Comments on: Open Thread Monday

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:29:34 +0000

Yeah. She wasn’t really *my* kind of octagenarian – I’m more of a Jessica Tandy kind of guy – but hey, if that’s what he goes for, good for him.

So what, are we not doing daily open-threads anymore?

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:20:32 +0000

Even the 80 year old chicks!

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:01:07 +0000

It’s not bad. Guys with Porsche Hearses always get the chicks…

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:44:48 +0000

JUST finished.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:44:31 +0000

Since we don’t have a Tuesday (Seriously, we need one), I will post this here.

I kust finished watching HAROLD & MAUDE, and for a hippie, marijuana, no-morals film, it was quite good. (Especially the Cat Stevens music).

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:23:46 +0000

Forgive me for plugging my own site, but we put up this essay today that I think is kind of interesting, and might jumpstart some discussions here. It’s a bit too long for me to cut-and-paste over to Thredonia, though.

http://www.republibot.com/content/post-apocalysm-or-how-america-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-bomb

By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:14:38 +0000

Either that or he saw the movie “A Haunting in Connecticut” and thought they were out to get him, and is in hiding.

By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:13:20 +0000

Agreed!

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:34:07 +0000

“Hate” is a legitimate basis for enhancing penalties… I’d lock up a Klansman who torches a Black church a lot longer than your typical arsonist and I’d lock up Black punks who attack a white family on the 4th of July for a decade or more — a lot more than a typical assault. But I would only allow a judge/jury to consider it in the sentencing phase when motives, etc. are better argued (so guilt or non-guilt) can be dealt with in a more objective fashion at the trial). Liberals don’t want it that way.

By: Mighty Skip

Mighty Skip — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:26:45 +0000

Yes. I had forgotten to mention this too. A lot of this legislation could be interpreted as declaring simple dissenting speech as a hate crime and therefore be used to imprision someone. The defense is usually, ‘Well the legal system takes into consideration the circumstances’. Oh yeah, no government in the history of the world has ever abused that power, right?