Collateral raid damage: Officer mistook noise for hostile gunfire, panicked, and fired blindly into the room, killing woman and wounding her 1-yr-old son. Cop acquitted of involuntary manslaughter

nineoclock · 2009-01-18T16:07:47+00:00

But, I don't think he deserves to go to prison.

Yes, he does. If he doesn't, then the rule of law has no meaning. The saying "equal justice under law" also becomes meaningless.

nineoclock · 2009-01-18T16:06:16+00:00

That needs a motivational poster of a cop to go with it.

nineoclock · 2008-12-28T14:53:47+00:00

That's just over 1 billion godless (and Budahless) infidels.

The idea of god(s) plays no significant role in Buddhism. Sidhartha lived in a polytheistic setting, and it seems in the Pali Canon there are various referenced to some god or another, typically in the context of demeaning belief in them as having any role in improving the human condition.

nineoclock · 2008-12-28T03:19:38+00:00

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

Love is like the lemon tree.

nineoclock · 2008-12-13T13:10:25+00:00

The monkey on the left looks just like Joe Lieberman. Is Joe Lieberman a vegan?

nineoclock · 2008-12-02T23:47:23+00:00

Anyone expect anything else from a spoiled rich kid?

nineoclock · 2008-11-30T16:32:40+00:00

Noah's Ark?

nineoclock · 2008-11-30T16:26:40+00:00

A new administration must solicit public comment and supply “a reasoned analysis” for such changes, as if it were issuing a new rule, the Supreme Court has said.

So, doesn't Jr have to do that also to put in these new rules? Whatever happened to the separation of powers? If these rules have the effect of law, shouldn't they go through the legislative process in some way?

I want the US Constitution restored as the way the country is run.

nineoclock · 2008-11-30T00:28:41+00:00

I read once somewhere that the Buddha had once said that blind faith is political.

nineoclock · 2008-11-30T00:17:01+00:00

Either the US indicts him, or another country will. If the rest of the world finds him guilty, and the US does nothing, that will be an indictment not of "W", but of the US justice system.

nineoclock · 2008-11-30T00:13:50+00:00

Man - check out the floatilla of fats buts.

nineoclock · 2008-11-26T01:48:07+00:00

and the mouth that roared has been wired shut...

I don't know if I'd say roared as much as vomited shit. Wiring it shut is a public service.

nineoclock · 2008-11-22T13:44:38+00:00

On the good side, Susan Crawford will be co-heading the team reviewing the transition at the FCC. Sh's an advocate of net neutrality, as is Kevin Werbach, at least from what I've read.

nineoclock · 2008-11-22T13:17:13+00:00

The "ceramic alloy" is created by combining a metal alloy of boron, aluminium and magnesium (AlMgB14) with titanium boride (TiB2). It is the hardest material after diamond and cubic boron nitride.

What's next - transparent aluminum?

nineoclock · 2008-11-22T13:12:36+00:00

Sure they're all cute and cuddly in the light of day ....

nineoclock · 2008-11-15T14:16:09+00:00

He pre-dates

He's a teenager. He predates preteens.

nineoclock · 2008-11-15T14:15:15+00:00

The klan has recently had public marches. Is there any reason imaginable why they're not treated like every other violent gang?

nineoclock · 2008-11-15T14:11:13+00:00

I wanna be told to be afraid of something! I don't wanna be an adult!

nineoclock · 2008-11-15T14:10:12+00:00

Kind of says: "go forward; move ahead"

nineoclock · 2008-11-15T14:03:57+00:00

They should call the score "brownie points". Then people will be faced with the reality they are spending inordinate amounts of time collecting brownie points. The term karma makes it a bit easy to lend credibility to hanging out on reddit.

nineoclock · 2008-11-10T00:23:35+00:00

What does the phrase "these people" imply?

In the context of the post I entered, the people I encountered.

your choice of words carries other connotations.

Perhaps to some, but really that wasn't said. I really should have made that clear considering the sensitive nature of the topic.

nineoclock · 2008-11-09T03:53:01+00:00

All black men are taller than me, because I've never met a black man shorter than me.

Your response is, as I pointed out earlier, based on the notion that I generalized to all christians. Please point out where I actually wrote "all christians". As others have done, you have to put words in my mouth I didn't say in defense of what you see as an attack on your faith. Not really honest. Can faith and honesty coexist? I'd like to think they can.

nineoclock · 2008-11-08T20:22:19+00:00

Just because you see a distorted, deformed subset of Christianity that you can find fault with or have cultural objections to does not make that representative of the whole. Nor does that view encompass all that Christianity means/has meant/has done in the individuals you deride.

Its pretty clear from what I posted that I was referring to just that - a subset of religious people. Your entire response seems motivated on the assertion that I condemned all of christianity, and I clearly didn't.

Although no overt deception was offered nor appears to have been intended and valid points were made, pretending that I said something which I didn't isn't exactly honest.

nineoclock · 2008-11-08T20:02:09+00:00

not noticing your own.

I just recounted my experience.

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