Did anyone ever claim that they didn't have such an ability? Nice straw man there with the added in obligatory tarring of all conservatives as religious extremists. Got a real argument hidden in there by chance? I'm betting no. When you have a corporation which can control what goes out over all competing pipes, you might have a vestige of a point. In the meantime, blocking information means you rile customers, and the word will get out. In what remains of our free market economy, you can always find another vendor. I don't need to be 'protected' from a company when I can simply stop doing business with them.

 

 Government control can be neutrality if, and only if, the government decides it wants to be neutral. The minute it decides it no longer wants to be, who the hell is going to stop them? At that point they control the lot of it, and good luck looking for an alternate source.

 

China manages their networks and their news institutions. That's not quite neutral how they do it now is it?

 

 

 Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

Net neutrality is a power grab in search of a problem. It's also a blatant case of some companies trying to use the government against other companies to protect their bottom line (heard of Google right?). 

 

I won't bother asking you to take off your patented anti-corporate tinfoil hat because I know you love it so.

FDR did deficit financing.  Was that voodoo economics too, Zoo?  (Wow, that rhymed.  I'm a poet and I don't know it.)

 

Getting back on topic...Obama's "war" on Fox News is the biggest joke of all.  What, they say something about him and he can't handle it?  Poor widdle guy.  Welcome to the big league, Barack, where the entire world doesn't beat a path to your door to kiss your ass.  Presidents a hell of a lot more competent than you would've killed to have your coverage.

 

This is just incredible.  MSNBC screamed some of the worst slander against Bush possible, CBS outright lied, the NYT made it a personal vendetta to "get Bush," and Air America threatened to actually kill him.  Did Evil Bushitler call any of those organizations "not really news organizations" or shut them out of the White House, or encourage other news networks not to use their stories?  No, he pretty much just ignored them. 

 

Fox dares to question Obama, and Obama acts like they threatened to rape his dog or something.  For someone who likes to be compared to Kennedy and FDR, Obama needs to, well, grow up.  Kennedy and FDR would've just shrugged, made a joke, and got to the serious task of actually governing the country.

 

Well, FDR might have called Fox Nazis, but I doubt it.

I threw a D&D book at a gay person once.  What else could I do? He screwed my character out of 221 gp, the dirty bastard.  I think it was the Unearthed Arcana book.

 

Does that count? I'd hate to lose my status as an Evil Conservative.

 

 

 

Well, then at least you were still playing 1st Edition, the only *REAL* version of AD&D that's worth playing!  ;-)

 

P.S.  My same group of gaming friends since high school and I still play 1st Ed AD&D once a month in the same campaign world we started over 30years ago!

 

P.P.S.  As far as I know, none of us are homosexual.  Even Chris finally got married a couple years ago, so if any of them are, they're hiding it well.

 

P.P.P.S.  Well, what do you know, sometimes Conservatism really *IS* about resisting change!

 

 

 

While I did enjoy 1st edition in the day, I actually liked the rules changes that came about in 3rd edition and now Pathfinder. I never had much use for 2nd edition, and I think 4th edition isn't D&D anymore.

Well, here is American politics in a nutshell:

 

Conservatives think AD&D "evolution" should have stopped with Unearthed Arcana, as AD&D was already perfect from the beginning.

 

Libertarians think the ultimate expression of the individual is found in 3.5E (or Pathfinder, now that 3.5E is no longer supported), where anyone can play anything with any combination of feats and skills they feel like taking.

Warpig - thank you for that insight.

Sentinel and the rest players of  "The Game"  congrats on reaffirming my faith.

 

 

 

/Started with 3 pamphlet books and Greyhawk in '78.  Enjoyed years of 1st and quit when 2nd edition came out.  Played 3.5 online for a bit and threw up when I read 4th and wondered if I was the one in an alternate reality.