kimmy

Yeah, I bet the aboriginals are just hoping the crazy church lady comes and helps them through their trouble... sounds like exactly the kind of help they need more of. -k

Which is a real dilemna, isn't it. Because I wouldn't move into a neighborhood like that, and if I was living in one, I'd move out at first opportunity. -k

The idea of homogenous Muslim neighborhoods isn't quite the "mosaic" we multicultural-loving Canadians were sold on, is it? I don't think homogenous ethnic enclaves in our cities is a good idea. People become Canadianized by mixing amongst Canadians. -k

This message has been out for years. Why do you think the anti-immigration parties have risen to prominence in several western European democracies in the past few years? It didn't come from Anders Breivik, and didn't need his horrific actions to be heard. -k

Can you cite any laws that specifically target *Islamic* terror? -k

Is that such an outrageous idea? If the Earth Liberation Front kills someone during one of their arson attacks, does that make that the idea of ecological conservancy is inherently wrong? Does it mean that all of the non-violent environmentalists should be lumped in with Earth Liberation Front because they support the same goals? -k

"Innocent" and "not guilty by reason of insanity" don't mean the same thing. The law, a medical professional, and a layman all have different definitions of crazy. To you or me, somebody who would kill 90 teenagers because he hopes to spark some kind of revolution is crazy. To a medical professional, he might or might not be crazy. He might have some sort of psychiatric condition that prevents him from feeling empathy or something like that. Maybe he has a legitimate, diagnosable psychiatric condition, or maybe he doesn't. To the law, he knew exactly what he was doing. He isn't crazy by the definitions the law has set out. -k

I think that if the babyboomers really wanted to do something altruistic to help others, they would pull their lips over their heads and swallow. -k

Are you saying that people who choose to marry within their own racial group are "living in the past", and that in the future they'll become targets of discrimination? And that you're looking forward to that? -k

There's no intrinsic value in diversity? Elmo lied to kimmy. Mr Hooper will hear about this! -k

But don't you want the children of the future to come in "all the colors of the rainbow"? I have been taught since childhood how "diversity makes us stronger", and "we are richer when we paint with all the colors of the wind" and how living with people of many colors opens our minds and how living in a monochrome world shuts them. Surely you're not going to disagree with recognized authorities like Sesame Street and the braintrust behind the public school board's diversity education program! -k

Because a tan is seen as being representative of good health, of an active outdoor lifestyle, of California/Miami glamor. And it is a look that most of the popular white celebrities have made popular. The pressure on white women to get a tan is probably pretty similar to the pressure on black women to get straight hair. -k

(Oleg is going to ask you for her phone number.) -k

Jack cares, but I don't. The Eskimos end their long losing streak against the Stampeders! And I missed it because I spent 18 hours in my car yesterday because of the rock-slide on the Trans Canada. -k

Aw, thanks. Glad to hear you enjoyed it too. Well, the 5th book just hit stores a couple of weeks ago. If they do one book a year, that'll give him 5 years to finish the next one. It is encouraging that George R.R. Martin is heavily involved in the series. He is working with the screenwriters in adapting the story, wrote an episode (and will write another), is involved in the casting (he raved about the 6'3 actress they cast as a character called Briene of Tarn), and is even attending conventions with the actors and producers. It gives one hope that it will continue to be a high-quality representation of the books. Martin has also written for TV before, and understands the limits. An interview I read said that he had written an episode for a show ("The New Twilight Zone", maybe) that called for knights on horseback at Stonehenge. The producer checked the budget and told him "you can have horses, or you can have Stonehenge. You can't have both." Benioff and Weiss say they have lots of "horses or Stonehenge" challenges facing them in season 2. -k

This thread has the potential to go sour. Be wary of being provoked into an argument with someone who isn't worth arguing with. -k

While you were listening to the game, I was hiding under a tree because I was caught in a sudden storm while I was walking along the beach. I watched the wind whip trees back and forth and raise whitecaps on the lake and shivered as the sheets of rain came down, and I was thinking about what tiny creatures we are. ...and then I went home and watched the Eskimos beat up the Lions. -k

I don't know that Turing ever identified himself as a gay. However, he was certainly identified as such by British authorities, who legally prosecuted him as such and had him chemically castrated, which no doubt contributed to his suicide shortly afterward. A fine thank-you to a man whose cryptographic work during WWII probably qualifies him as a war hero. -k

I get all my information from Woody Woodpecker cartoons. Also, CBC One radio when I wake up, and from my RSS feed gadget when I'm on my computer. -k

Axl can go do a backflip into an empty pool. It's all about Slash and Duff. -k

Would this mean I don't have to travel through the ****hole known as Lester B Pearson next time I head east? If so, I'm all for it. -k

What are you racists griping about? These young men are honoring the warrior traditions of their people, while stimulating the local economy through entrepreneurship by exercising the right to sell crank as guaranteed to them in the treaties and Royal Proclamation. -k

And I will stick with category 1. Just yesterday I watched "Crank 2: High Voltage". I'm not sure how to describe it-- action, comedy, absurdly violent, theatre of the absurd, hilarious, offensive... ridiculous movie, anyway. But it had one scene, in which one of the villains forces his flunky to cut his own nipples off... which was shown in excruciating detail... both of them... for at least a minute... which was too much for me. I have watched all kinds of ridiculous gore in movies, but that scene was just too much. It wasn't even a character you like or care about. Why was it painful to watch? Because everybody has nipples, I guess, and everybody knows what getting cut with a knife feels like. -k {when I saw the title, I anticipated this thread would be about Human Centipede.}

Weren't you the guy who was bragging last week about how he gets paid by the government to do nothing full-time? I have a spirit the likes of which you've never seen. -k

I hold this much to be True: you're a senile old deadbeat. -k