Ratboy

that reminds me... funnier than a burning nun

That was last week, wasn't it?

Mastodon. Metal !

I have to piss like a racehorse Well cut of my legs and call me shorty His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top He's duller than a sack of wet mice It's all pink on the inside If there's grass on the field, play ball Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed

Score one for Mother Nature.

As well as the righty reactionaries.

This is my biggest frustration with the Democratic Party. Everyone's so afraid to get their hands dirty and being too PC. This is politics. If there's an issue you feel stringly about, then you need to go all out. I don't mean factless mudslinging (Chambliss vs Cleland anyone?) but presenting the tough facts. That photo of Rumsfled with Saddam should have been published as much as Bush in the flight suit. It's relevant and it's the truth.

Cracks me up how conservatives bag on the left like their own shit doesn't stink. I have news for you right-wingers, the stench from your side is just as bad. The hypocrisy alone is amazing. When it comes to moral or ideological superiority, I'm afraid both the right and the left leave a LOT to be desired.

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The mistake is thinking the insurgents are pro-Saddam. Some of them may have been, but it seems there are many more that are simply anti-American, if not just anti-occupation. I don't see an end to the insurgency in the near future at all.

I don't watch reality tv. It's one of the most boring concepts ever created for tv, and that's saying a lot. If I want to see people fighting and scheming behind each others' backs I'll visit my family.

Getting a bit defensive aren't we? I don't think I mention you. Not by name, no, but it was a logical assumption given that I was the only one to mention I got mine to drive in the mountains, then you immeditealy said you didn't believe people that said they bought them to drive in the mountains.

Just because Bush is a horrible President and is taking this country in a direction counter to everything I believe it stands for, doesn't mean the troops in the field doing their job should be attacked.

Jim: Your assumptions that I only drive to trailheads is wrong. I need the clearance and interior capacity of an SUV for where I go and what I do in the mountains, not that I need to justify it to you. I'd hardly call a Toyota RAV4 "mondo", and it's far from "shiny". I have it because I need it. Sorry if that breaks your stereotypes. Scott: I am all for public transportation. I was giving my reasons for owning an SUV, not saying that people should do what I do. I took the bus to work every day at my old job because it was convenient, even more so that driving. Now it's just the opposite. It would take 1 hour to take the bus from home to work, but 20 minutes to drive. So I drive. If there was a valid public transportation system that worked for my daily commute, I'd happily use it. But there isn't.

I drive an SUV because I need one when I'm in the mountains. I don't need one in town, obviosuly, but I can't afford 2 cars, so I just have the one. It is one of the smaller ones so it gets better mileage (21mpg or so), but that's still pretty low. I'd rather see the mandatory fuel efficiency increased than a gas tax. I also think there's an untapped market for high-efficiency SUVs that's not being met by the auto companies. I know I'd buy one as long as it wasn't outrageously priced.

Sweet! Hand him over to the Iraqi government and be done with it. Can we get back to going after the people that attacked us now?

I wasn't referring to the Ents taking down Isengard, I was referring to the trees destroying the fleeing orc/uruk hai army at Helm's Deep. That was the part that wasn't in the theatrical release. Ah, gotcha. That was sweet.

The Ents taking down Isengard wasn't just in the extended DVD of Two Towers, it was a critical part of the end of the theatrical release. They added several more scenes for the DVD, but they were always there in the theatrical version. I could not have been hapier with Bombadil being left out. That's the only part of the book I dislike. Although it also meant leaving out the Barrow-downs, which I do like.

This has been known for quite some time, since Sam didn't get the box of seed and soil from Galadriel in the Gifting scene in the extended first DVD. I'm disappointed, but I'm curious how they're going to resolve it.

Mitsubishi Skookumchuck!

I saw one the other day that just said BITTER.

Please do not use the word "journalist" when describing this drivel. It's not even close. As I said in the other thread: O'Reilly is an egotistical blowhard. He cares nothing for real issues or debate other than to try to make himself look better. Some of my favorite moments: O'REILLY: Because, No. 1, I don't really care what you think. O'REILLY: That's a bunch of crap. I've done more for the 9/11 families by their own admission -- I've done more for them than you will ever hope to do. O'REILLY: Shut up. Shut up.

O'Reilly leans a bit to the right, but he's actually pretty moderate. His problem, other than being an egotistical blowhard, is that he seems reluctant to check his "facts". Either that or he just makes shit up and takes it as fact. I haven't figured it out yet.

Actually, it was called Dragon's Lair.