QA_NJ's Comments

Big Hollywood : Feminism in Film: Why 'Haywire' Trounces Torturous 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:11:02 +0000

The problem is that the specific example used in the movie was the very real '93 World Trade Center bombing and it blamed it on the government and said that the real terrorists were just innocent government patsies. It doesn't just say that the active bomb plot was a plot to get more money. It said that the earlier 1993 World Trade Center bombing was also one, and the Truthers are evidence that people will believe such nonsense. I like much about the movie, but that bit about the '93 World Trade Center bombing left a bad taste in my mouth before 9/11 and is far worse after it.

Big Government : Obama Can't Handle the Truth (Just Ask Gov. Brewer)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:50:22 +0000

This is why I'd love to see an opponent fully unload on him about everything that's wrong about him all at once, framed in terms of the media not digging into his garbage the way the did with Palin and Cain. Bring up his academics and lack of academic writings. Bring up Michelle's cozy hospital job. Bring up Rezko. Bring up the sleazy way he defeated several opponents. Question his vacations and golf playing. Question why his wife and kids didn't go with him to see his dying grandmother. Question whether he or Ayers wrote his books. Heck, even throw in the HillBuzz and Sinclair gay sex rumors. Then say, "I don't know if all or even any of those things are true, but the media has been more interested in protecting him and ignoring anything that could possibly hurt or embarass him than they would have een if his name was Palin or Cain, preferring the voters know almost nothing about him.". Done properly, this could cause him to lose it. A third party candidate like Donald Trump, if he planned on dropping out before the end, could be even more brutal. But based on what I've seen, any solid attack that makes him look bad will cause him to look even worse because he can't handle it. Heck, they might be able to get him to sputter on one thing: bin Laden. When he brings that up, ask why he thinks any other president wouldn't have done the same thing. It was a no brainer. Seriously. What did he do that any other president wouldn't have in the same situation? And if it was a hard decision for him, why was that?

Big Hollywood : Feminism in Film: Why 'Haywire' Trounces Torturous 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:34:55 +0000

The Long Kiss Goodnight had some great dialog and good acting, but it was a 9/11 Truther movie before 9/11, blaming the 1993 World Trade Center bombing on the government, who framed poor innocent people for it.

Breitbart.tv : Romney Tells Stephanopoulos Contraception Question 'Silly'

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:07:43 +0000

The only time Stephanopoulos was ever good for a debate was when he went after Obama during the Philadelphia Democratic Primary debate in 2008, and he only did that to help his true masters, the Clintons.

Big Hollywood : Daily Call Sheet: How 'Life on Mars' Blew It, Burnett Brings the Bible, and 'Questionable Star Trek'

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:25:03 +0000

Yes, he's in both, but actors usually don't get a lot of say over their lines or props, so I'm not sure he should take the blame for that. As for dating the production, I agree.

Big Hollywood : Daily Call Sheet: How 'Life on Mars' Blew It, Burnett Brings the Bible, and 'Questionable Star Trek'

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 02:18:00 +0000

That bit in Life on Mars, just like the money with Obama's picture on it in Terra Nova, will be unavoidably obvious examples of how liberals inject nonsense into movies as time passes. But I thought the episode dealing with the Weather Underground was a pleasant surprise in that it didn't really give them any positive spin at all.

Big Hollywood : Daily Call Sheet: How 'Life on Mars' Blew It, Burnett Brings the Bible, and 'Questionable Star Trek'

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 02:15:09 +0000

Personally, I'm not that big of a fan of Star Trek VI and would probably rate it below The Motion Picture and possibly at the bottom of the original series cast movies. I do, however, agree that Star Trek V is under-appreciated and far more disparaged than it deserves, especially if you've read Shatner talking about what he really wanted and might have done had he been given the budget and approval.

Big Hollywood : Daily Call Sheet: How 'Life on Mars' Blew It, Burnett Brings the Bible, and 'Questionable Star Trek'

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 02:11:53 +0000

While I agree that it contains some really unnecessary sucker punches, I think the US version of Life on Mars did have a few redeeming features and some decent conservative themes, too. I do suggest watching one additional episode, #13, "Revenge of Broken Jaw". It deals with the Weather Underground and let's just say that it really doesn't make them look good.

Big Hollywood : Will 'American Horror Story' Scare Programmers into Following Its Lead?

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:50:55 +0000

Japanese TV Dramas run about a dozen episodes and then they are done. They have a beginning, middle, and ending. Other Asian countries use a similar model, but they often run longer. The nice thing is that the authors can do things like kill off even major characters, which makes things more unpredictable. You can't count on anything working out. During a particularly dark run of Japanese dramas in the early 1990s, I saw a drama where the point of view character actually died before the ending. So when an upset character would run toward a busy street, my wife and I would cringe because it was entirely possible they'd get run over and hospitalized or killed, a sort of tension one rarely finds in episodic American television.

Big Government : Political Ideology in the Garden of Eden

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:37:23 +0000

Humor me. Give me your best condemnation of communism, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Mao. Surely if liberals aren't communists and communists are bad, you can find something bad to say about them all, right? Let's year the worst you have to say about them.

Big Government : Political Ideology in the Garden of Eden

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:20:27 +0000

No, what the tree revealed to them was the moral context of their nakedness. Before they ate from that tree, they were indifferent to being naked much as a dog or cat is indifferent to being naked. Once they ate from the tree, they grasped the moral context of their nakedness and felt embarrassment. As for free will and the knowledge of morality being good things, they are both good and bad. They are two-edged swords. Truly free will gives one the freedom to sin and do evil. It is the free will and moral awareness that allowed Cain to sin and slay his brother. And what seems pretty clear to me is that eating from the tree was inevitable. To believe that God didn't expect Adam and Eve to fail and disobey His commandment to not eat from the tree is to believe that God didn't understand what he created or what they would inevitably do. If the point was simply that humans not eat from that tree and God didn't really want them to eat from the tree, God could have created humans without the desire or even capacity to to disobey and eat from that tree, could have put the tree out of reach, or could have simply not created the tree in the first place. Whether you read it literally or metaphorically, the story of Genesis is ultimately an exploration of the Problem of Evil ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil ). Ask your question more broadly. What business does God have punishing children who never disobeyed Him directly with a hard life in a world full of thorns and thistles where women suffer during childbirth? Is it really easier to believe that God is punishing all of humanity and the entire Earth for the choices of two people than it is to believe that the choice, literally or figuratively, represents a a change in the relationship between humans and the world around them and all of these hardships and even death, itself, is a trade-off of embracing moral awareness and free will?

Big Government : Political Ideology in the Garden of Eden

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:51:57 +0000

Nope. I just look at who the left cheers on and makes excuses for. If there is no affinity between liberal and communist, then why do so many leftists swoon over people like Fidel Castro?

Big Government : Wis. Recall Caption Contest

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:46:07 +0000

Santa Claus is how the left views government, a bottomless dispenser of goodies, so it doesn't surprise me that they'd use Santa Claus rather than, say, Uncle Sam, to promote this.

Big Government : Political Ideology in the Garden of Eden

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:57:49 +0000

"This argument is foolish. Genesis never suggests (to the best of my knowledge) that Human kind were not Free before they ate from the Tree.They chose to ate from the Tree and it was BAD." What was the name of the specific tree that they ate from but were not supposed to eat from? Genesis 2:9: "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Genesis 2:16-17: "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2:25: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." Genesis 3:1-5: "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:9-11: "And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" That it was named the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, that the serpent said that it would give Eve knowledge of good and evil, and that Adam and Eve went from being unashamed of their nakedness to being afraid of being seen naked clearly shows that it was not simply a matter of disobedience but the tree granting Adam and Eve knowledge that they had previously lacked. In particular, it granted them moral knowledge of what was right and wrong. Before they ate from the tree, they were "free" in sense that animals are free, but they were not "free" in the sense of being free moral agents who understood the moral context of their choices. In other words, they chose to remain naked because they didn't understand that there could be anything wrong with that, but made different choices once they ate from the tree.

Big Government : Political Ideology in the Garden of Eden

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:38:57 +0000

More than anything, Progressives want control. It's why left-wing revolutions inevitably end in Reigns of Terror, gulags, Great Leaps Forward, reeducation camps, and killing fields. And they always imagine themselves as the ones in control or approving of what those in control do, never as those being subjected to the control or being abused or killed by those in control. When they start behaving as if that's not the case, I'll be willing to believe that's not the case.

Big Government : Et Tu, Beck? - Part III: Erratic Multimedia Star Pulls Race Card Again

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:19:34 +0000

I think Beck is suffering from a problem that many successful and wealthy people suffer from. Nobody says "No!" to him and, if they do, he can ignore them.

Big Hollywood : Spur-of-the-Moment?: 'Rolling Stone' Interview Contradicts 'Jimmy Fallon Show' Drummer's Post-Bachma

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:44:58 +0000

Once you realize that liberals project their own problems and failings onto conservatives, a lot of what they say and do makes a lot more sense (e.g., he is exactly what he was calling Bachmann with that song).

Big Hollywood : 'The Lion King' and OWS: Occupy Everything the Light Touches

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:05:10 +0000

Yeah, I watched this recently with my kids and was stunned by how anti-socialist and anti-redistributionist the movie was.

Big Hollywood : Top 10 Thanksgiving Moments in TV and Film

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:06:05 +0000

The Thanksgiving scene in the show Heroes where only one person at the table doesn't know about the superpowers when Claire stabs herself in the hand at the end of a discussion to demonstrate how she's not normal was very well done.

Big Hollywood : Trailer Talk: 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:31:59 +0000

The irony is that all of these movies made possible by the fact that the works they are based on are no longer under copyright, something that the studios won't allow to happen with the works they produce.