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• Pro-Hockey Players Team Up to Fight ‘Casual Homophobia’ & Defend Gay Rights in Sports

  March 5, 2012 at 3:05pm

  In reply to wingnut1955.

  @ TMARENDS

  Interesting comment. So this April of 2007 by the Mayo Clinic A Profile of Pedophilia: Definition, Characteristics of Offenders, Recidivism, Treatment Outcomes, and Forensic Issues written by Ryan C. W. Hall, MD and Richard C. W. Hall, MD, PA, is full of bunk?
  Some excerpts:
  The percentage of homosexual pedophiles ranges from 9% to 40%, which is approximately 4 to 20 times higher than the rate of adult men attracted to other adult men (using a prevalence rate of adult homosexuality of 2%-4%)….
  A study by Abel et al of 377 nonincarcerated, non-incest-related pedophiles, whose legal situations had been resolved and who were surveyed using an anonymous self-report questionnaire, found that heterosexual pedophiles on average reported abusing 19.8 children and committing 23.2 acts, whereas homosexual pedophiles had abused 150.2 children and committed 281.7 acts.

  Mayo studies don’t have an axe to grind. What was your source? Perhaps they do.

• MLB Bans Gun From Appearing on Commemorative Houston Astros Uniform

  February 29, 2012 at 2:45pm

  Not only did the new owner Crane have to bend over and move the team to the AL at the insistence of Brewer toadie and current MLB Commish Selig. Let’s just throw the establishment history of the team out in the name of politically correctness gone awry. Like the Colt .45 uniforms as I’m sure many a current Astros fan did.
  Ridiculous BS. Rinse..lather…repeat.

• Minn. City Councilman Defends Confederate Flag Outside His Home: ‘My Free Speech’

  February 13, 2012 at 11:39am

  In reply to bigben549.

  Somehow I don’t think the souls of the 1st Minn. Reg. Vol. Inft. killed at Gettysburg or the 2nd Minn. Reg. Vol.Inft. killed at Chickamauga and Mission Ridge would be proud of that flag being used as a stooge for a representative of the state in any form.

  That said. They would of course defend the persons right to express themselves with the ignorance of their choosing.

• Are Pet Pythons Destroying the Florida Everglades Ecosystem?

  January 31, 2012 at 3:42pm

  Are Pet Pythons Destroying the Florida Everglades Ecosystem?
  Yes, just the data presented here in concert with the study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published Monday is certainly enough to convince even the most skeptical.

  Good Article Liz.

• Here Are 25 Of The Most Amazing U.S. Military Photos From The Past Year

  January 6, 2012 at 5:38pm

  In reply to Darlie.

  @Ghost.

  I didn’t question your understanding. Only your motive.
  And if you read closely I did address your platitudes.

  Obviously you have no factual basis to determine that the poster was manipulated. So again. What was the motive in your reply to the poster?

• Here Are 25 Of The Most Amazing U.S. Military Photos From The Past Year

  January 6, 2012 at 4:20pm

  In reply to Darlie.

  @GhostofJefferson,

  What a contemptuous reply to a woman who’s son has volunteered to serve. Is your life so bereft of fullfillment that you have the arrogance to consider her post as jingoistic pap? What possible motive would you have to reply in such a fashion? Perhaps to salve your own personal frustrations with denegrading another person’s beliefs for her son seems the only reason I can think off? So spare the platitudes in the last paragraph there chief. Rings real thin.

• Update: Texas 8th Grader Shot and Killed by Police was Carrying a Pellet Gun

  January 5, 2012 at 2:52pm

  Suicide. Plain and simple.

  Nevermind the emotional wasteland this troubled young man leaves everybody involved to sort out.

• Report: ‘Occupiers’ Blocked Ambulance Trying To Transport Stabbed Police Officer

  January 2, 2012 at 9:59am

  In reply to Stu D. Baker-Hawk.

  Stoic one

  Give them a pass? Hardly. Zucotti Park has always been “private” property. Additionally, setting up tents and squatting on public property in most communities has always been against the law. Unless the homeless and bums in your town have always had the right to set up a tent city in front of city hall without permit. Protesting requires permits. OWS protesters across the country never have applied for such nor respected the rule of law from the get go.

  Trying to equate the two for political benefit Rep. Paul shows naivety and disregard for Cities, States and Counties rule of law across the US. So what exactly is Rep. Paul in this? Staunch upholder for the Constitution and Rule of Law or just another politician trying to play both sides of the field when convenient? Very inconsistent.

• European Central Bank Lends Record $639 Billion to Banks

  December 21, 2011 at 3:22pm

  Looks like Draghi wanted a Merry Christmas after all.
  Obviously not enough, but that’ll work for a start, With the ESFS, ESF and an IMF contribution (that would be a 18.3% US btw) supposedly being implemented next year. That’s a lotta pizza dough.

  Now that loan I gave RBS in bonds @ 85.65 w/ 8.15%YTM is easily covered.
  Always opportunity out there.
  Thanks Euro_Santa.

• ‘You Know Something? You’re a F–king A–hole’: Iowa Man Confronts Gingrich

  December 21, 2011 at 8:50am

  Brilliant discourse and pertinent question. Now he can go tell everyone how he bested that Gingrich fella down at the local AmVets.