Comments by awelgraven
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Posted on July 16 at 5:59 p.m.
Filmmaker is spelled with two m's :p
Also, this is pretty cool.
Posted on November 11 at 12:31 a.m.
I don't like Radiohead personally; they're music just never sounded that good to me. But I will say that I did buy the album, because what they're doing is awesome. They're allowing fans to pay for an album that's not crippled by DRM, that's playable on ANY mp3 player (are you listening Apple?), for a price that's reasonable. No threat of a ridiculous lawsuit to make an "example" of somebody. And for the record, the stats show that at an average of $6 per album, the band is making more money that they would on conventional CD sales. Perhaps we'll finally get to stop hearing idiots lecture us on how Britney Spears is going to have to flip burgers to support her drug habit. Radiohead is selling music affordably and without DRM restrictions, yet still making a profit. Are you listening, RIAA?
Posted on October 19 at 2:19 p.m.
Is there an address or email address that we can write to in regards to this utter and complete idiocy? This ridiculous. This is beyond ridiculous. We should be bending over backwards for these people, but instead, we're shortchanging them? Dumb dumb dumb.
Posted on October 15 at 1:29 p.m.
The simple fact that Saddam was a monster and that he will never be able to harm anyone again seems reason enough to justify the war. The fact that the country has a legitimate shot at a decent future justifies it for me.
Furthemore, Saddam was a psycho who repeatedly broke U.N. sanctions without regret. Is that the kind of person you want in charge? If he broke sanctions then, he would most certainly have done so again, and to what result? Sure, he didn't have nuclear weapons at the time of invasion. But you can be sure he would have loved to get his greasy hands on some. And given enough time, he probably would have.
The bottom line is that Saddam was a threat. Perhaps not an immediate threat to the U.S., but certainly to his own people and surround countries, and eventually, the U.S. We took the information we had, and made a decision.
Posted on October 15 at 12:36 p.m.
The fact that one went to war or served in the military does not give their political opinion any more or less weight whatsoever.
I appreciate chipmunk and your opinions (although at this point, chipmunk has been the more respectful), but I don't do so because you fought and/or served. If you said to me, "I don't think we're using good counterterrorism tactics in this area of Iraq because of..." I would assuredly assign alot of weight to your opinion, because of your service in the military.
But I'm not going to assume you're correct on a political issue just because that issue involves the military. You can dislike the fact that it's a political issue as much as you want, but it still is one, and thus, you are not the preemptive expert it on it. And neither am I.
And I've explained my opinion of the war in other areas of this site, but so be it. Saddam had and used WMD's in the past. He slaughtered his own citizens, tortured and raped them, and hated the U.S. He broke U.N. sanctions repeatedly and without apology, and shipped WMD's out of his country or destroyed them when he realized invasion was imminent. The CIA shared this information with the president, who shared it with the Congress, who overwhelmingly voted to commence the invasion. Key democrats and republicans were both gung ho about the war.
If you want to discredit my opinion because I'm young, fine, do what you will. I don't frankly care. But all those things I just listed are facts, not opinions. I may not have a military background and I may be too young and stupid to have my opinion be respected, but I'm pretty sure facts are facts, no matter who tells them.
But go ahead, repeat once more how young and foolish I am. Most importantly, tell me my political viewpoints don't matter because I never served.
Posted on October 15 at 1:14 a.m.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
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Posted on August 19 at 3:16 p.m.
Good job Fergus Falls. Not only to do all you can to keep local dollars far away from Fergus, but now you've branched out into keeping non-local dollars out of Fergus too!! Yay!
On a completely unrelated note, what is wrong with this town?
On Council votes down RTC film