I’m an avid gamer. I don’t own a video game console, but I do have quite the collection of computer games, ranging from Monkey Island to Gears of War. And yet, I am not a mass murderer. I haven’t shot up my school with a 9mm or written violent poetry about killing people. Surprising? Not to most people. But Jack Thompson would have you believe that violent video games are tied directly to real world violence. The thing is, he’s an idiot.
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So, apparently, a group of third graders at Georgia school got upset with a teacher and plotted to knock her out, tie her up, and stab her with a steak knife. No, really. They actually brought supplies (a paperweight to knock her out, handcuffs and tape to bind her hands) and assigned different duties (one student would have covered the windows, another would have cleaned up afterwards). Nobody knows if they really intended to harm the teacher, but it’s kind of scary that they even got this far. Luckily, they were outed before they implemented their plan. It makes me wonder what would have happened, though. Third graders can be persistent buggers, and I don’t know if I’d be able to withstand 9 of them attacking me with blunt objects.
But it certainly shows a lot about kids in the 8 to 10 age range when you look at their motive: they were angry with the teacher for scolding one of them for standing on a chair. Wow.
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If there’s a group of people worse than uber-conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin, it’s the people who comment on her articles. Take sammy316 on this article regarding forced marriages.
This kind of crap may fly in India or any land of perpetual outrage where goats and cattle mean something, but in the civilized world we like our marriages short and painful. Well not all of course, some people do beat the odds. (Emphasis added.)
I’m sure India would love to hear that they aren’t considered civilized.
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Honestly, will the 9/11 conspiracy theorists ever admit they don’t have anything solid to go on? Case in point: this video. (It should be noted that this link may cease to work shortly, as the Stage6 video service is shutting down. I’ll try to find it elsewhere.) The entire video is based on a couple of minor explosions in the North Tower shortly following United Airlines 175 hitting South Tower. Um, explosions in a burning building? STOP THE FREAKIN’ PRESSES!
Seriously, though. The video claims that explosions were set off in the North Tower to distract from what was happening in South Tower. First off, distract from what? My guess is that the makers of this video believe the “no-plane” theory, which holds that missiles hit the towers instead of airplanes. There are a lot of holes in that theory, but I won’t go into that (besides, few conspiracy theorists actually believe that theory). Second, those minor explosions are hardly distracting. They look more like blown out windows than anything else. You can’t compare that to a massive fireball caused by hundreds of gallons of jet fuel.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder why so many people think the government engineered 9/11. This is not evidence. It’s guesswork and opinion. I watched that video and saw nothing out of the ordinary in those North Tower explosions. They happened about a floor or two beneath the impact zone, so it’s not a stretch to conclude that the fire had spread to those floors and caused the windows to blow out, especially when combined with the heat and shockwave caused by the explosion in South Tower. Once again, nothing to see here: move along.
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There are few things I hate more than people who are jerks. Not the usual kind of jerk that leaves trash on a fast food restaurant table or cuts in front of you in line at the store. Well, those people suck too, but not as bad as people who are jerks about opinions. These are the people who believe something very strongly and then make fun of you or insult you if you believe differently. Immature jerks.
I will freely admit that I am very opinionated. Go ahead, read almost any article on this site and you’ll understand that I have a strong opinion on just about everything. But there is one thing I will never do and that is force my opinion on people who disagree. I may come close from time to time, but I don’t treat my personal beliefs as fact. Unfortunately, there are a great many people out there who do treat their opinions as fact and will not hesitate to explain that to you, usually in an insulting fashion. I hate people like that.
Am I complaining? Yes, I am. This is my blog and I’ll whine about whatever I see fit, dammit. Don’t like it? I have something to say to that: I do not care for your attitude, good sir. There’s the door. My opinion may be different than yours, but I have every right to express it.
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