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Now you must really think everyone is gullible to want us to buy that nonsense.
Seems like Dominic was able to figure it out. I think my post in that thread stands for itself.
You guys are ridiculous. I was including myself in the gullible ****ers comment.
I wasn’t criticizing any of you or myself for assuming he was telling the truth and having compassion. I was just saying we’d been had and using innuendo, in case by some wild mix-up, he was actually telling the truth.
People are really ****ing gullible and there are some real pieces of work on this board.
That is all.
Ben Carson is a joke:
Was nice of CNN to note there was no Episode IV subtitle when the movie first came out.
The official Star Wars twitter asked followers which was their first Star Wars movie?..
Mark Hamill tweeted: “Star Wars”.
Those “rules” are what makes a movie good though. They aren’t arbitrary.
Rules? Don’t be silly. This is art, not your mom’s house.
What does this even mean?
What screenwriting rules does ESB break?
None because there are no rules. As long as things make sense and are relevant to the plot, they are fine. TFA sucks because 2/3 of the things are not relevant to the plot.
This is an ignorant comment. Writing is a craft, and successful writers don’t just sit down and write whatever comes to mind. The same way John Williams spent years studying music and music theory, before he could possibly hope to compose the music for Star Wars, so to a good writer will spend years studying storytelling and screenwriting theory before they are capable of writing anything nearly as good.
The person who just types up a script with the idea that as long as everything makes sense and is relevant, and otherwise has no clue what they are doing, is the same as the “composer” who just grabs some pots and pans and starts banging them together, thinking it sounds good.
I saw some right-wing warriors jumping to his defense by insisting that the positions for the picture were previously arranged, so he was just going where he was supposed to go.
As if that is an excuse for not politely tapping the guy and saying “excuse me”.
Guy is a total clown. An almost 70 year old baby and a national embarrassment. Shameful that a grown man would ever think about acting like that.
Why do people always blame Disney instead of Lucasfilm? Disney is just the parent company.
Disney has final say on everything. Often, they will just let Lucasfilm do their thing. But Disney, like all studios, will butt their head into matters and mandate certain things where they think appropriate.
So yes, it’s perfectly fine to be pissed off at Disney and Lucasfilm. If Disney wanted to make the OOT possible, they could make it happen.
I don’t think people appreciate what a challenge it was to make The Force Awakens. It could have been a disaster.
It was a disaster for the most part.
It still wasn’t as bad as the prequels, though.
Agreed. Quite the embarrassment.
See I can’t agree with this. I don’t think it’s an embarrassment. I’m sure a lot of thought and love and care went into the letter, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. I just don’t think it’s the most effective.
What happened to the short and clean version we were all talking about a few weeks ago?
This looks like a tl;dr manifesto.
The CBO is out with their score on the new Republican health care bill.
Of course these clowns couldn’t stand the heat from their constituents, and that’s why they tried to ram the bill through congress before the score even came out.
By the way, none of that even touches on her reckless handling of classified information which she forwarded to her pal, Sid Blumenthal, who was hacked by foreign governments, and did not have a security clearance or authorization to view any of those top secret communications.
Is she not to be prosecuted for that, in the same way that Kristian Saucier, U.S. Navy, was sentenced to 1 year in prison last summer for having old pictures on his cell phone of classified information?
The double standard exists because of who she is, period.
That’s a very different conclusion from the ones reached by the FBI, and the relevant House and Senate investigations, none of which found she’d committed a crime.
She and her people set up their own private email server IN ORDER TO circumvent those laws.
No that’s wrong (CatBus is correct). As has been mentioned in this thread several times (along with quotes from the relevant laws). They NEEDED to prove intent, which they couldn’t. Hillary being possibly naive/lazy/foolish/incompetent is not enough and not a crime.
This is just wrong. Intent is not mentioned or inferred anywhere in the relevant statutes. Additionally, the Republicans in Congress have claimed that the FBI notes on the investigation never refer to intent. According to them, Hillary and her subordinates were never questioned on their intent, and they never offered any answers about intent. No Democrat in Congress has refuted those assertions, and the FBI has refused to release details on the interviews and the investigation.
There are countless cases of right-wing media, supporters, and politicians claiming that Hillary Clinton committed a crime and should have been prosecuted. For the most part, their opinion is politically motivated. And there are countless cases of left-wing media, supporters, and politicians who claim that Hillary Clinton was just incompetent, didn’t mean to do anything bad, you can’t prove intent, yada-yada, and she should be left alone because she did nothing illegal. For the most part, the opinions of these people are also politically motivated.
Although I’m a liberal, I consider myself an independent leftist and don’t care for party politics. I believe in a higher right/wrong moral standard. I don’t think there is any question about what Hillary and her team were up to. She didn’t want her communications subject to outside oversight. Despite the existence of laws mandating that government communications be preserved and subject to review, she setup the private email server anyway, because she’s Hillary Clinton, and who the hell is going to stop her.
You Democrats sound awfully high and mighty accusing the Republicans of only pushing this case for political theater; but I would argue that the mock investigation was the only thing that constituted political theater. Starting with the government never utilizing its powers of subpoena, to the FBI granting immunity to everyone and everybody who ever worked for Hillary Clinton, to the Attorney General meeting on the tarmac with the husband of the person being investigated, to the FBI director then calling a press conference and announcing there would be no prosecution (which is clearly not his call), to this nonsense about intent when her intentions were neither asked nor supplied, nor were they relevant anyway.
Republicans control all three branches of government
Barack Obama, a Democrat, was the President and in control of the Executive Branch during the investigation.
That’s a very different conclusion from the ones reached by the FBI, and the relevant House and Senate investigations, none of which found she’d committed a crime. But okay.
She wasn’t prosecuted because of who she is and the power that her and her husband and all of her supporters have in Washington. The 2009 Federal Records Act mandates that all government emails must be preserved for record keeping, in accordance with Freedom of Information Act requests. She and her people set up their own private email server in order to circumvent those laws. Lawrence O’Donnell (MSNBC host) agrees: http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/06/msnbcs-odonnell-clinton-email-system-obviously-set-up-to-circumvent-foia-requests-video/
Are you able to make a legal argument or logical argument that she did not commit a crime? Or are you just going to fall back on the “they didn’t prosecute her, so therefore she didn’t do anything wrong” defense?
And that’s why Hillary Clinton committed a crime when she and her people setup their illicit email server. The law exists so that government business can be subject to oversight and public record, but like Nixon, she thought she was above the law.
A transcript of Trump’s phone call with murderous Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been obtained and released by The Intercept:
This either reads like two children talking politics to each other, or two liars just smiling and talking bullshit to each other.
I can’t decide which.
Darth Solo, I don’t have the words. I just want to pray for you and I’m sorry for your loss.
The family’s actions suggest they are not confident in the police investigation. They hired a private investigator, and now they are requesting the police department to release more information regarding the investigation.
The following aspects of this case seem suspicious to me:
This is my opinion, but I think the family’s anger is directed at the right-wing types like Hannity, who undoubtedly have very little interest in Seth Rich’s death, and would use it to advance their own political agenda. I think they have every right to feel that way, naturally. Nothing is worse than watching right-wing nutjobs clamor about Seth Rich in one internet post, and then talk about shooting Muslims and hanging liberal traitors in the next one.
We’re not the only SW forum out there
The only good one.
And?
An unemployed game writer with no prospect of future employment who posts Star Wars memes on twitter all day, might just be a poster or lurker on a Star Wars-centric forum.
He posted a bunch of Star Wars stuff on his twitter today.
Trump’s guestbook message at the Holocaust memorial:
Has to be a fake. I can’t believe even Trump would be so crass.
In other political news, Sean Hannity says he’s under pressure from liberal media groups to lose his sponsors and get fired for promoting DNC murder conspiracies. While I do think there is something shady going on with that story, and the way the media and police are handling it, and I would like to see justice for Seth Rich (a fellow Bernie supporter), I would love to see Hannity get the sack. You know his motive is not genuine and he certainly deserves it.
I hope all of our friends in the UK are ok. Sad to hear about the terrorist attack.
Sick bastards killing kids.
I also think there’s a good chance that David Leavitt asshole posts or lurks here, and if he does, you can go **** yourself you piece of ****.
