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Unwashed Village / Is PETA making domestic violence adverts now?

« on: April 27, 2009, 10:35:53 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctoZbeD-GlY

This seems like something they would do. Something that should inform and help to change minds or behavior is so over the top that one is turned off by it and thus the message.

*Warning* - violently disturbing video

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Unwashed Village / Being a Raider fan, I felt it was necessary to convey something today

« on: April 26, 2009, 12:48:47 AM »

*facepalm*

That is all

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Unwashed Village / Champions Online launch day set at July 14

« on: April 24, 2009, 11:04:13 PM »

http://www.champions-online.com/node/32664

I just became a beta tester a week ago. That's all I'm allowed to say atm. If anyone is interested though, I'll fill you in when the NDA is lifted.

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Unwashed Village / Legendary threads

« on: April 24, 2009, 12:00:30 AM »

http://www.legendarythreads.com/


http://www.parkingenforcementforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3%E2%80%8F

I especially liked this one about a guy who had a rather interesting solution to having his car booted.

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Unwashed Village / So apparently the whole "it doesn't work" argument for torture is dead wrong

« on: April 21, 2009, 08:01:58 PM »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042002818.html

At least according to those documents Obama had released.

Consider the Justice Department memo of May 30, 2005. It notes that "the CIA believes 'the intelligence acquired from these interrogations has been a key reason why al Qaeda has failed to launch a spectacular attack in the West since 11 September 2001.' . . . In particular, the CIA believes that it would have been unable to obtain critical information from numerous detainees, including [Khalid Sheik Mohammed] and Abu Zubaydah, without these enhanced techniques." The memo continues: "Before the CIA used enhanced techniques . . . KSM resisted giving any answers to questions about future attacks, simply noting, 'Soon you will find out.' " Once the techniques were applied, "interrogations have led to specific, actionable intelligence, as well as a general increase in the amount of intelligence regarding al Qaeda and its affiliates."

Specifically, interrogation with enhanced techniques "led to the discovery of a KSM plot, the 'Second Wave,' 'to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into' a building in Los Angeles." KSM later acknowledged before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay that the target was the Library Tower, the tallest building on the West Coast. The memo explains that "information obtained from KSM also led to the capture of Riduan bin Isomuddin, better known as Hambali, and the discovery of the Guraba Cell, a 17-member Jemmah Islamiyah cell tasked with executing the 'Second Wave.' " In other words, without enhanced interrogations, there could be a hole in the ground in Los Angeles to match the one in New York.

More at link

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Unwashed Village / *cheer* for Obama

« on: April 20, 2009, 01:23:40 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/18/obama-administration-boycott-racism-meeting/

"I would love to be involved in a useful conference that addressed continuing issues of racism and discrimination around the globe," Obama said in Trinidad on Sunday after attending the Summit of the Americas.

But he said the language of the U.N.'s draft declaration risked a reprise of Durban, during which "folks expressed antagonism toward Israel in ways that were often times completely hypocritical and counterproductive."

"We expressed in the run-up to this conference our concerns that if you adopted all of the language from 2001, that's not something we can sign up for," Obama said.

More at link

Good for him.

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Unwashed Village / CNN hit piece reporter gets pwned

« on: April 17, 2009, 01:24:05 AM »

Many of you have probably seen the CNN reporter taking on the tea party protesters. Michelle Malkin has been tied to these events for a while and she warned a couple of weeks beforehand that reporters would be pulling this crap. They were out in force trying to find a few loonies in the crowds around the country so they could effectively dismiss the protesters as wing nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2tg8gxCDU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F16%2Fawesome-chicago-tea-partiers-confront-cnn-hack-after-hit-piece%2F&feature=player_embedded

Watch this "journalist" get taken to task after the CNN cameras are turned off. CNN hit piece that I'm talking about is at the beginning of the linked video just fyi.

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Unwashed Village / Who are the fascists again?

« on: April 17, 2009, 01:18:43 AM »

We (those of us on the political right) have heard that word from our adversaries for quite some time. Let's do a little compare and contrast.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/16/video-john-zieglers-arrest/

A conservative journalist is put in handcuffs and threatened with arrest for trying to ask questions of people attending an award ceremony at a journalism school for Katie Couric. He is obviously not blocking a doorway. He's just outside the building trying to interview people. The area isn't crowded.


http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/15/fiasco-amnesty-thugs-break-glass-shut-down-tancredo-at-unc/

Here we have a conservative speaker (Tancredo) who is stopped from beginning his speech by protesters blocking the doors. When those protesters are finally cleared (with pepper spray and possibly tasing) he starts to speak. All of a minute or two into the speech protesters inside try to drap a banner in front of his face while those outside break a window in the room which effectively ends his speech.  No arrests are made. The protesters win as they've disrupted the speech and none of them even got into trouble for it.

Now I'll be the first to say that Tancredo has gone way over the line of reason when it comes to his views on immigration. Still, this is a free speech issue. Even the ACLU is coming down on his side.

Now before the argument is made that the Tancredo thing is an isolated event, I'd remind you of the numerous cases like this where conservative speakers like Coulter, Malkin, Gilchrist, etc have been threatened and had their speeches interrupted. This has occurred at universities across the country. Again, I'm not saying I agree with those speakers. This is a free speech issue.

So I'll ask again, which side is acting like fascists here? Whose free speech is being squelched?

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Unwashed Village / Stay classy Aaron Curry

« on: April 16, 2009, 07:50:29 PM »

http://www.nfl.com/draft/story?id=09000d5d80fc54bc&template=without-video-with-comments&confirm=true

"Curry wound up at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday. In a prearranged meeting set up by his agent and hospital officials, Curry told wide-eyed, 12-year-old Bryson Merriweather that he wanted a tour of the place. The boy had spent the better part of two years there undergoing five rounds of chemotherapy for leukemia, which is now in remission.

"We were acting like he was just taking me on a regular tour around the hospital," Curry said. "Toward the end, we ended up outside tossing each other a football, and I just started talking about the draft.

"He said he had seen it, and I was telling him that I had been invited and if he would join me in this experience. So I said, 'So come to New York with me and get drafted into the NFL.'"

More at link

No really, stay classy.    The NFL is filled with guys like this and the only ones that get media attention are the few idiots that make the rest look bad.

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Unwashed Village / How Star Wars changed the world

« on: April 15, 2009, 09:12:42 PM »

http://blogs.news-journalonline.com/fanboy/star-wars-influence-map1.html

Nifty 

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Unwashed Village / Robert Aspriin died?

« on: April 15, 2009, 10:06:13 AM »

Apparently in May of 2008 he passed away. Did everyone miss this or just me? 

I've been a fan of his Myth books for years and years. Twas a sad thing to hear that he had passed.

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Unwashed Village / Gitmo, habeas corpus - Obama then and now

« on: April 12, 2009, 07:56:01 AM »

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/11/bagram/

A very liberal writer is upset at Obama for changing his position on yet another issue now that he has all of the facts in front of him. I have to give the writer credit for at least remaining constant in his viewpoint regardless of what Obama is doing.

I still believe that if you are a terrorist that has been captured fighting against our troops then you have no rights. You can be shipped off to prison for life. Only if you are a US citizen do you get a trial. Period. For those captured in more questionable circumstances (ie not involved in a fire fight with our troops) I'd suggest military court. Thus my stance hasn't changed no matter who is President. I happen to believe that Obama is doing the right thing here but I also believe he's talking out of both sides of his mouth.

As the author of the linked op-ed shows, it's many of Obama's followers who seem to have changed their position all of a sudden. Now that he is in charge it's ok. He must know more about the situation than we do afterall. Sound familiar?

I've noticed the same thing with the wiretapping that Obama's adminstration is fighting to keep active. Where's the outrage from Olbermann, Maddow, Stewart, Matthews, etc? Have I just missed it or has the media machine shifted its stance as well now that their guy is in charge?

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Unwashed Village / So it's all but official now - TSCC is canceled

« on: April 11, 2009, 08:08:54 PM »

http://www.fmqinc.com/terminator-cancelled/   :beadyeyes:

Which really ticks me off. As it says at the link, the total viewers when you count DVR, Hulu, etc are somewhere in the 7-10 million range which just shows that Fox scheduling is the sole reason this show didn't make it. Sticking a sci-fi show on Friday nights is like putting a family oriented drama on Sunday morning. Your audience is elsewhere and thus the show has no chance.

So once again, the crackheads that schedule shows at Fox have killed a great sci-fi show.  *shakes head sadly*

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Unwashed Village / Fallout Mamorpaga possibly on the way

« on: April 05, 2009, 09:11:14 AM »

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/969/969425p1.html

*crosses fingers*

*doubly so for PvP*   

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Unwashed Village / Pixar vs Dreamworks

« on: April 03, 2009, 09:55:33 AM »

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3398960470_05527c04b1_b.jpg