There is a difference between wartime and peacetime. The thing that pisses me off here is, people who applauded Clinton for the totally and blatantly illegal actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco have somehow grown a backbone now. For NO other reason than politics. Quit lying about caring, it only makes you look stupid
Ted, there has ALWAYS been an enemy in the United States ready to kill at any time. It is just the name that changes is all. Militiamen, cultists, Puerto Ricans, British Loyalists, Fenians Islamic fundamentalists, the Mafia and many other groups have taken up that threatening position, and if you can't see how the circumstances of a Civil War(a time of both rebellion and invasion) and the current situation which is neither a rebellion or is America un
Of course Ted, there was a Rebellion so to speak going on and the fact that Washington was threatened by a well-organized and efficient army across the Potomac that had made a few invasions into the Union states, both of which were conditions for the removal of that right, and it was only removed for the duration of that War, a war which had clear aims and a definitive ending point.
I am not a greeny by any means... but I look at the success that E-85(85% Ethanol) fuel is having, and the fact that the Big 3 produce cars which have Flexfuel engines(they will run on either gas or E-85 fuel) for other markets, and I think North America and gas prices could really improve if car companies and Ethanol producers expanded into these programs. There are more than a few countries which are now Energy independent with these change
I declare Necromancy! Someone is resurrecting old threads.... oooeeeeoooooeee!
Vote for the worst.com doesn't even explain it.
sounds like Crusader Kings to me... hehe.
I had a love affair with Europa Universalis 1 and 2, I bought other paradox games but I never liked any of them as much as EU, though I have yet to give Victoria a fair shot. Did you frequent the EU2 forums at Paradox? I was/am Bismarck over there.
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The plans to do the Crucible were a full year in advance... and both plays were approved by that office(which represented the community when they were presented for approval again, a year in advance)... so unless she had precognition, I don't think that was her intention for choosing the latter play. After all, it is one of the most performed modern plays as well.
It wasn't Grease they were reading, it was the Crucible, and again I say, the indication is that the argument was "Because you did Grease last year, we won't let you do the Crucible sight unseen because you are the one who is suggesting it". It was the fact that these people rejected the production more because of the teacher's previous production rather than any other objection that makes this problematic.
Um... the story played bait and switch... DeVore's students were to perform Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," a drama set during the 17th Century Salem witch trials. But after a handful of Callaway Christian Church members complained about scenes in the fall musical "Grease" that showed teens smoking, dr
I remember a story about a Texas Legislator getting a bill passed in the 1970's honoring the Boston Strangler.
GTA: I think the acting talent associated with these games is also a major selling point. I mean, getting say Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Tom Sizemore and various others, or Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, Peter Fonda, James Woods, and David Cross etc. in the same film.... its sort of like that kind of experience too. That and it is kickass social commentary(the in-game radio ads in particular).
I am more likely to ascribe an "agenda picture" tag on Syriana given the other particulars of the film, but having never seen it, I can't make a judgment one way or another, though it still probably isn't in the same league as Farenheit 911 for having an major league agenda. Brokeback Mountain, given the fact that it is Ang Lee, whose previous projects don't fit that mold, doesn't fit in my mind as being such a picture. I get more of a sense
Because entertainment, not indoctrination, is our chief reason for going to the movies. But they largely fail at even that modest goal. I mean, if you submitted half those plot lines as part a school project, you'd fail because the end product sucks. The product that the studios is selling is
And I am arguing that it is the Big Momma's Houses and Pacifier-type movies that are killing Hollywood, not Syriana and Brokeback Mountain, just as Britney et al are killing the music industry in the long run.
Brokeback Mountain cost 13 million dollars to make and has made 130 million worldwide- 10X the investment Good Night and Good Luck cost 7 million, and has made 42 million- 6 times the investment King Kong cost 207 million to make, and pulled in 216 domestically(538 worldwide)= twice the investment. Narnia cost 210 and made 266 domestically(668 worldwide)- three times the investment. While it is true that these movies with po
I think "Date Movie" and the remake inundation is a far more dangerous trend in Hollywood than politically-based movies. I mean, if you really think about it, the so-called silver age of American cinema(the late 1960's through about 1980) was an age of very political and socially-oriented films. My god, so films with substance, even when said substance is about a subject matter that one finds distasteful, should at least be admired for actual
When I was a kid, fag was a HUGE and widely used insult. Guess it just stuck around.
Ah Qix.... where hast thou gone!
When I heard about the move for a filibuster I just had to say "GAH!". It is a bonehead move, and I disagree with it strongly. Of course, the nuclear option in the long term hurts both parties, so I don't think it should be on the table either.
*%&#* IF you played it, you know exactly what I mean.
The maxim of Canadian politics is more "kick the last government out" rather than "elect a new ideology".
I would like to add that the similarity between the current teflon changes and the strange disappearance of the 3m "Scotchgard" brand in 2000 are somewhat related. They were finding the chemicals found in Scotchgard in blood donations back in the 1970's, chemicals from the same family as those used in teflon(perfluorooctanes). Scotchgard has recently come back however, so you should be a little wary nonetheless.
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