quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: they're okay as long as they don't get to vote, or go near playgrounds.
But they do get to vote. I have no problem with drug addicts, but someone dumb enough to go to jail shouldn't be allowed to choose who runs the country. Although it does help to explain two consecutive Bush terms.
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exactly! If are sent down, then you no longer deserve to be a citizen. Why should you matter any more? Deal with it. It's important to give judges the ability to permanently remove civil rights. We're not running a fucking kibbutz here.
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absolutely. most crims would probably or scrawl the words 'I DoNT FUkkIN NO duZ I' all over the voting paper anyway, or vote for a racialist party or something. democracy is better off ignoring anything they might rasp out of their idiot maws on the subject of democracy.
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quote:Originally posted by rooster: um, ralph, in most states ex-felons can't vote.
Most states.
quote: A growing number of states, nine in the past several years, are allowing convicted felons to regain their voting rights. Since 1996, nine states, including Maryland and Virginia, have eliminated some voting barriers for people with felony convictions, according to a report by the Sentencing Project, a think tank that advocates alternatives to imprisonment.
quote: 'It's time for change', President of the Sentencing Project Will Fryham told reporters. 'By allowing felons to vote, we are adhering to the rights of Americans as stated in our beloved constitution. For too long, the only service we have offered is a last meal. Now, perhaps, we can offer these lost souls a final chance of redemption, before they follow the will of God and the American people'.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: the article continues..
quote: 'It's time for change', President of the Sentencing Project Will Fryham told reporters. 'By allowing felons to vote, we are adhering to the rights of Americans as stated in our beloved constitution. For too long, the only service we have offered is a last meal. Now, perhaps, we can offer these lost souls a final chance of redemption, before they follow the will of God and the American people'.
Indeed it does. But since I disagreed with what it stated, I decided to omit it.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America permits states to deny the vote "for participation in rebellion, or other crime." It can be argued that prisoners and ex-cons alike should not be allowed the vote.
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Ooo! Political! I like jokes like that - ones that sound clever, but actually become increasingly meaningless the more you think about them.
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Today on Have your say the BBC poses the question "Should women be blamed for being raped?" Well, "no, obviously not" is the answer to that one, but as ever the cretins are out in force. I know everyone's sick of this schtick now, but here's one that's worth considering...
quote:My best friend was raped after going out on a 'tarts and vicars' pub crawl where she engaged in sexually provocative games with strangers wearing next to nothing and drank copious amounts of booze. She stumbles home over the field by her house and one of the boys she had been teasing all night raped her. Although this act was despicable and inexcusable I chastised her severely for her idiocy.
Alex P
Thanks for that Alex! While we're on the subject of 'idiocy', you have to wonder about the mentality of a person who, when their mate is seriously assaulted, starts putting the boot into them for their idiocy, and then goes on the internet and brags about it from the moral high ground.
quote:Women are not to blame if they are raped. Men are not to blame if *they* are raped (yes - it does happen, more frequently than many people realise). Gay people are not to blame if they are queerbashed.
None of us - ever - in any way are 'asking for it'. To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand the the violence that is the driver for both rape and queerbashing.
Nick Weeks, London
lol @ his use of 'queerbashed'
quote:Only the criminal is responsible for the crime. However, if I drove my BMW into an inner city area, left the keys on the bonnet, and walked away, I should not be surprised if it got stolen. There is behaviour that invites or encourages crime. I got robbed once because I did not close my front door. The thief was the thief, and was culpable, but I was stupid, and it's not "blaming the victim" to acknowledge that.
Garys advice: cut your tits off ladies.
I love your 'have your say' thread Thorn.
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Did you know that immigrants are stealing our flu jabs?
quote:With all the money Britain have, and we can't afford a simple Flu jab!
It's time Britain stopped shipping money out to other countries all the time and started looking after our own!
My Dad has Rhumatoid Arthritis and if he caught Flu it'd Kill him!
Ceri Rowlands, Walsall West Midlands, United Kingdom
What I like/ hate about Ceri's post is the outrage that we can't even afford a simple flu jab, as though because it's a well known illness the cure must be cheap and easy to come by rather than being say, a massively expensive and continually elusive medical problem. Maybe she thinks the flu jab is lemsip ground up into a syringe.
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i think it's an enormous achievement to see ceri type a [semi-]coherent sentence. with the level of intelligence she demonstrates in her post i would have thought she'd struggle to stand erect and breathe at the same time.
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How common is proper 'flu anyway? As opposed to a really fucking rough cold? I think I had flu once at university, where I had a steaming headache, I went pale, and I could hardly move, and every muscle in my body seared with the kind of wrenching burning pain that you get after, say, a really good workout. Anyway, it was far and away the worst I'd ever felt.
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yeah i had that once, and I thought that I was going to die, right there, wearing that stupid little hat. It was quite disorientating, and I lost track of time. Waking up and it's night, then day, then night again, and the whole time shivering and unable to move. The whole experience was only 'bettered' by the time I ate an eighth of resin.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: How common is proper 'flu anyway? As opposed to a really fucking rough cold? I think I had flu once at university, where I had a steaming headache, I went pale, and I could hardly move, and every muscle in my body seared with the kind of wrenching burning pain that you get after, say, a really good workout. Anyway, it was far and away the worst I'd ever felt.
S'posedly the difference between cold and flu is - if you won the lottery, no matter how bad your cold, you'd go get the money. If you've got flu you'll give the money to someone to put you out of your misery.
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Oh oh! The flu rant is one of my favourites!
People bitching and moaning ...oh I have really bad flu today but I had to come to work to finish this project anyway!...WRONG That isn't flu!....oh I have flu so I can only go out for a little while...WRONG That isn't flu!...oh, I have flu I feel rubbish...WRONG If you are standing here whining at me then that isn't flu!
Additionally I was pleased to note that those fine people at Metro thought it would be a good idea, and definitely in the public interest, to run a story about what would happen if Bird Flu combined with Ebola. Apparently it would be really bad!!!1123!!! But is very unlikely. Looks like they had a spare page to fill and felt like shitting everyone up.
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On coursework and cheating Maynard has this to say:
quote: My father always said cheats never prosper and he wasn't an anti semite he was a man who had fought for his country. It seems to me that young people should be discouraged from cheating as it only leads to criminlaity in later years. I know.
Maynard Batting, Nottingham
Do jews cheat? Have I missed a meeting?
XXX D.O.
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quote: My father always said cheats never prosper and he wasn't an anti semite he was a man who had fought for his country. It seems to me that young people should be discouraged from cheating as it only leads to criminlaity in later years. I know.
Imagine that. Writing comments that read like the auto-generated text that spammers use to thwart filtering software.
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Here's a good one from that debate, where 'John' from Birmingham complains that job applicants can't even string a decent sentence together.
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Course work was always going to be open to abuse and as such marks are not taken seriously, that is why when we interview we disregard formal education results and have applicants take our own tests, the results are no surprise, A grade A level students who cannot write a pormal response to an enquiry nor add up without a calculator and we are regularly told education standards are higher, I don't think so.
John, Birmingham
I wonder if those tests include learning the difference between a comma and a full stop.
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One Mojito, two Gin and Tonics, Three Bacardi Lime Sodas, and a couple of pints of Stella please.
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*aghast*
Should breast feeding be banned in public? Keith Essex (not even Keith from Essex - the man is apparently one of Essex's many landed gentry) says YES:
quote: I personally find this sort of thing very embarrasing. It makes me feel like a peeping tom. Therefore I would agree that brest feeding in public should be banned. There are alternative places, consider others, please use them.
The BBC Have Your Say website makes me angry.
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yeah. have your say makes me wonder if it is possible to renounce your citizenship of a country without actually having to, like, move to another one.
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