John Adams

You are an !@#$. Can you ever NOT do this liberal-bashing public masturbation? If you think John Adams and the others would deign to wipe their ass with the Republican party and Fred Thompson, you're dumber than you already seem. You think those founding fathers gave a sh-- about the government's opinion on gays and abortion, ugh, why am I even talking to you? Odds of you understanding a word over 3 syllables=0%. The founding of this country is certainly a story about some heroes, but don't get confused (look who I'm talking to...never mind...this is for other readers), after the war, it quickly evolved to petty squabbles and political wranglings that would make the current participants blush. If you knew anything about history, especially of that time, you might have a clue that it took no time for people to get right back to petty politics after the Revolution. The caustic attacks on Washington and Adams late in Washington's second term and throughout Adams' show one thing: people are often more united and strong during times of strife. Once the strife is over, they race back to the pissy fights.

1776 was an afterthought for McCullough. He gathered so much material writing John Adams that he used some of that to write about that year. I liked 1776 but it doesn't hold a candle to John Adams. (Or for that matter his books about Harry Truman, The Great Bridge (about the Brooklyn Bridge), Path Between the Seas (Panama Canal), Mornings on Horseback (Teddy Roosevelt). McCullough is a national treasure. I wish he were 30 years younger.

Yes, I posted a link to this before the apocalypse. Alas, Babylon. Rave reviews from all sectors--recommended viewing for Americans who can't read. http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/ From the WSJ review today.

Bill in NYC and I are friends and there's no proof otherwise!

Keep feeding the beast: good boy.

AKA: the Pete Townsend defense.

According to Bill in NYC, maybe I'd want VA to remove it for me.

Here's the explanation: you're eating it up. Therefore it's good for ratings.

Careful--your head just entered your ass too. Ironic that the guy complaining about the mass media coverage is so engrossed in it. But I'm the guy with his head in his ass. Carry on.

Somehow I haven't seen the video. I wonder how I avoided it with the media pulling my marionette-strings.

So my taxes go to supporting your 30,000+ posts. Suddenly the money wasted on No Child Left Behind doesn't look so bad.

My point is that !@#$ed up people will figure out a way to commit murder. Even if every frat boy at VA Tech was packing a Glock, this jerkoff would have killed a bunch of people. Freedom to carry might have changed only his methodology. (I'm not interested in exploring the many ways he could have killed a lot of people but I'm sure you can do the how-to-carry-out-mass-murder calculus.) For example, gun laws had no effect on Tim McVeigh, who is in the same league with this POS.

Almost every representative government is socialist. And while most of them were the result of some kind of revolution to overthrow a monarch or despot, the socialist ideals aren't in place by force: people vote for socialists governments all over the world. (Because I don't want to provoke a side argument, I'll refrain from labeling the US government as socialist even though it largely is.)

Really?

Julius Jones?!?! Jesus H people: get a grip. Why would the Bills give up anything more than a 5th for the guy? He hasn't even shown he's below average so far in the NFL. He has one season of just barely clearing 1000 yards. On a run-happy team.

If there's a profession with more whiners, I've never heard of it.

At my daughter's school, every teacher's contract is for one school year. At the end of the year, the teacher gets evaluated. If they did a good job, they stay. If not, adios. 80 students graduated at the high school end of her school last year: 15 to ivy league colleges. And there ARE lots of hugs and lots of 1 on 1 interaction. Plenty of conflicts. No fights. Urban area of Philadelphia. Public: of course not.

I don't follow the underground fight scene. This was pretty impressive though because the cop took a pretty good beating in the beginning and the reason he won was because he didn't tire out. The long "hold" in the middle of the fight was the end of Kimbo.

Pelikan Celebry rollerball. Break free of the cheapo pen!

He lost this one. http://www.videojunkyard.com/file/131-kimb...hamp-gambo.html

Newsweek ran a story this week that features letters from fallen soldiers. It's broken into several chapters of the Iraq war. At the end are some of the actual handwritten notes that soldiers wrote to loved ones in case they died. In some ways, it's easy journalism to know how rivetting these letters are. But still, they are all a must read. They don't change my mind one way or the other about how I feel about Iraq. They do, however, make me thankful for the men and women who have served and still do. The below link has all the letters, including the handwritten ones. If you can read them with a dry eye--especially the handwritten ones--you're unlike me. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17773304/site/newsweek/

Walker was the second best player on the Iggle defense last year. He's a solid player.

Are you expecting a second for this position?

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