Regardless of the military's reasons, he should be in jail for that bad rap song.

Excellent sift rasch! I always knew Judas got a bad rap. Fricken' Christians.
I could also see this in the science and history channels.

it is terrible because of the bad rapping and the vapid lyrics. The music sounds passable but also lacks feeling... IMO.

No, you're absolutely right WP.

You and other neo-cons have been given a bad rap this entire time.

I mean, this lady, who graduated cum laude with a major in sociology, not only doesn't understand real people, but she just hates everyone and has been hating and fearing everyone since the day she was born. And it is out of this fear of others that she decided to marry a community organizer.

What a horrible, uncaring, fearful woman.

I see what you're getting at now. I thought that part of his comment was rather childish, but I very much agreed with the rest of it, so I gave him the upvote anyway.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I was trying to display the hypocrisy in his statement about "best schools" and then using a wikipedia quote. I agree that wikipedia is an EXCELLENT place to start research, but only in browsing their sources will you go far enough beyond wikipedia to not get docked points on a paper at the "best schools" or even community college...

Because wikipedia has a bad rap with the more controversial topics, being that they've had problems with articles changing for someone's personal gain, college staff has pretty much ruled out wikipedia as a valid source of information. At my college anyway. All you need for "valid" research is 1 degree beyond wikipedia.

In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
>> ^rottenseed:
Anybody who has been to an average school let alone the "best" would know that quoting wikipedia as a source of your argument is a NO-NO.


Why? It's about as accurate as any other encyclopedia and certainly more up to date.

Would it have been better if he said the quote was from orwell.ru?

This idea that Wikipedia is useless is ridiculous. Read it with some skepticism, as you should with any encyclopedia, and check the source citations, which may not be an option with a traditional encyclopedia.

I was trying to display the hypocrisy in his statement about "best schools" and then using a wikipedia quote. I agree that wikipedia is an EXCELLENT place to start research, but only in browsing their sources will you go far enough beyond wikipedia to not get docked points on a paper at the "best schools" or even community college...

Because wikipedia has a bad rap with the more controversial topics, being that they've had problems with articles changing for someone's personal gain, college staff has pretty much ruled out wikipedia as a valid source of information. At my college anyway. All you need for "valid" research is 1 degree beyond wikipedia.

In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
>> ^rottenseed:
Anybody who has been to an average school let alone the "best" would know that quoting wikipedia as a source of your argument is a NO-NO.


Why? It's about as accurate as any other encyclopedia and certainly more up to date.

Would it have been better if he said the quote was from orwell.ru?

This idea that Wikipedia is useless is ridiculous. Read it with some skepticism, as you should with any encyclopedia, and check the source citations, which may not be an option with a traditional encyclopedia.

NO! I played trumpet for 6 years. This lady is giving female trumpet players a bad rap! I was WAY better then that chick.

I was a huge fan of the Hellblazer comics, had like eighty issues in a run. I didn't think this was a very good Hellblazer movie, but I did think it was a decent movie in and of itself. It gets a bad rap. Wish they had just called it something else and not wasted the John Constantine character this way.

The design concept for hell in this movie is awesome. It's a mirror universe undergoing a perpetual nuclear blast.

The ideal John Constantine would have been 38 year-old James Spader doing a cockney accent. John's magic should be subtle and quiet, more like trickery, and he should never wield anything as a conventional weapon, especially not anything resembling a gun.

I guess I'm the only one in here excited about Wii Sports Resort. Sure, Sony had a motion controller that may or may not be better, and Microsoft had Natal, but those accessories are both late to the game and still in development. The Wii Motion Plus is here now (launches this month in the U.S.) and that should mean an awesome Zelda title and hopefully a kick ass Star Wars title.

Speaking of Zelda, I guess that falls into the "safe and formulaic" category, but I don't see why that kind of game gets such a bad rap. I love new and innovative ideas and games; it's why I play indie titles and follow Atlus so closely. However, some of the successful franchises are successful because their games are consistently good. If I buy a Zelda title or a Mario title, chances are it's going to be executed well and will be a lot of fun to play. That's why I pick up just about every Castlevania title that comes out -- Even if it's a bad Castlevania title, it's still likely better than 90-95% of the system's library.

It's always fascinating to read well-written conservative propaganda.

Lately, with left-wing ideals on the rise here, they seem to have renewed their fight with the democratic process itself, since it isn't working out the way they want it to.

I especially like how they try to make it seem like democracy and rule of law are somehow mutually exclusive.

Notice that at no point does this author address the question "how do we decide what the law should be?"

Democracy has its flaws, but this is really just laying out a belief system to justify inflicting a right-wing policy set on an increasingly left-leaning populace. They don't like that people seem to have learned that these petty right-wing wannabe emperors really have no clothes.

>> ^gwiz665:
Anyway, democracy is a good idea if people know what they are voting about, other wise it's not. I would favor a sort of technocracy, where people who pass certain "exams" or tests that qualify them for any given position in a state. And where people didn't have a vote per person just because they are a person, but where they have to qualify to be able to vote on something, so their vote is informed, not just gut instinct.


I like this idea, but I'm not sure how you prevent it from devolving into a theocratic ruling elite that only serves its own interests.

That may sound a bit like an overreaction, but as a historical note, even having mere literacy tests as a prerequisite for voting has been ruled unconstitutional here. The finding was that it discriminates against the poor, or immigrants, or really, former slaves who might still want to vote for something like more public school funding, or for civil rights laws.

I don't see what's so terrible about politics; it gets a bad rap in my opinion. A lot of my issue with the way it works now is the inequality in the volume of message, and a short-term shortage of independent watchdogs who try to keep the players honest.

I think it's necessary that we keep a feedback loop between people and policy. Breaking that loop, or deciding that certain people's vote shouldn't count, or shouldn't count as much as others seems like a very dangerously bad idea.

Yeah, Reubens got a bad rap. Pee-Wee was awesome.

I just got back from a long business trip to Incheon Korea plus Shanghai and I've got to tell you those are just typical meal worm looking insects. It probably won't hurt you except for maybe your feelings when you give it to your girlfriend because you can't afford the real thing. China gets a bad rap but truthfully you get what you pay for there, same as everywhere else. The only difference is that you have the alternative to pay less if you want to try your luck.

>> ^Pprt:
Perhaps if the frequently silent and complacent minority (in the Netherlands and elsewhere) would show some backbone and castigate their extremists, Muslims wouldn't get a bad rap. Instead, they're seen as alien, very touchy, violent and immutable in their steadfastness.


The exact same thing can be said about Jews and Christians.

I think the trouble with Islam in the West is that the majority seem to lie low while a minority of backwards Muslims want to emulate a minor bandit and warlord who lived 1,400 years ago. While this would be fine if they do it on their own lands, they keep up this nasty and divisive hobby in now-secular countries.

Perhaps if the frequently silent and complacent minority (in the Netherlands and elsewhere) would show some backbone and castigate their extremists, Muslims wouldn't get a bad rap. Instead, they're seen as alien, very touchy, violent and immutable in their steadfastness.

You know, I've heard the old "It's freedom of religion, not freedom FROM religion," before and it really pisses me off because even if you take the words as give, it's still bullshit.

Muslims are getting a bad rap for their religion. Even some different Christian groups can't stand each other. Hell, everyone takes the piss out of the Scientologists!!! If I go start a new religion based on WeWah, the God of Nourishment, should I really have the right to insist that I'm taken seriously? Ok, maybe that last one goes a bit far but you get the point.

So, please, don't give me the bullshit of you can beleive in whatever religion you want as long as it's not "no religion", because what you really mean is that you want people to believe YOUR religion and if they don't they're gonna burn.

Sure, agnostics and atheists are gonna burn hotter, but still...