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::loading a rifle in a book depository as we speak::

My one point to make? Most liberals want to make gay marriage a states' rights issue, and let each state decide separately how to figure it out. Now, look at where these pamphlets were mailed out: West Virginia. WEST FUCKING VIRGINIA. Have any of you ever been to West Virginia? Suffice to say, I don't see a gay marriage act being passed in that state anytime soon.

Loratabs aren't terribly strong, in moderate doses they're just a step up from over-the-counter stuff. I know exactly what Oxycontin does; I've taken it on more than one occasion. And I've known a couple of heroin addicts. Trust me, the two drugs are very dissimilar.

Wow, in six short answers to six simple questions, she mentions the destruction and/or survival of "the Republic" no less than four times. That's not just hyperbole, that's bad George Lucas dialogue. "Senator Palpatine MUST be stopped, the survival of the Republic is at stake!" Wow. She named four of her own books... and the Bible. Just... wow. Modesty, humility, or hell even reality ain't her strong points, eh? (Not to mention her amazing talent to chose the most infuriating if not offensive titles possible for her "works".) So somehow, the closest possible parallel to our police actions in Iraq is... the Civil War? And comparing Bush to Lincoln seems like a bit of a stretch. Firstly: I'd say that the more proper phrasing would be "PEACE is an idea that never goes out of style". The Soviet Union didn't have to be crushed with strength. Also, we apparently need to crush some of our own innocent civilians now? Can I please state for the record how much I fucking hate this bitch?

Yeah, but the comedy was great. I think a lot of people were pissed at this season just because it was such a change: Angel, Cordelia, Oz, and Sunnydale High were out; Riley, Spike, Anya, Tara, and wherever-they-happened-to-be were in. Lots of fans just couldn't accept the transitions. Yeah, the whole idea of the Initiative was lame, but not nearly as bad as, say, a whiny worthless army of wannabe slayers-in-training. And I still insist that Adam is an underrated villain, but that's an argument I've had on this board too many times already.

Wait a minute, Mike, that just ain't right. Simple fact is, Chelsea never did anything newsworthy. She never got arrested. She never got in trouble. She never did much of anything other than do well in school and have really big hair. And since when, in our recent past, have the First Children been "off-target" to anyone? I don't care which President is in office, if his children get arrested for flagrantly breaking the law, that is a legitimate news story.

Yes... but the women there love large, American penis. (/south park)

1. His public speaking skills always irritate me. Bush's grammar skills are constantly and consistently pretty bad, his choice of wording suspect, and his metaphors almost always terrible. It makes him look less than intelligent, and probably doesn't help our standing with the rest of the world. 2. Bush often extolls the benefits of the "family values" he and his party represent... and then his daughters get busted multiple times for underage drinking. Compare this to the "immoral" Bill Clinton, whose daughter has done nothing but quietly pursue his studies. 3. "Iraq HAS weapons of mass destruction." Oops. 4. The whole Election 2000 thing, but not in the way that pisses off most people. My problem was that not only did Bush win the election despite losing the popular vote... but that he's the FOURTH president to do so! And yet, nobody's made a peep about fixing the electoral college and election procedures. Do we simply not want to help this country's problems?

I'm watching the Gem of Amara episode, and damn, Season 4 is soooooo underrated by many. Like this scene: ::Buffy and Parker suddenly come face-to-face with Spike and Harmony (holding a dead body) at a party.:: Buffy: So, Spike, dating Harmony now. What happened, you lose a bet? Harmony: Hey! Spike: Well, how we met, funny story really... ::He throws the body at Buffy and takes off running.:: GOLD, baby!

From Merriam-Webster's online dictionary: So, captialized (God) there can only be one, but with a small "g" you can believe in as many as you want.

Pulp Fiction's easily his best film. I'm glad I don't have to kill anyone over voting for Four Rooms... yet.

Kerry to Bush: "I can't believe people are defending your nonexistant military record while attacking mine, you deserter." Bush to Kerry: "Hey look everyone, it's Al Gore without the brains!"

That's the problem, Highland: the errors are mistranslations and similar mistakes, borne out of human fallacies. Go into any bookstore, and you'll find at least a dozen different versions of the Bible. Nobody can even agree on what the Bible means in English, much less in Latin, Greek, Aramaic, or any of the other older languages which it was originally written in. We're talking about a "book" which is a compilation of dozens of books, scrolls, letters, and various scraps of literature that have been piled together somewhat arbitrarily. And aside from all that, it was a group of plain, ordinary mortal men who compiled, revised, and edited all the books that went into the Bible. A council of Christian leaders and scholars sometime in the 200's (the Council of Nicea maybe? Can't remember the exact name, been a little while since I studied all this) decided what writings were Holy Writ and which ones weren't worth squat. I'm sure it will come as a surprise to many of you that there was a Gospel of Mary Magdalene, which you can still find today with a bit of searching, that the council decided (not surprisingly) not to include. In conclusion, the Bible is a work of men. Men wrote it, men put the separate works together, men copied and translated it a hundred times until hardly anyone knows what the original scriptures actually said. Anyone else getting Marney flashbacks? Well, at least this won't be boring.

Wait a sec, they're showing Season 7 on FX on your cable system now? Weird, cuz here we're getting Season 4. I thought FX showed identical programs all across the nation? And oh yeah, a big fuck you to FX for cutting back from two to one episode of Buffy per day, btw.

"Out of context" hardly matters with obvious, blatant contradictions like some of these. For example: the case of, How Many Sons Did Abraham Have? In Genesis 22:2 and Hebrews 11:17 it clearly states that Isaac was the only one. But then Genesis 25:1-2 mentions no less than six other children he had with another wife, and that's aside from the kid he had with a servant girl according to Genesis 16:15. And to make everything even more confusing, Galatians 4:22 says he had two (and only two) sons. There are plenty of examples like this. Matthew and Mark's list of the names of the twelve apostles don't match those listed in Luke and Acts. (So which one was really there, Lebbaeus Thaddeus or Judas brother of James?) All four Gospels can't agree on if Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, a colt, or both. John says that Jesus bore his own cross to his execution, while the other three say Simon of Cyrene carried it for him. David apparently killed Goliath twice, because 1st Samuel 17:50 says David "slew him" with a slung stone, but then one verse later claims David "slew him" with his own sword. If every living human being was descended from Eve, then where the hell did Cain's unnamed wife come from? (Anyone who makes a Lita joke here can go straight to by-gawd hell.) Matthew and Luke both have vastly different geneologies for showing how Jesus was a direct descendent of David, not even agreeing on which of David's sons was his ancestor. Genesis at one point claims that animals were made before man was, and then promptly says the opposite just one chapter later. Even more contradictions, mistakes, and blunders: Genesis and Revelations disagree on the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. Jesus is repeatedly said to have been descended from David through his father Joseph, which completely contradicts the whole "virgin birth" story. Did Judas hang himself, or did he suddenly fall down and explode for no reason? Was Lot the brother or the nephew of Abraham? Which of the THREE different identities given for Moses's father-in-law was the real one? Did Noah enter the ark the day the rains started, or did he wait a week first? Did Jesus immedietly go into the wilderness following his baptism, or did he hang around in Galilee for a few days? And finally, let's not forget that all four gospels tell completely, and I do mean COMPLETELY different stories about Christ's resurrection. Considering that this is one of the most important parts of the entire book and that a good deal of the Christian religion is based upon the idea of resurrection through God, you'd think they'd at least make sure that their own field manual didn't contradict this part, but I guess little things like making sure we known exactly who witnessed his rebirth (was it Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Cleopas, Cephas, or an anonymous stranger?) just weren't all that important to the original authors. These are not just verses taken out of contexts. These are mistakes in the written word of the Bible, plain and simple.

::Happens to wander by, munching on a piece of pizza... ...and then gives the crust an ANGLE AWARD-WINNING DEVILBOMB~! into a trashcan.::

Literal interpretation is bullshit. As that link handily proves. 330, count 'em, three hundred and thirty factual contradictions within the Bible are listed there. The different books can't even agree with each other on simple shit like how many sons Abraham had, or how Judas died, or how long the great flood lasted. These are PROVEN FACTUAL ERRORS IN THE BIBLE. Look them up in your own copy, if you don't believe me. Anyone who claims that the Bible is a literal and infallible telling of history is full of shit.

A few odd points I'd like to address: Nice grammar, John. Um, let me see if I follow here: the United States and the UN forcibly removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and set up a new democratic government in its place, right? We've still got thousands of troops in that country, right? Well, then if it's turning into a "narco-state ruled by drug traffickers" then it's directly the US government's fault for not squashing that shit, right? Well, I'm whining about it and I've never been busted, so what does that make me? (And please don't say "druggie coward scumbag") Since when has anyone been sentenced to execution for growing hemp in America, ever? Yeah, I've known a few people who loved eating Oxys like candy, and it can really mess you up. But how many families have been destroyed by someone taking their legal prescription in accordance with doctor's orders? Not many, I'd guess. Safer, sure. You can't OD on weed. But non-addictive? Please, any serious pothead will tell you that's bullshit. And "effective" as a painkiller? It can give you a mild body buzz, but as for serious crippling pain, your average Tylenol is more likely to have an effect than maryjane. The same reason Jeff Jarrett got off without being arrested for carrying a crackpipe into an airport, I'd assume: when poor people do drugs, it's a crime; when rich and famous people do drugs, it's a "personal issue". What, you mean starry-eyed hemp-hugging hippies like me? And finally, the main problem with all this "drugs support terrorists" bullshit: the majority of drugs consumed in America ARE PRODUCED IN AMERICA.

Hardly. President Bush is more like the equivalent of Han Solo. Bold, daring, but isn't the brightest of the group and tends to piss off a lot of people. Kerry would be, uh, like Grand Moff Tarken or some other similar generic Imperial commander.

Pieces of a plane have the same momentum as a whole plane? I should email 10 random physics professors of the net and see what they have to say about that one. Where did he mention "pieces of a plane"? He just said "the plane". I can't and never said I could. Your explaining on why a plane could do that isn't that perfect either... Exploding planes are like a big rock and the Pentagon is like a big sheet of glass so therefore that proves I am right! He is right. A missle is designed to explode on impact. It has no forward momentum once detonation occurs. A plane, on the other hand, weighing a whole hell of a lot, does tend to keep going forward. (Oh, and the plane itself isn't a "solid object". Airplanes are mostly made out of a high-tech equivalent to sheet metal. But the solid steel jet engines are REAL solid, and do tend to keep their mass and shape, even upon impact with another solid surface.) About the whole "no video footage of the Pentagon crash" argument: Unlike the WTC, which sits right in the middle of a heavily populated downtown area, the Pentagon is a heavily guarded military facility which generally discourages random civilians from wandering nearby with camcorders. There probably is no civilian footage of the crash simply because there was nobody out there with a camera. Any footage that exists would have been taken by government cameras, and, well, they own it, so they can do whatever they want with it. I can only dream of having the kind of free time it would take for me to make a dent in a site like that one. It might be fun to try, but damn, I don't know if I'd want to expend the effort. Here's a question: does anyone KNOW that video footage of the Pentagon crash exists? (And when I say "know", I mean "can provide a link to an AP news story about it" or "have personally seen the footage myself".) I gotta admit, I just kinda skipped over this. The thread's long enough as it is.

Personally, I've always found Gunn to be one of the weakest main characters of the whole Buffyverse. Firstly, it never helped that Angel's writing team is mostly made up of middle-class white people who clearly have no idea what a streetwise black ex-gang member sounds like when he talks. Aside from that, the writing team hardly ever gave him anything interesting to do; his main starring plotline in the show, his lame, heatless relationship with Fred was nothing more than one long setup for her to get with Wes. When any of the Gunn-centered episodes (almost always about some demons haunting the inner city or something equally braindead) come on TV, I tend to turn on my Xbox. Shit, even Lorne tended to get better starring roles. Gunn only finally got watchable for me in S5, especially with the mini-arc about him being tortured in the hell dimension.

Tennessee cops... sigh. What a weird, lawless breed they are. It's pretty well known that the police in Nashville and the surrounding area have a fairly high degree of corruption, and get away with crap that would make your average yankee liberal's head explode.

Uh, isn't there a rule against previously banned posters coming back under a new account? Anyone (named Chris Coey)?

this is a test... not the wrestler known as Test... as if that's the first time someone used that joke here

I caught this flick the other night, and boy howdy did it suck the meat missle. Just a few of my many, many SPOILER-RIDDEN complaints: -Three measely fuckin' predators. Two of which get killed about five minutes after meeting the aliens. (Excuse me, I mean ALIEN, that one killed both of 'em.) Not exactly satisfying. -Oh, and since when did predators start cold-bloodedly murdering unarmed humans? They sure polished off all those guys on the surface quickly enough. -When did the gestation period for chestbursters change from a whole day into about half an hour? And how did the baby aliens grow into full-sized adults in seemingly even less time? -You know, I hate movie sequels where you've got the same monsters from the previous movies, but all new oblivious heroes. The audience knows way more about both extraterrestrials than any of the characters, which makes the whole first half of the movie boring as hell while the wimpy humans try to figure out all the crap that we already know. -Lance Henrikson's weak-ass unexplained motivationless character with his incredibly weak-ass death. (And he was easily the best actor in the movie.) Let's face it, this guy was cast here probably just because Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton were busy washing their hair or making Thunderbirds or something. -Anyone else notice that, in the one big predator-&-chick vs. aliens fight scene inside the pyramid, they actually killed more aliens than there were human victims to birth them? There were only about five people caught in that sacrificial chamber, yet there were easily at least half a dozen that got greased before the end. -The death of the picture-taking British dude pissed me off. They gave him a fighting chance at glory when he killed the one facehugger: cool. Then he was clearly FUCKED when twenty more eggs opened: cool. Then... he died offscreen and we never saw him again. Suckage. -Speaking of which... was there ONE really good death scene in this entire movie? Anywhere? Ever? -Even though there were no airlocks involved, they STILL somehow killed the last alien in a very blast-it-out-the-airlock manner. -PTAnderson is a bad director. He's the only guy working who could film an actor sitting alone in an eight-by-four foot jail cell, yet somehow leave the audience unaware of where exactly that character was in said cell. -And his editor was even worse. We get the cool shot of the predator spaceship passing over the guy, indistinct up in the swirling snow... but we get it AFTER we already just saw a clear shot of the whole (obviously CGI) ship. -And the writer was the least talented of them all. The whole "every hundred years" bullshit makes even less sense when you consider that, according to this movie's backstory, the first two Predator films never should've happened at all. About the only thing I liked was when the queen went on its rampage. That was kinda cool. The rest of this celluloid waste dump can go fuck itself with a large drano-soaked corncob.