Today's Headlines

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:23 am

The Anne Frank Museum, where the tiny apartment has been preserved, said grafts have already been taken, and a sapling from the original will eventually replace it.

That's cool.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:30 pm

Big Blue Owl wrote:
The Anne Frank Museum, where the tiny apartment has been preserved, said grafts have already been taken, and a sapling from the original will eventually replace it.
That's cool.

Agreed.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:46 pm

This quote from Anne is what touched me the most:

As long as this exists, ... and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies _ while this lasts I cannot be unhappy.

I whine too much. My life is far from as difficult as hers was and look at her attitude!

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:01 pm

I don't like wine.

Yeah, she was a super trooper.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:14 am

As respectful as I am to police, I think they are being turned into weakened cowboys by the taser. They think it should be brought out at any incident (I think because they like to taser people) and used no matter what the situation. Here a man who speaks only Russian, who was distraught because he's never flown before and his mother has left, thinking he wouldn't arrive, is tasered for no reason. He wasn't violent in front of officers. He wasn't even impolite to them and they shocked him twice, stepped on his neck and he died. There's got to be some kind of "medium" that can be more the norm than tasering anyone who jay-walks or gets upset and confused in public. Don't handcuffs work anymore?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/ ... asered.cbc

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:19 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:He wasn't even impolite to them and they shocked him twice, stepped on his neck and he died.

With only six pounds of pressure required to break human neck
bones, I don't see why law enforcement is even allowed to use
the technique at all, unless in life-or-limb-self-defense.

I didn't see any vids, but to me the whole thing reeks of feet
and ass.

This happened in Canada? Oh-no-they-di-n't.

***does best to restrain self from verbal retaliation***

I guess it's their turn to do their version of the Alex/cops/taser
incident, but I don't remember Alex Gedding any
knees-in-the-neck.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:27 am

CygnusX1 wrote:but I don't rememeber Alex Gedding any
knees-in-the-neck.

No... he just got tased, his nose broken, and shoved down the stairs. But no knees in the neck.

Sorry, I didn't go to the link. The incident BBO mentioned was in Canada?

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:35 am

ElfDude wrote: The incident BBO mentioned was in Canada?

I heard some people talking aboooot it (hel-lowwww Can-a-duh)
but don't know if it is, in fact, where it took place, but I heard
Ottawa mentioned.

I'm a noob to the story.

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:31 pm

Yes, sadly this occurred in Canada(Vancouver International Airport)
and I am deeply upset.
This is not what I expected of my peaceful home country.
It is an outrage. Tasers should be banned as they are more
dangerous than guns obviously.

Anyone who has ever been a victim of a taser knows how
immobilizing and painful it is, and , if they survive, there
is the emotional aftershock that is a memory that does not easily fade.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:37 pm

In other news, I think I like this judge...

CLAYTON -- A judge sentenced to 60 years in prison this morning a teenager who had pleaded guilty of kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting a neighbor in Spanish Lake on Nov. 11, 2005, when he was 13 and she was 6.

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Melvyn W. Wiesman imposed the sentence on Sherman Burnett Jr., now 15 and the youngest inmate ever housed in the county jail.

In imposing the lengthy sentence -- Burnett will be ineligible for parole until the year 2058, when he is 66 -- Wiesman rejected confining Burnett in a juvenile offender program in Montgomery City, Mo., where Burnett could have gotten a chance at probation at the age of 21.

Mr. Potatoe Head · Post by **Mr. Potatoe Head** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:29 am

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/un-panel-o ... 0000000001

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:14 am

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/reasonmclucus ... _again.htm

Mr. Potatoe Head · Post by **Mr. Potatoe Head** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:49 am

I laugh at some of the contradictory ways of certain people on this board. No mater what my opinions are they enjoy throwing wrenches into the spokes of truth.

Nevertheless I believe the large panel of scientific climatologists than your mathematician, historian and generalist and did you know he advocates evolution, I bet that's a kick in the face.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:55 am

Mr. Potatoe Head wrote:and did you know he advocates evolution, I bet that's a kick in the face.

There's obviously a lot you don't know about me...

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:48 pm

Mr. Potatoe Head wrote:No mater what my opinions are they enjoy throwing wrenches into the spokes of truth.

Take away the metaphor and that basically reads, "Elf, you're a big liar!" Oh well, I've been called worse.

But really now, how does posting a link that talks about how in Buenos Aires they're having the coldest temps in 90 years make me a liar? How does pointing out a current event constitute "throwing wrenches in the spokes of truth"? I didn't make that up. It's really happening.