Jeebus
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Facebook player here. Its just enough game to satisfy my tastes, but short enough to keep me from playing for hours everyday. Plus its free and I don't need console to play it - just a web browser on any computer.
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Mastered New York, Cuba, working on Moscow now.
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I think the Godfather crates are a rip-off. I use all my GF points for extra family members, which helps win fights, which builds up loot. The only thing I would change would be that you could give away the special loot items to friends and get rid of the three classes and just make it the same.
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5. So you're 29. Apparently you're still dumb. Just to be safe, if I need a lawer, I'm going to avoid all 29 year old SMU grads named Mark.
WTF is up with all the name calling!? Is there no more moderation among you people? Speaking of moderation.. Moderators?
Gary, man.. you were right.
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Well two that have posted in this thread.
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Thank you for the link. Although similar, they are not the same, IMO. The Bush administration may have decided to deny access to certain outlets, but they never made it a public issue like this administration has.
With that being said, and knowing Fox's reputation, I can see why the White house pretty much said ____ it, and hit them head-on. Had they gone about it the same way that the Bush administration did, Fox would have quickly realized it and then attacked them on a whole different level.
Either way, I still feel that ALL news outlets that are willing to report accurately the business and message of the government should be allowed full access. Even if that means the KKK monthly newsletter or the Al Queda weekly gazette (those of course are two very polarizing and fictitious examples) be allowed access - as long as they report accurately, it should not matter their stance on the issue. Any editorial they might give after the news is reported should be their prerogative.
As to who determines the merits, I don't know. I would prefer it not be the government determining which news outlets are worthy of its business - no matter what angle the news reports and no matter what party the White House is represented by.
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If you knew anything about serial arsonists and the specifics of this case, you'd know that the odds are very high that the arsonist lives in the area. Reading a DL that shows the driver lives in the area would not make a GOOD cop cut him loose.
No, a good cop would do as he did in the call, but with PROFESSIONALISM AND COURTESY. That is my entire point.
As for the specifics of the case, are the police profiling by race, as another poster assumed "young white guy"? If they are, is that not racial profiling that we fight so hard to prevent the officers from doing? Please don't tell me that now that they're looking for a white guy burning down abandoned homes in an improved area of town, they're going to break their own rules.
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And this is exactly why you would not make a good police officer. Please continue to do a good job at whatever it is you do.
By showing courtesy and professionalism to the citizens I serve!?
Give me a break.
You might want to read up on the department and the actions you're defending, starting with their mission statement.
MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of the Houston Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in the City of Houston by working cooperatively with the public and within the framework of the U.S. Constitution to enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear and provide for a safe environment.Preserve and Advance Democratic Values
We shall uphold this country's democratic values as embodied in the Constitution and shall dedicate ourselves to the preservation of liberty and justice for all.
Improve the Quality of Community Life
We shall strive to improve the quality of community life through the provision of quality and equitable services.
Improve the Quality of Work Life
We shall strive to improve the working environment for the department's employees by engaging in open and honest communication and demonstrating a genuine concern for one another.
Demonstrate Professionalism
We shall always engage in behavior that is beyond ethical reproach and reflects the integrity of police professionals.
Principles
Life and individual freedoms are sacred.
All persons should be treated fairly and equitably.
The role of the police is to resolve problems through the enforcement of laws - not through the imposition of judgement or punishment.
The neighborhood is the basic segment of the community.
Because law enforcement and public safety reflect community wide concern, the police must actively seek the involvement of citizens in all aspects of policing.
The fundamental responsibility of the police is provision of quality services.
The department's employees are its most valuable asset.
Employee involvement in departmental activities is essential for maintaining a productive working environment.
Employees should be treated fairly and equitably in recognition of basic human dignity and as a means of enriching their work life.
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While I grant the Bush II administration didn't block all perceived "liberal" news outlets, it did block MSNBC and the New York Times towards the end. Nobody made a big deal about that then. Different presidents have had varying attitudes towards individual reporters and even entire media outlets as long as the office of the presidency has existed. Obama's snubbing of Fox isn't unprecedented. Fox's reaction is what's unprecedented.
I can't seem to find any reporting of that happening. Could you point me in the right direction with a link? I wasn't aware this had happened.
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OK, you're already implying that the cop has a "simple little mind" even before he's pulled you over. You also feel that he's wrong for using his siren. It's not your choice whether he uses the siren -- it's his. Sounds like you just don't like the fact that you're not in control of the situation.
Again -- you're the one with the attitude problem, not the officer.
You know, I was going to quote and rebut each and every thing you thought the officer did wrong, but when I re-read your post, it just reaffirmed that you were the jerk in this whole encounter.
The only the the officer did wrong was let you off without a ticket. Maybe next time he'll do a better job!
You seem OVERLY defensive of this officer, and critical of someone who would file a complaint against him, or someone like him (the "crybabies" remark).
I would think after confirming that you look like the person in your license, that your plates match the address, AND the address is a few blocks away, then there should be no issue. To continue the call at that point without further explaining himself is harassment.
I could understand if he POLITELY asked to search your vehicle, stating that there is an arsonist in the area and its his duty to make sure he doesn't miss anything. If the officer asked me that, I would hand the man my keys. Without the courtesy and explanation though, I would tell him no, and demand his badge number and for his supervisor to respond to the scene if they want to do a vehicle search with out explaining themselves first. Remember that if there's reasonable suspicion of a crime, they won't need to ask your permission, but rather detain you and search your vehicle as they see fit.
The thing that concerns me most is that he asked for your phone number. Why would he need a phone number? He has your address!
I say file a complaint and ensure that this guy, whatever his problem is, won't bother any more people in the Heights. I can imagine that at worst, during roll call EVERYONE will be reminded to be a little more courteous to confirmed heights residents. THEY WORK FOR YOU.
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You know, I didnt pay a bit of attention to his name...I know I should do that, but I always forget to. He was a short hispanic guy, about 34 or so with short black hair. (really narrows it down I know) I am always petrified that a cop is going to take my smallest actions and blow them out of proportion as a reason to arrest me. I just try to be polite and keep my hands on the steering wheel where he can see them. Ive seen too many people arrested for nothing...they always get off, but they still get to take the ride and pay $500 or more to get their car back.
You don't need his name or any information. Just call the number listed here tell them exactly when and where you were, and they will be able to track down the officer.
Until this type of behavior is reported, it is destined to be continued. They work for you, not the other way around.
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^ I think the other organizations are starting to realize that if the current White House is successful at stifling a particular outlet's availability to access, then it could happen to them when a different administration take charge eventually.
Could you imagine if a Republican White House "waged war" with all they perceive as "liberal" news outlets, allowing only networks like FOX access? I wouldn't want that anymore than the most left of all left liberal would want that. I enjoy that there are news outlets that cover the news from both angles.
Freedom of the press and government transparency. Let's see a little more of both.
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Yeah, I have a lot of downtime at work, and the porn is blocked. So what?
Try actually "working" while at work. Seriously, if you're posting all this at work, there's no way you're being a productive employee.
Well, I'd say I'm actually the type who doesn't back down from a fight. Remember, I didn't start this thread. Reread Marksmu's very first post and tell me seriously that it wasn't a challenge for all those who have the audacity to disagree with him.Its one thing to disagree with the O.P. with valid points why you feel that way. You've failed miserably to do that. All you've done, as evident by Mark's collection of your posts, is sling mud.
Again, good job making this about me.Apparently this thread has become more about your post count than you providing anything of substance. This thread would have nothing to do with you had you not posted your rhetoric over FORTY times in thread less five days old!
Considering that's all you got from what I wrote, I can safely conclude absolutely nothing has been absorbed by you. Nice try.Just look at Mark's collection of all your posts. Nothing but name calling in each one, yet you're the first to continue blaming everyone else for the name calling and their lack of patience for it.
Seriously. Watch Fox News. You'll see this tactic used on a regular basis. They seriously fight like fifth-graders.How much Fox news do YOU watch for this to be your opinion of them? I can't tell you the last time I turned it to the Fox channel, short of some national breaking news, where news was being reported. Are you spending what little time you don't waste on here while at work watching the Fox news channel looking for their flaws?
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Niche is on hiatus. Red's back. You'd know Red's status had you actually read this thread, but whatevs. You say you read through my stuff but didn't notice his stuff? You're losing respect for HAIF because I'm willing to call a spade a spade, or what? What does respect for me and respect for this site have anything to do with each other?
Gary's been an active member of this board for almost 5 years with 2400+ posts, averaging less than 2 posts a day. You however have been here less than 2 months and have already racked up over 500 posts at an average of 11+ per day. By your own admission you state that you were indefinitely suspended from another forum of similar content.
You seem like the type looking for a fight. I'm sure you will argue how I am wrong though.
I just post on these forums to break up daily work monotony or when I'm drinking at home and the wife's bogarting the TV watching something on Lifetime.You think Fox news is not news. You think Sotomayor's statement of being more apt to come to a better conclusion as a hispanic woman, than would a white man is not racist. You post a link to a website accusing a man of rape that provides no proof and then later post a graphic picture of a lynching, all in an effort to prove your point of view.
Nothing more be said. Seriously. We get it. Your point of view has been 100% absorbed and understood by all here.
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Come on folks. We don't want to lay off any homicide cops in this economy.
Why? Its not like they PREVENT homicides.
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Rasmussen? Seriously? Hey, guess what? The Daily Kos poll has 82% of Americans favoring it. Take that, Rasmussen!
B-b-b-b-but Rasmussen says only 42%! Rasmussen! You know, that keenly objective pollster without an agenda?! Surely you've heard of Rasmussen?
Speaking of polls..
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ahhhh....yes... I was just waiting for that... "Fox has more viewers than all others..."
Conservatives/wingnuts... need fancy moving pictures on the TV to convey information. They like the TV. And Fox, mostly catering to a white, angry, straight male audience - gives them plenty of blonde T&A to keep them interested. They just eat it up.
But what about all the so-called "liberals" who read papers? Who get their information from news sites on the Internet - some even international? Who listen to the radio, but not talk radio? Who do not even have - nor need - a television?
They're not watching the TV. They have no need for it.
Yet there are more liberal and left leaning shows than you can shake a stick at. Who's watching them??
They're obviously not listening to the radio either considering the dozens of conservative talk radio shows with millions of listeners, compared to the two? (NPR and Air America - which I don't even know if its still on pay-to-listen satellite radio anymore..) liberal talk shows?
...and yet, somehow.... with that huge audience that Fox has... its viewers got slammed in the 2008 elections. Outnumbered by more enlightened people who had no need to be included in the Nielsen ratings to make a difference. God bless those people.What was the audience share before Obama got elected?
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No it doesn't, and in the very line you quoted of mine, I explained the difference. At what point did you stop reading my reply?
I read your post many time and it still makes no sense. Your example of a tall person being more apt to properly determine how tall doorways should be only shows that the tall person will show favoritism towards other tall people. Of course your example is not accurate to Sotomayor as well because all people shorter than the tall person making the door height determination would not be negatively affected by his decision, since anyone his height or below would make up what would most likely be considered the majority group (as it would be unlikely that there are more tall people than other people combined).
The point is that in this politically correct society where race/ethnicity is one of the many factors that are NOT to have any bearing on a person's qualifications to be hired, Sotomayor was wrong to try and use her race/ethnicity as reason why should would be more qualified to do the job, than a person of another race/ethnicity.
If you walked into my office and told me that as a __________ you are more qualified than the other candidate sitting in the waiting room who is a __________, I would call your comment racist. Can you tell me where in the modern American workplace this would be allowed or where that statement would not be considered racist?
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Not really. Not every subjective response has validity. I can call the sky green and then say that it's just my opinion, but it doesn't make my stupid statement valid. It's still a stupid statement, and it's still not true. It's not as true as calling the sky blue, no matter how much I try to justify it. It's still a false statement.
There seems to be some confusion on your part as to what exactly racism means, so here, from Merriam-Webster:
Explain to me how Sotomayor calling herself a "wise, Latina woman" in any way constitutes racism.
She won't use it anymore because it's become a political hot button. That's it. That's the only reason.
She doesn't say her being Latina gives her the ability to inherently make decisions better than old white dudes, just that the experiences she's had as a Latina (as opposed to the experiences old, white dudes have - for those keeping track at home) give her a different perspective than the norm. And, considering minorities and the poor are more often targeted by the judicial system, that perspective will tend to be less lopsided and more judicious. Why is that a difficult concept to grasp? Here, as an example of an accurate comparison, consider that I'm over six feet tall. I would hope a wise, tall man, with the frequency that he hits his head against the door lintel, would be better able to judge how high that lintel should be. Yeah, I've got a better understanding of how high it should be, better than Muggsy Bogues, not just because I'm simply taller, but because I'm taller and that extra height causes me to frequently bump my head. You get it now?
Again I request for you to explain how that's racist. Or, do you deny the judicial system targets certain groups over others?
Using your example of "tallness" makes no sense. Sotomayor's statement that she can make a more informed decision because she is Latina infers that being Latina is superior to that of any other race that would attempt to make the same decision. Her being Latina should have NOTHING to do with a Judiciary position, except perhaps to help teach children 100 years from now how archaic our society still was at the beginning of the 21st century.
Rasmussen? Seriously? Hey, guess what? The Daily Kos poll has 82% of Americans favoring it. Take that, Rasmussen!
B-b-b-b-but Rasmussen says only 42%! Rasmussen! You know, that keenly objective pollster without an agenda?! Surely you've heard of Rasmussen?
So you're confirming that all Polls are only that: a poll. At least we agree on something.
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True, but at least none of their anchors raped and murdered a girl in 1990. Not sayin' Glenn Beck did rape and murder a girl in 1990, but it's curious he hasn't denied it.
http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/
Also (and very curiously), Glenn Beck still hasn't come on this forum and denied that he raped and murdered a woman in 1990. I still don't believe he did it, but I find it compelling that he hasn't denied it here.
Everything of value you bring to this thread is continually invalidated when you try and use this as some sort of example of how Fox News operates.
This is a free country and Obama can say whatever he wants about Fox News. You disagree and continue to watch Fox News, good for you, its a free country. Moving on.
Hopefully, when this debate is said and done, this will remain the paradigm.
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It was dubbed, "Disco Kroger" because of the Limelight Disco club that was placed there in the same strip back in 1980, so it has NOT been Disco Kroger since the 70's but late 70's IS almost close enough.
Check THIS out. Neat little story.
http://buckhead.lps2.com/Articles-i-2008-10-17-186182.112113_Disco_Kroger_ready_to_boogie.html
Epicly WRONG.
This is what happens when you google "disco kroger" and grab the first story (third link) on the page. I guess he was too busy to notice all the references to Atlanta on the search results page, or even the url's name of BUCKHEAD!
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There's no need to worry. SexyATTACK isn't likely to make it out to Sugarland to frighten all the "older, more regular, weekly/bi-weekly customers." This phenomena probably won't ever make it to the 'burbs, and I can assure you, there probably wasn't a soul in the Disco Kroger even remotely scared of the handful of people dancing badly.
So there are no old, more concervative, bi-weekly shoppers that use the "DiscoKroger" on a regular basis - and you defend this reasoning by inferring that the suburbs would be the only place this type of shopper would dwell?
I seriously doubt this group scares anyone - except perhaps those with real dancing ability. I said they do likely ANNOY however. There is a huge difference between the two. Either way its the management's job to ensure that paying customers are satisfied. What are the odds that any of this group made a purchase after dancing their jigs in each of the stores? I would bet the probability is lower than the probability of at least one customer walking out without finishing their purchase.
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Fox News is a joke, and I don't see anything wrong with White House communications director Dunn pointing that out.
Fox is a joke IMO, they tend to back up their attacks with innuendo instead of facts, however the White house probably should just leave this alone. The only thing they are accomplishing is boosting Fox ratings.
Call it what you want, but the ratings speak for themselves:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/fox-news-dominates-3q-200_n_304260.html
Fox News has pulled off another dominant quarter, claiming the top 10 cable news programs in 3Q 2009 and growing against 3Q 2008, while CNN and MSNBC lost substantial portions of their election-boom audience.-
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Would you really be offended and leave a store because of this? Really?
You ask "really?" as if I already proclaimed my disgust and desire to never return to a place where I might have witnessed a random event of happiness. The honest truth is "no", I would not "really" be offended, "really". But I can imagine some of the older, more regular, weekly/bi-weekly customers that drop 50 to 100 every visit could be offended enough to not risk enduring the pain of poorly synchronized group dance again.
In that case, is this group going to pay Kroger a performance fee since its more likely that Kroger would lose business than gain it? If their stunt was indeed a revenue generator, then why have they not been booked to perform by any local grocery store? Surely in these hard times the management of a grocery store would be willing to provide their customers with live entertainment if it meant bolstering business.
And, if the only reason you go to a grocery store is to buy groceries, then you obviously have never been to the Disco Kroger.No I have not been to the Disco Kroger. Does this location offer something beside groceries? Apparently the management of this Kroger is out of the loop as well, per the video. Perhaps "corporate" forgot to pass them the memo about their Kroger's "Disco" status?
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What's strange is seeing people push by without even turning their heads.
The Kroger Montrose management needs to seriously lighten up.
What right does this group have to do this in a grocery store? I agree with the other poster that while a group like this is seemingly harmless, there's a reason why people go to the grocery store: to buy groceries.
Is this group willing to repay the lost profit from offended shoppers who leaved and do not return to shop there again? I get that's its all in fun, but business is business. The management is just doing their job, ensuring the PAYING customers are satisfied.
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Guh... The two alternatives were just as bad. Saint E? Sounds like the city canonized Ecstasy. Which wouldn't be so bad, I suppose, if those old warehouses were converted into rave space instead of apartments.
The neighborhood name will come on its own, without marketing experts and committee panels making the decision for us.
I agree. I took an informal poll of my friends at a birthday party tonight, and the most common reply was "Old Chinatown" and "The Warehouse District".
Whatever it is, you can't make me call it "Eado" no more than you'll make me call the Galleria "Uptown".
Here's the link: http://www.eadohouston.com/ :barf:
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Out of respect for my friends, I don't allow Mafia Wars to send anything that would appear on their page. I do feel your frustration. MW is more of a fluke with me, but I can not even stand the thought of playing any of the others - especially Farmville.