Atticus Chaos

Yeah, but was that a genuine 'I'm not interested,' or a *wink*wink* 'I'm not interested?' If he was offered it, and thought he could help increase Obama's chances of winning over blue collar voters, I can't see him saying no. Also, I think he still has ambitions of being president himself, and the VP spot is another path to the presidency. He'll still be fairly young in 8 years time, anyway.

I'm not even sure what voters she would carry over as his running mate: if her arguement is 'I've got the racist vote', then those people aren't going to vote for Obama regardless of whether she's on the ticket or not, surely? And he'll probably get most of her female supporters since McCain seems very likely to try and overturn roe vs Wade. I think Ted Strickland (popular governor of Ohio), Joe Biden or Edwards would be smarter choices. He can't pick any other woman than Hillary since it would probably piss her off, and he'll need her if she's going to campaign for him and try to get her voters over to him.

His movie career you mean? Considering Cruise has been involved with Scientology since 1990, I don't understand what you're saying here...Cruise has been involved in a ton of good movies in the past 18 years. While he may be a kook out here in the real world, his ability to make good movies hasn't decreased. Sure he cranks out a stinker here and there, but almost every actor does. While Cruise has been involved with them for a while, prior to his divorce from Nicole Kidman he had a great team of publicists who managed to downplay the scientology aspect of his life, and portray him as this regular guy. However, after he left Kidman (which was rumoured to be because the scientology people didn't like her) he also got rid of his publicist after she basically told him he couldn't be open about his role in scietology and remain a big star. That's when all the crazy behaviour started: couch jumping, arguing with Brooke Sheilds, annoying the president of France, ranting against pschiatry and seeming to turn Katie Holmes into some sort of stepford wife. Then THAT scientology interview came out. It's not being a scientologist that has wrecked Cruise's career so much, it's being so open and overbearing about it. You can't tell me that Tom Cruise is in the same position he was five or six years ago.

Whedon wrote most of the dialogue in speed, as well.

I remember a book on Benoit came out about 3 or 4 months after he died, and I thought they were vultures. I still think that: It was too soon, and most of the information wasn't even availiable then. It felt like a Benoit book for the sake of a Benoit book. I'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt since enough time has passed, and it does seem like a proper attempt to investigate Benoit's mentality and provide some answers as to why he did what he did rather than just being the typical cash in rushjob book.

I rewatched In the name of the King and you had a point, Jingus. The plot and dialogue were as bad as ever but Boll has learned to shoot a film properly now at least. The action scenes are shockingly quite good. However, the whole thing still came off as Uwe Boll trying to do poor LOTR imitation and I still can't grasp how that film cost $60 million to make ( I suspect Boll may have pocketed most of the cash). If you gave Boll a decent scriptwriter and an enthusiastic cast, (most of the actors in his movies are there solely for the paychecks and it shows) and more studio involvment to keep him in check, he might just come up with something that's actually okay to watch. Rather than so bad its good.

Alone in the dark was hilarious -about 6 or 7 paragraphs of incomprehensible narration and scrawl at the beginning,and the security guy ends up repeating it later anyway. -tara reid as a genius archeologist...and how do we know she's smart? She has glasses! Nevermind that she looks more like a stripper at the beginning of her act...Oh, and she can't even pronounce newfoundland right. -and we're expected to believe this archeologist is also an expert at using firearms -Rob, security guy and master of exposition. He knows everything about the Akanki indian tribe AND the curators lovelife. - 'Being afraid of the dark is what protects us, kid.' or 'don't open that door!' -a laughable sex scene done to terrible europop music and slater doesn't even take his shorts off (nor does Tara lose her bra, which is funny, considering that's the only reason she had to be in the movie). -the bit where these marines just show up out of nowhere and basically every action scene involving them -christian slater and stephen dorff going from bitter enemies to best freinds is about 30 seconds -Oh, yeah and the Passage to a secret underground laboratories and giant Xenom caves appearing from nowhere in front of orphanages. It's so funny, I remember thinking it had to be intentional. In the name of the king, there's also Burt Reynolds saying 'call in the ninjas!' which is the best bad line ever.

Mccain rejected Hagee's endorsement today after some old comments Hagee made about Hitler doing God's work came out. I knew the republicans would regret going after Obama's pastor. They've declared open season on themselves now. The thought of every politician in Washington now having to do an extensive background check on the pastor/preist before they join a church just to make sure they havn't said anything offensive is quite amusing to me.

I remember when Cena did the Iraq show, and despite his injury, he was the exact same size before. Contrast this with the other guys who lost a drastic amount of muscle mass after an injury and coming off roids. That leads me to believe he might be the genetic freak he claims to be and clean after all.

One of her spokesmen pointed out that the SDs don't actually count till the convention (which is true as far as I know). So, she could drag this out and hope some big scandal happens to Obama and causes all the SDs to change their mind in Denver. Yes, that's true. What I meant was that if she stays in past that point I was talking about, even though the superdelegates COULD change their minds, public opinion would quickly turn against her. I doubt she cares. Hillary is basically Ted Kennedy circa 1980, right now. She knows everyone will blame her if she stays in and Obama goes on to lose the GE, but she's convinced he can't win anyway, so she has to whatever it takes and that means going to the convention.

One of her spokesmen pointed out that the SDs don't actually count till the convention (which is true as far as I know). So, she could drag this out and hope some big scandal happens to Obama and causes all the SDs to change their mind in Denver.

He said he'd dabbled in it, previously but wasn't actually one. Which seems unusual since by all accounts scientology isn't something you can just 'have a passing interest in'. They seem to have an 'all or nothing' approach to members. And now he's opening up this school...seems odd.

They got to him too! Now watch Will's career go the same way as Tom's...

The Nightmare Ticket Is Dead By Al Giordano The Field can now confirm, based on multiple sources, something that both campaigns publicly deny: that Senator Clinton has directly told Senator Obama that she wants to be his vice presidential nominee, and that Senator Obama politely but straightforwardly and irrevocably said “no.” Obama is going to pick his own running mate based on his own criteria and vetting process. http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=1248 This makes sense looking at the past few weeks: 'white americans' comment aside, she's been a lot nicer about him and laid off the negative attacks and seemd to be on the verge of conceeding, probably because she thought she could get the vp spot. Then suddely after winning Kentucky she was talking about taking it to the convetion again. I think now if she gives up she gets nothing. As for Obama he may regret saying no. Particularly if she does take it to the convention on the Michigan/Florida arguement which she's now comparing to slavery http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/a...ida-gambit.aspx

And Danielle didn't get sick because her baby was her constant?

In the name of the king was pretty ridiculous. How did Jason Statham get involved in that? He's actually a pretty big star and he's doing a Uwe Boll movie!?

Those spoilers do seem genuine, particulalry in how they explain

I don't mind the Penny/Desmond soap opera...since at least that is a proper love story. But Kate just keeps going from Jack to Sawyer and back again and you just wish she'd make up her mind. It doesn't help that Kate and Jack are probably the dullest characters on the show.

The movie world needs Uwe Boll. If only to make every other director in the world feel a little better. Besides...Tara Reid as an archeologist? Laughably bad dialogue ('you did all this to become immortal...why?' 'To live forever!') and nonsensical plots...his movies are works of comedy genius and very entertaining in their own dumb way.

I felt it was obvious by the tone of my post that it was sarcasm. I also suggested Edwards get a jet ski for endorsing Obama....was that serious too?

I'm sorry. I'm really not in the mood to argue with someone and their points scoring ego. So, let's leave it there.

Kristal Marshall is pregnant. Which is why lashley might not be making any fulltime wrestling commitments.

Well done you! What a put down! Back onto adult conversation: I doubt even rove was expecting something like 1000 year republican rule, although supposedly he used to brag about a republican majority for the rest of his lifetime and his kids lifetime to people. but that's just a rumour. But I can't think he's too happy with the state of the republican party in 2008 and that frustration is showing. Just freaking out about a flag pin seems so unusual for a man that seems to pride himself in always being in control. Maybe the Siegelman case is taking its toll. Either way, Mccain shouldn't be relying on Karl to win this election for him. Most of his tactics are outdated anyway: Black babies and swiftboaters probably don't have the same impact they used to.

Karl is just pissed because his plans for a 1000 year republican reich have been scuppered.

Roslin's calling out tory for her whoring was quite funny: 'I don't care if you spend all night praying on your knees or just on your knees!'