Absurdity This Week In America
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ahz wrote:
She makes a mokery of everything Mother Theresa stood for
Acquiring stolen cash from Dictators and fraudsters and spending it on nunneries? A slight exaggeration, but Ms Theresa's actions fell way short of her image. Ryan
"Michael Moore and Mel Gibson are the same person, except for a few sit-ups. Moore thought his cheesy political blooper reel was going to tell people how to vote. Mel thought that his little gay SM movie about his imaginary friend was going to help him get to heaven." - Penn Jillette
-- modified at 11:37 Wednesday 5th April, 2006
Wow. The hatred runs deep.
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Consultes, embassies and military bases are considered to be "native soil" of the occupying country. I don't count the Mexican Embassy as being a likely target for taking down the Mexican flag. I halfway expected someone to bring this up, but I honestly thought it would be a frog, or Paul... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
I also mentioned hotels. You didn't answer that part of the question! What about hotels that display an array of flags outside their front entrance?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Didn't you see any of her TV shows, or worse, "Wax Museum"?
No, I haven't. Maybe I should :-)
look Nish, just 'cuz you get a woody every time you see her doesn't qualify her for acting. ('cept maybe in your bedroom.) ---sig---
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I also mentioned hotels. You didn't answer that part of the question! What about hotels that display an array of flags outside their front entrance?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
What about hotels that display an array of flags outside their front entrance?
There's no problem displaying foreign flags. There is a problem when foreign flags are placed above the American flag. Can you name any hotels that do otherwise in the US?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Didn't you see any of her TV shows, or worse, "Wax Museum"?
No, I haven't. Maybe I should :-)
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Maybe I should
No...You shouldn't.
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That's not right!! X| X| X| ;P;P;P ---sig---
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
It's Gandhi. Ghand is Hindi for buttocks. :-D
I see a lot of Americans mis-spell it. But most Europeans get it right. I wonder why!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Ghandi
It's Gandhi. Ghand is Hindi for buttocks. :-D Cheers, Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either. Militant Agnostic
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Shog9 wrote:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
:confused:
Sorry, thought you were being ironic. :)
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You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong?
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ :rolleyes: Regards, Nish
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi.
Does it really matter as long as she acts well? Regards, Nish
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look Nish, just 'cuz you get a woody every time you see her doesn't qualify her for acting. ('cept maybe in your bedroom.) ---sig---
Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay Silence is the voice of complicity PS. If you don't understand my sarcasm -- go to hell!ahz wrote:
look Nish, just 'cuz you get a woody every time you see her doesn't qualify her for acting. ('cept maybe in your bedroom.)
:laugh: Regards, Nish
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Sorry, thought you were being ironic. :)
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Shog9 wrote:
Sorry, thought you were being ironic.
I wasn't, though maybe I should have been! Regards, Nish
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hmm, like people outside of America get everything right about America? Gimme a break, xenophobist! ---sig---
Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay Silence is the voice of complicity PS. If you don't understand my sarcasm -- go to hell! -
Shog9 wrote:
Sorry, thought you were being ironic.
I wasn't, though maybe I should have been! Regards, Nish
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The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Or perhaps you were, but didn't mean to be... ;)
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Alvaro Mendez wrote:
For example, every time I see someone walking into a Mexican restaurant, I yell at them to go live in Mexico if they like that food so much.
So you don't eat French fries because they are Belgian (they are not French :) )? And you don't eat Hot Dogs because they are German? You don't eat Pizza because they are Italian? You don't eat Rice because they are Asian? And you don't eat Hamburger? :) Well what do you eat, when you don't eat something from other cultures? ;) Greetings, Ingo ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
ihoecken wrote:
And you don't eat Hamburger?
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg). :)
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong?
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ :rolleyes: Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out. :-D I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
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