I figured we could use a thread for small news stories that aren't important enough for their own thread.
This thread is going to be spectacular.
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I figured we could use a thread for small news stories that aren't important enough for their own thread.
This thread is going to be spectacular.
First up: Balloon boy.
They finally determine what we already knew as soon as "Falcon" wasn't on the balloon: it was a hoax. I have no idea what took them so long to determine that, especially when they released the video of them launching the balloon and "Richard" doing a horrible acting job of going crazy.
That family needs to be taken for a lot of money. Maybe a message should be sent to them about people who try and get their 15 minutes of fame - either throw one or both of them in jail for a while or give them a bill of $50 grand.
What a great family.
I bet it will be closer to $500K than 50.
Multiple felony charges as well. Well deserved, I suppose.
Apparently, the kid also puked on the Today Show.
Little Wayne plead guilty to an Attempted Weapons Possession charge. Possibly go to jail for a year.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm not sure that America could handle one year without music created by Little Wayne. We're in a bad enough recession as it is.
I saw a baloon boy costume on TV this morning.
http://hiphopspy.com/wp-content/uplo...il-wayne-1.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
How do you attempt to possess weapons?
If you are like, kind of in trouble a lil bit, and on probation, you can't even go attempt to buy a weapon.
Out here, one needs to wait 10 days(?) for a background check, just for a frickin shotgun. Not a pistol, not a pistol, we're talking bout shotguns.
Not saying lil W is any troub, but thats where I hear about it out here. You can't even attempt to buy a gun type thing.
Thanks.
This attack at the Army base is pretty fucked up.
Unfortunately, it looks like this piece of dog shit will survive. I hope this fuck fries.
Hopefully unrelated to yesterday.Quote:
At least eight people have been shot in an Orlando, Florida, high-rise office building, CNN affiliates report.
^ Sounds like its not.
Orlando gunman apprehended.
I wonder if this will effect the Pistons-Magic game tonight?
I'm opposed the death penalty because too many innocent peeps are in jail cuz of bullshit prosecutors. But in a case like the Ft Hood murders, this guy should fry.
This guy is a muslim so we'll candy coat, or ignore this altogether. If this guy was a Christian, this board would be all over this story.
Are you claiming reverse racism? I think the reason there isn't a whole lot of discussion on the subject is the fact that there's not much to say - he's a crazy SOB who took the lives of several good people because he was nuts. You can't really have an opinion on it because it's just facts, regardless of what religion he is.
If you want, T, I'll play devil's advocate to get some discussion going.
Wasn't he an Army shrink?
Imagine him giving you advice!
Yes he deserves to die and I hope he burns in hell!!!!!!!!!!
That would be lame.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
lol. I agree.
Has there been anymore info/news on the dude?
Is it possible that as a shrink he heard some fucked up shit and just went crazy?
Or is he simply EVIL!
It's all over the news. The basic story is that he was treated like shit for his faith from all the other soldiers and he tried for years to just ignore it but it started getting to him. He became rude with his superiors and lashed out a couple times. They sent him to Fort Hood a while ago to give him a change of scenery (basically), and then he went off the deep end when he received orders to be shipped over to Afghanistan. Those are the basics from what I've understood, but I haven't been paying that close attention to it.
He was an enlisted man during the Gulf War. He's been through a wave of extreme anti-Islamic stress in the military. He had some opportunities not to re-sign or get discharged. What prompted him to go for such a long stint in the military? I'd ask "How the hell do repeated poor performance reviews get you a promotion?" but I'm sure the Peter Principle applies.
You've been listening to the media who want to write it off as a just a 'crazy guy'.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
He's a muslim who hated America so much, he committed these crimes.
^ Liberal slant on the story, P.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
Don't believe it for a second. Not saying what Mo said is incorrect(as what he heard) but we have such 'shit' for most peeps receiving their 'basic story' in this country...meaining our news has such a liberal bias.
The piece of shit hates the US and listened to Islamic Jihadists and took action.
P, the libs won't even identify the enemy, so we'll never get anywhere with this fight.
btw, I know you are on the side of the rest of the board.
The Bush twins threads were great political discussion...for y'all. Solved lots of world problems in those threads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glan
So your media is actually trying to get sympathy for the gunman? WOW!Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
LMAO - it's so simple, isn't Tahoe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
This guy, who actually signed up to fight FOR the good ol' US of A woke up one morning and said to himself "Self - I fucking hate America. Let's go crazy"
I'm guessing that the dude was treated like shit cause he was a Muslim, he complained about that forever so they shipped his ass to Fort Hood.
When the dude got word he had to go over to Afghanistan he just went nuts cause he didn't wanna go over there and kill "fellow" Muslims.
So he did something about it. I bet the fucker wished he died though - cause he's gonna cop it when he goes to whatever prison they put him in.
Tahoe, you're cool as shit, but I think your views on Muslim's might be a little slanted. Just because he's Muslim and hears anti-United States rants by people of his same faith does not mean he will turn against his own country. I'm pretty sure you're a Christian (like me), and when I hear anti-gay chants by my church, I don't go out and have an old fashioned fag lynching when I get in a bad mood. Fact is, anyone who would snap like that is crazy. I'm not making any excuses for him, and I hope he burns, but don't blame his faith on it. What about the Orlando shootings? If that guy is Catholic does that mean all Catholics are evil?
I think a lot of people on this board are on the side of frying the guy when the time comes, though "firing squad" would be my choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
It's worthwhile to understand how a career U.S. military officer, a doctor of all people, comes to this. Right now, there's still a fair bit of info to be gathered and assessed. It seems clear that some shit could've been handled better on the "good guys" end of things. It also seems clear that he got fucked up by a few life events. I don't think we have enough to put all the pieces together, but we will by the time the trial happens. Meanwhile, he's not going anywhere.
No he didn't. He signed up for free education. He's a fuckin radical muslim that hates the US and acts on by turning on his own country by murdering innocent peeps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharaoh
And LMAO at 'he just went nuts' Great rationale. LMAO. Just like the 911 hijackers right? We're not at war, its just some crazies.
I'm glad you aren't in fuckin charge. Then again, we have about the same god damn mentality in the WH right now anyway. Fuck it, Make P the Prez. We're fuckin doomed.
Dude, IF I was your president a ton of shit would be different.
Forget the war on drugs and the war on terror.
Time for a war on poverty, homelessness, no fucking health care, shit schools, no fucking jobs, etc
Simple question for those that wanna talk politics: How much money does the USA budget each year for the military and/or the space program?
For the 2009 fiscal year, the base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $518.3 billion. Adding emergency discretionary spending, supplemental spending, and stimulus spending brings the sum to $651.2 billion.[1][2] Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $274 billion and $493 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $925 billion and $1.14 trillion in 2009.[3]
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movi...t-posters.html
So who's the racists in this story? Paramount for deleting Faizon Love from the poster or Europe for not seeing movies with black people in it? Both?
I'm offended by the terrible photoshoping.
Keep in mind that the U.S. defense budget has some unusual things under its umbrella that one wouldn't typically expect. Here's one example up your alley, Pharaoh -- ovarian cancer research in Australia:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool
http://www.nicta.com.au/research/pro...ovarian_cancer
I don't give a fuck what they're studying, Mxy - $1 trillion is a lot of guns and ammo.
And don't you guys still have nukes to threaten fuckers with?
WTF is all that money going to? More guns, missiles, tanks and shit? Doesn't your country have enough of that shit?
That's exactly my point -- not ALL that money is going to more guns, missiles, tanks, and shit. The Internet was a DoD budget item for decades. DoD is such an institution that an awful lot of crap only very loosely related to "defense" ends up there. The DoD appropriations happen independently of most other budget items and, in fact, have already happened for next year. The military industrial complex is... complex.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharaoh