quartermainefan

Barring a miracle they are getting the Senate. Obama will be a lame duck who people will start to ignore as they take their cues from the democratic nominee. I think the most realistic hope is Obama just makes sure he vetoes every insane republican proposal and they wait til 2016 when the map favors the democrats.

I forget who it was on this forum that was basically telling me I was delusional when I said antisemitism was on the rise in Europe. Europe is a festering mess of right wing wannabe nazis just lurking waiting for an opportunity to come out and play.

Obama is such a tone deaf speaker and he never fails to unimpress. He has no ability to convey passion of any kind on any subject at any time. "We will be vigilant" is not quite "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" or even "There is nothing to fear but fear itself". The thing that elevated Churchill above all other speakers is he always knew when to stress a word and sound out some conviction. "We shall fight on the beaches...we shall fight in the hills" simple and to the point and drives the point home where "We will be relentless" does not. It's a hollow promise he knows is false because he cannot go into Syria. I don't see any way for the US to get at Isis without going into Syria and that is not nearly as easy as going into Iraq. The US and Iran need to bury the hatchet and unite against the greater enemy.

I don't think the Rick Perry thing will amount to much with voters. He is being accused of something that doesn't make for a sexy or simple headline like "he robbed from a charity" or "he traded favors for drugs". The voters in Texas will rally to him I bet.

I think Hillary must feel that Obama's foreign policy achievements will be deemed iffy at best and she wants room to say she is not him. Yes, he got Bin Laden, but after than his achievements are few. That's not to say she could have gotten much more but there is no way to prove he couldn't. He's probably pissed but Hillary and Bill are probably the only two democrats who don't need Obama's approval to say what they want to say for their own goals. I am sure Hillary weighed the pros and cons of her statements and decided it was time to break away from Obama and his perceived sinking ship.

I think Obama did the right thing helping out the Kurds. Yes, it is against everything he campaigned on, but this ISIS crowd is a particularly nasty group that seems to want to kill everyone in their path.

You sound like you subscribe to Protocols Of Zion Monthly. As we saw these past few weeks, antisemitism is alive and well in Europe, including calls to send jews to gas chambers. It is very interesting that thousands die every day in all these countries and there are not riots in the streets. As soon as Israel has an incident Europe comes alive with protests. America should stop supporting Israel? Lets remember what happened in the 1940s that led to Israel being created in the first place. When your neighbors want to round up and kill jews where should the jews run to? France? Germany? Maybe if there had been an Israel in 1933-1939 a lot of people would have survived that were otherwise slaughtered by Europeans. I don't know what country in Europe you are in, but Europeans are the last people to be taken seriously when the subject is Israel. Maybe if they weren't attacking Jewish shops in Paris last week simply because they were owned by Jews the views of Europe wouldn't be so laughably transparent. As it stands now your theories of Jewish conspiracies just sounds like the same old song that has been sung since 1933.

That I agree, but that ship sailed years ago.

You can't blame America because islamist extremists are all insane. When they started telling christians convert or die I think we can say that is a real war on christianity. Only one person then has the moral authority to say there is a cancer in modern islam, and the Pope should have gone on worldwide TV and told all christians to get out of Iraq and that Islam is attacking christianity. The shoe would be on the other foot for once with this neverending islamic need to feel insulted, and maybe what these islamic whack jobs need is a billion or two people seeing them as the enemy for once. They want to blow up their own monuments? Let then have a party. It's tough to feel sorry for these countries at this point because whenever they get a chance to elect someone democratically, they choose to elect religious zealots anyway. And now there is word of growing Taliban in Afghanistan. They had ten years to cast off their ridiculous religious ways and come to the conclusion that religion has no place in government, but they disagree and kept those dumb burkas that breed taliban extremist thinking. Well, after decades of Saddam Iraq finally found religion I guess.

This was the most enjoyable panel of the ones I watched. The host was great and the one fan at roughly 40 minutes into it steals the show

Brienne looks amazingly different and so feminine. And Natalie Dormer looks like a million bucks. Craig Ferguson being the host is a little annoying though

Not a very impressive line up for that con. I am hardpressed to name which characters most of them play. I hope there will be a good panel at San Diego this week.

I know this will be unpopular with the typical liberal, but as a not typical liberal I gotta say it: Hamas will always win the propaganda war because everyone hates Israel and most people around the world don't like jews.

I don't believe that at all. This guy didn't spend his entire professional life writing this story just to forget about because he has a couple of bucks. He clearly has a passion for it to spend year after year with it, and he will see it through or die first. I find the whole death topic a little morbid. I can see a 20 year old thinking 65 is akin to having one foot in the grave, but George Bush Senior just jumped out of a plane at 90.

With Rosie back and Elizabeth otherwise engaged, the show should get Sarah Palin. It would be must see TV and ratings would go through the roof.

How typical of the emmys to nominate Diana Rigg. If she was not famous they would never have nominated her. I bet she wins too.

Reading that article it sounds like she is entirely in the right. It isn't her kid, it is his kid and they are divorcing.

I always have felt there was almost reverse racism in the immigration policy. If you are from Ireland and want to come here and work and pay taxes the government doesn't want you and will throw you out. If you come from south of the border or some island somewhere and have a disease they welcome you with open arms and escort you straight to government assistance. All those people streaming in the government wants. There are probably 10,000 illegal irish bartenders in the country who are dying to get their papers and can't.

Is that Kete Mulgrew??? Wow, I never would have recognized her!

The Roberts court will go down as one of the most activist in history, which is funny considering how conservative justices all pretend they are against judicial activism. The Supreme Court is probably the biggest reason one should factor in who one votes for for president because these assholes are in for life. These five people have formed the most powerful political bloc in the country, rewriting all laws along dogmatic conservative lines. By allowing people to opt out of laws by pretending it offends them religiously they have opened the floodgates for anything and everything to offend religious sensibilities. The government is not supposed to be in the religion business. Their other catastrophic decision was the opening the floodgates so conservative billionaires could bankroll republicans in secret. These constant 5-4 decisions on political matters damage the court. One could see how if Nixon were president now these five would have sided with him in the tapes case strictly because he was republican.

That podcast also discusses the daytime emmys and it is pretty funny.

Maybe Miss Sheperd is leaving so she can finally seek out answers as to whether the earth is round or not. What a sad turn of events it is to see a rare voice of intelligence abandon our TV screens.

That would have been an international scandal! She is such an enigma because she never ever succumbs to the idea of trying to be just like everyone else the way Harry does or the the way William makes sure everyone knows he can change a diaper or that he carries the baby. She goes on these visits and you never have any idea whether she really finds everyone interesting or not, but she has the smile down pat and knows how to make it look like everyone everywhere is equally interesting. I wonder if she watches the show, she would never give an interview and tell us. I was surprised to see Sansa was so sooo tall. She is practically an amazon compared to everyone else.

Here is news about versatility: Renly has been cast to portray Charles Manson in an NBC miniseries.

I don't think she is at all. The media loves and hates the Clintons and they want a narrative of her being in trouble. She isn't. The constant harping and carping by the press drives her popularity down and the press now has the story they want. If she runs she will most likely win the nomination and there is no republican who can beat her at the moment. The only thing she did wrong was mention she and Bill were not wealthy when they left the White House, and they weren't. I have confidence that barring any other historic candidacies like Obama's, if she runs she will win.