[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]jcrawford79 wrote: [/QUOTENAME] Just read the post below yours by Serry, he calls the U.S. the most hated nation in the world.[/QUOTE]
Not nation, I wrote about the country. People of other countries can't hate American people for actions of your government. And I know what it's like to live in the most hated country in the world...
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Serry... wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]jcrawford79 wrote: [/QUOTENAME] Just read the post below yours by Serry, he calls the U.S. the most hated nation in the world.[/QUOTE]
Not nation, I wrote about the country. People of other countries can't hate American people for actions of your government. And I know what it's like to live in the most hated country in the world...[/QUOTE]
Sorry to misquote you, but I was attempting to paraphrase your statement because I didn't remember the exact wording. Either way, I understood your meaning.
Not nation, I wrote about the country. People of other countries can't hate American people for actions of your government. And I know what it's like to live in the most hated country in the world...[/QUOTE]
Sorry to misquote you, but I was attempting to paraphrase your statement because I didn't remember the exact wording. Either way, I understood your meaning.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color = "crimson">ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Music Man wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I really want to know how to make that 'i' with the two dots.[/QUOTE]
Never heard of a diaeresis? [SHIFT]+[']+[I] (or [A], [E], [O], [U], [Y])
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Haha, well, yes, but the word (and by Jove, the spelling) had escaped me at the time. Doesn't seem to work for me, but I suppose my computer is just stupid. I know there's one of those [ALT] combinations for it, but those don't even work on my computer either. Stupid laptop.
Never heard of a diaeresis? [SHIFT]+[']+[I] (or [A], [E], [O], [U], [Y])
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Haha, well, yes, but the word (and by Jove, the spelling) had escaped me at the time. Doesn't seem to work for me, but I suppose my computer is just stupid. I know there's one of those [ALT] combinations for it, but those don't even work on my computer either. Stupid laptop.
What about insert symbol?
agh Jesse Helms
I remember him and one night long ago when *ahem* i had nothing to do with it *ahem* a condom was put over his house.....
I remember him and one night long ago when *ahem* i had nothing to do with it *ahem* a condom was put over his house.....
The Death Penalty is revolting. If someone killed another human being we are just being the same disguisting kind of creatures for killing him back. I believe that anyone who supports the death penalty and takes part in it is just as guilty and sinful and is going to equaly rot in hell as the person who commited the crime.
Heh , im all in favor for beheading at half time of the Monday Night Football game. (Quote by George Carlin , Stand up comic.)
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Queenrocks4579 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I believe that anyone who supports the death penalty and takes part in it is just as guilty and sinful and is going to equaly rot in hell as the person who commited the crime.[/QUOTE]
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
lol Death Penalty? With that crummy system?
Like Yoda used to say, Government American Not Is Smart The Being.
Like Yoda used to say, Government American Not Is Smart The Being.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]FreddiesGhettoTrench wrote: [/QUOTENAME]That's bullshit. People aren't forced into crime by poverty. Some people find it as an easy way out. But you know what - a friend of mine originally from West Philadelphia (a rather dangerous neighborhood), she's an A student in school and wants to go to medical school, and she's a supporting lead in the musical. Gee, don't see her killing anyone, do you?
What about the guys who killed Matt Shepard? They were "ooooh in poverty" so they took it out on Shepard because he was gay and had money? But, oh, that wasn't their fault because they were poor?
Such bullshit. I live in a single-parent household as do most of this city. A good deal of us know how to behave like civilized human beings. [/QUOTE]
Ah, there's that ultra-conservative compassion again. You obviously haven't talked to a lot of impoverished people or even read any books on poverty if you can't see that poverty has been one of the leading causes of crime for as long as crime has been recorded. People living in poverty are oppressed by society, and because they can never get ahead, they often need to turn to crime (i.e. drug-dealing, theft) to put food on their table. Our politicians are doing little to nothing to change this.
Many black families in the USA have yet to recover from slavery centuries ago, and they cannot get ahead. Generation after generation, they are still poor. It's an endless cycle. Just because you can cite one example of someone from a "dangerous neighbourhood" who has done well with herself doesn't automatically mean that everyone is in the same boat with the same possibilities as her. But generalizing is so easy for many of us. It's easy to condemn what is seen on the surface, and difficult to look beyond the surface and be compassionate toward the realities of those who don't have a public voice to make the true nature of their lives known.
It's well-established that there are two sides of this coin: those who simply want to blame the criminal for crime, and those who choose to take action and look at the causes and roots of crime. Punishing the criminal deals with a single instance, but seeking the true causes of crime and actually dealing with them properly is what may lead to future crime not being committed. This obviously takes a great deal of effort, and that's why so few people are doing anything, and thus why there is still poverty-driven crime.
The fact remains that the majority of the poor do not get the attention they need and deserve - in the east and the west. "Charity" is handing money over to people, as a short term solution; a band-aid solution, if you will. "Justice", on the other hand, is what looks at the roots of what causes poverty and crime, and it attempts to come up with long-lasting solutions that will lead to long term change. Charity is easy. Justice is difficult. Charity is the word that has been floating through the western mainstream for decades, and it has led to many short-term solutions. But that money eventually runs out, and then we're back to square one. It's time the word "justice" is the word we hear ten times a day in the media.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=gold>§mï<font color=1>ttÿ™ wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Mir@cle wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Poor people hardly get any support. [/QUOTE]
What are you smoking? These poor people get so much support and milk the system so much that they can get big screen TV's, get more food than MY family can afford, and use the excess money they have TO BUY WEAPONS (!!!!!) if they wanted to. My grandma once was behind someone in the checkout line of a local grocery store behind someone who was on welfare and crap, and after she paid her food with her food stamps, she pulled out a $50.00 BILL AND PAYED FOR THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CIGS SHE WAS BUYING. That isn't right. Sorry, that REALLY isn't
What about the guys who killed Matt Shepard? They were "ooooh in poverty" so they took it out on Shepard because he was gay and had money? But, oh, that wasn't their fault because they were poor?
Such bullshit. I live in a single-parent household as do most of this city. A good deal of us know how to behave like civilized human beings. [/QUOTE]
Ah, there's that ultra-conservative compassion again. You obviously haven't talked to a lot of impoverished people or even read any books on poverty if you can't see that poverty has been one of the leading causes of crime for as long as crime has been recorded. People living in poverty are oppressed by society, and because they can never get ahead, they often need to turn to crime (i.e. drug-dealing, theft) to put food on their table. Our politicians are doing little to nothing to change this.
Many black families in the USA have yet to recover from slavery centuries ago, and they cannot get ahead. Generation after generation, they are still poor. It's an endless cycle. Just because you can cite one example of someone from a "dangerous neighbourhood" who has done well with herself doesn't automatically mean that everyone is in the same boat with the same possibilities as her. But generalizing is so easy for many of us. It's easy to condemn what is seen on the surface, and difficult to look beyond the surface and be compassionate toward the realities of those who don't have a public voice to make the true nature of their lives known.
It's well-established that there are two sides of this coin: those who simply want to blame the criminal for crime, and those who choose to take action and look at the causes and roots of crime. Punishing the criminal deals with a single instance, but seeking the true causes of crime and actually dealing with them properly is what may lead to future crime not being committed. This obviously takes a great deal of effort, and that's why so few people are doing anything, and thus why there is still poverty-driven crime.
The fact remains that the majority of the poor do not get the attention they need and deserve - in the east and the west. "Charity" is handing money over to people, as a short term solution; a band-aid solution, if you will. "Justice", on the other hand, is what looks at the roots of what causes poverty and crime, and it attempts to come up with long-lasting solutions that will lead to long term change. Charity is easy. Justice is difficult. Charity is the word that has been floating through the western mainstream for decades, and it has led to many short-term solutions. But that money eventually runs out, and then we're back to square one. It's time the word "justice" is the word we hear ten times a day in the media.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=gold>§mï<font color=1>ttÿ™ wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Mir@cle wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Poor people hardly get any support. [/QUOTE]
What are you smoking? These poor people get so much support and milk the system so much that they can get big screen TV's, get more food than MY family can afford, and use the excess money they have TO BUY WEAPONS (!!!!!) if they wanted to. My grandma once was behind someone in the checkout line of a local grocery store behind someone who was on welfare and crap, and after she paid her food with her food stamps, she pulled out a $50.00 BILL AND PAYED FOR THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CIGS SHE WAS BUYING. That isn't right. Sorry, that REALLY isn't
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]FreddiesGhettoTrench wrote: [/QUOTENAME]That's bullshit. People aren't forced into crime by poverty. Some people find it as an easy way out. But you know what - a friend of mine originally from West Philadelphia (a rather dangerous neighborhood), she's an A student in school and wants to go to medical school, and she's a supporting lead in the musical. Gee, don't see her killing anyone, do you?
What about the guys who killed Matt Shepard? They were "ooooh in poverty" so they took it out on Shepard because he was gay and had money? But, oh, that wasn't their fault because they were poor?
Such bullshit. I live in a single-parent household as do most of this city. A good deal of us know how to behave like civilized human beings. [/QUOTE]
Many black families in the USA have yet to recover from slavery centuries ago, and they cannot get ahead. Generation after generation, they are still poor. It's an endless cycle.
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Great point that many people refuse to understand.
What about the guys who killed Matt Shepard? They were "ooooh in poverty" so they took it out on Shepard because he was gay and had money? But, oh, that wasn't their fault because they were poor?
Such bullshit. I live in a single-parent household as do most of this city. A good deal of us know how to behave like civilized human beings. [/QUOTE]
Many black families in the USA have yet to recover from slavery centuries ago, and they cannot get ahead. Generation after generation, they are still poor. It's an endless cycle.
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Great point that many people refuse to understand.
Flag burning is primitive, unimaginative and insensitive. If you have a problem worth crying about, you should do it properly and with some style. Have a thought for people who took the flag so seriously they'd have died for it.
Screw flag burning, you want good protest? A few years ago some people painted the side of the Sydney Opera House in red paint that read "NO WAR". As they washed it off, it looked like BLOOD.
Now THAT'S a protest. Take a hint you pathetic flag-burners.
Screw flag burning, you want good protest? A few years ago some people painted the side of the Sydney Opera House in red paint that read "NO WAR". As they washed it off, it looked like BLOOD.
Now THAT'S a protest. Take a hint you pathetic flag-burners.
[QUOTE]Have a thought for people who took the flag so seriously they'd have died for it..[/QUOTE]
People that die for a flag are not to be taken seriously. Come on! It´s just a piece of laundry! Get a grip...
People that die for a flag are not to be taken seriously. Come on! It´s just a piece of laundry! Get a grip...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Zebonka12 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Flag burning is primitive, unimaginative and insensitive. If you have a problem worth crying about, you should do it properly and with some style. Have a thought for people who took the flag so seriously they'd have died for it.
Screw flag burning, you want good protest? A few years ago some people painted the side of the Sydney Opera House in red paint that read "NO WAR". As they washed it off, it looked like BLOOD.
Now THAT'S a protest. Take a hint you pathetic flag-burners.[/QUOTE]
Thats how you seperate someone serious from ordinary bitching.
Screw flag burning, you want good protest? A few years ago some people painted the side of the Sydney Opera House in red paint that read "NO WAR". As they washed it off, it looked like BLOOD.
Now THAT'S a protest. Take a hint you pathetic flag-burners.[/QUOTE]
Thats how you seperate someone serious from ordinary bitching.