I'm really not trying to get on you Base, but you have some very unusual concepts and ideas. Whose Administration is it...Bush's right? It's called the Bush Administration. He has responsibility to oversee things and he -is- responsible. This is not a fight over Dems and Reps. This is a fight of Politicians vs the Constitution of the United States of America. This is about the loss of personal freedoms in the attempts to make 'big government' where it is not meant to be so. If people want government to help with medical insurance, sure. We can take that even if some people don't like it. If people want support with Medicare, Medicaid, HEAP for electricity assistance, Welfare, Unemployment, Social Security, Public Education, etc, we can deal with it. Really, who even cares if someone is a Dem or Rep anymore? I personally vote for whoever matches the platform I want to see achieved, or what can be closest to it. Our views will differ on what we want to see done with this country but hey, that's what elections are about any way. So why do people see the Reps as being too powerful and doing stupid things...? The Patriot Act and other such acts that have been instilled by the Bush Administration and this new one are all taking away personal freedoms that threaten the core of the American people as a free people. Bush -signed- them and put them into function. You may think Bush is hunky dory. However, I don't care -who- is sitting there signing off on these things; the person is corrupt and twisting the very foundations of this country around to take away our liberty and rights. We are multi-cultural. We are not meant to be spied upon or have our homes be broken into in this manner. Had Bush or Clinton (who was given some info but later Bush was given more in detail) actually -acted- on the terrorist planned attack of 9/11 with the information the CIA gave over, well, there wouldn't have even been a 9/11 and no reason for the Patriot Act or going to a stupid war. Those behind the scheme were mostly people who were in pilot schools and their visas to even be in this country were expired. Bush could have deported them and walla, plan over. Instead, the inaction has caused us to be prisoners in our own country, we are involved in a war in Iraq we had no rights to go to, no matter how despicable Hussein was, and we are tons of billions of dollars in debt. He has used the Federal Reserve to also give people 'tax relief' which is nice for a moment but we owe that money back, don't we? We are going to -have- to raise taxes to take care of the war bills AND the money he has given out in an attempt to circulate business. It was -stupid-. Using the federal reserve as he has done is just poor money management and people out here who go and use a credit card and owe interest may have had some fun with money but it comes back to bite them in the ass. We are going to feel the worst of it and it is killing our economy already. Whether McCain or Obama get the Presidency, in the end, people are left with an awful mess to fix up and we are all going to have to buckle down and see the reality that our system needs repaired. We also can't afford to be losing our freedoms so we become an even more miserable people as we have to fix our national debt. This is the downfall of having the Fed Reserve and Bush abused the hell out of it as if he were a kid in Toys R Us and told he can put anything he wants on the card. We ALL have to take care of this so why should we also now live with the fact that government people can invade the privacy of people's homes and tap any of us for phone convos etc whenever they feel like it? It is Muslims now and I'm sorry but there are -many- Muslim citizens in this country that are Americans. We are all Americans here in America. They have rights just as any of us do. Maybe if Bush had paid attention to the CIA in the first place, 9/11 wouldn't have happened and we wouldn't have ticked off so many radical terrorist organizations, hmm? As for your Free Masons thing on the people who signed the Declaration of Independence etc... many of the people who signed it were Deists. This means that they believe in God but discount much of the Bible and believe that God does not interfere in people's lives. George Washington's 'prayers in winter' crap is a fictitious thing just as is the cutting down the cherry tree deal. It has been proven and it is nothing but rumor because Washington did not believe God would do anything and the affairs of men were left up to men. Thomas Jefferson was also a Deist and the first person to open up a public school that was not funded by a religion. It's not Free Masons we are talking about here, though yes, they also had an impact. There were people that were more religious but the point of this is that the Constitution was meant to be religion free so that all people could have rights regardless of what they believed because the people there themselves were not all of the same faiths and realized for peace to happen, respect of that would have to be acknowledged. Also, no one wanted the crimes of religion to come to the U.S. as it had plagued much of Europe and Russia etc. Logic is the reason that religion was intentionally said to be separate from State. Also, I am very confused why you are acting like Catholics are now martyrs and have not done some of the most heinous crimes around. Protestants aren't innocent either. It is a known fact that Martin Luther was a bigot and hated Jews and Protestant religion along with Catholic religion has spawned off battles, murdered people under 'witchcraft' rights, purged Muslims and Jews from homes etc, and done so many crimes we could go on and on. Needless to say, not -all- Catholics and Protestants are bad people, and I feel confident to say most of them are decent people since I know quite a few and they seem pretty cool to me. But leaders corrupt religion to do what they want it to and some darn well believe they are within rights to. After all, the Bible is chocked full of pointless wars where the right to murder, rape, kill men and children, kidnap and claim virgins of the places they attacked, slavery and other things in God's name. This is why many Christians gloss over the Old Testament and also some of the New Testament and haven't even read the whole thing. Others who have read the whole thing and still believe in God have definitely defined what they believe in and what they believe is man influenced. Thomas Jefferson, who was a Deist, took the New Testament and rewrote what he figured were good standards to live by and influencing and removed all the bad he disagreed with as his own personal Bible and it was a rather small book. The point of me rambling on here is to say that this country NEVER had intended until the 1950s where we apparently lacked God, to put Church and State together. There are way too many crimes that are very heinous because of it. Catholics aren't in any more danger than any other religion or lack of religion. They've gone on strong and it is -not- Democrats that are the enemy of Catholicism. How about the parents who had kids that were molested by priests? You don't think all those Republican Conservative parents were happy to find out what they did? Had the church not tried to bury the incident and put these people up to the law as you do with any other criminal, this would not be happening. Catholic religion has a bad name as does Martin Luther and some Protestant groups because they get involved in the wrong stuff. Is it dooming the religion? I would say not. There are still many functions the Catholic churches do. If anything the incidences have made the Catholic Church more 'humane' and realizing that they are responsible for their people too that work for them. People have seen the changes and it is a -good- thing. This is why it even has followers still. Without seeing those efforts made by the Church, many people would have said 'screw this'. The Pope would have no real power or influence anymore and we see that he obviously still does across the globe. So, can you please stop with the martyr card already? If anything in the last couple/few years, the Catholic Church has been left alone because they aren't doing anything so radical as say the Evangelical Protestants. Most Catholics I know are generally pretty calm and tolerant of other people and I've even gone in the church with my grandmother on occasion and some friends and despite me saying I was Atheist, they accepted my help to do projects etc with no bias and didn't harass me to join their religion etc. So in truth, I see the changes to the Catholic Church as a positive and they needed the eye opener. It's made them better and more benevolent, even if I still disagree on their policies of not getting divorces, birth control, etc. At least they are more accepting. And to say in closing, you have been going on about how you are feeling against the wall because you are a Republican/Catholic. How do you think Muslim people who are citizens here feel about the signing of this bill? Some have lived here for several years and have parents, grandparents etc that came to this country just like anyone else. How do you think other Americans will feel having their rights violated because they hang out with some Muslims? Also, what can be taken as a 'terrorist' act to draw suspicion to use this bill? It really depends, doesn't it? The 'woe is me alone against the world' deal is just wrong. Right now any American should be saying 'woe is we the people' instead.
The 25th Amendment is where if a President becomes ill, disabled or dies the VP can assume the position of power of Presidency.
OOC: that has been the point all along and Pika, you should present it since it's your case versus Janexna. ICSP and I are going to have fun warring over Axel. I'll agree to that from now on we just call a break of some sort IC and talk to the Judge if need be to present both sides and let the Judge decide. If it works, then good. no more arguing and driving me insane, let alone the rest of the room.
BaseSebastion, please chill out. No one even brought up all this Republican vs Democrat stuff until you voiced it so strongly it merited a refuting. Let alone the religious mumbo jumbo. You also are forgetting a great many things here. One Nation Under God was added in the 1950s. It was never there prior despite the fact a Christian wrote the Pledge of Allegiance. We were just fine without it for years because this nation was never meant to be 'under God'. It was meant to be for the people by the people. WE the PEOPLE. Your argument here is redundant and really didn't need even brought up. Also, we could go into the long wars caused by Christianity, whether Protestant or Catholic but this is hardly the topic for it. As for saying Obama would have people put their hands over their hearts during the pledge of allegiance...uh, why would he care? Even so, I've always said the pledge of allegiance with my hand over my heart before I became a soldier and afterwards, I now do that or salute the flag as is the protocol. You really have a bias towards Democrats here that is worse than many people care about Republicans. Seriously, stop being so defensive that you have to pronounce you are a Catholic and a Republican. No one really cares as much as you make it out to be. You act like a victim that is trying to fight back and really you are fighting shadows. I've heard this sort of talk from Baby Boomers and people that also insist that Obama is a Muslim etc and that they can't be under a president who is black. Oh noes! Anyone with half a brain knows that the Dems and Reps have been corporate bought out for some time any way. Both have faults. When voting, just go for the platform you like best already. Last election, because both Dems and Reps sucked, I voted for Ralph Nader. You go for who makes sense to you. Screw the party crap and devotion to it. No one -owes- the party jack crap. There are many Catholics who vote Dem so really don't bother bringing religion into it either. Also, you have heard of the 'melting pot' of America, haven't you? This country was founded on immigrants and people from all over as well as the integration of the native peoples. Spanish IS the second most spoken language in the U.S. You are insulting immigrants everywhere including your ancestors if you think that they don't have rights etc and we should not accept the fact we are a multi-cultural nation. You seem afraid to adapt and change to make things better and that is usually an 'old peoples' syndrome'. If we don't change though, obviously we are going to falter and plummet. However, the constitution in itself is our backbone. It was written very well and it can hold up to many things. The right to go in someone's place without a warrant is VERY wrong to grant to the government. And yes, the only reason this is even being made possible is because of our hypothetical 'War on Terror' and the fact Bush seems to want us to feel safer by taking our very rights away from us. Just because your Italian grandfather made a rule of speaking -no- Italian because he is in America now, doesn't mean anything. This country IS a place where multiple people from everywhere came to. Why shouldn't they speak what they want as long as they can also speak some English and get by? His choice was his own. Let other people have theirs. The point of coming to America was that they would not have to give up their whole cultural identity in the first place and yet have more freedom and earn potentially more money etc. I don't care if someone is a Dem or Rep. I DO care that our Constitution is being defiled in the name of 'safety' and people are gullible and falling for it. I do care that Huckabee, a Republican religious nutjob, wants to 'put God in the Constitution' and this was his nutty platform. I -do- care that anyone would think they have a right to violate the sacred trust that this government was built for us by us. 'We the people' should mean something and we don't need morons thinking they can break and enter into your home without a warrant just because they suspect terrorism. Muslims ARE citizens here too. And if this clears, where does the line stop? First it's with Muslims and those suspected of Terrorism. Next it goes to anywhere else that is convenient to feed people a bunch of lies. Terrorist acts are going to happen. I refuse to live my life in fear of them. Many Americans feel the same way that the price of losing our personal freedoms is NOT a solution. The Constitution is written extremely well and very little of it cannot be used today. It gives us freedoms, the right to defend ourselves, free speech, free religion or lack thereof, etc. If it is a Republican making stupid decisions, which Bush has made numerous ones and been backed by both Dems and Reps, all I have to say is that the PERSON takes the blame. He is an idiot, evangelical cowboy that has taken on more than he can chew in the name of his God and the all mighty oil corporations. 9/11 had a great chance of being diverted if either Clinton or Bush would have done -anything- and taken it more seriously. Clinton chose not to do a thing as his term was coming to an end even though the students were reported to him by the CIA. Bush chose to not do a darn thing at all even when the danger was escalating and there was more proof there was a danger. Many people have even theorized that Bush obviously wanted this to happen to be able to get people to go to war with Iraq etc. The point here is that if Bush was so worried about our safety, he sure didn't do jack crap about it back then which all that had to be done was -arrest a group of people- known to exist and that were here illegally since their passports expired. Deport them or whatever. Who cared? At least then we wouldn't have this mass hysteria, a few thousand people would have lived and NY wouldn't have a mess sitting there where the twin towers was. I live in NY. It sucks. Bush simply needs to be out of office and it is a big shame that he can't get impeached in time to stop anymore stupid things he could do. The one thing I would vote for Obama for is the fact he has said that he will help undo the restrictions placed by Bush that make us live with this 'protection' crap that means nothing and takes away freedoms. This law can become very skewed. First it's the right to invade a home suspected of terrorism without a warrant. Next it'll be you downloaded an MP3 illegally so RIAA can take it's cronies and get you. This is a -very- stupid law and sugar coating it doesn't change the fact. Whether Rep or Dem or whatever, anyone with a brain should hate this law. Amen.
I am telling you that you are basically saying -you- won't vote for Obama because you don't want him to die and it's all some sympathy maneuver. You also state you don't agree with his platforms and probably therefore are Republican. So...why bother saying the first part? If you agree with McCain's stances, that should be your validation on who to vote for. McCain could be as easily shot as Obama. All some fanatic psychopath out for a name for himself has to do is go '4 more years of Bush??? OH feck that!' Hillary could be shot because she's a woman that also has conspiracies under her belt and has done some rotten politics and someone is sore over Obama losing. Get the point? Any of the candidates could be shot. Any President is in danger. The job is what it is and it comes with a nasty note to realize your life is in danger the moment you take that oath. There probably isn't a president of the past that hasn't been challenged or threatened in such a manner. That's why they have secret service people. This is why I'm telling you, vote for who you want and don't make a 'reason' that is irrelevant and a choice out of fear. You seemed you were going to vote for McCain anyway so why does it matter to you? The moment Obama, McCain or Hillary chose to put their names in for the bid was the time they all admitted that their lives could be threatened. They accept it and so should you.
OOC: It -could- work hypothetically with a neutral judge that actually takes in the stuff seriously and I don't know if Zack is the right person for it. Erkz would have been fine and ICSP's choice for the new judge would have worked because they were seen as more neutral (though the new judge wasn't named, I know who would have played the judge and it was an excellent choice). I suppose though if people believe Zack can handle it, that would be fine but it means that ICly there will still have to be breaks and also there will be a toss out of things that cannot be brought up because how do you 'compromise' and make something out of 'game mechanics count' or 'novel scenario counts' ...or not. It's either one way or the other because otherwise it bends the truth of the situation as to what is admissible in court because it's done IC. Also, I did boot up the game and play it and the water creature that hit Sora who I just had standing still did damage to Sora. So, I'm not quite seeing how what I said would not have been accurate. Ah, well though.
KH3 probably will be announced in 2009 or 2010. When it will actually come out, though Nomura has hinted it's being thought on, is unknown. However, by then, the PS2 will be rather obsolete and you will have to have one of the newer consoles. I think i will most likely be on PS3 but there's no absolute way to be sure. Needless to say it definitely won't be on a handheld console.
This topic has already been made and is chatted on in two other areas here so I am going to close it.
The very reason Obama should continue pressing forward for the Presidency is because of idiots like what you speak of. Many people like me are very sick of the biases between 'races' that are only real in the mind of humans that decide to 'class' things redundantly and idiotically. If you don't like Obama's views, don't vote for him. If you do like his views, you vote for him. These sidetrack issues are simply meant to skew the point of the election in the first place. If he gets shot, he won't be the first President to have that happen to him. You mention JFK but also Reagan and Lincoln, etc. Any president can be in danger due to their stances and the fact it is a person that has a natural bullseye on him or her automatically. ANY government leader can be in danger by extremist morons. That's why presidents have guards and other leaders do too. Anyone who wants the job to be president should not be hindered because some people 'fear he would be shot'. The position in itself merits that there are wackos out there who want you dead. How many times do you think Bush has been threatened that we don't hear about? I don't know about you, but I live in a world without fear. Any man or woman willing to take the seat of Prime Minister or President etc has also determined that he/she lives with the knowledge that the life they lead is going to be changed indefinitely. It may also be cut short. Stop selling candidates short by coming up with lame excuses to not vote for them. 'Because he's black and Martin Luther King got shot' is not a reason to not vote for someone. You vote for McCain because in the end you like his stances more. This other stuff is made up irrelevant emotions talking to give yet another reason to not vote for a candidate. Really in the end, you are being just as hypocritical to say you would not vote for someone because he/she may get shot, as the person who would go do the shooting. Think about it. You slow progress and let racism continue by such statements and feelings. So, maybe he will be shot. Maybe not. I will definitely watch him on television as I have every other President I can remember seeing. The motive for shooting him would be some psychopath wants some fame and is delusional, giving himself a reason.
I think we all can agree that 4kids sucks and ruins nearly anything they touch. Not much we can do about it though unless some of these other companies start stepping up. At least though we do still have subbed versions we can check to see how bad 4kids rapes the show.
OOC: It isn't unfathomable due to the very reason you give. This is a forum and I'd like to have my friends and not argue over stupid things or be misinterpreted constantly. Most people will come together and hatch out a mutual agreement but you seem allergic to the word 'compromise', TN. No offense, but really, you are hard set and won't work out things unless it blows up and I'm frankly tired of it. A husband and wife LIVE on the word compromise, so if we wanna go there, yeah...if they did not there'd be a divorce. ICSP won't make a decision either because I think he has a hard time being impartial because he really gets into his characters. Pika has a hard time of it too, so often it falls on you and me OOCly as much as it can ICly. You bring up that it should be kept ICly. The point here is that if we went by IC, you would be -very wrong- as the game mechanics cannot just be tossed out and -do matter-. You want it gone and to assume that Sora just figured he should do something, but the reality IS that he had no choice because of a time limit and he was blocked. Otherwise, if he loses he has to repeat the crap over and over. So, do you even see why it can't be done or the defense should by any reason lose the debate? This is why I brought up compromise between you and Pika, to say that the shield and time limit wouldn't be counted BUT the creatures were there and would attack. He agreed despite the fact it weakens his position some and Harvey's. It doesn't change the charge Demyx gets but it makes sense to add it because then it cancels out the game mechanics but doesn't play down on them. It is the most -non-biased- way to look at it and yet you still refuse it and won't let something rest that benefits both parties and moves us along. So, why quit? Because if a point is made that needs to be mutually agreed on and yet it cannot be and we just blow up into another stupid argument, people get frustrated, you and me included. I am tired of no compromise situations without threats and yes, anything else CAN and should be debated IC. I TOTALLY agree with you there. When it comes to game mechanics or asking if a novel scene should be used because it fills in blanks for characters, that just has to come out OOC or else we will have lawyers IC saying "That didn't happen because it's in the novel." or "This happened because the game mechanics refuse to let you do anything a different way." Get my point here? It sounds rather stupid for lawyers of a sort of 'real life' scenario for the canon characters to say 'the novel they are in', or 'the game they are in does this thing' and then be at odds with each other and then our little OOC comments come up of 'wtf, you can't go with that' stuff happens. You and I should be working -together- OOCly. We could solve this crap that rises up from any of us if we'd just sit there and take it to PM and go over what Pika or ICSP or DF, or you or I point out is a problem and hatch it out there instead of doing our usual OOC comments that start stuff. We could then present the proposed solution to others and let them resolve it. There isn't a problem out there we probably couldn't solve and make everyone happy IF we'd stop thinking we are on opposite sides OOCly when it should all be IC. Otherwise, since you are the dominant presence in the room with no one but me who will debate with you, you are going to have to get a 'yes man' to just nod and say whatever you say is the way. I need the counterbalance and so do you, TN. Our debates are for reasons. It's not the debate issues that are bad but how we handle them. I'm not going to though waste my time anymore because this IS a forums for fun and I'm not leaving the forums. If I know in my nature I'm not going to just bow down and people are obviously sick of us being this stupid, the logical choices aren't many. It's hardly ridiculous.
Maybe people could even use the Spam Zone to comment on the stories and that would solve the issue. Some of us already do that any way.
OOC: I've been trying to think how to word this. Pyro, you are right and the arguments have to stop. I'm one of the main contributors to it, along with TN, and really I'm rather sick of it and see no way around the problem but to leave so that things go on. I can't change my nature and wouldn't dream of telling others to. The problem is that the integrity of the RP rests on -evidence-. The evidence has to be mutually agreed upon in circumstances or we get held up. I.e. in this case it is about whether Sora was trapped into fighting the water spirits or not. Game mechanically speaking, he definitely is because he can't get passed the point if he fails to do so. He can't leave, he has a time limit, there is a field there. If he fails he goes back to the save spot and has to keep doing it over and over. However, if he doesn't -hit- the water creatures and start off the battle, they just float around him, apparently. So, we come to the problem that how do we make it fair and not just have Sora 'assume' he had to do something, when in fact by game mechanics he definitely -had- to? As far as some are concerned, it's fine to make Sora 'think' he had to do something, but it doesn't really apply to the game itself. Others believe it should be accepted there was a time limit and field and if Sora failed he'd go KO'd and have to repeat. This is the situation and could easily be resolved if the stubborn factor would take a rest. We constantly come up with arguments like this that do not have to be so consuming or irritating. The only cure I see is if ICSP would just take a more active, impartial role as an OOC final judge on the matter, since we seem to be too obstinate to resolve the issue without acting lame, then it would be a final decree. I don't want to waste time arguing with people over stupid crap like this but the game itself is based on this critical evidence from the video game and also from the novels when they are used. Just raising the issues causes strife. Maybe someone else will just let things slide but I just cannot and so I am a part of the guilty party. This is the reason I am pulling out of the RP. Everyone wants to continue, so by all means it should be done. Since I am leaving, I won't be so inclined to care and argue points anymore of evidence so the RP should run more smoothly even if it is slanted. I'll just drop my side of this and go with TN's way and move on till someone else comes in and they will probably be more inclined to not waste your times. So, feel free to move the RP on and let's just drop this whole thing. ICSP, when you find a replacement, just PM me and I can move on out and let's not take anymore time OOCly here on this. If someone wants to PM me that's fine but the whole reason I am leaving is to keep the RP going, so let's just do that now.
You can be one or both, Marluxia. Up to you. I should have put like a 2 character minimum or something in the top area so that we don't get too bogged down but at the same time there's an option to play an additional character if one is kind of busy.
Quite a few writers there like to have the comments done so they can see what people think and all. Some writers who don't could just type in 'please do not comment here and PM me with suggestions or opinions' and then if someone does still post there, could probably get an admin/mod to delete those posts. I do see why you are asking for an alternate area in CC to be made so that comments can be done elsewhere and the stories themselves are untampered with and easy to read for those perusing them. PM seems the only way unless the suggestion for a sub-forum would go over. I'm not sure right now how I feel about it so will leave that alone for a bit and ponder on it. I could go either way at the time.
OOC: After some consideration, and to not keep breaking into dumb arguments all the time and slowing the game, I've decided I'm going to resign. Basically, I'll remain until you get someone to do the prosecution and take the place of Sora, Riku and Repliku (who probably isn't necessary any way). That way the flow of the game can continue and I can just slip Harvey out so another prosecutor can join in, much as we've seemingly been doing with judges any way. I do hope the game will continue and want to see how it turns out, because it is a cool thing and has really come a long way. So as said, I'll stay until you guys find a replacement, which shouldn't take long, so that it will go on, unhindered. I'm not doing this to kill the game or for drama so let's just go with this peacefully so fun can still be had.
This is really coming along great! Very funny! And yet serious too. Good stuff.
If I knew the girl was being truthful I'd choose the little girl. I can always find another girlfriend and giving a threat like that shows the person doesn't care about anyone but herself. If someone is suffering and I could help, that's what I'm going to do and I would want a girlfriend that felt the same way and would do the right thing.
Of course the press is biased and not very fair at times. Also, I don't get how you think Fox News is uh...reliable in any fashion sense of the word. They have told outright -lies- to people and also think it's appropriate to say things like 'terrorist fist jabs' and to report catastrophes, politics, etc in such a slanted point of view it is just nuts. Their motto of 'we report, you decide' is full of crap. Fox News is absolutely the worst news media out there and the only thing worse I could compare it to is by going to magazines like Enquirer or World Weekly News. The only news I really pay attention to is BBC, some CNN, Reuters, and other news that is from around the globe so I can research and try to get the most accurate news. Hell, the Daily Show has more news on it that is accurate and it's supposed to be a comedy show. The media can be very biased, despite trying to say they report neutrally. Also, Catholicism was hit not just because of the priests, but because it did -nothing- to report these people to the police so that charges could be assessed. That is very wrong. Do I think it should make the church go down though? No, but I do believe that criminals, whether in a religion or not, are punishable by the law. They should be held accountable and sitting in jail and not just 'let go' from the Catholic Church, or have the crime covered up. All of the candidates running for president have received a lot of bashing. McCain has hardly been touched though in comparison to what was done to both Hillary and Obama. He now gets it because more attention can be focused on him now that the Democrats are done with their war. And well, it's fair considering how badly people still bash Obama and Hillary, especially now that Hillary is out of the race. Celebs do get bothered a lot by the media which causes some to go nutty. The Enquirer is so full of lies and the paparazzi won't leave them alone so they can get pictures cheaply and make a great profit off it because celeb lifestyles sells on the stands. We get a very fictional view of what the reality is whenever we look at the idiocy in magazines. Some people really do have fantasies in their heads, such as the Queen Latifah thing and make it a reality by making the story 'real'. It's stupid but there are people out there that believe that any two people that hang out with each other anymore must be in a relationship, whether they are with someone of the opposite gender or the same gender anymore. Celebs have had to accept the lies and some anymore just laugh at it all. In the end, it sucks. Journalism has fallen considerably but then again, there have always been journalists that cater to certain things and bring out their biased opinions and try to present it as fact. They do need more finger pointings and accusations flung their way and as far as we are concerned, the best advice for getting the real news is to shop around and don't listen to just what one place tells you. We have the internet and it's a great resource to get news from. Also, if you think it's bad being Catholic, try being Atheist and Fox News and other stations interview Atheists just to put them down and say they believe in God there's nothing the person can do about it blah blah, when they should be interviewing the person's book or what they think. Also try understanding that Catholics have never been told that they shouldn't be considered American citizens by the president and having some medias agree. You have it easy, BaseSebastion.
Ah that. Teaches me to pay attention...to not pay attention. One of those two.
