Random Politics & Religion #00

That made me wonder: what if all what they did was make fun of the patient, without saying anything that would qualify for being "defamation", or tampering with his medical records? Would the plaintiff still have a case, and what will it be?

Because it's still a horrible thing to do.

Scientists are still baffled how woman that weighs 350 pounds can have one kid let alone two !

Ever been to the Midwest?

Scientists are still baffled how woman that weighs 350 pounds can have one kid let alone two !

Hearing Southern people who believe the Confederate flag represents their culture is like hearing black people who say that Tyler Perry encapsulates their culture.

And So It Begins.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-thomas-jefferson-confederate-statues-20150624-story.html
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/25/apple-removes-civil-war-games-confederate-flag/
http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/gone-with-the-wind-should-go-the-way-of-the-confederate-flag/
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-confederate-monument-lake-eola-petition-20150624-story.html
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/06/lee_circle_statue_robert_e_lee.html
This is just a fraction of the crap people are in an uproar about. Who would have though banning the Confederate Flag would spiral into this..

If we ban Gone With The Wind because of slavery then we have to ban every single movie made and every book written about slavery and The Civil War including school history books and anything and everything that has a confederate flag on it Then we have to ban movies like Schindlers List because it shows a fairly accurate depiction of the Holocaust and other classic movies that depict WWII and show the Nazi flag. We have to ban The Diary Of Anne Frank because Anne writes about her Jewish family and friends living in an attic together in fear of being captured and tortured by the Nazis in WWII and they eventually were found and killed except for dad Otto. After all this is banned then we have to move on to banning anything do with the history of Native Americans, the massacres etc.. Books like Little House On The Prairie have to go because Laura describes in detail how Indians stormed into their home and terrified them etc... Where does it end? We can't hide from every ugly thing that ever happened in history. We have to learn it and learn from it so it doesn't happen again. History that is allowed to be forgotten is apt to be repeated.

Liberal fascism at its finest.

You'd they stop and think for a second when you're banning classic movies and books.

Nope, gotta ban video games too, but keep the focus on the flag.

It's almost like people taking things to extremes is a bad thing. Whowouldathunkit?

There are Black people that are supporting the flag saying ***like


Spoilered: Cause i dont know if even while relevant if thats against the forum rules or not

And im just like "Lol whut?"

But, iunno.

June is something like Hate America Month in North Korea.

Officially, it's called "Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism Month" and — more so than usual — it's a time for North Koreans to swarm to war museums, mobilize for gatherings denouncing the evils of the United States and join in a general, nationwide whipping up of anti-American sentiment.

The culmination this year came Thursday — the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War — with a 100,000-strong rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Stadium.

Though often called the "Forgotten War" in the United States, the 1950-53 Korean War is anything but forgotten in North Korea. As the anti-U.S. fervor reached its crescendo this week, The Associated Press took a look at what North Koreans, who aren't privy to conflicting versions of the history of the war, are taught about it — and how they are constantly told they "can never trust the American imperialists."

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There is no dispute that the Korean War was particularly brutal, claiming millions of Korean lives, possibly hundreds of thousands of Chinese who were sent to fight with them, and tens of thousands of Americans left dead or missing in action.

But the North Korean version of the war, including the claim that it was started by Washington, is radically at odds with that of the United States and often doesn't even jibe well with documents released over the years by its wartime allies, China and the Soviet Union.

For Pyongyang, however, the conflict isn't just about history.

What's more important to the ruling regime is the official moral of the story — that it was thanks to the wise leadership of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, and since then his son Kim Jong Il and now grandson Kim Jong Un, that the country has managed to survive in its struggle against the ever-present threat of the American Goliath.

Before attending the "Pyongyang Mass Rally on the Day of the Struggle Against the U.S.," a carefully orchestrated display of angry speeches, fist-pumping and calls for blood revenge, we toured two sites overflowing with soldiers in olive-green uniforms, schoolchildren wearing their bright red scarves and community groups of every stripe.

Both sites were devoted to stories of atrocities, massacres and grisly tortures committed upon the nation, their walls covered by fuzzy black-and-white photos of horrifically mangled bodies, displays of skulls with spikes driven through them and oil paintings of almost cartoonishly fiendish American GIs and crazed Korean "stooges" who collaborated with them.

At the Susan-ri Class Education Center, guide Choe Jong Suk, a somber middle-aged woman in a black-and-white traditional gown, gave a well-practiced lecture on the variety of tortures — 110 in all, she said — inflicted on Koreans by the U.S. that, she said, were "worse than the methods of Hitler."

Apple has begun to remove games from the App store that use the Confederate flag, even in the case of war games or simulations that place the flag within the context of the Civil War.

"Nothing was said specifically about the game, apple was nice and courteous as usual," Game-labs' Maxim Zasov told Polygon. "The notification just said that the image of the Confederate flag is against Apple rules and guidelines. To bring back the game we should change the content to fit the guidelines."

The company's game, Ultimate General: Gettysburg was one of the games removed due to the display of the flag.

"We accept Apple's decision and understand that this is a sensitive issue for the American Nation," the company stated. "We wanted our game to be the most accurate, historical, playable reference of the Battle of Gettysburg. All historical commanders, unit composition and weaponry, key geographical locations to the smallest streams or farms are recreated in our game's battlefield."

The developer also compared the use of the flag in their game to other troubling imagery found in films. "Spielberg’s Schindler's List did not try to amend his movie to look more comfortable," the response continued. "The historical Gettysburg movie (1993) is still on iTunes. We believe that all historical art forms: books, movies, or games such as ours, help to learn and understand history, depicting events as they were. True stories are more important to us than money."

It's for that reason they won't be editing the game.

"Therefore we are not going to amend the game's content and Ultimate General: Gettysburg will no longer be available on AppStore. We really hope that Apple’s decision will achieve the desired results. We can’t change history, but we can change the future."

Can we ban feelings ? I'm tired of being asked how I'm feeling !

I'm sure glad we're solving racism once and for all with this flag banning.

So, video games about the freaking Civil War can't have the Confederate flag either? You see, this is when good intentions become stupid.

I'm sure glad we're solving racism once and for all with this flag banning.

It's a business decision. Why do you hate the free market?