My belief with movies has always been such when it comes to sequals. If the sequal is a continuation of the original that was meant to be then you get a good series, i.e. the original star wars series and lord of the rings. In other words all of the individual movies where envisioned as one body of work and put together so. Where you get the sorry sequals are from great movies that were meant to stand on their own, Matrix and pirates. That was always my problem with those sequals are they feel like they are just tacked onto the first as opposed to furthering the story in a meaningful way.
I've never really bought into all of these new country acts out right now, they've just all seemed so "fake" to me. Like what David was saying a few posts ago, I think they all try to act more like celebrities rather than good ole folks making the music that they love.
Valid comparison. Both are groups of like-minded people gathered together to voice their opinions. If one is to be discredited for it's lack of representation of various ethnic groups, then so should the other.
Sounds like the percentage of caucasian members of the NAACP.
No wonder they seem to support Islamic terrorists so easily, they are simply cut from the same vine. "Convert, Submit, or Die"
I concede that the major problem with any of these situations is that the problem does not lie with the casual users, but with the abusers who let these substances effect their lives as well as those around them. As you state, there are people out there that would stop drinking if it were again made illegal, but still there would be a group of people who would continue no matter what. After all I know numerous people who were going to stop smoking when cigarettes where more than $2.50 a pack.
Substance abuse is a very hard thing to combat because most abusers follow the attitude of, "I'm gonna get high no matter what." Meaning that in worst case scenarios they would give up their job, family, friends, freedom, and sometimes their own lives for that next buzz. This was my basis for the statement about stoners. Perhaps it would have been more accurate to peg them as, "Substance abusers."
So just because I comment on how much is spent under this administration it is to be assumed that I don't care about what's been done in the past? For your information I do know how much was spent under bush, but how does that excuse obama from taking what bush did and shouting, "Light the last four boilers!" Are you trying to say that since bush spent more than any president before him then obama has to surpass him to continue the trend? The way I see it bush made mistakes with regards to the budget, but obama has propagated those mistakes. Besides, bush's spending has limited bearings on obama's spending so to bitch about his spending is still irrelevant.
But yet that still leaves the problem of women doesn't it? I mean afterall they are emotional creatures who don't always act rationally when presented with a situation regardless of their age. What is your plan for them since you seem to have all the solutions? /sarc
You know I don't think I can knock him for this comment because this is my rebuttal to anyone that tries to say, "Well we might as well legalize drugs because if we continue to make them illegal then people will continue to get them from nasty people cooking them in their basement, but if we make it legal then we can make sure they are safely manufactured in a sterile environment."
I usually use it to cynically point out the fact that people always seem to wanna draw a line that makes no sense, either make drugs and alchohal illegal and deal with the fact that you'll have to drop more revenue in police and prisons, or make them all legal and put up with all of the unemployed stoners that nobody wants working for them.
Agreed. I was an Engineering major in college so I never dove that deep into economics in a money sense, but I've found that a basic understanding of numbers as well as a dash of common sense completely refutes everything that this administration tries to preach will fix the economy. "We have to spend our way out of this recession," was always my favorite. I have a counter question, "How many times can you subtract from zero til you come up with a positive?"
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