2012-05-03, 10:40 | Link #21222 | |
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This guy Ready was a Neo-Nazis who had a Latina girlfriend??? I smell bullshit. And for the record, all males between the ages of 18 and 45 are members of the US militia according to Title 10 Section 311 of the US Code. Theodoore Roosevelt made it that way with the "Dick Act" of 1903 in order to bolster civilian training in the use of military arms, so the media and police need to knock off the hyperbolic "Ooh, he/she/it was a member of a militia!" It is the right of the Federal government to have at its disposal every able-bodied male, armed with military weaponry provided by themselves, to meet the requirements of Article 1, section 8 of the Federal Constitution. Then the article goes on to say Ready was a former US Marine who headed the US Border Guard, a militia-style group. Well, which is it? Is it an actual militia-group or is it a Border Defense group like Ranch Rescue or one of these other community organizations in the border states. The propaganda of the Yahoo/AP article is worse, it has to add "assault rifles, and gas-masks, and fatigues. Yet the article you cited said the police only found two handguns and a shotgun. Somebody's lying. Clearly this ex-Marine had a domestic dispute with his girlfriend and this other guy and lost control. His life outside of that is really moot to the fact that he murdered his girlfriend, her kids, and this other person. The US Marine Corps teaches soldiers "the will to kill" and sometimes that training has a serious side-effect. Charles Whitman being a classic case of that serious side-effect of such training. So ganbaru, you are correct in my opinion, these people are not born, they are made and sometimes by the US government with unintended consequences.
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2012-05-03, 11:12 | Link #21224 | |
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It's like these people who say that gay people shouldn't adopt children because it will make the children homosexual. Or the thing with the Rick Ross types who said that D&D made kids into Satanists or made them run off and commit suicide. Some even said it "hypnotizes children" into becoming occultists. Or that pornography causes rape. It's all a steaming pile of bullshit that stems from a desire to not hold people, and only people, responsible for their own actions. Ready chose to kill his girlfriend, her children, and the other man. No one, no cult of the gun, no violent vidoe game, no "devil music," no RPG, no porno, nothing intangible was the cause that made him do it. READY, and ONLY Ready was the cause of this tragedy.
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2012-05-03, 11:16 | Link #21225 | |
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Yeah..i agree with you...however...doesn't change the fact..that people doing something like this,should not exist in the world.
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2012-05-03, 11:37 | Link #21226 |
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House GOP to distribute draft contempt citation against Eric Holder over "gunwalking"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...ing/?tag=stack Occupy's image blown to smithereens: Kevin O'Brien http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/inde...o_smither.html
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2012-05-03, 11:52 | Link #21227 | |
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Speaking of accident scams, once one gets rear ended they also complain about neck strain and trauma, as that's a department one can sue for a lot of money in and is near impossible to prove. Don't get any ideas, though!
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2012-05-03, 12:04 | Link #21228 |
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Did you see the case where the accident scammer lost the law suit and got counter-suit for fraud and was charged? The rear-ender had a camera built into his car o_O and it was caught on tape the guy was backing up in the middle of the highway. We need more of that!
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2012-05-03, 12:29 | Link #21229 | |
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Bin Laden documents released:
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"I know he's a mass murdering terrorist...but that was just uncalled for..." I bet Obama makes a few wise cracks about it every now and then as well.
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2012-05-03, 14:10 | Link #21231 | |
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1. Toronto's the most congested, dense and populated city in Canada, one of the largest in North America (5,000,000+) 2. It's illegal for a cyclist in Toronto to bike on a pedestrian sidewalk. 3. There's no requirement of any sort that restricts who can be cycling on the road. 4. There's no place for a bicycle on most roads and cars often drive by cyclists at high speeds on the same lane. And his argument to removing the few cycling lanes that do exist is that they're a waste of space? And he rejects all contact with the media. There's almost no one on his side on this. Cyclists's opinions are obvious, our lives are in danger without specified cycling lanes. But even cars owners wouldn't be on this side. Because of the lack of development for cycling and regulations, cyclists end up being stupid lawless jay-walker (er.. jay-cyclists) that are all over the place obstructing traffic. Almost every driver I know hates that cyclists are all over the place without proper traffic signals and block up their lanes. Just imagine if pedestrian sidewalks no longer exist and anyone that wants to walk must walk on the road. |
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2012-05-03, 14:48 | Link #21232 |
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The way it's done here:
- A cycling lane on the road is usually made by banning parking on the roadsides. The space that was parking space before, is now cycling space. - If there is no such space on the road, but there is a sidewalk, half the sidewalk and give one half to cyclists and one half to pedestrians. - Only in cases where that is not possible either, a cycling lane is built into the actual driving lane. But for those, you are allowed to ignore them in a car, if there is no bike around. Not such a nice place to be with a bike. Still not as bycicle friendly as the netherlands, but it works. |
2012-05-03, 14:56 | Link #21233 |
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Pedestrians will literally jump in front of you and shout at you telling you to get off the sidewalk if you do that in downtown Toronto. Like road laws, if a pedestrian gets hit by a cyclist, cyclist is going to be in a world of hurt. And don't forget most cyclists don't have cycling insurance. (I am insured by my cycling club)
You could call those people assholes for jumping in front of bikes for some law suit money, but this wouldn't happen if the law actually protected cyclists after forcing them to go on the roads. Unlike a bike vs person collision, a car vs bike collision is usually guaranteed death. |
2012-05-03, 15:03 | Link #21234 |
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Well, it's not 'the sidewalk' anymore, if half of it was given to cyclists.
That usually means signs, which tell you what side of the sidewalks belongs to whom (Germans love signs, they are everywhere!), a line painted down the middle which you better not cross and sometimes the whole thing is color coded, painting the cyclist's side red or blue and the other side... gray. |
2012-05-03, 15:09 | Link #21235 |
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The problem we have with cyclists in California is not that they don't have rights to the road, is that they don't follow the rules. Or they think they can realistically challenge the thousand pound or more car in the middle lane of the main roads. I see plently of cyclists that do not obey the traffic laws at all., such as not stopping at stop signs. Or follow the laws in what I consider a dangerous way. I've seem people in the left lane (the one nearest to oncoming traffic) at a stop light use it like a normal car....save that there is no way he can accelerate to stay up with traffic from that point and is (I think) endangering others as well as himself.
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2012-05-03, 15:18 | Link #21236 |
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I don't even think there is such a thing as cycling insurance here in So Cal. Bike riding on the sidewalks is frowned upon, but rarely enforced. Same thing with bike helmets. The law says that riders 18 years old and under have to have helmets, but I see kids all the time riding without one.
My route to work has a bike lane for about &5% of the way. The rest of the time I'm riding in the gutter. Fortunately the street is wide enough that there's some room between the curb and the cars zooming by. I'd really like to use the bike trail, but it's too far to the north. Had a pretty close call the other day when some guy in a Mercedes decided he didn't want to wait for me to pass and made his oncoming left turn in front of me. Missed me by a couple feet. Endless "Cyclist" Soul
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2012-05-03, 15:19 | Link #21237 |
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I guess reckless driving is a standard for cyclists everywhere.
I tend to bent the rules if I'm on bike too. I don't straight out run through red lights, but I do things like skip over to the other sidewalk 20m ahead of the red light, then go around it. Or if I reach a red light and I want to go left, I hop on the sidewalk to the right, use the pedestrians' green light to cross over, then enter the lane I want to and move on. But in general I try to stay away from cars and any streets that have more than 50km/h. That's just suicide. Cyclists do have the same rights as cars (except for the Autobahn), but it's just not a good idea to force them. |
2012-05-03, 15:27 | Link #21238 | |
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2012-05-03, 15:41 | Link #21239 | ||
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2012-05-03, 17:36 | Link #21240 |
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Yes, most cyclists are idiots, because there are no qualifications or regulations to control it. I don't know any place in the world that requires a cycling license earned through a cycling exam. Then they shouldn't be allowed on the road. But here, you can't be on the sidewalk. One time I cheated and was crossing the street on the pedestrian's striped area and was pulled over by the police and he charged me $110. Luckily I got away with not paying because I pleaded not guilty and he didn't show up to court.
What's sad is my road to work is 90% cycling lanes and park trails. I was pulled over and charged at that 10%. It was a 12 lane x 8 lane massive intersection. The manner in which i was caught was rather funny. I had my earphones plugged in, holding a bottle of pepsi in one hand and the other hand off the handle. I pretty much realized I was screwed once I heard the siren. |
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