Comments on: Keys under the mat

By: ainemoire

ainemoire — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:32:41 +0000

OMG this is the first time I’ve ever felt bad for Dubya. He looks genuinely sad in this picture.
The man royally f*cked up our country and our standing in the world, and I wish he had never been in office… but I never like to see anyone be genuinely sad.

By: stripes or spots

stripes or spots — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:44:03 +0000

I think the point with chemical castration, particularly with paedophiles, is that it is supposed to remove sexual desire. I vaguely recall something in Australia a while ago about some guy actually requesting to undertake chemical castration because he didn’t want to reoffend, but without the castration he most certainly would. And that’s about all I know about that case. I know the civil libertarians in Australia had a field day when they were proposing castration for paedophiles – ignoring any concern for past or future victims.
I believe the major problem with violent sex offenders and paedophiles is that it becomes sociopathic, a compulsion rather than a choice. Something is flicked, and there is no turning back; simply put, some people cannot be rehabilitated. A friend of mine is psychologist dealing with abnormal psychology (like sociopaths and psychopaths), really interesting to listen to her talk about it.
I really hope I haven’t repeated anyones ideas in my rant!

By: eponymous

eponymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:31:44 +0000

glad to help…

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:22:16 +0000

Point proven.

By: fanboys

fanboys — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:23:46 +0000

Get off the internet once in a while and you may actually make real friends someday!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:12:02 +0000

And all your comments are intelligent and well thought out. I’ve never said one word to you and the first time I have I did in a respectful manner asking you to lay off someone because you were being unfair and you react like a child throwing a hissy fit by insulting me too. Why don’t you pull the stick out of your ass.

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:24:01 +0000

One comment =/= the sum total of a person. Please refrain from shooting your mouth off like that.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:57:34 +0000

You’re right about the chemical vs. physical castration, but isn’t there the option to reverse the chemical castration? I want that option removed. Also, castration takes away a lot of the agressive hormones (in younger males) that would cause them to react violently. Also, can you imagine the shame of losing your nuts?
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As far as object rapes go, I’m still for the death penalty in all cases of rape, child or otherwise.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:21:15 +0000

Um, castration is actually rather pointless. Rape isn’t about sex, it is about power. Rape would just become more object based in recurring cases.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:19:31 +0000

Just as soon as you cut on the pointlessly aggressive attacks and try some debating instead. K? k. Glad we could sort that out.

By: Tessie

Tessie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:16:31 +0000

My favorite (if that’s the word I want) headline was shortly after Shrub was appointed by his brother and the supreme court: “Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over”.

Dang, I wish they hadn’t been quite so prescient.

By: Tessie

Tessie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:12:45 +0000

He’s a mean, smirking bully. He was like that as a child (apparently), he was like that as a President, and he’ll be like that if he lives to be 100.

By: jmar

jmar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:33:06 +0000

barely

By: Jocasta

Jocasta — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:20:24 +0000

Seriously.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:30:14 +0000

Uh to the actual castration versus chemical castration…why? Isn’t chemical castration more effective than physical castration? It’s not like it would be a mark of shame, doubtful anyone will see said mutilation, so why bother with the surgical nonsense that will surely be involved if it were mainstream.

By: donkeytalker

donkeytalker — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:13:59 +0000

That… that is… Oh my dear sweet lungs just ended up exiting my nose. Love that one. You just know that’ll be working its way around now!

By: donkeytalker

donkeytalker — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:02:09 +0000

‘Tis one thing I love about this place – FrooFou runs against the majority opinion, her opinions cop a whackin’, but… also has a whole bag of respect and friends happy to step in to help. Love it all. Phaelin, agree. Fanboys, your perspective improves enormously when you extract your head from your arsehole.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:57:36 +0000

“Kill them all and let God sort them out” = “Total Sweetheart”?

you were raised by the Mansons?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:54:40 +0000

Tough. She makes dumb ass comments, I’ll call them. Simply popular doesn’t mean much

and Jane, frankly your opinion is of as much worth as the Murderous Texan, so keep it down to a dull roar, will ya? Huh?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:50:29 +0000

@Froufrou – you’ve still not said how many innocents it’s ‘acceptable’ to execute

And there is no evidence that death is actually a deterrent
to a sociopathic personality, which the comment ‘Kill them all and let God srot them out indicates you are Can you provide evidence there IS a deterrent? Og, and how would you like to tell someone’s mother her boy or girl was excuted wrongly? You seem to get off on the whole Southern Death Cult mentality… does ’sorry’ cut it? Or haven’t you thought that one through?

Fine Christian woman there… Bastard by birth, bastard by nature.

BTW, can you still deliberately mow down punks in a Caddy in Amarill and get just get probation (Brian Deneke)? Texas – Third World Hell for the most part.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:13:05 +0000

As long as it’s actual castration and not chemical castration, bring it on. I’ll support it. And you have to understand, what I said about living in a cliche’ earlier is true. When it comes to violent crime, I tend to subscribe to the ‘kill em all and let God sort em out’ school of thought. It’s not the best one, I know, but it certainly covers the bases of crimminals, and will DEFINITLY work as a deterrant (sp? like I said, my days and nights are screwed up right now and I can’t spell).

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:22:00 +0000

@froofrou: I think PiMan’s castration idea would take care of the rapists. As a Texas taxpayer, I don’t like that it costs us more to sentence someone to die than it does to imprison him/her for life. Moreover, I’m disturbed by the revelations made by the Innocence Project. I’m not prepared to let go of the life/no parole sentence though. Kenneth Allen McDuff should never have been let out, EVER:
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http://www.geocities.com/verbal_plainfield/i-p/mcduff.html

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:57:33 +0000

That’s really all your pitiful excuse of a brain can bother to come up with? Niiice? Seriously, if you cannot be troubled to sit down and think out some kind of response without resorting to be a general dick, then it’s probably for the best that you just quit the internet. Go to 4-chan or failblog, because we won’t put up with your genre of bullshit here.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:54:49 +0000

Obtain friends one day and they may extend you that same courtesy. You’ll just need to work on that glaringly head-up-the-ass demeanor of yours. It certainly isn’t cute.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:49:12 +0000

Murderers and rapists have a high recidivism rate. How do you propose to deal with that? (honest question)

By: PiMan

PiMan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:46:55 +0000

I am completely against all forms of death penalty, and I’d prefer if there were no life sentence either (life with chance of parole I’m fine
with), because a life in prison is no life at all.
For murderers, I recommend life with chance of parole, and pyschological counselling for life.
For rapists, I recommend life with chance of parole, counselling for life, and castration as a parole condition.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:28:39 +0000

@ Uncle Fester You’re officially de-un-welcomed to Texas.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:26:38 +0000

Like FrooFrou, I’m a Texan, but unlike her, I hold a completely different opinion about the death penalty. Have all of you clicked on the link in pdq’s comment below this thread? Don’t let the “National Review” fool you: It’s about Tucker Carlson’s interview with GWB.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:03:02 +0000

Hey, he’s the Messiah, of *course* he’ll be ruling. Geez, ema, keep up!

By: ema

ema — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:59:51 +0000

Did no one hear this one? “Ready to *rule*”? RULE???

By: fanboys

fanboys — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:11:22 +0000

Ah, the kneejerk froofrou defenders. So predictable.

By: Kuromisa

Kuromisa — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:38:18 +0000

Hey. Frou’s one of my favorite people on here and a total sweetheart; get off her back.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:20:32 +0000

Now that I can get behind, hehe. DOWN WITH SPEIDI!

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:18:29 +0000

I’ll admit to trolling here and there, but I usualy mark it clearly with a ‘/trolling’ at the end. AND the only reason I do it is because at work I only have the time to jump on with a quick statement and then jump off. My more clearly defined arguments come after I get home and have the time to cite research I tend to be of the ‘the-industrial-revolution-was-neither-industrial-nor-a-revolution. Discuss’ type of troll
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Jane, Minerva, DWN, thank you. *hugs*

By: slanagat

slanagat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:14:53 +0000

My seminal Onion moment was Outrage Fatigue (click my name). Outrage fatigue is real, and it’s good to see the country finally shaking it off.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:00:55 +0000

I would be more comfortable with the death penalty if the various states in this country did a better job of providing adequate legal representation for those defendants who can’t afford a lawyer. Click my name for a recent article about Florida public defenders, who object to defending more than 2 cases per day!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:33:00 +0000

I was a senior in college. Ouch I feel old now…

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:31:32 +0000

Didn’t you mother ever tell you two wrongs don’t make a right? Or how about if your friends jump off a bridge would you? Froofrou also isn’t focusing on a single person and insulting them everytime they make an argument.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:12:37 +0000

Google “the onion archives.”

By: New Kid

New Kid — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:05:43 +0000

I feel kind of bad for the guy, he looks honestly dejected. I mean, he was ridiculous, but he is still a person.

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:05:03 +0000

She does some, but then we call her on it and she usually makes an argument. She does usually try to have reasonable discussions.

By: Peanut

Peanut — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:39:15 +0000

Please, froofrou trolls too.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:30:47 +0000

It is getting rather taxing…

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:28:46 +0000

Srsly, get off froofrou’s case. You can disagree with her without being insulting. When you do that you lose all credibility and move into the troll category. All she’s doing is stating her opinion, she’s not insulting YOU so if you can’t argue with her without making personal attacks then just shut up already.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:28:19 +0000

I say only kill them if you actually got them with completely damning evidence. If it is iffy, then no. You can be damn sure that somebody did something.

By: stripes or spots

stripes or spots — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:35 +0000

Let’s hold out that they can be trialed for your death in Texas

By: stripes or spots

stripes or spots — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:23:17 +0000

Hung by their toes? Oh, that’s way too nice. I vote testicles. Especially for child molesters.

By: pittypat

pittypat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:21:59 +0000

And just how insane or mentally retarded
must you be to be spared? Oh right, any
degree of either means you should be killed,
because you were “sane enough to kill” in
the first place.

GWB should be first on the list then.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:16:30 +0000

@Deathwrym

Some of us are old enough to remember Timothy Evans.

I ask you too, what is acceptable loss of innocents?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:14:28 +0000

He’s a politician… if he’d not wound up there, he’d probably be some other type of sociopath.