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I'd be better if everyone involved with Fox News were to spontaneously combust 😛

Neil Cavuto is a very nice man.  I'd much prefer having the likes of him here than certain other people who often have trouble keeping a civil tongue in their mouths.

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She's getting offers all over the place.  Apparently treason pays.

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Reminds me of this song, based on a Winston Churchill quote:

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i like it. any chance on seeing some of the interior pages?  ;D

Prolly not.

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There's some decent people running the Unreal Muscle forums, but the asshole quotient among the posters is much, much higher than at Amaz0ns.

I worry a lot about this site losing its civility.  And I probably shouldn't admit this, but when I see a really, really obnoxious SOB on Unreal or one of the other forums, sometimes I lock the username here on Amaz0ns so that they can't sign up with the same name here.  I consider it preventive maintenance.

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But how can you be sure there was a problem?

OK, actually the problem was that last week I killed the http://www.amaz0ns.com URL in a very real and legally binding way, forwarding all web traffic to http://amaz0ns.com.

Unfortunately, the forum was still looking at http://www.amaz0ns.com for the smileys, so it was defeated.  Now it is looking at http://amaz0ns.com.

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For those of you foreigners intrigued by federalism and Constitutional limits in the U.S., here's a great story.  Basically, the U.S. Gov't signed the Vienna Convention treaty in 1963, promising that it would provide foreign nationals with legal counsel from their home governments. 

Texas wants to execute a rapist and murderer who is a Mexican national and received no assistance from the Mexican consulate.  The president of the U.S. (a former governor of Texas, btw) has ordered Texas not to execute the inmate following a ruling from the "International Court of Justice".  Texas has told the president to go scratch, because the inmate was charged, tried and sentenced under state laws, and Texas is not a signatory to the Vienna Convention.

So the question is which will take precedence: the principle of states being free to conduct their sovereign jurisprudence, or of the U.S. President being the sole conduit for foreign policy.

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beautiful work!  Like the others, I was particularly impressed by the aged-comic look on the first pic too.  Thanks for giving us another great render, man!

Thanks, I've been practicing that.

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Instead of self-defense, our courts believe in proportional response: you can't shoot a man only because he is in your house…
I've got that example: some time ago, a guy caught burglars in the act into his house,  but they weren't armed and ran away. The guy pursued them in the street and shot both of them in the back. Is it still self-defense: I think not…

If they run out into the street, you can't shoot them here, either.  The laws vary from state to state.  For example in most of the northeast I think you still have to be clearly under threat before the law says you can open fire.  Down south, generally, if a man has broken into your house you're free to fire on him.  The trend is toward the southern approach, I think the related term in the law is "castle doctrine". 

I don't own a gun and don't like 'em.  But I've been to the shooting range and I know how to load, fire and clean a handgun, because that's my responsibility as an American and a penis-bearer.

Update: Here's Castle Doctrine at Wikipedia.

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I have no idea what you're talking about.

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