I voted Libertarian on everything in Illinois, except Dick Durbin. I voted Republican there in order to not dilute the potential votes getting rid of him.

They did double the price, from cheap to still cheap. "Double" as a measurement is relative, and it sounds like it sucks. "Raised by $5" sounds much more reasonable, at least to me.

It has always been -and continues to be- a reasonable price, ever since I rented porn from them when I was a teenager (14 years ago).

I gotta ask, what is it with these Presbyterians who keep getting people infected with ebola?

Disclaimer: Christian, raised Presbyterian

It is non-obvious what you are talking about. Do you mean to say that marriage is evil?

This sounds exactly like what the movie 12 Angry Men was trying to say.

Or they may have taken some steps toward actually performing the act. It might not just be a thought crime.

You're on the internet. That sentence should be perfectly readable to you, because reasons.

That's why I *always* start in China or India. Shitty places to live, quick to spread a new disease.

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Glad to know that you are mentally sound, of good health, mid-thirties, have a full head of hair, well endowed in the chest and/or genitals, physically attractive (but not overly so), weigh the correct amount for your height, have a nominal muscle mass, have a low count of body hair, speak the local language fluently without accent, have perfect vision and ocular muscle behavior and have had an average number of sexual partners.

Some of us aren't quite so lucky, you insensitive clod!

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Because it's a percentage; L3 probably has way more bandwidth up to that point including the Netflix traffic, with space to spare, whereas Verison will not if the floodgates are opened. Verison needs to upgrade their network.

I would point out that at no time have I said that Thor cannot or should not be a woman. I pointed out that I do not believe that there was any misogyny as was implied.

I did not say that feminine attributes make the new Thor weaker; I was pointing out a weakness in the armor.

I believe that addressing codpieces or physical attributes of other female superheroes either in favor of or against is an attempted trap, and will simply acknowledge other superheroes, which are well known to put their endowedness on display, both male and female alike.

Personally, I think that turning Thor into a title is the absurdity here. I felt the same about Captain America. I think Thor would have worked as a female in, for example, the Marvel Ultimate universe. One of my favorite Thor moments was in the Marvel vs. DC crossover when Wonder Woman was able to wield Mjolnir; I was disappointed that the Amalgam comics went in a different direction with her.

Actually, I am trying to engage in thought-out, intelligent dicussion, but ultimately, I seems you are trying to build a straw man out of my arguments to then refute, which disingenuously undermines what I have said while simultaneously undermines my ability to respect the speaker.

To be gender- and race-neutral, this would be the equivalent of:

• Replacing Bruce Wayne with a female Batman and calling her Batman
• Introducing a male character and taking the mutant Storm's powers and giving them to him, calling him Storm
• Eradicating the established Norse pantheon in an event called Ragnarok and then bringing them all back later, only with Loki back as a female
• Turning the established white male character Iron Man with his side kick and one of his best friends, a black man

The misogyny is actually in the new character of the female Thor, wherein Thor's breastplate now has protrusions for breasts (commonly referred to amongst roleplaying-, comic- and self-proclaimed nerds as "boobplate"). It has been argued (link; I know, it's just a blog post and the authority of it is beyond suspect) that a strong enough blow would be plenty to break a sternum. Thor is a warrior that is often engaging in battles of super-human strength, which would qualify as a strong enough blow. They are putting a weakness on the new Thor in order to make her pretty parts more clearly on display. That, I feel, is the true misogyny.

I think that you are mistaking misogyny for something else.

Misogyny: "dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women"
Misogyny: "hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women."
Misogynist: "a person who hates women"

There are female superheroes, so you couldn't be saying that there the statement indicated that there should not be any of those. And Thor was a male god in the mythos, so are you saying that not changing the mythos is hating women? Perhaps you meant that they were speaking in defense of continuity? Or do you instead mean that they are transexualophobes? (what exactly would be the word?)

Either way, my takeaway from your post is that if anyone were to say that George Washington did not have female reproductive organs, they must be a misogynist.

That was the punchline of a SeaQuest episode's (Whale Song) sub-plot. Cattle was outlawed due to excessive flatulence.

You can help by showing that this Mayor Ardis is prone to making unwise choices. He released a press conference where he actually read some of the tweets aloud, and this video is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think people know what needs to be done.