Blown Away hardly counts. Patriot Games dealt with IRA terrorists, right? I remember Richard Harris playing the IRA fundraiser. That was Sean Bean's first big movie, if I recall. I agree that it is probably annoying to them, but hey, that's life. There are also Muslims that praise the show . It's like you mentioned about the Italians and the
Again, slowly... no matter how many exclamation points you put behind it, there are criteria for impeachment. There is due process. Either explain in real world terms what your case is, or admit that you don't have one. The fact is the war resolution above defies your point, and the Congress had all the available information necessary to make the same determination as you. They decided, as Bush did, that it was better to move forward without 100% assurance. That's the truth, bu
The 3000 number is wrong, as well. There was a commission that investigated this a few years ago. No mass graves were ever found, and the likely death toll was around 300. One would be too many, but inflating the numbers to such a degree only creates doubt towards those who really did suffer. One reason it came back to light was that people were seeking reparations for the riots. "I neither wrote the book nor the article, I merely posted it here in
Could you cite the particular speech where Bush said "mushroom clouds over US cities"? In the speech he gave to America about military action, Bush said: "There is a reason. We have experienced the horror of September 11. We have seen that those who hate America are willing to crash airplanes into buildings full of innocent people. Our enemies would be no less willing -- in fact they would be eager -- to use a biological, or chemical, or a nuclear weapon.<br/
Here, since you have no urge to address the facts and would prefer to judge offhand statements to the press, etc., here's are the reasons the US Congress decided we should invade Iraq. Notice that many of the claims about WMDs cited are directly referencing Bill Clinton's "Iraq Liberation Act" and the intelligence he used to push it and his bombing campaign, " Desert Fox ". Joint Res
It would come down to suffering, I think. If you look at the standard of living of the American poor, you'll find very little suffering. You could say that the people who built the western railroads on the dead bodies of Chinese were greedy. You could say that the people who run sweatshops full of illegals who live in fear and poverty are greedy. The average person, heck, the average poor person that pumps some gas into their car? Nah. The price is higher than they WANT to pay, but
Did we lose any ships in the Gulf of Tonkin? I'm curious as to where this criteria you constantly cite is. Where is it written that the attacked aircraft or ship has to be lost? Regardless, I'll say for a third time, unless you address the real criteria for impeachment, the argument is meaningless. You might as well be saying Bush should be impeached for being a big doo-doo head. Your intelligence argument is bogus, because there were many that saw the intelligence in question and t
"How can all the hundreds of churches that have sprung up since the Reformation, each one different in name,in belief, in government and to an extent, mode of worship possibly be consonant with the one body, one spirit, one faith, one shepherd concept as described in the Bible? " Because if you read Paul, you'll find that while there is a thread of sameness among the many schools of thought, there is also a lot that is secondary, and about which we diffe
Did Newsom remarry? He was in the process of a divorce when he had the affair. Maybe it was to help the friend in question, because her disclosure of the affair was part of alcohol recovery, too, if I read it right.
Even in terms of those who believe that God created everything, there's still debate, mainly based upon: Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made , and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. or... Genesis 8: And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.</l
I think one solid problem with gaming is that they target... gamers. To keep their products from being a gamble they shoot for the most likely group to buy them. Nothing wrong with that, it makes good business sense. But as you say, more and more people are coming to gaming. That means more and more diverse tastes. Around the same time they are totally giving up on old standards, like the MYST style adventure games, etc. I think that is a terrible mistake. I wish I could b
Just posting to put in a closing italics tag since no one is going to. This whole discussion looks like some sort of aside or footnote.
"he's still the only person on the planet who ever existed who actually brought a peace accord between israel and any of it's enemies. if ya can't give credit where it's due, then i got no use for ya..." Then you should credit Walter Cronkite. He's the one who arranged it to begin with .
To be fair, I never heard the term "neo-con" before it was used as a slur. Neoconservative, sure, but the word "Neo-Con", at least in my experience, was exclusively a Lefty insult before we robbed its venom by shrugging it off.
That's insane. We get a student directory from our school that has the name and phone number of every kid in the school, with the ability of families to opt out. It's stupid to even propose that the teacher can't send home a list, of course she can. What will they do when the class picture comes, blur out the faces? What about the yearbook, no names? This doesn't sound like a parent causing problems, it sounds more like a teacher with a problem.
I don't think it really works. It makes the person seem even less repentant, in my opinion, because they don't take personal responsibility for their actions and instead blame something else. I think Newsom, though, has played down the part that booze had in the affair. I said on my blog about it that there wouldn't have been any hubbub at all if he'd been messing around with a guy. The wife he was estranged from at the time was a Fox News newscaster, so I would imagine there's going
I didn't think it was a really valid point in the other discussion. If we didn't question our parents how much awfulness would persist forever? The racism, brutality,e etc. For the same reason we have to question "God", at least the perceptions of God that culture and even our families hand us.
"I will say this: I didn't see Pan's Labyrinth as a horror film, even in an unconventional sense. I don't think del Toro intended for the audience to focus on the violence or even the setting of the "real world" Gah, though, how could you not? The constant fear, and the torture, and, not to give anything away, but the ending... all were honestly as vivid, at least to me, as the fairy tale. I guess I can agree with you that maybe he didn't intend it, bu
I have to disagree with you about Pans Labyrinth. I didn't enjoy it much at all outside the spectacle and the effects. It was beautiful, no argument there, and it was compelling. I think the stuff about war, the awful stepfather, etc., was way over the top. I wish the atrocity would have been shown more even-handedly. If the movie was about the awfulness of war, it would have been good to point out how brutal and atrocious the resistance was as well. I guess he wanted a focused 'ba
P.S. I've been associated with Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw Haw, etc., very recently because I evidently don't "see the forest for the trees" in terms of the "threat" of Muslims in the West. I don't believe such accusations should be used lightly, because when they are they are JUST AS BAD as anything Tokyo Rose did. Why? Because, again, they are intended to divide, to demoralize, to cut into our fellow Americans during a
As a 'phenomenon' there was a Japanese radio propaganda program that featured American POWs forced to give statements, misinformation, etc. It was a bad thing, no doubt. In terms of the phenomenon I agree that the "Tokyo Rose" thing is valid. In terms of American politics, I think it is even worse, frankly, because it is from within. I have no problem with people debating the war, posing the REALITY of the war, etc. What I find traitorous and disgusting are people who purposely try
"There is no 'Tokyo Rose'; the name is strictly a GI invention. The name has been applied to at least two lilting Japanese voices on the Japanese radio. ... Government monitors listening in 24 hours a day have never heard the words 'Tokyo Rose' over a Japanese-controlled Far Eastern radio." The U.S. Office of War Information, August 1945
"WE HAD NO reason to attack Iraq unless they were a real danger to the U.S." Uh, we've used nations firing on us around the world as a pretext for war before. I've pointed that out, but you keep ignoring it and pointing the same thing time and again. We've gone to war many times when there was no direct threat to the US. I still don't believe you have ANY point unless you address the real criteria for impeachment. It's not something you just
We had plenty of reason to invade Iraq without the WMD issue. If you were serious about this you'd address the real criteria for impeachment, and whether anything Bush did could be considered high crimes and misdemeanors.
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