Fairweather

What's the best Mars movie ever made? They've all been pretty bad, but I'm in the mood to watch a video that is set in a place with a climate even more inhospitable and depressing than Washington State in the winter time.

Obama has said he favors lifting it and supposedly the majority of exiles here do too. Is it time to put one of the last bitters of the Cold War to bed?

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I hear what you're saying--and the agitations and taunts coming from the shitbags on the BART were only making a tense situation even more confusing. Still, I have to wonder how the police report would have read had the camera not been there--and the "mistake" this officer made is a pretty serious one. Police departments cannot be allowed to form "brotherhoods" that cover up for their own. This is what keeps us from becoming another Mexico or Russian Federation. Shouldn't they be making tazers with thumb triggers so they can't be confused with sidearms? Anyway, I never heard anything about the guy's criminal background--like I said, there hasn't been much reporting. I'd like to say it doesn't matter what the dead guy's "history" was-- since the officers involved probably did not know at the time and, in any event, aren't judge and jury--but in the end, it certainly is a mitigating factor. I don't know what should happen to the cop in this case, but I don't think he should be a cop anymore.

Makes me wonder how accurate police accounts of shootings are when there's no one around to record. Now I hear police are confiscating cell phones at the resultant protests. What the hell is going on down in The Bay? I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more media attention.

So when did it happen?

Damn. Good post.

...And yet all of your condemnation to date is directed against Israel, and you have the gall to paste links to "electronic intifada"? Gimme a fucking break. At least be honest with yourself, man, and stop trying to pretend you're anything close to neutral regarding this ongoing conflict or the peoples involved.

Great story (10 second ad, story is about 4 minutes) on recent lab successes getting synthesized RNA to self-replicate--and even mutate. http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=99132608&m=99135715

New meds?

Well said. Not a dumbass. This time.

You're a simpleton.

Once again the reality that the cost of a college education is fast outstripping the ability of middle-class families' ability to afford it (even factoring in meager subsidies) is lost on you. Then again, the inability for conservatives to follow the logic of a given situation to its conclusion or think ahead is their hallmark. Should the benefits of a college education be limited to a wealthy minority? If current trends continue, that may be the case. While you may be resigned to your sad fate, I doubt that many people are going to be too stoked to be working their asses off without the hope that their kids might achieve something better. Personally, I think the benefits of quality, structured higher education should be available to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay. A functioning democracy depends on an educated populace and the joys of a well-rounded knowledge of the world is valuable in and of itself. I'm sure all this is lost on you as well. I'll make it easier for someone like you, think of it this way: who's going to employ those high-school grads, the Han Chinese? Now you're changing the premise. Forgiveness of existing debt (presumably, yours) versus a new paradigm for incoming students. Not at all clever, boy. Two separate discussions. My wife and I put two kids (and myself) through college without borrowing a dime--scholarships and in-state tuition that remains a fantastic bargain, my sincerest appreciation to the citizens of Washington State. Your student loans probably have already-reasonable terms--pay 'em off

Oh the shame of the blue tarp.

Prole says working is for the undereducated and sucka's. Under his plan, no one will work. We will all be completely free to seek our own paths to enlightenment absent the bondage The Man has put upon us.

So the college grad--who now has two-to-ten times the lifetime earning potential of the high school grad--should have the balance of his already-subsidized tuition paid for, in part, by said high school grads? We've done this discussion before, Prole. Just get a job, pay back your loan, and thank the people of the state in which you studied for the huge portion of your education they generously paid to begin with.

Well said. What will it take to finally pull the plug on cc.com's resident pompous windbag aka Tvastarketena? Sadly, an endless stream of TR camping reports, "recons", half-pitches, tall tales, and unsolicited pictures of other people's girlfriends seem to be his saving grace for whatever reason. The cliche "Limousine Liberal" was invented for this guy.

...forecast for the next 48 hours in the Olympics and Cascades. Remember what 18 inches did to Sunshine Campground, the WT, and the road to Paradise? Better pump up those mountain bike tires or change the oil in that Honda Ruckus if you want to get to your favorite trail head this summer. Shit!

as long as they are American whores doing American processed crack putting your American minted Ike's into American made slots the mechanical ones not those new fangled bandits with chinese boards inside and American swords made with American steel not that Hans u Hi tori shit they make in japan mmmhmmmm.

No. What Israel is doing is defending itself from an adversary who is not at all interested in peace.

Here ya go, Dmuja: [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeii225G-HM

I think we should cut off all aid of this kind, but last time I checked we give almost as much to Egypt as we do Israel.

...and the heirs of Marxism/Leninism as well. If you look like a duck, walk like a duck, quack like a duck...

Fine, then!

I imagine Israel's interests were different in 1980 than they are today--as were ours. As for the rest, surely you can do better than Huffingtonpost and Salon--left wing equivalents of Rush Limbaugh and Hannity. Dude, give it a rest.