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Really? Good for them. As much as I love my sci-fi blockbusters (Avengers, Dark Knight, etc...), I'm drifting more and more towards indie films. It just seems like most of the major releases are just retread crap. I *loved* TSJ's movie In The Family (even though it was basically a month long) and it's been getting a great response. I hope this movie does well too, if for no other reason that it has two soapers leading the cast. I feel like indie film is a good next step for soap actors. And even though I've talked plenty of trash about MA in the past (and probably will in the future), I have to say that I think both she and Pelphrey look really attractive in the trailer. It's amazing what happens when these actors get a chance to work in flattering lighting and clothes.

Tom Pelphrey has an indie film opening next month in which he co-stars with Melissa Archer (and, apparently every aging Jewish actor on the East coast. LOL!) I'll probably go see this if it comes to my city since I love a good addiction tale whether comedy or drama. Also I like Pelphrey and it looks like he has a real flair for comedy. Frankly I didn't even recognize him at first. As for Archer...whatever my feeling about OLTL, "Natalie" or MA's acting talent, I'm happy for ANY soap actor who finds a way to keep working their craft. However, it doesn't look like she goes topless in this film so I know that will disappoint some of her fans on this board. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPvLGfMBc64

For those who are interested, Aisha Tyler does a podcast called Girl on Guy where she talks about "stuff guys love." Her latest one features an interview with Nathan Fillion. There's a part where he talks at length about his time at OLTL. The whole interview is about an hour long but he starts talking about OLTL at the 30 minute mark or so. He tells some nice stories about his co-workers and tells a couple of funny ones about Bob Woods. I particularly like his description of Don Jeffcoat. http://girlonguy.net/podcast/girl-on-guy-60-nathan-fillion-2/ A couple of warnings: 1.) The podcast is definitely NSFW. Aisha swears. A lot. 2.) She's an clearly an outsider to the genre so don't expect the "inside baseball" fawning we get from the soap press.

Sorry. I didn't get a name since... He called me that in the library when I was seven. (That was the first time I'd ever been called that.) She said that to me at the mall when I was eight and throwing coins into the fountain He told me that the neighborhood pool was closed to "N-words" when I was ten He was a friend of mine in high school and said he considered Budweiser "N-word beer" She took me to a party sophomore year where the guy she liked to me not to N*****lip the cigarette When I talked to my friend for high school about his roommates he called one a "sand n*****" because he was Muslim. I was the only black girl out of a high school class of 525. I had that word yelled at me in the hallways and screamed at me on the bus. My brother was called that word when he was working a temp job. My father, an engineer who worked for for [!@#$%^&*] NASA, got called that name by a coworker. Anybody who thinks that all those people became fair, open-minded individuals the day Obama got elected is an idiot. Any other questions?

LOL! This is the one I find most hysterical. Anytime someone says it I wonder when they stepped of the transporter pad from Planet Idiot. My usual response to this is that Obama or no Obama, the person who thought I was an "N-word" yesterday still thinks that today. I honestly wonder where the idea that we've entered a "post-racial" society came from.

Yeah but she's had a rough couple of weeks.

Yeah but the reason stereotypes exist is because they make it easier for some people to make sense of the world. I go back to some things i saw posted by GOP trolls on another site when the survey showing that Romney got 0% of the black vote from those surveyed. 1.) "See black people are the REAL racists They hate Mitt Romney because he's white!" - That presumes that the ONLY reason a black voter or any voter would have not to like Romney is because he's white. That's not true. Those black people aren't refusing to support Romney because he's white, it's because he's MITT ROMNEY! If you put Barack Obama up against either of the Clintons right now the numbers would be very different. 2.) "Blacks vote for the Democrat (sic) Party without thinking!" - Nope. Black voters stick with the Democratic Party because decades ago the Republican Party chose to employ the Southern Strategy. The low numbers the GOP gets with black voters today is a direct result of years of demonizing those voters. We see this repeating itself today with Latinos. 3.) "Black people only voted for Barack Obama because of his race and white voters only voted for him out of white guilt!" - Again I direct everyone's attention to Bill Clinton who many in "the black community" (because there's only one, right?) still consider America's first black president. If that doesn't work please look at Artur Davis, a black politician in Alabama who was the first to lose the black vote to a WHITE MAN. As long as the GOP continues to see black/Latino/LGBT voters as a necessary evil only to be indulged in photo ops and/or manipulated during the conventions the party will continue its inexorable slide to irrelevance. As they should.

I just got around to watching McCain's statement on Chris Stevens. That was a damn fine tribute and judging by the way his voice broke at the end, a hard one to deliver. It reminds me of the McCain I used to respect. It's good to see someone put the politics to the side and remember the man and his service. IMO, we need more of that.

Speaking only for myself, I really like Jon Huntsman. I disagree with him on a million things but I respect him and if he were in a public office, even though I would consider it a loss for my "side," I wouldn't consider it a loss for the country. I looks at Huntsman and see a good citizen. He believes in science and service and reaching across the aisle and all those things that are vilified these days. I don't feel like Jon Huntsman "hates" me on principle. I think Mitt Romney does.

As much as I love what you wrote here, I don't want you to take a bullet for me. You're right that I'm not an Obama cheerleader. I love the guy but I've posted in detail where I disagree with him. But I have to admit that I'm not exactly objective. I try to be on a lot of issues but I openly and proudly admit that I am first and foremost a liberal. In fact most of my issues with Obama stem from the fact that he isn't liberal enough.

I didn't forget anything. You didn't mention the impeachment or I would've addressed it. That's a really cheap personal attack. Once again, even though we've disagreed, I always thought you were better than that. Fine. Since you've apparently lost the ability to engage me on the issues how about you and I just agree not to talk to each other? Let's put each other on "ignore" and move on.

Oh let's go there. I have no problem with a politician lying about his sex life. I simply don't care. I don't care about Clinton's affairs (I did then but now that I'm older I don't.), I don't care about Larry Craig's bathroom trolling, Eliot Spitzer's whoring, Newt Gingrich's open marriage or Anthony Weiner's penis. As long as they do their job I don't care if elected officials want to get their ass tickled with a pink feather while wearing a ball gag. The sex scandals that bother me are: Mark Sanford - I don't care if he cheated on his wife but he left the country without telling anybody. He should've been horsewhipped for that. David Vitter - I have no problem with people availing themselves of sex workers but reportedly he was booking hookers through his phone when he was on the Senate floor. He couldn't wait a couple of hours?! John Ensign - used his position to hide his cheating and abused the family of his mistress to do it. Al Gore - If it's true that he forced himself on a masseuse I find that unforgivable. There are plenty of women who will take care of your needs for the right price. (See: David Vitter) John Edwards - This one actually breaks my rule but I need to cop to the truth. I hate him for what he did to his wife and family. I believed in him once because what he said about two Americas was SO true. I can't describe how betrayed I felt by him. When I think "sociopath" I don't think Mitt Romney, I think John Edwards. Which brings me back to your statement Max. Bill Clinton could be a psychopathic serial killer with a puppy rape dungeon in his basement but that doesn't change the truth about Mitt Romney. Romney is an self-serving, incompetent, entitled pathological liar who looked at the murder of these people who were killed serving our country and humanity and thought to himself, "How can this benefit me?" He's a man who talked about the death of innocents with a smile on his face. If you think Bill Clinton's sex lie is worse than that then...I have no response for that. As for Hilary's chances in 2016, I believe her when she says she doesn't want to run, even though I hope she does. Personally, I think that Hilary will hang up the professional politics and double down on her work on behalf of women and girls. I don't think she will be the Dem candidate in 2016.

If we were talking about Romney saying something stupid about abortion, gay marriage or even Medicare I might agree with you but IMO even people who say that the economy is the only thing that matters (a tactic I have grown to loathe) can see what a completely incompetent fool Romney is on the international stage. The diehards may not care but independents generally are independent because they care about more than one issue. They care enough that they won't identify with either party. This will only push a few more away. They may not vote for Obama but they won't pull the lever for Romney either and for me that's all that matters. If the RNC convention didn't bring them around, this won't. The entire convention was the RNC telling their that they have to suck it up and vote for Mitt no matter how much they may hate it.The RNC is the political equivalent of a teenage girl who couldn't get an abortion so she's going to wear big sweaters, have the baby on prom night, throw the kid in a dumpster and go off to Liberty University.

He's already got the "anybody but Obama" vote. He could piss on an American flag and those people will vote for him but what he did today showed moderates and independents that he can't handle the job. I'll be interested to see the polls over the next week. Sociopaths are much better at lying. Romney is simply a soulless imbecile.

That mess looks like an SNL skit. Or a soap.

Two words: swing states.

By "blatant refusal to lead" do you mean his reluctance to start a war every other year? Because frankly I had enough of that with the last guy.

Oh Jane, you are ADORABLE! I can't speak for any other state but here in Ohio there has been no discussion at all about how to pay for this extra layer of bureaucracy other than "If voting is important to you then you'll do what you have to do." IOW, poll tax. And obviously the GOP doesn't want to give voters ample time. That doesn't help them at all. What I find utterly hysterical is with all this "rampant voter fraud" why didn't the Republican Party start fighting for this before the 2010 elections or shortly after since they picked up so many seats? Are they claiming that 2010 was filled with voter fraud? If so, then which of the Republicans who picked up seats won because of voter fraud? And if only Democrats engage in said fraud how did the GOP win so many races? Why wait until a few months before a presidential race? Could it be because only now does the Electoral College come into play? Nah, that couldn't possibly be it.

Yes and no. Secret Service clears any place POTUS enters before he enters it. That's how there was a camera and photographers already in the room when he walked in. The place had been swept. (Many, many, many years ago I did temp work at an event for Bush 41 in my hometown. I saw what Secret Service was capable of doing back then. For the record, don't ever joke with Secret Service. Trust me. ) Also, even if they hate it, Secret Service agents will take their cues from the person they're protecting unless they perceive a threat. Obama was clearly unafraid. The photo op was definitely planned but I don't think the hug was. JMHO. I just hate the fact that now that small business owner is being harassed by right-wingers.

By the end of the day he'll claim he never said that. Watch.

I'm glad you mentioned states rights because this is a place where I feel like the Democrats have missed a golden opportunity. Romney has spent the last few months running that disgusting, putrid lie-filled ad claiming that "Obama gutted welfare" (Ugh! Just typing that makes me want to slap that liar!) even though he knows that Obama agreed to release states from the welfare to work program if they could provide a plan that moved 20% more people into jobs. Is that not a perfect states rights solution? So why is Romney so dead set against it? I'd give ANYTHING to have someone ask him that during the debates. Honestly, I don't get how anybody can even consider voting for that man. He just lies and lies and lies. He does it knowingly and deliberately and when called on his lies he basically just says "[!@#$%^&*] you, I'm Mitt Romney and the rules for everyone else don't apply to me." Everytime I see Jon Huntsman I just shake my head in disbelief that the Republicans think Romney (Santorum, Cain, Gingrich. etc...) is more qualified to be in the White House than he is.

You bring up a good point. The last few pages of this thread have been all about Obama. I'd be intrigued to hear why Romney voters are supporting him and I'd be more intrigued to see if they can make their case without mentioning Obama. I've noticed that most Romney voters on other boards don't like Romney that much, they just hate Obama. I can easily make my case for Obama without mentioning Romney. I've seen very little evidence that Romney's supporters can do the same for their candidate.

Stalemate? I don't think that word means what you think it does. You need to figure out what battle you're fighting. Are you saying that our European allies are uncomfortable with Obama or are you saying that they like Obama but it doesn't matter because they only like him because of his policies? (Which FWIW sounds like a pretty solid reason to like him.) The only reason we could argue this until doomsday is because you are moving the goalposts. Pick an argument. You can't have both of them.

Pretty much. http://globalpublics...omney-or-obama/ An excerpt: "Europeans have had a four-year love affair with Barack Obama: 87 percent of Germans, 86 percent of French and 80 percent of the British have confidence in Obama, according to a 2012 poll by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes project. In each case this is higher than public confidence in their own national leader. And 92 percent of the French, 89 percent of the Germans and 73 percent of the British want Obama reelected."

Obama has strong beliefs. Unfortunately one of those beliefs is that everyone can be reasoned with. He's stated numerous times in interviews that he believes that if your case is good enough and you make it strongly enough then people of opposing views can come together in good faith to work on solutions. Of course that's completely wrong and has been proven wrong for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. All of human history is filled with people who didn't care about facts or reason or reality and only cared about having their viewpoint affirmed. For example, Obama thought that if he showed the birthers his "long form" birth certificate they would acknowledge reality. Instead they moved on to demanding his college transcripts. ( Of course more revolting than the birthers are the conservative who won't take them to task but that's a different discussion.) The GOP was perfectly clear about its priorities from the day he took office. They wanted to oppose him on everything no matter what. Instead of taking them at their word, Obama decided to believe in the better angels of their nature and that's been his biggest mistake.