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You know the great thing about that statement is if you reverse the meaning it's still true.

There is a pretty big line between adultery and assault. Juanita Broadrick would like a word Hurlshot.

Sponge Bob is a terrible choice. He's easily manipulated, tends to go over WAY overboard on petty issues, has extreme emotional outbursts at unpredictable times, is generally incompetent, and is a weenie. He'd actually be worse than Hillary. Which is saying a lot. Trump would be the best choice of the three. Ah... Lyndon Johnson in square pants then. You're right. We need that like a hole in the head.

If he did he should probably break them in half tomorrow!

Now reading George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade. It's one of the source books that inspired the AMC show Turn. Also reading Lita Ford's memoir Living Like a Runaway. By reading I mean I bought it and looked at the pictures. I'll really get into it tonight.

Well I say Sponge Bob in '16.

I think most of the folks who are regulars on this board have been pretty honest about who they are. If our lives were lies we'd have thought of better ones!

Well the run 400-600 pages each in paperback. Five books. If you started now and read one page per day you might... might finish before book 6 comes out.

Lady Stoneheart.... ugh... that plotline is going nowhere fast. She ends up leading the Brotherhood Without Banners. I think she was a mistake by Martin. I'm suprised you've never read these books. You are a fan of the genre.

Volo has been around since the Bioware & Black Isle boards. He's the same guy now he's always been. Nothing wrong with that at all.

I'm surprised Hillary hasn't had him suicided yet: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEM_2016_SANDERS_INTERVIEW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-23-19-05-51

Hades/Sand/others, Gabirelle, Dark/Raven/a small army of others, Krezack/LoF/others, need I go on? Didn't all the first ones you mentioned admit to being alts? Krezack never came out as LoF as far as I know, so that's doubtful. What I really challenge are basically accusations of people being alts from LoF onwards. No he was. He forgot what name he was signed in under on time and posted... out of charachter shall we say?

@ SS you have just spent far more time worrying about this than it's worth. If you are an alt you'll reveal yourself in time. They always do. If you're not what do you care? If you enjoy the conversations here, keep posting. If you don't... don't. We don't roll out the welcome mat and we don't run folks off. If you have something to say, say it. We'll read it, Some responses might be less than courteous. That is how it goes. Don't ever take offense to words on a screen. You will be miserable all your life if that is where your threshold is. You'll hear a wider variation of opinions here than you'll get elsewhere. Most website forums tend to be monolithic in opinion I've found. Birds of a feather and all that. But not here. Now as for alts, spotting them is something of a sport around here. And it used to be so common I once joked there were only 10 actual people posting on this board. I always though it was just harmless sport but the mods will run someone off for that. So the only opinion that matters is theirs and they have ways of finding out. So go, or stay. But don't do the latter out of spite or the former out of offense.

Hades/Sand/others, Gabirelle, Dark/Raven/a small army of others, Krezack/LoF/others, need I go on?

The books are telling a much bigger story. There is a lot more detail, more characters, more subplots, etc. In the books the Dorne & Iron Island plotlines are important and MUCH more interesting. In the show Blackfyre Targayens were never mentioned, in the books they are becoming an important thing (or at least some strong hints are beting dropped.) In the books Sansa is in the Vale, Brienne is in the Riverlands, Varys is in King's Landing, Pycelle is dead, Kevan Lannister is dead, Barristan Selmy is alive. Melisandre is not at the wall so whatever happens with Jon will be different. His story is different too. It's a lot less of a surprise when his Brothers try to murder him. Brans storyline looks like it's going to be similar, only Jojen is still kicking. Stannis may or may not be alive. It's a good bet Ramsay did not write the "pink" letter to Jon because he referenced things Ramsay could not know. Ramsay is married to Jeyne Poole (who wasn't in the show) who is pretending to be Arya Stark. The Manderlys, Horwoods & half the Umbers are plotting against the Boltons and are looking for Rickon on Skagos. Hizdar zo Loraq is still alive and plotting as the King of Mereen. Dany's meeting with Drogon in Daznaks pit went down totally different (and less epic IMO). Her meeting with the Dothraki looks like it will go different because she knows the Khal who found her (one of Drogos men) and she had Drogon with her. Tyrion has had a much harder road and he hasn't met Dany yet. Looks like it's going to happen though. Arya never killed Maryn Trant but she did kill her assigned target and became "no one". There are other differences. Rob's wife was different. Cersi made a much bigger mess of things, Petyr is likely going to have Robun Arryn killed, etc. If the show followed the books exactly is would be a lot bigger. Probably too much so.

Not relevant to the flow of discussion but to answer the question asked in Mr. Hurlshot's history class I'm raising my hand: Carthage. Carthage was founded by phoencians fleeing the Greeks in Syracuse and later bolsterd by Trojans fleeing Troy. Both followed the classical greek religious ethos but it wasn't a big part of their culture as I understand it. During it's highpoint Carthage exclusively Zoroastrianisim but that was much later. And I didn't cheat by resorting to the internet! I was playing Rome TW2 yesterday, that is what made made think of it.

Great episode. Apparently D&D got Hodor's story from GRRM all the way back in the beginning. So that is one thing from the books that was spoiled by the show for sure. It hit me like a gut punch. The one recurring theme of the story is how the characters are undone by their flaws. But in this case Bran's flaws were suffered by others. It will be interesting to see what effect that has on his development.

You are JUST figuring this out? Jeez, another board member and I were discussing that very thing days ago by PM. We don't even have a "backstage pass"

Yeah, totally different from what the press said about Bush, about Reagan, or about Nixon. Not at all that the whole word 'Fascism' is starting to lose all meaning. The sad thing is once they start calling everything in opposition evil, how will everyone know real evil once it makes an appearence.

Oh they are definitely atheletes. I just can't believe there was ever a time I believed it wasn't a show.

My comment should not be construed as anything other than a repudiation of Robert Kagan's eliteist snobbery in that op-ed Bruce linked

I remember when I was a kid I got into an argument with my father when he told me professional wrestling wasn't real. That was pretty embarassing now that I look back on it. I could make a better case Santa Claus was real.

GD how much of this do you agree with "And the source of allegiance? We’re supposed to believe that Trump’s support stems from economic stagnation or dislocation. Maybe some of it does. But what Trump offers his followers are not economic remedies — his proposals change daily. What he offers is an attitude, an aura of crude strength and machismo, a boasting disrespect for the niceties of the democratic culture that he claims, and his followers believe, has produced national weakness and incompetence. His incoherent and contradictory utterances have one thing in common: They provoke and play on feelings of resentment and disdain, intermingled with bits of fear, hatred and anger. His public discourse consists of attacking or ridiculing a wide range of “others” — Muslims, Hispanics, women, Chinese, Mexicans, Europeans, Arabs, immigrants, refugees — whom he depicts either as threats or as objects of derision. His program, such as it is, consists chiefly of promises to get tough with foreigners and people of nonwhite complexion. He will deport them, bar them, get them to knuckle under, make them pay up or make them shut up. " It is arrogant in the extreme to convince yourself you know the mind and motivations of millions of people you have never met. It smacks of leftisim even though Kagan is by no means a left winger (yes Bruce I know who he is... I actally read the newspaper, several of them, everyday). It means he believes his political philosophy is so correct the only way this neophyte Trump could get so much support is by appealing to folks baser instincts and they are all such unsophisticated hayseed yahoos that they are suceptible to that. Now it may be many of them do. But if they are voting for Trump under the belief he's going to deport everyone not from " "round herya " they are going to be disappointed. Now he can and will I believe go back to actually prosecuting people who cross the border illegally, like the other 205 countries on the planet do and like we did before Barry O stopped doing that. That is not a bad thing IMO.

This is what I hate about the Washington Post. You can practicaly hear the contempt dripping from the writers words. Especially when he went out of his way to discuss the professions of the people in this piece. He is practially shouting "Who do these dirty peasants think they are?" http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/05/21/armed-with-guns-and-constitutions-the-patriot-movement-sees-america-under-threat/

Strawberries for breakfast!