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Did the Spermanator allegedly hump your leg or complement you on your dress after getting to know you? "You want a job, don't you?" Eeeeeeewwwwww.

THE SPERMANATOR.

Already a mile ahead a ya, az yuzh.... With only 2 neurons and four total states, you're not the most difficult person to predict.

Isolated incident, of course. WIKI weighs in: "Incidents of Border Patrol use of force According to Rodolfo Acuña,[24] Professor Emeritus of Chicano Studies at California State University, "Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported 117 cases of human rights abuses by US officials against migrants from 1988 to 1990, including fourteen deaths. During the 1980s, Border Patrol agents shot dozens of people, killing eleven and permanently disabling ten."[25] In January 2007, border patrol agent Nicholas Corbett shot and killed Francisco Javier Domínguez Rivera.[26] after the latter tried to smash his head with a rock according to the officer's lawyer.[27] After the agent was acquitted of wrong doing, a civil suit was filed on behalf of Rivera's parents. This civil suit claimed that the United States government was responsible for wrongful death of Rivera due to the fact that the agent was performing his official duty.[27] Mexico lodged an official protest with the United States over the death stating its “firm condemnation” and “serious concern over the recurrence of this type of incident.” The protest demanded an exhaustive investigation.[28][29] Though the incident was recorded by surveillance cameras, the recording was not very clear.[30] Under the Border Patrol's use-of-force guidelines, agents are permitted to employ lethal force against rock throwers if they pose a threat.[31] Large rocks have seriously injured many agents and many agents have resorted to wearing riot gear as a result. In January 2006, an eight year veteran of the Border Patrol, fearful of stones which were being thrown at him [32] shot Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez, a known people smuggler who had been detained 11 times prior.[33] Rodriguez, with a gunshot to the back of his right shoulder, crossed back to Mexico and was taken to the Red Cross in Tijuana where he died twenty-five and a half hours later from the injury.[34] In May 2000, an illegal immigrant was shot in the shoulder by a border patrolman near Brownsville, Texas, and died later from the wounds.[35] On May 28, 1994, Martín García Martínez was shot by a Border Patrol agent at the San Ysidro port of entry. He died on July 3 as a result of his injuries.[36] On May 2010, a recently deported Mexican migrant died after a Customs and Border Protection officer shocked him with a stun gun at the San Ysidro border crossing.[37] "Methamphetamine abuse and hypertension contributed to the death of a 32-year-old Mexican who was shocked with a stun gun in a fight with federal agents at the San Ysidro border crossing, the county coroner’s office ruled."[38] On June 2010 , a 15-year-old Mexican citizen was shot to death on the Mexican side of the border near El Paso, Texas. The U.S Border Patrol reported that the officers responded to a group of suspected illegal immigrants who were throwing rocks at them. President Felipe Calderón criticize the shooting by stating that "the use of firearms to repel attacks with stones represents disproportionate use of force".[37][39] [edit]Vigilante killings According to Time Magazine, in the first half of 2000, three immigrants have been killed and seven others have been wounded in showdowns on the U.S. side of the border.[40][41] In 2000, the United Nations opened an investigation into vigilante killings of migrants crossing Mexico's border with the USA, dispatching a senior UN investigator to the border country close to where Sam Blackwood, a 74-year-old rancher, was charged with killing Eusebio de Haro,[42] an unarmed Mexican he tried to subdue for the border patrol and fatally shot in the back of the thigh after pursuing him a quarter mile down the road in his truck.[43] [44]

15 year old Mexican boy shot by border patrol (video) THAT didn't take long....

Let the games begin! 4 women and counting....

I now uh Pay Robbyis.

Russia should outsource prison beds to us. LETS GROW OUR WAY OUTTA THIS.

From now on I'd like to be referred as "The Tvash Group". Call my girl and we'll do bird's nest soup.

FUCK. China OWES ME. Wasn't aware of the 'opposing team' part...kinda thought the arrangement was: they make cheap shit, we buy it from 'em. How 'bout that incarceration rate? GOOD TO GO.

UMMM the one child policy WAS family planning services. Just with an involuntary component. Look at the gender imbalance. 95 MILLION more boys than girls in that age cohort. Real egalitarian, there. Should I preface with any even longer UMMMM? The primary component of any family planning program is ready access to birth control. China's sex ratio (men/women) is 1.07, less than India's 1.08, and about the same as Chinese Americans. Whether or not the One Child policy is a major factor isn't clear. I thought you were some kind of scientist? Gettin' kinda lazy about yer causality arguments, no, or is that just the way folks roll in your field?

Actually, the one child policy apparently had far less to do with China's stabilizing population than their modernization, egalitarian education/employment policies towards women, and easy availability of birth control and family planning services, according to a recent story on NPR.

It should also be noted that the US prison system isn't exactly a model for humane treatment. Our prisons are essentially violence and rape camps, attributes that many Americans openly take delight in. In addition, the USA heavily uses solitary confinement, probably the most damaging form of torture for a human being, and one that can produce the most lost lasting and serious psychological effects. Considering that over a million people are in prison for non-violent drug offenses, and over half of those are there for marijuana related offenses, this constitutes a civil rights catastrophe of enormous proportions...yet one most Americans remain utterly unaware of. I realize that some posters here have lived extensively abroad in places like China, Billcoe apparently being one, so their focus may reflect the civil rights battles they've personally waged in those far away regions, but, as Americans, we can only directly effect what goes on here at home. When it comes to incarceration, we are, by far, the worst of the worst. Every once in while I run into an American who responds to this kind of critique with anger, even accusations that such a critique amounts to tacit approval of some worse totalitarian state they've read about in the blogosphere, but most people I talk to are appropriately dismayed by these statistics and do not attempt to reshift the focus elsewhere.

I've got 'legalize pot' petitions if anybody wants to gather signatures...the first step in ending a failed War on Drugs. 20 names per sheet. Takes about an hour in front of a busy grocery store.

It should be noted that the execution rate in both China and the USA is declining, and has been for some years. The incarceration rate in the USA, however, began to spike in the 1980s when the Reagan Administration accelerated the Nixon's administration's War on Drugs - it has grown at more than 3 times the rate of our overall population ever since and continues to accelerate year by year. Today, if you are an African American man under the age of 40 without a diploma, you have a 60% chance of having spent a year or more behind bars, and a 1 in 2 chance that your time was served for a non-violent drug offense. The War on Drugs has eroded our civil liberties on many fronts (warrantless surveillance being just one of many), it has been highly discriminatory, has cost trillions, produced a prison nation, and...wait for it...illicit drug usage rates in the USA across the board are higher than they've ever been and, yes, we have the highest per capita illicit drug use in the world. I'd call that a fail, but YMMV.

Income equality is typically measured by the gini coefficient (look it up, already). China's gini coefficient is the same as that of the US. It has been rising rapidly (increasing income inequality), as has the US. China is certainly a single party, highly socialist country with a poor track record on civil liberties. The US is a representative democracy with more freedom of expression and association, but our record on civil liberties is actually much worse than China's by some measures. The most glaring measure is incarceration rate. With more than 2.3 million people in prison, and 1/4 of the world's prisoners (and only 5% of its population) the USA has, by far, the highest incarceration rate in the world...nearly twice as high as its next competitor (Russia) and well over 7 times higher than China. Some people have claimed that China executes more people than the USA (and therefore has fewer prisoners), but this doesn't stand up to the data. Amnesty international estimated 1718 executions in Chine in 2008, as compared to 37 in the USA (Unlike the USA, China's execution rates are not published). While the per capita execution rate in the US is about 10 times lower than in China, the number of executions in either country is too small to meaningfully affect incarceration rate. In addition to incarceration rate, the criminal justice system in the US has been proven to discriminate against African Americans 3 to 1 regardless of what step (arrest rate, conviction rate, incarceration rate) is measured. This pattern is AFTER slightly different crime rates between ethnic groups are taken into account. In summary, the USA cannot really point fingers at China for being any less humane or less free than we are when some important, quantifiable measures are considered.

I hear Euros are a good deal. When it comes to banking, Executives + Shareholders = Tapeworms.

Parasitic, psychopathic shithouses like B of A are on the ropes already...the people of this country could actually put them out of business, as recent events have proven.

WECU will do the paperwork to move your auto-pay accounts for you. Easy.

The three examples provided by the OP actually serve to bolster government credibility: fucks ups happened, as they always do - but this administration is investigating them in an effort to avoid similar mistakes in the future. I'm sure the Hermanator, given his recent behavior, would do the same. Unless the OPs point (that's usually hard to tease out with this particular individual) is that government is never supposed to fuck up. Good luck wit dat. As compared to actions the OP vehemently supported...Iraq comes to mind, among others, these mistakes constitute rather small potatoes. I don't suppose a presidential candidate outright lying about his prior illegal sexual discrimination, then crying 'racial discrimination!' when asked simple clarifying, fact finding questions about these actual events (not allegations), strikes this poster as an area of concern about that candidate's fitness to govern. Apparently, the unrelated mistakes of others makes this no big deal. No big deal unless you're one of the millions of women who've been sexually harassed, that is. Fuck those whiny bitches, right? Yup. That has been one of the mainstays of the GOP agenda. Fucking over women. Mississippi, anyone?

Having fun researching and framing my ideas for the show. Bone, I don't think chemtrails, while aviation related, will make it past the call screeners, but you can sure try. Try a.m. radio...you'll get right on. You won't find me there, however, so I'm afraid revealing to the world that I have pieces of the missile that struck the Pentagon on 911 in my basement (they make great lamps) might not be an option this time around. That's what the innernutz are for...until the government shuts it down, that is.

Interesting to know, Dan, we have similar tastes in bailout choices. Neon orange 6mm? I bought 60 meters of the stuff and left it all over N.A. That stuff is more like 2mm.

NYT this morning reports: " The lawyer for one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment said Friday that Mr. Cain engaged in a “series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances” toward his client over two months in the 1990s, and he directly accused Mr. Cain, a Republican presidential candidate, of not telling the truth about his behavior." "A Washington Post/ABC News poll on Friday found that 7 in 10 Republicans say the allegations do not matter when it comes to selecting a presidential candidate." No surprise there. Still, 30% isn't exactly chump change in a close race. The Cain campaign is now refusing to answer questions about the harassment. No surprise there, either. That didn't work out so well for Weiner, though. We'll see how well it works this time.

334,000 to be exact, per the KUOW website. But that's all KUOW listeners, not just for the Weekday program. Go for it, Bone! THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE TO GET THE TRUTH OUT ABOUT OBL AND 911.

Babytalk.