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  1. after consulting with the guy they whose tribe they were paying off. Do you have any proof of FSU paying off the Seminole Tribe of Fla. or Ok.? I also wonder what you think about Utah and Central Michigan. Do you think they also pay off their local indian tribes as well? It may be shocking but some indian tribes may be for local universities using their culture if they are asked for input.
  2. How is that simple logo offensive, and yet it's okay for a dude to put on face paint, don a silly indian costume, wield a flaming, feathered spear, and ride a frickin horse around in a football stadium as a stadium full of people echo a bastardized, made-up indian warchant while waving their hands like tomahawks? Well just so you know that silly indian costume was made by the Seminole tribe for the SPECIFIC reason of the guy who portrays Chief Osceola to wear. In 1975, in consultation with Chief Howard Tommie, then chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, FSU created Osceola, a portrayal of an Indian who charges onto the football field on horseback at the beginning of home football games. Osceola ends his charge by throwing a flaming lance at midfield. Osceola appears only at home football games and at the homecoming parade. The Seminole Tribe designed the costume worn by Osceola. The Seminole Tribe participates in many University functions. The present Chief has given concerts at the University in his native language
  3. Because the Seminole Indians of Florida and Oklahoma approved the images and the name that FSU uses. The Miccosukees do not approve or disapprove. Does the Seminole Nation enjoy any financial benefit as a result of FSU? Not that I know of and I am sure if they did it would have been frowned upon by the NCAA if it was done openly. FSU just happens to honor and pay tribute in the name of the Seminoles history.
  4. In this particular case, the NCAA is nitpicking. I would love to hear them explain how they let FSU off the hook while nailing these guys. Because the Seminole Indians of Florida and Oklahoma approved the images and the name that FSU uses. The Miccosukees do not approve or disapprove.
  5. If you rotate 9-11-01 clockwise you get 10-11-6. Conspiracy nuts come out of the woodwork in 3...2...
  6. Reminds me of this: University team takes name to mock Indian mascot Author GREELEY, Colo. (AP) _ Unable to persuade a school district to drop a mascot name that offends them, some American Indian students at the University of Northern Colorado have named their intramural basketball team "The Fighting Whities." Led by Solomon Little Owl, director of Native American Student Services at UNC, the team chose a white man as its mascot to raise awareness and understanding of stereotypes that some cultures endure. "The message is, lets do something that will let people see the other side of what its like to be a mascot," Little Owl said. "I am really offended by this mascot issue, and I hope the people that support the Eaton mascot will get offended by this." The team is made up of American Indians, Hispanics and Anglos. They wear jerseys that say "Every thangs going to be all white." "Its not meant to be vicious, it is meant to be humorous," said Ray White, a Mohawk American Indian on the team. "It puts people in our shoes, and then we can say, 'Now you know how it is, and now you can make a judgement.'" White said many people don't understand how it feels to be victims of a stereotype. They are upset with Eaton High School for using an American Indian caricature on the team logo. The team is called the Reds. Eaton School District superintendent John Nuspl said the logo is not derogatory and called the group's criticism insulting. "Their interpretations are an insult to our patrons and blatantly inaccurate," he said. "There's no mockery of Native Americans with this." Charles Cuny, an Ogalala Lakota and member of the team, said he went to an American Indian Catholic high school with a mascot called the Red Cloud Crusaders, after a famous chief of the Lakota Indians. Having a white mascot is a way to make people more aware of American Indian issues, he said. "We live in a politically correct society, and sometimes Indians get overlooked," he said. "There are so few Indians who have clout that there are a lot of things that go unsettled."
  7. Unlike you and others on this forum, when i'm wrong i'm not going to hide it, not respond, ignore the post, or try and twist the other persons words to make it seem like I was right, because I wasn't. This is why you never admitted you were wrong about the NRA backing guns laws in Colorado after Columbine, right? Or why you never admitted you were wrong about the fact that there were actually thousands of troops in the mid-east before 9/11, right? Or ever tried to prove that 22 year old women wanting to bone, and then following through with underage children as being "normal" as you claimed, right? Accord's latest tactic: selective memory and lying.
  8. 5 years ago when it was proposed that we put armed men with guns on airplanes in this post-9/11 world, all the democrats were up in arms and said there would be shootings in the skies, planes would crash, and all sorts of horrible things would happen. This is why the senate passed the bill to allow guns in the cockpit with a vote of 87-6 right? :| Once again Accord makes another baseless assumption and takes no time to actually prove his case or use a thing called facts. Senate OKs Cockpit Guns Senate Passes Measure Arming Cockpit Crews Sept. 6, 2002 (CBS) "This isn't about guns in the hands of criminals. This is about a trained pilot, who volunteers, most of whom have training in the military." Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. (CBS) The Senate overwhelmingly backed a measure Thursday that would arm airline pilots on a voluntary basis in a dramatic security step aimed at preventing a repeat of last year's Sept. 11 attacks. Gun control advocates from the Democratic party joined conservative Republicans in passing the measure 87-6, leading supporters to declare they had the momentum to overcome the remaining hurdles to making the plan law. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/20/...ain541273.shtml I shall wait for Accord to tell me that I misunderstood what he said and then come with the name calling and anger like always.
  9. Ef Es Ew Leave it up to them to make Akron look good.
  10. If Rice is smart, she needs to try and get Iraq's neighbors involved, even countries like Syria and Iran, with the stabilization of that country. I don't know about that. Those two are the reason we need to stay there since we wiped out anything that was left of an Iraqi army. We leave, those two countries become the c--k of the walk in that little area. Truth of the matter is we will most likely have a formidable force in or near Iraq in '08,'10, 12' and maybe beyond.
  11. You tell the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government that this is their war now. We have given them the chance to fight for their freedom, but they are the ones who have to take it. It will never work if we just hand them the keys after doing all the work, because there are many Iraqis who hate the fact we are there even if our intentions are good they will never see it that way. We would have to make a reasonable date to withdraw 50%+1 troops, and then from there on out stay in a strictly support role, slowly working down the numbers of troops. Unless we plan on staying there forever there will be a day that we do leave them on their own. And I think 3+ years in is as good of a chance to let the Iraqis fight for their independence at this point on their own, and to make it work on their own. Are they going to have a better chance down the road? I doubt it because there will always be someone and some group against what has gone on there inside of Iraq. Who knows maybe if we actually admitted to the UN and some other countries that we were wrong about Iraq and about what Iraq had and did not have maybe they would help us out, but I guess that is wishful thinking. Either way we do have more pressing matters to our national security than Iraq.
  12. Sherwood says he's sorry for cheating on wife KIMBERLY HEFLING Associated Press Rep. Don Sherwood, a Republican entangled in a tough re-election fight in northeastern Pennsylvania, said in a TV ad that he was "truly sorry" for cheating on his wife, but he denied ever abusing his mistress. The ad comes days after his Democratic opponent in the mostly rural district, Chris Carney, launched a hard-hitting commercial on the affair. The Carney campaign also called on Republican leaders to cancel a fundraiser with Sherwood after it was revealed that Republican Rep. Mark Foley was under investigation for sending lurid Internet messages to young male Capitol Hill pages. "Don Sherwood has already brought Washington's values back to the district, now he wants to bring a depraved cover-up home," Carney's campaign said in a press release this week. In Sherwood's ad titled "Count on me," he looks straight into the camera and acknowledges the affair nearly cost him the love of his wife and his daughters. He said his family has worked through it "because of my deep regret, our love and the fact that the allegation of abuse was never true." "While I'm truly sorry for disappointing you, I never wavered from my commitment to reduce taxes, create jobs and bring home our fair share," Sherwood said. "Should you forgive me, you can count on me to keep on fighting hard for you and your family." The ad started running Tuesday in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre TV market, and will run for several days, his campaign said. Sherwood, a four-term congressman, had a seat that was originally considered safe. But that changed last year when it became public that in 2004 police investigated an alleged altercation between Sherwood and his mistress, Cynthia Ore, at his Capitol Hill apartment. Criminal charges were never filed, but Ore filed a lawsuit against Sherwood, claiming he had choked her while giving her a back rub. Sherwood apologized for the affair after it became public, but he denied abusing Ore. The suit was settled for an undisclosed sum. Jake O'Donnell, Sherwood's spokesman, said the ad was necessary because Carney was talking about the affair rather than issues. "He wants to move this campaign back to the issues," O'Donnell said. The Carney campaign accused Sherwood of trying to make amends a month before the election. Carney's ad features a voter in the district who says "This incident with Don Sherwood just cuts right at the core values of our district." The phrases "repeatedly choking" and "attempting to strangle plaintiff," taken from a civil lawsuit filed against the congressman, appear on the screen as he speaks. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctime...cs/15678107.htm Cheating on the wife. That's bad. But hey, he didn't abuse the woman he cheated with. That's good. I think this ad will work wonders.
  13. A 14 year old teenager with raging hormones who wants to bone his hot 22 year old female P.E. teacher = NORMAL A 60 year old congressman wanting to rape a little boy = NOT NORMAL I don't know if you read over the transcripts, or if you have common sense, but since the kid never really told Foley to stop talking, and kept talking to Foley himself, it would lead one to believe, well someone who can think, that the boy was open to the relationship. Not everyone is straight like you. Amazing I know. Not everyone thinks like you, yet you can't seem to acknowledge it. And do I really even need to point out the fact in one of these cases actual sex took place and not in the other? And I don't think many parents would call their minor aged children sleeping with their teachers as normal. And 22 year old women wanting underaged boys is not normal, not normal at all. But at least she is straight right? :|
  14. They were on Conan last night and did well, not great. Regina Spektor is still the only person his show that I have ever seen blow Conan away. But I whole heartedly support this album and give it a :thumbup
  15. Anyone else realize what Fox News got wrong here by "accident"? :| Gotta love mis-information.
  16. TORONTO -- Ricky Williams' luck with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL has yet to improve. Williams, the Miami Dolphins running back who is playing with the Argos this season while he sits out a one-year suspension from the NFL, injured his left heel Saturday in a freak locker-room accident during a 23-16 win over the Calgary Stampeders. He was playing in his second game since returning from a broken arm earlier in the season. Williams was suspended for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy and is expected to return to the Dolphins in 2007. The Toronto Star reported Williams suffered a serious gash on his left heel when a locker room door slammed shut behind him. He was expected to be examined Monday to determine if the accident damaged his Achilles tendon. "We do know that it's his Achilles, but we have to wait for the [X-ray] pictures," coach Mike Clemons told the newspaper, adding he did not know the severity of the damage. Williams scored on a 9-yard touchdown run before the accident happened. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2610446
  17. Well Chavez is the leader of his homeland. I am sure he still has family that lives there, and Miguel did recently participate in the WBC representing his homeland. Just because he sends his country's leader a signed bat it does not mean he agrees with his political thought process, nor does it mean he thinks Chavez is some great guy. Nicely said I AGREE. Anyone have any links for this? http://english.eluniversal.com/2006/10/02/...02A785337.shtml President Hugo Ch?vez Sunday waved a baseball bat and exclaimed: "Look what Miguelito Cabrera gave me for the presidential campaign!"
  18. Well Chavez is the leader of his homeland. I am sure he still has family that lives there, and Miguel did recently participate in the WBC representing his homeland. Just because he sends his country's leader a signed bat it does not mean he agrees with his political thought process, nor does it mean he thinks Chavez is some great guy.
  19. Regardless, I already gave you your answer. Every single state which requires a permit or license to carry a concealed weapon requires you to submit to an FBI background investigation with fingerprints among other things, there is no other way around this and that's how it is. I am not going to waste an hour of my time posting links to the requirements of every single state to appease you. Once again just because you say it does not make it true. I do not see where any site mentions the FBI handles the background checks of people who request CCWs. To me it seems like it is the local police departments and jurisdictions who just do background checks and run people's names through a system. I am not asking for all sorts of links, just one where it says the FBI handles CCW requests.
  20. Simply remove schools from the federal "gun free zone" list, people think in doing so, criminals will be carrying up and down the halls of schools nationwide and that's just not true - all this will do is allow teachers and other adults who have submitted to FBI background checks and sought out the proper training to legally carry a concealed firearm and exercise their god given right to self defense with effective means of doing so. I don't think that is what most people think. I think most people realize just because someone can pass a background check it does not mean they are stable. From my own understanding you just are not allowed to have a criminal record, or have your name on any major list of bad guys, plus the system is not 100% accurate, because no system is. However I am not sure the FBI checks every CCW request, I think it is left up to local/state officials, and the requirements differ from state to state. I think more people would rather see more police officers in the schools because they feel you can trust and officer more than a teacher. You are absolutely incorrect, PhishPhan I will be GLAD to debate you, but please at least educate yourself on the subject before trying to form an argument. All criminal background checks for concealed weapons permits and licenses nationwide are handled by the FBI, to get a concealed weapons license you must obtain an actual FBI fingerprint card and then go to your local police station or sheriffs office and be fingerprinted on it, you must then submit that FBI fingerprint card to the state who then forwards it to the FBI for the criminal background investigation through their entire international database. They're incredibly thorough, so much so that I actually had to submit my fingerprints twice because the first set of fingerprints wasn't good enough by the FBI's standards to conduct a complete investigation, so I had to go through the entire process a second time which was a pain in the ass, but worth it in the end. The only states where you don't have to submit to an FBI background check are states such as Vermont where anyone who is able to legally purchase and own a firearm is able to carry their weapon concealed - no permit or license is required. And I am definitely for more police officers in schools, but to put it simply, that's just not realistic except for the big cities who have the manpower to do so. When I lived in North Carolina, our local police had only 5 to 10 officers working at any given time for the entire city and that was it, so taking even just one of those officers and putting them at a school for their entire shifts would have crippled the local police force. In small areas like where I lived in NC, or the areas in Wisconsin, it's just not very realistic because these cities and towns don't have the manpower and don't have the funds to hire more officers. Accord you really are pathetic. I said I am not sure, for a reason, because I am not. So how can I be wrong with admitting that I don't know something? It was an invitation for you to show me proof on the matter and all you can do is insult and yell. I appreciate it, really, thanks for showing me how civil you can be. :| Not all of us need to lie and make up truths as we go along, some of us can admit to not knowing something. Obviously you can't, and don't know how to respond when someone does. Now, let's try this again. I am not sure if the FBI checks all CCW requests, do you have proof of this?
  21. Simply remove schools from the federal "gun free zone" list, people think in doing so, criminals will be carrying up and down the halls of schools nationwide and that's just not true - all this will do is allow teachers and other adults who have submitted to FBI background checks and sought out the proper training to legally carry a concealed firearm and exercise their god given right to self defense with effective means of doing so. I don't think that is what most people think. I think most people realize just because someone can pass a background check it does not mean they are stable. From my own understanding you just are not allowed to have a criminal record, or have your name on any major list of bad guys, plus the system is not 100% accurate, because no system is. However I am not sure the FBI checks every CCW request, I think it is left up to local/state officials, and the requirements differ from state to state. I think more people would rather see more police officers in the schools because they feel you can trust and officer more than a teacher.
  22. And if you're going to try and make an argument out of the second paragraph "Only a few token laws, those supported by the NRA, passed. One allows cops to arrest people who buy guns for criminals and children." Well that and re-establishing background check programs. You know that isn't a big deal or anything. :| So is it a lie that the NRA backed laws after Columbine? Thanks for playing. I know it may be shocking to you but not all guns laws are bad, well at least as far as the NRA is concerned. So bashing the fact gun laws are made is stupid when the NRA even realizes some sort of control needs to be had. So you're saying the NRA should unequivocally be against all laws regarding gun control? I don't see the harm or some sort of mixed message in the NRA wanting the state of Colorado to have laws that keep guns out of criminals' hands. Oh noes, the NRA wants guns to only be in the hands of people that are less likely to use it to do harm! All I did was point out the fact that not all gun laws are bad and that even the NRA sees the light from time to time. I was called a liar and proved the fact that yes even the NRA backs gun laws from time to time and limits are not such a bad thing. I have no problem with the NRA or how they conduct their business. I have nothing particularly against gun ownership and should be allowed within reason. I just have a problem with people when they refuse to acknowledge the truth and live in a fantasy world, i.e. in this case thinking new gun laws in reaction to such acts are a bad thing.
  23. And if you're going to try and make an argument out of the second paragraph "Only a few token laws, those supported by the NRA, passed. One allows cops to arrest people who buy guns for criminals and children." Well that and re-establishing background check programs. You know that isn't a big deal or anything. :| So is it a lie that the NRA backed laws after Columbine? Thanks for playing. I know it may be shocking to you but not all guns laws are bad, well at least as far as the NRA is concerned. So bashing the fact gun laws are made is stupid when the NRA even realizes some sort of control needs to be had.
  24. Columbine was single handedly responsible for countless new gun control laws being signed into law and the country rallying around the idea of needing more gun control and all of these school shootings is just going to feed more into it and some people will think the answer is more laws. And some of the people who backed new laws after Columbine was *gasp* the NRA. Stupid liberals vouching for more gun control laws. I'll be interested to see if this man had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. You've seen Bowling for Columbine one too many times, that statement is absolutely false. (CBS) The National Rifle Association gave thousands of dollars last month to Colorado state legislators in an effort to defeat gun control laws inspired by the Columbine massacre. CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports many of those measures were voted down this week. Only a few token laws, those supported by the NRA, passed. One allows cops to arrest people who buy guns for criminals and children; another re-authorizes a state background check program http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/16/...ain161459.shtml Unlike you Accord I know what I am talking about or at least spend time to learn about what I am talking about. Try it out sometime, if you think your mind could handle a little learning and knowledge.
  25. Columbine was single handedly responsible for countless new gun control laws being signed into law and the country rallying around the idea of needing more gun control and all of these school shootings is just going to feed more into it and some people will think the answer is more laws. And some of the people who backed new laws after Columbine was *gasp* the NRA. I guess it's always the stupid liberals vouching for more gun control laws. I'll be interested to see if this man had a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
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