FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:40 AM) I hear ya. Which is what I was thinking when the assumption was made that these guys were Christians. Of course, that was also done without any basis in fact. You're putting forth the proposition that there is an equal likelyhood that the perps are evolutionists as opposed to them being Christian extremists? You didn't work as a tobacco industry lawyer in a past life did you?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:30 AM) No. He may be telling the truth. He could just be a patsy in an evil evolutionist plot. Give me back my tinfoil hat, YAS!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 09:08 AM) Musically I like Imagine, the message? Meh. I like Kevin Mathew's version of the lyrics more. I think the message is a great one. Politics and war, religion, and material greed are at the root of so many of humanity's problems, John says think where we'd all be if we could get past all that.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 09:05 AM) Sorry. And you are much more poetic than I am. I found the interview on ABC News today and wanted to share it but felt the need to preface it. I agree that the Yoko material grew on me and came to mean as much to me on the album as John's songs. Rex (Kickass) has noted here before the influence of those Yoko songs to other new wave artists.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 09:02 AM) You beat me to it Jim, going a day early on me and all. I had it all planned out. The thread title was going to imagine, and the post was going to be blank... I figured the rest would be easy. Sorry. And you are much more poetic than I am. I found the interview on ABC News today and wanted to share it but felt the need to preface it.

It's been 25 years. John Lennon was shot dead outside the Dakota 25 years ago tomorrow. I was in 8th grade, and I remember it as vividly as if it was last week. I was just getting o bed late when the news came on the TV that he had been shot. My parents let me stay up and listen to the reports for a while but I fell asleep despite myself some time later to wake up a couple hours later to the news that John was dead. Growing up Catholic the date of December 8th had always been a holy day (Feast of the Immaculate Conception), but it forever took on a different, darker meaning mor me in 1980. A week or so afterward, Yoko had asked all of John's fans and admirers to observe 10 minutes of silence on a Saturday afternoon. I remember being at a movie with a friend (the very crappy Get Smart "Nude Bomb" movie), and leaving the theater to walk outside and participate in teh observance. There were two or three others who were doing the same thing and it was really an emotional moment. There is a newly released Rolling Stone interview from 1970 with John, reviewed here and available as a podcast at the bottom of the page. The whole interview was supposedly 7 hours long, and though the podcast says 'complete inerview' I don't yet know if it's teh whol seven hours. I'll download it and listen to it over the nxt few days. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Entertainment/story?id=1372831

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 02:32 AM) Really? Did they say that somewhere? I don't know how they can think they are alike. Gambit is a cajun from New Orleans that holds crap and charges them up with energy and chucks em at people and has bad one liners while Cyclops is nerdy and annoying and always getting pissed off when other guys are creepin up on his woman and being insecure. Gambit is a player and Cyclops is a square. I would have loved seeing Gambit in the movie. I just think they figured with Rogue already in the lineup it would be one too many bad cajun/southern accents if they had gambit as well.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 11:13 PM) Shocked balls. What a concept. (You like how I cherry picked that out???) Again, yes.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 11:13 PM) Shocked balls. What a concept. (You like how I cherry picked that out???) Yes.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 11:06 PM) so far it's a one sided report. I'm in no way defending whoever these friggin' yahoos were. I'm just saying that everyone's so quick to say, "see, it's those damn christians." it's like looking at Cerbaho's and lowercaserepublican's experiences and saying, see, all women suck at driving. I found what jim and the other guy had to say slightly offensive, that's all I'm saying. You want odds on whether or not these guys turn out to be self-professed Christians as the story develops? Honestly?? Tell you what, Bro, the next time a story breaks about two agnostics pounding the crap out of an evangelical Christian make sure to post it here and rub my face in it. I consider myself forewarned. Of course, the next time that story breaks will be the first time. :rolly

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 11:07 PM) *sigh* hehe. Yup. She didn't listen to DJ when he said, "whatever you do don't just strap it on."

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 07:55 PM) Go ahead, Flaxx, join in the fun, because you think the exact same thing. What I think is the the President is fully complicit in the acts carried out by or at the behest of the administration, either before or after the fact. Signing off on a policy of fixing the facts around the war, and accepting the Ashcroft/Gonzales torture loopholes as a central part of the handling of a new category of foriegn combatant are examples of complicity before the fact. Failure to demand an aggressive and complete seeking out the truth when allegations of prisoner abuse, massacre of civilians, extraordinary rendition, etc., surface is complicity after the fact. Failure to allow an unfettered look at the intelligence "lapses" and the "accidental" outing of covert CIA agents is obstruction and complicity either before of after the fact. The "not a details guy" President is more interested in hearing what he wants to hear than he is in hearing honest assessments. People's careers have come to grinding halts when they have given viewpoints that dissent with those of the administration. The President has surrounded himself with people that will take care of the details and to only tell him what he wants to hear, and people who he knows don't mond getting their hands dirty if it furthers the current agenda. Whether GWB is actually the guy waterboarding detainees or hooking their genitals up to electrodes or not, the culture of corruption that has taken root in his watch is the direct result of indifference to details like respect for human rights and international law.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 05:50 PM) It's a good thing we judge entire populations based on two individuals..... f***ing mouthbreathers... :headshake My comments were directed only at the mouthbreathers involved in the assault, fine Christians that they are and all. :headshake :headshake

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 06:32 PM) The dumb girl who hit me is apparently trying to claim she wasn't at fault. UGHHHHH Be ready for a call from her insurance company trying to get you on record as not having any pain from crash-related injuries. I got rear-ended hard by a lady several years ago, and it was completely her fault and she didn't try to fght it. But her insurance company called me up at like 7 am the next day (on Saturday) while I was still half-asleep and grilled me about any pain I was feeling. Like an idiot i said that I felt fine, only to find my neck and back in a world of pain a few hours later, once my muscles finally registered the impact trauma. I was sore as hell for a couple of days, but luckily no lingering effects. Glad to hear you're mostly alright.

All my positive thoughts are heading out to Joseph Andrew and the rest of his/your family, Steff.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 06:12 PM) I don't like the use of absolutes. Like when GWB told the media he didn't think the Global War on Terror was winnable? :rolly

I got a kick out of the 'not money laundering if it's a check' defense as well. But I'm still not sure why the DOJ higher-ups are not taking some serious heat for ignoring the unanimous recommendation of its lawyers against the Texas redistricting based on their assessment it would be illegal.

Looks good. Looks like it has some of the Days of Future Past storyline in it, but without Sentinels and with a different X lineup. Maybe a little Dark Phoenix story arc in there as well, the way Jean was throwing stuff around in the teaser. Angel looks good. The Beast makeup looks a little stiff.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 01:15 AM) I'll never understand why they continue to cancel a great show like Arrested Developement. I just watched the new episode from today and am convinced that other than ATHF (also watched that new episode today) and House it's the best show on television. I'm pissed off they cancelled Arested Development. Really, really under-apppreciated show.

And the news story that somehow flew under the radar today. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/05/m...ating/?breaking Onward, Christian Soldiers! Way to love your neighbor. f***ing mouthbreathers.

I'm now permanently emotionally scarred after watching that.

QUOTE(bmags @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 12:43 AM) haha, ballards comments were funny Funny in a petty, demeaning and self-serving kind of way.

Cool find, and another piece of the puzzle. And Bob Ballard continues to be a dickweed. . . I grew up looking up to this guy like I looked up to Cousteau and Eugenie Clark. What an arrogant prick he's turned out to be.

When do I get my free sample?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 5, 2005 -> 10:37 AM) And that wasn't really a political post. A scandal involving the US government paying people in the press to print their work - would qualify as a political discussion. Saying that a terrorist is reported dead is not. I agree. Just pointing out at the same time that Afghanistan is not yet off limits according to Da Rules. Edit to add: Let me qualify that I think Da Rules have ovrstepped what is technically a political post. According to Jason's list any "Talking about the war in Iraq is political amnd therefore verboten. If the terrorist had been wasted in Iraq as part of the war effort, it would not be allowed it's own thread.