No shit from me. Your position, in fact, is the only one that a real American could believe. That is, the idea that ALL men (and women) are created equal and are endowed with inalienable rights.

Thanks for posting.

I don't really like that whole "You can't invoke Hitler" thing. Thus:

"I think we should round up all the liberals, deprive them of the right to own businesses and property, herd them on to cattle trains, and take them off to "work" camps."

"Oh, well that sounds like what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews."

"Oh! The last refuge of an intellectual bankrupt! Compare me to Hitler, will you? Just proves my point that you can't defend your ideas any other way!"

You see? It too often becomes a "get out of jail free" card for reprehensible assholes.

Just think how much worse it would be if we lived in one of them crazy countries, those being every other country in the world. Didn't Hannity do a series like that? America is the best, most perfect country God ever put on earth? Something like that.

It's difficult to discuss this film without delving into the realm of spoilers, but I don't think the doubts in the film are meant to be ambiguous. They are meant to be doubts. Lacking any real evidence, Streep's Sister Aloysius is not admirable. The doubts are real and legitimate; her certainty is not. It is just certainty. Impervious. Indestructible. Unshakeable. Would knowing the actual status of Father Flynn's intentions/actions really justify the harm she is willing to cause by virtue of her need to remain unmoved from her predetermined belief?

Aside from that, I found Streep's performance to be anything but one note. In fact, the biggest surprise for me in seeing the film was how much humor she was able to bring out of her character. My main reaction to her character, as much as she angered me, was a kind of pity for how secretly miserable her life must be.

First: I'm not going to answer your question because I have here in my possession incontrovertible proof that you are an Al Qaeda operative assigned to sow doubt and fear among the American people. This makes you a terrorist low-life scumbag, beneath contempt. It is now up to you to prove you are not what I say you are.

Second: I'm going to ask you the same thing people kept saying to me when I said there was no evidence of WMDs in Iraq and that everything Bush was saying about the war was a lie: Why do you, theplanner, hate this country so much? Don't try to deny it. You do. That's obvious. Your hatred and contempt for this country oozes from every syllable of your posts.

Third: I strongly believe that there is no evidence that Obama could produce that would satisfy you, America hater.

I hope you're not going to fall for the old "Obama won't play ball with me. He's not giving me anything here. He's honest and trustworthy." trick.

It's obvious that Blagojevich, throughout the whole investigation process, has been willingly filling the role of smokescreen, just so he can help legitimize Obama's credibility while Obama pursues his true evil objective of taking 110 percent of everyone's paycheck and giving it to crack-addicted welfare moms pumping out baby after baby after baby in the back seat of their pimped-out Cadillacs.

It's difficult to see this as anything other than a deliberate attempt to completely trash the economy before Barack comes in. Then in four years, we will get to listen to the nasal shrillness that is Sarah Palin talkin' how its all Obama's fault, and by golly, gee, we're gonna get out there, and, you know, trust the American people, and, you know, Joe the Plumber, and Sally the Waitress, and we're gonna protect marriage and teenagers havin' babies is good if the teens are Christians but bad if they're just ghetto whores, and more war also.

What you say is true in the case of Palin. She is still Governor. But what is Joe's claim to fame other than the weird agreement that he is famous?

A child may pound loudly and annoyingly on the piano at a party, and yet still we are not obligated to arrange a concert tour.

Joe the Moron can scrounge up a book deal based on the flimsiest claim to fame of all time: Hello Mr. Obama. IF I was who I say I was, I'd have to pay taxes for the crime of making more than 200,000 a year. Waaaahhhh! What's the deal with that?

Only in freakin' America could something that flimsy and stupid be turned into a franchise.

Please. Let the batteries die down on his fame clock. Let this be the last we hear of Joe in Salon.

If we're lucky - really lucky - there still might be time to reverse polarity, which will make everything run backward until that time when it all went wrong.

Then, everything will be A-Okay!

The End?

Stupid, huh? That's all I'm taking from you! (steps forward, smacks Klytus).

I assume he would say that after announcing his plans to develop the Solaranite bomb, which would explode the very sunlight itself. You have to admit, it would make us an even stronger nation than we are already.