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I make a serious effort to be restrained and attempt to express myself in a calm manner. But here...

Grrr I had a great deal more to say but everything I wrote and erased would have just been censored by the CoC anyway. Damn, god damn these vermin. 

Edited 11 hours ago
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Misthiocracy

Look, there arealreadypeeping tom laws on the books.  There is no need to createnewlaws just because peeping toms have a new tool.  

I've been rather unsure on this one, all the problems "pranksters" are causing shinning high powered lasers into cockpits has been on my mind. However the point you make here is a pretty powerful one to me, the behavior  is the problem making the law about the technology is certainly the worst type of solution.

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Aaron Miller:

Surveillance is getting easier all the time. · · 41 minutes ago

Not in Texas:

Texas bans (most) private drone use, fearing spying

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Melissa O'Sullivan: Oh, my.  That's really beyond belief.  Except for the part about the gun.  Classic example of the ruling class with one set of rules for them and another for us.  I can't imagine anyone topping this.  Will you do an annual award out of all the weekly winners?  

When does the judging period start for the next set of entries?  I've got a candidate in mind.  Do they have to be politicians or can they be members of the commentariat? · 5 hours ago

The Buffoon of the Week is always someone voted into office, it's rather my point and basically I start keeping an eye out for new winners right after picking the latest one.

Mulling over setting up tournament brackets for a big annual showdown.

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CuriousJohn: They should rename the town buffoonville · 16 hours ago

Well as Mrs. Clinton likes to state, "It takes a village". None of these buffoons was born into office.

Re: On Anime

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Sabrdance: Ghost in the Shell is a good series, but only the first season is available on HULU. · 2 hours ago

Then you must reach farther, in the end it is your choice.

Re: On Anime

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MJBubba: Japanese anime is just wierd and wierder.   Teeny-bopper girls as Panzer tank crews? · 1 hour ago

This is not foolishness. There is a lesson here, Western Civ is not the whole world. There are billions born into a different world, understand this.

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barbara lydick

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Grape-nuts, cereal of the gods. One bowl of that in the morning and your ready for anything the day can throw at you.  · June 15, 2013 at 9:23pm

To paraphrase G K Chesterton, “There’s more sincerity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than a man who eats Grapenuts on purpose.” · 33 minutes ago

Smart fellow, but guess he just wasn't man enough for the job. Caviar, is there any other food in existence that screams pomposity so well? Let me enjoy my modest bowl of cereal in peace. 

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Paul Dougherty: Grape Nuts are less a breakfast cereal and more a discipline.  · 19 hours ago

Join us! Leave the Captain Crunch and Fruit Loops to the weak-kneed, take the Grape-Nuts challenge friend!  

Re: On Anime

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Not a unique issue to anime, it's a continual argument where critics debate the means and not the message. Is a book superior to a television series? Is a play always superior to a movie? Discussions about anime by and large fall in to this same category. 

For critics I simply say, just go watch anything by Miyazaki and you will fall in love. 

For you Sabrdance, GitS should have been on your list. If one wonders how technology may change the face of humanity, for good or ill,  there is no better drama where that question is posed. 

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Misthiocracy: If true, it's a watershed moment. The NSA has crossed the line into Stasi territory. · 14 minutes ago

Yet does anyone listen? Snowden is an childish fool yet Drake brought this to light years ago in the proper fashion and paid the price for it, a high price indeed. What does it take for adolescent citizenry to listen I wonder.  · 16 minutes ago

Critical mass. · 58 minutes ago

One hopes. 

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Western Chauvinist: You still eating kids cereal, Casey?

Definitely in the Grape Nuts camp here. There's 7.2 minutes of cereal heaven once they've reached proper chewiness. It takes a couple minutes for them to become soft enough not to damage your dental work. But then, if you're tragically interrupted and have to come back to the bowl after the 7.2 minute window, they're hopelessly ruined mush. It's a delicate balance with Grape Nuts, but it's worth it.  · 39 minutes ago

Can't agree with that. When it comes to grape-nuts you have to take the bull by the horns and dive right in, no waiting for chewiness. 

On special occasions it is acceptable to add slices of banana to the bowl, that and no more. Never sugar. 

Edited on June 16, 2013 at 7:15am
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Misthiocracy: If true, it's a watershed moment. The NSA has crossed the line into Stasi territory. · 14 minutes ago

Yet does anyone listen? Snowden is a childish fool yet Drake brought this to light years ago in the proper fashion and paid the price for it, a high price indeed. What does it take for adolescent citizenry to listen I wonder. 

Edited on June 16, 2013 at 7:19am
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Douglas

Steven Jones: 

**Perhaps the second, if you count Oliver Cromwell, whose demise should also be celebrated. · 4 hours ago

Amen · 5 hours ago

I oft wonder on this. Cromwell was no one to emulate but see who he was dealing with. If this man had simply stepped aside and let Parliament continue as it was would that truly be such a superior outcome to his rule?

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Aaron Miller:  If Putin's (unprovoked) guards laid a hand on Kraft, our government would either force amends or prove itself unworthy of Kraft's loyalty. The prime role of government is protection from brutes, afterall. · 55 minutes ago

True words. A government that cannot defend the security of the citizenry  is no government at all. Leaders that cannot manage this basic function are no leaders at all, just one more band of warlords demanding tribute.  

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Eric Hines

BrentB67

Casey: grape-nuts!? Oh for heaven's sake! · 35 minutes ago

For real. I thought they only severed those in the nursing home with a side of prune juice. · 12 minutes ago

Not in nursing homes.  They get caught under the dentures too easily.

Eric Hines · 2 hours ago

Best work out your choppers will ever get, a few weeks of grape-nuts for breakfast you're ready to chew through a steel bar. 

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