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Actually the last known lynching was in Duluth, MN only a few hours from me.

Soviets took kids away to be athletes, Britain takes them away to become healthy but nothing else.

Public demonstrations of any kind are legal as long as they don't harm another person. I find it to be one of the most beautiful rights we have.

A policeman is expected to know how to use a gun and use it on a daily basis. Teachers are supposed to educate students in subjects and ready them to become functioning adults. I think I'm confused here... Just face it, there is no way that teachers being able to carry a concealed firearm in the classroom will ever happen.

I actually use my China cymbal quite a bit. Usually when I'm doing some polyrythmyic beats on my bass drums combined with beats 2 and 4 on the snare (or just snare hit on beat 3 to make it a half time feel) and quarter notes on the China makes a pretty unique sound. And that's not a ring dude, it's foam dampening to take out some ring. It works better than one of those clumsy Remo O's that reduces the space you can even hit the drum. It may look like trash, but it works a hell of a lot better than an O ring. EDIT: I can give you a definite example of when I use my China. The bridge section, guitar solo, and exit section after the solo in the song "Jambi" by TOOL. My band does a cover of it.

You're implying that anyone who is outraged by this is a liberal. You can play the word games all day, but you're still going to be as see-through as cellophane. Besides, if so few are taking advantage of it, why even implement it in the first place?

Well at my school, the policy was that of all teachers are to lock doors from the inside and they are the only ones that are allowed to open it to let students in. It works relatively well. I think we have too many doomsayers here that always assume that there is a incessant need of a gun in all situations for everything to be safe. Nothing more safe than a killing machine!

1989 9-Piece Pearl Export Series. All original hardware. TOMS-Evans Hydraulic Glass heads on ALL toms (10, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18"). SNARE-Evans Power Center Batter side and Evans Hazy 300 on the snare side. BASS DRUMS-Evans Hydraulic Blue Batter and Evans eMad Resonant Side Cymbals-A Zildjian crashes (3), A Zildjian Rock Ride, A Zildjian Quick Beat Hi-Hats, and Zildjian China Boy High. And a few of my band in action. We won this Battle of the Bands and $500. Went towards our recording studio time. http://www.myspace.com/ataraxy1metal I think that about does it :D

Toss in Boondock Saints and Reign Over Me on my list. Just saw both of them today and was pretty well impressed by them.

I think he meant working in a piss-poor environment such as Burger King will make you appreciate any other job you would ever have.

The Birds of St. Marks by Jackson Browne

I'm not a liberal and I very strongly disagree with it. Great job on the generalizations once again, though. Your powers of ignorance continue to amaze me.

We'll just let them kill each other off with their precious guns ;)

This is just so beautiful. So much awesome artistry. "Televators" by The Mars Volta

Son et Lumiere and Inertiatic ESP by The Mars Volta

Thanks for serving our country; you do something that I could never do. And no, that isn't meant sarcastically. That being said, there are a lot of things that this government stands for that I, and a lot of other people, do NOT stand for. Flag burning may be a way of getting attention to those matters in a pretty quick way. All it is is a catalyst to get people to pay attention. Your choice was to enter the armed forces. My choice may be to burn a flag. Just because you feel morally superior to those that do these activities does not make their activities wrong or unjustified. Perhaps I feel morally superior knowing that I will most likely never kill another human being, yet you may have to do that every day whilst on tour. I think killing someone is a little less justified than burning a piece of fabric.

And you know it has kind of always irked me how school shootings in these rural towns (such as the one I live in) get so much news and popularity, perhaps tongue in cheek popularity, but yet I would venture to say there are at least twice as many inner city shootings at schools or playgrounds than in rural areas. Yet no one feels bad for the inner city ones. No one even bats an eye.

Pow if you haven't already, The Used's last album Lies For The Liars would suit you perfectly.

I'm pretty sure that flag doesn't even have 50 stars haha.

You know actually in the history of my high school, there has never been any type of weapon brought into the school. I know that within a 100 mile radius of me (excluding Minneapolis and St. Paul) that there has NEVER been a school shooting or gun brought to school. I hate to make the stereotype, but I believe that the inner city schools are the ones that would need guns there. What I say is post guards at side entrances and put metal detectors at the doors. I really don't understand why people are so happy to accept guns in a classroom and I realy have to wonder if I am the last person on earth that sees putting guns in the hands of teachers going down a terrible road. I think the last time I saw guns in a classroom was from some old videos in history class, but it was tough to understand what was going on since they were doing this weird high-stepping walk and talking in German.

Because it's easy; conveinient. I'm not even saying actually shooting the gun, but threatening a student with it is just as wrong in my eyes. A teacher could say "The student was threatening me and I felt it necessary to use my gun to calm him or her down." Teacher's word against student's. Whose are your going to take? All your other rebuttle please see my part about schools being "sanctuary". It's not that I don't want a person having a gun, rather the fact that guns in a classroom is absolutely ridiculous. It's a place of learning, not a place of fear.

So you're saying because a person doesn't agree with what the government is doing they should just "shut the hell up" or go try to overthrow them? That doesn't make any sense at all. People disagreeing with the gov't has been going on for ages and that's WHY we were given free speech. If I had a way to get Bush out of office believe me, I would have done it years ago, but to say that people that complain about how badly the system is bending us over daily should shut up, is ridiculous. EDIT: 666th post. Throw up the horns.

Yeah what happens if they just flip, I've had plenty of teachers flip on me. Most of them turn red in the face and scream at the top of their lungs at me or another kid. Now put a gun on them. You're telling me that they're going to exercise enough self control to not even THINK about using it or pulling it out? I don't think so. Schools and churches are two of the last places on earth you can go for sanctuary. You're supposed to feel safe there and you're supposed to be able to learn. Guns will nullify all of that.

For Emma by Bon Iver "For every life... Forgoe the parable. Seek the light. ...My knees are cold." So beautiful.

Not anymore, at least not as fast as before. Training on monsters is about as affective, if not more. Other than that, wonderful post. :D