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Monday
I'd recommend against taking anyone younger than 12 into that. Bane snaps people's necks on camera, several times.
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557473
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588688
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Magician22773
Here is the question. Euronews (I am currently in Europe) claims that shooter bought around 6000 rounds of ammunition. SIX FREAKING THOUSAND. And how that got unnoticed?
Two things here.
First, he bought his items from several different sources, so as not to make any one purchase seem suspicious. If he had purchased a full set of body armor, 4 weapons, and 6000 rounds of ammo from one shop, yeah, that should have raised a big red flag. From what I have read, he had been gathering stuff for about 4 months from many different places.
Second, 6000 rounds really isn't a "huge" amout of ammo. I used to be very into sport shooting (target shooting, clays, and trick shots), and I had a small group of friends that would go to a range every weekend. It was not uncommon for each of us to shoot 1,000 rounds in a day. So we would usually buy ammo in bulk, since it was much cheaper that way. I personally have placed several orders for 5000 round cases of ammo, and I know others would buy in even larger quantity for a better price.
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204878
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Azazel
http://www.skepticmoney.com/fox-news-banned-from-canada-law-forbids-lying-on-broadcast-news/
Looks like the Canadians don't like lies.
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Adamsm
http://www.skepticmoney.com/fox-news-banned-from-canada-law-forbids-lying-on-broadcast-news/
Looks like the Canadians don't like lies.
Article definitely has bias to it, but yes, it's true we have a law like that up here.
Post by
gamerunknown
Hey, freedom should include the freedom to say 2+2=5! Just not to the exclusion of other, more reasonable positions (which is my problem with unlimited campaign finance, it drowns out the competition by expenditure).
Guards and police are called in by businesses when there is a social or legal disturbance, on the assumption that maintaining the momentum of the economy is more important than people’s freedom to cause disruptions.
State intervention due to the plight of... competition. Glad to see capitalism is still functioning in Sweden.
Post by
MyTie
Ok, this really really bothers me.
Obama explains his philosophy about business:If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. Now, quite obviously, Obama is a community OVER business kind of politician. I get that. I think that business is part of community and should be built up, not burdened, as they are integral.
However, THAT'S NOT EVEN THE POINT. The thing that really bugs me is that Obama then lies about the meaning. I know what he means. He knows what he means. But, when the pressure got turned up by the Romney camp, he started getting hammered by criticism. He insults everyone's intelligence by saying that his part of that speech was about building "roads and bridges", not
business
.What I said was together we build roads and we build bridges.He wasn't talking about "roads and bridges". He was talking about business. How is it that people buy this stuff? I wasn't shocked when he dissed business owners. I was shocked when he pretended that's not what he did.....
and people didn't notice
.
Post by
Patty
Things like this make me genuinely sick.
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MyTie
Things like this make me genuinely sick.
I hope whoever is responsible is caught and punished to the full extent of the law.
Tom Cruise's acting is
just as terrible as ever
, and unphased by his divorce.
Post by
Adamsm
Things like this make me genuinely sick.
I hope whoever is responsible is caught and punished to the full extent of the law.Agreed.
Tom Cruise's acting is
just as terrible as ever
, and unphased by his divorce.
Sad as this is going to sound; who really cares what happens in the personal lives of the celebs. I'm just surprised that train wreck of a marriage lasted as long as it did; guess Holmes finally grew up. What I find more 'idiotic' is that rather then focus on the divorce itself, a lot of new stuff lately are about things they are doing with their daughter; saw one article that someone snapped a video of Suri Cruise in tears after her mother told her no in regards to a toy or something she wanted, and a few days later they had 'happy' Suri with her father in a helicopter or something...really, who cares?
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Azazel
Talk about hypocrisy..
Post by
MyTie
Talk about hypocrisy..
Well, it makes sense. If someone feels that homosexuality is wrong, they would avoid homosexuality as much as possible, especially when faced with the urge themselves. You could say that people that were at risk for drinking, but wanted to stay away from it as much as possible because they felt it was wrong, would be the most adamant for avoiding other drinkers.
In reality, all hate comes from fear. There are only two emotions, Azazel: fear and love.
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Adamsm
Talk about hypocrisy..
Yes and no; no worse then self-hating religious types. It does make sense that quite a few of them are repressed and hate themselves so they extend it out to bash on those who are out and honest with themselves. Doesn't make it any less disgusting, but what can you do with a species that seems to think denial is the right idea for everything.
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588688
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
Article
I don't know if everyone's familiar with the Sandusky case, but I'm going to assume most people are, as it's everywhere.
This article is about the uproar over the NCAA sanctioning Penn State's football team and removing the on-the-record wins that they got under Paterno, one of the coaches involved in the cover-up. I'm bringing it up because it's so unfathomable to me how out of proportion people's priorities seem to be.
Sandusky raped children. A number of them. He was convicted. He was caught in the act by co-workers. It was never reported to the police, though a number of officials knew about it. They chose to allow children to be raped to protect their school's football record and reputation. For over a decade.
There are a lot of punishments being doled out to the parties guilty in this coverup, but to me this one seems to be the most poetic justice. They paid for their football record with the lives of kids he destroyed, and now that people know that they've taken it away. To us, it might seem like not a huge consequence for what they did, but for them, if they were so willing to sacrifice so many innocents to keep it, it seems like a huge deal. And that makes it all the more appropriate.
There are pages and pages of angry alumni who can't believe that they would dare take away some football wins from the school. That it isn't fair. I can't believe that people would be so petty and so disconnected from morality. If I had been a student, knowing that the reason for that record was that the school was allowing a pedophile free reign to guarantee wins, I would be disgusted and more than content to let them take it away.
I can't understand how a school could become so engrossed with a sport that it's almost a religion. No one can discipline the top players except the coach, grades are given based on how much money that athlete will get them in ticket sales and merchandising, and in this case a monster has his reputation protected and is allowed to keep attacking children so the school doesn't get bad press and doesn't stop winning. I'm so disgusted with the fandom and alumni of Penn State for the complete lack of perspective that lets them cry about statues and win records when the reason they were forfeit is so much worse. I'm hoping that this does a little to dismantle this untouchable culture of these all-star college sports teams, or at least this one, because it's atrocious that they get away with so much (even just in terms of grades not earned and behavior not regulated).
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Magician22773
My only real problem with the sanctions placed on Penn State, is that they will have the most effect on people that had nothing at all to do with the child abuse.
Hundreds of businesses are dependant on Penn State football. Thousands of sudents attend Penn State for acedemic reasons, and have nothing to do with the football program. These are the people that are being "punished" by these sanctions.
Without having Bowl Games, Penn State's football program will be drasticly affected for several years. This, in turn, will hurt, if not destroy, many of the businesses that depend on the program for its revenue.
As for the $60 million in fines. These fines will be paid for by students by way of higher tuition. Students that actually have to pay for their education, unlike the football players.
I think a better approach would have been to strip Penn State of its entire football record from the day that Sandusky arrived. Fire anyone and everyone that had anything to do with this scandal, and strip them of all pension or retirement benefits. And most important, prosecute and jail anyone that had knowledge of what was happening and did not
call the police
.....not just pass it up the ladder at the university, but call the cops. Any rational person that sees or knows of an adult molesting a child should know the proper response is to call the cops, not tell their boss. This guy wasn't stealing office supplies, he was raping young boys.
If they want to do the right thing, take the $60 million dollars and use part of it to subsidize the innocent businesses that are going to be affected by this, and freeze tuition costs at the university so that students do not have to pay for this sicko's crime. Use the retirement funds for anyone involved to pay for a portion of the fines, and sieze and auction everything Sandusky owns. (They do it with drug dealers, so why not him? Everything he owns came from money that was "earned" during the commision of a crime)
Post by
ElhonnaDS
All of the money they're fining the school is being used for charities for victims of child molestation. I'm not sure I want to take money away from that to subsidize tuition so students don't have to find new schools. I certainly wouldn't say that the "right thing" is to make sure that the money helps business rather than victims of child abuse.
You could argue that much of the money those business have already made because of the school's football record was made because the school let that happen to those kids to protect those profits. They might not have known about it, but the economy that you're describing is based on the winning streak that the school was protecting.
The school will raise tuition, and students will find another school. The football team will become less profitable, and people will stop giving people involved with it a free pass to do whatever they want as their cash cow. They created a system where the football team was so important monetarily that they refuse to allow anything to happen to the people who guaranteed that cash flow. If they don't dismantle that system, then those people will continue to be that economically important and it leave room for more abuses in the future for the sake of the team's revenue.
Post by
Magician22773
You could argue that much of the money those business have already made because of the school's football record was made because the school let that happen to those kids to protect those profits. They might not have known about it, but the economy that you're describing is based on the winning streak that the school was protecting.
I agree 100%. But how is it "fair" to Mom and Pop Smith that have invested their life savings into a business in the area, to have that business ruined because of Sandusky's crime?
I just believe that the fines, for this, or any crime, should first go to the victims. And in this case, the victims also include hundreds of small business owners that will likely go under because of the programs crimes.
The problem here is, Penn State itself is going to be the least affected of anyone by these sanctions. The fines will be paid for by the students. (They
will
continue to have students, regardless of the tuition. Its not like this is going to put Penn State "out of business"), and the football program will recover in 4-6 years, and will be back to being a cash cow, just like before.
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