Author Topic: Keep reading the news! (Read 64551 times)

Edible · « **Reply #210 on:** January 20, 2011, 09:35:44 PM »

No, no. I got the reference. I'll make my shifty eyes larger next time.

Tengukami · « **Reply #211 on:** January 20, 2011, 09:41:01 PM »

Quote from: Edible on January 20, 2011, 09:35:44 PM

No, no. I got the reference. I'll make my shifty eyes larger next time.

Ah, my bad. I often take people too literally.

Also, I remember my local radio station did a parody song based on the impending trust-busting of AT&T, entitled "Breaking Up Is Hard On You". Hilarious in retrospect.

Cadmas · « **Reply #212 on:** January 21, 2011, 11:17:58 PM »

Oh this is bad.

Barrakketh · « **Reply #213 on:** January 23, 2011, 01:21:34 AM »

Quote from: Cadmas on January 21, 2011, 11:17:58 PM

Oh this is bad.

I couldn't help but hear this when I read that.

Quad City QBs · « **Reply #214 on:** January 23, 2011, 03:32:12 PM »

Parents Sue Expert Witness Who Made Fake Child-Porn of Their Kids

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Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures of four juvenile girls from a Canadian stock-image website, and then digitally modified them to make it appear as if the children were engaged in sexual conduct. Boland was an expert witness for the defense in half-a-dozen child porn cases, and he made the mock-ups to punctuate his argument that child pornography laws are unconstitutionally overbroad because they could be applied to faked photos.

In 2007, the tactic made Boland the defendant of a deferred federal child-porn prosecution in Ohio even though his exhibits helped clear at least one client of child-porn-related allegations. Now, a federal appeals court decision (.pdf) is reinstating a civil lawsuit by the parents of two of the girls, potentially putting Boland on the hook for a minimum $300,000 plus legal costs.

Tengukami · « **Reply #215 on:** January 23, 2011, 04:34:07 PM »

That was a bit over the top just to prove a point, yeah.

Edible · « **Reply #216 on:** January 23, 2011, 05:17:25 PM »

I guess that's what happens when someone dares to point out the consistent logical fallacies of the THINK OF THE CHILDREN argument, which has long since been deserving of its own variation of Godwin's law.

orinrin · « **Reply #217 on:** January 24, 2011, 11:32:38 PM »

Holy fuck, what.

This is seriously messed up.

Edit: Another article.

Tengukami · « **Reply #218 on:** January 24, 2011, 11:41:56 PM »

Quote from: Warboss ボガス on January 24, 2011, 11:32:38 PM

Holy fuck, what.

This is seriously messed up.

Edit: Another article.

I can hear the Teabaggers stampeding in the distance, carrying this story on their shoulders. And a bunch of talking heads will report this as if it were the standard instead of a hideous anomaly.

Edible · « **Reply #219 on:** January 25, 2011, 03:23:22 AM »

That is seriously freaking disgusting.

Quote from: Amaterasu on January 24, 2011, 11:41:56 PM

I can hear the Teabaggers stampeding in the distance, carrying this story on their shoulders. And a bunch of talking heads will report this as if it were the standard instead of a hideous anomaly.

This is probably even more disgusting.

Alfred F. Jones · « **Reply #220 on:** January 25, 2011, 03:28:55 AM »

Oh god, I read about that two days ago, and it's still just as terrifying. I mean, dude. This guy was seriously messed up.

Kittens. I need kittens.

Silent Harmony · « **Reply #221 on:** January 25, 2011, 03:41:18 AM »

No, that story requires kitties and bunnies.

Quote from: Amaterasu on January 24, 2011, 11:41:56 PM

I can hear the Teabaggers stampeding in the distance, carrying this story on their shoulders. And a bunch of talking heads will report this as if it were the standard instead of a hideous anomaly.

^ This. :ohdear:

In other news: bomb blast in Moscow Int'l terminal kills 30+.

Furienify · « **Reply #222 on:** January 25, 2011, 03:42:40 AM »

Okay, what the hell?

My aunt actually works in an abortion clinic for a living and this is so unbelievably, disgustingly fucked up.

JT · « **Reply #223 on:** January 25, 2011, 04:41:31 AM »

How does something like that even happen? I mean, it's not like it was even just the one guy. He had an entire staff. And with all the people who passed through there, it took seventeen years for something to be done about it? Fucking mindboggling.

E-Nazrin · « **Reply #224 on:** January 25, 2011, 05:25:34 AM »

oh hey Israel-Palestine talks leaks

More damning is that Israel STILL refused all of those concessions.

Iryan · « **Reply #225 on:** January 25, 2011, 04:59:20 PM »

Quote from: Edible on January 25, 2011, 03:23:22 AM

That is seriously freaking disgusting.

This is probably even more disgusting.

This. Just this. :barf:

Infy♫ · « **Reply #226 on:** January 25, 2011, 05:00:35 PM »

Quote from: Barrakketh on January 23, 2011, 01:21:34 AM

I couldn't help but hear this when I read that.

oh god
me too!
i've watched too many tf2 videos lately :|

Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin · « **Reply #227 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:10:10 AM »

Hawk was loose in Library of Congress, finally captured

Quad City QBs · « **Reply #228 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:13:59 AM »

Minutemen murder 9-year-old Hispanic girl + father

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Reporting from Tucson ?
As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, "Please don't shoot me."

But they did ? in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia's father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too had been killed in the gunfire.

isolated incidents!

Bonus: Right-wingers complain about racial profiling and prisoner abuse, die of irony overdose

Tengukami · « **Reply #229 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:32:42 AM »

Quote from: Bad Appellant!! on January 27, 2011, 03:13:59 AM

Minutemen murder 9-year-old Hispanic girl + father

That's an incredible story. Yet another thing Penn & Teller were wrong about.

Rin Kagamine · « **Reply #230 on:** January 27, 2011, 11:44:45 AM »

Quote from: Amaterasu on January 27, 2011, 03:32:42 AM

That's an incredible story. Yet another thing Penn & Teller were wrong about.

Pretty sure Penn was vehemently opposed to the Minutemen and called them assholes more than once though.

Tengukami · « **Reply #231 on:** January 27, 2011, 11:53:24 AM »

Quote from: Vic Viper on January 27, 2011, 11:44:45 AM

Pretty sure Penn was vehemently opposed to the Minutemen and called them assholes more than once though.

While Penn & Teller, like all good libertarians, oppose immigration law, I remember they depicted the Minutemen as a bunch of harmless, beer-sipping hillbillies who sit around and have meetings.

Edible · « **Reply #232 on:** January 27, 2011, 07:42:48 PM »

I, um. What?

Gpop · « **Reply #233 on:** January 27, 2011, 08:09:13 PM »

Quote from: Edible on January 27, 2011, 07:42:48 PM

I, um. What?

lol reminds me of this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPOJSsggjs

I remember there was another one that mistook one of the plane crashes in Lost for another one as well, and even took clips from it.

Tengukami · « **Reply #234 on:** January 27, 2011, 08:12:23 PM »

Quote from: Edible on January 27, 2011, 07:42:48 PM

I, um. What?

Does Scientology have no limit to its power?!

Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin · « **Reply #235 on:** January 28, 2011, 07:23:57 AM »

Egyptian networks have turned off the internet.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #236 on:** January 28, 2011, 05:09:03 PM »

And shit has started going down something fierce in Egypt.

Tengukami · « **Reply #237 on:** January 28, 2011, 05:11:26 PM »

Yemen, too. It's amazing how democracy gets started not because some foreign military swoops in to "liberate" the people, but rather because the people themselves see they have nothing to lose by revolting against authoritarianism.

Suikama · « **Reply #238 on:** January 28, 2011, 10:08:57 PM »

Quote from: Amaterasu on January 28, 2011, 05:11:26 PM

Yemen, too. It's amazing how democracy gets started not because some foreign military swoops in to "liberate" the people, but rather because the people themselves see they have nothing to lose by revolting against authoritarianism.

Perhaps the same could be said of all personal issues.

Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin · « **Reply #239 on:** January 28, 2011, 11:02:59 PM »

And I didn't even have to change my Twitter avatar or sign some online -- oh, wait, we did that one already. :3

Quote from: Suikama on January 28, 2011, 10:08:57 PM

Perhaps the same could be said of all personal issues.

Your politicians are as empty as your ... uh ... I got nothing

Author Topic: Keep reading the news! (Read 64551 times)

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