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Well it's funny that Sovereign unwittingly provided us with a look at what happens when someone spends a lot of time in a place that normalizes sexualization of minors. He basically has no idea why anyone took offense, since it's not illegal to possess or share those photos (probably). When you hav...

Kanastrous wrote:Why "sow" Fulton? Traditional regional dialect, or is the place famous for someone once having lost a sow there...?

It's a total regional dialect thing.

Wow, this is quite interesting to read all this from the perspective of having grown up there and seeing all these very venomous and rabid comments from outsiders who haven't seen things first hand. So, a couple of points. 1. It's "So. Fulton" in writing, not "South Fulton" =) an...

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Terry is definitely the best character on the show. What was the name of his armadillo?

Felix

I never understood the tax cuts = jobs thing myself. How do tax cuts make sure that the employer is going to bring in more revenue to justify hiring new employees? It really doesn't seem like the cuts are going to be enough to offset the costs of a new hire. My economics degree says the theory is t...

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way. When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return ...

When I heard that I laughed long and hard. Then I immediately thought of this scene from O Brother Where Art Thou, and with a similar conversation involving Obama, Emanuel, and Axelrod as Pappy, Junior, and the two advisors.

I just heard GOP senators on NPR this morning, they complained that the democrats had not attempted to be inclusive or bipartisan during the health care bill debacle. Fucking really? Didn't attempt to be bipartisan? So that's why they didn't just shove a bill through the senate back when they had t...

Off the top of my head:

If they added in Tort Reform & Making it a national market place for health insurance, you'll get more than enough republicans signing on to pass the thing, even with a Public Option.

Edit: Oh and you're welcome =)

David Sirota nails it, as usual: <snip> How true. When the fuck are the progressive Democrats going to go Teabag on the party and start putting up liberal primary candidates? How many Democrats are going to be facing an honest-to-god left-wing challenge their next election? The conditions are perfe...

I remember that as well. I _THINK_ it was from the novelization of RotJ, and if not one of the early EU books.

The kids had to be from a previous relationship unless they are throwing the 3 year time line of the Clone Wars right out the window. Even if that was set right before the battle of Coruscant, there is _NO_ way those kids were that old/developed if they were the Clone's kids. Unless the Clone aging ...

I use a Blackberry 8300 and love the thing. Just make sure you get him the unlimited dataplan on it or he'll wrack up some big bills quick if he has friends who like to send emails. But it's easy to sync up with any mail account and I have it synced with both my personal gmail calendar and work outl...

Just got back and that was hands down the worst movie I've ever seen. Unquestionably beautiful, but the story was just ridiculous. The grotesque plot contrivances were just way to much to swallow, and grotesque is honestly a light term for just how damn bad they were. I'm not talkin about the morali...

So far I've played won the game w/ a Dual Rogue & 2H fighter, and now I'm on my 3rd with a Dual Warrior. I have to say that I rather like the dual warrior more than the 2h one. The damage output is really quite nice, but I am getting a bit annoyed with the lack of resistance to knockbacks, but t...

Well, lets look at the average dollar costs of those jobs. If 1.6 million were saved/created: $787,000,000,000 / 1,600,000 = $491,875 per job. If 600,000 were saved/created: $787,000,000,000 / 600,000 = $1,311,666.67 per job. And if we split the difference at 1.1 million saved/created: $787,000,000,...

Thank you very much folks! I appreciate it.

I've read lots of the pre-quel EU stuff and liked most of it. But a friend was interested in the post-movies EU for love of the main characters.

Thanks!

Could someone recommend a few of the better EU books from post RotJ and pre-Yuzhon Vong setting? I've read the Thrawn books and they weren't bad, but are they the best? Are there others worth reading?

Thanks!

I liked it from the start, though some things bothered me. Such as Dooku & Grevious always being the bad guys, but the disposable tactical droids & Bane have really brought it back around for me.

I was TOTALLY sold on the Mace Windu episode of Ryloth. That was just epically awesome.

I'm not sure y'all are rememberin it right, but she did talk about how most of the Mandalorians were fighting for the Seps with the notable exceptions of Skirata and Vau.

It's actually better than a lot of Jordan's writing. The interesting bit is that the chapter is more Lews Therin's than it is Rand's. I certainly agree that it is better than Jordan's stuff, but still remains enough similarities to make it familiar. I particularly liked the lack of way to much clot...

The First Chapter is up on Tor. So far it's very Jordan-esque