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  Richard Nixon on Homosexuality, Fashion, and "All In The Family"

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  listening to this is like eavesdropping on a group of old men at a donut shop on a wednesday morning.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tivvcfsbvsm&eurl=http://www.newsfromme.com/&feature=player_embedded.

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  Listening to this is like eavesdropping on a group of old men at a donut shop on a Wednesday morning.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivVcfSBVSM&eurl=http://www.newsfromme.com/&feature=player_embedded
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  The Lottery

  by purplesofa in

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  this two part video will surely make you think.

  here is a link to this classic short story, if you rather read it.. http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html.

  as i was reading the comments at youtube, it seems this is mandatory reading in some schools now.. .

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  To Shopaholic:

  I get the feeling it was a ritual promoting good crops, or at least that is how it got started. The old people were the ones who kept it going ("There's always been a lottery, there always will be a lottery!"). The reasons for it have been lost, but the tradition lives on.

  That's why change is so slow in coming in things like the Organization. "It's always been this way" is usually the rule of the day. Even when changes are made, some of the old timers really resist the idea.
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  The Lottery

  by purplesofa in

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  this two part video will surely make you think.

  here is a link to this classic short story, if you rather read it.. http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html.

  as i was reading the comments at youtube, it seems this is mandatory reading in some schools now.. .

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  Just caught something else in that clip:

  Sometimes you see actors get there first jobs in things like this.

  The tall blond headed kid (Watson) is Ed Begley, Jr. You might know him from the TV show "St Elsewhere (Dr. Ehrlich)".

  When I was back in school, watching these types of movies, I saw Ed Anser playing a cop in a movie about the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.

  Not too long ago, I saw a pre-Doors (and pre long hair) Jim Morrission doing a film about college scholarship applications.
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  The Lottery

  by purplesofa in

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  this two part video will surely make you think.

  here is a link to this classic short story, if you rather read it.. http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html.

  as i was reading the comments at youtube, it seems this is mandatory reading in some schools now.. .

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  I saw that film back in junior high! It used to be part of a rotation of films produced by a scholastic film company.

  Due to PC sensibilities, and the idea the violence one sees on a educational film shouldn't interfere with the violence one sees on the playground, they took it out of rotation, so no one has seen it in school for years....

  Great story, I never made the Witness connection until I was adult.
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  Discussion on Evolution vs Intelligent Design on Roger Ebert's Website

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  commemorating darwin's birthday:.

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  http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/darwin_survives_as_the_fittest.html.

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  CaptainSchmideo

  Commemorating Darwin's Birthday:

  http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/darwin_survives_as_the_fittest.html
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  Today, at the WT study, the CO made a mistake....

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  ...and it was a doozy!.

  don't you just love it when someone commenting on a paragraph loses track and actually comments on the next paragraph that hasn't been covered yet?.

  today, at our meeting, the co did just that.. in case you haven't seen it yet, today's article is the infamous "i did not have sex with that woman" article in the february 15th issue.

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  re:Mustache...

  No, it wasn't a Dirty Sanchez, if that's what you are thinking....
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  Today, at the WT study, the CO made a mistake....

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  ...and it was a doozy!.

  don't you just love it when someone commenting on a paragraph loses track and actually comments on the next paragraph that hasn't been covered yet?.

  today, at our meeting, the co did just that.. in case you haven't seen it yet, today's article is the infamous "i did not have sex with that woman" article in the february 15th issue.

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  ...and it was a doozy!

  Don't you just love it when someone commenting on a paragraph loses track and actually comments on the next paragraph that hasn't been covered yet?

  Well. today, at our meeting, the CO did just that.

  In case you haven't seen it yet, today's article is the infamous "I did not have sex with that woman" article in the February 15th issue.

  We were on paragraph 8,9, which was an A, B question. The b part was asked "How do young Christians today delight Jehovah and their fellow Christians?"

  The CO raises his hand, and is called on. He then proceeds to talk about how some Witness youth today are engaging in oral or anal sex, or mutual masturbation, rationalizing that these acts are not so bad because they think they are not "technically having sex".

  Of course, he was commenting on the wrong paragraph, which was juicy paragraph 10. But, I guess he just couldn't wait to comment on it, seeing as it was the meat and potatoes of this section of the study. I enjoyed seeing the confused look on the conductor's face, as he was torn between letting the CO ramble on, or cutting in to correct him on commenting on the wrong answer.

  On a side note, I do believe that this CO is the first Caucasian CO I have ever seen with a mustache.
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  Comic book geeks

  by JimmyPage in

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  when i was a kid me and my friends collected comic books.

  not only that, but we wrote and drew our own as well.

  all of us emulated the artwork of john byrne.

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  His name's Len Wein.

  Don't worry, Big Tex, it ain't Alzheimer's, it's just information overload....
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  Comic book geeks

  by JimmyPage in

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  when i was a kid me and my friends collected comic books.

  not only that, but we wrote and drew our own as well.

  all of us emulated the artwork of john byrne.

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  You and I must be about the same age, because I was quite the collector back during the time period you talk about. I still keep tabs on the characters today, but I had to give up collecting due to space and money!

  I liked Miller's run on Daredevil, except I think when he teamed up with David Mazzuchelli (sp?) he made two of the best storylines I have ever read:"Daredevil:Redemption" and "Batman:Year One" . Unfortunately, in the past few years, Miller's ego is starting to believe all the press he's had about "genius", "trend-setter" and "innovative" and now he's started making swill like "The Spirit" film from last Christmas. Will Eisner must be spinning with enough locomotive force to power all the tenements on Dropsie Avenue...

  John Byrne was also pretty good. I think his Fantastic Four run that he did in the mid Eighties was phenomonal. But, once again, the ego generated by all that fan press swelled the head and shrunk the talent, and when he was given the job of "revamping" Superman, he fumbled the ball.

  One guy I liked a lot was Walt Simonson. I thought his "Thor" storyline was pretty interesting (remember 'Beta Ray Bill?').

  Another comic book writer that I thought made a surprisingly excellent jump to the screen was Harvey Pekar and his "American Splendor". I'm glad to see him get his continiung small portion of 15 minutes of fame.
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  America - What is your weather like in August & September

  by LouBelle in

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  asking because this is the time i'm looking at travelling to the states - but only in 2010. reason i'm leaving it till then is because i have a wedding in the united kingdom in august of that year, so it will be easier for me to pop over from there ... and cheaper.. so it's a definate that i'll be hooking up with some of you britons and followed by the americans.

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  time to start saving every little penny, get the passport sorted, the visa for the us of a (they interogate you), start plotting the journey.. .

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  You will definitely discover why us Yanks like plenty of ice in our drinks, and why we have such an obsession about air conditioning and refrigeration.

  In the southern states, Cotton material is a must! Loose fitting and airy clothing, a comfortable t-shirt, decent walking shorts, sandals:these are all acceptable leisure wear, and you will not stand out in public for wearing these items.

  If you want to go dressier, remember to dress light.

  Unless you are planning to visit the north pole, leave the woolens at home.