quartermainefan

Going to war on ifs and maybes and coulds is just another war of choice. Britain went broke, the soviets went broke, America is going broke fighting endless wars. I know America loves war because there is so much money and jobs to be had from it, but enough is enough. If Russia shows interest in EU countries that is one thing, but Crimea is filled with Russians who seem to want to be part of Russia for the most part.

No way. Crimea is not worth a major war over. American kids should get killed because the Russians want back a piece of Russia Kruschev gave away? Here is something that will be unpopular: America sent 300,000 troops into Iraq, another 100,000 into Afghanistan, we helped oust the regime in Libya, we stuck our two cents in Egypt and told their president he had to go, and we do many of these things against the wishes of the UN. When we do it it is painted as reclaiming our sovereign rights and not genuflecting to the new world order. Putin sent 6,000 troops across his border, literally into a country right next door filled with Russians...and this is a crime against humanity for daring to go against the UN and using military force to achieve a goal. Well, that is what the US has been doing every decade since WW II ended. The US has in the past ousted democratically elected governments and installed dictators (which is why Iran hates us) and because we write the history books we are the good guys. Let Russia and Ukraine settle their own business. It's not worth a single american life.

I believe that was her last episode when DM left the show.

I love Joffrey. He is horrible and there is not a single redeeming quality to him, but that is his charm. It takes a lot of work to literally be the meanest character on all of TV and I can't think of a single character who has Joffrey beat. His grandfather and mother are no picnics, but Joffrey's sadistic glee at being mean sends him across the finish line. And no character on any other show comes to mind that has him beat either. Meanest of all time perhaps.

Obama lost his halo with that "if you like your insurance you can keep it" lie. After that, nobody pays attention to anything he says and are less likely to believe him. I don't see how the democrats can recover barring a mass acceptance of Obamacare, and that does not seem to be happening just yet. It might happen in time for 2016, but he has nothing to say that anybody wants to hear currently.

I had no idea that woman was Tasha Yar from Star Trek. She sure looks different. I spotted that white trash group as being Ric's gang from the house two weeks ago. Boring characters and they have boring motivation. Put that together and it is a boring storyline.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fivethirtyeight-senate-forecast/ When FiveThirtyEight last issued a U.S. Senate forecast — way back in July — we concluded the race for Senate control was a toss-up. That was a little ahead of the conventional wisdom at the time, which characterized the Democrats as vulnerable but more likely than not to retain the chamber. Our new forecast goes a half-step further: We think the Republicans are now slight favorites to win at least six seats and capture the chamber.

That's why Carol killed those two day players Tyrses goes on about. It had to be done. In hindsight we can see she may have been mistaken but in the moment Carol did then exactly what she did now. That's why she is an asset to the group and Rick was an idiot not to trust her. Carol will move heaven and earth to protect Rick's daughter including killing a psycho child. No one else would have come to that decision.

Great episode. Carol is the toughest of the tough on this show and that's why the whole tangent about Tyrese's phantom girlfriend was a waste of time.

I have seen every episode twice and to my recollection there was exactly one episode with Starbuck and a piano, and I believe one episode that flash backed to that.

Carl, I don't see a single pretentious aspect to this show, or Battlestar Galactica. BSG played killer robots with a completely straight face. How is that pretentious?

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I found myself FFing a lot of this epsisode. Sasha is a drip, a wet blanket, a character who only says "no". It's boring, she's boring, what she says is boring. Someone says lets go left, she says right. It was an hour of that crap. Bob we got a little insight into and I loved the opening sequence of him on his own. That explains a lot about his POV without needing a speech to tell us. As for Daryl and Beth, I didn't quite understand why Beth abandoned him. She didn't even look back and he was mere feet away from her car. Or was she taken? Now Daryl has new co-stars and it looks like more wannabe badasses. One thing I wish about the show is that there was more variety to the people they meet. These guys could be the guys Rick was hiding from in the house, and they all are cousins of the badasses who approached Rick and Hershel in the bar back in season two. You do need stock character types to fill out the show but it just always seems to be the same type and it is starting to become a little repetitive. I guess part of my dissatisfaction with these last few weeks is I want the show to get back to Rick, Carl, and Michonne. Enough with Beth already, it's time she get killed off anyway and she can take Sasha with her.

Because religious freedom is only an excuse since the law doesn't address religious freedom in the slightest. There is nothing in Christianity which mandates prejudice. The pope himself said "who am I to judge?" and your place of business is not your house of worship. Why would anyone want to give their money to a business where they didn't want them? Why did those kids want to go to schools in the 1950s even though they knew they were not wanted? Why did they want to drink from water fountains designated for white people if they knew the white people didn't want them? It isn't this particular business or that, it is the whole idea of legalizing and codifying prejudice. Maybe next they will say "well I am christian, you are jewish/muslim/athiest, I don't want you in this restaurant. Better yet, "you're gay? You are not allowed to live in this apartment building/on this street/in this town". No one is saying a church should conduct ceremonies against their religion, but how does the exchange of money and services in any way address religious freedom? All that law does is legalize hate and prejudice. Better yet, just imagine christians come to NY and get turned away from a jewish restaurant because christians believe in the messiah and that is against their religion. What do you think christians from coast to coast would say about those jews? I'm jewish, and I know exactly what they would say.

I love Daryl but Beth doesn't thrill me. It seemed like she wanted Daryk sexually but the show didn't go that direction.

Max is right, he is the only conservative in this thread so if a person does post something "some in this thread are..." you pretty much have to be talking about him. That not nice.

You must think everything exists in a vacuum and nobody remembers who said what from one issue to the next. Here is another reason why everyine paid attention to AZ and the republican push to legalize discrimination: It is the same exact place where a couple of years back there was another republican push to legalize discrimination based on skin color. So when you see people want to make every person with brown skin show papers like refugees from Europe circa 1940 and then you want to make it legal for gay people to role play 1950s Alabama, you rightfully earn the title of bigot and hate monger. I don't know how much clearer it can get. To be a republican is to choose to be a member of a party that exists to expand hate and prejudice. If it isn't the brown skin people it is the gays, and if it isnt the gays it is those welfare queens and the 47% who want handouts. And if it isnt them it is the "elites" who live in NY and want your guns and hate Jesus. That's the republican motif--to show how different everyone is from we true American republicans and resent them. Your post after post ignoring the actual topic (the law in AZ) to instead pretend the topic is liberal persecution of republicans on this issue is one of your weakest arguments to date on this site. The only persecution in this current topic ( AZ) is the planned, intended and desired persecution of gay people by conservatives. Once again, Putin would be proud to be a republican.

Clinton signed that bill because he was looking at super majorities ready to override his veto. He did say the bill was divisive and according to wikipedia his white house called it "gay baiting". 20 years ago was a long time and a lot has happened since then. All things happen with baby steps and Clinton also signed Dont Ask Dont Tell, which was the first step to the open service of gays in the military. Clinton saw the writing on the wall for DOMA and had no way to stop it but was smart enough to not fall on his sword attacking it and handing even larger victory to republicans. But this is 2014 not 1996. The fears that gay marriage would lead to people marrying their dogs has proven to be just the insane rantings of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Max you basically are saying republican politicians are 20 years behind the times and therefore deserve to be seen the way these things were seen 20 years ago. Why stop at Clinton, why not go back to WWII era military policies and maybe we can bash FDR? There is no double standard and if Bill Clinton in 2014 said the things that AZ legislature said he would be finished overnight as any kind of political force.

I am not sure what point you are trying to make here. It looks like you have very little to work with and so now are resorting to "See? Republicans are not as bad as they said, though I admit we're pretty bad at times".

Max, you can't see the forest through the trees at times. That's the aspect of this story you find noteworthy? That is the headline and not that every single republican in the state legislature voted to make discrimination legal? Or that the Governor just doesn't flat out say this law is repulsive but rather she has to study it? As for McCain, even he didn't say the law should be vetoed because it is odious and unamerican, no, he said it would hurt AZ economically. And why? Because everyone else finds it disgusting. This law doesn't disprove the generalizations about republicans, it proves those generalizations true--again. It wasn't left wing scare tactics that forced this law on AZ, it was republicans. This isn't the extreme wing of the republican party, these are the elected officials chosen by a majority and therefore right in the mainstream of republican thought. Can anyone explain what the difference is between republicans in AZ and their law and Putin's law in Russia other than degrees of discrimination? When your party is mirroring the thought process of Putin isn't it time you wake up? Three places have been in the news recently for anti-gay laws: Russia, Uganda, and Arizona. I think that says it all and says everything there needs to be said about conservatives in America today.

I don't think this complaint will resonate with TWD audience since it was going above and beyond to stay true to the source material.

I thought this was a really tense episode, and those people...it is a miracle they survived seeing how they seem to be willing to kill each other over a bed or for a joke or whatever. The new people it is too soon to pass verdict but considering the situation on the ground so to speak, why would the info be classified? Who is Glenn going to leak secrets to, Snowden? I guess Rick and crew are about to be reunited with Tyrese and crew at the sanctuary, which will give Rick a crisis about what to say about Carol.

Seriously. Who the hell is Karen anyway? If she had three lines of dialogue the one episode she was in (and probably uncredited at that) I would be impressed. Tyrese liked her? Before this episode Tyrese himself was a non-entity. Anyway, the creepy girl is the most interesting character on the show currently. Now that Carl is growing up too fast (and too tall) it will be up to Lizzie to carry on doing dangerous, tough and sort of psycho kid duties. Now I am wondering if maybe she killed our beloved Karen and if Carol was in fact just covering for her. Speaking of Carol, her return was a little too convenient. "I was in the neighborhood", really? Is that the best they could come up with? I am happy to see Glen back to his scrappy self.

Rick always makes choices that lead to danger for his group and eventual death. Season 2 Shane told him they had to kill that kid but Rick had better ideas about leaving him at that school or whatever that was, and sure enough Shane got cornered inside that bus. And the time earlier when they had to kill the kid but Rick said no, and the delay cost Herschel his leg. (something like that anyway). He wanted to sit around and talk with the governor in season 3 and that inaction led to Herschel's death in season 4. His silly ethics has led him to cast out Carol, someone firmly in his camp and whose job it was to watch his baby daughter. Well where is the daughter now? He was against her teaching the creepy blonde girl how to fight, but Carol's lessons is what saved Tyrese when that girl came to his rescue (or was it Daryl she saved?) Even back in season 1 he spared Merle and what happened, Merle came back to take hostages while working for the governor. Rick always makes a bad decision that comes back to haunt the group. His farming detour was no exception. MIchonne had the right idea: find the governor. Rick should have been helping on that score all along. Even his pigs are what led to the virus that killed people earlier this season.

Hartley Sawyer now stars in a web series, and a very professional looking one at that. It's too bad the soap opera web series are always such shlock.