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Um, pretty much. He was perhaps able to fire explosive warheads at Israel. That's so much better than say, the PLO, you know, who broke their contract, and attacks our ally all the time.

Oh, I actually like Jesse. Who spoke his mind more than him? He has the best quality of an actual conservative: he is a realist. EDIT: I never, ever said i liked Moore. Well I liked him through Bowling. Since I'm pro- gun control. But since he started making F9/11 he's been saying shit that is frankly anti-American. I think he's smart, and he's made some good stuff (anyone who doesn't feel for Roger & Me is completely lacking empathy) However, he's gotten more and more nuts, and that plays well to the rabid anti-Bush crowd, which has been simmering since the fucked-up election. He's just a liberal Limbaugh (who I honestly think is just a brilliant manipulator, tell people what they want to hear=$$ , I think he's actually playing a character.)

Blah, at this point I would say the Iraq war debate is over. This is what I think. Bush administration misled -not lied to- the public. Bush had a political vendetta, and exaggerated, but truly thought that Saddam was a threat as well. Just had to sell a war. Apparently, however, the legislature that voted enthusiastically for the war had the same reports. If so, anyone who voted for the war is just as culpable, the only excuse is you're to lazy to read (or have an assistant read) the documents provided. That's a horrible excuse. I think also congressmen were to scared of Bush's popularity to vote against it. Guess what. You are a pussy! Saddam's gone, that's good. No one can seriously claim that isn't the case. However, how do you judge how horrible a dictator is? Saddam was being pretty sedate recently. There are tons of dictatorships, each more horrible than the next. If we're really spreading democaracy (which, of course, is cool, but you have to weigh human life.) how do we judge whom we invade? lastly. We shouldn't pull out. That would be abandoning the Iraqis, who, like it or not, we bear a responsibility for now. I would challenge most people to argue with those points.

Kerry may be a war hero, but Jesse Ventura will keep us safe from predators. They form an axis of evil with Deceptacons, The brotherhood of evil mutants, Mumm-ra, and the USSR. Whenever I listen to conservative radio, a lot of the callers (besides the kooks whom they obviously let on the lines to prove the lefties are nuts) always mention that they LOVED McCain. And the O'reilly's and limbaugh's always dis them as TRYING to sound more conservative. Like they didn't really like McCain. What a load of delicious carp. If McCain had won the Republican primary, he would have won by a landslide. Dean's the same way (not in the landslide way). Often I gaped at him and said WHAT IS HE SAYING (please read in Joe Schmoe Matt voice), and I would have been hard-pressed to vote for him over Bush (50-50) But, man, he spoke his mind. And don't tell me Bush speaks his mind. Remember 'compassionate conservative'? HIS wishy-washy stances? Everyone I knew thought he and Gore sounded alike, except for one sounded stupid, and one sounded like he should have been at Chuck E Cheese. Good pool to pick from there. I LOVE McCain. He's stolid, somewhat charismatic, but none of that matters a whit, because he SPOKE HIS MIND. He told you clearly what he stood for. Generally and specifically. Of course he railed against the current election process (which is so diseased), so he got booted. I respect the rabid conservatives and liberals more than I respect centrists who are centrist becasue they don't know what they want. Most of all, I respect the rare person who isn't on the far end of the spectrum, who clearly tells you what they are for and against. It shows that they think about the issues. They don't just play it for spin and politics. They don't just toe the party line. I will vote for someone like that over someone who is a blob, unless they're Buchannan crazy. You know what we should start? A thread where people state their fuckin views. they can validate them: por exemplo I am pro-choice, but only in the 1st trimester (unless rape incest risk to mother.) We could have -Abortion -Gay marriage -Wellfare -War in Iraq -health care -taxes No snarky comments, no bitching to clutter it up. It would be interesting to see how people think. You of course could add comments. As long as they're specific. LIke my example, I'm pro-choice, but many liberals would probably revile me. *whew* that made me think, when I'm sick as a dog.

Well, duh. If you don't have anything intelligent to say: 1. Call someone Osama or Hitler 2. Say someone would support Osama or Hitler 3. If someone's an idealist, do the same as above, with stalin, lenin, etc. If you can compare to/call someone a mass-murderer: YOU FUCKING WIN! You made your point indisputably! This applies to both liberals and democrats! Call Bush Hitler! (Because, you know, he caused the Holocaust) Say that if you want National Health Care (isn't that defined under LIFE liberty pursuit of happiness) That you love Lenin and Stalin and Mao Tse Tung! Then turn around a walk away. 'Cause you=the smartest.

Well, keep in mind I played MGS2 when it first came out, and never since. So perhaps my least favourite parts are the ones that stand out most in my mind. I figured people had already mentioned that Raiden was a lousy replacement for the mullet-y grizzled goodness of Snake. Did I mentioned that MGS2 had horrible, horrible bosses next to the often pretty brilliant bosses of MGS? I would say that I also remember that after the tanker, the good places to screw with the guards were often few and far between. Tons of corridors and the like. It's like they spent more time on easter eggs than on the game as a whole.

Hoop Dreams and Crumb

The thing that baffles me, is that neither candidate seems to understand that you actually have to cut SOME government programs sometime. Bush cut taxes, yay Bush, but then he raised government spending to massive levels. Not a particularly good plan. Now Kerry comes along and wants to spend even MORE money, and he thinks that raising taxes a little will pay for the increases in programs he proposes. Even if that's true, then you've still got a record deficit. Time to look at if some programs are reallt necessary. That quote from Bush is really, really, dumb though. Of course, so are the Dems' claims that Bush is cutting spending on things like education. When's the last time we had an actual economic conservative running?

If you want a deep system and simple but pleasing graphics, you can't do better than Disgaea. Also check out Valkyrie Profile, a PS1 game. The pain is, FFX and Kingdom Hearts were quite good, also FFTA, but everyone remembers FFVI, FFVII and Chrono Trigger as generally the greatest CRPG's ever. And speaking of Lufia II, which was very much the shit, weren't all the subsequent Lufias just freakin' dungeon crawls? The fact that they're making a short FFVII prequel for a cell phone, when people have been clamoring for on offshoot forever, pretty much shows they're losing it. I hope they make a winner with the rumored Vincent-starring FFVII prequel.

RPG: FFX, Disgaea, Most Likely Star Ocean, from the buzz it's got. Kingdom Hearts. Platform/Action: Both Ratchet and Clanks, Psi Ops (Really fun), MGS2 (not as good as the first, but now it's cheap!) Devil May Cry (NOT the sequel) ICO, Onimusha 3 Horror: Both Silent Hills, Fatal Frame 2. Fighter: Tekken Tag, MvC2 Rhythm: Frequency, Amplitude, Space Channel 5 Twisted Metal Black is a good, cheap driving shooter.

Thanks for quoting a fucking piece of shit! It completely made me lose my mind and feel angry for a while! was that Ted Rahl or Whomever? If you're insinnuationg hypcraacy, that above is about the most repuslive thing I've read. And I am serious about that. Every fucking sentence above should be kicked in the motherfucking mouth Kawada style. Hey! I'm a social-policyl liberal, economic conservative. Whomever wrote that shit above should be out of our nation. Period. I like the cheat. BREAKING STUFF! -Doug *getting worked up over something that wasn't even in the original discussion. P.P.S. Making fun of innocent death still != Funny

That's just dumb. Eveyone knows that if you have a bad job you should abuse NyQuil. It's Science. Don't argue with it.

She can sometimes be hilarious. It's too bad she doesn't read them aloud. I can picture spittle flying. Did you see the interview on Hardball? Matthews stuck it to her. She had some quote where she said I believe: the difference between terrorists now and communists then is that when a communist would sit down next to you on the bus you couldn't tell by the smell. Matthews asked if that was a slur against Arabs, and she just completely wilted, and pretty much clammed up. It's clear she's just the print equivalent of a shock-jock. Her main argument being that all liberal men are unmasculine, and all liberal women are ugly. Thank you, Ann Coulter, for the thought-provoking commentary.

I've always been a proponent on the Star Wars project. Any news on how that's going?

Crimson: Speaker for the dead was mediocre, Xenocide was BAD. Didn't read past that. Ender's game is for sure the shit though. Not by choice, but I've had to read Wheel of Time several times because I STARTED READING IT WHEN I WAS 12. I'm now 24. So like every time I try to read it, I think to myself: what the hell is going on? Every time I read it, I weep at how good the first 3 were, and get stuck on number 6, since it sucks so much balls. The books have become the main character having boring conversations with himself while half the book is girls changing their clothes from ho-garb to ball gowns in dream world. Feel the excitement!

Secret orders, religious cults, historical conspiracy theory. It's quite well plotted and quick moving, but the characters have no depth. It's like a popcorn movie, enjoyable while you're watching it, quickly over with, but not memorable upon completing.

The Clash - Rudie can't fail.

Clearly the best love story in a video game ever is: Golgo 13 I'll say MGS2. I loved the 1st one, and it was great fun to play around with the guards in this game, too bad you could barely do it, since the game was always rushing you around with a time limit. FF8, I loathed, and Square was coming off of: FFVI/3, Chrono Trigger, FFVII, and FFT, all tremendous games in my opinion. Square just started churning out crap games. The only games they've put out in a while I dug were FFX (X-2 was pretty bad) and Kindom Hearts, which has some gameplay issues, but was still overall pretty darn good. Speaking of Square, if I had thought Chrono Cross could have come close to Chrono Trigger, I would have been massively dissapointed. But I didn't have that high of expectations. Street Fighter 3 was pretty whack, too.

I mean, death can be funny. I laugh my ass of at 'no cure for cancer'. Sometimes ou do have to laugh at it. But you know, it's not like you guys are making jokes about death. It's just 'Ha ha, you're dead! I got you GOOD you fucker!" and slapping virtual high-fives. When I laugh, I prefer it to be at something that's you know, funny. This kind of shit is reserved for people that find videos of people getting run over by trains HIIILARIOUS! That's not having a sense of humor, it's being debased.

Um, I think Don Vito's being a gimmick poster. Maybe not. I just haven't heard the word 'corpulent' in many a year.

God, Teresa Heinz Kerry gave perhaps the worst speech I've heard in my life. If this woman can't even act like she likes anything but her husband, in public, under scrutiny, how must she be in private? What a horrid lady.

That's my point! Just because you disagree with him, you delight in his death? Because about half the country's liberal. I'm fed up with lots of things and types of people. Doesn't mean I would laugh at their death. Unless they're rapists or murderers.

I thought hey both came off badly, and Moore's starting to look like a total crazy man with his constant switching between holier than thou, and persistent badgering. O'Reilly should have made the aforementioned argument, that there's no draft. No one's pulling kids off the streets. Calling it the greatest military failure since Vietnam is over the top too. Unless you count every thing since as a resounding success, making it the worst by default. Anyone with half a brain knows the only REAL similarity to Vietnam is: the enemy is fighting geurilla style, and we maybe shouldn't be there. Moore should have made the point that the President did, in fact, lie with the yellow cake uranium deal. The rest of it was not lying, but there's know doubt he personally wanted Saddam out, and used opportunities to trump up charges. He didn't want to know the truth. He wanted to take Saddam out. If that was the case, he should have just said so. They're both so biased that it's a joke that anyone could take either one seriously as a moderate.

I have a good sense of humor, and will laugh myself silly at movies with dark humor and the such. But, I don't even like the Darwin Awards stuff, and that's people doing screwed up things, not just relaxing in your back yard. Irony can be funny. It's not necessarily so. There's a commonly used expression, 'sad irony'. Maybe the guys on this board just have a really dark sense of humor. But they didn't seem to be laughing so much that it was ironic, but just giggling at the stupid environmentalist. If you delight in the death of someone innocent simply because their views differ from your own, you need to go outside, take a deep breath, and think about something different than politics. No matter what political views you subscribe to, half the country thinks the other way, and included in that half are some really cool people who you could be/are friends with. It's not the be-all -end-all of existence. Oh, and no, there's no sand in my vagina. EDIT: That last one is funny, because the guy was acting like a dumbass. I have a mental picture of him standing in the street with a sign while everyone runs past screaming.

Fucking dicks.