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Heller v. D.C. Decided
I hate this shit. I don't give a rats ass if you have guns, just keep them away from me and my family who are committed to a way of life that doesn't have guns in the equation. The majority of Americans don't have guns of any kind. Guns=Unecessary for us.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 9:32 AM on June 26, 2008
If folk dancing is outlawed only criminals will be folk dancing. What's up with all the gun violence in Estonia? And they don't even have second amendment rights in Estonia.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 10:15 AM on June 26, 2008
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Modern rationalization
Weighing in here late as I find this whole thing disturbing. It seems like just living is a crime sometimes. I remember a case in Minneapolis a few years where a guy was masturbating on his bed with the curtains open. Two teenage girls who were in a third story apartment looked out their window and looked down one story and saw him. He saw them and went right on. The cops were called and arrested him in his own dwelling for indecent behavior. I don't recall what happened in court but from my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 3:50 PM on June 12, 2008
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Objection!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 9:18 AM on June 8, 2008
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He meant "Character Assassination"
Just another artist from Boston pissing off the police.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 12:07 PM on June 4, 2008
Why can't I say that someone should hurry up and assassinate George Bush? Because it's illegal to say that in the US even on MetaFilter. But, it's not illegal to walk around the streets of Manhattan with a 10 foot long, black plastic cock. Go figure.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 2:12 PM on June 4, 2008
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Remembering Ricky
I picked up a hitchhiker on Maui recently, a beautiful 18 year old kid, into anime and peace in general. He told me that he wouldn't be surprised if he winds up in the service because it's the way out of rural America and into the future.
To kids like him, the army isn't about killing or dying, it's about opportunity. Like the kid in the Harpers article quoted above, there comes a time when most volunteers would like to "take it all back" but by then it's too... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 3:54 AM on May 25, 2008
Bush's Memorial Day radio message for 2008.
He hasn't been to a single Iraq casualty funeral, not even Ricky's.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 6:00 AM on May 25, 2008
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The best movies of all time?
What kind of list is this that even get the year of the movie right? LA Confidential 1997 not 77 or was that a different movie that was made before the book was even written?
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 6:06 AM on May 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Lost City in the Woods
Waterfont: A Walk around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate has a chapter on North Brother Island. Based on the book I've been wanting to kayak there for awhile. I always try to check it out when I'm fling into LaGuardia.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 2:24 PM on April 25, 2008
MeFi post:
The Pie is Flat
For me it's what happened after the pie hits that's important. Did poor wittle Tommy get his feelings hurt by the bad protestors?
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 4:33 PM on April 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Beautiful Strangers
In John Burdett's Bangkok books, the main character, Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, has a partner who is a katoey. Interesting read about the culture.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 11:05 AM on April 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Free Range Kids
One more story from an earlier era....
Growing up in the 50's in in Minneapolis I had a father who was a train buff and an eccentric. At the time there were several trains that went between the Minneapolis and St.Paul train stations. Not subways but trains, for which you needed a ticket. At the age of eight, my father bought a round trip ticket for me to take the train by myself to St. Paul, in the evening, to see the model train exhibit there and return back to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 4:53 AM on April 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Mmmmm. Maple Syrup in Pancakes.
Any recommendations for brands? I like Coombs Family Farms.
Try these people, They are local and mostly organic. They might even have some Grade B syrup.
Also, this year has been a record breaking year for maple syrup, at least in Vermont. Most sugarers have been sugaring for over a month without disruptions. Many have had to stop sugaring because they have run out of seasoned wood to burn to boil the sap. Look for a gut of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 6:48 PM on April 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Where's my parachute?
Why did Cheny go off to the middle east in the middle of all this. Apparently he's not too worried or is he?
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 1:39 AM on March 17, 2008
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Is alcohol worse than ecstasy?
John Maher, founder of theDelancy Street rehab program, and former alcohol and heroin addict, used to get in trouble for publically saying the same thing (though he died of a drug overdose).
Not according to this.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 12:05 PM on February 6, 2008
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"You will explode after two minutes".
What I don't get is, where were the boxes? All the news stories yesterday said the motorboats were dropping boxed in front of the ships. I didn't see that on the video nor did I hear anyone talking about it.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 3:51 AM on January 9, 2008
MeFi post:
The Decline in African-American Land Ownership
In a recent NYT opinion piece, Henry Louis Gates wrote on the link between long term property ownership and wealth/poverty in African-Americans. Don't quite know how it relates to this FPP. But, it is interesting to look at the implications of both sets of facts.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 7:29 AM on December 16, 2007
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It's making me blush
Our four year old dog, Callie, died unexpectedly two months ago. We still haven't gotten over it. I watched this expecting some emotional catharsis, but there was none. The clip did make me grateful, however, that my 13 year old daughter didn't push me to the ground when she found out.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 12:33 PM on December 9, 2007
MeFi post:
The Urge
Let's not forget that They'll do it Everytime was really the creation of Jimmy Hatlo. Hatlo was also the creator of Little Iodine.
I really liked Hatlo's hell sequences in the strip entitled "Hatlo's Inferno".
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 6:09 AM on December 9, 2007
MeFi post:
Hustlers Fade
The piece from the NYT is weird because the author has just written a book on Kid Delicious "The Last American Pool Hustler". WTF happened to him. Is he chopped liver?
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 5:02 PM on November 24, 2007
MeFi post:
I Am Crack
Crackhead sex on Bagley Avenue, Detroit
Though I started it, I don't think this thread has been MetaFilters finest hour.
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 11:07 AM on November 14, 2007
MeFi post:
Lost Places in Japan
I, too loved the translations in the slaughter field.
"A sharp fangs are slow radiates."
"These sight to see people and the different lives of victims alive me and thought-provoking."
"So do not want to imagine not know how to use tools."
"Mr. pigs, cows thank you will always appreciate.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Xurando
at 8:13 AM on November 12, 2007
