George Aar

Sudo, Well, I'll be dipped! I even read that guy's name and looked at his bio. but I didn't see the reference to the stairway scene at Tara. Huh, here I was sure I had detected a hitherto unreported roll for Mr. Buchanan. I shoulda known better. How about that Melanie though? The biggest B.S.er in the South I'd think. This is the only scene in the movie where she gets honest for a second, then immediately reverts back to the "butter-wouldn't-melt in-my-mouth" phony. Yeah, I know I'm cynical, - hey, it's my job!

Actually, my avatar is the villain from a kabuki play. He's Yakko Edobei, a footman and evil servant (the kind of guy who can "get things done" for "the boss"), but definitely NOT a Samurai - hence NO sword...

Mr. Def, Re:"For me Chrisitanity is a logical and reasoned faith." I would respectfully submit then, that you haven't really honestly considered it very deeply. I can think of numerous horrendously illogical and utterly unreasonable aspects of Christianity without even working up a sweat (a couple of 'em I mentioned already)...

Dow hits 12,000 - AGAIN! I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop for a couple of years now. Maybe it's not too far off now? We've been exporting jobs and raw materials for a couple of decades now. The upper 1% have been multipying their incomes every couple of years while the middle class has stayed stagnant or receded. The top CEOs and Hedge fund managers routinely rake in salaries in the 7 digits while unions are dwindling and dying on the vine. We don't manufacture anything anymore. Our currency is being artificially supported by the very countries we used to view as arch enemies. Something is very wrong. VERY wrong...

"Ad hominem circumstantial involves pointing out that someone is in circumstances such that he is disposed to take a particular position. Essentially, ad hominem circumstantial constitutes an attack on the bias of a person. The reason that this is fallacious in syllogistic logic is that pointing out that one's opponent is disposed to make a certain argument does not make the argument, from a logical point of view, any less credible; this overlaps with the genetic fallacy (an argument that a claim is incorrect due to its source). On the other hand, where the person taking a position seeks to convince us by a claim of authority, or personal observation, observation of their circumstances may reduce the evidentiary weight of the claims, sometimes to zero." (this in-depth research was culled from - I believe - the same source as Mr. Moore used, Wikipedia) When simply giving one's opinion, I think that showing the bias of the source of that opinion is fair game, sorry...

All you organized people out there are gonna be sorry when your desk wears out YEARS before mine does, 'cause it doesn't have a protective layer of clutter on top...

Yeah, I looked over IMDA pretty closely and couldn't find any reference to him there. I couldnt find a definite reference to that roll in the movie either, though...

Hey, I've got a real trivia question now. Having just watched "Gone with the Wind" for the gazillionth time, it struck me that the Union soldier that attacks Scarlett on the staircase of "Tarah" (and gets shot in the face by the demure Mizz Scarlett) was played by the actor Edgar Buchanan. I'm almost postive of it, but I can find no reference to the fact anywhere. So, am I mistaken, or do the normal trivia repositories need an update?

I thought sure that the lady was Mary Pickford till I did a little googling. Funny how much she resembled her cohort and later rival...

I think I recognize the voice, Is this the "Bob" from the movie about the "inclement weather" road?

Mssr. Moore, Please point out to the less astute of us just where it is that anyone (other than possibly Ms. Meyers) has been attacked (oh, and please keep up the self-righteous tone as much as possible, it's so appealing). I see where someone's obvious bias has been pointed out, nothing more...

My desk is probably fine, though I haven't seen it in years. The pile of papers, receipts, invoices, and product "cut" sheets on top of it? Well, that's another story...

I find this type of advertizing very intrusive and annoying. Hey, it's MY front door, MY yard, MY porch. Stay the hell out, unless you're invited. That's the way I would look at it. And the crap that comes in the mail? I get literally POUNDS of the junk every week. Why should I have to deal with that mountain of litter? Grrrrr, Not the way to endear your product or services to me

I'm not sure the words "English" and "cooking" should be used in the same sentence. Sure, there's all those really wonderful favorites like blood pudding, spotted dick, and drippings, but some of the stuff is actually kinda icky. Geo. <<<<< wondering how those guys ever ended up ruling the world...

Um, we've already HAD an IED go off in a neighborhood - Oklahoma City. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if we start getting what the rest of the world's been living with for decades now. It would have been nice if our government had allocated the needed resources to beef up our intelligence gathering and infiltrating of terrorist orgs. instead of starting unnecessary wars, but, we DID elect the guys (well, sort of)...

My general rule of thumb with "alternative" medicine is, If it sounds like nonsense, it most assuredly is... http://skepdic.com/althelth.html

The whole idea that The Bible hasn't had enough research done on it, is pretty laughable in retrospect. Lordy, the very idea that somehow there are whole worlds of understanding left undiscovered between it's pages - despite the fact that it's been LABORIOUSLY pored over CONTINUOUSLY for the last TWO millenia - strains credulity. So, while it no doubt is a great ego booster to consider that one has stumbled upon hitherto unknown truths of God, the concept is pretty flakey (as are the "truths"), given what dedicated scribes and scholars have undertaken for centuries...

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wasn't much impressed with the "audience" TYVM, but then, your mileage obviously varies... http://gods.nl/Demotivators/pics/Delusions.jpg

Oh, here's a rich topic, famous quotes that never were! Like P.T. Barnum's famous quip "There's a sucker born every minute", a line he claimed to have never said...

I never trust anybody who's a little too "over the top" with their dress or mannerisms. Be it stripes on a bee, forked tongues and hoods on snakes, or weird-a$$ $#!+ tied in one's hair, it's nature's way of telling you to be on guard. "Look out, there's something not right about this creature"!

Waysider, Yeah, I bought my first JM album in 1972 I think, or thereabouts, "For the Roses". I've been an ersatz fan ever since, though I think her albums have a tendancy to be kinda repetative. It's sorta like she has a sound that she's looking for with each album, and she repeats that sound again and again for all the 10 or 12 tracks, albeit with slight variations. But one song sorta just oozes into the next, with not much to distinguish one from the next. That, and I think she takes herself WAY to seriously at times, but, who am I to criticize? I wish she'd do an album of nothing but jazz standards, though. She's got the PERFECT jazz voice these days. Maybe she could drop the existential dread for a minute or two and just cut a straight-ahead jazz album?

I bought a Joni Mitchell CD a few weeks ago. http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=xJixH1YYa...;aid=Vvqp-81bUj This one's called "Both Sides Now", and, yes that song (popularized by Judy Collins) is on there, but that hardly describes what the album is about. I read in the flyleaf (or whatever that thing is called) that the concept was for the songs on the album to describe the "arc" of a modern romance. Well, I think she accomplished her mission pretty well. The songs though, have been more than just "memorable". They're downright haunting - and not enitrely in a good way. More like "I can't get that song out of my head and it's tormenting me" kind of memorable. Maybe I just wasn't emotionally ready for it yet? Anyway, "Comes Love" was my favorite of the lot. I guess it's an Artie Shaw tune from the '30s, but Joni and the orchestra do an outstanding job with it. Some of the cuts seem to be way over-produced, others about right. I think she does a lot better with other people's music than her own...

To me, it's just another "ministry", as in "business". This is a money-making venture that simply sells a non-tangible product. "Prime-time religion" as it's been called. Personally, I don't find a whole bunch of difference between televangelists and any other confidence racket. Hell, religion in general really provides NOTHING, but asks for a helluva lot. And they do it all without paying any taxes! Remarkable! What conman WOULDN'T want in on that game? So, if you've got zero integrity and wanta make a whole bunch of dough, I recommend getting into the religion business. Manufacture nothing, honor NO guarantees, have no set schedule, just provide an extensive "customer service" department that makes a lot of empty promises and gives out a bunch of feel-good aphorisms, and you're set. Learn a few lines, "God loves you sooooo much!", "You're a really great person, even if everyone in the world thinks you're a jerk", "All of your cares in life will all be taken care of if you just trust God enough to send me all your money", and it wouldn't hurt to try to get some sort of unique "hook" so as to set yourself apart from all the other schemers in the same trade. Oh, and repeat after me "God is soooo goood!" Un uhhh...

He fell off a bicycle. (!) He was going about 1 mile an hour, the front wheel fell off somehow and he came down facefirst on the axle of the wheel that had just come off. A really peculiar accident. He swears there was no horseplay or "extreme sports" kinda action going on at the moment, He'd just gotten on the bike, rode about 20 feet and the wheel came off somehow. Anyway, he's got a dozen or so stitches in his upper lip, 2 or 3 teeth are missing, and he's got two black eyes. A less than fun, and rather expensive way to spend Halloween. I still don't know where the whole "broken neck" thing came from. Damn, but they love to get you worked up, don't they?

Well, however you spent Halloween, it was better than mine, I guarantee Jeeze Pete, all afternoon fighting traffic to get to the emergency room to see my kid all torn up Well, he's out now, all stitched and missing some teeth, but at least his neck's not broken, like they told me at first. OH GAWD, whatta day...