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#304757
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I am Legend
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Eh, the movie was good for what it was worth to me. Yes, Will Smith did a great job, the dog segments were funny and touching. The monsters blew to me, story was really depressing, but I guess that's what it was shooting for I reckon. This movie has zero re-watchability to me, I don't think I'd ever sit down to watch it again. Not like Transformers which I have seen at least 20 times and still enjoy because in the end I feel uplifted, this one just makes me fear the future even more, I know, I know, it's the goal of the movie.
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#304426
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Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare
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Do kind of REALLY miss then killin' Nazi's aspect of the originals. I am a history buff, so I love begging able to live a few hours on a WWII combat field, felt good to me, made me appreciate what our forefathers had done. I do get some of that on COD4:MW, but to a much lesser scale. Aside from that this game heartily reminds me what our kids or doing over in Iraq to save our asses. Damn liberals, why I ought to kick'em in their ungrateful......awww.....anyways. COD4 Rocks.




*beware this post was left by an intoxicated individual, sorry if there are any facts or lies not told which could easily now be deemed the truth.
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#304355
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Favorite Beer
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Mine would have to be Shiner Bock, but I love anything made by Shiner, could be that I am biased toward it since it is a Texas beer and I love Texas. Right now I am enjoying a frosty mug of Shiner Hefeweizen. Since Shiner can tend to be on the expensive side, I do tend toward Coors Light or Keystone Light when the money runs short, or when no Shiner is available. So what's your favorite beer, or beers, and why?
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#304073
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: ferris209
*sigh* dammit, I sure hope Sony don't win this, I dread to see what they intend to do whenever they finally dominate a market with one of there proprietary formats as they've been trying to do for the last 30 years.


Blue-ray is just as non-proprietary as HD-DVD.


Maybe I phrased that wrong. What I am referring to is the fact that current factories producing DVD's can be slightly altered and can make HD DVD's, I'm pretyt confident that licensing fees would be minimal if history is correct. However, to make Blu-Ray discs, it takes a whole factory re-tooling and I am pretty certain they'd jack up licensing fees like crazy once they leave HD DVD dead in the dirt. That all equals high assed Blu-Ray discs. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno, I'm just speculating about a subject I admittedly don't know much about other than what I read on here and in the news.
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#303999
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Indecision2008 Name Your Canidate
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Originally posted by: Dug
Okay, I may have exaggerated, but let's start with this:

He's pro-amnesty.[\q]

Not true, taken from ontheissues.org

Q: What do you think should be done with the 12 million undocumented aliens that live in the US?

A: The first step is a secure border, because otherwise nothing really matters. But I do think the pathway has to include people going to the back, not the front of the line. There can't be an amnesty policy, because that's an insult to all the people who waited, sometimes, ridiculously, for years, just to be able to make the transition here. If you can get an American Express card in two weeks, it shouldn't take seven years to get a work permit to come to this country in order to work on a farm. So if our government is incapable of making that process in that length of time, then we should do it in a way to outsource it. And here's why: When people come to this country, they shouldn't fear. They shouldn't live in hiding. They ought to have their heads up, because we believe every person ought to have his or her head up and proud.
Source: 2007 Republican primary debate on Univision Dec 9, 2007


First off, there was a bill in the senate for Arkansas that would have required proof of citizenship for voting and required state agencies to report cases of suspected illegal immigrants. Huckabee shot it down.

I think there may be more to the story, I am researching further but here is an excerpt from mikehuckabee.com
Claim: "Huckabee also opposed legislation to require proof of citizenship in order to obtain public benefits and vote." (Associated Press, 2/3/05)

Fact: Thompson appears not to have read the entire Associated Press article. Governor Huckabee opposed this bill, because the issues addressed in the bill were already established by current law:

"But Huckabee said it's just not true that illegal aliens are receiving welfare, food stamps and other public services.

'Anyone aware that they are should alert the attorney general's office or the prosecutors office, because that's fraud,' he said." (Associated Press, 2/3/05)

The Governor's point was that illegal immigrants were already prohibited from receiving state benefits, thus there was no need to rehash the issue. The only point of the legislation was to inflame passions against Hispanics.

No illegal immigrants were able to receive "public benefits" from the state of Arkansas . Governor Huckabee specifically pointed out that if anybody knew of that happening, they should turn the illegal immigrants in for violating the law.


Huckabee also proposed a bill that would offer state funded scholarships and state benefits to illegal aliens.

More to this I know for sure
Claim: "As Governor, Mike Huckabee championed an effort in Arkansas to give in-state tuition at state colleges and taxpayer-funded scholarships to illegal immigrants."

Fact: In Arkansas Governor Huckabee supported broadening a particular merit scholarship -- not in-state tuition – to include high-achieving children who were applying for citizenship. This put these students on the same footing as permanent resident aliens, who have always been eligible for the scholarship.

The proposal to make children of illegal immigrants eligible for in-state tuition was not part of the Governor’s plan and did not pass.

The scholarships were intended to encourage all Arkansas children to work hard and excel academically. Since Arkansas has a constitutional obligation to educate all students, illegal and legal, through 12th grade, Governor Huckabee believed it was in the best interest of the state to encourage a select few (roughly 30 students would have been eligible) to continue their education. Unlike tuition discounts, the scholarship was merit-based and, because of the strict academic and financial need criteria, only open to a small number of students.

Any illegal students who wished to participate in the scholarship application process had to submit their application for citizenship. Having these students continue to their education would have enabled them to become “tax-payers” for the state rather than "tax-takers."

This debate once again highlights the difficult position that our nation's governors have been put in by the failures of the Federal Government. If immigration laws already in place had been enforced, governors would not be required to make decisions on how to simultaneously slow the inflow of illegal immigrants into their state while also trying to ensure that they are not left with increasing numbers of "tax takers."


Huckabee also supported the McCain-Kennedy Senate bill to give amnesty to illegals. Claims God supports the bill (...uuhh, okay). Made public statements that those who oppose the bill are "racist" and "bigoted."

Not true at all from everything I've read, from http://knowyourvote.googlepages.com/mikehuckabee

Huckabee has claimed that border security is his first priority. He supported the recent appropriations bill providing training and deployment of additional border patrol agents, the expansion of the border fence, and the deployment of technology-based monitoring systems along the border. He has stated that the border should be sealed. He also supports the establishment of a tamper-proof ID card to verify immigrants’ work eligibility. Huckabee opposed the recent comprehensive immigration reform bill (defeated by the Senate in June), stating that “the bill offers amnesty and should not be approved” because illegals “must take responsibility for their actions." However, during an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Huckabee implied that immigrants should be granted a path to citizenship if they pay penalties and thus accept responsibility for entering the U.S. illegally.

He also opposed the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill due to its lack of transparency and concerns about the fiscal cost of reform.

Interestingly, Huckabee has sympathized with the social needs of illegal immigrants. He advocated prenatal care for pregnant immigrants and proposed a scholarship program for illegals that graduate from Arkansas high schools.


Huckabee wants to grant clemency to repeated DWI offenders, and it has been hinted at that significant campaign contributions may have influenced this decision.

I'm still researching this, so far I have found some evidence this may be true, which saddens me, but I will get the full facts and forward them on ASAP

Huckabee has proposed tax hikes and then lied saying he didn't.

I reviewed all the associated tapes and interviews involving this deal. I am willing to give the Governor the benefit of the doubt that he did not outright "lie" as the left wing bloggers would have you believe. I think he flubbed it by saying the wrong thing, to his credit he did correct it in a press release.
And then there's this whole thing about releasing a rapist which I haven't read up on yet.

And Huckabee's latest criticism of Bush sounds like eeevery other Democrat in the last seven years.

I don't think they are necessarily left wing talking points he spouts out, but are proven mistakes that the Bush Administration made.

And then his foreign policies which sound just like the faux pas Obama made ("Invade Pakistan, reach out to Iran")--WTH!!

Yes, they do bring the Carter Presidency to mind, I agree, we need to make him aware of how ignorant they are.

Oh, and I'd like to add he's completely clueless on public education.

How so?

I knew there was something wrong with him, and I was right, especially when the media has dropped Giuliani like a hot potato and getting behind Huckabee. Something is very, very wrong. The media WANTS to have Huckabee as the Republican candidate so he's not any kind of threat against Hildebeast or Obama.

I agree the media is embracing Huckabee, and that merits suspicious, but I think it is because of their distorted views. I think they believe that since he is a Christian, he is weak. They believe if he makes it to the general election that they can start pounding his knees with the fact he is religious and that he would run a faith based government. IN their minds this could cuase him to lose, but they tend to forget that I believe 90% of the United States are Christians. I agree with you also that they believe him to be a easier win for Hellary or Obama, but I think he could surprise. I basically fully support Huckabee AND Thompson right now, I just wished Thompson would have the vigor and ambition that Huckabee is spewing all over the place. Thompson, as great as he is, is just boring the hell outta people, and sadly the reality is that a lot of folks won't vote for him because they are bored by him, regardless of how great his points of views are. Restating myself from earlier, if Thompson had been doing what he did on the last debates with the "hand show" comment all along, I think he'd be in Huckabee's polling position right now.


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#303894
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Indecision2008 Name Your Canidate
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Thompson impressed the hell out of me with his "hand shows" comment, really put me on the floor. This is the Thompson I thought I was getting in September. If he'd been doing this kind of thing since he announced, I'm sure he'd be polling at the top every time. According to the polls, many folks who originally supported Thompson are lingering over to Huckabee, mostly because Thomson hasn't been as we thought he'd be. Anyways, I am pretty much pulling for both Thompson and Huckabee, either way is WAY better than a Romney or Giuliani. Romney is just so fake to me and Guiliani's liberal social ideas just scare me along with his weak ass record on illegals, but I love his great stance on Terrorism.
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#302922
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Indecision2008 Name Your Canidate
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
WHAT'S THE HOLD UP ???

Work, School, sitting on my ass. No work tomorrow, only working twice this week, I don't think they hate me. I work hard.



So you want to replace Neo-Cons with far left lunatics. Talk about trading down.


Better to have a lunatic that doesn't want to kill anyone for oil, take away your rights, torture prisoners (we imprisoned Japanese for water boarding in WW2), give people the right to marry, not reduce carbon emissions, Oh yeah and lie about reports on Iran. Bush is a murderer. Rudy won't be any better. Lunatics that want peace are better than Nazis that want war. And about Cheney I think Keith Olberman says it best "An unapologetic warmonger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself". I can't see any mentally-stable person with a positive image of bush. I just want to see the way he tries to "Wags the dog" out of this one.


Provide facts and proof for you above comments please, most of it is ill-informed opinions.
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#302505
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Indecision2008 Name Your Canidate
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: ferris209
@ Tiptup
Why you so against Huckabee, I like the hell outta the guy.


1. He really likes to raise taxes. (The fact he now claims that a democrat-run legislature forced him to support tax increases is cowardly, probably a lie, and another reason to not like him.) He called a pro-taxpayer group in Arkansas a group that was pro "greed." At the very least he thinks it's okay for our government to take in too much money.

2. He really likes wasteful spending on supposedly compassionate programs. He actually thinks he's on a mission from God to waste taxpayer dollars and destroy our economy in the name of helping the poor. He just recently criticized George W Bush for vetoing that horrible s-chip bill the democrats tried to pass! He's a religious nut without a proper perspective of ethics (or the bible for that matter).

3. He was incredibly friendly to illegal immigrants. For instance, he wanted to give free, in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants. If you think having Bush in office is bad on immigration, wait till Huckabee gets in. I don't believe him if he says he'll be tough with immigration.

I think I have more problems beyond this, but I can't remember them at the moment. Those are at least the big ones for me. He's only, perhaps, good with judges. (I say perhaps because he doesn't understand the proper role of the federal government and probably wouldn't know an "originalist" judge if he saw one. All he cares about is abortion and there are more concerns out there.)


Well, I will research the rest, but I know you are a little ill informed on #5. He did support a tuition assistance program for children of illegals who attended public schools from grade school up and whose primary language is english. I have no bad with that, it's not like illegals were running over the border with 17 year old kids andf then getting free college educations. I think he'll be fine on this, he does want to secure the borders, punish sancutary cities, and deport those illegals caught by Officers.
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#302428
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Indecision2008 Name Your Canidate
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: Johnboy3434
Originally posted by: Rob
He believes that there is a flying man in the sky who is the supreme ruler of the universe.


...and?


They want to please the flying man rather than the people, I'd rather believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.What I have against it is all the people killed over it and all controlling try to do. Why does it matter so much about gay people marrying to these people? I don't see anything wrong with it. It won't hurt anyone why do people feel so threatened. They also want to put creationism in school which is wrong.

Plus Huck hiked taxes.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmNjMmI1ODhjNGVlZWFmNTlmMGNiZTVjYTg1NTUzMTk=

And freed a rapist to who killed again.
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419

It seems like the only decent Rep. is Ron Paul. He supports something on weather it's constitutional or not. Not on religious beliefs or personal opinion.

BTW I like what Brazil is doing here.\
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071201/ap_on_he_me/brazil_aids;_ylt=AoK1J7fuvLEZdEl4w_CUBwLVJRIF

But if were talking Dems. I like Kucinich.

And nobody likes Guliani too liberal for the GOP too much a criminal and asshole for the Dems.


C'mon most politicians have had to hike taxes at some point or another, they all have done it. Usually they go down in other places, but nobody mentions that. I think you all are really writing Huckabee off too quickly.
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#302231
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Why, oh, why do they cancel shows this good???
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Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
I was shocked the other night by my wife. We were watching an episode of Firefly when during a scene where Inara was brushing Kaylee's hair, my wife blurted out, "You know, if I was going to be with another woman, it'd be a woman like Inara!" I almost fell off of the couch, I'd never heard my wife make any such comment and as totally rejected any idea like this our whole 6+ years together. I simply replied, "Well, I know what I must do now and what I have to look for!" A great moment in history for me I guess.


Settle down there Ferris, She didn't say another woman AND you...


I could at least watch.
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#302164
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Why, oh, why do they cancel shows this good???
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Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
Morena Baccarin is as close to the perfect woman as I can imagine and certainly the way Inara is portrayed with the costume,hair,etc and Morena's natural beauty.............damn fine woman.


I was shocked the other night by my wife. We were watching an episode of Firefly when during a scene where Inara was brushing Kaylee's hair, my wife blurted out, "You know, if I was going to be with another woman, it'd be a woman like Inara!" I almost fell off of the couch, I'd never heard my wife make any such comment and as totally rejected any idea like this our whole 6+ years together. I simply replied, "Well, I know what I must do now and what I have to look for!" A great moment in history for me I guess.