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People who want to divide us are going to erroneously label what Juan Williams said as racist. It was not.

Let me put something in context for you.

Racism is when one hates another, or group of others, based on their ethnicity. It is narrowly defined and should be narrowly defined.

What Juan Williams said is not only a sentiment most feel, but it was honest and he was expressing his feeling of shame over the fact that he harbors those fears.

Fear is not racism. Neither is disagreeing with one's political agenda. Neither is wanting to stop illegal immigration.

There are real racists in the world. All we do is marginalize the damage they can do by throwing the term around at people who do not deserve to be labeled as such.

Juan Williams is a liberal. He is unapologetic for it. His "palling" around with Fox News does not make him a fake liberal either. Fox News, which has an admittedly right lean on their punditry makes pretty strong efforts to bring opposing points of view on to their shows. The same cannot be said for MSNBC and their other competitors.

NPR had every right to fire Williams. They are a private enterprise and they should be allowed to do whatever they want for their business. That said, they screwed the pooch pretty badly by firing Williams. They've gone to show just how intolerant they are, they've polarized the nation to the degree that many liberals are even denouncing their move...and finally they will likely lose their federal funding (which they shouldn't be getting anyway, but only amounts to 1.5ish% of their budget).

Williams, on the other hand, has come out of this with buzz, support and even a pretty hefty paycheck.

Let's try putting our big-boy thinking caps on and not allow political motives cloud the subject.

Finally, Williams was not making derogatory or hateful statements about Muslims. He was expressing a feeling. A feeling that many, if not most, have had at some point or another. He just admitted it.
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I think this is q place called Carnival Court on the strip in Las Vegas. They do all kinds of crazy stuff and make like a sequel for Cocktails.

Very cool stuff.
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I am a total sap when it comes to this kind of stuff. I was smiling ear to ear so much it hurt. Even got a little watery under the lids.

Love is about a great many things, no one more important than the other. Luckily, this guy knows that willingness to humiliate himself in the hopes of bringing a smile to her face is one of those things.

Mazel Tov!
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I want a new Duck...one that won't try to bite. One that won't chew a hole in my couch, one that won't quack all night...

or

They call him Howard the Duck...YEAH!

or

Duck Tails, woohoo...everyday they're out there making Duck Tales!

Three songs that DEFINITELY should have been on that list.
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@Nimrod: Wow, I don't even know where to start with your horribly uninformed post.

First, yes, corporations that don't routinely screw their customers are less prone to lawsuits. That said, your matter-of-fact statement that said corporations have "no problems with lawsuits of any sort" is terribly uninformed. The very definition of a frivolous lawsuit is one brought without merit for the sake of harm or profit. This happens MORE to good companies than bad (use some logic) and is why tort reform is necessary. It isn't "rich elite propaganda". You're spouting off propaganda commonly used by the very lawyers who are responsible for and profit hugely from frivolous lawsuits.

Second, in what seems to be a theme for you, you make yet another egregiously uninformed statement. The news (pick your source) is chock full of white collar criminals getting hefted away to jail. Do the names Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Bernie Madoff, Robert Standford ring a bell? If not, local news is full of mortgage fraud, SSI fraud and bank fraud arrests all the time.

Perhaps you should do a little more reading and a little more typing before you start popping off and letting such silliness spill out that casts a less than favorable light upon you.

@Edward: You're not too far off. There should be some standard in place to judge this. If an airline gets you to your destination outside of a reasonable window and it is THEIR fault (pilot not on time, administrative error, etc), then they should have to make some amends. Full refunds aren't fair because you got where you were supposed to go. A % on a scale seems fair though. There is a problem with this though. What about instances where it isn't their fault? Weather, mechanical problems (you don't want to include this because they will just start taking more risk, which would lead to tragedy), traffic delays, etc. Those are outside their scope of control. Finally, keep in mind that if they do this, they will just start padding the ticket prices to cover that potential loss, so essentially, you'd be paying yourself and they make MORE profit when they don't screw up.

@Ken S: You are also somewhat misinformed. Airlines do not get "cuts" of concessions/bars/etc or parking/terminal fees/etc. Airports are businesses. This is how they make money and manage the maintenance of airports. Airlines have to PAY to use an airport. I agree with you that the airlines are going about it wrong, but they've brought it upon themselves and we, the consumers, are paying for it. They aren't going to risk profit (and nor should they, they are, after all, for profit businesses who have responsibilities to stockholders) to make things easier for us.

On the subject at hand, I believe this suit to be fully justified. She paid for a service, the service was not performed. Fee for said service should be refunded. I couldn't believe that they had the balls to charge for checked bags as it is. If I were the attorney in this case, and I was more interested in justice than profit (let's be honest, that isn't most attorneys), I would determine how much revenue the airline has accrued with it's checked-bag fees since they started, apply some reasonable math to that to work out an assumed average value for each of those checked-bags, and sue for exactly that much money, plus an extra five years worth. That way, if they lose, which they should, they lose any and all profits derived from that practice, and don't stand to make a profit on it for another five years.

A caveat to this should be that the class-action should automatically include all passengers who have paid out said fee and when the lawsuit is won, all of those who paid out the fee are refunded (and not in the retarded form of a coupon as so many of these tend to be), anyone who's luggage was lost gets theirs plus the avg'd cost of their bags, and the remainder is what the lawyer gets paid (lawyers tend to walk away with anywhere between 30-65% of the award...that is why the ACLU is NOT your friend).

And that concludes this volume.
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@Johnny Cat: If you are right about his intent, that makes him a jerk for pointing it out in such a crass manner. If you're wrong about it, then he is an even bigger jerk. It is bad for him in either case. The word "immaculately" was not incorrectly used either. =) (smilies are terrible grammar! ;oP)

@Spy: What does one have to do with the other? I decry the activities of the Japanese whaling industry as well. That fact has nothing to do with how cool this fountain is. Why would you even make that comment?
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@Five: Your questions doesn't make any sense. Something can be "coded immaculately". To be that way simply means that it was coded neatly and with perfection.

I don't see how there is any adverb fail here.

That said, very amazing.
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While I think it is creative and I can think of actual legitimate uses for such a device, it would need to undergo quite a bit of change to be useful.

If I ever saw one in a public park though, I'd go at it with a sledgehammer.

This could be useful in some form to prevent vagrants from sleeping on benches.
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This is all the world needs to be a better place. Little acts of heroism. Not grand gestures (though those don't hurt). It is the smallest act of kindness that sends waves out in all directions to magnitudes that are impossible to understand.

There was a commercial that has been airing up until recently where someone saw another person perform a tiny act of heroism, so he did one, and someone saw that and did one in perpetuity.

Of all the good man has done throughout the ages, I think you'll find the greatest accomplishments came in tiny intervals.
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Stephanie, the reason there are standards for orientation of traffic lights in the US is specifically for the color blind. If the top or left light is lit, stop, middle one is yellow and bottom or right is green.

This has worked, flawlessly, for decades.

I agree with Matt that this is a solution in search of a problem. In this case, the problem was solved, long ago. No need to start wasting money for a newer system for the sake of it being newer.
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I saw this the other day and flipped my lid. The gear they're making is epic. I'm a total sneaker-head and love this.

The Darth Vader shell toes and the Storm Trooper and Rebellion mids. So hot.

I wouldn't said Adidas was at their Apex in the 70s. The mid-late 80s they were much bigger with the birth of the hip-hop scene (think Run DMC, Doug E Fresh, etc...all rocked Shell Toes).

I'm all about Reebok Classic Aces and Adidas Shell Toes today.
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According to some quick research, Tiger's swing launches a golf ball at 170mph. So using that as a reference, it would be a little odd for a golf ball to deform so much at a lower speed. If the ball deformed like that with the force that Tiger hits with, the aerodynamic properties of the ball would be rendered useless. The dimples on a golf ball are for the sole purpose of aerodynamics.

So...I won't go so far as to call it fake. What I will say is that at best, it is mis-titled. That cannot be a golf ball doing 150mph.
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@ted: I know this because I was the one consoling my grandfather after my grandmother died. I know because his life for the last 5 years of it was devoted to caring for his wife, whom he loved with every fiber of his being. I know because the times I spent with them I saw how they looked at each other and spoke to each other. I know because of how my grandfather died of a broken heart.

Love isn't JUST the show. It isn't JUST what is left over. It is the sum of all the parts.

@Lauren And they say women are more in touch with their feelings. Pfft! =)
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