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Wow, anyone who can answer those deserves some major credit. I think I could only get 10 or so off the top of my head.

I'm banken on Brakes taken ya out. :) ← Do you know something I don't!! ← I'm hoping your Sonic skills cross over to all old school games. That and the fact that Hero's seriously lacking in game skills. :stickpoke: :mrt2:

Hahaha, you've already one your first match!

I'm banken on Brakes taken ya out. :)

Alright, the tournament is on! To get to it, click on "View All Tournaments" to get to it. As a courtesy to other players, please don't take excessively long to finish your round. I'm glad to see that njc2b5 isn't in this tourney, but we still have fresh_from_sofia to deal with, it could get brutal. My money's on Da Brakes for the win though. :mrt2:

Allright, the tourny entrance is closed.

Excellent! We need one more and we'll have an 8 person tourney.

Could you elaborate on that? How are they different? Is there a source on the web that lists their current doctrine?

You're a yellow face, there's dots everywhere and ghosts that make Casper look brilliant. There's fruit to eat and four beautiful large pellets that wet your appetite for ghosts. How could a game be any better? So, to spur on everyone's love for our beloved little Pacman, we need a Pacman tournament! Who's up for playing?

I don't know if this was racist or not, it really depends on how he said it and what he meant. If he's trying to say "All these guys are wearing the badge of this religion, but aren't actually following it..." it'd be one thing. From the quote, he could have even been implying that it's stupid to wear dreds because it's a symbol of racism... Of course, if he was saying "don't date white girls if your a Rasta", then that'd be racist.

Just being persistent in an argument doesn't make you correct. :) ← No, no, no, he's absolutely wrong, but he get's some credit anyways. :)

I'm listenen to some Code Red now, I gotta add No Place Like Home to my list. The music has such a mellow vibe, matches the lyrical content perfectly. Paints a perfect picture of how I feel on holidays.

In this thread, I haven't agreed with much of what MaxFly's said. But I gotta give him credit, he's hanging tough on his arguments against a bunch of people. :mrt2:

I know nothing of the Rastafarian religion, so I went looking and came across this page: http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html Here's something it said: "early in the history of the movement Leonard Howell gave the Rastafarians six fundamental principles:" 1 Hatred for the white race. 2 The complete superiority of the black race. 3 Revenge on whites for their wickedness. 4 The negation, persecution, and humiliation of the government and legal bodies of Jamaica. 5 Preparation to go back to Africa, and 6 Acknowledging Emperor Haile Selassie as the Supreme Being and only ruler of black people

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An interesting article about FEMA's change since Bush was elected. It's from about a year ago. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2...over_story.html Some interesting quotes: "In Louisiana, requests for flood mitigation funds were rejected by FEMA this summer." "Over the past three-and-one-half years, FEMA has gone from being a model agency to being one where funds are being misspent, employee morale has fallen, and our nation's emergency management capability is being eroded," "The administration also made a failed attempt to cut the federal percentage of large-scale natural disaster preparedness expenditures. Since the 1990s, the federal government has paid 75 percent of such costs, with states and municipalities funding the other 25 percent. The White House's attempt to reduce the federal contribution to 50 percent was defeated in Congress." "Previously, the federal government was committed to invest 15 percent of the recovery costs of a given disaster in mitigating future problems. Under the Bush formula, the feds now cough up only 7.5 percent." "...this summer FEMA denied Louisiana communities' pre-disaster mitigation funding requests."

Interesting... that doesn't really seem like the meaning to me (mostly because of where the emphasis was in the rhyme), but it makes a lot more sense then anything I've thought of. Can anyone else shed some light on this?

Perhaps this should go in Caught In The Middle, but it seems pertinent to voting for Will's music. What's your opinion on programs (software) that would automatically run up the votes on whatever site currently has a poll for, say, Party Starter? Would you find it on the unethical side? What I'm talking about is a program that each person on the board ran and it just sat there and automatically voted up Will's music over and over. It'd be somewhat intelligent, removing tracking information, voting every, say, 5-15 minutes instead of 1000 times in 10 seconds, etc... I don't really know what I think about it. On one hand, it does seem unethical. On the other hand, record companies must be doing this already. And hey, it's only a minor cheat to bump up Wills success. I doubt I'd every make something like this (though it probably already exists), I'm just curious on what ya'll think.

Well said.

There was a report in the Los Angeles Times stating that the government knew that this was a risk, but did nothing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050904...ndleveeprojects Here's an interesting quote: "Since Bush took office in 2001, local experts and Landrieu have asked for just short of $500 million. Altogether, Bush in his yearly budgets asked for $166 million, and Congress approved about $250 million." While I think this is more a case of hindsight being 20/20, it's interesting none-the-less. Earlier you stated that even though FEMA had it's budget cut, the Department of Homeland Security had an increase, causing things to balance out. Could you elaborate on that? That makes no sense to me. Do they now take care of what FEMA used to take care of? If so, why does FEMA still exist?

Some of the problem folks are having with Kanye's statements is this line: "George Bush doesn't care about black people." This exact same accusation was made in 2003 because Bush hadn't met wtih the Congressional Black Caucus in over two years.

I just made it to level 6 again, that level is rough! I have no idea how to get past it...

Crack hit the streets in 1984... I will call you out and put you on blast when you post foolishness of inaccurate information. Do your research before you post if you want to remain credible, cause I have no problem correcting you if you are wrong... ← Crack cocain is recognized as becoming a huge problem (epidemic) in 84 (or possibly 85), but it hit the streets much earlier, in the late 70's. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, so I don't really put much thought into if Bush Sr. or Reagen or whomever funded/put out crack with a purpose. But I do know that many people believe it. People also believe (including Will Smith, at one point, in reference to Ted bringing him up earlier) that the government introduced AIDS to attack the black population. There isn't any evidence, that I'm aware of, of crack or aids or whatever coming from the government. But it's not out of the realm of possability (which you seem to be implying). The US government does do some very bad things, as well as some officials in the government. The CIA, or at least some members, did view the Black Panthers as a major threat to the US. As I'm sure you know, Bush Sr. was CIA director from 76-77, rougly the same time that crack began circulation in the US. So maybe, maybe Bush Sr. had something to do with it. I don't really know, I don't think the public ever will know, but it's not all that crazy that it could have happened. Edit: I originally started this post with a snide comment, which I just removed. Discussions are interesting and constructive, but snide comments are neither. My bad. My point is that you're being the "fact" police, but people do make mistakes, and not all facts are known. So there's a lot of grey area involved.

The "hero" of this story scares me more then the looters. "Looters Will Be Shot" "I was in the Army and I will blow your ass off" "I walked over with my 12-gauge and shot a couple into the air." I guess it must be true, money and property are more valuable then human life...

That's exactly the problem that concerns me with the reporting. From the title: "Stores Looted On Camera In New Orleans" and then in the article "At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter Tuesday morning, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers." Soft drinks, chips, and diapers? Yea, those criminals. From the slideshow pictures, which there where 20, there where two of tv's apparently being stolen. (I say apparently because one was of a someone who looked to be being arrested next to a tv) There's another four to six of people looking to be stealing clothes. Then there's pictures of cops, people taking food and diapers, and what looks to be two kids riding bikes in a store. This is what warrents M-16 toting soliders? The article doesn't mention if the soldiers with the M-16's had food or water with them that they're handing out. Where they handing out food and water? (or was someone down the street handing it out?) And if not, why not? These articles make it sound like everyone in the city is looting, but then you see the pictures or read details and you find out a bunch of people are "looting" needed items, some are a looting questionable items, and a few are looting obviously wrong items.