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Acid spraying clowns/criminals.
Not so funny.
Agreed.
Seen it a lot lately.
Still makes me chuckle every now and then.
Not very approprate either since some madman reportedly in Joker make-up just slaughtered two small children and a woman in a daycare in Belgium.
Timing fail.
Father’s-For-Justice Paramilitary Division?
Which joker and had he carved his face?
Not according to the papers… but for someone who merrily went away on his bike after the ‘deed’, with more addresses of daycares, an axe, a knife and a fake gun in his pack while wearing a bullet-proof vest and that sort of make up… God knows what he’d planned to do later had he not been apprehended.
And bad crap happens to good poeple all the time…
BTW, based on the name, and the fact that Dendermonde is Vlaams speaking, I think Slashydutchie,especially as a name for someone whining ‘Oh, the humanity’, is on dangerous ground…
Yeah, because I haven’t used this name for ages… *eyeroll*
Serendipitous humour… shame you can’t see it…
One more reason to have the death penalty.
Nothing like a breath of social reform to add colour to the proceedings…
After all, they NEVER execute the wrong guy in the US, no siree Bob, if they’re found guilty (and no-one innocent is ever wrongly convicted, no, they ain’t) then let em fry or swing or give em the needle…
oh… let’s talk about OJ… while we’re at it.
There was enough reasonable doubt in that case that he got off. Or, Cochrane knew who to bribe.
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I think if we catch them in the act, that way there’s no doubt and no question. Especially in the case of catching a child molester or rapist.
That’s a good way to add to the pile of bodies: Kill the
victim, and any witnesses, too, then.
*uses pitchfork to toss strawman into pile with other hay for the horses*
I wish you would learn to use that term…
…correctly, that is.
No… Froofrou used it correctly since you are stating that more child molesters would just kill their victims thus adding an element to attack that she didn’t present in the first place. Smells of straw to me.
Realistically, threat of punishment doesn’t stop a criminal. It is the punishment itself that stops it from happening again, if only for a short period of time. So if the child molester was going to kill his or her victims, they were going to do it anyway.
The matter is resolved below, but my
counterpoint matches her point, and the
point you’re bringing up is a valid counter
to mine. No straw involved.
I do love a happy ending. Have a cookie. *gives a cookie and noms one*
Froo, I don’t disagree with you at all about what to do with predators we catch in the act. I just can’t think of any instances where that has occured. Plus, if these predators know what will happen to them when they get caught, they’re more likely to try to kill others instead of giving up, which I don’t think anybody wants.
I’m not against the death penalty, per se. I just believe that even one wrongly executed person is too many. Right now, capital punishment is actually more expensive than life imprisonment, and we *still* have wrongful executions. Relaxing the legal requirements, in order to cut the costs of execution, would just make the problems worse.
I’m forced to conclude that, barring any instances of absolute certainty regarding the guilt or innocence of a given criminal, the costs of execution are too high. We’re better off locking these SOBs up and throwing away the key.
$.02
I made a similar point above, and she called it a straw
man fallacy. Good luck to you.
The random serial sexual attacker will often kill simply to protect their identity, unlike the selective, who believes they are forging some form of relationship, or they simply don’t see the attack as an ‘attack’.
As a personal opinion, there is little room for ‘anger’ in the law. Compassion is a pre-requisite, since, in many respects, the legal system around sexual attacks and more general murders were enacted to be ‘better’ than a mob… if one is going to simply legislate to pander to the mob, then one may as well just have the mob and cut out the middle man…
Usually in these conversations someone comes out with the old straw man what if it were your wife/daughter/mother… the obvious answer is something muscular and bellicose to prove one has the balls. The converse question is not asked: What if it were your father/brother/son on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, but the court found him guilty for what ever reason? What then?
Well now see, he got his point across a little clearer to me. My ’strawman’ accusation of you was coming from having just read a post saying we needed to kill the judge, jury, and prosecuting attorney, and I (wrongly) assumed that you were saying the same thing. I see what you were saying now, and I agree with you.
So, no cat fight? I has a sad… *sniff*
So has we…and the Pay Per View people are pissed.
“After all, they NEVER execute the wrong guy in the US,”
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So, what would be your take on it if they had some kind of infallible evidence — eyewitnesses and/or security cameras and/or DNA evidence?
Please explain how that is a reason?
Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union explicitly forbids the death penalty. So if you want to have a death penalty, you will have to do some work in the European Parliament. If you’re from some backwards third world country that still executes the death penalty, like China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,… then please bugger off. Thank you.
Anyway, bad timing indeed. The Mrs & myself always watch ICHC & related sites before we go to bed, to close the day with a smile. I think we’ll skip PK this time. The thought that this was one of her former students is a bit… disturbing to say the least. I can imagine that the press mosquitos will be buzzing around her school on monday, trying to blame his education. Bleh. It’s always the same.
You missed the US in the ‘Third World Hell’ list…
Not all states in the union perform the death penalty, so it’s
possible that IHYC lives in a non-capital-punishment state, and
doesn’t take a newspaper or watch secular television…
IHYC lives in Belgium, so I’d say it was a pretty good guess that he doesn’t live in a death penalty ’state’
OIC. Then it’s *really* bad that the U.S. was left off the
third-world killer list…
It was probably a nod in the direction of sparing the feelings of the bulk of posters here. As you can tell, I don’t have that short coming… You get the state to execute people when there is still a high rate of wrong conviction, then welcome to being no better than any other third world hell…
True that, especially in Texas and Florida, where
revenge killing is a proud tradition…
Nothing like pandering to the rabble, is there? What did Ghandi say about the ‘eye for an eye’ mentality?
That it puts optometrists out of business?
They can always moonlight making canes and
converting text to Braille…
I always figured that if a country feels that it *must* have the death penalty, it would be a good idea to execute judge, jury and prosecuting attorney in cases where people have found to be wrongly convicted to the death penalty. I guess that would help tempering the zeal of some fierce advocates of the death penalty. Also, it just is not fair to have people decide about life and death of a human who have not stake in the whole business.
Now, that’s an idea I like…
Ooh, I like that. You have a twisty mind.
Actually, I think just executing the prosecuting attorney would be sufficient, since, ideally, the others are just doing the job set in front of them. The prosecuting attorney is the one who gets to request the death penalty over life in prison, at least in the US.
I agree. It’s hard enough to get jurors in the
first place…
Back to that sterling example of the Jurors being pricks – Brian Deneke.
They admitted if it had been the other guy dead in a parking lot and Deneke driving away, then they’d have gone Murder 1 with Death penalty advised.
Juries don’t have a hard job when they get to walk away proudly proclaiming their manifest prejudice.
It looks like it was intentional, by associating the US with the listed countries implicitly rather than explicitly.
I didn’t see it then, and don’t see it now, but no
matter. IHYC needed to take a break on this one,
and it appears he did.
That is how I read it as well.
The US of A were intentionally left off the list.
Including them in the list would be a bit too obvious.
My usage of plural is also intentional.
The target audience need it spelling out. Why do you think talk radio is popular… they don’t get distracted by pictures that way…
and I hope Mrs IHYC days at school are, at least, liveable.
I won’t say ‘good’ since there’s no way on earth she’ll be having a ‘good’ day…
Unfortunately, no. One of her students will probably die today or tomorrow, because of a brain tumor.
Unlike lightning, bad luck often strikes more than once in the same place.
My sympathies… a ‘death in family’ can
cause ripples for months.
As a somewhat hollow gesture, a mad
Englishman will have her in his thoughts.
Can I ask.. Are we supposed to be aware of every single news item across the world before we make a LOL? Seems to be a pretty arduous task to ask of someone. Maybe they missed the news that day.
I’m not saying it’s not tragic, but seriously. I didn’t know about the “Joker killing” in Belgium.
Yes, yes you are. You should be aware of everything that is happening so that you don’t offend anyone’s sensibilities. The Putin LOL offends me, because my brother was sucked into the Matrix by a weird assassin machine, so I’m offended!!! blargh!
With a massive bisexual bosom, while welding, writing the next major operating system increment, resolving world hunger, raising a kid, bringing peace to the Middle East and solving the conundrum of the Unified Field
And if you don’t believe me, you can check out my Myspace. Thanks for being mature. {link}
I love you, froo.
…almost as much as I love me-me-me!
But you won Miss Congeniality, resolved the issue of Dark Matter, wrote a book, solved Fermat’s Last Theorem with only 17th Century mathematical tools, and are more beloved than Mother Theresa by your underlings…
And I have a cold fusion reactor that powers my house.
I was looking for that… Give it back, thief!
Oh noes!!
I’d refer you to Stan Freberg’s classic ‘Elderly Man River’…
In other words you can’t please all of the people all of the time.
You can’t please anyone… and remember the tiny tots….
Hey! I’ve pleased my fair share of men and women in my life. But none of them were tiny tots. Or tater tots for that matter.
You need to know the sketch… I’m certain it’s on Dr Tesla’s intertelegraph.
Thanks Unc.
I stand by my tater tots remark.
If it doesn’t do it for you, it doesn’t…
People are just too damned sensitive most of the time. I refer myself to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover where she consistently reminds us “The world will go as it will, not the way you or I would have it”.
Any gardener could tell you that…
I don’t know any gardeners. How dare you assume I do! That is COMPLETELY inappropriate given that global warming (or climate change, whatever) is destroying people’s gardens all over the world!! Except mine of course. DOn’t forget to check my myspace so you can see what a great gardener I am.
You are right, of course. I am humbled by the
lack of Bermudagrass and Dandelions in your
flower beds.
BTW, just curious: Do those live statues go on
shifts? What if they have a call, or need to pee?
When they have to pee, I call them “water fountains”. I invented that term you know.
You don’t have it listed on your MySpace
page, so how would I know?
Uh.. I er, um. I.. Look!! *points behind her* A troll!!!!
*scampers away looking over her shoulder*
FIRST
Goddamn ninjas
I’m charro and I don’t approve this message at all.
I’m Rando and I approve charro’s disapproval.
And Article 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits men from having balls, so what?
Fkkk what Europe does or does not do. That’s why the New World is here, because the Old World was such a fkkd up dungpile. Next big war, Europe can handle on its own, and not drag in the US, killing our soldiers to prop up inbred monarchs and Marxist prime ministers. Kill yourselves off right, and let the Turks and Somalians take over, go right ahead.
Eponyronic…
Love that word! Do you have a fan club?
Ah, ‘fraid not, unless you count the cult following of girl teenagers who think I hold the keys to the gates of the underworld.
Can I have those back, please?
NO! Bwahaha!
…Actually, you can, they’re all whiny STD-ridden brats who popped out of the wombs of upper-class trophy wives about 15 years past. I really don’t want them. They’re disgusting. I wouldn’t even eat them if they were thoroughly cooked.
Oh, you’re that Aedriel…!
I’m Sue-zii DeLord, Historian, Orange County, TX chapter!
I’m whaaa?
Eccentric and cynical University student, Nowhere County, GA…
*puzzled and lost*
Now you’re just being humble–gotcha!
(Your secret is safe with me, oh most glorious
holder of the keys to the gates of the underworld.)
I really ought to give them back to Fester, considering the… festering company they came with. Blech.
*continues ruse*
Well, that’s a down-side, but think of the
POWAH!!
I just want to get to my own bed…
Ah, but of course. I hope you don’t mind if I lock the followers in with you. I’m sure you can find some kind of use for them.
Kindling…
That must mean it’s too late to register for
this semester’s minion training…
Kindling indeed… or, we could grab rho and lock them out… *ponders possible implications*
Yes, kindling. Could always stand to be a little warmer in there, eh?
Wow sounds like a couple people need to step back and pull the board out of their asses… then take a chill pill and relax a bit, laugh at life’s oddities. I seriously doubt the person who posted this photo intended to make fun of a massacre of innocents by some guy dressed as a clown. You can then find some appropriate blog to have you argument over the proper punishment for those who commit evil.
Why don’t you respond in a place that makes sense?
True. That freaked me out.
Also timing fail because I did clown phobia for my mock art GCSE
Like everyone is supposed to know that happened??? Get real. You aren’t very appropriate. Your post failed.
Not challenging you, but can you find a reference to these clowns for those of us who have never heard of such a thing?
Old myth, there never was any acid.
I love the expressions on those faces.
Actually the riot police are cringing from the sight of a camera that may well record the misdeeds they were planning…
Cameras seem to be something akin to green kryptonite to a lot of civilian LEU, not just Riot…
Obama is a “miserable failure”
I must admit that this is sweet revenge. A few years ago tech savvy internet users with Bush derangement syndrome linked President Bushes bio with the Google search term “miserable failure.” Now the label has been transferred to President Barack Obama.
Crap, I open PK first thing in the morning and I have to look at a CLOWN?!?
*drops computer and pulls covers over head*
It had to be clowns….grrr.
Clowns are Evil – Proof 1 – Pennywise [link]
Clowns are Evil – Proof 2 – The sister of a beloved corporate symbol, caught in ‘flagrante’ [link]
What sort of sick, demented mind comes up with revolting ideas like that? And can I get some of what they’re smoking, please?
It was Miss McDonald’s Halloween offering one year…[link]
To paraphrase one Dr. Jones:
“Clowns. Why did it have to be clowns?”
Happy belated birthday, Dear!
Crap! “Belated happy birthday” makes more sense…
But which way is correct according to the Constitution?
We must call Ru-Paul at once!
Either way, thanks!
You’re welcome. I just noticed the irony of wishing you happy
birthday on a scary clown LOL.
Hopefully the photo wasn’t taken at your party…
Nah. Last time the riot police were called to my party, it was because of rogue strippers, not rogue clowns…
I read about that one in the paper. Perhaps Gitmo wasn’t
a great venue choice…
Diss, your last comment reminds me of a Rug Rats episode when Chuckie says a similar thing a la Indiana Jones: “Clowns. Why’d it hafta be clowns?”
I never really understood why people were afraid of them until Tim Curry scared the beJesus out of me as Pennywise in “It”. Holy geezlum crow….
Yes, I’m totally with Chuckie on that one. They’ve freaked me out since I was a little kid. Pennywise, Gacy, et al do not help….
Clowns are Evil – Proof 3 – the ‘happy, smiling, loveable face of the clown’
After all that… have a Hilary LOL… something to clear the taste of Clarabelle’s cousin’s out…
Let’s not forget Mr. Gacy…
true
(Returning to my Hillary lol, since it’s less nasty)
That’s no fun!
Besides, you forgot the bestest clown of all. [LINK]
The expression reminded me of the Christopher Lee ‘Dracula’
LOL!
D; *cries*
Ronald McDonald, nuff’ said
Check out Proof 2 – I doubt Ronald is any better…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_Insurgent_Rebel_Clown_Army
Nice. They sound like my kind of group, except I can’t stand hanging around with Anarchists.
If you hang out with Economists, or anyone who is a Laissez faire style Austro-Chicago School think, then you already DO hang out with anarchists..
They’re not smart enough to be anarchists, they are just unemployed pains in the @$$ and attention whores.
I thing the picture shows people Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (or a german subgroup) during the G8 summit 07 in germany.
Some people are so into clowns they have….fetishes…with them. The other day my stumble gave me “naughty clown stories”. Why, I have no idea, as I’m not a serial killer and I hate clowns (get a real job! also, my uncle told me they eat kids when I was like 3).
Either way, I gave it an emphatic thumbs-down and tried to block the horrible images of people in full clown dress having sex far FAR from my mind.
I hate clowns.
With due respect… ‘real job’… proper clown training is pretty hard. Not quite as boot camp as the Peking Opera, but dangerous and hard.
To which I say, “But whyyyyy? Why spend that much effort learning to freak people the fsck out?” I think there’s something very passive-aggressive about it, to be perfectly honest. They get to be all creepy and freaky and scary as hell, and then get all offended when you tell them to get the hell away from you.
The guy who was the body of Abe Sapien and The Silver Surfer is a ‘proper’ clown.
Lee Evans, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung… all ‘proper’ clowns…
What does “stumble” mean?
It’s a firefox add on. It takes you to random pages defined by the interests you give it.
Stumbling is addictive, very very addictive. I have to put the timer of when I Stumble and I never Stumble and cook.
Thanks! I had no idea. It’s funny now, but I had thought he was being a
terrible gift recipient… >.<
The Stumble network… Apparently Jazzberri has the ‘adult and porn’ filter off…
Evidently, he isn’t aware of Rule 34, either…
So pr0n spoofs with clowns delivering rainbow-colo(u)red money shots would not be up your alley?
My uncle only called me Bugs Bunny and shouted “wascally wabbit” at me.
Wish mine was that cool.
D;
AFAIR this clown is one of the protesters against the enlargement of Frankfurt airport.
Parts of a nearby forest are cleared in preparation for the building of a fourth runway.