TheAnvil

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Still running from your own words I see. Assert that racial discrimination really isn't racial discrimination or that racism really isn't racism all you like - it's you running from facts. Run and hide all you like. Facts are the most stubborn of things - try as you might to ignore them, the don't go away. Fact it remains - race-based affirmative action is racial discriminatory in nature and therefore, by the very definition of racism as quoted by yourself, racist in nature. Deal with it however you like. There is no error in my logic for racially profiling at airports. You've offered no salient or believable counterpoint. Believe what you want - you'll still be incorrect and not facing facts. I can type or state that FOX is the most unbiased source of news out there with a straight face quite easily. Having dealt with the blatantly obvious left leaning bias of the networks and CNN for years, it's so refreshing to watch FOX.

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REVERSE racism eh? BZZZZZZZZT! Wrong. You really should read what you post here. As I've quoted YOU quite often before: Hard to run from your own words when they're posted for all to see. YOU choose to strictly define as racist anything that discriminates based upon race - including competent police work such as racial profiling. Therefore, when YOU choose to ignore the FACT that racial discrimination is an inseparable part of race-based Affirmative Action, you're merely proving that you have issues with facing FACTS. Your problem - deal with it however you like. It should be no great shocker that, quoting myself again, when middle eastern terrorist groups known to employ middle eastern men to carry out terrorist attacks against Western targets, it's COMPETENT POLICE WORK to profile potential terrorists in and around such targets. Airliners having been a traditional target, it's COMPETENT POLICE WORK to racially profile in security screening there. Most of us who are familiar with the news consider it res ipsa loquitor that the majority of terrorists attacking U.S. citizens, property, and allies are Middle Eastern fellows these days. Khobar Towers, USS COLE, IED's all over Iraq, Trade Center murders, homicide bombers in Israel, PAN AM bombing over Lockerbie, etc. Since several Islamic clerics/mullahs have said it's OK to do so, most of us expect these shitheads to try again. And here you are, crying racism about profiling gents who fit the description of these shitheads going onto planes - planes, by the way, have been targets of choice for these shitheads on several occasions; take a trip to NYC and see the results of one of them if you need further convincing. Attack FOX all you like by any means you desire - won't change the FACT that it's by far and away the mose fair and balanced news source on TV today. But, then again, you choose not to face facts that don't seem to agree with whatever you're thinking from what we've seen of you posting in this thread, so you probably won't face that one either. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

You just did: Another quote from you: To quote you again, so sorry if you do not like the word, but it applies to race-based affirmative action just as much as it does racial profiling just as much as it would any police officer who uses race as a discriminating factor when deciding whom to pull over. Face that fact whenever you like, but fact it remains. Again, if you can't see the difference between a brief inconvenience at the airport and not getting into a school, getting a job, getting a promotion, or something of that nature, then that's your problem. You again fail to offer counterpoint to my police work statement, so I'll quote myself again - when middle eastern terrorist groups known to employ middle eastern men to carry out terrorist attacks against Western targets, it's COMPETENT POLICE WORK to profile potential terrorists in and around such targets. Airliners having been a traditional target, it's COMPETENT POLICE WORK to racially profile in security screening there. Reading the files one posts is always helpful, especially when referencing them. The material contained in the file you posted does not say anything about the FOX subsidiary firing any award winning journalist at all. It's a written opinion on an appellee's motions. None of what you posted is discussed therein. No water. Nada. Zilch-o. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I too, was drinking tequila last night. Why the light beer?

Reading what you wrote isn't one of your strong points, is it? You're must be right. Not being allowed to discriminate against minorities because of their race is rascist. Now granted, your grammatical and spelling errors make it a bit clumsy to read at first, but your above response is clearly sarcasm on your part employed to convey to the reader your opinion that not having race-based affirmative action is discrimination against minorities. Anyone making any such assertion obviously believes minorities incapable of competing sans benefit of AA, and therefore believes minorities inferior. Conclude whatever you desire about my reading comprehension skills - it matters not to me. Perhaps your grammatical and spelling errors somehow masked the true intent of your message. You quote me with regards to police work, offer no counterpoint to the contrary of what I've stated, then ask for evidence that Middle Eastern men are more likely to pose a danger to citizens than any other group - something I've never stated anywhere. You were speaking of placing words in the mouths of others earlier, were you not? Your argument holds no water. None. Zero. Nada. Your attachment shows pretty much nothing about FOX news, though it does seem to indicate that the lady who sued one of its subsidiaries will be having to pay some attorney's fees. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Ahhhh...you all but state openly that without race-based affirmative action that minorities are at a disadvantage. May we infer that you believe in that minorities are inferior because of their race? I don't think that to be true, but if you do, that's your own choice. I'd like to work at FOX - fair and balanced, unlike CNN, CBS, ABC, & CBS. I take it you don't want to face the fact that race-based affirmative action is racial discriminatory in nature, and therefore racist by the very definition you quoted. ROFLMFAO!!!!! Nice to hear you appreciate competent police work. I maintain that when middle eastern terrorist groups known to employ middle eastern men to carry out terrorist attacks against Western targets, it's COMPETENT POLICE WORK to profile potential terrorists in and around such targets. Airliners having been a traditional target, it's COMPETENT POLICE WORK to racially profile in security screening there. Pretty much a no brainer. Keep trying if you like. Your argument still holds no water. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Read your posts yourself - quite helpful to read what one writes. My Nova example is correct. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but that would be your problem. Deal with it. Let's look at your assertion that affirmative action is not racist by the definition quoted above. If race based affirmative action is not racist, then you could give us an example of a race-based affirmative action program that does not discriminate based on race. I'll quote you again so you don't forget: If you choose to call racial profiling racist by that definition, then you have no choice but to call race-based affirmative action racist as well. Again - so very sorry if you don't like your definition. I prefer Merriam Webster's primary definition as the one you use is one that has evolved over the past few years. To each his own I suppose. I myself choose not to ignore facts, but do so if you like. Fact it remains, race based affirmative action is, by your own definition, racist. If you can't see the difference between a brief inconvenience at the airport and not getting into a school, getting a job, getting a promotion, or something of that nature, then that's your problem. I have contacted my legislators, FYI. Amazing how democrats tend to flee when asked to defend their support of racial discrimination. Guess they don't like to admit what they support. You again seek to equate the Islamic terrorists with McVeigh et al, which is absolutely ludicrous. Perhaps your not watching the news, but all of the homicide bombers in Israel, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, the 9/11 hijackers, the Lakawanna terror cell in NY, and the suspected terror cell in Lodi were all of middle eastern descent. If that fact is lost on you, then so be it. Nobody is saying all Middle Easterners are terrorists at all. If a short blond man driving a red cavalier has kidnapped a child and I'm pulled over driving my red cavalier, I don't think I'd be screaming 'short discrimination' about the police. I'd be happy they were doing their job. Hmmmm....Islamic terror groups are waging jihad against the west. The majority of the asswipes that carry out this jihad are Middle Eastern men. These men have used hijacking airliners with some frequency in the past. And here you are, stating that racially profiling passengers for extra scrutiny is unnecessary, calling it racist, while stating that racial discrimination for purposes of race-based affirmative action is not racist. Give it up. Your argument holds no water. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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By your strict definition the policeman searching for a white kidnapping suspect driving a Chevy Nova who pulls over a white fellow driving such a Nova in lieu of a Hispanic gent driving an identical Nova is racist. Ludicrous by any means. Merriam-Webster's primary definition of racism - a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race, is the far better definition. Believe whatever you like. You are correct - racial profiling would have caught none of the bombers you mentioned. Because they have no common ethnicity, religion, modus operandus, cause, or even venue. Unlike Islamic terrorists. Your attempt to equate/compare the people from your list of miscreants to the Islamic terrorists is quite humorous. So you would not search the 21 y/o Syrian more thoroughly than the grandma in the example I presented, eh? Thank God you're not in charge of TSA. In a situation when Islamic terrorists HAVE threatened to attack the United States, NOT paying more attention to those who fit the profile of such terrorists is simply inane. Those decrying doing so because it's 'racial profiling' really need to get a clue. The fact that some of those same people support racial discrimination for things that are far more important in life than a five minute inconvenience at the airport, such as getting into a school, getting a job, getting a promotion, getting a scholarship - minor [sic] things like that, is disgusting. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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I've never implied the superiority of any race over another - I leave such to supporters of race-based affirmative action and their ilk- and consider any such implication or outright statement of such to be morally disgusting. One wonders how you could consider anything I've written anywhere to be racist in nature. What a nice list of losers you've compiled. Now after compiling them, how about telling us what they've got in common. Age? Nope. Ethnicity? Nope. Cause? Nope - not even similar in some cases. Successful bombing under their belts? Nope. Since nobody else has answered, perhaps you will. Were you in charge of TSA screeners with intel in hand that a hijacking was being planned that day, would you search the 86 year old redneck grandmother Texan more thoroughly than a 21 y/o Syrian male of Arabic descent?

Oh no...El Al does check everyone thoroughly...if you'd read a bit about their opinions on US Airline security, you'd realize that they think our efforts are rather impotent because US security it aimed at finding bombs and not the terrorist himself/herself. Now - would you REALLY check the 86 year old Texas grandmother more thoroughly than a 21 y/o Syrian male going through your security checkpoint were you a TSA screener with intel that a hijacking was planned? You wouldn't want to offend the Syrian by targeting him in a non-random manner, now, would you? Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Call it what you like, it works. This might fit your definition - something the Memphis police department's south precinct has done for years. If you're white in their precinct at night, you're more than likely going to get pulled over. They have an extraordinarily high rate of finding drugs or getting the moron to admit to coming into the neighborhood to buy drugs (no shit), simply by racial profiling. And which airling hijackers and homicide bombers, exactly, have NOT been males of middle eastern descent, ages 15-60, out of utter curiosity? Not many I assure you, by either raw # or percentage. If you were director of an airport's TSA security and had intel that a hijacking was coming, would you REALLY have your screeners searching WWII CMOH winners more thoroughly than a 21 year old fellow from Syria? Puuuuhleeeeze. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

The security experts from El Al airlines disagree with you. What a lousy record they have. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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Yes, I'd be inclined to agree. Now, here is the difference. There are no legal gun owners, to my knowledge, who have banded together in clandestinely funded groups and declared a holy war against the United States. There ARE, in contrast, many folks of Arab descent who have openly stated their desire to cause harm to the US and its citizenry. Hmmmm... Racial profiling is an extremely useful law enforcement technique. For example, if your child were kidnapped by a bunch of white guys driving a Chevy Nova, would you want the police to pull over a Nova full of Hispanic looking folks? How about a Nova full of white rednecks chewing tobacco? I, personally, WANT the cops to discriminate based on race in such instances. One of very, very few cases in which I consider racial discrimination to be appropriate. Now compare the racial discrimination I describe above to that touted by racially prejudiced bigots such as Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Kweise Mfune, et al and I think the difference to be obvious. In many cases, the same people touting discrimination as the definite way to go with regards to college admissions, awarding of scholarships, hiring, promoting employees, etc. are the very ones who scream loudly that racial profiling is wrong for law enforcement purposes. I think their hypocrisy both self-evident and disgusting. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Far, far less, actually. What percentage of legal gun owners commit violent crimes?

Profiling gun owners would bring about a drop in crime? You haven't really done your research on gun lovers. If you had, you would realize that folks who obtain guns legally - especially those of us that are licensed to carry concealed weapons - don't really commit crimes very often. Extremely rarely in fact. 'tis the guns that are obtained ILLEGALLY that are used to commit crimes, which is why gun control laws simply do not work when it comes to reducing crime levels.

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It's been stated repeatedly. I believe it's between $250K and $500K per family, with the amount dependent upon how long they lived in the settlement, how large their home was, and a couple of other variables. Lot's o' cash, but I don't think I'd be happy with that were I evicted from my home of 10 + years. Not sure about this whole eviction thing. I do not thing it will bring about peace. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Just shot off a letter to the folks representing me, stating how strongly I oppose the recent SCOTUS ruling on Kelo and would like for them to take steps at the state and local level to strengthen the personal property rights of Jax Beach residents. I was wondering if anybody here had already written their elected officials or were inclined to do so. I really think Kelo is one of the worst decisions handed down since Dredd Scott. Probably should have written a while ago, but the synapse just recently fired. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!