SuperJerk

Define "gun running." I really don't buy the "criminals obtain their weapons illegally" bit because someone had to legally manufacture the damn things in the first place. I forgot to acknowledge that Czech made a really good earlier with how many gun loopholes there are. Even if you were able to enforce laws to keep every military-style weapon out of civilian hands, hunting rifles, shotguns, and pistols are still dangerous weapons. Long story short, I don't really know where I fall on this issue, because both sides make a lot of really good points. I need more information before I can make up my mind.

The most obvious major difference was that fascism was a purely secular movement. Everything was done for the glorification of the state. Islamic extremism goes in the complete opposite direction, because the state is only seen as a tool to impose their religious views.

Yeah, see my post from earlier if you want to know what I think about him doing that.

That makes me wonder...Is there any recent polling data on percentage of the troops that want to continue the war, versus troops that think our forces should be withdrawn?

Nobody wants to tackle the term "Islamo"? Because, seriously, that sounds like the name of one of Skeletor's henchmen.

All the talk about people buying HD sets and not having HD STB..I cant imagine the reverse scenario that you have..why? Most HD programming costs extra and its not like theres enough different programming to warrant paying extra to see it in 480i. I'd like to draw your attention to my cunning use of the word "could," as in "I could still watch." I did not say "I watch HD on an SD set," because that'd be kind of dumb. It was a hypothetical situation designed to show how someone with a regular TV could get around not having a HD ready TV in the event networks no longer broadcasted in SD at all.

I don't have a problem with all of them myself, but that's the crux of the reasoning. An entry for a poster who never even posted here? Come on now. Hasn't pretty much everyone who ever posted there also posted here?

I'm not sure if that's what "Islamist" actually means.

Yeah, it figures Pres. Bush would pick a day I'm home because of snow to have a live TV press conference. I'll summarize: -They'll follow us home. -Congress just doesn't want to win. -I know its a mess over there, but trust me because I'll fix it. -The Congressional anti-war resolution will just make our troops feel bad. Rinse, lather, repeat.

This is exactly what our stupid country does. Something happens in a place it rarely or never happens, some white people get shot at (that's the key, no white people then no coverage), and suddenly we are debating not whether or not we should install metal detectors but when and why do we hate the children not to do it. Oh, fuck off. Maybe the news just doesn't feel like reporting a shooting every thirty-six seconds. Thank goodness for Tom Cruise and Anna Nicole Smith.

Marvin's right, except I'm not sure if we're talking just about digital transmission, or about HD. I'd add, though, that even with the satelitte reciever that is designed for HD which I currently own, I could still watch HD programming on my regular non-HD set because it has standard AV and S-Video outputs.

Okay, I had that coming. Maybe not hard statistic per se, but some verifiable information to disuade me from thinking there's a direct relationship between the legal availability of large quantities fire arms in the United States and our abundance of homicidal acts involving those same weapons.

That's what he said.

That's a good one. There's an absolutely great tag match on it. Why was No Mercy 02 a co-brand show? Brands didn't start getting their own PPVs until the summer of 2003.

Those phantom "Previously On" scenes have been an ongoing thing since at least last season. The first one I remember was the episode where Apollo became commander of the Pegasus. Ever since then, I just think its either been a running gag, or Moore & Co. are just really getting lazy about planning ahead.

Please punch your co-worker in the face for that stupid comment about the Rumble.

That's a good one. There's an absolutely great tag match on it.

Kind of what I thought when the season started. I always thought it was just an urban legend created by teenage girls who didn't want to admit to their parents they'd actually been having intercourse, but still had to explain they were pregnant.

Both are words, but I just don't like the way one noun ("Islamist") is being used to modify another noun ("Jihadist"). Adjectives are our friends.

Slightly less stupid expression than the ever-moronic "Islamo-fascist" they were test marketing last year. I swear, every year they come up with a new name to call our enemies. Its like this war is being fought by a P.R. firm or something.

Don't you realize that it never occurred to terrorists to attack us until Democrats started talking about withdrawing troops from Iraq?

Do you have any real world facts to back that argument up with, or are you just going to take us on a ride through your imaginary parrallel universe?

Watch out, Boston. I've missed this thread.

He's dead.

I used to listen to the podcasts. Moore & company really think they're making THE GREATEST TELEVISION ON TELEVISION~!!!1111, but the show has pretty much been pretencious exploration of fictional religions and modern marital problems, instead of...you know...a science fiction adventure show. I can barely watch it anymore, and (judging by the ratings), neither can a lot of other people.