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Post by ash2 on Mar 19, 2004 0:48:14 GMT -5
I just got back from vacationing there and I loved it.
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Post by ash2 on Mar 13, 2004 1:00:48 GMT -5
I like your old font a lot better. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
John
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Post by ash2 on May 10, 2004 23:27:28 GMT -5
Ash is the hero in Army of Darkness. He was the first cool name that popped into my head when I first received an online handle back in the early 90s
My avatar is from Farscape a really great show, as is the quote.
John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 21, 2004 10:29:34 GMT -5
actually Servo, I believe Moore discusses subjects that no one else is willing to. For instance, his next film will be about terrorism but instead of taking the same perspective most people take ie asking "why terrorists hate us?" moore plans to ask "why don't more people hate America?"
Moore's contribution to society is much more important then if he volunteered at a soup kitchen. The very fact that we are discussing his films suggests that we have both seen it and evaluated our views towards it. To me that is invaluable.
John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 19, 2004 22:21:21 GMT -5
Okay Sampo, you're right. Let's forget about politics. I'd love to have some hamdingers and watch a Joe Don Baker movie. Plus, guess what? I liked Run Lola Run too.
John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 19, 2004 17:17:14 GMT -5
Well, as I don't belong to a party, I'm not sure how I'm doing that. In fact, I believe I'm on record on this very thread saying that I loathe guns, and I think common sense dictates that certain restrictions should be placed on them. I know I may come across as a Republican on these boards, but it's only because it seems that the liberals on this board are the ones saying things that (to me) merit response. I'm actually quite liberal on certain issues. In fact, there are quite a few things that I'm in stark disagreement with the GOP and Bush about. However, I think that the whole Democrat "Blame Bush" philosophy is a cop-out. It reveals an immense ignorance and misunderstanding of how our government works. I'm not a fan of the Patriot act, either. But it's more than a little ironic that democrats are complaining about how Bush is imposing "too much government" and taking away our freedoms. Isn't "more government", philosophically, what's distinctive about the Democratic Party? At least that's what my Political Science textbook says. So ash, you're pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage? More power to you. Roughly half of the population of America agrees with you on the first, and less than half on the second. I, for one, am glad we have a President who doesn't play to polling data on moral issues, but stands by his convictions- whether I agree with them or not. It's a mark of a good leader who is willing to stand by his convictions even if it makes him some enemies. I wouldn't even consider myself a "Blame Bush" type. First of all I don't think he's worth it. I think he's just a puppet controlled by Rumsfeld and a lot of other party memebers. The democratic party has a lot of problems right now. I'll be the first to admit that. Too much in fighting. The GOP stands together while the Democrats are divided and conquered. I don't know what textbook you're reading but the democrates are about less government today. Regan was definitely all about more government. Democrats take more of a Jeffersonian view. I don't consider myself pro-abortion, I consider myself pro-choice. I think more people support gay marriage then the media wants to admit. The media is just a tool of the government and big business. When an editor and chief of the New York Times retired he was quoted as saying, "they told us what to print." As far as Bush sticking to his beliefs. I don't believe Bush is really anti-gay marriage. dick Cheney's daughter and the head of Bush's re-election campaign is gay. Also, as far as racism and war. Racism has always been one of the things that governments feed you when they want to go to war. It's a lot harder to go to war when you think about them as being just like you only in a different place. That is not to say that you have to be racist in order to support the war. However, it has been my experience that those people with whom I have talked to who supported the war were racist and/or afraid that if we didn't stike first Iraq was going to blow us up. It just blows my mind that even now no one talks about why the islamic fundamentalists have such a problem with us. Could it be because we threaten their way of life? Just a few centuries ago American ancestors fled to America to get away from religious persecution. However, today there is no where to run. Western culture is everywhere. Americans what the whole world to be just like us democratic and christian. Bush has even tried to ban paganism in America. What happened to seperation of church and state. Oh yeah, it's never existed in America. John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 19, 2004 12:04:42 GMT -5
Plus lets talk about the Patriot Act that Bush put through. Under this act innocent American citizens lose their rights. Don't believe me. It happened to my friend, I'll call him Bob.
Bob is a vietnam vet. He was a sniper and the government taught him how to build bombs. When he left the army the government asked to to forget what he had learned but Bob found that kind of hard to do. Bob wrote a book on how to make bombs from household things. This book was prevented from being printed by the government because they don't want the average citizen to be able to resist government oppression.
Anyone, one day after the patiot act was in effect Bob had some plumbing problems so he called a plumber. This plumber happened to be one of these secret patiot act approved spies. When the plumber saw that Bob can some gun powder around the house (which was legal) he reported Bob and Bob was arrested.
Later police found a registered M-16 in Bob's closet (legal) and a copy of his manuscript about bomb making (legal). However, the government decided that Bob must be a terrorist. Luckily Bob had enough money to pay for a lawyer so he is not in jail. However, even though the judge admitted that Bob has done nothing wrong, the government confiscated Bob's M-16 and his manuscript and has guess what? Asked Bob to forget what he knows.
We live in a country where kids can find ways to buy guns and shoot teachers, but an ex vietnam vet is a terrorist if he remembers his military training.
John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 19, 2004 8:55:37 GMT -5
If you think we went to war because Hussein was a dictator and a bad man then you're the crazy one. America has supported dictators before. There are dictators in Africa right now and I don't think we're going to war with them anytime soon. All America really cares about is the almighty dollar. If a dictator is willing to have free trade agreements with us than we'll find a way to excuse him.
John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 19, 2004 8:42:15 GMT -5
You're spouting your own party's bull$hit Sampo. I find it really hard to believe that our CIA made that big a mistake. Plus if you read the newspapers the CIA pretty much said that they never told Bush anything about WMD in Iraq. When Colin Powell had that vile of "poison" on CNN or whatever, he had already seen a report that disproved what it was he was claiming. We went to war and people died because Bush knew that America was bloodthirsty after 9/11. The thing that really gets me is that everyone pretty much knows this but no one cares because "those towel heads deserved it." Have any of you been to Iraq? My friend has and do you know who he said he was fighting? Teenagers and children. Not organized soldiers, teenagers that just want us out of their towns. When the American tanks roll into town kids jump on top of them and expertly remove any loose items like backpacks that are attatched to the tanks outside.
We've been bombing Iraq since the end of the last war. Iraq had been in violation since then too. Why go to war now?
As far as the Flordia thing I refuse to believe that the one state that has problems just happens to be the one in which one of the candidates brothers is the governor. Call me a crazy conspiracy nut if you want to but I call it common sense.
And don't even get me started on the fact that Bush wants to reverse Roe vs. Wade and outlaw gay marriage.
John
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Post by ash2 on Feb 18, 2004 23:11:21 GMT -5
Bush is a liar. We went to war for the wrong reasons. There were no WMD. Iraq had no terrorists. The war did make Cheney and Bush lots of money. Anything for a dollar. Human life is meaningless to men like Bush.
As for Michael Moore, the man is a genius. Sure his movie was baised. He was trying to make a point. Why on earth would he include anything that didn't support his arguement? He didn't talk to inner city kids because the movie was about kids in the burbs. Of course the cartoon was offensive, it was an exaggeration.
Is anyone saying that things in Moore's movie were untrue? If so I'd like to know what. Because everything was true, even if the truth hurts.
We live in a country where the government uses the media to make us afraid. That's a fact.
As for the 2000 election Bush and his brother cheated in Florida. If you can't see that than you're blind.
I weep for the future of this country.
John
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Post by ash2 on Jan 25, 2004 1:58:35 GMT -5
I'm named after the guy. Evil dead 2, and Army of Darkness are great.
How is Ash being included in Freddy vs Jason? I'm really dense.
John
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Post by ash2 on Jan 10, 2004 2:21:37 GMT -5
after 2000 I think. Look it up on IMDB.com
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Post by ash2 on Jan 9, 2004 16:05:12 GMT -5
Has anyone else seen this awful 1984/matrix rip off? It is one of the worst if not the worst movie I have ever seen and I've seen Manos and Incredibely Strange Creatures so that's really saying something.
John
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Post by ash2 on Jan 6, 2004 22:36:36 GMT -5
I love their first two albums Bends and Paranoid Android, but after that they got too artsy fartsy.
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Post by ash2 on Dec 31, 2003 13:03:14 GMT -5
Virgin Mega Store in Times Square NYC
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