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Don't do it because you think our town is unsafe
We have one of the lowest crime rates in the country, per capita

lowest

highest
treebeard
3:11:52 PM
3/17/03

Let's bash Old York instead, LOL
Tilt
3:19:18 PM
3/17/03

Tilt comes through again...
treebeard
3:21:27 PM
3/17/03

Looks like Artex jumped from the refrigerator into the fire!

There are some surprising stats in those lists.
Geobeet
3:25:49 PM
3/17/03

I lived there, Geo. Tampa was always high in crime, even back when I was there in the seventies and early 80's.
treebeard
3:27:37 PM
3/17/03

St. Louis I can understand. They stole the hubcaps off Chevy Chase's car in the middle of a movie.
Geobeet
3:28:45 PM
3/17/03

and it was moving...
treebeard
3:29:07 PM
3/17/03

NYC Humor
A man was forced to take a day off from work to appear for a minor traffic summons. He grew increasingly restless as he waited hour after endless hour for his case to be heard. When his name was called, late in the afternoon, he stood before the judge, only to hear that court would be adjourned for the rest of the afternoon and he would have to return the next day.

“What for?” he snapped at the judge.

His honor, equally irked by a tedious day and sharp query, roared, “Hundred dollars contempt of court. That’s why!”

Then, noticing the man checking his wallet, the judge relented. “That’s all right. You don’t have to pay now.”

The young man replied, “I’m just seeing if I have enough for two more words.”
StoveStomper
3:49:27 PM
3/17/03

LOL Stove
i like that one...
treebeard
3:50:59 PM
3/17/03

LOL!
Tilt
3:54:50 PM
3/17/03

"Thank You".?
stanlee
4:01:46 PM
3/17/03

Couldn't happen. The defendants would have been partying all day!
Geobeet
4:03:22 PM
3/17/03

Holy Cr@P!!
My town's on the low crime list!

Boy am I surprised!
treebait
4:24:36 PM
3/17/03

Crime in Maine? Must be from "outside" people!
Geobeet
4:44:26 PM
3/17/03

Yeah, Tampa's always been bad with crime. Luckily most of it is in one bad area that most people know to stay away from. The rest of the city is fantastic.
Artex
4:46:57 PM
3/17/03

Am I a criminal for liking the song "Hold me tight" by the Thompson Twins?
StickmanWalking
4:48:33 PM
3/17/03

New Yorkers are so Lucky.
New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke on the senate floor
speaking against the high salaries of company CEO's.....

Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York State Senator, now comes under this fancy "Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets reelected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies.

If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary outlives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies. Guess who pays for that? WE DO!
It's common knowledge that in order for her to establish NY residency, they purchased a million
dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua, New York. Makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still makes sense.

Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence HAD to be built within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents.

The Clintons charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of that extra residence, which is just about equal to their mortgage payment. This means that we, the taxpayers, are paying the Clinton's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security, as well as the salaries for their 12 man staff -- and this is all perfectly legal!

Can't you just wait until the New York Senator runs for President?
prosecutor
5:19:52 AM
3/18/03

Pillagery Clinton.
Artex
6:43:32 AM
3/18/03

Baltimore is # 8 !!!
Tom Terrific
6:54:46 AM
3/18/03

Prosecutor
Urban Legend, perhaps???

legend


Just in addition:
To run for vice president, Cheney had to establish his residence in Montanna. Does the commander have a problem with Clinton doing the same thing he did?
The extended Bush family has more secret service protection than any other president in history. There are currently 25 members of the Bush clan with secret service protection.

Then what's the problem? Why aren't you complaining about the Reagan Secret Service detail. Or Poppy Bush's. Only Republicans should have secret service protection?
treebeard
8:03:51 AM
3/18/03

"If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary outlives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies. Guess who pays for that? WE DO!"

Well if im not mistaken, dont people that rec'v SSI also get there spouses when they die?

so if i kill off treebeard I can get his money?

(got to retihink this whole love thing)
Mapleleaf
8:11:24 AM
3/18/03

Just a reminder darling!
I have no money...
treebeard
8:12:10 AM
3/18/03

Cough it up, Feds!
Bloomberg said the feds will ante up and pay for this stuff. But, will they?

showmethemoney
treebeard
8:25:16 AM
3/18/03

Hmmm... a good prosecutor looks at evidence before making accusations.
pedxing
8:29:38 AM
3/18/03

A (Conservative) People's History of New York City




"A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they claim is 'liberal bias' on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders of Conservapedia.com say their site offers a 'much-needed alternative' to Wikipedia, which they say is 'increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American.'"
The Guardian, London, March 2


20070309nycseal.gif


New York City (also Gotham, Sodom, Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Satan's Condom) is the headquarters of the elitist East Coast liberal empire [1] and the world's largest sustained experiment in secular humanism.

The city's population is often reported by the mainstream media to be as high as 8 million — but a rigorous count of actual Americans, using the methods of Adjusted Freedom Demography pioneered by Smorgensen in the Patriot Census of 2005 (i.e., excluding immigrants, Jews, ivory-tower communists, and nonrepresentational artists, and counting only three-fifths of descendants of African slaves, as originally intended by the Framers), reveals that New York City's population of legitimate Americans is actually only 312. (Smorgensen found Cheyenne, Wyo., to be the most populous city in America, with almost ten times as many pure Americans as New York.) [2]



Although modern New Yorkers specialize mainly in sodomy, drug-taking, and stealing each other's property (the lower classes via mugging, the upper classes by taxing one another), the early history of the city is actually rather heroic and inspiring. Manhattan was liberated from heathens by seventeenth-century Dutch capitalists, who are said to have bought the island for $24. (The mainstream media often espouses the inequity of this deal, but modern laissez-faire economists believe that the Dutch may actually have been overcharged, particularly when you consider the tremendous hidden costs of clearing out all of the Indians after the sale. [3]) One thousand six hundred and sixty-four years after the martyrdom of Jesus Christ on the cross upon the hill of Calvary, at the hands of the Roman Empire (specifically Pontius Pilate) after having been betrayed by his disciple Judas and forced to carry his own instrument of death upon his back, an event which is the single true foundation of the one true religion of Christianity, the British conquered New York. This set the stage for the city's glory days — first as a major battleground in the American Revolutionary War, then as the young nation's capital. The city peaked when, in 1789, the infallible patriot and faith warrior George Washington was inaugurated president near the free-market cathedral of Wall Street. [4]



Once Washington and his new Governing Army of Divinely Appointed Liberators left for Washington, D.C., in 1790 A.D., however, New York fell prey to the vices that plague it even today: an ever-growing tide of un-American infiltrators, a socialist municipal government, the hysterical adoption of primitive and amoral cultural rituals (jazz, rap, Abstract Expressionism), the liberal media, environmentalism, state-mandated sodomy, and musical theater. In 1857 A.D., Central Park was built in an effort to encourage public homosexuality. In 1952 A.D., in an attempt to cripple the U.S. military, the United Nations settled on Manhattan's East Side, increasing the already cacophonous din of guttural non-American speech sounds on the streets of the new Babel.



Most experts agree that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were God's punishment for over two centuries of New Yorkers' decadent sinning — though there is some minor debate about which sins, specifically, led to this smiting. (Believers in usury point to the financial nature of the World Trade Center's businesses, proponents of sodomy stress that the towers resembled two erect male sex organs, etc.). Unbiased historical research shows that the hand of God issued many calamitous pre-9/11 warnings, each of which was recklessly ignored: the Great Flood in the book of Genesis, the Great Fire of 1835 A.D., the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911 A.D., the 1977 A.D. blackout, the Son of Sam killings, and the career of Patrick Ewing.



Recently, New York City's fortunes have seemed to improve. In 2004, for instance, despite the interference of several hundred drug-addled protestors, the city hosted the Republican National Convention that helped vault George W. Bush to his triumphant second term.



http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/a_conservative_peoples_history_1.html
Reverend Truth V Wicked
2:51:39 PM
3/14/07

It's about time,someone put the facts out there in an objective fact based spin-free way. We need an encyclodpedic no-spin zone free of Libbie nonsense.

I'm especially happy that kids won't get left libby lies when they research animals. Libbie encylopedia's give you lefty BS about where Kangaroos came from, for example - but this tells you the truth:

Origins

Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined whether kangaroos form a holobarmin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.

After the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land -- as Australia was still for a time connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart -- or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.


http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Kangaroo&oldid=14629
pedxing
3:25:06 PM
3/14/07

LMAO!
bearmagnet
3:28:50 PM
3/14/07

Nice, you guys!!!

XL should be along any minute, since he doesn't actually work and has lots of time to spew on Trail Talk, and tie this in nicely to Hillary.
MarkO
3:31:45 PM
3/14/07

Wonderful...
...so we're gonna censor what people really think, because you know -- it's just so much easier to label it "Liberalism" and just sweep it under the carpet...



Really though, I could've sworn this has been taken out of the Onion or something...
last edited: 3/14/07 3:39:00 PM
PhantomSoul
3:32:44 PM
3/14/07


Poor Vile never has been able to understand the concept of Fuego.
StoveStomper
8:38:05 PM
3/14/07

some net nannies dont understand humor
crash bang
8:43:25 PM
3/14/07

Of course the Kangaroos floated on rafts of vegetation. Who would think anything different?
sassafras
9:39:10 PM
3/14/07

Maybe they Hopped over the Indian Ocean... ?

Waitaminit --- if Pangea broke apart only a few thousand years ago, the continents must be haulin ass! We're taking miles per year, here.


'Nonrepresentational artists' are evil? Stalin would've loved that.

jeez -- the further you read the sicker it gets.
Tilt
10:12:23 PM
3/14/07

I learned some new vocab. I'm ashamed to admit I'd never heard of baramins or apobaramics or any of those words.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Apobaramin
pedxing
10:44:11 AM
3/15/07

They obviously don't have lots of administrative oversight yet. It looks like there are subtly satirical things in there, as well as pagan friendly stuff that clashes with their point of view. I'm cutting and pasting since I'm sure they will change the text at some point. Examples:

Satirical content (key line in bold):

The Qur'an states that Christians will burn in Hell: “Unbelievers are those that say: ‘God is the Messiah, the son of Mary.’ He that worships other deities besides God, God will deny paradise, and the Fire shall be his home. None shallhelp the evil-doers. Unbelievers are those that say: ‘God is one of three.’ There is but one God. If they do not desist from saying so, they shall be sternly punished.” (5:71-73)


Christians, on the other hand, believe that Muslim practices violate the first commandment, for which the traditional punishment is death by stoning:

"Thou shalt have none other gods before me." (Deuteronomy 5:7)
http://www.conservapedia.com/Islam

Pagan friendly Wicca
From Conservapedia

Wicca is a religion that has many different sects and groups like many other religions. Many wiccans believe in a god and a godess, with many different deities being manifest of the god and the goddess. They use nature and pray and worship the lord and the lady. Many wiccans also practice magick, though one does not have to to be called wiccan. The use of magick is important in healing, and other such spells. Wiccans have been persecuted for a number of years, especially by christians who burnt them at the stake and drowned them as they were fearful of the 'witches' who apparantly wanted to hurt them. Wicca is a time old traditional religion that is earth based, peaceful and tolerant.


http://www.conservapedia.com/Wicca
pedxing
10:56:03 AM
3/15/07

Tree
Over the last several years NYC crime wave has abated, but recently has seen spikes in the heavy duty stuff.
catskhiker
11:05:19 AM
3/15/07

i love how conservapedia burns wikipedia at the stake for their alleged leftward lean, but see no hypocrisy in their stated far-right lean. obviously, something as big and far-ranging as wiki is not going to be perfectly neutral, it will lean slightly one way or the other, or both at the same time, but conserva is so far away from neutrality and objectivity as to be off the map.

if you look up "conservapedia" on the wiki website, they give a lengthy and fair entry, even going so far to acknowledge the fact that conservapedia has fallen victim to vandals and satire. look up "wikipedia" on conservapedia, they basically say "its a website"
crash bang
11:14:04 AM
3/15/07

Look up Bill Clinton then George W Bush on conservapedia.
bearmagnet
11:18:06 AM
3/15/07

entries not found on conservapedia
pen!s (This page has been deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation)
vagina (ditto)
crash bang
11:21:38 AM
3/15/07

i looked up bill clinton. i found NINETEEN instances of "sources needed". you would never find that amount of bullshettig on wiki
crash bang
11:23:26 AM
3/15/07

more entries not found
orgasm
sex education
birth control
contraceptives
beef curtains (to be fair, that ones probably not on wikipedia, either)
crash bang
11:30:59 AM
3/15/07

masturbation is also a "no no" but incest is alive with a great discussion

conservapedia might need it's own thread here.
last edited: 3/15/07 11:32:02 AM
bearmagnet
11:31:13 AM
3/15/07

actually, "beef curtains" re-directs to "labium" on wiki
crash bang
11:33:36 AM
3/15/07

“Use the FUEGO category, you #&%!$ing eeeeeeeeeeeeeediot.”
Tilt
11:48:50 AM
3/15/07
StoveStomper
11:53:53 AM
3/15/07

leave your personal grudges out of this
crash bang
11:55:33 AM
3/15/07

Sex
From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This page has been deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation
bearmagnet
12:11:20 PM
3/15/07

Procreation
"Procreation is a holy act between a married man and woman. Its purpose it to further the races of God's children. Procreation is a natural act that is the act that occurs when a marriage is consummated. Abortion is the act of undoing the procreation and in doing so, one is insulting God directly."

http://www.conservapedia.com/Procreation
last edited: 3/15/07 12:14:19 PM
bearmagnet
12:13:44 PM
3/15/07

ANd the really cool thing is its the Libbies by and large who use Abortion....hence the Roe Effect (LOL)
XL400236
12:32:34 PM
3/15/07

and your point is.......?
crash bang
12:52:28 PM
3/15/07

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