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Post by stalindrummer » Thu September 1st, 2005, 5:54 pm

I killed an Iraqi the other day and used his soul as fuel. (Their souls are just as good as oil)

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Post by LeveLscream » Thu September 1st, 2005, 6:24 pm

ha ha - I wish

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Post by holly » Thu September 1st, 2005, 7:44 pm

LeveLscream wrote:You are always trying to make others sound like they don't know what they are talking about. You know everything don't you Holly. I don't make alot of money and shit like this affects me very hard. I don't live at home or live in a dorm. I have a mortgage, a job that sucks, a wife and child I have to support and I don't need this shit!!!!!
Get that?
I don't live at home or in a dorm.
I'm married and my husband pays for everything we have.
Eat a dick.

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Post by LeveLscream » Thu September 1st, 2005, 8:38 pm

I didn't say you lived at home or in a Dorm. I was saying that I don't have that luxury, knowing now that you don't either;how can you not be a little concerned about what is going down?

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Post by holly » Thu September 1st, 2005, 9:55 pm

LeveLscream wrote:I didn't say you lived at home or in a Dorm. I was saying that I don't have that luxury, knowing now that you don't either;how can you not be a little concerned about what is going down?
By mentioning those things, it's somewhat implied that those things were an assumption.

I'm not terribly concerned because:
A) I don't have a car, yet am perfectly capable of getting anywhere in the city with a MARTA pass and my bike. Aside from going to Texas by plane, there isn't really anywhere else outside of the city that I need to go.
B) These things have historically gone in cycles, and don't usually last very long. Everyone also knew that the price increases were coming, yet I don't see anyone who prepared for it.
C) This is probably the catalyst to hundreds of shitty and worse things that this situation has caused.
D) I still have a roof over my fucking head and everyone I know is still alive. We have Tulane kids staying at Tech, many of whom do not even know if their families/friends are ok, and many of whom were welcomed to the US with a disaster situation and who have to stay here just to see if they should bother going back to their country or not in case some other university is nice enough to let them attend their school because Tulane is more than likely indefinitely closed.

My point, more or less, is that bitching about this is silly.
Be thankful that the place in which you live is dry and intact.
& get a bicycle like the rest of the damn world.

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Post by Ecrypt » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 12:33 am

Holly, I respect you as a rare female in the metal scene and I stick up for you when people dog some of the cool hardcore band you like. however I must disagree with you on some points;
Gouging gas prices to $6.00 a gallon, like a place in Stockbridge did, should be illegal. Atlanta is the WORST city this sort of price gouging could happen to and it should be federally CAPPED. I'm a Libertarian but I think that the government should step in during times such as these to stop the crisis from spreading to other avenues bringing the rest of the country into distress. Everything is so sprawled and distant in the Atlanta area, you need a car to get to work, to keep this whole wheel moving... People in the surrounding areas cant just ride their bikes to work and our public transportation is measly at best... I live in Inman Park, ride Marta to school, my bike to work, but I still cant avoid the need for a car. I expect higher prices for fuel in places like New York and London because you can live there and NEVER need a car, even in their suburbs they have trains. But not here. Its all because when Marta was started, it never got state funding to make it as expansive as it needs to be, and all the sorrounding areas' commisions and councils didnt want the "roughage" from atlanta getting an easy ride to their nice clean suburbs. Now we have a bankrupt private company with 2 rails and only 38 stops to NOWHERE. Try as it may marta just cant win, 'you can lead a horse to water but you can make it drink' comes to mind.
Also, this is the perfect place to bitch about it so...
if we fought this so called war for oil, when's the shipment from the 51st state getting here?!?!

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Post by TheKshatriya » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 12:34 am

holly wrote:get a bicycle like the rest of the damn world.
I got mine, and im using it more and more, i just wish everything was closer since i dont live in a city.
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Post by Ecrypt » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 12:47 am

by the way...
the ONLY goddamn counrty to contact the US and offer ANY help to us in OUR time of need, (fuck a tsunami) is Venezuela... they offered us fuel, where their citizens only pay 12 CENT a gallon. so yeah, fuck some UN...

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Post by donny » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 3:49 am

holly wrote:
LeveLscream wrote:I didn't say you lived at home or in a Dorm. I was saying that I don't have that luxury, knowing now that you don't either;how can you not be a little concerned about what is going down?
By mentioning those things, it's somewhat implied that those things were an assumption.

I'm not terribly concerned because:
A) I don't have a car, yet am perfectly capable of getting anywhere in the city with a MARTA pass and my bike. Aside from going to Texas by plane, there isn't really anywhere else outside of the city that I need to go.
B) These things have historically gone in cycles, and don't usually last very long. Everyone also knew that the price increases were coming, yet I don't see anyone who prepared for it.
C) This is probably the catalyst to hundreds of shitty and worse things that this situation has caused.
D) I still have a roof over my fucking head and everyone I know is still alive. We have Tulane kids staying at Tech, many of whom do not even know if their families/friends are ok, and many of whom were welcomed to the US with a disaster situation and who have to stay here just to see if they should bother going back to their country or not in case some other university is nice enough to let them attend their school because Tulane is more than likely indefinitely closed.

My point, more or less, is that bitching about this is silly.
Be thankful that the place in which you live is dry and intact.
& get a bicycle like the rest of the damn world.

how silly is the depression this is gonna throw the south into?

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Post by Greg » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 7:39 am

Ecrypt wrote:by the way...
the ONLY goddamn counrty to contact the US and offer ANY help to us in OUR time of need, (fuck a tsunami) is Venezuela... they offered us fuel, where their citizens only pay 12 CENT a gallon. so yeah, fuck some UN...
Haha and we repaid the favor by having one of our wacko fundamentalists call for the assassination of their president.

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Post by andyb » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 3:01 pm

donny wrote:

how silly is the depression this is gonna throw the south into?
holy shit its nice to see you join a discussion donny. haha any way, i cant believe im saying this BUT HOLLY IS FUCKIN RIGHT. this is temporary bullshit. deal with it. the prices sky rocketed ont because iraq started charging more, or because of some government policy. you all are nuts. the pipe lines comming from the gulf were damaged. everyone panicked like scared sheep, and stores ran out of gas. i commend them for price gouging. if i owned a store that sold carrots. and suddenly everyone in the fuckin world was buying carrots, and i was about to run out, your goddamn right i would start getting whatever profit i could make. whatever some dumb cunt wants to pay. if prices were getting to high. dont get gas, or sell your fuckin land rover and get a econmy car. wtf? lifes hard. who cares.
hope you all fucking rot

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Post by LeveLscream » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 3:34 pm

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Post by LeveLscream » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 3:44 pm

As Lincoln said in his First Inaugural Address,

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

Regionalism is the reordering and rearrangement of governments and jurisdictions so as to transfer power from elected legislative bodies to the executive branch and appointed officials. The international planners have divided the world into regions. The national planners have divided the individual countries into regions. The state planners have divided the states into regions.

At the international level, treaties are crafted and pushed through national legislatures in order to create international organizations and erode national sovereignty (e.g., NAFTA and GATT). A concerted effort is made to combine nations or portions of nations in order to provide an argument for international control.

At the national level, countries are divided into regions by executive order and councils of executive appointees are set up to control each region (e.g., the ten federal regions set up by President Nixon). Control is exercised through zoning and land use regulations and by requirements attached to federal grant money. Multiple states or portions of several states are included to bring the regions under federal jurisdiction.

The same process is repeated at the state level. Regional planning commissions are set up to control all development and funding through land use regulations and direction of spending of tax revenues. The planning commissions are composed of individuals appointed by state Governors, county commissioners, and city mayors, and often include federal appointees. They are not composed of elected representatives of the people who are accountable to the people.

At the local level, regionalism means the combining of municipalities to form new governmental units, with transfer of functions and control from the local level to the county, state, or federal level.

By this process of regionalization, the people lose all control over their own property and their own future. They are oppressed with heavy taxation, endless regulations, and swarms of bureaucrats and officials. This is socialist tyranny, and this is the goal of the New World Order planners.

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Post by holly » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 4:02 pm

Ecrypt wrote:Holly, I respect you as a rare female in the metal scene and I stick up for you when people dog some of the cool hardcore band you like. however I must disagree with you on some points;
Gouging gas prices to $6.00 a gallon, like a place in Stockbridge did, should be illegal. Atlanta is the WORST city this sort of price gouging could happen to and it should be federally CAPPED. I'm a Libertarian but I think that the government should step in during times such as these to stop the crisis from spreading to other avenues bringing the rest of the country into distress. Everything is so sprawled and distant in the Atlanta area, you need a car to get to work, to keep this whole wheel moving... People in the surrounding areas cant just ride their bikes to work and our public transportation is measly at best... I live in Inman Park, ride Marta to school, my bike to work, but I still cant avoid the need for a car. I expect higher prices for fuel in places like New York and London because you can live there and NEVER need a car, even in their suburbs they have trains. But not here. Its all because when Marta was started, it never got state funding to make it as expansive as it needs to be, and all the sorrounding areas' commisions and councils didnt want the "roughage" from atlanta getting an easy ride to their nice clean suburbs. Now we have a bankrupt private company with 2 rails and only 38 stops to NOWHERE. Try as it may marta just cant win, 'you can lead a horse to water but you can make it drink' comes to mind.
Also, this is the perfect place to bitch about it so...
if we fought this so called war for oil, when's the shipment from the 51st state getting here?!?!
Excuse me?
Sunny Perdue stopped the price gouging on Wednesday WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING, & then the President made the ban national the next morning.

I understand the difference in cities like Atlanta vs. NYC or London.
I'm from Philly.
I could take then train anywhere up to an hour outside of the city.
If this is something that gets cities like Atlanta to get their asses in gear, then awesome.

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Post by holly » Fri September 2nd, 2005, 4:05 pm

Ecrypt wrote:by the way...
the ONLY goddamn counrty to contact the US and offer ANY help to us in OUR time of need, (fuck a tsunami) is Venezuela... they offered us fuel, where their citizens only pay 12 CENT a gallon. so yeah, fuck some UN...
By the way...you're wrong again.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/k ... index.html

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