The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Okay finally tracked down bowling for columbine, simply wow. I am amazed, no movie has really ever made me think, or touch on things i have notice myself, very good movie, worthy to buy on DVD when it comes out. wow</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I just hope that after it comes out on video it'll pull a Spaceballs and everyone will see it. Just no theatres showing it (for obvious reasons)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>His book "Stupid White Men" is pretty good too.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Derithians staunch Republican Grandfather didn't find it so amusing when I quoted from it, I wonder why?</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>What the hell are you saying to my granpapy.......are you trying to kill the guy.....</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Hell no, I love the guy. I just opened my big fat mouth before I remembered that he and mousey are such old guard republicans.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>he's mega pro-choice though so he is liberal on one thing</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Neat...goes to show that you can't lump everybody into Democrat or Republican any more.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If the American masses thought that way, maybe Nader would actually be challenging for the Presidency...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I wish. Everybody thought Nader was better than the other two, but they didn't bother voting for him.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't think you've ever been able to. But our options are discrete, so our choices are too.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>actually I though he was a prick and woudn't have voted for his ass</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>And you thought Bush or Gore were admirable human beings?</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>no but nader is a cockey son of a bitch and I hate him with a passion.....saw him speak here in eugene at the statrt of his campaign and decided I'd vote for bush before I voted for his bitch ass</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Look, they're all useless pions. VOte for Nader just because he's the only one who has a chance in hell of gaining any level of votes that matter. You guys BADLY need to break this two-party mentality</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Fuck the 2 party mentality....If I hate the guy I'm not gonna vote for him.....You know who I voted for? no one because I hated all of my choices</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Me too, but down there, you guys REALLY need a third major party...</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>did you even listen.....I don't care about a major third party.....He talked after the election of how he was glad he took votes from gore so gore lost because that shows a third part can have an effect........HE LOST HORRIBLY AND NOT ONLY THAT DIDN"T GET ENOUGH VOTES FOR GOVT FINANCING OF HIS CAMPA</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Gore didn't lose because of Nader. He lost because of the electorial college, and because Bush rigged the Florida election. Never forget that: Bush CHEATED to become president!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>The question is, "Can he do the job better than the other candidates?" I mean, are we so raised on the concept that a politician must be photogenic and personable to be effective that we totally forget that the most effective Presidents, Presidential candidates, and leaders we've ever had were the biggest assholes <I>because</I> they knew how much better they were than everybody else?

Whether you <I>like</I> a person should have absolutely no bearing on choosing a leader. Hell, I can put the nicest, most likeable person up in the President's office, but if he can't do the job, then screw him, no matter how many babies he kisses. I mean, shit, let's put Mickey Mouse up for President, everybody likes him! (Though personally, I'd choose Bugs because at least he knew how to fight back.) You look at the qualifications, you look at the past record, you grade the person on that, and that's it. What you see personality-wise should never count because politicians try to make themselves look friendly and personable anyways, and any reasonable voter would look past that facade and look at what they <I>do</I>, not what they say they do. Nader got to where we was by letting his actions speak for him; he's not a nice person - he doesn't have to be.

Bush, OTOH, has to be likeable and personable because he's a fucking tyrant and hypocrite.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Having Ned Jr. as a son could liberate some of his views I'll bet.</div>