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#581 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Star Wars Thread *NO SPOILERS ALLOWED!* » 563 weeks ago
Yes, and they teased that for months on end, so much to the point I thought It was basically "Star Wars Episode VII: The Search for Luke" in the same way that it was "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock".
Althought Star Trek III certainly is not a great or bad film, there's much more Spock (with amnesia) in it, and Nimoy still has a place.
Hamill is the most talked about, important character in Episode VII and he doesn't even have one fucking line. 
I've heard more Hamill playing Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4, than Star Wars VII. Seems counter-balanced, lol. 
#582 Re: The Sunset Strip » Friends » 563 weeks ago
I will agree with that comparison. Jen certainly plays to the girl-next-door, whereas Angie is very much the "bombshell", femme fatale gimmick.
Regardless of whether people like Jolie or not, she's gorgeous. Almost too much so. Most men think someone like her wouldn't walk across the street to throw a drink in their face.
Aniston on the other hand probably reminds men of girls they knew, that had that "i'm pretty, but I don't know i'm pretty", and men are REALLY attracted to that.
I just can't remember the last girl from Hollywood that I saw that had that girl-next-door quality, and was beautiful. Natalie Portman maybe? Jessica Biel maybe?
It's been a while, and Mila Kunis doesn't count. She's FAR too European looking.
#583 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 563 weeks ago
He's right. I'll vote for him even if its just a 'protest' vote. I'm sick of the current political situation in this country and Trump or someone like him is the only way it's going to implode.
I wanted it to be Jesse Ventura for years. Unfortunately its not but what Trump is doing is exactly how I thought a Ventura candidacy would go down. It's going to take someone from the outside who flips a coin and runs in the two party system to actually bring on real change.
People whine about his lack of experience. GOOD. Our next president doesn't need the kind of experience these politicians have.
Lemme tell you something... there have been A-LOT of people knocking on Ventura's door to kick the tires on him running as a VP option on Trump's ticket.
The question would then become, what's a better chance to beat Hilary? Trump/Ventura for the Libertarian + Republican votes or Trump/Cruz for the Tea Party + Republican votes.
Me thinks there's more silent, non-voting Libertarians out there that would vote for Trump with Ventura on the ticket, than there are Tea Partyers that would vote for Trump because Cruz is on the ticket.
#584 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 563 weeks ago
The sad thing is, in both cases these positions represent the opinions of a vocal minority. Far from all liberals are gung-ho about climate change, and even amongst conservatives the religious nutcases are a small minority.
Ronald Reagan referred to it as "the silent majority" and they're still out there. The majority of the American people, the ones who DON'T VOTE, that are the sane ones, go about their life and they are crazies who think killing their baby fetuses is "empowering" and at the same time don't think blowing up abortion clinics is God's work. That's fanaticism.
They're in the middle somewhere. Like most normal people. Life is complicated, and we/they take it on a day-by-day basis.
It's funny, in most other developed countries climate change is predominantly the concern of non-Globalists. Liberals are typically economically conservative and ethically progressive. Just looking at the definition of the word "liberal", as-in "for personal freedom", it seems to me that the term is seriously misused in the States.
Unfortunately, even in the other developed countries, it is EVEN MORE of a concern for the Globalists, because it's a money scam. In many cases the "non-Globalist" groups are actually secretly funded by the other, and pump their agenda info into the media as well as policy. Thus the reason the UN is at the head of all this radical "progress".
They're trying to convince the masses that their lives depend on this, so they'll knee-jerk and make irrepairable decisions about the future of Earth, and primarily its economic policies. I'm not one of those economic doomsdayers, I just calls it likes I sees it.
I remember back in 2008, Al Gore making the rounds telling everyone that if immediate global change wasn't made with Global Warming (what it was called WAY back then), and that if we didn't make immediate changes that the universal temperature would be like 127 degrees Fahrenheit, people wouldn't be able to spend more than 5 minutes outside without having a heat stroke, and a gallon of Milk would cost $12 bucks or something like that (I could be mis-remembering the numbers). And he was totally SUPER SERIAL about it too!!!
Needless to say Milk is an outrageous $3.60 a gal. where i'm at and it's Raining buckets outside at about 50 degrees F. Yeah man... i'm burning up.
He's not nearly as ambitious or out there as people make him seem to be. Forget about the term socialist for a minute, no party in Europe would think Bernie anything more than center-left, he's way too moderate for that. His proposals are very likely to work well for the US, but I do agree that they will require a significant change in the way the government is run to make it more efficient and (more importantly) effective.
The problem for Bernie is he's having to embrace the Liberal/Dem class system in order to appeal to Hilary voters. Or at least that's what his advisors are telling him. Alot of his concepts are imo AHEAD of their time for America. Yes -- AHEAD.
With growing transhumanism in this country, and computers taking more and more jobs, unemployment still hasn't recovered (people are just dropping out of the system Obama, that's not LOWERING Umemployment--idiot), the U.S.A. is going to have to eventually have a serious -- ADULT -- conversation without crazy ass Neo-cons interupting or Stalin-ists from the left. An actual bi-partisan discussion about "Floor Wage".
There is going to come a time, soon, where it'll make FAR FAR FAR more sense to just pay everyone in America a flat wage, like $30,000 a year, whether they work or not. But when you get that, you get NO health care, ATF is shut down, DEA is shut down, Medicare is shut down, Planned Parenthood is shut down, the Military is BROUGHT HOME (no more Wars), drugs are legalized and massively regulated, and cut the shit out of Government to pay for, YET maintain the tax system and/or alter it.
It's going to be a problem. A REAL problem in the coming decades. It'll just be easier to do it this way. But because it involves using a Conservate "Cut Wasteful Spending" idea with a Socialist "maintain regulation & balance over state-controlled capitalism" issue mixed with a Libertarian "Legalize and swim in money" issue... It'll NEVER HAPPEN. Never.
We might even save money in the end. I don't think people grasp the TRILLIONS we waste on needless Wars and the Black Money that goes to Black projects that is just invisible money, while the rest of us Sheep keep chasing "the American Dream".
I don't necessarily agree with the exact list you're proposing here, but clearly the US would benefit from a complete retooling of the government apparatus. I think you need the following:
Start by getting rid of the electoral college, in this day-and-age the people get enough info about the elections and each candidate's platform without having to rely on state representation. Just use the popular vote.
Without the electoral college, there will be a better chance of getting rid of the two-party system. Ultra-right or ultra-left wing parties are absolutely necessary, but they need to be counterbalanced by moderate parties instead of just their polar opposite. I'd say a right-wing "Tea Party", a Conservative Party, a Liberal Party, a Green Party and a left-wing Socialist Party should all be viable candidates.
With a real multi-party system, votes should not be afraid to support more nuanced positions. It almost guarantees that the rough edges of even the most extreme positions will never affect policy due to the need to form coalitions. Even is the Tea Party were to be voted in, they'd need the conservative party which would defend it's moderate positions.
I was making an example to say how getting that eclectic group together would shake it up, and be more outside the box.
I do agree that the Electoral system is entirely broken. Alot of people don't even realize that the Popular Vote -- MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Nothing. The popular vote only means something if it's in a state with massive electoral votes, such as the big swing states like Iowa, California, and Florida.
I agree the system is without a doubt -- VERY broken. Candidates don't even campaign for the goal of winning the people's vote. People in Florida don't even ask themselves why it seems EVERY DAY there's some other candidate coming to their hometown to win their vote. They don't pay any attention to it, because they are surrounded by it. The reality is they show up because they want those electoral votes, and it should by proxy, completely nullify the vote meaning anything.
What hurts America even more is that they have been indoctrinated by the state department in their high school & college history/government classes that the Electoral system is the CORNERSTONE of the American political system.
So they tie the broken system in with being the true birth rite of a Patriot. People fight to keep the system that keeps them enslaved and right where they are at.
I also wish we had a system like other countries where you could only campaign for about a month, and move on. This being able to run for President TWO YEARS before the actual election, and the media here in America, ALL THEY TALK ABOUT IS THIS for the 2 years leading up to the actual election, ad nauseum.
It's a fixed, Plato's Cave JOKE.
#585 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 563 weeks ago
What he said makes complete sense. That climate change would lead to people fighting over water and land to grow crops. How is that stupid?
As for him being boring, look at some of his other videos. He's very passionate and knowledgeable about the things he talks about. He's got my vote.
Btw I just wanted to re-quote this, because I forgot something.
Never forget, this globalist orchestrated event of scarcity (which ironically was covered in detail on Sunday's "X-Files" premiere), is a totally different issue than climate change.
All of the principles involved have merged this all into one thing. "Climate change will lead to scarcity. One day, a barrel of potable water will be worth more than a barrel of crude oil, if we don't do something to stop climate change NOW!"
These are two entirely different issues. But that's not how the globalists as well as the media have presented the issue to the masses. Of course climate change is real, it's practical science, but this man-made bullshit has been manipulated. The war of scarcity that the globalists want to wage on the world, do nothing but benefit them (MORE, jeez how much is enough), and has been skewed to be a "pay reparations" issue to third-world countries, in order for the dirty USA and their industrialist, capitalist, pig lifestyle. They have polluted the world, and we must pay them, and then the money just goes into the rich pockets. It's another money scam.
I could go into even more detail, but bottom line, what Bernie is talking about is a scarcity war, and merging it with climate change. Those are two totally different issues. Not one. Hilary KNOWS THAT. Bernie I think is honestly oblivious. He buys into it. I think Bernie's heart is in the right place. He's just ignorant and a victim of the system no different than the rest of us.
#586 Re: The Garden » The Rant Thread » 563 weeks ago
Yeah, we've all had those experiences, but tbh, mine are a bit more positive. There have been not one, but two girls that I really liked (for some reason), waited and waited, chickenshitted out of asking them out, and didn't.
Later I re-connected with them and found out, just by being put in a position of being around them daily that.... I didn't miss out on a thing. I romanticized the whole thing and found out it was never going to work out and it wouldn't have lasted anyways. Completely incompatible.
But then again... there are the others. The ones I still think about. The ones where the sexual tension was there, mutually, and we just didn't... go there. Wanted to, but didn't. Some were with other people, some were in different places, and those are the ones I always think of. The ones that got away.
"To all the girls I didn't love before"

#587 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ ASHBA 'Couldn't Be Happier' About Partial Reunion Of GUNS N' ROSES' » 563 weeks ago
Just confirming what we all knew was coming. With Crue retiring, Nikki was going to start touring Sixx:AM and going full-time with it. DJ was either going to be on board or not. And the reality is, DJ has a really good home in Sixx:AM. Axl was never going to use him in GN'R.
Either way, it worked out for the best. Hopefully GN'R fans will be able to enjoy new Slash-GN'R music, as well as new Sixx:AM music, and get double their pleasure.
I honestly, no shit, could easily see Sixx:AM opening for a GN'R reunion tour. It's not a bad opener. They're popular to younger rock fans. Nikki Sixx appeals to old GN'R/Crue fans, and DJ is former GN'R. Seems to all kind of fit the fabric.
It'd be ironic if it happened.
#588 Re: Guns N' Roses » Nightrain Official Site » 563 weeks ago
Agreed, and it seems to be the only logical explanation as to why he's there, and not an equal member of the band in this new "re-grouping" as they call it. Same with Izzy. Izzy doesn't want to be involved.
But I don't feel that because Dizzy made (in theory) that decision, that it warrants people acting like it "confirms he was ALWAYS a touring piano player. He's not GN'R "
Come the fuck on. That shit was why I started this debate to begin with. It's unfair, I don't buy it, he's got 2nd seniority with GN'R and has never left nor never been disloyal, he's written songs with Axl.
Dizzy is original GN'R, regardless of business arrangement. I just don't understand why he's been dropped from the brand recognition, being he's IN THE HALL OF FAME with the other three and has 25 years of service. That part stumps me. 
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#589 Re: Guns N' Roses » TOMMY STINSON: Classic GN'R Reunion 'Will BeHealing Thing' For Them" » 563 weeks ago
This whole Tommy revelation is VERY interesting.
So it validates all the rumors that basically Axl's band all quit on him at once and basically forced his hands into a reunion.
The reality of it is... it was the rock Gods all parting the skies to make it happen.
Think about it...
DJ was going to have to go to Sixx:AM full time
Ron wanted out and they were ready to move on -- regardless
Tommy had personal issues and Mats stuff, he just become too busy
Slash had his solo deal, but Myles was going to have to go back to Alter Bridge in 2016 to push a new album
putting him on hiatus
Duff was basically unemployed and GN'R without a bassist
Seemed like all the chips kinda fell into place.
#590 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R Twitter Updates » 563 weeks ago
I think people are reading too much into the above videos with Soundgarden.
Ben is a very no-nonsense, no bullshit, Glenn Frey-type of guy
Chris is a very Seattle, hipster, indie rock dude, that's kinda cool sometimes and can get up his own ass sometimes
They're brothers. I just saw the above video as Chris doing his thang and Ben doing his thang. I do notice in videos when Chris tries to be funny, he finds HIMSELF very funny, and others kind of don't get the joke. The reaction of SG is always the same... Kim is laid back and smiles, Matt nervously laughs, and Ben rolls his eyes and looks to the ceiling.
These guys have had that dynamic since basically the early 90's. I wouldn't see it as any big deal.
Me thinks, with Axl being willing to let Slash back in the band, Axl is hoping for some of the old chemistry. Axl doesn't strike me as a guy that's willing to share a stage with someone he hates. Axl would be just fine with staying the fuck home. I still think they are actually friends again, no different than Axl's relationship with Izzy & Duff.
