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la anaconda de chocolatee Oct 23 2007, 12:33 AM Post #61
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yes he is married. his wife is named Michelle :alondria

I would like a black president, but no more do I want it to be him
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Julesy Oct 23 2007, 12:36 AM Post #62
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my guy is considering voting for him.
I dont know about it now.
his uncle and some other family members of his are gay, but dont know if he actually cares or anything.

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yeah well that certainly will change my voting plans! :tapping
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la anaconda de chocolatee Oct 23 2007, 02:08 AM Post #64
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he may gain chrisitan voters but he will loose some liberal voters, and gay voters
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Julesy Oct 23 2007, 02:12 AM Post #65
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do extreme christian women even vote?
or do they just stay home like Mrs. Cleaver and do housework and pop out babies?
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[size=7]seriously, whats up with these christian extremists?when will the stupid christians learn IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT THEM!? [/size]

Christian filmmakers praise Walt, fault Disney Co.
By Gina Keating 42 minutes ago

Hundreds of Christian filmmakers gathered on Monday in Texas to study entertainment pioneer Walt Disney and how they believe his corporate heirs at the Walt Disney Co went astray from his family-friendly legacy.

The Christian Filmmakers Academy, which trains aspiring filmmakers and promotes the making of films with "biblical values," contends that the Walt Disney Co has became "an engine of cultural decline after Walt's death" that exercises an alarmingly vast global influence.

The two-day analysis of Disney, the man and the corporation, is part of the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival and Third Annual Christian Filmmakers Academy.

Despite their admiration of Walt Disney, the focus on Disney the company reflects growing discomfort among some evangelical Christians with the content and reach of the company's entertainment products.

Disney's relationship with the U.S. Christian community has been strained over the past decade over issues such as Disney policies considered friendly to gays, although Christian groups in 2005 halted a nine-year boycott of the company.

The Texas event gives a rare glimpse into the world of Christian entertainment and filmmakers who are trying to create alternatives to mass-market fare using as a model the founder of a company they have widely criticized.

"What we really see is a decline in the ethics and standards of where (Walt) Disney was coming from," Academy founder Doug Phillips said. "We are making the case that there is a departure toward politically correct filmmaking that has a negative effect on family."

Disney did not respond to requests for comment.

Over the years, evangelicals have been angered by what they described as Disney's gay friendly policies that included airing a "coming out" episode on the ABC television show "Ellen" and allowing gay and lesbian days at Disney parks.

The groups also objected to some films with graphic or anti-religious themes released by Disney's art-house film unit Miramax, including "Priest," "Dogma," and "Pulp Fiction."

The company has made big marketing pushes aimed at Christian consumers in recent years with the films "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto."

"I have no illusions that the Walt Disney Company is motivated out of love or even deference to Christians in America in their filmmaking decisions," Phillips said. "They follow the dollar and they play different sides against each other."

Budding filmmakers will study Walt's mastery of cutting-edge technology and classic storytelling and the "19th century values" -- monogamy, faithfulness, patriotism and virtue -- that infused his stories, Geoffrey Botkin, an Academy faculty member, said.

"Walt really was inventive in ways that were really valuable to the filmmakers we are training," Botkin said. "Walt was not tied into the dominating filmmaking center in New York. Our filmmakers want to be outside of Hollywood."

Botkin said early Pixar films created by Walt devotee John Lasseter have "an understanding of classic storytelling" but he described Disney blockbusters like "Pirates of the Caribbean" as "incoherent" and "not made for families."



"Hundreds of Christian filmmakers gathered on Monday in Texas to study entertainment pioneer Walt Disney and how they believe his corporate heirs at the Walt Disney Co went astray from his family-friendly legacy."

Is this a typical Saturday night for these people?

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This is an fuckload of money on top of fuckloads already spent y/n?

The 1,---th day since the declaration of 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq...

Bush Asks Congress For $46 Billion More In War Funding


President Bush challenged Congress to another clash over the direction of the Iraq war yesterday as he asked lawmakers for $46 billion more to pay for overseas military operations and insisted that they approve it by the end of the year.

The president's war funding plan revived the political struggle over Iraq that has grown somewhat dormant in Washington over the past month. Democrats vowed not to rubber-stamp the request and indicated that they will disregard Bush's holiday deadline, holding off any action until next year as they debate a new strategy to counter his leadership on the war.

The latest spending proposal brings the total current fiscal year request for Iraq, Afghanistan and counterterrorism operations to $196.4 billion, by far the largest annual tally since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. If approved by Congress in its entirety, it would bring the total appropriated since then to more than $800 billion. At their current rate, war appropriations could reach $1 trillion by the time Bush leaves office, a total that by some measures would exceed the cost of the Korean and Vietnam wars combined.
The Democrats who won control of Congress last year on the back of public opposition to the Iraq war instantly denounced Bush's spending plan and ridiculed him for seeking so much for the conflicts after vetoing the expansion of a children's health insurance program just weeks earlier. But Bush's proposal will force Democrats to confront the politically volatile choice of again following his lead or refusing to provide everything he wants.

What's more, the debate may play out just as the presidential nominating campaigns reach their climax. Although Bush wants the spending approved within two months, Democrats said the military does not need the money until early February, and they do not anticipate acting until early next year. Presidential voting begins with Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and the nominations could be sealed when voters in about 22 states cast ballots Feb. 5.

The rhetoric from both sides yesterday evoked the fiery debate over the last war funding bill this spring, with the president suggesting that critics do not support the troops and Democrats accusing him of fiscal recklessness on behalf of a losing cause.

"Our men and women on the front lines should not be caught in the middle of partisan disagreements in Washington, D.C.," Bush said at the White House, flanked by veterans and the family of a slain Marine. "I often hear that war critics oppose my decisions, but still support the troops. Well, I'll take them at their word -- and this is the chance to show it."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) derided the war funding bill as an example of "misplaced priorities," pointing to Bush's veto of a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health program. "For the cost of less than 40 days in Iraq, we could provide health-care coverage to 10 million children for an entire year," she said.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) echoed that line of attack on Bush. "He repeatedly says no to health care, no to law enforcement, no to homeland security, no to stronger infrastructure," Reid said at a news conference. "But he says yes to this intractable civil war in Iraq, which is being paid for by borrowed money."

White House spokesman Tony Fratto rejected the comparison with the State Children's Health Insurance Program, saying Bush wants only to make sure it focuses on poorer children and the vetoed bill would have covered families with too much income. "The president has said that the policy is wrong," Fratto said. "He didn't say that it's too expensive."

The spending fight will test Democrats, who so far have been frustrated in their efforts to force Bush to change direction in Iraq. The most powerful means in the hands of Congress is the power of the purse, but so far Democrats have been unwilling to refuse the president any money for the war. When they attached a U.S. troop withdrawal timetable to the war funding bill in the spring, Bush vetoed it and Congress ended up sending him the money without major conditions.

Since that strategy failed, antiwar leaders have pressed Democratic leaders to refuse to give Bush the money he needs to wage war, or at least cut it. In the end, though, that may depend on congressional Republicans. A senior Democratic leadership aide predicted that even Bush's party would not support the full $196.4 billon. "You're not gonna find very many Republicans willing to go to the mat over this," the aide said by e-mail. "In the end, the president is not going to get everything that he wants."

Most Americans oppose funding Bush's full war request, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll last month. Just a quarter of those surveyed supported the president's full spending plan, as it was then projected, and seven in 10 wanted it reduced. About 46 percent wanted it cut sharply or altogether.
The $45.9 billion Bush asked for yesterday comes on top of $150.5 billion already requested for the 2008 fiscal year that started Oct. 1. If passed, it would put the total cost of Iraq, Afghanistan and counterterrorism operations at $807 billion, more than any single U.S. conflict since World War II. A study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments last month said that in today's dollars the Persian Gulf war of 1991 cost $88 billion, the Korean War cost $456 billion and Vietnam cost $518 billion.


"We're clearly not at the end of this," said Steven M. Kosiak, the study's author. "This is going to be going on at least through this administration," he added, and "the war costs are likely to be with us even if we do pull out of Iraq soon."

A Congressional Research Service report in July estimated that the total cost of Iraq, Afghanistan and other operations over the next 10 years could reach $1.45 trillion, even assuming the number of U.S. troops in Iraq is cut in half by 2012.

The difference is that today's war represents a smaller burden on the U.S. economy, roughly 4.2 percent of gross domestic product this year, compared with 9.4 percent at the peak of Vietnam and 14.2 percent at the peak of the Korean War, according to Kosiak.

Bush's spending request yesterday included $42.3 billion more for the Pentagon and $3.6 billion for the State Department. It would pay for day-to-day costs of the wars, including everything from bullets to body armor, as well as for training of Iraqi troops, embassy programs and intelligence operations. It also would pay for treatment of injured soldiers, equipment repairs and relief for Iraqi refugees.

The administration also tucked in money for priorities not directly related to Iraq or Afghanistan, such as funds for the Palestinian Authority, U.N. peacekeeping in Darfur, emergency food aid for Africa, counternarcotics aid for Mexico and Central America and heavy fuel oil for North Korea as part of a deal to dismantle its nuclear programs.



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they sat in a line on the floor and began to massage each-other.


Mmmmm..... they knew they wanted some sex!!
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This is the funnyiest thing I've seen today!!!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/japane...2301096588.html

Click the link to see picture!


ON A narrow Tokyo street, Aya Tsukioka demonstrates clothing designs she hopes will ease Japan's growing fear of crime.

With a deft motion, Ms Tsukioka, a 29-year-old fashion designer, lifts a flap on the front of her skirt to reveal a sheet of cloth printed in bright red, with a soft drink logo partly visible.

By holding the sheet fully open and stepping to the side of the road, she shows how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine.

The wearer hides behind the sheet, which is printed with an actual-size photo of a vending machine.

These elaborate defences come as crime rates are declining in Japan. But the Japanese, attuned to the slightest signs of social fraying, say they feel growing anxiety about safety, fanned by a sensationalist news media.

But instead of pepper spray, the Japanese are devising a variety of novel solutions.

Take the "manhole bag", a purse that can hide your valuables by unfolding to look like a round sewer cover. Put it on the street with your wallet still inside, and unwitting thieves are supposed to walk right by.

There is also a line of knife-proof high school uniforms, and a book with tips for mothers on how to dress even the most modest children like "pseudo-hoodlums" to scare away schoolyard bullies.

There are pastel-coloured mobile phones that parents can track using the global positioning system, and a chip for backpacks that signals when children enter and leave school.

The devices' creators concede some of their ideas may seem far-fetched. Even some Japanese regard many ideas as naive, possibly reflecting the nation's low incidence of street crime. Despite media attention on a few sensational cases, the frequency of violent crime in Japan is low by international standards.

But the devices' creators also argue that Japan's ideas about crime prevention are the product of deeper cultural differences. While Americans, say, want to protect themselves from criminals, or even strike back, the creators say many Japanese favour camouflage and deception, reflecting a culture that abhors self-assertion, even in self-defence.

"It is just easier for Japanese to hide," Ms Tsukioka said. "Making a scene would be too embarrassing."

She said her idea of the vending machine disguise was inspired by a trick used by Japan's ancient ninja, who cloaked themselves under black blankets at night.

Some of the ideas, including the vending machine disguise, have yet to become commercially viable.

But the fact that such ideas were greeted here with straight faces, or that they appeared at all, underscores another, less-appreciated facet of Japanese society: its fondness for oddball ideas and inventions.

Inventors say a long tradition of tinkering and building has made Japan a congenial place for experimental ideas, no matter how eccentric.

"Japanese society won't just laugh, so inventors are not afraid to try new things," said Takumi Hirai, chairman of Japan's largest association of individual inventors, the 10,000-member Hatsumeigakkai.

Even some of the less unusual anti-crime devices still reflect a unique logic.

One item is a pair of wraparound sunglasses for women, with lenses so dark no one can see where the wearer is looking. These are intended to scare off sexual offenders on Tokyo's crowded trains, where the groping of women is a constant problem.

The same is true of some of the solutions for school bullying, a big problem in Japan. Kaori Nakano, a fashion historian, wrote a popular book that includes a chapter on how to ward off bullies by dressing children to look like little hoodlums. The advice includes substituting the standard black belt in Japanese school uniforms for a white one, with studs or tiny mirrors, and buying short socks with flashy patterns.




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I find it amazing that the japaneese make such great cars and electronics, when in everyday life, it seems that just about all of their people are fucking cuko cuko for cocoa puffs and act like they are always on LSD! Fucking weirdos!


Oh and those pussy democrats need to find their balls and put that cocksucker in his place! Stop fucking giving him all the money that he asks for for this war! I hate this fucking country.
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oh and those fucking idiot christian filmakers just need not watch nor let their kids watch any films or tv shows they do not approve of. Your morals are not everyone else's. Most of us have real morals and values, like treating everyone with respect, dignity and equality you fucking close minded pricks! I need one of their emails so I can give them a piece of my mind!
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I just posted a longer post and then my computer messed up....

but yeah basically what Michele just said!! :rocks
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I agree as well! :clap
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la anaconda de chocolatee Oct 23 2007, 10:40 PM Post #74
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wow my last two posts were really full of anger and rage!
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thats how ya felt
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[size=7]Ohio Senator Larry Craig in gay sex encounter shocker[/size]

THE PART ABOUT THE SHIT IS GROCE!

[/B]We’ve been having loads of fun with gay restroom goblin Larry Craig over the past couple of months, haven’t we? What we’ve been missing, though, is an on-the-record account from a source willing to come forward and tell what it’s like to have an actual romantic liaison with the Idaho Republican. Meet David Phillips, a local IT geek and bear-about-town.

Phillips was recently in a bar minding his own business when he heard Craig’s voice on the television. “I went pale and nearly vomited,” Phillips says. It was the man he remembered from one of his creepiest sexual encounters twenty years earlier. “After a truncated meal I went back to my hotel room and began unwinding and jotting down the memories that the voice had opened. I recalled The Follies, the furtive groping and pawing there, the odd following of this man in my car….. Crap!”

Phillips’ embarrassing, Santorum-laced tale follows after the jump.

It was late in the Spring of 1987, and Phillips was a graduate student at George Mason University. “One of my favorite hangouts was The Follies,” Phillips explains, referring to the notorious and now-closed go-go boy bar La Cage aux Follies on Capitol Hill. “There were so many closeted neocons who trolled for cock and ass there, particularly cock and ass on younger men: Terry Dolan, Jon Hinson, and a bunch of other men who seemed to run in a close and secretive group. I had sex with some of them at The Follies, and I even went home with a couple of them — at different times, at least — based on smooth talk and their attraction to a 20-something geek. One of them I would later recognize as Larry Craig.”

One night, Phillips continues, “I followed [Craig] from The Follies to a Capitol Hill neighborhood, parking on the street no telling how far from his house. We walked up the alley and through the back door of a house, with him repeating several times, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’ and me responding, ‘Right!’ in boyish submission. As we tiptoed from the back door to the stairs to the upper floor, as if somebody else was home, he turned to grope my crotch and brush my face with his hand.” The house’s decor led Phillips to believe that this was a married man: “The bric-a-brac with family pictures didn’t scream ‘old queen’ to me; it announced a woman’s influence. Still, we made our way upstairs.

“When we got to what reminded me of a rarely used guest room, he stripped me down, and the man’s hands and mouth were all over me. He kept his pants on, though, while laying me back on the bed to suck my cock. Then, he stripped naked and asked me to suck him. I complied for a while, then he disappeared and returned with lube and a condom to fuck me me with. It was a clumsy and unremarkable fuck, except that I wasn’t clean and he was frantic about not getting my shit on anything. Still, he blew his load, ripped the dirty condom off and ordered me to get dressed without wiping myself. He hurried me to the back door, again ranting, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’”

Mr. Phillips’ next claim is startling, indeed: “On the way back through with shit all in my briefs and feeling totally humiliated I let my eyes wander and saw on a table a small envelope, like one from a gift or a floral arrangement, with ‘Suzanne Craig’ neatly written on it. This memory,” Phillips insists, “I noted about three hours after hearing Craig’s voice again, the night before I saw a current picture of him and a good day before I heard of his wife in the news. ‘That’s who’s going to fuck me up if she finds out,’ I thought. As he reached for the door, he took a $20 bill from his wallet, shoved in my front pocket, adding ‘Remember, I can buy and sell your ass ten thousand times over. You were never here. Don’t try to come back here. You don’t know me.

“When I next heard that voice two months ago,” David concludes, “my mind went right back to that encounter, leaving me feeling cold and used all over again. I wish I hadn’t been a screwed-up kid at the time and had had the presence of mind to tell him to keep the money he shoved at me like I was part of the trade common to The Follies.”

And why has Mr. Phillips decided to share this story with us? Mostly because I badgered him to after he related the story to me two weeks ago at the DC Eagle (I’ve known David for several years). “I’m just glad to purge some mental baggage over it. I wouldn’t ratchet my current feelings about it to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder levels,” he explains, “but it’s close. Changing jobs, celebrating two years off meds, and dealing with carpal tunnel release surgery have actually helped me keep sane during the last few weeks. I keep thinking, ‘What next?’ There were a bunch of Houston oil execs and financiers I tricked with during college, almost all of whom were married… so I’ve been on-edge during both Bush presidencies, waiting for one of them to rise to Cabinet level
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I have been waiting for someone to come forward,actually herds of fags.
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE that story! So what is Anne Coulter going to say about her REPUBLICAN men being the ones who are gay! Not gore and clinton like she likes to say! Not that there arent any democrats on capital hill who arent in the closet, I am sure there are. But this is fucking hysterical Why did he have shit in his pants? Getting fucked made him shit his pants? Has that happened to any of the gay men here? Be honest! It has never happened to me.
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No it hasn't happened to me and it really 'makes me wonder' ( :disco that's Maroon 5 y'all) why that guy would have been out tricking if he wasn't clean! Dirty bitch!
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i guess thier are men who will still fuck you.

some men...dicksgusting.
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