Turns out the same people that worshiped an emperor 100 years ago will go along with totalitarian ideas.

My good friend had a friend from college who was in Vegas that night who believes he saw another shooter that night in a casino, there used to be cell phone video that guy took online, probably still is.

Maybe he just saw security guys running through the casino, but my understanding is he heard/recorded shots fired.

Either way, everyone knows more happened that night than what we were told.

At the richer high schools here in Southern California (hundreds of kids driving $50,000+ cars), it apparently isn't too uncommon for girls to have sugar daddies, they do things like lie about their age on tinder. Not many girls do it, but I guess everyone knows of some who do it, or so I've been told.

It is like speaking out against how the porn industry treats women, so you don't give them money, just pirate all the porn. So noble to sleep with the prostitute but not pay the pimp!

I eat red meat almost every day, and I suspect that is healthy. Even if it isn't, I'd rather die at 75 having the benefits of red meat the lingering as a low T ghost for 100 years.

I think Mexican and black men like Trump pretty good nowadays and don't respect Biden or Kamala, which in a fair election is more than enough to swing it. The people screaming about Trump will vote for anything they are told to, probably even a literal animal.

I bet that is a common sign, because the strip club by where I grew up had that sign too.

Then it turned into a gay bar for a couple years, but after a few years turned back into a strip club.

Half the teachers with masters degrees have their masters in education, which is a big joke (I have like half the classes needed for one too). Not saying your teacher wasn't good, and I'm ignorant of what masters he had.

I read some version of the Merchant of Venice in jr. high! I'd imagine very few young people are familiar with Shylock (unfortunately).

Had Romeo and Juliette and Macbeth in high school, same curriculum company I had for jr high.

Playing CS4 now, and I'm glad it has a lot has Japanese audio, because it lets me glimpse into how extreme the localization is. Some of it is whatever, a lot of making up entire conversations out of simple routine Japanese responses, but I guess they don't like the redundancy of conversational Japanese. Sounds like you know Japanese, so I'm not telling you anything new.

I wish I could read Japanese better, as I can only imagine what is going on with most of the text, but I just don't have the drive to learn to read Japanese beyond my basic level. Even if I knew all the Kanji, I don't think I'd ever be fast, which would make a JRPG miserable to play.

A Christian high school near me here in Southern California has its largest incoming freshman class in its over-100-year history.

I just don't know in thus day and age; anything that gets any sort of value China copies within a month.

My friend hated his doctors in California (he moved to Arizona) at Kaiser. One doctor told him "you're pre-diabetic," and my friend responded "you're pre-diabetic!" Doctor didn't know what to say, so my friend says "do I have diabetes?" And the doctor said "no."

They should just call them the Broad Road Version.

"If you used the toilet, would you flush it?" -- Ali G

Maybe if they burned other books alongside the Koran -- perhaps also a Bible, a Book of Mormon, and a Torah -- it would be a more thorough social experiment that shows which groups are broken.

They should stand up where it matters, like taking the law into their own hands when rapes and murders happen.

I think many are scared, while many others just love evil and hate truth.

Still you are right, even at my church my mind is blown by the ignorance of people. However, I see others that are just in denial because facing certain truths would make their life less pleasant; I don't get invited to movies, probably because I have talked about things like how pozzed anything Disney is, more than one time in response to various friends' girlfriends questions on if I had seen some latest Marvel show on Disney+. Though I get invited to other stuff, so I'm not going to complain about not getting pressured into wasting $20.

My point is everyone that is honest already knows this, so it doesn't even raise awareness anymore. Those scared of speaking their mind will still be ruled by fear, and those in denial will still be in denial, as truth will not deter them from their illogical beliefs.

Did anyone not know this already? Those in denial won't let truth get in the way of their beliefs, so all actions like this do is unnecessarily put the guy burning the book in the line of fire.

There are stands a good man must take that will cost him greatly, but these sort of actions always seem like picking the wrong battle.

I never understood what the goal of burning a Koran is other than to make people angry. I have no respect for the Koran, believe it has deceived billions of people over the centuries, but I don't think there is any purpose to burning one outside of trying to upset a lot of people.

Oh my goodness, the professor of logic? Down at the university? Do you have a dog???

It is the name of two cities that border on each other.

There are a lot of good people in that area, I know a few of them, so the board might be decent and mean well.

Of course, I have seen what credential programs are teaching nowadays, and seen how the education students mostly seem to go along with it, so as long as the teachers believe it, it will mostly be pushed by them regardless of curriculum.

Sounds like the whole ordeal took her breath away.