@Monkey:
haha, it's great because there are like no Chik-Fila-A's at all in New England or New York, using google maps you can see maybe two in Mass.
I never even heard of the damn place till I went to college in GA.It's in revenge of course for the Southerners rejecting the incredible savory deliciousness that is Boston Market.
Boston Market's still around!?
@The:
Boston Market's still around!?
buhhh? Where do you live lol.
@Monkey:
buhhh? Where do you live lol.
Northern Virginia.
@The:
Northern Virginia.
Thought so, you're close to Boston Market country, but not within it.
Oh hey, a fellow D.C. metropolitan area poster (if that's what you mean by Northern Virginia)! I looked up Boston Market and there are two in Arlington, two in Alexandria, and one in McLean, so yeah they're still around in N. VA.
EDIT: Oh man they even have locations in freaking Texas and Georgia. AND they're apparently headquartered in Colorado of all places so there you go.
@Mr.:
Oh hey, a fellow D.C. metropolitan area poster (if that's what you mean by Northern Virginia)! I looked up Boston Market and there are two in Arlington, two in Alexandria, and one in McLean, so yeah they're still around in N. VA.
EDIT: Oh man they even have locations in freaking Texas and Georgia. AND they're apparently headquartered in Colorado of all places so there you go.
All the Georgia locations are in Atlanta's metro area lollll
Using their locations map is basically the same as identifying population density in Connecticut.
Chairman Mao statue in France sparks outrage
One of France's most controversial Left-wing politicians has sparked a row from beyond the grave as a statue of Mao Tse-tung he commissioned before his death was finally erected.
People look at a sculpture of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a work of French artist Francois Cacheux, displayed in Montpellier, southern France Photo: AFPThe 10ft-high of the leader of the Chinese Revolution was among five statues inaugurated on Tuesday in Montpellier, a town long under the control of Georges Freche, who died last year after commissioning 10 statues of "great figures of the 20th century". It is the only such statue in Europe.
The other four erected this week in the town's "20th century square" were of Mahatma Gandhi, Golda Meir, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nelson Mandela.
Mr Freche, a former Socialist was expelled by the party after claiming there were too many blacks in the French football team.
Until his death he was president of the Languedoc-Roussillon region and chairman of Montpellier's development community, enjoying strong local support despite his controversial comments.
He was alive to relish the uproar when the first five statues went up in 2010 as they included an one-ton representation of Lenin, alongside the consensual figures of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle.
Guards had to protect the statues after the Green Party threatened to dismantle them.
Before his death, Mr Freche defended his decision to honour Lenin and Mao, insisting that their political legacy outweighed the bloodshed linked with their regimes.
This week, Mr Freche's Socialist successor in Montpellier, Pierre Moure, said: "These figures symbolise the major political ideologies of the 20th century It's a tribute to history and not a way of glorifying dictators."
But Arnaud Julien, municipal councillor for the Right-wing UMP party, slammed the choice as "provocation".
"If you follow that logic, then fascism was also a major ideology of the last century. Should Mussolini and Hitler also have their statues?"
Mr Moure claimed there was a difference. "The ideologies represented on the square are of liberation… despite [some of the figures'] darker sides. Fascism and Nazism are the very negation of the idea of freedom.
"Mao did indeed cause the death of millions, but he also played a major role in the rise of China as a power in the 20th century," he claimed.
They used to have a Boston Market in Abq, but I don't know if it's still there anymore.
I used to love going there.
Chairman Mao statue in France sparks outrage
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl…s-outrage.html
What the fuck? Tear that shit down.
"Mao did indeed cause the death of millions, but he also played a major role in the rise of China as a power in the 20th century," he claimed.
There's no "but" after "killed millions," ever
There's no "but" after "killed millions," ever
Mao didn't mass murder anybody. I mean I'm sure the basic police state killings add up when you live in China, but that's not the same as anything Hitler did.
His death toll however speaks to what a worthless shit he was.
1. Great Leap Forward: Shittily shittily shittily run drive to make China industrialized on the level of the West. Mao fostered a climate of IDEOLOGY over pragmaticism, and anyone at all who came up to point out a flaw in the design was treated like a witch in Salem. The result was the whole stupid thing resulted in what I think is the worst famine in history that killed obscene amounts of people.
2. Cultural Revolution: This wasn't mass killing, but Mao pretty much deliberately caused a sort of mass hysteria across the country in order to purge the government. The whole of China basically became the cast of the Crucible. Imagine whole armies of crazed indoctrinated youths in identical green outfits shouting slogans and beating to death people they suspected of being against Mao. It was probably the most insane historical event ever due to the scale of the thing.
So not to mine words, but regardless of him not being a mass murderer. He was an awful leader and fucked China up the ass for about twenty five years. Plus he was a dictator to begin with so the "fuck yous" don't end really anywhere. Erecting a statue of him, let alone in a western democracy? What the fuck France.
Reminds me of how here at work there's a poster on one of the cubicals espousing the power of literature and reading…with the figure depicted holding the books clearly being part of the Chinese communists, possibly the Chairman himself.
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Reminds me of how here at work there's a poster on one of the cubicals espousing the power of literature and reading…with the figure depicted holding the books clearly being part of the Chinese communists, possibly the Chairman himself.
hahaha, that sounds like a parody of a Cultural Revolution propaganda poster is all
Possibly, though the slogan is a pretty plain ''knowledge is power'' deal. It's definitely Mao on the poster, though.
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Possibly, though the slogan is a pretty plain ''knowledge is power'' deal. It's definitely Mao on the poster, though.
lol, the Cultural Revolution was so bad even the Chinese Communist Party doesn't bother trying to save it in their propaganda
Chick-Fil-A's pathetic attempts at PR
Do we have a thread about the Colorodo shootings? Because I don't know where to post this. I'll just post it here until someone can point me to said thread.
He's Claiming Amnesia. Seriously. The other day he just snapped out of that "Dazed and glossed over" act he was giving in court and started asking guards "Why am I here?"
He's gonna go for insanity, this is hysterical, because nobody is gonna go for it.
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Do we have a thread about the Colorodo shootings? Because I don't know where to post this. I'll just post it here until someone can point me to said thread.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/exclusive-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-james-holmes-claims-amnesia-article-1.1122289 Seriously. The other day he just snapped out of that "Dazed and glossed over" act he was giving in court and started asking guards "Why am I here?"
He's gonna go for insanity, this is hysterical, because nobody is gonna go for it.
Oh BULLshit lolll, fuck this little bastard.
Do we have a thread about the Colorodo shootings? Because I don't know where to post this. I'll just post it here until someone can point me to said thread.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/exclusive-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-james-holmes-claims-amnesia-article-1.1122289 Seriously. The other day he just snapped out of that "Dazed and glossed over" act he was giving in court and started asking guards "Why am I here?"
He's gonna go for insanity, this is hysterical, because nobody is gonna go for it.
As far as I'm concerned there is no Colarado shooting thread, even though we should have gotten one.
Looking at this, I don't think this guy is dicking around
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/27/us-usa-shooting-denver-thirdfuneral-idUSBRE86Q19720120727
This man really is mentally ill.
Apparently after the killings he asked how the Dark Knight Rises ended.
Don't underestimate the plausiblity of him being insane, this is fucking serious.
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He's claming he's completely sane right now, but tht he flat out doesn't remember the night of the shooting. Like "I went crazy and blacked out, but I'm cool now"
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He's claming he's completely sane right now, but tht he flat out doesn't remember the night of the shooting. Like "I went crazy and blacked out, but I'm cool now"
Unfucking believable.
you've pretty much got to be insane to shoot up a theater
He's claming he's completely sane right now, but tht he flat out doesn't remember the night of the shooting. Like "I went crazy and blacked out, but I'm cool now"
I think we should sympathise with him, he clearly had issues with his childhood and we should treat him like a victim instead a murderer. 15 years is prison might be too much but because he is first timer he sits only half of it and most of prison time will be relaxing mental treatment in some nice park and if he acts nicely he can get vacations to outside regurarly for a few weeks… expect him to be released in 6-7 years.
...well thats how we would treat him in Finland, those school killers we got back then could be already at free foot by this time if they would behaved well.
I think we should sympathise with him, he clearly had issues with his childhood and we should treat him like a victim instead a murderer.
A lot of people have had issues with their childhood. How many of them do things like this.
Even if you did look at him as a victim? He's still a murderer, why you think that would leave his resume I have no goddamn idea.
15 years is prison might be too much
How about life without parole. Because that's what this should get in any sane sentence.
but because he is first timer he sits only half of it and most of prison time will be relaxing mental treatment in some nice park and if he acts nicely he can get vacations to outside regurarly for a few weeks… expect him to be released in 6-7 years.
Are you trolling us?
…well thats how we would treat him in Finland, those school killers we got back then could be already at free foot by this time if they would behaved well.
I don't even begin to understand the mind that looks at a crime like this and thinks like this.
If he actually is insane, he belongs in an asylum.
If he's not, then fuck him.
But you don't seem to think he's insane. Just that he went through some shit.
I bet you were crying for poor Gaddafi last year too.
My posts purpose was just to show how Finlands, or rather scandinavian judgement system works, Brevik killed almost 100 people and bombed goverment building but I wonder what he will be doing after 20 years of this day. Just because our law is so forgiving doesnt mean that I agree with it, though I dont think US is having that much success with your ridicilous number of inmates atm…
For my personal opinion I think death sentence might be approtiate for mass murderers though I am generally against death sentences because they are so often so easily used.
I bet you were crying for poor Gaddafi last year too.
GASP How did you know! I shed many tears, for a death of a beloved leader of Libya at sewer pipe was so amaz…I mean a horrible tragic event that shocked a civilized world….
My posts purpose was just to show how Finlands, or rather scandinavian judgement system works, Brevik killed almost 100 people and bombed goverment building but I wonder what he will be doing after 20 years of this day.
Brevik ESPECIALLY should not ever be released. I've rarely seen a less remorseful person.
Just because our law is so forgiving doesnt mean that I agree with it, though I dont think US is having that much success with your ridicilous number of inmates atm…
Demographically you can't really compare the US to most countries both due to size and urbanization.
A lot of that surplus shit is from the Drug War type policies. Black kids getting locked up on trumped up sentences for crap like MJ possession. It's bullshit, but it has nothing to do with treating a spree killer like a spree killer.
For my personal opinion I think death sentence might be approtiate for mass murderers though I am generally against death sentences because they are so often so easily used.
They aren't necessarily. There are a bunch of countries that use it sparingly. My state has also barely used it, of course we might be getting rid of it altogether soon.
Not everywhere that has it uses it like Texas.
Brevik killed almost 100 people and bombed goverment building but I wonder what he will be doing after 20 years of this day.
Through the use of förvaring (containment) he'll probably be kept inside for an actual life sentance.
But yeah generally the Scandinavian judicial system is a joke.
I think all judicial systems are jokes.
They're either too light, or too harsh on the most minor of crimes; if even a crime at all.
"Hey! This guy's gay! Let's having a public hanging!"
Dane Cook strikes again.
Dane Cook has all the comedic charisma of a dudebro slapping you in the face and then humping the air while going "Aw yeahhh"
All I can say is I will still eat at Chik-fil-a not out of an anti-gay stance but because:
Also fuck Menino, let people choose if they don't want to eat at Chik-fil-a, just because the CEO is an asshole doesn't mean you should ban the restaurant.
Zaxby's (another GA chicken fast food restaurant) should take this as an opportunity and promote their franchise as all inclusive.
Lastly, fuck the muppets for donating to GLAAD. GLAAD is a money grubbing attention seeking sad organization they don't care about gay rights they just like to silence comedians and make American into a more hypersensitive pussy country.
#45lyfer
Also fuck Menino, let people choose if they don't want to eat at Chik-fil-a, just because the CEO is an asshole doesn't mean you should ban the restaurant.
I repeat, nobody in New England has even heard of Chik-Fil-A. I spent 17 years alive not knowing it existed until I went to college in Georgia.
Menino is making a gesture, it has next to no actual physical implication for Chik-Fil-A or Boston alike.
Also the food is bad lol.
Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Kills 14
KAMPALA, Uganda—The world's first major outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever since 2009 has killed at least 14 of 20 people infected in a remote area of midwestern Uganda.
International health officials are rushing to respond to the outbreak, which erupted at the beginning of July but was identified as the deadly Ebola virus only on Friday, meaning it potentially spread substantially before being caught.
A team of responders from the Ugandan government, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was dispatched Friday to the affected region—the Kibaale district, a forested area about 125 miles west of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444226904577557053543760564.html
More in this link
Now that the whole Kony 2012 fiasco is over with, perhaps we could know more about the real problems that plague the country?
Entire Kony 2012 was so god damn retarded and self-righteous over hyped event that I was face palming almost non stop for two months… did they even get him?
Ebola in the other hand is a whole another league of danger, with no cure and high almost 70% fatality rate has potential if reaching epidemic situation to cause horrific amount of suffering and very high casualty on local populace, virus structure and spreading method makes pandemic event pretty much impossible but still Ebola is one of the most feared virus diseases of our time.
Everybody's favorite tourist Mitt Romney caused a bit of a stir over the weekend by referring to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which is against American foreign policy as well as the foreign policy of just about everybody else in the entire world.
He also said some other things, but the media is less interested in those. Primarily he said that the Israelis are a lot more successful financially than Palestinians and that the difference is because of culture with the implication that the Palestinians don't have any.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/30/palestinians-protest-romney-statements-as-racist/
Some Israelis weren't all that thrilled with the whole "Your Jewish culture sure is good at making money" subtext of Romney's comments either.
Romney also vastly understated the difference in per capita GDP between Israelis and Palestinians; the CIA puts it at a 10:1 ratio while some list it at 20:1 while Romney had it at a mere 2:1 ratio.
In response to the backlash, Romney's campaign basically said that his quotes were taken out of context (really) and further that he also made the same comparison about neighboring countries like Chile-Ecuador and the United States-Mexico, which basically means that Ecuador and Mexico having less money than their neighbors is due to a similar lack of culture by comparison.
Romney's now in Poland; at this point, he'd have to aim pretty low to finish out this trip on a worse note than it started on.
Complicating things since 2009.
Maybe Romney would like to explain to the Poles why they are so much poorer than the Germans because of culture lol.
Or maybe he would like to walk those same implications back to the US and explain the reason ghetto areas are poor.
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Anyway the thing is, Obama and Netanyahu hate eachother. But from what I see of Netanyahu? He seems like he'd hate a brown nosing little bitch even more than a guy who disagrees with him. I can't imagine respecting that sort of lapdog shit the republicans play with Israel.
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"Hi, I like to rationalize culture to explain vast differences of income between bordering areas. Now bye! I'm off to Eastern Europe!"
Romney has always given off the "diplomatic disaster" air.
Everybody's favorite tourist Mitt Romney caused a bit of a stir over the weekend by referring to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which is against American foreign policy as well as the foreign policy of just about everybody else in the entire world.
I'd just like to point out that that is actualy true. And yet it's something ridiculously stupid to say, apparently.
Anyone else find that weird on a basic level ?
@No:
I'd just like to point out that that is actualy true. And yet it's something ridiculously stupid to say, apparently.
Anyone else find that weird on a basic level ?
It wasn't something ever agreed upon. It was supposed to be set up as kind of a neutral zone (with it's importance to all three abrahamic religions in mind I think).
So what is the place they're supposed to refer to as the capital?
I thought Tel Aviv was the "official" capitol.
Tel Aviv is where almost all of the embassies of foreign countries are while all of the Israeli government is located within Jerusalem and has been since declaring that city its capital in 1949 over the protests of just about everybody else.
Romney is a horrible man. flys away
@ Zephos: You're more politically and historically savvy than myself, so I'd like to ask you what are the actual chances of Romney winning the presidential election over Obama at this point? He's such an ass-kissing moron completely out of touch with the struggles of the day-to-day working class majority (imho).
Also, this is totally awesome:
Westboro v. Zombies
Someone married their stepmom and then got murdered?
Sounds like he used a monkey paw to make a porno story come true.
Then the curse of the paw eventually killed him.
It's funny, Obama keeps blitzing us with emails about how if we don't close the spending gap we could lose the White House, and I'm like pffffffft
@Rogues':
@ Zephos: You're more politically and historically savvy than myself, so I'd like to ask you what are the actual chances of Romney winning the presidential election over Obama at this point? He's such an ass-kissing moron completely out of touch with the struggles of the day-to-day working class majority (imho).
It's not gonna happen. Romney's just not well liked enough. While you still have people who will vote AGAINST Obama, there's really not that many people who genuinely want to vote FOR Romney.
Romney might be running for the Republicans, but all the Reps I know, that lean very right, will not vote for a Mormon. They're just not going to vote at all.
I also know some Reps who hate Obama so much that they're at war with themselves about whether or not they could knowingly put a Mormon in office just to get Obama out.
Dumb, I know.
@Rogues':
@ Zephos: You're more politically and historically savvy than myself, so I'd like to ask you what are the actual chances of Romney winning the presidential election over Obama at this point? He's such an ass-kissing moron completely out of touch with the struggles of the day-to-day working class majority (imho).
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
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@Nex:
Romney might be running for the Republicans, but all the Reps I know, that lean very right, will not vote for a Mormon. They're just not going to vote at all.
I also know some Reps who hate Obama so much that they're at war with themselves about whether or not they could knowingly put a Mormon in office just to get Obama out.
Dumb, I know.
You live in Texas though, Romney is getting Texas.
Just like it doesn't really matter what I hear, Connecticut is going for Obama.
It comes down to people who live in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and maybe Colorado and Nevada too. Such is the electoral college.
Right nowww…
-Florida is leaning Romney, it's old people and southern north plus a crappier economy than the average (housing crisis fucked em') means Red is most likely. Though Hispanics could tip it Blue.
-Ohio is looking better and better for Obama for some reason, polling seems to suggest the Rust Belt Lakes region (Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Illinois) is feeling pretty good about Obama, so I'm guessing Ohio is simply going with it's crowd.
-Virginia is most interesting to me because it's in the midst of changing color from a reliably Red state to a fringe Blue state, folks have been predicting this for awhile since the DC metro area keeps growing among other things. The Northeast has been gobbling up the coastal South for awhile now. Maryland and Delaware used to be considered Southern, now they're nothing of the sort. Virginia is Yankeefying is you will. North Carolina also shows the earliest signs of this most wonderful infection though nothing to write home about yet.
@Monkey:
You live in Texas though, Romney is getting Texas.
Just like it doesn't really matter what I hear, Connecticut is going for Obama…
First off, nice memory.
Second, all very true, and my family luckily lives in the very democratic part of Texas (the D side of DFW) which is hopefully ever expanding it's influence thanks to it's ever expanding population (also helps that Houston's with us.)
Even luckier, for me, I'm registered to vote in California where I go to school since that's where I actually live year round, even if I am paying out of state tuition. (Side note: unlucky for me, I live in California where everything's a clusterfuck and way too expensive. Suckiest part of all: the rent for my apartment is more expensive than my parent's mortgage.)
For Florida, I honestly think it's a lock for Romney. I'd be surprised if he didn't win it.
If you're right, Obama getting Ohio and Virginia, it would definitely help. I am actually worried about Romney, and think there is a possibility he can win. In '08 there was no way Obama was going to lose. Now…in the eyes of the public he's failed to do anything. I'm not even as hot on Obama as I was in 08, and even then he wasn't my first choice for the Democratic nomination. Of course I was still a few months out from being able to vote then, so it really didn't matter.
