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marcvh
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response 31 of 323:
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Jun 24 19:54 UTC 2004 |
How does this compare with Rush Limbaugh's finances?
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gull
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response 32 of 323:
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Jun 24 20:27 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:30: George W. Bush claims to be a 'man of the people', too, and
he didn't exactly grow up in a trailer park.
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richard
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response 33 of 323:
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Jun 25 04:20 UTC 2004 |
hey woody allen's a comedian who's also a great filmmaker. Doesn't have to
be mutually exclusive. The fact is that Moore deals with very serious
subject in an extraordinarly effective way. There were a lot of people in
tears by the end of the movie when I saw it.
Moore btw is making sure Fahrenheit 911 gets released on DVD before the
election and has said he'll work with Move On and other groups, and even go
into his own pocket if necessary, to ensure that voters in swing states get
copies of this movie
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richard
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response 34 of 323:
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Jun 25 05:36 UTC 2004 |
Because this is the general movie review item, and Fahrenheit 9/11 is worthy
of more detailed discussion, I have entered item 30 for that purpose.
What other movies has anyone seen recently? Spiderman 2 opens next week and
is getting strong advance buzz that it is better than the first one. One
poster in one board who saw it says its this year's "Empire Strikes Back"
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richard
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response 35 of 323:
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Jun 26 04:23 UTC 2004 |
SAVED-- This movie reminded me of "Heathers", the great Winona
Ryder/Christian Slater high school movie from a few years back. You have
the in crowd and the out crowd, and a confused girl who starts out part of
one crowd and ends up in the other. The lead character is a high school
girl at an evangelical private school (a "Jesus High" as some call them)
Her boyfriend turns out to be gay, and she thinks she had a vision from
God that she should sleep with him to save him from his gayness. She
thinks if she sleeps with him, he will be cured of his gayness, and then
God will restore her virginity. It is the kind of twisted thinking you
get from being brainwashed at Jesus High. Naturally the boyfriend is not
cured of his gayness, and she ends up pregnant instead. Causing her to
have a crisis of faith, which her snooty in crowd friends can't
understand, so she ends up with the out crowd.
This movie conveys a fine message of tolerance and acceptance, and that
faith and skepticism need not be mutually exclusive things. Its got a
good cast and good writing. I had a couple of issues with the plot and
was annoyed that the central character, who is hiding her pregnancy,
manages to get almost all the way through her senior year without her
pregnancy showing. She just wears sweaters and manages to gain absolutely
no weight in the face or arms, just in her stomach. The director should
have had this girl go on a get fat diet during the filming, so that she is
actually showing the weight gain in a natural way by the last trimester.
But that is nitpicking. This was a good, not great but solidly good, film
that has a lot of good things to say.
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slynne
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response 36 of 323:
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Jun 27 13:58 UTC 2004 |
It isnt unheard of for teenaged girls to effectively hide their
pregnanacies. Not everyone gains weight in the face or arms when they
are pregnant. Different people carry babies differently.
One of my favorite stories is about a friend of mine who ran into an ex-
boyfriend just a couple of days before her due date. Later on she heard
that he had mentioned running into her to a mutual friend and had said
that he thought that she *might* be getting a little bit of a belly
which he thought was kind of weird. Seriously, she just didnt even look
pregnant even that late in her pregnancy.
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mary
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response 37 of 323:
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Jun 27 15:39 UTC 2004 |
"The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" is a hoot. It's a 2004 film that
does a great job of pretending to be a 1950's sci-fi classic.
If you love the genre ya gotta rent this one.
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tsty
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response 38 of 323:
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Jun 28 04:54 UTC 2004 |
FAHRENHEIT 9/11 is a documentary only in france. here, with thinking
people it is properly recognized as a superior political polemic.
wroing sided in the first half but revealing in the 2nd half.
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slynne
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response 39 of 323:
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Jun 28 06:20 UTC 2004 |
There is no rule that a documentary cant have a bias.
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klg
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response 40 of 323:
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Jun 28 11:46 UTC 2004 |
However, it ought to have at least a fleeting consistency with the
truth.
Main Entry: 1doc u men ta ry
Pronunciation: "d -ky&-'men-t&-rE, -'men-trE
Function: adjective
1 : being or consisting of documents : contained or certified in
writing <documentary evidence>
2 : of, relating to, or employing documentation in literature or art;
broadly : FACTUAL, OBJECTIVE <a documentary film of the war>
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gull
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response 41 of 323:
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Jun 28 15:08 UTC 2004 |
Y'all have FOX News and Rush Limbaugh; we have Michael Moore. Deal with it.
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tod
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response 42 of 323:
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Jun 28 15:37 UTC 2004 |
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rcurl
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response 43 of 323:
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Jun 28 15:50 UTC 2004 |
Or daughters...
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tod
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response 44 of 323:
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Jun 28 15:51 UTC 2004 |
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rcurl
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response 45 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:24 UTC 2004 |
Say, for example, the Bush daughters. A little military discipline might
do them some good.
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klg
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response 46 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:26 UTC 2004 |
We nominate Bill Clinton - he would need a lot.
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marcvh
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response 47 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:30 UTC 2004 |
Does he have a parent in Congress?
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klg
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response 48 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:33 UTC 2004 |
Hillary.
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marcvh
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response 49 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:44 UTC 2004 |
Hillary is his mommy?
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klg
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response 50 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:47 UTC 2004 |
She is the adult of the "household."
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marcvh
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response 51 of 323:
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Jun 28 16:55 UTC 2004 |
If Hillary is his mommy that means he wasn't really cheating with
Lewinsky, right? Maybe he just needed a time-out or a spanking, instead
of an impeachment.
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rcurl
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response 52 of 323:
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Jun 28 19:10 UTC 2004 |
He wasn't impeached because of cheating with Lewinsky. He was impeached
because he lied about it, causing billions of dollars to be spent to
understake a war not approved by Congress and undermining the very foundations
of our democratic society.....oh, sorry, I think I got the villians mixed up.
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marcvh
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response 53 of 323:
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Jun 28 19:20 UTC 2004 |
I'm just pleased that, so far, we don't seem to have screwed up the way
Reagan did in trading arms for hostages.
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tod
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response 54 of 323:
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Jun 28 21:14 UTC 2004 |
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gull
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response 55 of 323:
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Jun 29 14:41 UTC 2004 |
I figure if you investigate someone for seven years with an unlimited
budget, and the worst you can come up with is a blow job, that's gotta
be a pretty clean administration.
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