Free Speech Thread

[SoCal]

Some people who create threads like to limit the content that others may post in that thread.

Well, not here. Post anything you want. The thought police will not hunt you down and edit your posts. While I can't control what the mods/admins will do, know that I will not limit your rights to free speech in this thread.

This guy is not welcome here:



Got a random thought, a pet peeve, an idea, a video, a picture?
Then by all means, post away!

[SoCal]

[SoCal]

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

¯ Groucho Marx

[SoCal]

The thought police are not welcome in this thread.

[Aeryn]

*doesn't see anyone here*

[Mistermoonlight]

Feb 1, 2013 12:31:09 GMT -5 SoCal said:

The thought police are not welcome in this thread.

How about the Dream Police?

[SoCal]

White costumes, badges and police hats?

*gags* a little.

[Aeryn]

Feb 1, 2013 12:43:16 GMT -5 Mistermoonlight said:

Feb 1, 2013 12:31:09 GMT -5 SoCal said:

The thought police are not welcome in this thread.

How about the Dream Police?

A long time ago, I actually met Robin and Tom at Tower Records on Sunset.

[Mistermoonlight]

My favorites were the other two guys in the group: Rick Nielsen (guitar) and the man with a great name--Bun E. Carlos (drums.) Bun was almost always smoking a cigarette while he played.

[Aeryn]

I've always liked Tom. He's a cutie. Or was.

[SoCal]

So, school nurses cannot give a student with a headache an aspirin, but this is okay???

The Washington Times reports:

New York City schools are offering young girls a full menu of birth control options, free of parental counsel, thanks to an unpublicized project by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.

School nurses handed out 12,721 doses of the Plan B One-Step “morning-after” pill in 2011-12, up from 10,720 in 2010-11 and 5,039 in 2009-10, the New York Post reports.

Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union, was stunned by the report.

“I’m in shock,” she said. “What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches? He has purposely kept the public and parents in the dark with his agenda.”

Besides “emergency contraception,” about 40 school-based clinics have dispensed prescriptions for contraception, intrauterine devices and hormone-delivering injections, the Post reports. Officials refused to discuss the project.

Unbelieveable.

[AntiArbitrator]

Feb 4, 2013 21:16:42 GMT -5 SoCal said:

So, school nurses cannot give a student with a headache an aspirin, but this is okay???

The Washington Times reports:

New York City schools are offering young girls a full menu of birth control options, free of parental counsel, thanks to an unpublicized project by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.

School nurses handed out 12,721 doses of the Plan B One-Step “morning-after” pill in 2011-12, up from 10,720 in 2010-11 and 5,039 in 2009-10, the New York Post reports.

Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union, was stunned by the report.

“I’m in shock,” she said. “What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches? He has purposely kept the public and parents in the dark with his agenda.”

Besides “emergency contraception,” about 40 school-based clinics have dispensed prescriptions for contraception, intrauterine devices and hormone-delivering injections, the Post reports. Officials refused to discuss the project.

Unbelievable.

If that was printed on April 1, I would believe it was an April Fool's joke. Unbelievable to me also.

[SoCal]

so a player on the San Francisco 49er's gets sent off for re-education because he made some slight disparaging remarks about no gays in the locker room, but countless actors/policticians can spew shit about gun owners not being worth the air they breathe, and that's okay.

The thought/speech police are truly on the rise in the U.S.

[Aeryn]

I got edited because I mentioned a few races...including my own. I don't get it.

[AntiArbitrator]

Feb 8, 2013 21:04:42 GMT -5 Aeryn said:

I got edited because I mentioned a few races...including my own. I don't get it.

I sent you a PM.

[Aeryn]

I'm in the mood for group sex.

[AntiArbitrator]

I have the right to remain silent. Anything I might say has already been used against me.

[Aeryn]

Jan 26, 2013 12:42:06 GMT -5 SoCal said:

The thought police will not hunt you down and edit your posts.

Yes they will.

[SoCal]

Well, I have no control over the overlords of this forum, but I will not demand you edit or delete a post.

So....partial thought police control, I guess.

[Aeryn]

Apparently, we can't even mention certain body parts. I guess some people would be shocked to know they have reproductive organs.

[SoCal]

Feb 10, 2013 15:25:26 GMT -5 Aeryn said:

Apparently, we can't even mention certain body parts. I guess some people would be shocked to know they have reproductive organs.

Or theirs have atrophied and they're peeved you brought up a "sore" subject.

[SoCal]

DC Comics under fire for hiring anti-gay writer to pen SupermanEnder's Game author Orson Scott Card has called gay marriage 'the end of democracy' – and some comics fans want him fired.


Christ..........so now you have to openly support something that has never been normal or mainstream or natural or you're villified and there are open calls for you to lose your job.

Free speech? Not if you disagree with some powerful lobbying groups.

[Aeryn]

That's always pissed me off...I mean, what someone does in their bedroom isn't my business, but DON'T tell me I have to accept and support it.

[AntiArbitrator]

Hey! I am not watching the State of the Union because I am really looking forward to a summary in here. Please don't disappoint me.

Yes, I have always been an agitator.

[Aeryn]

No way I'm watching that speech.

[SoCal]

Feb 12, 2013 22:11:48 GMT -5 AntiArbitrator said:

Hey! I am not watching the State of the Union because I am really looking forward to a summary in here. Please don't disappoint me.

Yes, I have always been an agitator.

The speech: "You need to send more money to the federal government. The federal government is going to tax you more. You cannot possible survive without the federal government. The federal government is monitoring your every move. The constitution does not apply to the federal government."

That about covers it.

[AntiArbitrator]

I knew you would sum up the salient points for me.

[Aeryn]

There's something very suspicious about:

1. The all out manhunt for that ex-cop who allegedly killed those people.
2. The media blitz about said ex-cop.
3. The fire that supposedly killed him.

This sounds so much like the SLA shootout...and Waco as well.

Hmmm...

[SoCal]

What is the point of the stupid "exalt" "smite" options when, apparently, mods and admins can suddenly create a total karma of 1,000,000 when they previously only had 40?

What is the freaking point?

Now you know why I don't participate in that bullshit. Because that's what it is.

[Aeryn]

Feb 13, 2013 20:27:42 GMT -5 SoCal said:

What is the point of the stupid "exalt" "smite" options when, apparently, mods and admins can suddenly create a total karma or 1,000,000 when they previously only had 40?

What is the freaking point?

Now you know why I don't participate in that bullshit. Because that's what it is.

I said the same thing in the vent thread. The whole karma thing is now a fucking joke.