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I wouldn't put all cops in the same mold. I met with a cop yesterday who after five years of gross harassment and abuse by a co-worker who no one ever lifted a finger against said I not only had a case, but I should file a lawsuit against because of how much he humiliated me.

And I went through dozens of agencies before that begging for help with no answer. Not all cops are horrible, just some of them and they get the press time.

Ironically enough, the British dropped slavery way sooner than the Americans. They were actually disgusted from what I heard we kept it so long.

As for your thing with religions, I agree, but the thing is, and I grew up as I mentioned before with a real religious fanatic who was in a cult when he met my mom. (One of the reasons she brought him to the South, to try and distract him from religion since he got a job there. She realized her mistake very quickly.)

Is that if you grew up in that culture, or you have the "Cult Mind". (My dad has it, so does my aunt.) Where you easily accept something as fact like the Church, or that the leader knows everything about God and his word will be the only way to heaven even if you have to eat poisonous shots of jello. (Happened near the border of Mexico, or in Mexico from what I remember.) And feed it to your children for the same results. They'll do it, some didn't and were shot.

I''m not saying everyone back then was a fanatic like that, but if you questioned it, you were a heretic. If you were lucky and threw yourself at the court for mercy, maybe you'd get jail time, that's a big maybe. The church and state were one, one of the reasons why the U.S. was formed and has the rights it has listed, though violated. But in Europe the Church ruled with an iron fist and every belief they had went or you were a heretic. So y-eah... That's probably why a lot of people didn't have science back then. Though ironically the Renaissance which religion (in mostly art) and science had the hugest improvements was considered one of the largest steps in human history.

Missouri can be considered a part of the South. They were at least a slave state. Not saying that was the main reason why the shooting happened and the racism, I'm just pointing out it was a slave state also. I think it was all the way to Illinois at the time that all of them were divided into slave/non-slave states I can't fully understand why... Something about separating the two. I know in the Constitution for a long time a slave was considered 3/5's of a person, giving the South more power in the house. Though they couldn't vote... At all. They still wanted to have those people count so it was considered more people in the house of representatives. But Missouri was given to a slave state because anti-slavery was starting to stir in the Northern states, but the South was throwing a fit so they compromised. Making Maine a state. (My state. XD...) And Missouri a slave state though "technically" it shouldn't have been. with some strings attached about what happened during it.

Wiki is your friend. Use it wisely. XD...

Oh yeah... All these incidents remind me of the deep South during the Civil Rights movement. Luckily there's not firehoses and police dogs going after younger children in these incidents. These are bad enough.

Though African Americans are the worst treated.

Economically slaves were the best deal for the South. They were free labor that the white owners believed to be: "lesser beings". My mom used to tell me, (and she spent six months in Mississippi, the epicenter of the race issue in the South. She told me if you didn't have a skirt covering your ankles a priest would come to your door the next day and chew you out. I kid you not. That was before I was born.) That they tried to believe that African Americans were more like animals to make them believe they were in the right. Even when the Civil War hit, they were a huge part of the economy for the free labor, especially for the cotton fields they heavily depended on compared to the North that got industrialized.

When the Civil War ended, they lost most of, if not all, of their labor and basically most of their economy. (One general actually marched to the sea from deep inside the mainland, and burned, blew up and destroyed everything he saw along the way. Anything his soldiers couldn't carry, was burned and destroyed except the citizens.) They couldn't cope and though later they found loopholes. (Land sharing one of them, they gave them property on their land in exchange for labor.) A lot of people were pissed off about it and resentment grew especially when African American's started rising up in the ranks. There was a justice in the Supreme Court, a few politicians, and some other high-end jobs before laws were passed in the South causing segregation. Which soon grew into the KKK, which basically turned it into a manhunt for African American's.

My mom was there in the 1970's, a hundred years after the Civil War. Ten after the Civil Rights Movement ended. She said as soon as you set foot in the South, it was like stepping back a hundred years. Their beliefs, culture and views were like they were before and after the Civil War. There was a meeting every Saturday night of the KKK, it was frowned upon, (like lynched frowned upon) to have an African American man hold hands with a white woman, let alone date. A white man can date an African American woman, but not the other way around. She said it was the most uncomfortable years in her life, and she was worse off because she ran a boarding house for African Americans.

Thankfully, the South is (albeit) slowly changing with a new generation. But the prejudice is so ingrained there it'll probably take generations to get it to a level like it is in the rest of the U.S. I sadly see this not ending soon. The least amount of a fit that the South threw was when African Americans were invited to go to an all-white school. A huge angry mob screaming and throwing things at one girl who got separated, screaming obscenities, spitting on them, even with the police there as they went by.

Oh yeah, and the state Governor actually brought the state's national guard to help the people who wanted them not to be there.

All nine of them. With the army. In the hallways, escorting them to the school and back home, in the classrooms, in the cafeteria. And when they removed them, the students were assaulted in the hallways, bathroom and other places for going to the school. The white students were only punished when a teacher was in sight and saw what happened. I won't go into all the graphic details, I'm sure it wouldn't be appreciated. But if you want to see pure, unadulterated hate and bigotry by adults and children, read about the Little Rock Nine.

Btw if anyone's interested: The Ernest Green Story is the one about the only senior in the nine who went to high school as it said in the movie to partially see what a microscope looked like. He had never seen one in his all African American school his whole life. It's a great movie.

That is the South in a nutshell, sadly.

I still remember the long conversations we had at night with KH-vids and staffing. There were many people, and I say it often, that helped make this site work. And I'm proud you were there for the very long, (admittedly tiring and a frustrating few *several* times) long journey to make it work. I couldn't have done it without you. It's sad to see one of the oldest staff members retire. I was amazed you stayed as long as you did, and touched in a way, outlasting me over six years. I'm proud of your work along with everyone else that works here.

You were a great admin, and a great friend. I hope to see you at some point again.

For now, take care of yourself, and good luck in the future. *bows*

I am............ Semi? Enthusiastic about this.

Being................. Old... I remember the cartoon series very well for the Legend of Zelda and Super Mario series. I thought it was great, considering I was very young at the time. Right now, I'm kind of hesitant about it, especially with the "Game of Thrones without the R rating." theme going into it. I'd also have to get NetFlix. Which doesn't raise my enthusiasm much. I'm in the wait and see field here.

I started rp'ing purely by dumb luck, actually...

I was looking around for videos on a series when I found a bunch of people rp'ing in a chat box. I spent a week watching them and found it a frigging blast and asked to join. They welcomed me with open arms and we didn't really do much with our posts. (It was scripted, and yes, I know a ton of rp'ers would cringe in horror at our posts, admittedly I looked back at it a few months ago and did the same thing. lolz...)

But it was fun, we had a blast and bounced around a ton of ideas amongst each other. I honestly only had a group once since then like that where formality of how many sentences per post, how colorful it is, and asking permission for any idea was thrown out the window and it was just about fun. I fell in love with rp'ing and miss both groups a lot of the times when trying to find another rp like that. I would say it was a long time ago, no year time... lolz... It was years even before I started working here. When the rp fell apart I had a year between that and working here.

Rp'ing for me will always be special. When I have a bad day, it helps me relax and get away from my problems. It also allows me to expand my own self and be creative when usually I really can't. I don't see myself giving it up unless I find another dead period, even then it's hard for me to stop rp'ing and I miss doing so.

From a podcast tonight just now:

Bernie said that Monty had a ton of ideas still written down for RWBY coming up. They will continue the series, though they did admit it wouldn't be the same.

I really didn't even get into RT or Red vs Blue until my friend showed me season 8 episode 10. He just came on one day and was like: "Hey, watch this..." And I was floored, it was my first intro to Red vs Blue and the comedy and action blew me away. There have been many moments that are much more amazing than that first episode I watched from Monty and RT, but it is always the one that I hold closest for bringing me into the series and making me a huge fan.

If it wasn't for Monty's work, I'd probably still think that Red vs Blue was a serious war story that I wouldn't enjoy. Thanks, Monty...

I ask for a moment of silence from the fans of RT who has seen Monty's work.

He was an extremely talented CGI artist who paved the way for a lot of what happened this season for Red vs Blue. Not including what he's done with RWBY and the machinma community. Hell, one of my closest friends is from a link that Monty posted on RT's website saying she was a talented artist. I hope he's resting in peace, and my thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family.

*pulls hat off and bows head in silence*

Roosterteeth is a website that makes films about different things. Usually they use the employees/owner in several different videos, but they also do Machinma and a CGI series. They started with a series called Red vs Blue that was Machinma, basically using the Halo engine multiplayer to film the series with characters they voiced themselves. When it got massively popular (It's still running and has broken several records for an Internet series.) and they could afford it, they hired Monty to do their CGI. He did a fantastic job on it until he went off to start RWBY, which is what he works on now. Which is all CGI and his brainchild from what I hear.

He's a fantastic CGI artist and has a ton of other different talents when it comes to entertainment. He's really well-known in the Roosterteeth community. He also did the majority of the CGI for Roosterteeth doing two of it's largest (so far) seasons of one of their most popular shows, including recording people doing the actions to convert it, directing the people to make sure it's exactly how he wanted it, etc... Basically without him, CGI would never have reached RT and neither would RWBY.

Thanks for posting it here, I wasn't sure if i should have. =3

My hopes and prayers for his recovery. His hospital bills are estimated at 50K. Please donate if you can.

EDIT: In 4 hours they made 70K to help the family and the bills, an incredible moment for a tight-knit community. :)

I'm a fan of RvB, which is also a huge piece of Monty's work for several seasons. I wouldn't wish this on anyone and pray that he'll make it. He does make fantastic work.

I thought you guys should know though I'm not a fan of the show:

http://roosterteeth.com/news/entry.php?id=5427280

Monty Oum is in the hospital in critical condition. They don't know if he's going to make it or not. The posting also is a link to any funds to help pay for the bills. Sorry if this is spam, but I thought it should be known.

You would be amazed... Seriously, the parents these days will get pissed about anything in the U.S. At any age. They will drag the other family to court over it, too. It's kinda sad, if it happened when I was growing up my mom would tell the person to shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

They really shouldn't drag the children into this, if it was anyone's fault (and I'm not pointing fingers here.) It's the parents of Alex making sure the day was available. I'm not saying things come up at the last minute, like an emergency or something, but they had time to make sure the grandparents didn't want to see the kids. But that's minor to how blown out of proportion this has become. Especially over something like a birthday party. Especially to school where it's hard enough for these kids and can get horrible very quickly for any kid. (I grew up as a bullied kid, so I know how quickly it spirals. Especially if it comes to the point where parents refuse the kid to participate in anything later on.) Let it drop and let the kid grow up and be his own kid.

I went to a sweet sixteen party where my best friend had a limo rented for the night. Other families were told in advance they were planning it and asked to help contribute to such a large expense. (I wasn't asked because of my family situation. The only reason I know the other families knew was because they were waiting for us when we dropped by. My parents had no idea until I got home and hollered for them to check outside.) They asked for the money before the limo was rented and made sure that it was all settled. It was a fantastic night and unforgettable, but they didn't charge me for the limo ride even though I had as much fun as they did and didn't help with the expenses. It's ridiculous.

Freedom of religion can get pretty liberal in the U.S. A lot of places take it to the extreme, Waco Siege is one of many examples of this. There has been times it has been investigated before, as such molestation charges and things like that. The main problem is at least with the molestation is that the priests around said molester do a vow of silence before said person confesses to the priest.

A lot of people do believe in not giving children medicine. There's some who don't believe in giving their children vaccinations. Some believe in selling their children to older men or marrying to multiple wives, (something my mom barely avoided and most likely my fate if she stayed.) The problem is with any religion, any type, can get a person to a mindset that this is okay and they don't speak out. My dad was a lot like that, my mom got my aunt and dad out of one of those, that's how cults work and even what others see as wrong (such as beating a child, which I'm sure the child complained to his parents and they either didn't believe him and/or they didn't think it was that bad.) they don't turn the person in. This is probably the first time that someone posted this, or if they have, a judge and/or the police looked the other way. There is probably a reason why he hasn't been seeing jail for a long time, or if he has, why he's still a priest. Or claiming to be one as the case may be.

I do believe in spanking or corporal punishment if there is a reason to do so and there's no other way to get to the kid. Meaning a few swats on the rear, maybe push-ups if needed in a military setting. One karate instructor had my nephew do that as punishment which is fine for me because honestly the kid was bullying other children and being disrespectful to the instructor. The push ups did no harm and put him in better shape for the lessons he was taking. If it was excessive and the kid shown physical distress after a certain amount would I stop it? Yes, same in spanking. Do I believe in a paddle/hairbrush/etc? No. I believe in something that will not leave severe bruises and/or damage on a child except a sore/stinging bottom for a few minutes. A punch in the chest in a certain way can not only break ribs but can kill a kid with the right force. Kids are still developing at that age, a punch in the chest from one adult to another can kill a person with the right force.

I saw a video like this one where a priest was talking about beating a little boy and making him dig ditches. (Age didn't matter, I think he said three in the example, though.) Because he showed "gay" tendencies (I.E.: Him dressing like a girl and doing girl things.) A lot of the church cheered for him saying that and thought it was a great idea. He continued on to talk about girls, but not such an extensive way.

I can sadly see my dad doing any of these examples. I won't go into details, like I said, I don't enjoy talking about my past with the church, as much as my godfather doesn't. But if he heard someone doing this to a child, at any age, who was a priest, he would accept it. I don't know if he would do it himself, but he would at least support it. It''s a scary thought.