T1, T2, Predator, Commando, Total Recall, Conan, Running Man, and of course the best of the bunch-Pumping Iron. These are GREAT movies man. Unless you dont like being entertained.

but i’d be less inclined to point the finger at FF’s and PO’s as they keep us safe. supposed to anyway. i know here in the city, they are grossly underpaid, most can’t afford to live here.
the powerful unions in the state like those i mentioned above attitude’s are, take, take, take, fvck everyone else… but that’s probably fodder for a whole other OT thread…

  I doubt they are straight raping many firefighters,

love your energy but don’t put words in my mouth. the teachers union represents teachers and administrators not students, who are the most important part of the equation. when the education budget allotment is cut, the teachers union makes sure it is the students+school districts that suffer before the teachers/administrators. that ain’t right.

like i said in my post, there are ALL KINDS of guilty parties here…

Non-intervention, state’s rights, small (tiny) federal government, repeal of the federal income tax, strictly constitutional, strongly pro-life (stemming from his career as an obgyn…but he says it should be left to the states to allow, regulate, or ban abortions).

He just wants the federal government to get the hell out of our lives.
He’s never voted to approve a budget deficit, says he’ll never vote to raise taxes…

I don’t agree with everything he believes, and he probably takes his “hands off” approach a little too far at times, but I love where he’s coming from.

I’m a big boy, I can take a little criticism and I’m used to it, almost all my friends from home, college and work are a bunch of pussy liberals like all of you. :-) And I dont think you need to worry about your writing skills and overall knowledge, I’ve found your thoughts in this thread to be interesting and well organized.

    I say exercise in democracy. In 2000 I went to vote simply because it was the first time I could, and I thought it would be cool. I wrote in McCain because I couldnt quite get myself to support Bush or Gore, and I liked what McCain seemed to be all about in the primaries. The second time I voted overseas and honestly may not have done so if my platoon commander had not been so insistent that we vote. I felt strongly about the war effort and what we as a unit had already accomplished, but I was extremely disheartened by the Bush/Rumsfeld war strategy and the privatization of warfighting they had created. I went with McCain again because he seemed to be the only prominent politician with any sense about how the war should be fought.
     Providing overwatch and escorts as Iraqi citizens risked their lives to vote in their first free elections and then spending the next several days at the house of one of the very few Ramadi citizens to fend off numerous assasination attempts completely changed my perspective though. I’ll never take the privilege lightly or feel like I “wasted” my vote again no matter how outnumbered or meaningless it may be to the results, the act is more important than the result.

dude is a freakin idiot. Seriously I dont get how he landed his own show. If he didnt surround himself with 5 other liberal guests who are always much more intelligent, well spoken, and funnier than him, he’d routinely get taken to school by his 1 conservative guest. I guess he’s smart for doing that, but he has no business talking politics. I hate Jon Stewart’s political views but the dude is quick and funny and can hold his own in serious political discussion, too. His show is worth watching. Even some of gang on CNN and MSNBC have some pretty good insight when they arent babbling about their Obama induced “goosebumps.” (well except Olbermann, he’s pretty much always a twit)
     Lets not go comparing Obama to Jackie Robinson just yet. Nobody ever questioned whether Robinson had the talent to make it. Prejudice will always exist, and too be honest, I’m afraid Obama will do more harm than good there. For all his skills as an orator he’s not exactly gonna be the one to reach across and unite people from both parties now is he? Like McCain said, its tough to reach across the aisle from that far left.

-To be eligible for the Presidency, one must be born in the U.S to parents who are natural citizens and have resided in the U.S for at least years, 5 of which must be after the age of 15. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was reportedly when she gave birth to Obama, so that would make him ineligible to be President according to the law at the time of his birth.

-Only one member of Congress, Chris Dodd, received more kickbacks from Raines’s Fannie Mae cronies than did Barack Obama–over $120,000 in bribes.

-Ayers IS RESPECTED? Wow! Bombing the New York Police Headquarters gets you respect huh?

-Sitting in front of a radical preacher for 20 years and not knowing about his views. Maybe he’s not half black but he is so full of shit he’s a shade darker.

-The most liberal candidate we’ve EVER seen.

-And the NY Times is legit….look up Jayson Blair.

Keep drinking the koolaid.

You mean, like, the Osama/Obama "connection"? Or Ayers, who committed his crime when Obama was 8, and is now a respected public figure in Chicago? Both of those have actually come out … and been laughed off by all serious people. (If you’re interested, the NYTimes basically closed the book today on the Ayers smear).

1. Sleepy, show me one time where the McCain campaign has made any comment about Obama’s name being similar to Osama. Seriously. Tell me one time when the McCain campaign has said anything like him “not looking like the presidents on the dollar bills.” You love to call these STRAWMAN arguments out in basketball discussions so why are you making them here? You oughta be calling your boy Obama out for making those same strawman arguments.
2. Wow the NY Times closed the book on the Ayers “smear”?! Whew, I’m so relieved one of the most liberal newspapers in America says the most liberal candidate ever nominated by a major party is good to go, and we shouldnt worry about his ties to a liberal terrorist. Thank goodness, thank you NY Times! Ok so Barack was 8 when Ayers went on his terrorist bombing spree….but whats your point. The man has never apologized or repented for his actions, and STILL believes he did nothing wrong. How someone can bomb the Pentagon and then get hired as a professor at a University that receives federal funding is beyond me. How an ambitious young politician would think it would be a good idea to knowingly partner with an unrepentant terrorist is also beyond me. How the media, which seems determined to bury a Republican politician for ALLEGEDLY attempting to fire a police officer who tasered a child and threatened a man with death, but totally ignores, or closes the book, on this story is a complete joke. Now, all national politicians meet a lot of people as they rise, and very few have dealt only respectable and honorable people. I dont expect Barack’s past to be perfectly clean. But a known terrorist? thats a bit extreme, and I would at least expect Obama to denounce Ayers and everything he stands for and apologize for his association with him. I know thats asking a lot, but he already threw his psychopath Reverend and “racist” mother under the bus for political gain, might as well toss a terrorist under there too.

how the candidates are perceived and marketed rather than an objective analysis of their proposed policies? I am arguing that you should get just as angry at the majority of ignorant voters as you are at belilaugh’s comment.

Some may believe he did kill Laci (D’OH) since you do think he killed lacey and since he is on Death Row why keep him alive? Again I don’t know about this case but I for one believe if someone had murdered a family member (knock on my head) and is sentenced to 25 to life because the jury does not believe in the Death Penalty, I wouldn’t say I am glad the state of California retains its humanity because than the government would have too much of a say and control over who has the right to live or die I would probably be thinking of something that can put a needle in me…but thankfully California retains its humanity otherwise I would probably be worried. Jae don’t take this as an attack because I’m sure you will have me saying D’OH til the warriors are in the play-offs again. Just expressing my opinion on the situation.

the way I look at the death penalty is the way I look at abortion. The government should do less banning by decree. To ban by decree is the antithesis of democratic. At least by having it be an option for the people (jury) to consider – they can make an informed choice. Besides the death penalty is a consequence meant as a deterrent – you can argue that corporal punishment does not make an effective deterrent – but still some states don’t have the death penalty because it’s voted on by the people.

therefore the jury is an agent of the people.

are you against abortion also?