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Again I work in the industry and we only "destroy" drives that have personal financials on them like credit card numbers.  Tech has changed though and we don't even keep the numbers anymore.  Hillary could have easily deleted 15,000 spam messages, but Trump claims these are valid. 

Anywho, Gary Johnson showed why it is that 3rd parties continue to fall flat on their face.  He had next to no knowledge or even opinion on the mess in Syria.  The reason is that his platform, like that of many 3rd parties, is seemingly zoomed in on specific issues, and blank on everything else.  Can't do that. 

Meanwhile Trump continues to praise Russian President Putin, an enemy of democracy in Russia and abroad, for how in control of his country he is.  Sorry Don, that's called a dictatorship.  You've got almost anything related to Clinton being hacked by Russian sources, and released on the web by Wikileaks.  Assange has made it clear he's vehemently anti-Clinton.  Again, you've got a candidate sees nothing wrong with the methods of the Kremlin, one who may well OWE millions of dollars to Russian banks.  Difficult to know, because he refuses to release his taxes.

Hillary is pretty bad, very fake, shallow, conniving, you name it.  I think she's harmed her candidacy by NOT acting like Trump.  To be honest, the email thing is a farce.  There's really not much there.  Government employees treat "classified" info like junk all the time.  She used private email, big deal, everybody does.  Like Powell, I wouldn't trust certain communications on government servers.  There's a natural CYA inclination there.  Bengazi is a non-story, sorry but it is.  A bad thing happened, we learned from it, and should have moved on years ago.  Much WORSE has happened and been ignored.  She should have stuck to her story, and when called out, just kept brushing it away like Trump.   That seems to work!

Now Mr. Trump.....

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/ … index.html

And there we have it, Trump has basically adopted Obama's immigration stance.  Besides his hilarious rebuke of Free Trade, The Donald's main line of demarcation was immigration.  Nope.  Gone. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/ … index.html

In another hilarious Trump moment, his "medical letter" released last year is now getting further scrutiny.  Sounds like Donny himself put it out there as good PR, and slapped his doc's letterhead on there.  MD's have scrutinized it with quite a bit of shock as well as jest. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/po … .html?_r=0

Of course my favorite Trump turn is the ouster of his campaign director Paul Mannafort, primarily for losing, but also for his nefarious ties to Ukrainian quasi-despot Viktor Yanukovych!  The media really hasn't covered this properly, although the NY Times spent 3 months investigating and began to do so.  As many have suspected or known, Trump's business is in debt, a lot of it.  Then again, he "loves debt" after all, and has made a career out of running it up, and running away when the bills come due.  More importantly, Trump owes a LOT of money to both China as well as Russia banks. 

Why?  Many companies do, but the main reason is that Mr. Trump's credit is PUTRID.  Has been for years, thanks again to skipping the check time after time.  He's been forced to go over seas to get loans to build his golf courses and buildings and such.  As a business man, that's fine.  As President?  That's plain scary.  Here's a man who owes money to China and Russia, the other 2 superpowers, and as Prez will have the ability to influence US monetary policy greatly in his favor!  This stands to save him potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, while doing the US economy much harm.  Sure, the Clintons are pay to play, we all know that, but what they've rung out of "donors" is chump change compared to what Trump is capable of.  For the first time, I can actually SEE a valid reason for Trump to WANT to be the President, and it's a bad one.

PS: Oh, there's also rumors he and (finally outed) dirtbag Roger Ailes win or lose, will start a new network that presumably would be even more nutty than Fox News!

It's bad, just all bad.

Trump has now frustrated his own campaign so badly, there are reports of them "mailing it in now."  RNC is currently gathering leaders to discuss Plan B should Trump have a tantrum at any moment and run away with his ball and quit.

Sorry, Hillary doesn't frighten me.  I'll sleep at night, same with Obama, and honestly the same with Bush.  The President makes very few ACTUAL direct decisions, but the one he or she will need to make are usually fairly crucial.  Trump has no clue about anything outside of his own world, which frankly isn't much more than concerns over himself, himself, and oh by the way, himself.  The #1 reason I oppose him is he'll likely appoint Chris Christie as his AG, and that piece of garbage is one of the most bullying, corrupt, power-hungry, back-stabbing turds this side of the 19th century. 

PS: the Clinton body count stuff is a joke.  I could make the same argument about the Bush's, how their family bankrolled fascists like Hitler prior to WWII, something they were TRIED for.  The coziness with the Bin Laden family, etc., etc.  Where does it get anyone?  I can tell you something that is fact.  Donald Trump's entire real estate empire was built in the 70's and 80's with STRONG Mafia ties.  He was the front man for casinos in Atlantic City he should never have been allowed to own, given his consigliere Roy Cohn was a mob-affliated NY lawyer and power broker.  Trump is dirty, perhaps dirtier than any major candidate before.

I'll wait until it's on a service I have, not paying $15 to see it.  It's been said that given the NCC-1031 designation spotted on the Starship Discovery (in the SDCC teaser), the new series will be set at some point before TOS.  Now, as we know, the NCC designations as used in TOS were not always so easily "organized."  Reason being that the set artists tended to prefer to do as little redressing ($$$) as possible.  This wound up with situations such as USS Constellation getting NCC-1017 of course.

I didn't see the need for Superman on the show to be honest.  I think having a series and film franchise operating at the same time yet separate is pretty strange.  One at a time please.

Well it wasn't proven whether the Axanar guy really paid himself a salary or what-not.  However, that production clearly went off the rails, both by raising a LOT of money via Kickstarter, and essentially hiring people left and right.  I think that stuff gets very murky, and should be curtailed.  So I'm with CBS in the spirit of their rules.  However, they went way too far.  The time-limits, preventing past Trek employees from working, things like that, not good.  You don't see Star Wars (arguably a far more active property) imposing these restrictions.  Then again, I suppose if Billy Dee Williams were to appear in one of them, Disney might get antsy.  That being said, the Star Wars universe is once again alive.  The Trek universe we knew (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT) is dead.  I'm not sure what Fuller has in mind, but I seriously would be shocked if he went back to the well for actors from those shows.

They can donate all they want, but the rub is going to be clear.  If Trump continues to behave in this manner, he'll tick off independent voters, who will shy away from the GOP line.  If he fades badly and there's no chance of victory, Republicans will stay home. 

Even worse, apparently the list of GOP headliners willing to speak in Cleveland is VERY short.  This is really the worst news of all for The Donald.  How can you captivate the public for several days when no one is going to speak???  Having Sarah Palin during prime time is not going to cut it. 

There's over 4 months to go, but John McCain was sunk the moment he looked pretty foolish trying to dictate the Federal response to the 2008 financial crisis.  Obama urged patience, not to mention that he recognized neither of them were yet elected President and allowed GWB to do his job.  That was one moment.  Trump has had several of these in the last couple weeks alone.  He tweets on every major crisis, giving his well thought musings, probably while dropping a deuce.

Are you kidding, every employee of a cable news organization, and 90% of comedians are praying for mayhem, and most of them are atheists!  Not gonna happen, to quote Dana Carvey.  Trump's campaign is probably going to be broke by Cleveland anyway, because he won't take the RNC's money.  They refuse to use data modeling, they think his dumb tweets and crazy speeches will propel them home.  No chance.  The last and perhaps only successful "populist" candidate was Andrew Jackson, 200 years ago.  In other words, he needs them, or he'll be bankrupt himself for like the 6th time.

Anything short of a complete withdrawal by The Donald would mean an open revolt at the convention.  Sure the vast majority of actual delegates are still firmly in the RNC's corner, they are not Trumpites.  But to deny him on the grounds that he'll lose, that's a step I can't imagine they have the balls to pull off.  Trump and his supporters and voters would flip out.  He'd spend every minute from then until November telling his voters who to vote against in the fall. 

The GOP created this mess, now they're drowning in it.  They conditioned their voters with 24/7 Fox-fed bombast about how everything that happens in Washington is crooked and corrupt.  That everyone who works as a Federal employee is on the dole and doesn't actually DO anything productive.  The Trumpster has watched this, he's heard this, and he wisely calculated that if I portray myself as the 21st Century Archie Bunker he would ride that wave like he was on easy street.

He was a great actor, destined for quite a lot, very nice, humble guy too.  Quite a shame.

Info is right, they'd better have mullets!!!!

Seriously though, the biggest issue is telling a story that is fresh, which in Star Trek is very difficult.  The Abrams films should have done that, they branched off in such a dramatic way, and yet movie #2 was a pathetic rehash mess.  They've seemed to go full on Marvel in Beyond. 

Personally I don't care what technology they feature or how they interact within the "prime" universe.  A Trek series needs to have strong stories with a message.  That's what captured me when I was an adolescent watching TNG or DS9.

Thoughts....

1. To answer the canon question, this series is "rumored" to follow the original, pre-Orci movie canon.  That means all 10 films and the 5 TV shows, which is music to my ears because I have little affinity for his stories.

2. An anthology series is quite intriguing.  Ironically this is basically what they've been doing with the fan-produced series for years now.  Moreover, this is the new trend.  More and more TV series are doing it, and changing out the casts season after season.  This allows shorter arcs, that can be more focused and fresh.  I like it.

3. CBS All Access I think to me sucks.  Why would I PAY for a service for one show?  Really dumb idea.

4. I'm generally happy to hear about this, because as I said, I'd given up on the franchise.  The movies do nothing for me, and the 2nd one was terrible.

I still have the original fan club shirt from 1997, which I got "new" on ebay about 15 years ago.  It's pretty simplistic, but with so many clever, cool designers I'd figure someone would do one. 

My friends love this Johnny Cupcakes t-shirt designer, but there are others who make stuff in a "retro" fashion.

Jerry co-hosted in 2012, I went to the show, ha ha!  Also hearing Anderson Cooper's name.

Kelsey Grammer is a Sliders fan?  Damn I saw him on Broadway, I could have asked him!

There's no reason that Tracy couldn't persuade the rights holders to at least order a pilot, should be offer them something interesting pitch wise.  Or they may well decide it makes sense to investigate, and they go to him.  I think the latter is what Jerry was suggesting.  I would concur that having Tracy write the show again probably wouldn't happen.

Jerry - Joe's Apartment
Sabrina - Sports night
John - The Last Crusade
Cleavant - Moscow on the Hudson
Kari - Beastmaster 2

Don't think I've seen anything Tembi or Rob has done outside Sliders, and Charlie's other stuff is hideously bad.

The wall is simply hilarious to me.  Obama has been a deporting machine.  This is a red meat issue that frankly is almost irrelevant to America's problems.  The trade deals are a sore spot for a LOT of people, both conservative and liberal.  Firstly, 99% of people don't even know what's in them.  Nor do they truly know what affect they've had, good or bad.  They just assume they are heinous.  Okay, but Trump literally cannot fix them.  To pull out of a massive trade deal would be economic anarchy, the markets would shit the bed.  Like Obamacare, he would have to replace them with something.  And that something would need to pass Congress.  He cannot unilaterally do these things, which again, is something people don't realize. 

I can definitely envision Trump proclaiming he'll fix climate change in November, I see it now.  He'll say anything.  I just read an article about how mystified (and appalled) GOP leadership is when they've found out who are advising Trump on foreign policy.  Some are people they've never ever heard of.  Others are psychos who are at home on the Alex Jones type of conspiracy internet radio/video.  This is what scares me the most with Trump.  Who is this guy going to appoint to run the country????

I do sense that people are pissed, and that's natural.  Their ire should be directed on the CEO culture that has destroyed unions, closed down jobs, pillaged retirement funds, blocked universal healthcare, poisoned people, and bankrupted the infrastructure of the nation.  Many of these officials are Republican governors who now back Trump.  Chris Christie, Rick Scott, etc.  This is so absurd because while Trump is parading around government spending (on infrastructure, social security, military), he's being backed by those who have turned state governments into a complete wreck.  At least Kasich can tout that his state's house is mostly in order.

The number one concern for GOP is what a Trump ticket will do to their Senate, House, and Governor candidates appearing on the November ballot.  If he drags them all down, it's a complete disaster.  He can win Presidency and fight them night and day as the current President has been.  They don't care, Washington GOP cares most about controlling the money aka Congress.

not sure what they needed a kickstarter for?  seems like a fairly uncomplicated game, and there are people making homebrew games for NES, and selling them in "new" boxes with carts and manuals for $40-$60 all without the need for tens of thousands of dollars.

Trump talks like a pro wrestler, it's hilarious.  Sadly people enjoy listening to carnival barking.  Ted Cruz has no shot either.  In the last debate, he lied through his teeth.  He doesn't remotely support the positions he glazed over.  It's just sad.  Kasich is the only grown up left, and gets no traction because he doesn't speak eloquently, and people gravitate towards personalities.  Trump ain't going nowhere, and the harder they gang up on him, the stronger he gets.  I simply don't understand how you can ignore his laundry list of shitty businesses, hypocrisy, and how he spent his entire career as Mitt Romney before suddenly becoming Pat Buchanon 5 years ago.

DMD, he plays the somewhat cowardly, whiny son of Diana.

As you may or may not know, Austin Nichols (The Great Work) is currently on The Walking Dead.  I met him last year while getting TWD actors at their NY hotel.  Very nice guy!

I probably would have ignored that anyway!  Ha ha ha, been quite busy.  Thanks for the effort though, and if you spot anything again let me know!  I have to think at some point he'd show up on/off Broadway again.

Oh man I wish!  I do travel a lot for comic/celeb conventions, and collect autographs!

She's completely retired from acting and lives in Uganda, Africa.

It's produce-able now in terms of budget and technology.  However, I think John's point was that the writing was short on imagination.  Beyond Tracy's scripts, hard not to agree.  Many of the S2 episodes were guest star driven, with very little science fiction.  I agree completely with Info, a multi-episode arc would make the most sense.  Wouldn't be rushed, you could really develop the story in terms of how different this Earth is. 

SyFy has upped the bar on the production quality IMO of their science fiction shows, especially since NBC took over.  That would be the logical home.  Plus all their stuff is like 13 episode orders, so you would have an easier time getting the actors, wouldn't cost as much, and no need for filler scripts that don't cut the mustard.

UGHHHHHHH.  That's what I get for not checking the forum in months.  Damn, missed it.  I definitely would have made a trip.

I really have not and will not read much into the story and such.  I just don't care.  I found the film wildly entertaining, suspenseful, and with good humor and character.  Those expecting an epic were foolish, the story's already been told.  But for someone who liked but didn't love Super 8, and hated his Trek movies, I though JJ did a tremendous job on the film. 

Han being killed I could see coming from 30 miles away.  Somebody had to be killed to further the badness of Kylo Ren.  I don't think ANY of the new characters are particularly deep, but who cares?  Is StarLord a deep character in GOTG?  Not really, but Pratt played it well, and so did these actors.  Tough to lose Han, because Harrison was terrific, but there was no way he was doing film after film of this.