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Sunday, February 15, 2009 09:31 AM
Original article: "Friday the 13th"

IMHO, Nightmare on Elm Street II was scariest of all

At least, of the "Nightmare" series.

If I may digress, overall, I & II were the best. III was ... ok.

The "New Nightmare" was strange.

But, the opening dream sequence in II, with Freddy driving the school bus, is really terrifying.

After that scene, Freddy is a only a subtle presence until almost a third of the way through the movie - probably the least campy performance by Robert Englund of all of his "Freddy" portrayals.

And, you can tell this series started in the eighties - FK was originally a child molester, who became a child murderer after #1 (he was never called a molester again).

Guess it's hard to sell posters and t-shirts and whatnot to kids when there's a molester on the front, but a murderer, that's ok...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 09:25 AM
Original article: This Modern World

@Tinafeyisahag, you mean?

you don't elect a president based on fiction, you do it based on fact.

like we did with Bush?

Thursday, February 19, 2009 09:09 PM
Original article: Tom the Dancing Bug

Did you know....?

Oscar's real name was Emilio?

Thursday, February 19, 2009 09:12 PM
Original article: WayLay

@S.R.C.

Not to explain a joke, but it's as if HOLLYWOOD had invented the WPA, capische?

PS: I like it when Carol stars in her own cartoons!

Friday, February 20, 2009 06:39 AM
Original article: The new pornographers

What's more disturbing -- that teens are texting each other naked pictures of themselves,

or that online news sites continually exploit these types of sensationalist stories for page views and ad revenue?

Saturday, February 21, 2009 09:10 PM

well, I still have my Pioneer LaserDiscs and player

so, hopefully I can pick up a Kuro on the cheap in about a year.

one man's flop is another man's treasure..

Saturday, February 21, 2009 09:19 PM
Original article: Past the point of no return

@sonofloud, the irony abounds

actually, if we recalled our military forces worldwide and reduced spending to only what would be required to police our borders, we'd be the richest nation in the world and all of our financial problems would be solved.

keep in mind that the USA spends more on military support than the rest of the planet combined.

so, it is as Eisenhower warned (way back around the time when I was first born), that the biggest threat to America's freedom is the military-industrial-scientific complex.

turns out he was right after all... and he was a republican, go figure. don't expect much from Obama on this, he's falling into the same Afghanistan trap as the soviet union, and look what happened to them as a result.

Sunday, February 22, 2009 09:52 PM

simple problem to fix

bring all troops home. close all overseas bases. beef up border security. redeploy troops for border control. balance the budget. problem solved.

US military expenditures exceed that of all other nations of the world combined. this is insane.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:31 AM
Original article: This Modern World

@Clockwork Smurf, not so fast blaming Carter for the Iran fiasco

Given the CIA's long history in interfering in Iran's governmental affairs, it's kind of unfair to pin the ultimate blame of our poor relations with that country on Carter.

Yes, the hostage rescue was a big mess, but we were screwing around with Iran since 1952:

Britain, resentful of the nationalization of Iran's oil industry, came up with the idea for a coup in 1952 and pressed the U.S. to mount a joint operation to remove the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and install the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to rule Iran autocratically.

Partially due to fear of a Communist overthrow due to increasing influence of the Communist Tudeh party, and partly to gain control of a larger share of Iranian oil supplies, the US agreed.

Brigadier General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. and CIA guru Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. were ordered to begin a covert operation to overthrow Mossadegh.

A complex plot, codenamed Operation Ajax, was conceived and executed from the US Embassy in Tehran.

from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 07:35 PM
Original article: You think this is cold ...

@elephantman, the undead like it cold

that "undisclosed location" was a coffin with native soil from Wyoming...

Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:18 PM

nobody in the USA will do a thing

There was no revolution after eight years of abuse and destruction by a Republican administration and their Democratic acquiesceors.

Therefore, I think it's pretty certain that everyone will behave like the proverbial frog in the slowly boiling pot: no one will make a move before being boiled alive, metaphorically speaking.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 08:04 PM

how to bury an issue?

assign it to a commission for study. look at all of the monuments to commissions around the world! oh, wait, there aren't any...

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 08:06 PM

i don't see how people can stand his whiny voice

i mean, he looks and sounds like a squealing hillbilly pig...

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 06:25 PM
Original article: Tom the Dancing Bug

next: government of the dead

calling George Romero...

Friday, March 6, 2009 06:55 AM
Original article: WayLay

I would have no problem using recycled paper products

for things like kitchen towels and toilet paper, but someone explain why the recycled forms cost so much more for so much less product?

I mean, you go to Whale Foods and the tiny recycled toilet paper and kitchen towels are high priced and low quantity.

I want to do all I can to preserve old growth, but I also need to preserve my "whole paycheck", and green TP doesn't cut it.

Same goes for the "recycled" aluminum foil - it's outrageously expensive and it's f**king RECYCLED! It should cost LESS.

environmentalism + marketing = ripoff

Saturday, March 7, 2009 01:21 PM
Original article: WayLay

@lonewolfy, I hear that

I wanted a "Pius", but the Corolla was a better deal for the money, and I get about 38MPG in it.

Electric cars will be practical soon, but this whole TP issue was a red herring raised by Greenpiece to drive donation $$$s.

Saturday, March 7, 2009 01:33 PM

I believe newspapers will eventually thrive again...

...when their owners decide to distribute them digitally.

Why cant I receive a PDF version of my local paper? - Not that awful DRMed "Newsroom.com" thing, but a real PDF file.

Newspapers are so ephemeral that by the time someone pirates them, they're out of date.

It is the shortsightedness of the big publishers that is killing newspapers. The Rocky Mountain News just went belly up here in Denver, and if they had at least tried a digital-only distribution model before shutting down completely, they would have eliminated 70% of their cost structure.

The much ballyhooed "digital paper", which works like a Amazon Kindle with the same wireless distribution but as thin as a sheet of paper and is dynamically updated, is indeed just around the corner, and the publications which survive until this is viable will thrive in the future.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:22 AM

"I'm not going to stop saying what I say or what I believe, 'cause I'm an...?"

_____________________ (fill in the blank).

How about "asshole"...?

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