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and I love it when he does...that's him at his best and our offense at it's most dynamic

Just got back. Also saw it with no idea what it was about I just have a theater nearby that has a really big screen and does 3d movies awesome (which I love despite the fact most do not)...and like you I thought this movie was absolutely amazing. Extremely good tale, probably one of the stronger deliveries of "the message" it carries I have ever seen, and absolutely STUNNING visuals. Those scenes where the ocean lights up, and everything is like space above and below...beautiful. And the boat crash was truly terrifying (and that scene where he sees the boat from underwater was breathtaking). Anyway, loved the movie had no idea what to expect and this is by far the best picture I have seen this year. No contest. I thought about that also...since everything else matches up pretty well. There's the obvious take on it that he did find some island for a while but took off b/c he had to get back to society and felt he would be devoured by island life living alone if he didn't keep trying to get rescued. Also there's a little garden of eden type metaphor....but finding that island and the tooth...regardless of how extraordinary the rest of the film was up to that point...took it to the next level and really makes you doubt the truth of the story. One would say as a viewer...that scene provoked my (the viewers) rejection of the miraculous story sort of an expression of struggling to accept faith. Which sort of makes it more powerful I suppose when the end comes and you get the general message of the movie hammered home.

The "McConnell provision" is gaining traction even among business groups who typically support the GOP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2012/12/06/business-leaders-siding-with-obama-on-debt-ceiling/

This was not about the cliff

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/debt-ceiling-mitch-mcconnell_n_2251515.html Ending up having to filibustering himself. Seems to be a bit rattled at the moment.

hehe I have to admit I smiled

Yes...I can feel the rage...lol...government bad..UN worse....treaty to support disabled bad... Also some very strange comments that seem to take issue with the idea that legislation creates legally enforceable rights lol...never change

You would prefer the private sector to create rights...ah...didn't realize they were in the business of that but good idea And it's besides the point anyway...we as a society have decided certain legal protections and guarantees are appropriate and they are long settled...nobody was voting against them...they were just voting against us saying officially we support them to the rest of the world b/c in fantasy land it comports with their narrative that the UN is taking us over.

Well the gov't did better the lives of the disabled a long time ago in this country and people appreciate that.

There is a political narrative...that America is basically under attack and a big part of that is the evils of the United Nations...certain political movements position themselves as the "defenders of America from this evil encroachment"...so in voting no to harmless treaty that merely affirms our support of an international effort to address the disabled influenced by our own longstanding ADA they preserve their brand equity for the retards they "defend" from foreign invasion ... that is all this was. Political stupidity...not policy not anything logical or legitimate just pandering and messaging to the lowest of the low. Sorry RK but those "fears" you think they were fixated on are not real and they know it...and Tasker would like this vote to somehow be about the evils of the UN in general b/c of course he buys the nonsense hook line and sinker...this little vote was about showing our support to bettering the lives of disabled people worldwide that is all...

LOL it's not a beachhead against anything it's just a large amount of gutless senators voting no out of political fear plain and simple...

Those members of Congress are idiots playing to the unfounded fears of idiot voters. This is not even a big deal, it was basically a symbolic showing of our support for international accommodation....but even such a trivial matter cannot be accomplished b/c the GOP is insane now. Nothing, absolutely nothing in this little piece of paper was going to change US law.

CEDE MA SOVEREIGNTY! Haha...this treaty ceded no sovereignty. Nada. They just voted "no" b/c people like you think it would and then may primary them.

going to take your 'merica away from you?

Bob Dole's tears

grammar on a message board <insert>wtfsmiley</insert>

I have not heard anyone except you point to the rushed passage before the war ending as being speculation

On 60 minutes he said he purposefully did not release it until after the election to avoid assumptions such as that.

I'm not buying that it is mere theory that the basic story of the passage quickly before war is made up...seems pretty logical and while I don't know much about the history behind it I accept it as history and thus now make it history

sparring with Tasker over QE...hehe...hope you love it as much as he does or else he'll win this war of attrition

I would go ahead and get rid of it. At the very least you could keep it for a certain level and then take it away for the "Cadillac" benefit plans (so to speak)

Anyone amused that the GOP spent all summer saying Obama wants to cut Medicare and will hurt it and now weeks after the election they are complaining that Obama isn't cutting medicare enough?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/disability-treaty_n_2238181.html It does seem a bit ridiculous honestly.

Just saying...as a political junkie which I think most of us are who regularly come here...this is would be a wildly entertaining campaign to watch. And I'm sure cable news organizations would love it to materialize to cover it in the most fantastically overblown way possible. http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/ashley-judd-exploring-senate-run-84542.html

Never heard Costas say he wanted guns outlawed...merely that the "gun culture" is retarded which it is. And ya I'm not sure what this whole "McNair deserved to die" thing is lol