Random Politics & Religion #00

Terribly written is an opinion.

This is rich coming from a person who extrapolates points by giant assumptions then claims someone is backpedaling on points that they never made. Oh no, he clarified his opinion and I can't read what ever shall I do. I know, I'll claim I know what he was actually saying isn't what he is actually saying that will certainly make me out to be intelligent.

Now you're equating two different points as the same point and expressing confusion. Trust me quit while you're ahead.

The other thing you're seeing is called debate and exploring others opinions and stances. You should look it up sometime. It beats this appeal to emotion bullcrap you keep spitting out like a 3 year old with hurt feelings on a playground without a shred of any stance or point to back it up.

I just looked on the Amazon page and it won an award for the Romance category. I can't trust bookstores categorization. Hell they used to put the anime next to porn and they still lump sci/fi and fantasy into the same section most of them.

Romance doesn't have only one way it happens. Most of the trash "dime novels" as they used to be called were anything but star crossed lovers. It's erotica.

As for run on sentences try looking up some old old literature that was considered good writing then. Even a lot of modern authors which have had great success use run on sentences. As for voice, there is an excellent book called "The Rhetoric of Fiction." It's a great book imo. In it, it shows how voice changed over the years. Stories used to be told, now most of them are shown. A lot of teachers will say show don't tell. He picks apart this argument through examples and explains how really you can fit your voice to the purpose of the story and that old stories are still effective and can be quite good even though they were told rather than shown. So voice is also subjective. pretty much all of it but grammar is subjective and even then sometimes experts disagree on proper usage.

I'm sorry but this conversation really isn't worth my time.

Oh look another appeal to emotion, specifically appeal to ridicule. That's all you've supplied for 2 pages now. Give it a rest man go for a walk or something.

Magical baby glue. Now with *** included.

this sounds all kinds of wrong

Look, I'm not trying to call into question your apparent vast knowledge of everything, but chances are slim that an 11-year-old has the wherewithal to understand the level of satire you're suggesting, as it indicates he's read and understands the books and the nuances of satire, and then put all of those things together to form this notion.

It's a major Hollywood film. He doesn't need to have touched the books nor understand the full context to know that it is a.) a popular phenomenon and b.) *** stupid. If he's been allowed anywhere near the internet (you know, the thing that didn't really exist when you and I were 11), he's seen more than his fair share of Buzzfeed links making fun of this stuff and may have even read an article or two explaining why it's garbage.

I remember when Eyes Wide Shut came out. My friends' moms took the two of us to the theater to watch something slightly more appropriate for teenage boys whilst they went to see it. I mocked them mercilessly for wanting see a big orgy. It was a couple years later that I actually sat down and watched the film to find out that it's a boring, pretentious bit of nonsense that happens to include a lot of nekkid people.

President Barack Obama condemned the Missouri city of Ferguson on Friday for "oppressive and abusive" actions against African-Americans that were laid bare in a U.S. Justice Department report accusing police and court officials of racial bias.

The president's comments came as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday dismantling the city's police department was a possibility.

"We are prepared to use all the power that we have... to ensure that the situation changes there," Holder said. "That means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure."

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said three city workers who demonstrated "egregious racial bias" are no longer employed by the city, and said Ferguson officials are pursuing other reforms to try to reach a settlement with the Justice Department.

City spokesman Jeff Small said police officers Rick Henke and William Mudd resigned on Thursday and Ferguson's top court clerk, Mary Ann Twitty, was fired after the release of the Justice Department report on Wednesday.

The Justice Department said it found that the mostly white police force routinely targeted African-Americans for arrests and ticketing, in part to raise revenue for the city through fines and fees. It found a pattern of officers using excessive force and illegally arresting people without cause, deploying attack dogs and tasers on unarmed people "unreasonably."

“What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined,” Obama said at a town hall-style meeting in South Carolina.

The federal investigation started after a white Ferguson police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9, triggering nationwide protests and illuminating long-held complaints in Ferguson and elsewhere about police treatment of minorities.

The Justice Department said it did not find grounds to prosecute police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, but it did find racially disparate practices rampant through the police force.

Obama said on Friday he fully supported the decision not to charge Wilson.

"That was the decision that was made, and I have complete confidence and stand fully behind the decision that was made by the Justice Department on that issue," he said.

The city and the Justice Department are attempting to negotiate reforms to address the problems, and Knowles said the city has hired a consultant to work with the police.

Knowles said city leaders plan to meet with Justice officials in two weeks to review reform strategies, and try to agree on a settlement.

Relations between the city and the Justice Department have been tense during the federal probe, and city officials have bristled at some of the report's allegations.

"There are a lot of things in that report that are very troubling and need to be addressed, but there are also things that are an overreach," Knowles said.

"Our hope is those negotiations lead to mutual satisfaction. But if we cannot come to terms ... we are not going to settle."

Knowles would not comment on whether Police Chief Tom Jackson would be asked to step down. Several community and civil rights leaders, as well as some lawmakers, have sought Jackson's ouster for months.

"We're looking at where the breakdown was and then we'll make changes accordingly," Knowles said.