lost highway

It is without a doubt classic hip hop. A great record. It is so dissapointing how he has never even scraped the heights he reached with Black on Both Sides. What happened? He did Black Star and that, and then the messy, promising/dissapointing New Danger. Didn't even bother with the latest after I read the reviews. Anyone heard it?

I will go on record saying that as an Obama supporter and enthusiast I find his unflinching support of Israel and aggressive leanings towards Iran to be rather discomforting. He still has nothing on McCain's blood lust, but it's one issue where I don't agree with Obama. Actually, it's the first I've found.

So....... uhhhh...... what's gonna happen in Iran?

I like when people say the same thing I feel, only smarter.

As I said to Beltmann: I absolutely relate to your decision and even admire it. My vote towards Nadar in 2000 is something I regret. I could see taking up the 3rd party effort again along side you one day, but first I need a little more peace and prosperity to fall back on here in the U.S. Godspeed!

And for this reason many people on Capitol Hill might celebrate your non-vote. edit: to JC4prez, but it looks funnier as a response to Speed Racer's idea of writing a note on the ballot....

In other news Karl Rove is now criticizing the McCain/Lipstick-Pitbull campaign: cnn:karl rove on the mccain campaign I hear O'Reily even backs Obama. Maybe the poles are gonna shift.

I'll buy it as soon as you can show me what politician or branch of the government is concerned that you didn't show up. What did that non-vote get done? What message did it send and who received it? It might mean something to you, but to the rest of the country and how it will be run you are invisible by choice.

I'll tell you how that message (the non-vote) is received: some jackass is gonna laugh all the way to the bank. Young people have been turning out in droves to not vote for all of the years I've been able to. There hasn't been a whole lot of politicians saying "Gosh, those idealistic kids ain't voting. Let's change the system!" The push for a third party is so tough. I admire your courage. I tossed a vote Nadar's way in 2000 and have regretted it since. I could see doing it again, but I need a little better political scenario, federally speaking before I want to work on the partisan

a quick aside: While I obviously take great issue with bobbob's political stance I must commend his character. He has patiently argued with a number of people on here telling him he's wrong and I haven't seen a cheap shot yet.

I hype up the rhetoric sometimes. But you are obviously engaged and passionate enough on the topic to discuss it at great length on this very board. It takes no fundamental certainty that a vote in either direction could effect a lot of things. This isn't vote for strawberry, or chocolate when you don't want a milkshake. Something is going to happen to a lot of people in this world as a result of everyone's vote or lack thereof. Abstaining from the vote isn't protest, it's silent acceptance.

Anyone who would abstain from a presidential vote in a two party system or a ten party system only because they feel the available choices don't accurately represent 'them as a person' is allowing ideology to be a stepping stone to apathy. Whether you are adequately represented as an individual, or not, their are two potential choices that will have a very different outcome. Everything I know tells me if I vote for McCain or even if I abstain from voting, I am just waiting for the poor to get poorer and a lot more people to die overseas. I have to resign myself to the fact that there isn

Yeah 'hip hop' agenda. Not a prayer. Some people are born to delegitimize their movement.

Absolutely. We've just been drumming up enemies a little fast for my world view.

Pakistan, Russia, Iran all someone has to do is get Kim Jong-Il out of the hospital and we could have WWIII. This one is the nuclear holocaust edition. So long world.

Here's a more optimistic spin on pragmatism: Don't vote for the lesser of evils. Vote for the greatest good. Ralph Nader and Ron Paul won't be a vote for the greatest good if they can't get in to office. Look into McCain's old caucasian hawk eyes when he talks about the military, that man can taste blood. Not the greatest good available to us.

The most glaring hitch in McCain's financial strategy is this: How does keeping both tax cuts, and aggressive military spending get the U.S. out of the biggest deficit of our lifetimes? Let's face it. Bush style foreign policy and military spending has gotten us half way up China's ass. One more person in office with the same strategy (in this respect McCain looks an awful lot like Bush) and we will be on our way to becoming a Chinese province.

I would argue that there is a rich variety of opinions regarding Latin American foreign policy coming from any U.S. citizen informed enough to care. If I gather anything from Pillowy Star's experience it is that there is no simple answer, neither a for it or against it, simple and clean enough to account for many of the latin American countries difficult positions. To the best of my knowledge, Bolivia doesn't have land that is inherently worthless. There seems to be some useful resource there and they are now trying to manage it in a way that can get a government off the ground. Really in

(post edit: this is response to jc4prez) Oooh this is getting good. You're smart, and that makes this so much more fun. This is a huge can of worms. My response on Cuba would be: Castro as both the stubborn bastard that refused to compromise at the cost of his nation's poor and starving, he also was the stubborn bastard who refused to compromise, very much to the benefit of his nation's poor and starving. Every before and after comparison I've read on Castro's Cuba shows an improvement in education and quality of life overall (with the same obvious exceptions regarding intolerance towar

The sanctions began as a knee jerk reaction. The U.S. and cronies thought they could stop Cuba's nationalization with a slap on the wrist, keeping Cuba as their bitch. Didn't work. I hear they're still not on speaking terms, but some Obama guy said he was willing to call and say hello.

1. Wilco is not alt-country. 2. It's about time Bolivia got it's oil supply feeding into it's own wallet. That's how Mexico pulled itself up a notch in the first half of the 20th century. 3. One can not believe anecdotal evidence against Chavez sitting in a country that created a covert op to topple him. 4. Castro was the best thing to happen to Cuban politics (a surprisingly modest achievement that doesn't negate some nasty human rights issues).

As this spins in it's third and fourth circle all I can think is: 1. Both parties need to keep all this tabloid stuff out, and keep focusing on what they can do for the country. Throwing around the term 'earmarks' doesn't do it for me. Check how many bills passed in the history of the U.S. had earmarks. 2. People need to ask themselves what McCain will do to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Why Iraq has a surplus. Why does the U.S. have a massive deficit? How will military aggression and keeping tax cuts get us out of deficit? How will staying at an atrocious deficit help keep us from

I like how Jules always seems calm. Every Jules post reads like Samual L. Jackson said it to me in his most mellow "Royale with Cheese" mode. It seems Obama's witty swipe at Palin is earning him some bad press. This is only gonna get weirder and weirder.

Yes and there are a number of choices, of ways to deal with that consequence. There is the 'morning after' pill. There is the most responsible and safe early term abortion. There is motherhood. There is the orphanage. Any one of these choices has a myriad of psychological, ethical, financial and emotional consequences. They are all ways of 'dealing' with the consequence. Anyone who does any of these things (perhaps with the exception of the morning after pill) will be 'dealing' with the consequences for a very long time. To suggest otherwise would be callous. Again, not the governmen

Watching Pat play the bass is like watching your dad drive your mom's car for the first time. It feels wrong at first, but then you stop and realize you always kind of knew he could do it well, if he needed to.