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Monki takes a BIG RIG to ELECTION DAY!!!

first by Cedar_Room	Mar 11th, 2007 08:42:05 AM
i will never watch this film, just wanted to post FIRST.
Cedar_Room by Celtican	Mar 11th, 2007 09:35:05 AM
Well done for posting first, you must be very proud at such a huge achievement.
If highways are America's veins... by JimBobCooter	Mar 11th, 2007 09:53:37 AM
And Big Rigs are the White Blood Cells... Then Flames on Optimus=AIDS. Think about it.
what happens? by rdsxfan8	Mar 11th, 2007 12:46:44 PM
what happens to many of the films at sxsw that arent picked up by major distributors? are they usually available for most people to see in some form. Im always up for a good documentary and I liked scratch so i would be willing to give big rig a try but i live all the flippin way on the east coast and have no wa of ever making it out to texas or colorado for any film festivals.
Ah Yes, Katy Chevigny by msspurlock	Mar 11th, 2007 05:21:24 PM
Michael Moore, Leni Riefenstahl and Morgan. How balanced and logical their works are. Like Triumph of the Will.
Last Mimzy sneak yesterday by Trader Groucho 2	Mar 11th, 2007 06:32:51 PM
Where's the talkback for this science fiction piece? BTW it's a great kids movie, but not quite in ET territory for adults.
Not that this talkback should descend yet into another by Trader Groucho 2	Mar 11th, 2007 06:41:04 PM
2004 post-mortum, but through extremely partisan secretaries of state in a number of states suppressing the vote by frakking with voter rolls, providing insufficient, inadequate, and ill-stocked voting places, and generally being anti-democratic (as in democracy, not just the other party), Bush effectively hijacked the 2004 election as well. That being said, John Kerry took it like an amoeba.
BIG LEG and ERECTION by iwontwin	Mar 11th, 2007 08:58:08 PM
I swear this was another 300 post.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Mar 12th, 2007 02:31:09 AM
Damn you Michael Bay
BringingSexyBack is gay by NachoNegro	Mar 12th, 2007 03:02:14 AM
In fact he has been in a relationship with a 235lb Mexican named Jose for the last 3 years. I would be very interested to hear his viewpoint on homosexual marriage.
"instead they have found a movie that reveals the heart by half vader	Mar 12th, 2007 03:14:15 AM
of America lies on the roads that keep it together". Jesus Monki, if it's not bad enough you usually regurgitate the blurbs from game press kits, now you're doing it with movies? Blecch! I sure hope the movie isn't as cheesy and melodromatic as your review, 'cause it does seem interesting despite your obvious analogies. Yeah that's harsh, but if it's worth posting it's worth checking to see whether you wrote a pile of saccharine shit or not. Fair? THIS SUMMER... Monki - for everybody who ever dared to dream (to the sounds of Solsbury Hill, naturally).
Comedian Richard Jeni shoots himself by Orionsangels	Mar 12th, 2007 03:53:32 AM
http://tinyurl.com/2hogm7
Kerry Lost in 2004. Period. by kevinwillis.net	Mar 12th, 2007 05:18:42 AM
End of sentence. Mondale lost in 1984. Dukaks lost in 1988. The elections were not "stolen" and the voters were not "oppressed", the candidates lost the elections and the other candidates one. In 2006, the Republicans didn't lose the house and senate in one swell foop because of Democratic dirty tricks or even the ballot-box-stuffing-and-bribin g-homeless-people-to-cast-frau dulent-balance-with-cigarettes , a favorite tactic of Democratic activists. The Republicans lost because . . . the Republicans lost. More specifically, each candidate lost their respective races. Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote to either Republican dirty tricks or the luck of the draw, depending on your love of conspiracies, but the reality is if Gore had been able to, say, carry his own state, the Florida aftermath would have been moot and we'd be ending our second term with an embattled president Gore, under attack by Republicans who wanted more shock and awe in the War on Global Warming Deniers.
Bush Senior Lost in 1992 . . . by kevinwillis.net	Mar 12th, 2007 05:24:32 AM
Perot queered the election, and if Perot hadn't been running it's almost sure the incumbent would have won, even against the dashing Bill Clinton. Any objective study of state by state results indicate with very little doubt that, without Perot in the race, Bill Clinton would have lost in 1992. But you know what? He was in the race, that's how the process works, and Bush lost. Period. Perot didn't "steal" the election, and neither did Larry King or all the media pundits who lavished attention on him with the same fervor they tried to drive Nader out of the race in 2000. But Bush lost. Clinton won. Period. End of story. Dole lost in 1996. Period. Kerry lost in 2004. Period. Folks who think that their candidates should always win and they other candidates should always lose, and that any time that their candidate loses the election was "stolen", are, in fact, the folks who are anti-democratic. You aren't talking about a democracy when your candidates can never lose an election. And either the Republicans lost in 2006 and Bush won in 2004, or Bush stole the election in 2004 and the Democrats stole the election(s) in 2006. And elections are just about who is the better theif at the time.
No... by Harry Weinstein	Mar 12th, 2007 11:23:04 AM
...it's the people who say that elections aren't stolen in the face of volumes of evidence that they were stolen who are un-American. I don't care who did the stealing. In 2000 and 2004 it was the Republicans. Other times in the past, distant and not-so-distant, it was the Democrats. It's never justifiable, and should be punishable with heavy jail time (think decades with no parole) for all involved. There's no credibility whatsoever to the Republican victory in Ohio in 2004. Common sense ought to tell you that bad things are bound to happen when the campaign manager for one side (again, doesn't matter which) is in charge of counting the votes. That's like a football game with the Giants and the Cowboys, where the coach of the Cowboys is also the referee. What the fuck would any sane person expect to happen in a situation like that? If a country we didn't like had an election like our 2004 one, we'd probably invade them or at least discretely stage a coup. But the same metrics that we use to judge the validity of other people's elections apparently don't apply to our own.
No... by Harry Weinstein	Mar 12th, 2007 11:23:06 AM
...it's the people who say that elections aren't stolen in the face of volumes of evidence that they were stolen who are un-American. I don't care who did the stealing. In 2000 and 2004 it was the Republicans. Other times in the past, distant and not-so-distant, it was the Democrats. It's never justifiable, and should be punishable with heavy jail time (think decades with no parole) for all involved. There's no credibility whatsoever to the Republican victory in Ohio in 2004. Common sense ought to tell you that bad things are bound to happen when the campaign manager for one side (again, doesn't matter which) is in charge of counting the votes. That's like a football game with the Giants and the Cowboys, where the coach of the Cowboys is also the referee. What the fuck would any sane person expect to happen in a situation like that? If a country we didn't like had an election like our 2004 one, we'd probably invade them or at least discretely stage a coup. But the same metrics that we use to judge the validity of other people's elections apparently don't apply to our own.
Pizza! Pizza! by Harry Weinstein	Mar 12th, 2007 11:25:21 AM
We we double double post post for for you you so so you you don't don't have have to to.
Harry Weinstein: Yes . . . by kevinwillis.net	Mar 12th, 2007 05:35:18 PM
The people who say that elections weren't stolen, despite facing volumes of fantasy, conspiracy theorists, black-helicopter types, alien-abduction stories are . . . thinking for themselves, rather than being swept up in conspiratorial nonsense. If that's un-American, then color me un-American. Even John Kerry didn't see enough evidence of election fraud to demand a recount. The Ohio recount was by the Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates. And, after the recount, Bush still one Ohio by 118,457 votes. BTW, Blackwell was the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio, not Bush's campaign manager, in Ohio or generally. Without getting into all the details of the Ohio aftermath, I see a lot of hyperbole but very little evidence of electoral theft. Which, despite the presence of Blackwell, would still have been extremely difficult, as he would hardly have been able to act alone--or without the tacit cooperation of non-Republicans and non-Blackwell cronies--making an actual election theft extraordinarily difficult. Most of the Ohio stuff seems to be a case of people saying, essentially, "where other people say there is smoke, even though I haven't seen the smoke myself, there must be fire". I'm not for election theft, I just don't think it happened in 2004. Or 2006. I thing the volumes of "evidence" are not evidence in any real way. Not that isolated activists on both sides don't attempt to stuff ballot boxes or bribe constituents in every election cycle, they usually get caught and, if their chicanery turns the election, there are a lot of challenges.

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