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I just don't buy that the government would spend billions in order to help some corporations make millions. IMHO, when you get right down to it, I think it's that Bush and others in his circle just plain had a personal vendetta against Iraq and Saddam. This is a guy that they gave a shitload of support to back in the 80s in the war against Iran, and he turned around and bit the hand that fed him, repeatedly. In terms of actual atrocities committed by tyrannical dictators, there's unfortunately quite a few cocksuckers who rule various third world shitholes that are near the same league as Hussein. But none of those guys ever tried to assassinate Bush's dad. I do think that they legit believed that Saddam is evil and needed to be taken out, but they had other feelings subconciously affecting them. Plus, there's the REAL way that oil plays into this conflict: namely, Saudi Arabia. We're their ally, essentially because they've got more oil than anyone else in the world. It's an unfortunate situation, because they're just as evil and vicious as any other Islamofascist government you'll find over there, as that one rape victim in the news now could tell you. They also had a very tense relationship with Iraq, which came to a head in the first Gulf War. Hell, 9/11 came directly out of this situation; Bin Ladin has repeatedly stated that his motivation was that he felt the Great Satan was blaspheming his home country by stationing troops in the holy land. (The fact that the Saudi government ASKED for those American troops in order to protect them from secular Saddam always seems to escape his attention.)

Actually, you're right. I missed the "and I" part, and assumed it was just a second statement exactly like the condescending one you made earlier. In today's society, where they couldn't even cover up Clinton's blowjobs, how the hell could the government possibly pull off a conspiracy of that magnitude and get away with it? THE WAR IS NOT ABOUT THE OIL. Jesus CHRIST I'm tired of hearing this blatant falsehood. Here's specific reasons proving why. 1.It's not like we get the gas for free. We didn't march into Iraq and annex their production facilities for ourselves; the Iraqis still own them. Middle Eastern companies still pump it out of the ground, refine it, and then sell it to us in exchange for our money, the same way it's always worked. And it costs a LOT more than it did before 9/11. 2.Even if we had gotten all of Iraq's oil for free, it would still have been a money-losing plan. If we took every drop of oil Iraq exports for the next twenty years and never paid a penny for it (which is not at all the case), we'd still be way, way in the hole from the hundreds of billions of dollars we spent on the war. 3.Iraq is in 15th place in terms of actual volume of oil produced. The United States is 3rd. Iraq produces one quarter the amount of oil that America itself does. We don't need their oil. Hell, Iran has more than twice the amount of oil that Iraq does; if it's all about the oil, why didn't we invade them instead? Mexico has a lot more too, why not have illegal immigrants supposedly cause 9/11 and kill two birds with one stone by invading them? Not to mention that we're firmly in bed with the single biggest oil producer in the world, Saudi Arabia, and already get (relatively) preferential treatment from them. 4.If the war was about the oil, what was the point of Afghanistan? They don't have shit for petroleum there. 5.The economy is growing at the same rate now as it did during the 90's. Just look at the gross domestic product figures and other similar market indicators. In fact, it slowed down in the couple years following 9/11, and then recovered. 9/11 caused a recession, and America has since mostly pulled itself out of that recession. This is not my opinion, it's documented mathematical fact. 6.Not to say we don't have economic problems, of course, but it's not entirely due to foreign policy like you're saying. The dollar's exchange rate isn't great, and our level of debt is rather nerve-wracking, but they're double-edged swords which also have positive effects which some people don't realize and most news outlets find way too complicated to even try to explain. Our single biggest problem is the sagging real estate market, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the Iraq war. 7. Oil costs about quadruple what it used to, mostly because of the political instability in the Middle East (well, partly due to instability, and partly due to the rest of the world using that as an excuse to raise prices further), which the American government knew would happen if they invaded. The jump in production costs and prices would make any evil Bush plot to steal teh oil completely worthless, since we now pay far more money to get far less oil. And don't say "yeah, that's because their st00pid plan didin't work"; the American analysts knew this would happen. The American government was fully aware of the fact that invading Iraq would make it harder, not easier, for America to get oil. The war was not about the oil. We didn't get any oil. We weren't ever going to get any oil. We knew that from the beginning. It wasn't about the oil. Period. Oh, and still waiting to hear exactly how you think America blew up the WTC.

This is easily the greatest internet-distributed unlicensed movie I've ever seen. ...okay, not THE greatest, that goes to that one Batman vs. Predator piece of awesomeness, but this is pretty fucking close. Some of these actors are just perfect for the roles, where the hell did they find the brilliance that is the guy playing Zangief? I was pretty much laughing like I was stoned from the "I've got to feed Tiger!" part onward.

Do you have any idea how condescending and arrogant statements like that make you sound? If you're gonna argue this point, please satisfy these two questions. In detail, with better proof than the old standard "the holes in the Tower didn't look like they were made by a plane" usual junk. Preferably with footnotes. 1. How would the government successfully pull off an attack like 9/11 (which according to you fooled the whole world, except for the almighty Blogosphere)? 2. Why would the government do something like that, considering the overall massive negative effect 9/11 had on this country's economy, society, and foreign relations?

Despite his various fuckups, Jefferson single-handedly changed the course of world history when he bought half our current country from France. I know he didn't originally set out to do that, but even if you argue it's a complete accident he still fell ass-backwards into the absolute best business deal of all time, gaining such a massive amount of land and natural resources that it led directly to the eventual American supremacy over the world economy. That's just looking at things from a results standpoint, however. If you're also counting good intentions, Lincoln is the obvious choice, with probably either Washington or FDR in second place.

That's one thing I really don't understand: where the hell did this idea come from that Iraq was "peaceful" under Saddam? Hussein and the Ba'athists started two different wars which resulted in the deaths of around two million people. Saddam led a long, brutal campaign against Kurdish and Shi'ite minorites which racked up almost another half million casualties, all civilians this time, including using very real WMDs against a city mostly filled with women and children. In fact, the only reason we never found the WMDs was because we'd destroyed all his stockpiles of them after the first Gulf War (well, not all, since a frightening amount of it apparently vanished into thin air and has never been accounted for). Saddam's government carried out so many executions of other citizens that they're still finding the mass graves. Hussein himself is said to have murdered multiple people personally. For minor crimes, common punishments included branding irons, chopping off limbs, and rape for the women. The invading US forces found torture rooms all over the country, and I'm not talking about waterboarding, I mean real hardcore "hang them on meat hooks and electricute their genitals" torture. Hundreds of women were beheaded for alleged prostitution, often in front of their own families, with the heads stuck on poles afterwards for everyone to see. Iraq's citizens weren't allowed to vote, or travel without the government's permission, or assemble in large groups for any reason other than to hold pro-Saddam rallies. To further prevent any possible political unrest, the government engaged in an endless brainwashing campaign which glorified Saddam and the Ba'athist party; every school indoctrinated their youngest students with this propoganda. Thousands of young boys were basically kidnapped from their homes and forced to undergo military training in order to eventually join the armed forces. In short, Saddam did all the same shit that guys like Stalin and Hitler did, just on a smaller scale because it was a smaller country. What about that sounds peaceful?

Depends. Abu Dhabi, one of the seven members of the United Arab Emirates, is tiny but insanely wealthy, proportionately the richest city on earth. Compared to countries like Saudi Arabia, they're relatively secular, in that Islam is the state religion and you can still get locked up for being gay, but you can practice different religions without worrying (much) about being beheaded and women aren't completely treated as men's property. On the flip side, they've got a bad track record with regards to mistreating the immigrant workforce (which makes up almost 90% of the population) plus a li'l slice of Bangkok with a thriving forced prostitution industry. So they're not as bad as the Taliban or our "friends" the Saudis, but having them own a large chunk of something like Citigroup would definitely worry some people in this country. Plus, you can't walk down the street there without tripping over an adorable kitten called Nermal.

Couldn't think of any decent counterpoints? Show of hands, everyone who thinks that Saddam was good for Iraq and that the American government was behind the 9/11 attacks.

Don't recall that, but they did do one just like it with Goldberg.

Flair has to win every match or Vince fires him. Regal made HHH vs. Jeff for the ppv. Jericho fucked with Orton more. Lawler beat up Santino again. Mickie didn't kiss any girls. Hornswaggle and Carlito did the spot where Road Runner runs through a painted-on hole in a wall but Wily Coyote smashes into it. That is all.

They did match the look of the comic well enough, especially the newsstand with the kid always sitting beside it reading the pirate comics. For the first time since hearing the horrible casting, I've got a little hope for this movie.

The endless Patterson jokes are the most common, but there are plenty of others. The best examples are when the WWE does cross-brand matches between Raw/Smackdown/ECW and have the different announce teams all commentating at the same time. Get a copy of the WWE/ECW Head-2-Head show they did before One Night Stand 2 if you want to hear some inside jokes, because they rip on each other all night long.

I've never bought from them myself, but I've heard plenty of bad stories about TNA fucking up people's merchandise orders. I doubt there's anything you can do about it other than keep emailing them, maybe try to get ahold of their office phone numbers if you're really determined. My advice is for people to always buy their TNA dvds from a reputable tape site like Highspots or ROH, those guys go out of their way to make sure you get the right stuff.

Please tell me you're not one of those assholes who claims that Iraq was better under Saddam. If so, you're ignoring the millions of citizens who died by violence, the mass executions, the rape rooms, and the fact that he did indeed use very real WMDs on his own population. Plus he started two pointless wars which got a bunch of his people killed? Plus he defied UN resolutions, causing the economic sanctions which killed countless MORE Iraqis. Hussein was an absolute monster, and anything else is preferable to what he did. You don't seem to know what the word "empire" means. In an empire, there wouldn't be those 150 countries. They wouldn't be their own sovereign nations with their own laws and governments. In an empire, there's JUST the empire, and nobody is allowed to even voice their disagreement. An empire owns the land, taxes the people, and directly rules over all of it from the capital. That's the situation with Alexander, the Romans, the Ottomans, Spain, Britain, Russia, and every other real historical empire you can mention. What America does now is unique and has no true precedent in history. Don't assume you know me, son. There HAVE been attempted terrorist attacks, from the idiot with the shoe bomb to the foiled Dirty Nuke plot. But because of all the heightened paranoia about terrorists and drastic new security measures, none of them have succeeded again in this country. Please tell me you're not one of those assholes who claims that 9/11 was an inside government job.

Neither did Kevin Nash's. STEP WHAM QUADTEAR. But I'm sure Jericho will be fine.

To be fair, this question got ignored. A few details which make it implausible at best: 1. International banking simply didn't work the same way back then that it does now. Basically, the guy who ran a bank in England isn't the same guy who ran a bank in France, or Italy, or Germany, or Austria, or Russia, so forth and so on. While the people who owned the banks might have all been second cousins, it wasn't the same people in control of different banks all around the world like Jones makes it out to be. 2. Even if it did work that way, they still couldn't possibly have turned a profit off a war like WWI. Part of the Treaty of Versailles was a clause which stated that Germany had to pay the entire war debt of every country. Long story short, Germany went into a massive depression because of this and nobody ever got paid. In general, large-scale wars are an overall money-losing proposition for everyone involved.

Well, until the Protestant reformation, banking was almost entirely a Jewish profession because the Catholic church forbade the practice of money-lending. (Note that Jones actually uses the phrase "money-changers" when talking about ye olde days, and that's a strictly Hebrew term.) Afterwards there were Christians who made inroads into the banking industry, but the Jewish tradition in financial corporations was so strong that it still lingers as a stereotype to this day. Considering that Jones seems to be a Christian fundamentalist to the point of believing in Creationism, I wouldn't put it past him to be hiding some anti-Zionist sentiment. Do recall the one point where he claimed the Israelis randomly irradiated and murdered thousands of children just for the hell of it.

I just beat Super Castlevania 4 last night, and I forgot about some of the shit in there. It's weird, because most of that game is way easier than a lot of the other CV games, Dracula especially was nowhere near as hard as he was in 1 or 3. HOWever, in between all the lazy bits there were some true controller-throwing moments. Castlevania is legendary for the difficulty of its platform jumps, especially in ones like this where you got killed WAY more often by falling than by the enemies. The absolute worst was that level near the end where you had to climb up a bunch of collapsing staircases, and if you made the tiniest mistake or hesitated for a split-second, you'd fall, and then the stairs are gone and there's nothing to do but die. It's made even harder by that big damn spiked wheel which chases you and forces you to hurry the entire time. And then after THAT there's a difficult bit where you're jumping across all those platforms which move diagonally and try to carry you right up into the instant-death spikes. I got through most of the rest of the game without much trouble, but JESUS that level was frustrating.

T3 was a decent action flick, but nothing more. It didn't help that the new Terminette was simply not anywhere near as scary as either Arnold or Robert Patrick were as the villains. Having Claire Danes around is always a nice thing, but I would've rather just had Linda Hamilton back again, and I still don't understand why they didn't bring Edward Furlong back to play John. Honestly, you guys can keep Christian Bale, I'm more interested in the upcoming TV show. Summer Glau = yummy sociopathy.

Being GAY, obviously. I wonder how much he's been training, and who his first match will be against. 2+ years is a lot of ring rust.

Yeah, but Carlito's Way is about another Hispanic drug dealer, played by Pacino, and directed by Brian De Palma who also did Scarface. Basically, imagine if a kinder, gentler version of Tony Montana had been sent to prison instead of getting killed.

Within the span of fifteen seconds, he says that the American military recently "dumped millions of tons of nerve gas onto the East Coast", and that genetic scientists are creating human-animal DNA hybrids and releasing them into the wild. Sweet Jesus make it stop. This movie is the first time I've ever heard the theory floated that Bush, Cheney, both Clintons, and Gore are all working for the same people, towards the same goals. This douche Jones makes the same logical fallacy that most Truthers do: that the New World Order is so brilliant that they've invisibly controlled the entire world for centuries... yet they're so incompetent that they can't silence a doofus like him who wanders around public streets yelling on a bullhorn. He says that these people have murdered millions worldwide, but they're unable to throw him off their front lawn and stop him from taking their picture. If you took a shot of vodka every time he shows a photo of dead bodies from the Holocaust, you'll drop dead yourself from alcohol poisoning. Shit, even if you used light beer instead, it'd still kill you. Oh goddamnit, he's using footage from the classic film Metropolis. To quote Crow T. Robot: "Don't show a good movie in the middle of your crappy movie". And it wraps up with a Michael Moore ripoff, as Jones goes to the Texas governor's house... but since he's a nobody, instead of interviewing the gov, he (guess what?) screams about the NWO, over a bullhorn, at the governor's mansion in the middle of the night. Thank merciful god that it's over. Cheesy, please tell me that even you weren't swayed by this bullshit. This dumb fucker took a handful of facts out of context, and then ran with it to create 140 minutes of the most ludicrous crap this side of Scientology. I'm surprised a lefty like you would recommend this drivel, since it's essentially a manifesto for people like the Branch Davidians and anyone else who literally thinks their government is plotting to kill them.

Some of these stories just sound fake. Like the one about soldier's pregnant wives being forced to swallow radioactive pills in order to abort the babies and kill the mothers. What?! Yet these ludicrous tales are sandwiched in between stuff like the Tuskeegee experiments which really did happen, giving them secondhand credibility to gullible viewers. Another clearly bullshit one is how supposedly the vast majority of foster children and orphans are forced to take a cocktail of multiple psychoactive drugs in order to make sure that they become sheep who never question the government. And the one about how Bush Senior got the government to forcibly sterilize half the Native American women in this country. Or how about the story of unborn infants being classified as future criminals, and being forced to attend probation hearings when they're two years old?! Where the fuck do they get this stuff? While endlessly describing this doomsday scenario, the director never once bothers to explain why these conspirators are supposedly doing this, and what supposedly appeals to them about a bleak unpopulated world where 99% of the population lives in prison. He just calls them psychotic and says they want more power, and pretty much leaves it at that. He's one of those people who describes his enemies as being crazy and evil, and thinks that's enough to describe all their possible motivation. Interesting theory that the final goal of environmentalism is to kill billions of people. That's certainly a new take on things.

Quote: "It is a historical fact that The State is the #1 cause of all unnatural death." Well, as long as you count car wrecks, malnutrition, and disease epidemics as being "natural". Ah, finally, the eugenics portion of the film. And they instantly undermine it by claiming that some old movie they dug up is a "Pro-Eugenics Film" when it's clearly the opposite, with a dry old bitch telling a beautiful young girl that she's about to be dragged to the hospital and sterilized against her will. Also, this guy seems to have this sort of disparaging attitude towards Darwin and evolution. I'm not surprised, since he proved earlier he's a Bible-thumper. The entire story of the pesudo-science of eugenics and its horrifying popularity amongst Western countries is a fascinating and scary tale. It's often ignored and skipped over, it's rarely taught about in history classes, and it deserves a great documentary to be made about it some day. Too bad this wet little cuntfart of a "documentary" got there first. It also completely no-sells the facts that basically the whole world almost instantly abandoned the eugenics theories as soon as their sick real-world implementations in the Holocaust became public knowledge.

It crashed AGAIN. Google Video never crashes this much. Either this movie is so bad that it's infected the system, or OMG TEH NU WORLD ODOR HAS INVADED MY COMPUTER, OH NOEZ!1! There's a real xenophobic feeling here too. It seems like Evil Unnamed Foreigners are to blame for at least half this shit. Spending goddamn FOREVER on this highway in Texas which is supposed to be the big cog in the conspiracy machine somehow. He claims that these new toll roads are being forced on the people without consent from either them, the local government, or Congress. Apparently he didn't ask anyone in Dallas, or they could've told him about the huge fight over a new toll road here, which ended with the citizens voting on the proposal. Big surprise, now he's going on about Big Brother using microchips to track out movements. The usual fear-mongering about Bush giving himself new powers, right on schedule. Yet they dismiss him as "a mere puppet of the Global Crime Syndicate". Jesus, there's still an hour more of this shit... Cheesalactose, if we ever happen to meet in the real world, you owe me a drink for causing me to watch all this.