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I almost don't believe it, he won. My mom's been screaming since they announced that he'd won. B) :clap:

'This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Jumpstart Productions' It's not there anymore

Flamers tend to be a bunch of idiots or people with too much free time on their hands and too little imagination. But I've found recently that a lot of writers don't seem to know what a flamer is. They claim to want constructive criticism and then when someone gives it to them, they write them off as flamers. It seems like their idea of constructive criticism are only the positives. Not to address you in particular, you seem to have the idea down but I'm finding there are a lot of author's that don't. And I think that sometimes in turn can turn reviewers hostile, or sometimes stop a person from reviewing altogether.

Maybe the idea is to decrease the exorbitant amount of money spent on our military. Anyways, you say it's scary. I say, it's not any scarier to me than anything the gov't already has in place. I guess we can just agree to disagree.

Personally, I don't see how that's any scarier than what we already have in place now. Who knows, maybe if they're all together we can actually get things done better, with all the pieces of the puzzle in one place. Instead of 10 here, 5 there, another 10 over there and nobody willing to share.

I haven't heard any say McCain's too old to be president, just too old to be president with Palin as Vice-president. That I agree with. I haven't heard anyone say she shouldn't take the post because she's a women, though I've heard plenty of people say she shouldn't take the post because she's a moron. Which, again, I agree with. And I never all of McCain's supporters were one thing, but when you have multiple rallies held and 90% of the crowd screaming out such things, it's kind of hard to say that it's only a few idiot fanatics. I'm guessing your referring to Ayers with that first part and I will say, no it shouldn't be counted. A vague acquaintanceship with a man who bombed some places 40 years ago and who's since been to prison and, yes, been reformed, shouldn't be counted. It's damn absurd to say it should be. I haven't seen any reformed or not, I haven't seen any evidence that shows that they're anything more than two people who served on a council together. As for the the second, I'm guessing your referring to Obama's past drug use. And again I say, No, it shouldn't be counted. It is in the past. You might not like that, but it's true. Does he take drugs now? I doubt it. Has he taken drugs recently? Again, I doubt it. So yes, it IS in the past. And as for Obama's campaign playing dirty or not, I'm telling you what I've seen. But first I should say, again, I was referring to Obama the man. Somehow you seem to keep losing that. I haven't heard nearly as much crap from him as I've heard from McCain. I just haven't. You say you have, okay, but I haven't. I missed the quotes the first time, but now that I've read them and can understand where he's coming from completely. As a black person, it's something that's often dealt with. Personally, for me, things started young. I remember when I was much younger, walking down the aisle of a story, a white woman coming up in my face and calling me things that I won't repeat here. I also remember once being in Toys-R-Us, on one of the video game stations they have set up. I was playing a game, minding my own business, when a white guard comes up to me and tells me that I can't be there without a parent (of course ignoring the many white children that surrounded me, without their parents). And proceeds to escort me all around the store until we find my mother. And not all things are so blatant as these. So I will say, as a black person, I can't/won't fault him for feeling those things at some point. It's how he deals with himself now, and given how he's handled himself, I think he's likely dealt with those feelings. I don't know why, but none of those videos would play without jerk/skipping, so I'm not sure how much was the video and how much was him. But for the first video, most of it was a news story. I didn't really see how it proved anything except that he got new information that changed his opinion. The second one was funny, but to me it sounds more like Obama's stumbling over his words. McCain sounds, at least to me, like he's confused. As for the 3rd video, I got halfway through before my computer really started going retarded, so I don't know what's in the second half of it. I am a bit confused though, this video and the first video seem to contradict each other. For the second clip (of the comments on Iran), the one says May 18 but the other video says May 20? Civilian as in non-military. How's that scary? Sounds like the police to me.

Let me directly quote what I said: "I haven't heard nearly as much nonsense coming from Obama or those supporting him." If you misunderstood what I said, that's not my fault. I said I wasn't hearing as much nonsense coming from Obama, the man. Well..... if his supporters are going to rallies with stuffed monkeys with Obama's name on it and screaming out slurs calling him an Arab (which is also a slur against Arabs).... what else can you call it but Racism. I said I'm not hearing nearly as much crap from Obama or those supporting him as I am from McCain. If you see that as vilifying, okay, but I'm stating what I see. I didn't see anything that said he got caught and confessed. I saw that he was under suspicion. Many innocent people come under suspicion. And I saw things pertaining to the gov't that weren't personal at all. One that comes to mind was a draft of a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger about some proposed bill. That doesn't sound like something personal to me. .... I find myself wondering why a quote from a book by Obama is using his name instead of I. He addresses himself in the third person ? Anyways, outside of who's smearing who more, I still find McCain to be too much of a concern to be President. I was two videos on youtube, the man sounds like his brain is going: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-vaCnjFQhA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4FADXTI-vc

When I was talking about people talking trash, I was more addressing candidates themselves than their supporters. But some of those things sound like your own speculation and none of it sounds as bad to me as McCain supporters going around screaming 'Barack Osama Bin Laden' or 'Kill OBama' or walking around with a stuffed monkey with an Obama sticker on it's head, proclaiming it to be the man. And can I just add, if McCain is elected, I doubt any of Obama's would run in to try to assassinate the man. We're not stupid, we would know that he'd be the only thing standing between a moron running one of the most powerful countries in the world. So as far as I've heard, no one really knows who hacked her account, but you know? In the end, we've just found yet another thing she's doing wrong. Can you imagine her as VP or president, using hotmail or yahoo to send out sensitive information. The hacking should be considered a lesson to her. Don't be so damn stupid in the future. This doesn't seem nearly as bad to me for two reasons: 1) I hear mainly booing. Whooptie, they booed. 2) Personally, I think there's likely more to the situation than the poster of the video is saying. It's what I'm hearing. I've heard McCain misquote Ayers in an attempt to make Obama look back. The worst I've heard from Obama is saying that he's convinced he's a better dancer than McCain.

I haven't heard nearly as much nonsense coming from Obama or those supporting him. I'm being bombarded with crap about Obama though. I can't turn on the tv without hearing something bad about him.

That's probably why McCain is trying so damn hard to smear Obama and to bring up a bunch of nonsense about Ayers (A man who according to McCain said 'he didn't bomb enough', when what he actually said was 'he didn't do enough') and ACORN (though he forgets about his own connection to ACORN) and how he's supposedly attacking 'Joe the Plumber'. He's getting desperate and trying to sway those last minute idiots who haven't been paying any attention to the campaign before now. McCain should be so proud

I think he's probably considered far left in a political context, not necessarily in the world of the average citizen.

*Had to split post* There is always the chance of dying, whether by health issues or accidents. Do you really want to take the chance of a woman who's proven herself to be incompetent, unintelligent and morally questionable gaining such a position of power? That chance is just too great. So you say. I think people on the right just want to be alienated. Personally, I think the 'right' need to gain a bit of intelligence anyway. Where do you think the rest of the world stands, on the left or on the right? People might want to think that this is America, screw the rest of the world, but our country partially relies on it's international connections (as evidenced by the stock situation worsening when people in several foreign countries removed their money). Who do you think will work better with the world, someone on the right or someone on the left? (Obama enjoys huge global support over McCain: BBC poll) I think your underestimating the woman. Personally, I think we need someone on the left to undo all the damage that the far right has done. And I think I'm going to leave it at that with you because you've clearly made up your mind. I've made up my mind, so this is a waste of time.

Whatever you say If we use your logic, 80% of this country wouldn't be qualified for jack. He used drugs, past tense. Only an idiot would hold on to something that was done so long ago and try to apply it to a present situation. Your making a big deal out of an association with Ayers, one that consisted of them being acquaintances at best. You think that compares to being in a church directly supporting someone who's clearly anti-US? It's your opinion that'll be a bad thing. Personally, I'd see it as just what this country needs. We've had a Republican gov't for too long, we need a bit of Democrat in there to set things right. Don't know if Obama will manage to pull a Clinton but he can not do any worse than Bush. And personally, I'd trust that over a man who talks about voting with Bush over 90% of the time. And also over a person who's a member of a party that seems to favor voting together over voting for what they really feel. And that's because Americans are easily charmed (as proven by the re-election of Bush), Reagan was a charming man who didn't do the country much good. Interesting quote from an article I found online: "Comparing the borrowing habits of the two parties since 1981, when the Neo-Conservative movement really took hold and government spending raced out of control, it is extremely obvious that the big spenders in Washington are Republicans and their party’s presidents. The only Democratic president since then, Mr. Clinton raised the national debt an average of 4.3% per year. The Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Bush II) raised the debt an average of 10.8% per year. That is, for every dollar a Democratic President has raised the national debt in the past 30 years, Republican presidents have raised the debt by $2.52[6]. Any way you look at it Neo-Conservative Republican presidents cannot or will not control government spending." http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm Doesn't say much about Republicans being in office does it? That's in your head. What? So no 'Strong Democratic president with strong Republican congress equals good things' in this case? Personally, as a president, I'd say that Carter was before his time. People just didn't appreciate the progressive things he was doing then, as they likely would now as we've begun to realize some of the problems he was trying to avoid. Another quote to address this point: "He put the power of government behind reducing our dependence on foreign oil. He also made the brave decision to ask citizens to actually change the way they live and conserve. History has proven his choices were the right ones and his methods worked but he was very unpopular for making us face the truth. Our future leaders will need to find his courage to ask for unpopular sacrifices of all Americans to bring the nation’s economy back to a sustainable model."

Your funny

Another article on Palin: As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state You like taking things out of context huh? I said who cares if he's used drugs in the past, it is the past. Get it right So you suppose, can you say for certain? That's arguable and depends on whether or not you choose to believe or make a big deal out of minor associations. And if that's the case, I say 'Hell yeah'. You say that like it's a bad thing:) Meh, whatever. You act like a democratic administration will ruin the country. Look what a democratic administration did for us 8 years ago. Now look at what the Republican administrations (all the recent ones) have done for us: Bush, Bush #1, Reagan). *Edit* Another article: Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

A fully functional hermaphrodite IS impossible. The situation is a hypothetical.

You didn't address the point because I think you know I'm right. That the chance of her being president is not a good thing, you've just convinced yourself that that chance isn't there. If you remember I said, irrespective of ideology, but just on the fact that her knowledge base is nil. And can I ask, how could four years of 'political deadlock, with very little getting done' be anything but a bad thing. -Self admitted heavy narcotics use: even if that's true, who cares? Past is past -ties to homebrewed terrorists: if your going to call Obama on connections to a man who 40 years ago was a 'terrorist', went to prison, did his time and was reformed, then you should at least mention Palin's connection to her own little problem. Can I just also add a quote right at the top of the article you yourself linked: "He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the title of Distinguished Professor." I'd think if there were some pretty evident and serious issues with the man, there's no way he'd be a professor and definitely not a distinguished one. And can I add a few more quotes, from the same article that I think speak for themselves. Quotes that you yourself partially used: "In the ensuing years, Ayers has repeatedly avowed that when he said he had "no regrets" and that "we didn't do enough" he was speaking only in reference to his efforts to stop the United States from waging the Vietnam War, efforts which he has described as ". . . inadequate [as] the war dragged on for a decade."[21] Ayers has maintained that the two statements were not intended to imply a wish they had set more bombs." "On September 9, 2008, journalist Jake Tapper reported on the comic strip in Bill Ayers's blog explaining the soundbite: "The one thing I don't regret is opposing the war in Vietnam with every ounce of my being.... When I say, 'We didn't do enough,' a lot of people rush to think, 'That must mean, "We didn't bomb enough shit."' But that's not the point at all. It's not a tactical statement, it's an obvious political and ethical statement. In this context, 'we' means 'everyone.'" " -As for his preacher: were you a member of the church? did you attend for 20 years? You act like the man been preaching this for 20 years. The earliest I'd seen any record of it was 2006. And he doesn't scare me at all, because he stands where I do on most issues. Yeah, he's got a couple I don't like but he's the better choice. This country needs to move away from the status quo, because clearly it's not working.

You didn't address my point. You make the comment like there's no chance of her being president and that they'll keep her in in. That statement alone suggests to me that you realize there's a problem with Palin, even if you try to downplay it. And no matter how healthy McCain might be, there is ALWAYS the chance that something might happen to him. Can you honestly say that you wouldn't have a problem with Palin being president?

Outside of all political debate, and what who thinks can and can't be done, I didn't like McCain but the thought of him as president didn't really scare me until he picked Palin as his running mate. She is... any intelligent person's worst nightmare. Even if you believe in her general ideology, the woman doesn't have a brain in her head. You know that on the SNL sketch they didn't even change her words, they used them exactly as she said them in the Katie Couric interview. That should say something right there. Just the thought of that brainless, ultra conservative 'hockey mom' in a position to potentially be president, it scares the crap out of me. And as much as people might like the say that McCain's healthy, he's HUMAN. The man can die and then she'll be right there. Can you truly and honestly say that you don't feel that this would be a problem?

What if one chose to be neither one nor the other but both? Would that be abnormal? I think if one was fully functional hermaphrodite, a girl would have testicles. Fully functional to me says reproduction can take place in either direction.

I've actually read a story just like this before and really loved it. It was the most plausible mpreg that I'd ever read. Is it the mental or the physical your talking about? If it's the physical, .... aren't they pretty much the same thing? A fully functional hermaphrodite would be technically neither male nor female but both. So they could be described as a girl with a penis or a boy with a vagina. There's a good one in the Gundam fandom by ShenLong. It's really long, doesn't skip over too much time, but it's good. The author seemed to put a lot of thought into the science of it.

Posted this link under another topic, thought those here might find it interesting as well: Legislative panel: Palin abused authority

14 year old in Naruto section. Had date of birth and age posted, but removed later. BUT she still have the link up to her ff.net profile that has her age listed as 14. Your little Veela

Ties to domestic terrorism? I'm sorry, can I laugh? I think I'm gonna laugh.

Found an interesting summary of aff.net history if anyone wants to read it: AdultFanFiction.Net- Fan History Wiki