It always bugs me when people get it in their head that a company needs to pay for something because of what a few did. Sure, if you heavily penalize BP the CEO will likely get fired, but what of the thousands upon thousands of people they employ who will also suffer due to the backlash said punishment causes with either bankruptcy or massive layoffs?

Guess those people don't matter as long as we get revenge on one CEO or a few idiots right?

Why not do something revolutionary like prosecute the individuals responsible?

So some guy fell from the 2nd deck at the Ballpark in Arlington at the Rangers game last night. Anyone hear about that? Anyone know where to get a video?

Hopefully the get it into Tosh.0 tonight

I have a relative who worked for a firm that worked for a BP refinery. I don't know how it went down everywhere, but this is what happened to him: when the spill happened, there was a sort of calm-before-the-storm. Then, when it came out that BP was responsible for the platform that was leaking, there was some sort of major corporate-level freakout and they began shedding all nonessential operations/personnel. This included my relative, who was working on a project that was completely unrelated to platforms or the spill in any way.

So my guess is that they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and that it's somewhat frantic at BP corporate.

My opinion was that the firm's being let go was sort of a blessing in disguise...it's not exactly great PR to advertise an affiliation with BP anymore.

Apparently these guys will be at comic-con.



The infamous Westboro Baptist Church who actually think god hates things. Namely gays, the military, the USA and just about anything and everything that isnt a member of their church. Just a few weeks ago they came to my city and protested other Baptist and Catholic churches because they knew the church leaders, who they have never met, were evil and more concerned with greed than spreading the word of god. Anyway... Those of you going to comic-con do you plan on ignoring them? Or do you plan to protest their protest in your own way?

Protesting protesters is retarded. As far as I'm concerned, their power to affect policy is limited by their batshit craziness and their army of lawyers (which they all are) is well prepared to sue the shit out of anyone that would dare to spit on them.

They're ignored, as a result. I feel sorry for the guys at Comic-Con that'll slug them and get sued into oblivion.

Also, my views on free speech make their protests and speeches and ideals perfectly acceptable to me, so let 'em do what they want. If anyone tries to stop them, then they should be sued.

I am going to Metal Slug them.

Get like 20 people or whatever it takes to hold hands in a circle around them and them more to weave in between holding hands forming a pentagram with them in the middle.

Is that the church that goes to funerals of dead soldiers and tells their grieving families that God hats soldiers and they will burn in hell?

If they are hopefully that motorcycle gang who follows that church around to drown out their protests by revving their motorcycle engines goes to comic con too

EDIT: They won't though. A bit of research and I found the motorcycle gang's name. They are called The Patriot Guard Riders. The mainly attend funerals of military, police, firemen, and first responders.

Yep, them's the folks.

Freedom of speech is a funny thing. To defend it means you have to defend all the nutcases who assemble peaceably to protest what they view to be an injustice, or demonstrate that they are the voice of reason.

I had never heard of those biker guys before. After looking them up I want to send them a donation.

I don't know, Harley's are more annoying than hate speech.

I would normally be inclined to agree with you on that one T. But to protest a funeral? Thats just despicable to the point that I would even side with Harley riders. :\

And they are free to say what they want. That's fine and dandy.

They should not however, be free to be shielded from the reactions such vitriol will doubtlessly create.

Freedom of speech does not include freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

But I do find it ironic they claim such hateful thoughts about America that they do, and yet they are fine with hiding behind the freedom of speech thing while doing so.

I'm definitely on the harley riders on that one. I think that's even the same church that said God killed Heath Ledger during the dark knight because he also starred in brokeback mountain.

They were at Ozzfest and I haven't heard anything yet, but I know that some of those fuckers got slammed. Had to have.

The funny thing is that they are getting exactly what they want. I'm indifferent towards them. As long as they don't kill Dr's, I can ignore them.

westboro is like a realy annoying person on the internet who no matter what you say or how much reason you accost them with will just keep saying the same stupid shit :(

sort of like coolinator but more hateful

In all fairness though, they are preaching the truth.

for certain values of "truth", anyways

Lest you be concerned about where I stand on the issue:

Yes, I would expect they would be bodyslammed by appropriately pissed off individuals, who would then be arrested and charged with assault. Then, in a perfect world, the defendants would be allowed to plea bargain down to a misdemeanor and fined $1.

Fuck the Westboro Baptist Douchebags. >:

Dont tell me you believe in a hateful god. :\

The westboro baptist chucrch should just change their name to what they really are. JEWS. JEWS THAT WORSHIP THE HATEFUL GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND NHAVE NEVER READ THE NEW TESTAMENT

probably calling them jews would offend them. I think when i see them I'm going to ask them if they are a jewish organization

I would ask them if their religion is based in inbreeding since the bible pretty much endorses inbreeding in the book of Genesis :lol

They are pretty much all one family.

I am fairly certain they're not allowed into Britain. YAY!

Good for the Brits! :love

and their lack of freedom of speech. :love

:lol

Touché - you got me good there.

Just proves I need to go to bed. :sleep

TTTTOOOOOOOMMMMMOOOOORRRRRROOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

Didn't they cover protesting protesters in "For the Bible Tells Me So"?

Jailbreaking is now legal!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3236

Poor Apple, now people can install fart noise apps from other companies on to their phone.

There's actually a lot of interesting info in that article besides jailbreaking

http://gizmodo.com/5603300/indonesia...15mins-of-porn

Not really headline, but I found it entertaining.

Better headline would be :

Indonesian Parliament Hit by Tsunami of Porn



Also the Miranda rights have been tweaked.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_miranda

Edit: I take it back. That's not too bad.

Enough to make me uneasy, though. Extremely.

INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT HIT BY TSUNAMI OF POON

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/...naomi_campbell

Naomi Campbell : "I had never heard of Charles Taylor before, never heard of the country Liberia before, had never heard the term 'blood diamonds',"

Weezer signed to Epitaph.

MAN ACCUSED OF URINATING ON A BOY AT A PARK

http://detnews.com/article/20100728/METRO03/7280378

Does this surprise anyone?

Twice

lol, do you guys remember that couple that named their kids "Adolph Hitler" and other nazi/whitepower/etc. names?

not really headline news or whatever but i didnt want to look for the old thread :(

http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-can...ry?id=11334970

I'm suprised it took them that long to get taken away. I forgot the sisters name was JoycleLynn Aryan Nation. :lol ::(

yea and they tried to say they named them that because of their german heritage or some shit :lol

One bad ass way to quit a job. :lol


http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-k-then-flees/

I would've preferred that he toss the woman down the slide.

Woman flips a shit at a drive-thru because they wouldn't give her chicken nuggets during breakfast hours

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cri...e-in-ohio.html

Love that.

She should have gone to Jack in the Box. All the menu all the time.

I like that he grabbed a beer on his way out. :lol

That's exactly what I was going to say too.

Sounds quite reasonable. Hats off to this gent for sticking to what he feels right in his heart.

OH YOU LYING BAS.

In other news, in Straylia we have to vote for a new Prime Minister in the next day or two. Another one. I for one am sick of electing Prime Ministers, and I think this country has got jolly well enough of them as it is.

Didnt you just get a new lady PM?

must've had small breasts

I'd like it if you called them wibbly wobblies. It's more civilized. :posh

So these miners in Chile right, I heard that they wont be able to rescue them for at least a couple of months. That's fucking nuts that is.

I don't care if they have food, water, magazines or ipods down there; you would go nuts and kill yourself after that long underground.

Are they in the dark? Those poor bastards. Funny how every mining accident in China ends with nobody ever surviving and getting trapped, yeah, what a coincidence.

Yeah that Chilean mining story is quite intriguing.
I think they managed to get electricity from a vehicle engine (which sounds a bit dangerous, what with the exhaust fumes and all, but they probably know what they're doing) so apparently they have at least limited access to light.

I think this will be a very good chance to study human behaviour under extreme circumstances. Will they start chewing on each other? Will they hallucinate? Will they all turn gay?
To be continued.

I once got locked in a change room for a good ten minutes, and I was clawing at the walls I tell you what. A friend locked me in there, and when I got out I chased him with the intent to kill him.

The human mind changes under pressure. Often for worse. It will be interesting to see how these Chilean miners react to the situation that they are faced with.

The news tells me that nobody wants to break it to them that they may be trapped down there for a little while. So they're just dancing around the issue with standard South American government aplomb

Mexicans are a resilient species of bugs.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/21613793

Short video of the trapped miners.

We had a couple of loons stuck down a mine for about a month. It was hell boring to watch from the top, poor suckers. When one of them requested an Ipod with Foo fighters, good old Dav Grohl then named a song after them........

So they've got to wait 4 months for a rescue? Pardon the indiscretion, but where will they put all their "shit"? :x

I think they have plenty of tunnel space to shit in, but only one habitable room.

Apparently a couple of them have already gone depressed. Doesn't bode well.

Would be really scary if this developed into some sort of lord of the flies scenario, where they'd all start killing each other while the rest of world could only watch, but not really intervene.

Man, though, after 4 months that room will be mighty fragrant.

That was in Tasmania. Not as long stuck down there, but they only had a tiny space to live/shit in.

Scary, sure, but that would also make a GREAT movie.

His name should be changed to blastin children.

I think if nothing interesting happens in a couple of days, they should start spiking their food with hallucinogens.
And then instead of food they'll just send down lots of knives.

PS
Sure you can call me blastin children if that may tickle your fancy

:lol

In all seriousness, I'd be very surprised if they all made it out alive :(

They should use that ship from the Core and send Hillary Swank down into the mine with them.

I know this is a serious topic, but still ... :lol

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/na...ast/index.html

Hurricane Earl is expected to start impacting the east coast tonight (9/2/10) hitting North Carolina, then Virginia. Long Island, New York possibly by tomorrow (9/3/10). Earl was just categorized as a category 5 which is going to cause some major damage. Maybe as bad as hurricane Isabel.

Gaston is only listed as a tropical depression now but its going to clean up anything Earl missed.

And I remain unaffected. :)

As a tax-paying Oklahoma, I have to ask myself, "How does this affect me?"

Joy of geographical location? :lol

You should be OOOOOTTTTTAAAYYY.

i wrote to nbc to bring back "my name is earl" on tv. meh, this is close enough.

Yea but 3/4 of the jokes are tone related.

Kim Jong Il has a twitter account. WTF.

So does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He's my favorite.

:lol

In Maine Township, Ill., Mr. Janusz Owca was arrested in August for choking his wife and was booked into jail and given his traditional phone call. With police listening, Owca called his wife and threatened to kill her. [Chicago Sun-Times, 8-27-10]

Hahahahahahahahahaha

He really really didn't like his wife

"They Know It But They're Hiding It"

Those bastards, hiding it for centuries just to mess with our heads!

"Conference begins at 8:30 (am) and concludes 10:30pm"


That's a lot of hours of bullshit. Thank god lunch is provided or I would go nuts!

Epicycles. :lol

"Scientific Experiments Showing Earth Motionless in Space"

I see before me how this demonstration includes lego figures placed on big gym balls, which are then kicked around

:lol

They should also include an open bar afterwards - that would be appropriate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/mo...?_r=2&src=tptw

Joaquin phone is actually a real person again. He said he's been deep in character for the last 2 years for a mockumentary movie role about his life. No more rap.

The guy he bought his acid from died.

I'm pretty sure everyone knew it was performance art the whole time. He's had a camera crew following him around since he first donned the beard.

Oh, I had no idea. I didn't really follow it but I remember hearing the was rapping or something.

I still think Harry Shearer and Martin Short did it better pretending to be male synchronized swimmers. And that bit got old after about 15 minutes. :\

i was reading that thing about cuntely a flick or whatever that dudes name is and i noticed that he has a very small nose and mouth. its kind of distracting

What a bunch of faggots

i want to see some "hunter s thomspon filmmaking" modeled on the reality-bending journalism of Gonzo >:

i guess it'd have lots of chickens in it?

Craig Smallwood of Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit earlier this year against the makers of the online virtual-world game "Lineage II" for failing to warn him that he would become so addicted to playing it that he would be "unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and friends." (He claims to have spent 20,000 hours over five years playing.) In August, Judge Alan Kay declined to dismiss the lawsuit and set it for trial.

I hope they dismiss this judge and the attorney representing him.