archenemy

This is my puppy, asking some tough questions.

And how did they control the area? Through violence. All these other options that everyone who is soooo smart talks about--where are they in use? Where are all the smart people living happily without any violence (including the threat of violence) in their culture? If that works so well, why aren't we all doing it? And how would we get rid of all those nasty violent people in our non-violent utopia? What are the options for dealing with them? As for dooming ourselves to living in a culture of violence---I don't know where you live, but here on Earth, that's pretty much how it is. I'd like it to be different, but it ain't. And I wish I knew how to fix it, but as Jack Handy says, "you can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first".

Wow, you can really see how his head is just barely connected to his body.

assicle

G-man: He won't need those silly things, as long as you don't "make" him go alone again. "Ever since that day on Mount Baring, I have resolved to go climbing with someone else for safety. Don't make me go solo guys. I am not really any more dangerous than other climbers out there." --Jamin Frankly, I really think he should accompany Arc on Thermogenesis. If nothing else, he can be the stat keeper for the TR.

with a stick up his ass.

Somehow I doubt that judges often come from poor families.

Most likely. Although I am not settled on the issue of capital punishment, I do think about how I would feel if I were the one directly affected. For example, while I was reading "The Rape of Kuwait" years ago, I couldn't help but think that these people had the right to feel vengance toward Saddam. What would be the option? Let him languish in jail after the horrors he and his sons put others through? Maybe this is acceptable, maybe not. Maybe it is acceptable to inflict the ultimate punishment on someone who commits such horrors over and over again to person after person. Maybe not. But I can't help but think that if the person I loved most in the world were tortured to death by someone like Saddam, I would most likely seek vengence. Maybe I am simply unevolved. Maybe I am the product of my environment. Maybe I am only human. A barbaric one at that. And although it is easy to sound idealistic in the relative safety of my home; I know from personal experience that when I am threatened, I respond with full force. I know that when someone I love is harmed, I go to whatever lengths I can to be sure that the one who harmed them is punished accordingly. Call me petty, I can live with that. I cannot live with the feeling that I simply said, "You're a bad boy" to someone who systematically harmed people for years--I can't even do that to someone who only harmed me or my family.

There is a certain financial incentive-- $160+ a year. I would greatly hope, however, that financial gain is not in the top three reasons to serve the public.

supposed inevitability? No supposition there, unfortunately.

What is wrong with you?

What do you mean by better? Better presentation? More control over intro to the specific site? What is he looking for specifically?

There is no need to justify his death. He earned it himself.

I saw this when I visited Pa Pong. I liked it.

youtube? I don't think the site itself would negatively affect the quality of the videos. But, I am not an expert in that field of IT.

exactly! A shithead all around.

Since when is $162K a year considered low pay? I heard a comentator refer to Federal judges getting paid this paltry amount as a "crisis". WTF? What happened to serving the public? Whining about making this much money a year? http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/01/judges.pay.ap/index.html

My rightousness? I have no feelings one way or another about killing Saddam. I do have feelings for the people who had to live through his reign. When the majority of what I have read says that the folks who had to live with him as thier dictator are happy that he's dead; well, I take that into consideration when reading the comments here in Spray and adding my own.

Sure was, unless you were a female that he liked to threaten, stalk, or creep out.

No shit they aren't cheering for us asswipe--that is a different conversation altogether. And as for the news story: Iraqi news shows them pretty happy with the lynching as well. A little quote from al Jazeera : In Sadr City, a Shia area of Baghdad, people danced in the streets while others fired guns in the air to celebrate the former leader's death. You can read all you want here: http://www.world-newspapers.com/iraq.html

Letting murderers live equals evolution? Wow, no wonder people push for Creationism.

Even the Iraqi's are cheering. http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/12/31/100loc_a1jubilation001.cfm

Why aren't these people getting the scrutiny that the Hood climbers were getting? http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/01/01/100wir_a3planes001.cfm

he'll be baaaaack

I agree that the timing was insensitive. However, I can't help but think of the many times various religious holidays have been broken by violence and war across many countries and many faiths. It is a bit of a double standard to say that Americans are so evil for doing the same thing. And please don't jump to the conclusion that I think it was acceptable or that I think that just b/c one group does something unsavory that it is ok for others to do so. I am just making an observation here.