NoCalMike

Sacramento which is really a mix. In my area which is close to the downtown area, it is pretty liberal, complete with the liberal Sacramento News & Review publication in circulation, but as you travel eastward, it starts to get conservative. Within about 25 miles you are up in the hill valley where it is just outright right-wing, as guys like Doolittle are regularly elected. I'd say Sacramento itself leans a little more democratic, but the surrounding areas that border the city are conservative.

The concept of Original Sin. We're damned because of what Adam and Eve did, it's in our nature to sin, and the only way to redeem ourselves is to pay the price for it, and the only one who can pay the ultimate price, is Jesus Christ. When Jesus died for our sins, did he forget to include "Original Sin" in the list? That is one concept that I never understood.

Quite frankly I can care less if Rather stays or goes. I don't watch CBS to get news, just like I don't watch NBC, ABC, FOX etc.....they all are pretty unreliable in my eyes.

Wow, I am convinced. Where do I sign up for this religion thing....?

So I guess this means Peja is staying put.

yeah but doesn't "Jihad" have religious inklings. It would kind of take the character in a different direction then just an arab american angry at "racists"

And the fact that he basically waited way to long to even respond to it. He should have squashed that shit right off the bat, but he remained silent for so long that the con artists were able to build momentum.

Yes they had the right to speak, which is what writing the book was all about. However ABC being forced to air a biased one-sided movie set out to destroy Kerry's character two weeks before an election should not have been allowed.

The fact that guys like Hannity are all up in arms about how the documents could have affected the election, yet when someone arguing with him said, "and airing the Swift Boat movie wouldn't do that?" Hannity's response was "well everything in that movie was a fact" shows just how much integrity Sean Hannity has. I don't agree with his political agenda, but what is worse is this total fake outrage he has when saying things like "if you had it your way, mass graves would be filling up still" I mean he says it like it was some major gripe of his more then three years ago or something.

How is he insane? A lot of Christians who are against the Iraq War, voted for Bush anyway because they feel so strongly against abortion and gay marriage. Don't know how Mel stands on the subject. So they voted for Bush based on two issues that most likely won't even be visited in the least over the next four years?

I wish the media was investigated moreso for blindly supporting the war and not investigating into the misleading and lying by our president leading up to the invasion.

speaking of notorious Christians, Mel Gibson spoke after the awards show last night after winning best drama for "The Passion of Christ" When asked about F-9/11 Gibson said he didn't even need to watch the film to raise questions about being in Iraq, and how no one has laid out any specific reasons for what the hell we are doing there and that he can get on board with. I didn't know Gibson was anti-Iraq war.

May I suggest not seeing any of the top 10 films, and instead checking out Hotel Rwanda?

I don't think WWE even cares about the mid-card really. I mean their actions show it big time, as they put so much effort and air time into getting the ME monsters over. I dunno what went wrong because back in the day of good ol' cheeseball WWF, the midcard was mad over. I mean just watch some of those old Survivor Series tapes, the crowd is hot for every single match as everyone on the card had some type of compelling storyline the crowd could get into.

Ya know as an individual I don't really have any beef with Hassan yet. As for how WWE is handling his character that is an entire different argument. I haven't really seen his wrestling work from OVW, and there is no way to tell his skills from last night's match. My question is: After last night's booking to show Hassan can barely beat a 50 year old non-selling douche bag, what does Hassan do now? I hope for the love of gawd he is never involved with JR/Lawler again, and moves onto a real feud. Also what is he going to do to start a feud? Pick out a wrestler from the locker room and try to say they have discriminated against Arab Americans? I just hope it doesn't lead to a Hassan/Sgt Slaughter WM match.....*shivers* So really though, what does Hassan do next?

Dear I <3 Karl Rove, Can we please have Tyler back? Thanks. Sincerely, The Smart Marks Board

Goddamnit. You're going to make me defend Christianity, aren't you. Fuck. Here's the difference: Islam IS a religion of evil and hate. That's what it preaches. Kill the unblievers, the infidels, the Jews, the Christians, and other non-Muslims. Islam has a grip on a populous region of the world, and that region has really yet to evolve out of the Dark Ages in many respects because of the religion. Compare this to Christianity. Yes, it's had its bloody past, and the Old Testament -- which Christians are all to happy to throw under the bus -- makes reference to wonderful things like smashing your children's head against the rocks to be happy. Despite that, and perhaps because of all that, Christianity has evolved. It still has its fringes, and people like Phelps live on them, but the bulk of the religion has come out of the Dark and Middles Ages and modernized itself pretty well. Meh, I feel dirty now. Goddamnit. Yeah I know, and I said clearly I wasn't trying to make a case for how "people" act within religious confines, but come on man according to christianity, all the non-believers are going to be killed and burn in an eternal lake of fire.

This movie is pretty amazing. I have never seen my girlfriend tear up from the happenings in a movie, but alas it happened. This movie takes place in 1994 when the genocide in Rwanda starts, and the story centers around a hotel suite owner who risks his life to help a bunch of refugees that had to flee in fear of being slaughtered. The movie is amazing and very emotional. I had to go to an indy theater in my city, so all of you may have to do the same. Don Chealde is up for a Golden Globe and I believe there is Oscar talks as well. Well deserved.

I know I will get killed for this, but isn't ironic that whenever a pyscho extremist christian comes out with this rhetoric, he is quickly identified as some isolated deranged individual warping the great christian religion, but if it is a muslim extremist people quickly point and say "see islam is a religion of evil and hate" Now, not to say I agree or take any of these positions, but it just seems to me that religion in itself is broad enough and vague enough in it's workings to both bring the best out in some people, and the worst out in others. Now before I get the "yeah well who flew the plans into the towers, asshole" type response, I just want to say, I am not trying to make a case for the individuals and which "people" are worse, moreso the fanaticism of religion and how it corrupts people in general.

The difference is that car insurance insures ME. Not Mike's crippled buddy. Actually it insures more then just you, as your money goes towards a overall general fund for everyone that belongs to that companies insurance. Also, these nice friendly private enterprises also can pull the rug out from underneath you and just decide not to cover your expenses, if they please.

So what, instead of paying car insurance every month, you can just put that money into a bank account titled "Money in case of a car wreck" It is the same thing.

The difference is that car insurance insures ME. Not Mike's crippled buddy. I wasn't even talking about "my crippled buddy" Re-read that post. I was talking about hypothetically YOUR CRIPPLED BUDDY. Social Security is a social safety net for people. Call it paying a debt to society if you want. Social Security is taken out from everyone's check to form a trust fund for society, and to privatize it and drain it in the process would be very irresponsible as a nation. Like I said, there is also no excuse for only up to 87k or so being taxed for SS.

I am going to go out on a limb here, but damn it looks like they are going to show TOO MUCH of Samara in this one, thus taking down the fright level of the climax, whatever it may be. Also the plot seems kind of wacky as Ring 2 is not following Ringu 2 at all.......oh well here it is..... Ring 2 full trailer

To suggest I have NEVER heard of statistical sampling, when just about every mainstream news organization uses it, is simply atrocious. Of course I know what it is, and I never said it would "prove Kerry won Ohio" Are you people reading what I post? I didn't say, a recount in Ohio would prove Kerry the victor. I said that a lot of cases of voter fraud had been reported in Ohio and other states as well which means it is our governments duty to make sure that these problems are taken care of in the future. That is basically what Barbara Boxer among other Democrats were arguing is that you cannot certify a vote that cannot be verified. They were supposed to be taken care of in 2000 for this election but the government sat on it's hands while they designed killer new voting machines that didn't leave a paper trail~! Also, did you miss the part about the recounters receiving cheat sheets instructing them how to come up with an exact match as the voting machines and they still fucked up and it came out different?

Iraq was perceived to have weapons by EVERYONE? Oh you mean like most of our intelligence community telling Bush that the evidence and argument for war in Iraq was not there, and then Bush conveniently ignoring anything that wouldn't support his case to drop the first bomb on Iraq ASAP. The Bush team did a great spin in duping our society into thinking A - Iraq was behind 9/11 and B - Iraq was a threat to America. Both of which are 100% false. I am no Kerry fan, I didn't vote for him, however some of the reasons I see people list as why they went with Bush over Kerry is troubling and hilarious and depressing all at the same time. Of course I am mostly taking about fence-sitters as established voters are probably voting for their guy no matter what anyway. I think it pretty much shows by today's AP POLL of Bush's job approval rating at 49% that Bush's team and mostly Karl Rove did an excellent job in the campaign, but at the end of the day people still don't really agree with Bush and/or think the guy is doing any kind of good, job, but they saw a weak candidate in Kerry and it drove swing voters away. All this "voting on morals" and "the youth didn't turn out" was now been officially debunked about a hundred times, more youth turned out in 2004 then 2000, and the "voting on morals" folks didn't show up in any bigger significant amount. That was just another story the media ran with post-election.