Jobber of the Week

Bret simply reads the same shit we do, he just uses words that makes it sound like he was there. And he's certainly not the kind of guy who holds a grudge, oh heavens no. Whatever. He's not the topic of this thread, Jericho and Goldberg is. And I'll drag my old standby out of the mothballs: Fuck Goldberg.

County results: Kerry: 148,261 67.2% Bush: 68,204 31.0% I lived in San Francisco for a while as well, and enough said about the politics there. I think my area on the cusp of the Bay Area, just inside the Shield Of Liberal Indignancy, is a little farther to the left than I am, but I could certainly live in a lot worse places. I know we vote left more than right still, but I think with more and more moderate Republicans that are like Schwarzenegger intead of Bush, the right could certainly break the lock and get competitive here. I consider myself a moderate. My most liberal economic belief is that companies can't be trusted to regulate themselves, otherwise I have no problem with concepts like cutting taxes, as long as they're done appropriately so that the bills are paid when all is said and done. If you want to cut taxes, cut spending, too. On the other hand, if you cut spending, I don't want to see that my taxes are still going up. My social beliefs are seemingly way out there but at the same time draw from both sides. I believe drug legalization will lead to an open, free market of safer drugs than what's currently available on the black market. I'm not a big fan of guns that are clearly designed to kill massive quantites of people, but I recognize that trying to take guns out of people's hands isn't going to work, so we're just going to have to live with it. I basically don't believe in indecency as long as nobody is being physically hurt. I guess if I ran the country, you'd have guns, booze, and movies with nude-bodied sex scenes uncut on basic cable. If you didn't like it, don't own a gun, don't drink, and watch a channel without it. Because of that last part and the meteoric rise of the "values voter" who thinks it's in the government's rights to legislate our morals and tell us right and wrong, I'm starting to feel more and more like I don't belong anywhere in this country anymore, but I don't have the time or money to live elsewhere at present. I'm going to give this place one last chance later this year as I'm 90% likely to move to Las Vegas, which is one piece of blue in a state that is otherwise red. And besides, that's a town that understands moral debauchery.

Winter Soldier testimony hasn't ever been successfully refuted. It's pretty well accepted these days that some serious fucked-up shit went down in Vietnam and that the government wasn't and probably still isn't giving us the full clear picture as to what was happening. I think that some of the SwiftVets guys felt that Kerry was personally talking about them as being the people responsible for irrational bloodshed. I don't think that makes them proper reason to try and bury a candidate, but anyway... At the same time while airing their complaints and grievances, the group was spreading a whole ton of lies, and I don't care how many affidavits you sign or promises you make, but when you have so much military paperwork that contradicts their stories and the only answer is "John Kerry typed up all of this paperwork" with no proof or evidence behind it, skepticism is sure to follow. My other problem with SwiftVets is that it's practically a Bush Family Tradition by now to not say anything mean about your opponent while an allied group (which may not necessarily claim to be allied) unleashes brutal and scorching attacks about their character. Right-wingers refuse to do the math and at least accept a shred of credibility to the suspicion that those sorts of events are coordinated.

Changed my mind, don't want to get involved in this. Not yet, anyway.

No. Which is why I said you weren't going to want to hear that.

Damn. Everybody has to have their favorite political show that's pure party spin, and Crossfire was mine simply because it represented real politics more than O'Reilly or the radio hosts do. Nobody's demonizing everyone on the other side like the one-sided shows like Rush or Hannity do, but everyone is a total party wonk and will stick up for the most ridiculous ideas if their party is for them. There were times when I agreed with the Republicans just because Begala was trying to defend someting so awful that even I as a moderate liberal couldn't agree. Now THAT's what politics is like.

Making menus suck in almost all applications. It's either very easy and your options are so slim that you basically can choose between a number of pre-made menus and can change a few colors, or you can change everything but don't know how to do anything. The best DVD authoring program? DVD Studio Pro, but that's not what you wanted to hear.

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles Throw away bookmarks.html Restart Firefox.

Nah, I was attacking religious law. You've got to be more than just slightly religious when you're cutting up your children.

You type better as a drunk than I do as sober.

You don't have the rights to do that. You're the one who started a thread called " Islamic Law Makes No Sense..." after all.

JBL/Show? Please say no. JBL needs to drop the strap at WM. It's where strong heels finally job out in a firey match.

The premise is obviously going to be tired because all horror films hinge on gimmicks and every sequel is "The Gimmick.. IS BACK!" no matter how many ways they keep trying to paint it. I don't think it'll be that bad, but only because this movie's gimmick really hits me hard, the first one caused quite a few nights where I'd listen to the radio in bed instead of leave the TV on a sleep timer. But other than that, no matter how much they try to deepen the Girl in the TV character or give explain what her connection is to Naomi Watts' kid, it's still going to about awoman crawling out of a TV set. It's about as predictable as a WCW main-eventer putting on an nWo shirt.

AREA STEEPED TO IT'S EYEBROWS IN RELIGION HAS RETARDED TRADITIONS! LOL AT 11!

I'm going to make a World War II analogy here. The threat of Hitler is pretty obvious. He was taking over Europe, and the holocaust and torture of Jews is a perfect example of the disrespect of human rights. The whole Nazi society was an abomination, and there's perfectly visible reasons why it needed to go, and how it presents a threat to us. While the wording was pretty awful, the concept of what he was talking about in the global test was pretty sound. We cannot simply attack anyone of our own choosing for any reason. There's certainly nothing about our position in the world that says we can't, but we can't because of who we are. We're the giant that could crush everything under our thumb, but doesn't. We should be more modest to the rest of the world, and we're currently rather controlling. It's not even that Bush defied the UN when he went into Iraq. Even Kerry mushmouthed out a statement that said he'd do the same thing if it was certain the enemy presented a threat. The point is that we have absolutely nothing to show for our effort. For all this concern of a threat, there is nothing that could be considered threatening. The point is that if you abandon every precedent and diplomatic standard on the way to war, you simply cannot guess that the enemy is poised to attack you. You must be certain. We weren't certain on this occasion and our leaders talked a far more certain game than they really knew while they were while setting it up. We should be the shining city on the hill, but lately we've been looking a little slummy and gun-happy.

Exactly how does this contribute to security? I could see how talking to people who conducted security at ground zero in the aftermath or something could teach you something, but how does you watching tapes of a plane slam into a wall make anything safer?

On the other hand, we aren't as much talking about how music should be banned from the government to protect families. I stress "as much," it's more of an extremist stance. You realize just how fast liberalism spreads socially when just 20 years ago, about as old as the typical poster here give or take, we were talking about the government banning music for containing things considered culturally objectionable. And the only thing the Democratic Party Hack on the debate show could say is "Well, who's going to judge what stays and who goes? Who?" instead of objecting to the concept of censorship like most Americans would do now. Sure, the south is rising again and we've been marginalized nationally by Jesus buffs and people who use "hippie" as an insult, but you can't say we didn't make an impact.

Yes, that's not what you want in a Presidential candidate. But in a party chairman, a top-dog who is supposed to really believe in what his party stands for, you bet it is. For party chairman, you do not want a guy who is wishy-washy about the party message. You do not want a guy who is out of sync with the people doing the work or goes through the motions but really doesn't believe in the motives. You want a guy who can get people convinced in the party message. There's no doubt that Dean was successful with that, even if people didn't feel right about him controlling the button.

Wow, Novak was listenable back then. And holy shit, the WashTimes wasn't just Paper Fox News back in the mid 80s, but their columnist looked like an extremely stereotypical nerd. And hey, they didn't seat guests according to their political affiliation back then.

Anyone else see this and hear in their head, "It's your money, you paid for it!"? I have the sound clip of that one.

"Objective news" that "portrays traditional American values," eh? I'll deal with it as long as all their promotional ID spots (ala "This is CNN") play "America, Fuck Yeah" as the background music. If it's any better than the blatant advertising that passes as "how to play" documentaries on our VOD service, then sign me up. If it's not, yuck! When's that MTV gay channel launch?

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He drives a new Escalade at 17? I'm sorry, the guy had it coming. That's the second worst story of a spoiled driver that I've heard this year, only beaten by that one woman on The Apprentice saying she got a Porsche at 16 from her parents and wrecked it in the same year.

Alright, I'm going to swipe away the Stones as my classic rock entry and replace it with Queen. Looking through the Stones' library I can see enough songs that stand out in my mind and "Gimme Shelter" is good enough that it gives me goosebumps at a one part. Queen, on the other hand.. I love the catchy ditties, like We Will Rock You or Crazy Little Thing Called Love. We Are The Champions is good but is a little niche to being played only at the end of sports games. But other than those, I can't really say anything that good. I never "got" Bohemian Rhapsody, and the rest of it is... Not so good.