FordPrefect1969's Comments

Big Hollywood : Roger Ebert's 'At the Movies' Is Off the Air

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Fundamentalism is always ugly. His prostration before his mindless religion is embarrassing to watch.

Big Hollywood : 'Breaking Dawn' - Why Iâm on âTeam Bellaâ Even if Hollywood Isnât

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:51:03 +0000

Anything a movie taps into that exists in women in general like that is innate. If young women find it irresistible as a rule, they're wired to. It's not hard to see how in hunter-gatherer times taking on the identity of your mate would be the best strategy. Women were powerless for almost all of history and all of prehistory. I'm 42 this month, and when I was a kid, the respectable view was that all the differences between men and women were social constructs, instead of innate. Nobody tries to defend that view anymore, but there is still stuff like this that people don't like, so they make it an artificial construct instead of human nature. But this is surely human nature or it wouldn't have such universal appeal to them.

Big Journalism : When It Comes to Beating the Corrupt Media, Romney Shows Real Promise

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:20:50 +0000

The Tea Party can handle the media. The only reason the Republicans lost before this election is because they refused to use the ammunition they had because they weren't actually an opposition party (give me one good reason Mr. Prescription Drug Benefit Bush was ever on our side). The Tea Party is forcing them to be an opposition party and they will run ads aimed at destroying the bad guys, not just beating them in elections. McCain could have destroyed Obama with Obama's past if he'd wanted to, but he was more interested in being a proper well-born blue-blooded fancy lad than saving us from this disaster. All we've ever had to do is actually play the game like men instead of cowards and that will finally happen now.

Big Government : European Model Imploding?-Hold On To Your Hats

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:37:38 +0000

Cloward-Piven is just the Progressives kind of Millenialist religious vision. It doesn't logically follow that the collapse of socialism leads to more socialism. The collapse of socialism leads to the end of socialism.

Big Government : European Model Imploding?-Hold On To Your Hats

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:13:33 +0000

Let's just get the crash of big government over with. When central banking spectacularly fails, we can get rid of it, at the same time we get rid of 3/4ths of the Federal government, and usher in an era of prosperity unknown in human history.

Big Government : Wednesday Open Thread: Slavery Edition

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:29:42 +0000

Okay, how about finding me a Lincoln quote from before the war started that would indicate the war was fought for slavery? The Gettysburg Address certainly doesn't bolster the case.

Big Government : Wednesday Open Thread: Slavery Edition

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:40:37 +0000

Slavery was not mentioned as a justification for the war until 18 months after it started, so I question this conclusion.

Big Journalism : Jon Stewart, the MSM, and America's Most Trusted Newscaster ... Or Not

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:18:08 +0000

Here's Jon Stewart in a nutshell: describe a situation in current events by whitewashing the Progressive position and give a scarecrow for the opposing position. Then, compare and contrast using moral and logical reasoning that seems impeccably fair, and is also humorous. So the dumbasses who watch it think they're listening to someone honest because the reasoning sounds fair, never suspecting they got owned at the initial false dichotomy. It's sad, really. You have to be aggressively ignorant of history and current events to fall for it.

Big Hollywood : âPrimetime Propagandaâ: Hollywood Hates You Chapter Nine

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:49:36 +0000

The thing that's irritating about it is simply that he thinks he's teaching us pitchfork-wielding clodhoppers in Middle America something we didn't know. How one-dimensionally he sees us, a bigot trying fix the bigotry of non-bigots. Where in America are gay homeowners ostracized? Oh, that's right, nowhere, not even in the heart of the Bible Belt. But he couldn't care less, he's just speaking to his stupid, mindless narrative that everyone who isn't in his progressive religion is a bigot. When of course the opposite is far closer to true.

Big Hollywood : 'X-Men: First Class': A Political Philosopher's Summer Blockbuster?

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:10:36 +0000

I love casual insults that fundamentally rewrite American history in support of totalitarian evil.

Big Hollywood : 'X-Men: First Class': A Political Philosopher's Summer Blockbuster?

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:31:20 +0000

Remember the part where the Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by American cowboy gung-ho attitudes? that was totally awesome.

Big Hollywood : 'The Secret Knowledge' Review: David Mamet Enters Stage Right

Sat, 28 May 2011 16:00:40 +0000

Klavan's always great, one quibble though: Hayek was not a conservative. My reasons for not being conservative were an unknowing reiteration of his. Libertarianism is not a subset of conservatism. It's something completely different. http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_conte...

Big Journalism : Meghan McCain's GOP a Vision of Economically Weak Tea Party Bashers

Wed, 25 May 2011 12:58:55 +0000

Being a blueblood instills an elitism and moral fecklessness in a man that not even the gooks can beat out of you.

Big Journalism : NewsBusted: Is Ron Paul the Perfect Choice for President?

Fri, 20 May 2011 20:59:07 +0000

Gotta go after Paul's views on the GWOT because you can't go after anything else, like being vocally for Constitutional governance, alone among candidates. I've never been a Paulite, but watching Conservative Judas Goats try to distract people from libertarianism pushes me his way. Sensing that conservatives fear libertarianism makes me wonder why I ever put up with being told to sit in the back of the bus. Well, guess what guys, we're gonna drive the bus now, and there's nothing left you can do about it, other than ad hominem attacks.

Digital Trends : Apple causes 'religious' reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists

Fri, 20 May 2011 14:20:05 +0000

Somebody please do this with stupid people and pictures of Obama.

Big Hollywood : Same Roger Ebert Who Sees Coded Racism in 'Food Stamps' Publishes Excuse for Director's Pro-Nazi Ran

Thu, 19 May 2011 02:02:46 +0000

Ebert thinks everyone on food stamps is a minority? Bigot.

Big Journalism : Maybe the Journalistic Ethics are Different in France, if Different Means 'Nonexistent'

Wed, 18 May 2011 01:16:24 +0000

That's not the half of it. After the Muslim riots started, France, hilariously the home of Reporters Without Borders, passed a law against citizen journalism: it is illegal to videotape Muslims burning cars and put it on the Internet in France, without a license. Europe is really completely Fascist at this point, the EU could have been a wet dream Hitler had: total fascist control of everything, total collusion between big business, big labor, and government. Europeans are not free in any meaningful sense.

Big Hollywood : Advent Film Group and College Professor to Make Controversial Bailout Movie

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:24:11 +0000

The Founders wouldn't have charted a complex course to save this thing. They would have subverted and destroyed it. Why spend decades as serfs fighting for more rights when we could knock this thing over and get it all back tomorrow? Don't like that idea, take it up with Thomas Jefferson.

Big Journalism : What if the Birthers Are Right?

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:41 +0000

I've been convinced for 2.5 years that he was born abroad because all the evidence I can find points solely in that direction. I get psychoanalyzed for it just like I did about global warming. But it's not me whose head needs checking. The real issue is that conservatives just can't face that their cherished institutions are so completely debased that something like this could happen. Believing this forces you to re-evaluate things many do not want to re-evaluate. THAT is what makes people skeptical: what it implies, not the evidence itself. And that's an emotional, not intellectual, reaction. All the evidence points one way. There is a staggering amount of it, really. Keep in mind that the obvious facts of the situation mean nothing when you come up against people's cherished beliefs/religion. They just stop listening and/or engage in sophistry reflexively.

Big Journalism : What if the Birthers Are Right?

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:28 +0000

There's more than enough evidence, such as Michelle Obama calling Kenya her husband's home country on videotape, the fact that the certificate of live birth has a number that is not in sequence for the dates, etc, for a reasonable person to assume that he is not natural-born. He was never eligible, since his father is not American, but nobody challenged that either.

FordPrefect1969's Comments

Big Hollywood : Roger Ebert's 'At the Movies' Is Off the Air

Big Hollywood : 'Breaking Dawn' - Why Iâm on âTeam Bellaâ Even if Hollywood Isnât

Big Journalism : When It Comes to Beating the Corrupt Media, Romney Shows Real Promise

Big Government : European Model Imploding?-Hold On To Your Hats

Big Government : European Model Imploding?-Hold On To Your Hats

Big Government : Wednesday Open Thread: Slavery Edition

Big Government : Wednesday Open Thread: Slavery Edition

Big Journalism : Jon Stewart, the MSM, and America's Most Trusted Newscaster ... Or Not

Big Hollywood : âPrimetime Propagandaâ: Hollywood Hates You Chapter Nine

Big Hollywood : 'X-Men: First Class': A Political Philosopher's Summer Blockbuster?

Big Hollywood : 'X-Men: First Class': A Political Philosopher's Summer Blockbuster?

Big Hollywood : 'The Secret Knowledge' Review: David Mamet Enters Stage Right

Big Journalism : Meghan McCain's GOP a Vision of Economically Weak Tea Party Bashers

Big Journalism : NewsBusted: Is Ron Paul the Perfect Choice for President?

Digital Trends : Apple causes 'religious' reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists

Big Hollywood : Same Roger Ebert Who Sees Coded Racism in 'Food Stamps' Publishes Excuse for Director's Pro-Nazi Ran

Big Journalism : Maybe the Journalistic Ethics are Different in France, if Different Means 'Nonexistent'

Big Hollywood : Advent Film Group and College Professor to Make Controversial Bailout Movie

Big Journalism : What if the Birthers Are Right?

Big Journalism : What if the Birthers Are Right?

Big Hollywood : 'Breaking Dawn' - Why Iâm on âTeam Bellaâ Even if Hollywood Isnât

Big Hollywood : âPrimetime Propagandaâ: Hollywood Hates You Chapter Nine