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Funny you say that...I was thinking of him specifically when I made the Idol reference

So, I know many of you feel like I do in that this site is great for talking about music. It's been a while since I really found a new act that I became attached to so quickly, so I wanted to share this with you guys to see if you felt the same way. It's pretty rare to see this much talent in a group of young people outside of American Idol, so I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy them as much as I did. Possibly *NSFW* due to a swear word or two. YouTube Linky

Thanks, guys....I really appreciate the responses here...these topics are very interesting to me, and I enjoy reading what you have to say about them.

I haven't picked up an album yet, so I guess I'd have to say no, it didn't really cause me to pick up their music. I really enjoyed the story, though.

It's the same way everyone rationalized the Trent Edwards situation. Yeah, Stanford sucked when he was there, but since his wideouts were awful and he was always running for his life behind a crappy O-line, the W-L record was overlooked. I know Trent wasn't a first rounder, but still....the example is the same. Trent didn't throw a lot of TDs in college, and he hasn't thrown a lot of them in the NFL either. So I agree....if you can't win at the college level, I don't see why all of a sudden you'll be a winner at the pro level.

After all the stuff I've read today, that wouldn't surprise me lol

That Anvil documentary was awesome!

I've had issues with fellow TBD'ers too at times...we all have. But it's not really cool to just blind side Tom or anyone else with such an out of context statement. Most of us don't know each other in person, but there are a lot of us who have been posting here and spending time with one another for many years, and we have established some sort of respect among our TBD peers. If you have some issue with Tom, then PM him or something...don't just post something inflammatory out of the blue and expect to not be taken to task on it.

There are a lot of things I enjoy debating, with Tom or anyone else, but this is all nothing but an education for me. One of the things I've always loved about this board is that a lot of people know a lot of stuff about a lot of things....everyone has an opinion....and the conversations are typically very interesting and entertaining. I've always enjoyed seeing what Tom and others have to say here, and I'll always feel that way.

That's typically the way I feel about it, too. It's just that things keep popping up that make me go wtf. For example, NORAD supposedly has a response time of ten mins to intercept (not necessarily engage, but intercept) any flight that does not adhere to its flight path or exhibits some other abnormality. Apparently on the morning of 9/11, NORAD was conducting a training drill that had it's fighters preoccupied in an exercise that was very similar to the events of the real attack. Not only was it odd that the exercise was so similar, but it was taking place at the exact same time that the planes were hitting the towers. So (apparently) the response time of the fighters to intercept went from 10 mins to over 80 mins, when it was too late to do anything. What really turned my wtf into a WTF! was when they said that the terrorist attacks in the London subway several years ago went down in the same way....they were conducting some sort of exercise that involved a pretend attack that mimicked the REAL attack that was taking place at the SAME TIME. How exactly is this possible? Maybe it is entirely coincidence, but it's certainly enough to give one pause, and it's hard to just dismiss this sort of thing when there is example after example. I'm just having a hard time reconciling this new info....it's a bit of overload.

Wow, I should have paid better attention in high school lol With regard to your last comment, the impression the film gave was that it's not the motives of the combatants, but the motives of some group of international bankers who pull strings and move people and governments around like chess pieces in order to maximize their own gains. I don't recall who it was attributed to (it's way past my bed time lol), but there was some quote along the lines of, "when one controls the wealth, it matters not who makes the laws"....something like that. They discuss how the "big plan" is to continue the dumbing down of society, to keep our minds consumed with entertainment and distraction, so that we're not asking too many questions or thinking too much about things. Now I've heard this sentiment many times before, but I guess this is the first time I'm sort of seeing the bigger picture....at least in the way it's being presented to me, not necessarily the way it actually is.

I wouldn't even know where to begin lol....I think what scared me the most was the parallels they drew among WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and 9/11. Specifically, the idea that the U-boat attack on the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin, and 9/11 were each either "false flag" events or in some way manufactured and carried out for the purpose of creating social cohesion and motivation for going into war. My family is full of veterans from every one of these conflicts, and to think that money, profit, and manipulation were at the heart of all of them is unfathomable to me.

Wasn't sure I wanted to start a new thread on this, but then I remembered the PPP forum and figured this would be a great place to talk about it. Pete, of TBD fame, posted in the 9/11 thread we currently have on Off the Wall and mentioned this film called "Zeitgeist". He didn't go into it much, but he mentioned it was available for viewing online for free. Well, since I was already in "conspiracy mode" with all this 9/11 stuff, I went ahead and found the site so that I could give this program a look. Well, I can't remember ever watching (or reading, etc) anything that shook my foundation on so many fronts. The 9/11 stuff was only part of it. I'm talking everything from Christianity, to income taxes, to the World Wars, to our borders and sovereignty, and on and on and on. I just finished watching it about ten minutes before I began this post, and I'm sitting here feeling a huge WTF in my stomach. It almost made me feel as if life as I know it is a total farce...like I'm in the damn Matrix or something. Have any of you guys seen this? I've seen conspiracy type stuff before, but I've never been left feeling quite like this. Here's the link in case anyone wants to watch it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197#

"Reasons why the Bills should select Clausen: The Bills haven't had a franchise QB in a long time, and Clausen could be the man. Most NFL first-round picks are gambles. Getting lucky on a QB would be hitting the jackpot." I heard that next week Bob Matthews is going to discuss the merits of why it's good to have a pulse.

The Jews are great at keeping secrets. IT'S JUST A JOKE!!! I SWEAR!!!!! JUST TRYING TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN HERE!!!!!

This is one of the sticking points for me...I still don't know what to make of this. http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/b7/index.html

I hate to admit this, cause I find it really hard to believe any of this "inside job" stuff....but I have spent a fair bit of time looking at the evidence presented by the conspiracy folks and some of it is hard to dismiss. As of now, I still don't believe for a second that our gov't was in the know, but part of me wonders if Bin Laden and his cronies were at the heart of it.

Congrats, WVU!!

Absolutely...this may sound like an odd comparison, but the last time I had a visceral reaction to a character every time they appeared on screen, I was five years old watching Darth Vader in Star Wars, lol. The guy was so amazing, it just made you feel uneasy every time he set foot on screen. I could have done without Brad Pitt, but I have to say that I loved the use of irony by QT in the scene where Landa attempts to discern if they are really Italians. That was the one scene where I really found myself laughing.

I know, and why is Renee all of a sudden in the Jack Bauer role with Jack just observing from a distance? He finally has someone who is willing to be as badass as he is, but all he wants to do is get her out from under cover. Jack needs to find his sack!

Gamer was AWFUL. I just watched it this past week. It made Surrogates look like an oscar worthy film.

This is one of those times where I'm almost embarrassed to be about the only one who laughed my arse off at something, lol. I saw that skit last night and I was rolling!