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		<title>No commentary neccessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Grant</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pill Kills asks you to celebrate &#8220;Protest the Pill Day&#8221;.
June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was the first of many decisions that led to the culture of death we live in today.
On that day in 1965, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thepillkills.com/">The Pill Kills asks you to celebrate &#8220;Protest the Pill Day&#8221;.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was the first of many decisions that led to the culture of death we live in today.</p>
<p>On that day in 1965, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0381_0479_ZS.html" target="_new">Griswold v. Connecticut</a> case, it set a legal precedent for claiming that the Constitution grants women the right to privacy in matters of sexual practice. This meant that Connecticut and the rest of the United States could not stop a married woman from obtaining birth control pills. However, as Judge Andrew Napolitano has pointed out, the constitutional right to privacy has nothing to do with birth control.</p>
<p>The plaintiff was Estelle Griswold, then executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. She and Dr. C. Lee Buxton opened a birth control clinic. They were arrested and fined for selling birth control pills, which was illegal in Connecticut. The case was pushed all the way to the Supreme Court. In other words, Planned Parenthood was breaking the law; yet it turned this case into a legal precedent for selling contraception. Because of the Griswold case and others that followed, unmarried women and teenagers were later permitted to obtain birth control pills.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>GET OVER iT&#8230;NOT EVERY MOViE iS GONNA TURN OUT THE WAY YOU WANT iT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m browsing MovieWeb (for work, I swear!) and notice in the sidebar a list of &#8220;most commented-on threads,&#8221; which is always promising. Comments on movie websites are retard gold. The top one is for X-Men 4, which I guess is a thing?
So I investigate. The X-Men franchise had drastically diminishing returns, but stuff like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;m browsing <a href="http://www.movieweb.com">MovieWeb</a> (for work, I swear!) and notice in the sidebar a list of &#8220;most commented-on threads,&#8221; which is always promising. Comments on movie websites are retard gold. The top one is for <em>X-Men 4</em>, which I guess is a thing?</p>
<p>So I investigate. The X-Men franchise had drastically diminishing returns, but stuff like &#8220;objective quality&#8221; doesn&#8217;t matter to the kind of people who post on message boards. They just want to make sure there are no nipples on the Batsuit and that Kitty Pryde says ONLY WHAT KITTY PRYDE WOULD SAY ACCORDING TO THEIR FAN FICTION.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.movieweb.com/movies/film/49/4449/comments.php">First thing I see</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>YOU GUYS ARE DUMB&#8230;GET OVER iT&#8230;NOT EVERY MOViE iS GONNA TURN OUT THE WAY YOU WANT iT&#8230;SO GET A LiFE&#8230;YOU PEOPLE THiNK THAT THE WHOLE MOViE BiZZ REVOLVES AROUND YOUR STANDARDS&#8230;WELL MAYBE THE DiRECTOR WAS AiMiNG FOR THE YOUNGER KiDS OR MAYBE THEY DiDN&#8217;T WANT TO COPY OFF OF THE COMiC BOOKS&#8230;iT MiGHT HAVE SET A LAW SUiT ON THEM&#8230;DUHH!! MAN YOU GUYS ARE SO DUMB&#8230;GET OVER iT iF YOU DONT LiKE THE WAY THiNGS ARE THEN STOP WATCHiNG THE MOViES!!!!!!!!!!!!</p></blockquote>
<p>You know what I always think when I see text like that? &#8220;Man, it takes a lot more work to type like an idiot than it does to type like a normal person.&#8221; Can you imagine training your brain to hit Shift every time you type &#8220;I&#8221; in your all-caps rant? That&#8217;s cerebral real estate that would be much better used memorizing, say, left-handed masturbators throughout history.</p>
<p>As it turns out, this is the latest post; MovieWeb lists the most recent post first because it is stupid and hates you. So I scrolled further down for some context. I did not find illumination.</p>
<blockquote><p>Its so hard to be a comic book fan and watch any of these comic to film movies. There hasnt been one single comic book movie that was laid out excatly like the comics. Even spiderman 1 screwed it all up. The whole bridge scene was taken right out of the comic where Gwene Stacey fell and broke her neck when spider caught her with his web. I know they want to pack 50 years of comics into a 2 hour film, but at least have the directors read and do a little research on the characters and storyline. So I humor myself when I go out to watch these movies, and keep an open mind so I wont be so F*&amp;kin disappointed all the time.</p></blockquote>
<p>He&#8217;s not done.</p>
<blockquote><p>Shit I HATE rubber suits&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>OK, now he&#8217;s done. Three things:</p>
<p>1. I cannot take continuity judges seriously when they can&#8217;t even get character names right.<br />
2. If you want to see the exact same story as the comic, just reread the damn comic.<br />
3. Shut up.</p>
<p>Further down, some dude who uses a shirtless muscular guy doing push-ups as his avatar but is surely NOT gay pre-empts this line of thought with some reason:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ive watched xmen3.. the story itself is negative.. if u r really a fan of xmen (comix,cartoon), knowing what they did to x1 and x2 will surely piss u off cuz they made their own crap story line.. but like what i said, u have 2 change ur point of view in watching these movies not as a basist from the comix, but as a viewer judging its movie&#8217;s genre 4 u 2 appreciate the verdict of the movie instead of complaining bout d comparison from d comix.. Singer did a good job as a director although unsatisfying to most of the readers but all in all it was a good movie.. but x3??</p></blockquote>
<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to close on a question.</p>
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		<title>This is not an acceptable solution.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Church</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Amazon opted to limit the length of a discussion thread. Reading their post, it&#8217;s obvious that this wasn&#8217;t done on a whim: people were reporting errors when attempting to access threads that were much longer than the software was built to handle.  Amazon responded by announcing that they were creating a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this week, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/forum/cd/discussion.html/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?ie=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx20DX5GEB7TUX8&amp;cdThread=Tx3LYKX8B7P2EXC">Amazon opted to limit the length of a discussion thread.</a> Reading their post, it&#8217;s obvious that this wasn&#8217;t done on a whim: people were reporting errors when attempting to access threads that were much longer than the software was built to handle.  Amazon responded by announcing that they were creating a system that allowed discussions that were growing unwieldy to continue in a new location, with a link back to the previous parts of the conversation.  Guess what the first comment was.</p>
<blockquote><p>Uh-oh.. I hate these stupid long discussions (Thread without a Reason, Holiday Recipes).. but to limit them? Isn&#8217;t that a little like supressing freedom of speech?</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right!  A company taking a measure that ensures more people get to participate in a discussion with a one-click inconvenience is <strong>First Amendment Assault</strong>.  Then there&#8217;s this person, who obviously read the original post several times and weighed their options carefully before jumping in:</p>
<blockquote><p>Great, we will now lose all the past posts. This is not an acceptable solution.</p></blockquote>
<p>You know, back in the 30s and 40s there was <strong>another</strong> wrongheaded person who was all about a solution he was happy with.</p>
<p>Thankfully, &#8220;Dieting Deb&#8221;  (once she reaches her weight loss goal, will she become Maintaining A Weight I&#8217;m Happy With Deb?) has a great alternative:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are much better boards to post on than this one. QVC for instance, and no, you don&#8217;t have to watch or purchase from QVC to get into some rather good discussions, especially in the Viewpoints section.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, Deb.  <a href="http://community.qvc.com/topic/Viewpoints/Money-Earn/5700025102">Thank you for this.</a></p>
<p><em>Thanks to Tipster ADB for this post&#8217;s content!</em></p>
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		<title>The last 17 keyword searches to reach GetOffTheInternet.org</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Church</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[get off the internet
blind man in a dark room
open source boob project
students getting there tits groped
lord of the flies jack not guilty
slasher stage play
dan fogelberg
snuff porn
her spanking was moderate
did a movie ever get 10 stars on imdb
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<LI>lord of the flies jack not guilty<br />
<LI>slasher stage play<br />
<LI>dan fogelberg<br />
<LI>snuff porn<br />
<LI>her spanking was moderate<br />
<LI>did a movie ever get 10 stars on imdb<br />
<LI>lord of the flies that you can listen to<br />
<LI>girls boobs groped by men<br />
<LI>what brings simon pain in the lord of the flies<br />
<LI>mark of the beast mbta<br />
<LI>porno snuff torture<br />
<LI>i pledge allegiance to the hatchet of the underground society and to the ninja&#8217;s to which it stands one family under clowns full of freaks with faygo and neden for al<br />
<LI>tisa plays</OL></p>
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		<title>Etsy: Ruining Pirates, Ninjas, and Zombies for everybody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evilolive</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one trend in crafting that annoys me, it is the hipsterization of handmade items. Slap a pirate, ninja, or zombie on a handmade item and try to sell it. Bonus points for incredibly high-priced items! Everybody&#8217;s doing it!
Pirates

Anchors Away Jack Sparrow Bottlecap Necklace
Shiver Me Sasha
The PIRATE CUPCAKE T SHIRT
Pete the Pirate Sock Monkey
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there&#8217;s one trend in crafting that annoys me, it is the hipsterization of handmade items. Slap a pirate, ninja, or zombie on a handmade item and try to sell it. Bonus points for incredibly high-priced items! Everybody&#8217;s doing it!</p>
<p><strong>Pirates</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11613181">Anchors Away Jack Sparrow Bottlecap Necklace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11347510">Shiver Me Sasha</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11599202">The PIRATE CUPCAKE T SHIRT</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10981172">Pete the Pirate Sock Monkey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7637305">A Portrait of a Piratefairysuperheroballerinamermaid and Her Seahorse Sidekick</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7167078">Seafaring Pirate Tricorn - As Seen in Gothic Beauty Magazine 24</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><br />
Ninjas</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11239392">Kawaii Ninja Plush</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5623197">Michaelangelo - Teenage Mutant Turtle - Hat</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10069242">The Scandalous Ninja Flower</a> (NSW)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8221396">One-Of-A-Kind Vinyard Ninja 3-Piece Set</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8801455">URABN NINJA HOODIE Hammer and Sickel, Men Small</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11280953">Ninja in White Wedding Gown</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10007188">Ninja, a garden fairy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11202626">NINJA SQUID with nun chucks shuriken and samurai sword Personalized plush squids</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Zombies</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11294839">Custom Pirate Zombie</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11581992">Zombie Hand Necklace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11574978">Zombie Repellent Fragrance - 3 ml</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9847717">Reborn Zombie Baby in Vintage Gown and Bonnet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10548358">Morbid Unicorn Purse</a></li>
</ul>
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		<title>And left Churchill Downs/In a heavenly band/Of Angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJ White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, as you may recall, the sainted horse Barbaro was put down after a long illness. His fans reacted with restraint and a healthy dose of perspective. For a nice summary, here&#8217;s the Field Guide to Barbaro Message Board Factions .
This past weekend, tragedy struck the horse racing world once again, with the injury [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last year, as you may recall, the sainted horse Barbaro was put down after a long illness. His fans reacted with restraint and a healthy dose of perspective. For a nice summary, here&#8217;s the <a href="http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/2007/01/know_your_barba.html" target="_blank">Field Guide to Barbaro Message Board Factions</a> .</p>
<p>This past weekend, tragedy struck the horse racing world once again, with the injury and subsequent euthanization of Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby. Would Barbaro&#8217;s online fans at <a href="http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages" target="_blank">the Alex Brown Racing forums</a> face the news with the same restraint and healthy dose of perspective?</p>
<p style="center;"><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z130/uff-da88/8BellesnB3.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="354" /></p>
<p>Well,<em> <a href="http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=alexbrown&amp;msg=23218.1" target="_blank">of course.</a> </em></p>
<blockquote><p>Kent, I too look forward to the day we&#8217;ll see these majestic champions together in Heaven.  The Heavenly Herd just keeps growing&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Anger flares!</p>
<blockquote><p>This is what nightmares are made of. Afterwards,  these lady horses are forced to have sex with different men horses they don&#8217;t know that well so they can become pregnant only for their baby to be taken away is sad. I will never see the Kentucky Derby as a festive wonderful event. We need to respect these creatures. Judgement day will come for us.</p></blockquote>
<p>Elsewhere, there is <a href="http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=23129" target="_blank">confusion</a> -</p>
<blockquote><p>Can we start candles.. where is the candle lady. I am not good at doing the candle link</p></blockquote>
<p>Questioning of faith-</p>
<blockquote><p>Am sitting here crying over this. Prayed all day that all horses would make it safe all day. Dont understand what happened.</p></blockquote>
<p>Either prayer doesn&#8217;t work or god specifically does not like you.</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not sure, but I think 8 bells translates to 6:00, which would correspond to the time the Derby was run - God I hope not - how prophetic</p></blockquote>
<p>ALSO THERE WERE SEVEN LETTERS IN KENNEDY&#8217;S NAME!</p>
<blockquote><p>To all on this sad Sunday.  Am enclosing a link here to watch a Dan Fogelberg tribute video to Barbaro that is very lovely and emotional.  But as you listen to the words it applies to dear Eight Belles also.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dan Fogelberg =  healing balm. But speaking of beautiful, beautiful poetry, does anyone have anything they&#8217;d <a href="http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=23129.195" target="_blank">like to offer up</a> ?</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="small;">Eight Bells for Eight Belles</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="0in 0in 0pt;">
<p>Sunday morning in Kentucky<br />
The day after the Derby<br />
The sun shines bright<br />
On my Old Kentucky Home<br />
But my heart is heavy<br />
And my shoulders droop<br />
Under the load I carry<br />
The white country church<br />
Stands in the valley<br />
Church bells are ringing<br />
On the eighth bell<br />
I am sobbing<br />
The tears finally<br />
Unleashing<br />
The bell tolls for thee<br />
Eight Belles<br />
My beautiful gray girl<br />
You did<br />
What the experts<br />
Thought you couldn’t<br />
You beat the boys<br />
You ran the race<br />
Of your life<br />
And it took your life<br />
You were big and strong and beautiful<br />
And you were all girl&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Perhaps the saddest thing to come out of this is that Eight Belles won&#8217;t get nearly the acclaim or deification her predecessor in racing-aided horse death garnered, much like the way in which nobody cared when Shannon Hoon died so soon after Kurt Cobain killed himself.</p>
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		<title>I assume in your perfect world, everyone will speak Mexican and we’ll all be happy when illegal immigration causes the economy to collapse.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Church</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DC Comics publishes around 50 different titles in its main superhero line in any given month, meaning that they publish something like 600 total individual periodicals in a given year.  You&#8217;re with me so far, right?  Last week, the latest issue of the sales-handicapped Blue Beetle series, set in El Paso, Texas and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DC Comics publishes around 50 different titles in its main superhero line in any given month, meaning that they publish something like 600 total individual periodicals in a given year.  You&#8217;re with me so far, right?  Last week, the latest issue of the sales-handicapped <em>Blue Beetle</em> series, set in El Paso, Texas and featuring a hispanic protagonist, featured mostly Spanish-language dialogue.  This means that <strong>.16%</strong> of DC&#8217;s pamphlets released in the last year will feature a language that is not English, delivered by a mostly non-native-English-speaking cast.</p>
<p>Of course, <a href="http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/05/03/variations-on-a-theme-37/#comment-407884">this offends some asshole named Dave</a>, who doesn&#8217;t notice that the issue in question is set in Mexico.</p>
<blockquote><p>I thought it was the first ever comic that bordered on racism. DC: Now forcing its readers to read Spanish.</p>
<p>And for the matter - point me in the direction of one immigrant kid who has 3 quid fifty, to spend on a comic book.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <em>first ever comic that bordered on racism</em>.  I guess we can ignore every World War II cover featuring the yellow menace ever, then?  Or <a href="http://johnnybacardi.blogspot.com/2008/05/hey-its-free-comic-book-day-today-so.html">this <em>Angel And The Ape</em> story</a>?  Awesome!  I love revisionism.  Throw in the &#8220;three quid&#8221; line and you&#8217;ve got someone who loves England so much he&#8217;ll fight for America&#8217;s right to read comic books in English!</p>
<p>Of course, someone points out that the book&#8217;s always had a Mexican-American cast and is set in a region where Spanish is more likely to be spoken than English, but Dave doesn&#8217;t let that fact halt his onslaught against those demon invaders:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fine, Fine - DC is now forcing its readers to speak Mexican - make up your minds.</p>
<p>You know, we have this exact same problem in our country - a flood of immigrants coming over, refusing to speak English, trying to force us to learn their language. It’s ridiculous. I can’t wait to see the sales figures on this one - because obviously its going to outsell New Avengers, right???</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s right - when you can&#8217;t make your point through racism, bring commercial forces into it!  In a response, Alan Coil points out that an ability to speak English isn&#8217;t really key to being an American:</p>
<blockquote><p>Which country in the world has the largest English speaking population?</p>
<p>China.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dave is not going to brook this sort of &#8220;logic,&#8221; though, and wants you to know he&#8217;s down with the Chinese:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wow - don’t mention China, you’ll set off that idiot who starts ranting about Tibet. And hey, do you know whats great about Chinese people? A great many Chinese students come over to my country, and they learn MY LANGUAGE. They have their own culture, and their own little Chinatown, and Chinese Rshops and so on, but, at the end of the day, they say “Hello”. It goes a long way towards helping people intergrate.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;d love to see the &#8220;Chinatown&#8221; Dave goes to - I imagine it&#8217;s a strip mall in Topeka with a place called Lucky Wok and a video shop that has a single, lone Jackie Chan poster.</p>
<p>My favorite part, however, is when Dave somehow connects DC featuring a cast of American citizens speaking another languages to a tacit endorsement of illegal immigration and separatist culture.</p>
<blockquote><p>Why am I a bigot? Because I want foreign people coming to an English speaking country to learn, I don’t know, ENGLISH??? I assume in your perfect world, everyone will speak Mexican and we’ll all be happy when illegal immigration causes the economy to collapse. Now, generally, when I go on holiday, I’ve only really vacationed in places that speak English (USA, and Australia) - but, if I go to a foreign country, I use THEIR language. Now, there’s a cultural thing - in Amsterdam, for instance, I was with a Dutch family member, and everyone spoke pretty good English. In France, however, everyone assumes you speak French, and, if you don’t - tough titties.</p>
<p>I digress, however. There is a larger issue here - DC are saying “illegal immigration is ok”, “lack of community intergration is ok”. This book could have been used to examine these issues - but obviously the creators have their heads in the sand.</p></blockquote>
<p>I find it more than a bit amusing that something that could potentially have young hispanic kids reading DC superhero comics is seen as being exclusionary, but that&#8217;s neoconservative logic for you: the poor, oppressed white man who only controls 90% of the nation&#8217;s wealth is under attack by young Latinos who may want to read about one of their own interacting with icons like Superman and Batman.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I wish this site were named Get Off The Planet.</p>
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		<title>Public Service Announcement: The Tony Stark does not want you on his bandwagon.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ted Grant</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsarama poster &#8220;VinnyPic&#8221; has a message for comic book fans eager to see the new Iron Man movie who haven&#8217;t been supporting the Iron Man comic:
All of you, who have sullied his good name the past two years, and are poised to wank off 24 hours from now to his greatness can throw yourselves on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newsarama poster &#8220;VinnyPic&#8221; has a message for comic book fans <a href="http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=155541">eager to see the new Iron Man movie who haven&#8217;t been supporting the Iron Man comic</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>All of you, who have sullied his good name the past two years, and are poised to wank off 24 hours from now to his greatness can throw yourselves on the leftovers of The Dark Knight and The Incredible Hulk.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve bashed him. Called for him to die, be a skrull, and all this other ____.</p>
<p>Now you can shut up. It&#8217;s Shellhead&#8217;s time, and time for his fans who&#8217;ve enjoyed this character for a long time, and put up with ignorant ____ of people like you.</p>
<p>As a long time fan, whose first comic was a John Byrne Iron Man issue including Cap and Widow, you can all eat a dick.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t bandwagon up, you aren&#8217;t welcome.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, that would be &#8220;VinnyPic&#8221; and the 74 other Iron Man fans as the only ones going to see it this weekend, then?</p>
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		<title>I hope I have gotten rid of all my spell errors and stuff.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ in a post titled &#8220;This guy is really pissed about Jazz&#8217;s death in Transformers.&#8221;
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<p>I think that says it all, no?  My favorite part is the Random Capitalization.  Or maybe the heartfelt tribute to a dead fictional robot at the very end.  Or the picture of Jazz being cleaned by bikini babes.</p>
<p>Please to enjoy.</p>
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		<title>Gays Touching? Everybody Panic!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television news-magazine 20/20 recently ran a piece where they video-taped people&#8217;s reactions to same-sex couples showing affection for one another in public. There are some amusing reactions in the piece, including that of a woman desperate for the police to find something to charge the gay male couple with.
But we&#8217;re not here for that. No, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Television news-magazine <em>20/20</em> recently <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/WhatWouldYouDo/story?id=4725740&amp;page=1">ran a piece where they video-taped people&#8217;s reactions to same-sex couples showing affection for one another in public</a>. There are some amusing reactions in the piece, including that of a woman desperate for the police to find <strong>something</strong> to charge the gay male couple with.</p>
<p>But we&#8217;re not here for that. No, we <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/WhatWouldYouDo/comments?type=story&amp;id=4725740">want the comments at ABC&#8217;s web-site</a> on the piece:</p>
<blockquote><p>Majority rules in the USA, gay is not the majority, back to the closets please!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>yea - like that picture of two guys feeling on one another. I don&#8217;t want to see that. That is offensive to me. Makes me nauseous. I&#8217;m kind of glad the repubs have made gayness go underground. It&#8217;s an alternative lifestyle. Let&#8217;s keep it as such. I&#8217;d hate to see it go mainstream. Keep your sex life private people. Who cares if you&#8217;re gay as long as you don&#8217;t make me watch something that makes me nauseous. Keep it the bedroom guys. blah.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>if i saw this kind of action in front of my business i  would  tell them to move on.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because Gay Money is only worth .69 cents on the dollar.</p>
<blockquote><p>Earthisround- I agree, this world has changed. BUT&#8230;.God&#8217;s Word has NOT changed. The same truths are right there in His Word. God has NOT changed his views on things, and His Word is our rock, and it will stand strong until the day of eternity. By the way, I am not &#8220;homophobic&#8221; as you judgmentally call me. I have known people who are gay and though I don&#8217;t agree with their way of life, I still accept them and pray for them. &#8230;.umandarake- You so skillfully &#8220;non-chalantly&#8221; attacked my comment. But I am not so stupid that I didn&#8217;t catch that. I am not judgmental. Read the Bible, I am only reiterating what it says. And homosexuality has not been around since the dawn of time. Pretty sure that we all were still heterosexual because THATS THE WAY GOD CREATED US! And He does not look down on our new and ignorant way of living as &#8220;okay&#8221;. He is saddened by our corrupt world.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t care that this whole gay thing is becoming a &#8220;normal&#8221; thing in our society, and we are just forced to &#8220;accept it&#8221; and move on. Well, I&#8217;m gonna get up on my soap box and tell you that I WILL NOT accept something so immoral and abominable. It&#8217;s just wrong in so many ways.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Why would anyone do this experiment?  Sick!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>As a believing Christian I know from reading my Bible that it is very plainly stated in more than one scripture that homosexuality is wrong. God forbid males to have sex with males and the same for females. Also, beastiality and any form of sexual perversion is not permitted and is directly forbidden. Now, I know that today there are very few people who actually believe in the Bible or even in a God, for that matter, but then again, the Bible prophesied thousands of years ago that the day would come when people would refuse to acknowledge the truth, and would &#8220;believe a lie and be damned&#8221;. Men would cry &#8220;peace, peace&#8221; and talk about love, but there would be no real peace. People, we are there! I can&#8217;t force my beliefs on anyone, but I do have the right to express my opinion just as well as the gays and pro-gays. I find their behaviour in general, disgusting and repulsive. It&#8217;s almost as if gays feel a driving need to try to force their homosexuality down OUR throats. I don&#8217;t like any public overactive displays of affectiostacyrntx.cmn or lust or whatever, but this gay business has taken liberties with everyone else&#8217;s right to not be offended by their obnoxious behaviors. Some of you have said, &#8220;if you don&#8217;t want to see it, go somewhere else or look away&#8221;. Now, I ask you, why must I be the one to not be able to enjoy a walk in the park when I am just out for the beauty of nature or the enjoyment of the weather, etc. I should not have to be subjected to their perversion. Let them leave that sort of activity for when they are at home or a private place. It is totally rediculous the way Americans are becoming obsessed with the gay behaviors and even embracing all their indecencies. Keep it to yourself, gays! It is disgusting. How deplorable that some of you people even have taught your innocent children that such an abomination is perfectly OK. It is not!!!!! Have we forgotten about #### AND GOMORRAH?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Oh trust me I won&#8217;t have any gay children or grandchildren because I will not raise my kids or grandkids up in that way. They will live according to what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s stated clearly in the scriptures. I am sick of these people on here because they are all a bunch of haters. I am not trying to shove my religion down anyone&#8217;s throat, since we are on the subject of &#8220;throat-shoving&#8221;. I am just stating the truth. Plain and simple.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s an awful lot of concern about gays shoving things down people&#8217;s throats&#8230;if you&#8217;re shoving, you&#8217;re doing it wrong. Could that be the root of all this anxiety?</p>
<blockquote><p>I think &#8220;gay&#8221; people are like alcoholics. They&#8217;re sick. We should not hate them, nor fear them. We should feel apathetic, but not encourage it. And they have to admit they have a problem or how can they be cured?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Marriage, love, etc By God&#8217;s Law is a man and a woman&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..NOT same sex&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.that makes you like an animal who will do anything&#8230;&#8230;. YOU ARE JUST NASTY</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>People respond differently to straight couples expressing sexual affection than they do to gay couples expressing sexual affection as a direct result of humans being genetically programmed to transfer their values onto the next generation. Since there is no natural way for a gay couple to produce children, they have no offspring onto which to transfer their values. Understanding the bias that nature has in favor of heterosexual human relationships leads to an objective definition of what it means for a person to be normal. Someone may be considered normal by exhibiting the ability to successfully transfer their values onto their offspring. Because homosexual human relationships lack this ability, such relationships are abnormal. The present day crop of humans on the planet contains the result of many inter-generational values transfers. Over time various values have competed for dominance over humans and have aggregated themselves into coherent systems of behavior. The value systems that have succeeded are those that have the ability to transfer most effectively to the next generation. One attribute of a successful value system is its ability to protect the person containing it from susceptibility to less viable value systems. We observe this natural protection in the behavior of normal humans whenever they express approval of heterosexual affection and revulsion against homosexual affection. These responses are simply mechanisms that nature has given us so we may remain normal even when a less viable value system attempts to express itself.</p></blockquote>
<p>You know, I so rarely see the pseudo-Darwinian anti-gay arguements these days they almost seem refreshing when they do crop up.</p>
<blockquote><p>I feel very sorry for the children of gay people. Do as you please with your life but to involved children is terrible. These children are being teased and beat up at school because mommy and daddy split up and now mommy has a girlfriend/wife. Or two mommy&#8217;s having a baby. What will some of these children think about their gay parent when they grow up? Some will accept it fine but some will not and to have a child hate a parent God that would tear me up. OMG! I thought my daughter from early on, girls and boys go together, not girls and girls and not boys and boys. Like I said adults can do whatever they want I have no problems with that, but the children don&#8217;t deserve the problems they get outside of the home.</p></blockquote>
<p>THINK OF THE CHILDREN!</p>
<blockquote><p>My opinion is that it is HIGHLY inapproiate behavior in public&#8212;&#8211;do they do it to get attention, or because in their lifes they LACK attention&gt;????? If you consider the &#8220;NAY SAYERS&#8221; making a moral judgement, maybewe need MORE morality and LESS OF THIS KIND OF CRAP</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The DNA issues that create homosexuality are not significantly different than those that create pedophilia. We are are beginning to understand why both behaviors are not a lifestyle choice, but rather there at birth. Western culture has chosen to vilify one behavior and is in the process of mainstreaming the other. It would do ABC to be a bit less heterophobic in it&#8217;s assumptions. As it&#8217;s in our DNA to be grossed out by a male dog humping another male dog, so too are most people grossed out by two creatures of the same sex going at it with each other. Why? Because it&#8217;s abnormal and inevitably a Darwinian selection behavior as these so-called couples cannot procreate without help from &#8220;breeders.&#8221; Homosexuals cannot help their pathology any more than a pedophile or a serial murderer. But homosexuals have to be held accountable for &#8220;some&#8221; of their behavior &#8212; especially male homosexuals. Harsh words maybe, until you consider that, again, HIV is on the rise in Miami because the bath house boys have been emboldened by liberal left mitigation for their behaviors.</p></blockquote>
<p>And again with the fake science&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Gays can proclaim their longing for equality but do they really deserve it? Hell no. If gay couples were meant to be then the puzzle peices would fit and tiny pretty gay babies would run be running around their gay coupled parents. You will never see that! What we do see however is unnecisary flamboyance and gross displays of sexuality. Let&#8217;s take the gay pride parades for instance full of filth and public sex acts, expossed genitalia and lude gestures. At the gay pride parade in San Diego this year heterosexual firemen were forced to participate in the parade against their will. They were humiliated, gawked at, masterbated in front of and paraded around as gay sexual peices of meat. Is this the kind of parade to bring your family to? Should our cities and states really be supporting this filth? Have you ever in a million years seen a hetersoxual parade conducted in this manner? We all know the answers to these questions are HELL NO! And to you srf most pedofiles are not hetorosexuals. They are nasty gay men that prey on little helpless boys! It is far more often that we hear of this type of case! So I say we heterosexuals need to stand up and bring morals back, take back the beautiful rainbow gays have tried to claim and turn into something ugly and let God pull another Sadam and Gamora on their ####! I am not a hater but it is what it is and it&#8217;s time to stop sugar coating it! Can I get an Amen?!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I was not at a gay pride parade nor would I ever be. I am a freelance writter and have heard first hand accounts and have seen footage of the disgustingness that takes place. As for mardi gras&#8230;.boobs are a wonderfull, beautiful part of the womans body, God created for feeding our young&#8230;.. Did God create you with a gift to naturally feed your gay babies? Oh, what&#8217;s that? No He didn&#8217;t! Of course he didn&#8217;t, freak of nature. BTW showing breasts is nothing compared to #### in public and throwing your never to be used to procreate sperm on city officials just for the fun of it. Yeah gays are an upstanding part of our society just like the crooked politicians that sneak off on their wives for a gay or straight fling. Yes, please step up and run our country better yet teach our children morals&#8230;NOT</p></blockquote>
<p>The poster of the above two quotes? &#8220;pixietickles&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;pixietickles&#8221; hates the gays. Ironic, no?</p>
<blockquote><p>Gross. Gross. Gross. It just does not look right to see two women or two men kissing. Maybe because it isn&#8217;t. If you want to be gay, fine. I don&#8217;t agree with it and stop pushing your &#8216;tolerance&#8217; on me. Why do I have to be tolerant of your life style but you aren&#8217;t tolerant of mine?</p></blockquote>
<p>HOW DARE YOU NOT BE TOLERANT OF MY INTOLERANCE!</p>
<blockquote><p>You gays are just like the Catholics. You play cover up about the atrocities committed by many in your community. By the way, this site canceled out my reference to the north American man boy love assoc. Nice way to steer folks away from a deeper look into the history of homosexual culture.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wait, you just compared &#8220;the gays&#8221; to  &#8220;the Catholics?&#8221; Well, we&#8217;ve both perfected the art of drag&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t care what they do they will have to answer for their actions when they die not me. Hope it was worth it for the short time here on earth compared to a eternity in the afterlife.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Glad I live in a small town where we don&#8217;t have to worry about this type of crap.</p></blockquote>
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