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What's happening to you America?
#31
RE: What's happening to you America?
Lol, yeah. The island is sooo pricey. This is creepy. I love it. 8D
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#32
RE: What's happening to you America?
A Buckeye...hehehe, my wife and in-laws are Buckeyes. Ah, memories....
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#33
RE: What's happening to you America?
(August 7, 2012 at 11:26 am)Shell B Wrote: That's not America. That's Utah.

No true Scotsman,and not funny. Utah is part of the US and very American as indeed is Texas ,the execution capital of the US, (with70% support of the population)


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Tangent: Texas to execute ANOTHER mentally impaired man:

Quote:Texas Will Execute A Mentally Retarded Man Today Unless The Supreme Court Intervenes | At 6pm CT (7pm ET) today, the state of Texas is scheduled to execute Marvin Wilson, who was diagnosed as mentally retarded by a court-appointed psychologist. Executing the mentally retarded is unconstutional, yet Texas hopes to exploit a loophole in the Supreme Court opinion declaring such executions to be unlawful in order to execute Wilson anyway. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes before the execution takes place, Wilson will die despite what the Constitution has to say about it.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08...?mobile=nc
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#34
RE: What's happening to you America?
Meh, Texas isn't going to let a little thing like constitutionality get in the way of a good execution. Hell, they don't actually seem to care whether you're guilty or not in the first place.....
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#35
RE: What's happening to you America?
(August 7, 2012 at 7:19 pm)padraic Wrote:
(August 7, 2012 at 11:26 am)Shell B Wrote: That's not America. That's Utah.

No true Scotsman,and not funny. Utah is part of the US and very American as indeed is Texas ,the execution capital of the US, (with70% support of the population)

It is certainly true that Utah (and Texas) are part of the US, but you also need to recognize that we're a huge culturally diverse country, and what the US looks like depends largely upon where you happen to be standing at the time.
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#36
RE: What's happening to you America?
Quote: but you also need to recognize that we're a huge culturally diverse country, and what the US looks like depends largely upon where you happen to be standing at the time

Indeed;THAT was the point of my 'no true Scotsman comment.
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#37
RE: What's happening to you America?
That was not a no true Scotsman. At what point did I say no American would do that? Did I at any point suggest that the judge was not a "true" American? Firstly, it was widely meant as a joke, though clearly meant as a dig at Utah's standards. Furthermore, you can equate Utah and Texas to America all you want, but you are seriously kidding yourself if you think the backward south and midwest are anything like the rest of the United States. Also, it is literally not "America."

On a side note, I find it funny that people take themselves so seriously that they think they can understand the entirety of this nation based on what one judge does in one state without bothering to remember that state laws govern such shit. If you read the article, you would see that the law allowed the judge to behave as he did. He behaved in a way that a judge could not in my state. In short, think in scope, not in platitudes, if you please. That is not directed specifically at you, pad. There just seems to be this ridiculous notion that a nation more than 3,000 miles wide and containing a total of 50 state governments is all the same.

Shit, I am so fucking far from Texas that it might as well be in another country.
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#38
RE: What's happening to you America?
The Red states are, generally, pretty fucked up though, Shel.
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#39
RE: What's happening to you America?
I would never disagree with that, hence my statement that it is not "America," but Utah. Were it a universal law that you could abuse children for relatively small indiscretions in the United States, federal law, in other words, I never would have said that. If you can separate states into two types, if one thing is only typical of one type, you cannot say it is "America," so much as whatever it is that differentiates it from the other states. There is no execution in my state. There is no child abuse in court rooms. We have good health care. We're not perfect, but this sure isn't Utah, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.
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#40
RE: What's happening to you America?
I am not discounting the diversity, Shell, but I think the narrowminded vindictiveness seen in this case offers insight into a strain of latent,self-righteous sadism, a tendency towards smug graceless self-satistaction coupled with schadenfreude, that is more influential in the aggregate behavior of this country than we are willing to admit.
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