Crap Throwing Monkey

Stupidest thing I've read since AKC told me I was an unpatriotic little monkey. *SPLAT*

Welllll...technically, according to the law, they're not explicitly forbidden from appropriating the money if they take it out of the fund's income rather than assets, right? That, of course, is aside from the likelihood that they actually ARE taking the cash from the original assets of the fund rather than the income (since their justification is "we have a surplus due to high oil prices", I highly doubt that $300+ million represents investment income). And aside from the fact that it's a blisteringly stupid precedent to set.

No, just yours.

What exactly is the Permanent Fund? Is it anything more than the bucket of money from which Alaskans get their dividends paid?

They don't? I left 7 years ago, they still try to get income tax out of me. It has something to do with their believing I'm a resident because they suspended my NY driver's license I no longer have for not having insurance on a car I no longer own in a state where I no longer live... Seriously messed up state. At least I only toss crap from my tree, and don't sit in Albany and cover the state in it.

But not 5. They outlawed carrying more than 4 books of matches onto planes shortly after 9/11. But only now they're getting around to banning lighters. How f'ed up is that?

By 2008 you'll need a US passport to return from Canada or Mexico. You already can't fly unless your papers are in order.

And you know anything about objectivity? You, who thinks people that hold a different opinion from yours should keep it private? Because that's what your opinion amounts to: you think that people who disagree with you on the war in Iraq should keep their mouths shut. All your drivel about "not supporting the war is criticizing the soldiers" is just that - drivel, and demonstrable drivel, as evidenced by the one single counterexample you can't even argue against without shouting "hypocrite!".

...because Darin, for example, publicly voiced opposition to the war in Iraq, and since hasn't been able to control his vocalization of contempt for the common enlisted soldier. Do you have any idea how little sense you're making?

What part of anything I said was equivalent to "War reparations were paid out for WWII"? It would be much easier to discuss things with you if you comprehended what you read and in turn made yourself comprehensible.

"Apologize to all patriots for being unpatriotic in exercising the freedom of speech that they fight to protect." Oh, please...

War reparations were (and are) an implicit admission of culpability. An "apology" would be explicit. Either way, the Japanese consistently provide neither, and in doing so routinely deny any wrongdoing or atrocities committed...which is part of my point. And in saying that, I didn't mean to imply anything anti-Catholic, so don't get your panties in a bunch please...

I don't particularly mind Bruschi leaving football and leaving the Patriots with a hole in their roster...but I hate to see it happen the way it has.

I don't know. How long should we keep apologizing for Hiroshima? Or should we demand the Japanese keep apologizing for Pearl Harbor? Or should they continue to refuse to apologize for Pearl Harbor, for that matter? And regardless...even if everyone involved in the atrocities is dead (unlikely, even at this late date), the fact that the Japanese continue to insist on feeding themselves a sanitized version of their own history where they can pretend these things didn't happen has as a root cause the same attitudes that led to the atrocities in the first place: the fundamental unwillingness to admit that anything they did was actually wrong. They wouldn't stand up to it then, and they won't do it now. So yeah, I think a 20-year old Chinese person, looking at the current Japanese attitudes toward their wartime behavior and seeing something little different from their wartime attitude towards their behavior, probably has a valid excuse for a little moral outrage, and will continue to until the Japanese stand up (like the Germans have for the past 60 years) and admit "Yeah, we were right bastards during the war. Our bad." Doesn't mean I think they should pay reparations (any more than we, being six generations removed from slavery, should pay any to blacks), but if they can't even admit events happened, the root causes of those events haven't been addressed.

Reminds me of the line from A Fish Called Wanda: "Apes don't read philosophy!" "Yes, they do, they just don't understand it!" And yet, you evidently got so little from them, none of them support anything you've said, and you still used The Hot Zone as your primary reference in your posts. ( Of course, given that Regis' book isn't even applicable to the discussion at hand (and Miller's barely is), I wouldn't expect anyone to get anything from those. Garrett's book is very good, though as it's more about the microbiology of infectious diseases and less about the epidemiology, the reasons for your ignorance is understandable. You should pick up "Betrayal of Trust" by her, too.

That's an even more disturbing image than Kiper's hair gel sinking into his brain...

No, it's non-fiction. Like there's a difference.

Considering God is omnipotent...couldn't s/he choose to be an African-American lesbian if s/he damn well chose to? Probably how he weeds out all the a--holes...meets them at the Pearly Gates as whoever they hate the most..."Pat Robertson, meet God...he's an Islamic abortion doctor who's published papers on evolution." If he gets a negative reaction...down into the fiery pits of hell they go.

Does anyone other than beausox give a rat's ass? For that matter, does anyone believe that beausox gives a rat's ass outside of hoping to provoke an "anti-Catholic" reaction that satisfies his desperate need for attention? Really, it's the only possible point to his post I can fathom...

Plus, it would be a nice backhanded "up yours" to the NHLPA. "Well, gee, union guys...if you hadn't been negotiating off in la-la-land, maybe some of your people would have the Cup." Ain't going to happen, though. Giving up the Stanley Cup would be a practical admission that the NHL is no longer a going concern...which, no matter what the accuracy of that statement is, the NHL is never going to willingly admit.

I don't think any reasonable person would argue that (though I can think of quite a few unreasonable ones that would.) But at the same time, you don't see anyone here denying that My Lai or the Indian Wars ever happened. Despite the term, there are shades of "whitewashing".

I hear it's going to be the subject of Dan Brown's next fictional non-fiction book.

Oooh...I'm sense that someone a little obvertive.

I've got a buck that says you can't translate that sentence into proper beausox-ese...

The point being that according to the Japanese now, they never were to begin with! That is the whole crux of Chinese and Korean anger, the consistent whitewashing of Japanese history by the Japanese. And yet, even though the victims of genocidal atrocities sixty years ago should forget about it when the perpetrators whitewash events, the Vatican should be roundly pilloried for whitewashing the sexual depravity of a handful of priests? Nice perspective, that...