miami!
Replies: 47
Views: 21954

Re: Grats Miami!

I love everyone tonight.

All I can say on a "Grats Miami" thread right now is

GRATS DALLAS!
by Gzette
June 11, 2011, 2:53 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: Grats Miami!
Replies: 47
Views: 21954

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...
by Gzette
May 9, 2011, 8:35 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Osama Bin Laden Dead
Replies: 96
Views: 14021

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...
by Gzette
May 9, 2011, 2:39 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Osama Bin Laden Dead
Replies: 96
Views: 14021

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?
by Gzette
April 16, 2011, 7:16 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Taxation
Replies: 49
Views: 10992

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 ...
by Gzette
April 15, 2011, 8:22 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Taxation
Replies: 49
Views: 10992

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.
by Gzette
March 14, 2011, 4:47 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Japan Earthquake/Tsunami
Replies: 48
Views: 7929

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...
by Gzette
February 16, 2011, 9:03 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Super Bowl XLV
Replies: 62
Views: 24498

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...
by Gzette
February 12, 2011, 6:50 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Super Bowl XLV
Replies: 62
Views: 24498

Re: Super Bowl XLV

Top five QBs:
1. Peyton
2. Brady
3. Rodgers
4. Brees
5. Rivers
by Gzette
February 9, 2011, 5:17 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Super Bowl XLV
Replies: 62
Views: 24498

Re: Super Bowl XLV

I like y'all's attitude. Maybe we can rematch next year. Go Pack!
by Gzette
February 8, 2011, 8:13 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Super Bowl XLV
Replies: 62
Views: 24498

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 ...
by Gzette
February 3, 2011, 4:25 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: NFL Playoffs
Replies: 73
Views: 29186

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...
by Gzette
January 27, 2011, 5:20 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sports fanatics as bad as religious fanatics
Replies: 11
Views: 2251

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...
by Gzette
January 25, 2011, 8:21 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sports fanatics as bad as religious fanatics
Replies: 11
Views: 2251

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
by Gzette
January 18, 2011, 3:42 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Reshoring (protectionism)
Replies: 10
Views: 2349

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...
by Gzette
January 18, 2011, 3:39 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Reshoring (protectionism)
Replies: 10
Views: 2349

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...
by Gzette
December 30, 2010, 5:46 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: UN panel advises giving up on peace in the Mid East
Replies: 3
Views: 1431

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...
by Gzette
December 22, 2010, 5:35 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: FCC approves 'net neutrality' rules
Replies: 3
Views: 1207

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.
by Gzette
December 20, 2010, 7:43 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Judge Calls Health Law Unconstitutional
Replies: 9
Views: 1876

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.
by Gzette
December 10, 2010, 4:40 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The senate is broken
Replies: 4
Views: 1310

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...
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:42 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The senate is broken
Replies: 4
Views: 1310

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
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
Replies: 63
Views: 6570

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.
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:46 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: North Korea
Replies: 69
Views: 20979

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.
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:42 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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...
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:29 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
Replies: 63
Views: 6570

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...
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:17 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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...
by Gzette
December 9, 2010, 6:15 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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...
by Gzette
December 7, 2010, 2:08 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Bush tax cuts? Fuck it, let em go
Replies: 63
Views: 6570

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 ...
by Gzette
December 5, 2010, 7:26 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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 ...
by Gzette
December 3, 2010, 8:25 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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...
by Gzette
December 3, 2010, 7:05 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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?
by Gzette
December 2, 2010, 5:58 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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
by Gzette
November 29, 2010, 6:40 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US spies on UN, diplomats ... creates front against Iran
Replies: 98
Views: 19748

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...
by Gzette
November 11, 2010, 8:44 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: PA first state caught abusing the Patriot Act
Replies: 11
Views: 2306

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...
by Gzette
November 11, 2010, 8:31 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: A word of thanks
Replies: 24
Views: 4747

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...
by Gzette
October 28, 2010, 4:11 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Stuff my dad would say!
Replies: 12
Views: 2583

Re: Stuff my dad would say!

My dead dad thinks your dead dad is a faggot
by Gzette
October 25, 2010, 5:09 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: college football 2010
Replies: 74
Views: 24265

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
by Gzette
October 18, 2010, 8:26 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: college football 2010
Replies: 74
Views: 24265

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

:lol: :lol:
by Gzette
October 15, 2010, 7:53 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New York gubernatorial hopeful slams gays
Replies: 57
Views: 11803

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 ...
by Gzette
October 15, 2010, 7:49 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New York gubernatorial hopeful slams gays
Replies: 57
Views: 11803

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....