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Reply to Why Ron Paul Gets My Respect, But Not My Vote in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Any respect I had for Ron Paul died off when he couldn't even summon the testicular fortitude to outright refuse donations from the Stormfront yokels. Completely spineless. This should have been an issue that took about 5 milliseconds to conclude. Instead he f*cked around for days waiting for his staff to "come to some sort of decision". Not exactly Presidential caliber decision making. Of course rejecting the Stormfront folks might mean they would stop spamming websites and o

Reply to So did I mention I met General Petraeus? in Humor JoeUser Forums

A. Congrats on meeting Petraeus. B. You have terrible luck with wierd health issues. C. I don't think that even having junk the size of St. Louis would help you with the ladies.

Reply to How Do You Change A Government? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Second, open-mindedness and humility would get those two "should's" close enough to satisfy both sides. Of course that needs selfless groups. Groups, by the nature of the word itself implies selfishness on behalf of the group at least. This is the essence of tribalism/nationalism. Humility just allows the last hold-out group to take advantage of the groups who caved before them. The rest of the world understands this. We in the very comfy US ten

Reply to Rough Draft: Part 16 in Fiction Writing JoeUser Forums

Do what you like, but generally speaking it is considered pretty bad form to spam-post 7 articles of unformatted text in as many minutes. If you don't use carriage returns or paragraph breaks anyways why not just post all seven sections in one article? That way you aren't spamming JU with "recently posted" articles. Addtionally, if you want people to read anything you post a few breaks in the body of the text will help you towards your goal. Forma

Reply to Dubai Rising and Why We Might Be In Trouble in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Change your IE View settings to "Unicode" and they become normal again. For somereason IE doesn't auto-sense them correctly on some pages. That said, I think that at some point int he future maket forces will precipitate the changes in our infrastructure that are required. After all, it is market forces driving the changes in Dubai right now.

Reply to So, did ya know? in Humor JoeUser Forums

Oh also, welcome home SNBS Soldier, patriot, and sheep fetishist?

Reply to So, did ya know? in Humor JoeUser Forums

I can't see the images posted here and given the topic I think that might be a good thing.

Reply to An Example of How Raising the Minimum Wage Does Harm in Politics JoeUser Forums

Late to the game but I know the Domino's I used to work for had it's workforce slashed by the minimum wage hike. Even allowing for less employees the price of pizza still went up. Bad move all around.

Reply to I'm Sorry, But Your Forum/Blog Post is NOT Protected Speech in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I third TW's motion. Even the Kingdom of Loathing makes users visit the Altar of Literacy before allowing them posting rights.

Reply to How Do You Change A Government? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

While I have been gone for quite a while it is nice to come back and see a well written article. Frankly it is nice to see that someone realizes that this group of folks simply can't make up it's collective mind because it doesn't have a collective mind. If ideologically homogenous groups in towns and cities can't agree on local policy then they certainly won't achieve consensus nationally across heterogenous ide

Will the U.S. Army Save Itself from Obsolescence? in Politics JoeUser Forums

*For those wondering about my long absence: See the end of the article. -GW Expertise in technical and combat fields should be a top priority for any Army. For the U.S. Army it simply isn't. The institution doesn't value it and your security as a citizen is put at risk by this fact.

Music Industry Condemns Artist Giving Away Own Music in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Record labels think pirating music is theft. Record labels also seem to think that giving away music you made is also theft since they don't get a cut. Just look at the latest kerfuffle over Prince allowing a newspaper to give away his new CD: "The Entertainment Retailers Association said the giveaway "beggars belief". " It would be an insult to all those rec

Reply to Testing! in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

Hehehe

Reply to Hiss in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I have been thorugh many an on/off period with JU. Sometimes I come back stronger and sometimes weaker. Right now I am in a weak phase. Whereas I used to write drunk and angry (which made the pieces much better and more fun to read) I now write sober and I am not nearly as angry. Hard to say if I will be able to shift styles and get back to writing things people will want to read. It is hard to do anything consistently over years and JU is no different.

Reply to Help Request - Starting a new blog group in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Hmmm... I hadn't realized that it had fallen in the bit bucket with the other features.

Reply to Odd Bird in Wildlife JoeUser Forums

Not sure, but I can definitively say that it is not a loon ...

Reply to A date with destiny? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Wow, thats pretty unusual. Good read too. I hope it works out for her but my inner pessimist tells me it likely will not.

Help Request - Starting a new blog group in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Anyone know how to start a new blog group? It used to be a feature under "My Account" IIR but it seems to have gone away. *Edited for a title typo. I have no idea what a "blgo" might be but it isn't what I wanted to ask about.

Reply to Mitt Romney Flip Flops Away From President Bush in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ahhh Mitt get's the coveted COL Gene "Kiss of Death" endorsment. Standing at the polls the one thing that will guarantee a candidate will not get a vote is the fact that COL Gene liked them. (Note to the COL : Endorsing everyone but Hillary might help elect her).

Reply to When The Customer Is Wrong in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Best. Article. Ever. In some ways it is a shame that we don't put people like Peason in the stocks anymore. A few days in the public square with a "Ridiculous Fucksheep" sign on his neck would do wonders to discourage this sort of thing.

Reply to CHILDREN are a Noise violation? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There is a huge difference between kids playing and kids with no boundaries, limits, or rules. I'd need to hear more of the story - both sides of the story - before I made my final decision that this was irrational. Here, here! Well spoken Bruce. It is telling that the neighbors in this case took to makig audio tapes of the kids and this was what finally got the cops to do something about it but without being there it will be pretty hard to say

Reply to CHILDREN are a Noise violation? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

They are kids for Christ sake. And they have parents for Christs's sake! If people don't really like the noises kids make they should move to places where children are not allowed. Really? You buy a house in a neighborhood, a neighbor moves in who refuses to actually discipline their kids within societal norms and it is somehow *your* responsibility to move away? Do you ac

Reply to Gitmo may be closed. in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Gitmo is simply a symbol of America's fear. Yes, I mean really, what is there to fear from terror right? How inexcusably silly of us to fear people who respond to cartoons, films, and knightings with murder, violence, and threats of more of both. Come on people, just put your heads back in the sand and all of it will just go away naturally. No one wants to hurt you. Eurasia has always been our ally.

Reply to Obama Campaign Says Having a Blog = The Press in Democrat JoeUser Forums

He's banning bloggers? Honestly no... this event was a supposed to be "no press" which meant "no bloggers" to his staff. Many of his events have had bloggers at them before. I think this is a case of overzealous and underinformed staffers making decisions without the candidate's foreknowledge.

Obama Campaign Says Having a Blog = The Press in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Apparently I am a member of the press. So are most of you reading this according to barack Obama's campaign folks who turned away Jerid of Buckeye State Blog from an event that was "closed to the press". Note that this guy was not turned away because he had a major blog like the Daily Kos or Instapundit but simply because he stated that he had a blog . Where is the li