Why so much fuss about the 'naughty bits' in Jim Webb's fiction, and so little about  Lynne Cheney's?
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The main reason to not mention a novel written by Lynne Cheney is that, politics aside, she is not a good writer.
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Doesn't all this ruckus from the Church seem like overkill to you? I haven't seen the Catholic Church so worked up over a movie since The Last Temptation Of Christ. And I haven't seen the Catholic Church so scared since those pedophilia scandals. Maybe the ideas in the book are not so far fetched after all.
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Pretty simple Geminess. The Jeff Gannon aka Jimmy Guckert aka White House Hooker story broke when the press kowtowed to everything President Bush did or said. This has lessened somewhat after Katrina and the shifting political winds forced the press to lessen their fawning over Bush.\n\nTwo Democrats did try to introduce a bill calling for an investigation as to why the White House has ties to gay prostitution, but the GOP-controlled committee would not allow it to come to a vote. Bush got back into office because of ignorant white trash who hated gays. His white trash followers can't really learn that there are closeted queers in the White House. So every effort has been made to squash the story.\n\nSome of Gannon's escort websites are still up, and he still has his blog where so far as I can tell he posts to himself. But Talon News is shut down apparently for good and if you want to get banned from a Bush-loving website bring this story up.\n\nI got banned from Hannity.com for mentioning Jeff Gannon and banned from Annecoulter.org even though I had never posted there at all before. My IP address is actually on a blacklist somewhere because I mentioned the White House was visited 196 times by a homosexual prostitute who bragged about his "8 inches cut" and how "I don't leave marks, only impressions" and posted naked pics of himself urinating on the Internet and was available for $200 an hour or $1200 a weekend.\n\nFr Chuck, you belong to an organization that has a lot of experience in covering up for homosexuals who molested young boys. You have a lot of nerve gay-bashing or bashing a heterosexual man like Kennedy.\n\nAnd NicolasRaage---you belong to a group of people who vote against their own self-interest so they can stick it to gay people who they don't even know. Now when it turns out the Bush White House has ties to gay prostitution (which Clinton would have gotten lynched for) you give this president a pass. There's a word for that and the word is hypocrisy.
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it's refreshing to see someone with enough testicular fortitude to speak truth to power...bush doesn't give a rip about webb's son, and webb did right by not playing the game...he wasn't elected to drop to his knees and service bush...that's what rush, o'reilly, coulter, mccain, condi, fox news, and various rabid right-wingers are for...enough is enough...i'll bet there are plenty of people with family members in iraq who would love to have had the opportunity to say the same thing to bush...it's nice to see that for once we have someone willing to look the president in the eye and tell him he's full of it...God knows it's long overdue...contrast that to gop front-runner mccain who let bush completely punk him on anti-torture legislation, only he's so eager to be the president at any cost that his overhyped sense of morality and independence has been conveniently pitched overboard...he's another yapping lapdog....
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What are you talking about the scandals, the pedophile in the Administration (Brian j. Doyle) or all the gay Republicans in office?\n\nJack Abramoff, Scooter Libby, Tom Delay, Carr, Dick Cheney or just Bush? 'OH" I forgot about "Your doing a heckava job Brownie," now clean your desk out!
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Obviously they are fantasy... I mean you can do almost ANYTHING on the web these days, but still... there is a line between fact and fiction
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Sci-fi though meant to be of course fictional should have an element of realism to it, the writers have been lazy by not explaining things in detail, they haven't bothered as this would require a degree of creativity that could be passed off as rather realistic e.g. if they are higher than the government who pays their wages and surely if a fairy/gremlin type creature killed your partner and took away your child it wouldn't be secret for much longer, the police would surely start asking questions. I'm not trying to nitpick but if a sci-fi programme is too daft I can't get into it or find the characters believable at all, seems like Russell Davis is relying on raunchy storylines to get the viewers than clever storylines that make the viewer use their brain more, at least in shows like The X Files they were working for a known government body and some of the stories though totally fictional were believable at the same time as they could or may already of happened in real life, this is what made this show rather eerie, while this programme seems to have to many gaps and I find myself asking too many questions while i'm watching it making it rubbish to watch, if it was set in the future or in space it would be a different matter but it aint, its set in our time and needs to be alittle more credible despite being classed as Sci-fi, I'm half expecting a threesome or foursome next between the main characters, so daft, it wouldn't surprise me, wait for it...it looks like there is going to be another lesbian kiss next week...whoopee...NOT!
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Maybe it's because no one trusts Cheney...he's proven he's not to be trusted whereas, for a few more people, the existence or nonexistence of UFO's has yet to be proven...
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It is strictly FICTION.  Americans sure do love controversy-that why it has sold so many copies.
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The implication of the author's work is no fault of the author's.  It's the fault of stupidity.  I'll bet that 90% of the book's protestors have never even READ the book.  Normally book burners don't.  Illiterate bastards with tunnel vision in my opinion.  \n\nOh, yes I REALIZE it is fiction, because I didn't by it from the HISTORY section of B&N!  Get a compass people!
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Internet providers agree to promote dismemberment materials so as to keep the internet fair and free. Perhaps you should adjust an adult content filter to insensitive. Does is have a setting for "Would rather remain ignorant of world events."?
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Your question is perplexing. Why the pursuit of paparazzi? Is there more that needs be told. There would seem to need a reason, a torrid love affair, association with criminals or something. I can imagine the authoress of 'Harry Potter' being a candidate for such attention as the media looks for any character faults but as 'ex-writer', it seems strange that they would pay much attention. I am a writer of both scientific as well as fictional books and I would be happy to glorify my works to the paparazzi...and help me to get public attention...even bad publicity sells books. Logically, there must be an element that you haven't mentioned that arouses their interest. Also as a writer, I know that a writer is never an 'EX', we write because it makes the sun come up in the morning, it both fills and cleanses the soul...we write because we love it. Steven King has written millions of words, not for money, but because he loves it. In any event, there is always the court system for things such as slander and enough money hungry lawyers to take on such cases for a percentage.
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I'm an open minded person, so it didn't really strike me as either. I do think that a huge colossal amount of it is fabricated, not bull$hit, just fabricated, and what got me the most is how many people actual take this book as real...as a real cover up. And I think parts of it were believable, I think Mary was more than a friend, but way less then a lover...because Jesus did not have a sex drive, and I was shocked at how many Christians and Catholics and the such, could actually take this in as anymore then a fabrication.
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Webb. \n\nAnyone can write a novel with sex scenes in it. I have. What someone believes in 1970 does not necessarily relate to what they believe now. Webb certainly acts like a politician, but he has opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, and he would make life easier in many other ways for Virginians (e.g., raising the minimum wage).\n\nAllen is not deserving of a second term. Calling people names ("macaca") is certainly not Senator-like. Getting into petty arguments about Jewish heritage means he is ignoring the most important issues. He wore a Confederate pin when he was young. And as of late, he comes across as a Mafia godfather or a thug, with his cronies tackling protestors to the ground and beating them up. \n\nDefinitely vote for Webb! (Forget Gail Parker. Voting for her helps get Allen elected.) And vote NO on Proposition 1 as well.
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Why, isn't Afghanistan exciting enough!
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What are you talking about?  I've seen some really hardcore stories and pics on yahoo 360.  A bit of erotica should slip by
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We do not even take Ellen's answers seriously, why on earth would we take Libby's ?!