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by CaptJodan
2015-05-23 10:24pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ireland votes to legalize gay marriage
Replies: 48
Views: 4931

Re: Ireland votes to legalize gay marriage

I only heard about this vote happening a few days ago. Have there been any interesting responses to the result from people opposed to gay marriage ? Well, for those who believe in God, there was a striking double rainbow in the skies of Dublin that seemed particularly appropriate. I doubt that's re...
by CaptJodan
2014-08-12 09:34pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Robin Williams dead at 63
Replies: 44
Views: 8512

Re: Robin Williams dead at 63

The more profound the artist, the more painfully felt the loss is in my observation, especially in such an abrupt and unexpected fashion. It reminds me why mental illnesses need much more attention and study than it currently receives. No doubt, but I also think it was the shear suddenness of it. N...
by CaptJodan
2014-08-12 12:30pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Robin Williams dead at 63
Replies: 44
Views: 8512

Re: Robin Williams dead at 63

Add me to the list of people who never have much emotional reaction to celebrity deaths, but for which this one hits pretty hard. Wasn't prepared for a world without Robin Williams. Dead Poet's Society will be harder to watch now, but even more meaningful.
by CaptJodan
2014-07-17 03:11pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread
Replies: 190
Views: 249946

Re: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-gay-marriage-ban-overturned-florida-20140717,0,5016096.story S. Florida judge declares state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional print By Rene Stutzman, Staff Writer 2:48 p.m. EDT, July 17, 2014 A judge in the Florida Keys today overturned...
by CaptJodan
2014-07-02 11:33am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread
Replies: 190
Views: 249946

Re: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread

Today, Florida's case gets heard in Miami on whether our state constitutional amendment banning SSM is unconstitutional. Here's hoping Florida will get something right for a change.
by CaptJodan
2013-11-16 10:44pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Boehner supportive of Russian Anti-gay laws
Replies: 5
Views: 1323

Re: Boehner supportive of Russian Anti-gay laws

What, exactly, are radical sexual minorities? Last I checked homosexual and transgender people are perfectly happy with other people being straight, they just want to be not ostracized leave alone mugged or outright murderized for being gay/transgender. It's kinda in his quote. The implication is t...
by CaptJodan
2013-10-25 04:26pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: NC Republican Representative resigns over racist comments
Replies: 79
Views: 22084

Re: NC Republican Representative resigns over racist comment

It never ceases to amaze me though how many times the story has come out that voter fraud is a non-issue, that voter IDs unfairly discriminate against a certain class of people, and yet it goes ahead anyway (with very little public outrage or push back). Far more than a racist GOP member, the shocki...
by CaptJodan
2013-10-17 09:58am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US government Shutdown
Replies: 611
Views: 87995

Re: US government Shutdown

When conservatives fail, get more conservative. That's the irony about all of this. In large part, it seems like we were led down this path by ultra conservative members who, after losing time and again, felt they would take an even more conservative, and insane, path. And the rhetoric is already s...
by CaptJodan
2013-07-13 10:00pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin
Replies: 362
Views: 40949

Re: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin

Not guilty.
by CaptJodan
2013-07-13 08:50pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin
Replies: 362
Views: 40949

Re: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin

I live a suburb over from Sanford, and have been to jury duty in the courthouse they're trying this case in. I also go through Sanford on a semi-regular basis. The long deliberations and the jury asking for clarification on "manslaughter" earlier today pretty much suggests that there is di...
by CaptJodan
2013-07-11 01:07pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Nostalgia Critic- Avatar The Last Airbender
Replies: 144
Views: 58346

Re: Nostalgia Critic- Avatar The Last Airbender

I guess the "it get's real" bit was only in reference to how depressing the episode ultimately is, that Appa is pretty much kicked around nearly the entire episode. For a kid's show, and even for a family or adult show, that episode had a lot of depressing moments. While I'm enjoying reliv...
by CaptJodan
2013-06-23 10:20pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: World's largest "gay-curing" ministry closes, apologizes
Replies: 6
Views: 1978

Re: World's largest "gay-curing" ministry closes, apologizes

The apology seems very genuine and heartfelt. It seems consistent with a Christian actually trying to follow the proper teachings of the book he ascribes to believe in. He doesn't make apologies for the beliefs he holds; it's obvious that he still has a problem with gay marriage, of homosexual sex, ...
by CaptJodan
2013-06-17 10:58am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: - the power of stupid people in large groups
Replies: 19
Views: 2374

Re: - the power of stupid people in large groups

So you quote an article where one Republican actually advocates immigration reform and another was actively opposed to the Iraq war. To which then Rubio, Mr. immigration, wants to sink his own bill if there's anything about letting those dirty homosexuals have the same rights as straight immigrants...
by CaptJodan
2013-04-04 01:42am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer (Died 6/9/13)
Replies: 23
Views: 5038

Re: Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer

Saw this this morning. Extremely sad news. I always felt the universe he created in the Culture novels was one of the best universes I've ever seen. The creativity of being able to see what was possible with a utopia that freeing was always something I was amazed at, and the Culture became a place I...
by CaptJodan
2013-02-28 09:25am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Babylon 5 - 20 Years Later
Replies: 88
Views: 12531

Re: Babylon 5 - 20 Years Later

One of the downsides of a series that actually has continuity I guess-once something happened, it stays having happened :D And was the phrase 'B5 was the last of the Babylon stations' ever uttered by anybody outside the series main timeframe? Do we truly know there were no more Babylon stations? Gi...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-16 01:05am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The Decline of Evangelical America
Replies: 17
Views: 3129

Re: The Decline of Evangelical America

Seems like kind of a restatement of the old adage of "hate the sin, not the sinner" to me. I find it not at all surprising that he finds nothing wrong with the message itself, just it's delivery. You saw the exact same response after the 2012 election with the GOP.
by CaptJodan
2012-12-11 03:01pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark
Replies: 9
Views: 2551

Re: Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark

Bob Ballard is a professor in the department where I'm a graduate student. He does a LOT of serious ocean archaeology for deep water exploration of ancient shipwrecks with significant finds including, for the first time, human remains from 2,000+ years ago preserved in the Black Sea oxygen free lay...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-11 09:04am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark
Replies: 9
Views: 2551

Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark

A flood of evidence? Robert Ballard, one of the world's most famous underwater explorers, has set his sights on proving the existence of one of the Bible's most well known stories. In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings fro...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-03 07:16pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

Galactica was very intentionally under crewed, they knew what they were going to do and prepared in advance. It was also not badly maintained at all, the Cylons had just finished fixing her ups ave for the structural issues that resulted from shoddy construction . you can have a shitty ford taurus ...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-03 04:55pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

Plot invulnerability is the key here. If I went by WWII films, Americans are stronger than Germans and can take more damage. Note how the bad guy is killed with one shot but the hero takes a slug in the shoulder and muscles through. Of course, if we model a story on something that actually happened...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-03 03:54pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

It seems like you are countering with a glorified view of the hardiness of colonial technology, And I don't see how my declarations are out of line. Compared to their adversaries, colonial ships do seem particularly well built. Both ramming and nuclear effects bare this out in the series. Now, does...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-03 01:32pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

Really? It wasn't relevant to describe the damage nukes did when you were trying to illustrate that nukes did the damage? o...k... It wasn't relevant to say she didn't just walk on the bridge (or CIC, if I'm to be accurate about it). She did just walk into CIC, after the events you describe. But th...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-03 10:49am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

She didn't exactly walk on the bridge, she dragged Shaw to her feet after her escort was incapacitated by shrapnel, and they took a ton of casualties, I think colonial tech has been shown to be very hardy as long as it is maintained or operated, but they've been pretty consistent in showing how eas...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-02 11:53am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

I thought the most recent two were a dive, and that isn't saying much since we entered the realm of the characters being more visibly stupid and tactics took a turn for the really contrived. The ski lodge didn't seem all that secure, as all we saw were the Cylons hit one set of trip-wires and then ...
by CaptJodan
2012-12-01 11:29pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Replies: 145
Views: 23392

Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

Razor shows them trashing a bunch of Battlestars in drydock with what appear to be non-nuclear ordinance, at least there's no "flash" like you usually see when a Nuke goes off in nbsg. Not exactly a fair comparison. Hatches open, fuel supplies nearby, ordinance transfers, no defenses rais...