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You've never been to South Jersey, have you? Not places like the shore, or Atlantic City, or the outskirts of Philly. But the real South Jersey. In most places, you can almost hear the banjos playing.

Nope. The creep is a native of Southern New Jersey. The producer is a native New Yorker. I doubt the creep would even understand a movie like Pi.

I don't think it's Santeria or Voodoo, as in both of those, chickens are sacrficed. These three just sound like they're stupid.

When I was in HS in the early 70s, we never got grief counseling either. It was a large regional HS and every year, at least one popular student would die doing something stupid. Not to mention, all the 18 year olds who went off to Vietnam. A number of them died there, the plaque in the entrance hall was always getting a new name engraved. We dealt with it, knowing after graduation, our numbers might be next. We got through it ok without counseling.

Exactly. The guy was trying to get close to the band, security wouldn't let him. He kept trying to sneak in without a ticket, security kept stopping him. He jumped a fence and was chased by security. The only thing that would have stopped him would have been if security had guns themselves.

I completely missed the f-word in this song. I guess I should visit the eye doctor.

Except in several songs on Murder Ballads, the F-Word is used repeatedly. Give Stagger Lee and O'Malley's Bar a good listen.

Nick Cave has never been known for being clean.

The lyrics for this song can be found here:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Thoughtless-lyrics-Evanescence/CEAA06B19948E32D48256F3900080642

The obscenity in question is (I hope I'm allowed to say this here) dirty ass. They say it twice in the song.

AngloSaxon, I took your advice. But I don't think that the new kids are too bright. So here is the link for the CIA World Book and the facts on the United Kingdom.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html

I see the Arabic population is so low, they're listed under other.

"For the past 18 years she has been in Kroonstad prison where she has trained as a hairdresser and is a keen artist and sculptor."

Oh please tell me they're not going to let her use scissors on the general public now that she's out.

Oh, we've all known for years that gay people can be corrupt. I can't remember anyone being proud that Roy Cohn was gay.

I have no idea what's wrong with these people. I don't even think McGreevey is gay, I think he's bisexual but claiming to be gay as it gives his announcement more panache. But the people celebrating his announcement are either all Democrats or thinking it's about time he came out.

This is so not a gay thing. Finding out McGreevey came out almost made me want to go straight.

As a former resident of New Jersey, I can tell you there has to be more to the story than him giving his boyfriend du jour a cushy day job. Something else is going on, since this is something that he could have made disappear if he wanted to. It is the Great Swamp State. (Did I just say that?) NJ has a history of corruption, it seems to be the government hobby. Politicians on every level get away with all sorts of things.

I personally think McGreevey realized he wasn't up to the job and needed an out. That and he was up to something really bad that couldn't be covered up, even in that state.

For starters, Bill Buckley needs to get acquainted with the folks here at the Free Republic who are getting the facts and the truth. His comments ring of someone who had been disconnected from the big picture.

If you ask me, he's always been disconnected. This is an anonymous editorial from New Republic's August 24, 1957 issue entitled, "Why The South Must Prevail":

"The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists."

"National Review believes that the South's premises are correct. . . . It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority."

"The South confronts one grave moral challenge. It must not exploit the fact of Negro backwardness to preserve the Negro as a servile class. . . . Let the South never permit itself to do this. So long as it is merely asserting the right to impose superior mores for whatever period it takes to effect a genuine cultural equality between the races, and so long as it does so by humane and charitable means, the South is in step with civilization, as is the Congress that permits it to function."

The general consensus is that Buckley wrote it. Whether he did or not, NR was his child and it was up to him to run it. The man has never represented my views or my morals. Well, except for maybe that pot thing. But I don't do that anymore.

Just trying to get the thread back on the subject of Buckley, instead of the flame-war that's going on.

Smoke at home or concerts and you won't have any problem. The cops don't care unless you do something stupid and they have no choice but to charge you; or you insult them and they bust you for being an a**hole.

A few years ago, when I was living in New Jersey, they started a program where if you rat out your friends, family and neighbors for growing a plant in their basement, you get a reward and they go to jail. I have no idea if that program is still in effect, but it meant the government cared if you were getting high in the privacy of your own home.

I am here in Austin, Texas and I am Ready to not only protest at move theaters but blockade the theaters if need be.

Brilliant. That way you give people the opportunity and means to say Republicans are against freedom of speech. This is supposed to be a free country, where people are allowed to make their own choices.

Blockading a theater will not only give people the chance to talk about how rabid Republicans are when it comes to letting others know the truth about the Bush administration, but it also gives more free publicity to the movie. Which means more movie tickets sold. More money in the pocket of Michael Moore. People will come out to see what the fuss is all about.

Back in 1988 here in Austin I was arrested with Mark Weaver and Operation Rescue blockading an abortion clinic to save lives. Why not no the same think for this movie. If we do so we not only save lives but save America from a Kerry Regime.

If you think none of those women went to other clinics or into the hospital, you're mistaken. It will be the same thing with the movie. One theater has a blockade, people will just go to another theater. If people want to see the movie, they will.

Chanting pro-immigrant slogans and carrying handwritten signs with messages such as "We Do The Hard Work," hundreds of people marched through a mostly Hispanic section of downtown Saturday to protest a series of recent Border Patrol arrests of illegal immigrants.

Illegal, people. Don't they have a word for that in Spanish? Illegal means you don't belong here and you're going to be arrested and sent back. What right do they have to sneak over the border when others who are going through proper channels have to wait forever for a resident visa?

Angelina Casillas-Corona, president of the immigrant advocacy group Hermandad Los Angeles, said people targeted in the raids are only looking for better lives.

"Their only crime is looking for a job, having a job in another country," she said.

Gee, with all the manufacturing jobs NAFTA caused to be sent to Mexico? I'm guessing working as a domestic pays more than making microchips?

The Department of Homeland Security said the arrests were legal but violated policy because they were done without advanced authorization from headquarters.

Undersecretary of Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson said he would review the activities of agents who carried out the raids. His spokeswoman, Suzanne Luber, said no disciplinary action was expected.

The arrests were legal but violated policy? Now you have to get clearance from Homeland Security to patrol the border and keep illegals out of the country? Am I missing something in the subtext here?

The youngsters had gathered to socialise in a Cardiff suburb, that we cannot name for legal reasons, on Thursday evening when they were approached by a man and a woman. snip Susan Cook's 14-year-old son, Daniel, was one of the children involved in the "lesson".

They're not allowed to name the suburb for legal reasons, but they can name one of the under-aged youngsters involved in the incident? Something about this story reeks of an urban legend in the making.

I can't believe people still fall for this scam. Even in 2001, there were warnings about it. There were stories of people who went to Africa and had their lives threatened when they wouldn't do what the scammers told them to do. You would think an owner of a title company would have enough business savvy to see through this and realize at some point that she was being taken for a ride. Not to mention, she had to know she was involved in something illegal if they needed to dye the money black. What is wrong with these people?

This film has a limited audience, which will heavily attend every showing. Good for them...now let's move on, because the right has indeed reacted exactly the way Moore wanted.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Moore has played both sides like a violin. It's time to start ignoring him, instead of giving him more free publicity.

So, IOW, if someone beats up a homosexual, it is a hate crime. If someone beats up my old mother, it is not a hate crime.

No, because it also says you can't beat someone up based on gender. So if they beat her up because she's a woman, that's a hate crime. If she's disabled in any way, it's a double hate crime, as the disabled are protected in there too.