en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/305050 Comments by AvantiBev http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdunetz/2011/09/19/mel-gibsons-catholic-faith-completely-contradicts-story-of-judah-maccabee/#IDComment195889102 Mr. Dunetz: I am an Italian American. You want to complain about how YOUR people are portrayed in films, all I can say is "GET IN LINE" Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:34:52 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdunetz/2011/09/19/mel-gibsons-catholic-faith-completely-contradicts-story-of-judah-maccabee/#IDComment195889102 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/08/jessica-mokdad-20-killed-by-her-stepfather-when-will-the-media-muslim-groups-break-their-silence-on-this-american-honor-killing-1/#IDComment150343785 Ms. Chesler: Your story states that the asst principal said the late Ms. Mokdad was "proud to be Muslim". If she was, what was the falling out with her mother and stepfather? What could trigger this if she was adhering to the Muslim faith and living with mother and stepdad and proud of the faith/ideology that she was raised in? I am NOT being sarcastic, I just find this "honor killing" much more puzzling than the wife in Buffalo who set off her husband by seeking a divorce. There just seems to be no cause here. The stepdad uses the word "Americanized" what does that mean? Was she not supposed to seek college education post high school? Was she reading and writing English too well? DId she want to go out with non-Muslim friends and "hang around" with them? Mon, 9 May 2011 16:32:56 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/05/08/jessica-mokdad-20-killed-by-her-stepfather-when-will-the-media-muslim-groups-break-their-silence-on-this-american-honor-killing-1/#IDComment150343785 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/03/31/correcting-the-right-on-sarah-palins-alaska-tax-breaks/#IDComment138952228 As an actress, I wish my home state was more competitive in providing film companies and tv producers tax incentives. Far too many shows are shot in Canada or Romania because of the lower costs of labor and better bottomline all around. In Illannoyed, our guv, Quinn, is driving our few remaining industries out of state. Tax cuts and tax incentives help the worker not just the corporation. Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:48:27 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/03/31/correcting-the-right-on-sarah-palins-alaska-tax-breaks/#IDComment138952228 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/11/08/russell-simmons-without-keith-olbermann-we-are-doomed/#IDComment108643371 This idiot THINKS he is talking about the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. You know, when all those "unenlightened" Roman Catholics such as Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri managed somehow to write some of the greatest works known to the Western world and Fra Angelico was doing his best without such brilliant minds as Jackson Pollack to show him how to paint. This is a popular image confusing the 1200 and 1300's with the "dark ages" that followed the fall of my ancestors' Roman Empire. Actually, during THOSE Dark Ages, the light was kept burning by the VERY holy, Catholic Church whose monks kept alive ancient texts, classical learning and great works of antiquity which would later be drawn on by St. Thomas and Dante in their writings and later still our Founding Fathers. Not so DARK after all Mr. Simmons. Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:12:32 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/11/08/russell-simmons-without-keith-olbermann-we-are-doomed/#IDComment108643371 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aleigh/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-restart-of-history/#IDComment34084792 Mr. Leigh: For real prescience, you may want to check out another of Britain's Roman Catholics, Hillaire Belloc who wrote in the mid 1930's that Islam would by the end of the 20th century be resurgent and posing yet another threat to the West (ala Constantinople, Malta, Lepanto and September 11-12, 1683 at the gates of Vienna). In fact I think Belloc would not be surprised by the date the 19 of Air Jihad chose. Belloc saw Islam as yet another heresy of Christianity. I choose to call it a socio-political ideology masquerading as an Abrahamic religion. Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:33:14 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aleigh/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-restart-of-history/#IDComment34084792 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/07/05/liberal-media-trio-tears-down-worthy-palin/#IDComment26431233 There was plenty of snobbery by the Republican country club set such as Kathleen Parker and Peg(een) Noonan. They sniffed their patrician noses at her lack of a degree from one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:51:33 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/07/05/liberal-media-trio-tears-down-worthy-palin/#IDComment26431233 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026775.php#IDComment25865751 "In Africa, the homeland of all black people, Islam came from the Middle East and Christianity came from Europe and they all exerted inordinate damage." NOPE. The first Black African convert was Queen Candace's eunuch who was baptised by Phillip, the Apostle on his way back to Ethiopia having been in Jerusalem for the Passover. Ethiopia's connection to Judaism dates back to the Ark of the Covenant Days and it is fiting that it can claim the first Black Christian whose baptism is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:40:23 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026775.php#IDComment25865751 http://jihadwatch.org/#IDComment25221006 My point is that I try not to confuse the Pope with the Vatican as the two are sometimes working at opposites. The Cardinals within the Vat bureaucracy can often time resemble more the EU bureaucrat PC elites rather than shepherds of Christ. He told us that we'd recognize the hirelings, the bad shepherds, by the fact that they would run away when the wolves approached to attack the flock. These hirelings are concerned only about themselves, their appearances, their PC credentials. You and I know what their ultimate reward will be. DO NOT DESPAIR. Christ will use the Pope, simple priests, good Bishops such as Bishop Gassis, and laywomen such as Brigitte Gabriel, brother and sister non-Catholic Christians such as Walid Shoebat . His arsenal is not limited to Vatican PC mouthpieces. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:40:48 +0000 http://jihadwatch.org/#IDComment25221006 http://jihadwatch.org/#IDComment25220557 Aquinas (one of my favorite saints and ITALIAN to boot) :-) I share your pain as a fellow ROMAN Catholic. However, as a 53 year old, I watched in my early years the appeasement toward Communism of the left wing elites at the Vatican. JP II was raised to the papacy to deal with that and upon Benedict's meeting with Oriana Fallaci and his first year or two of pronouncements, I thought God had sent us someone to speak truth to the falsehood of Islam. However, the Vatican apparatchik is like the US State Dept -- an organism existing within its host and NOT for its host's benefit. Tauran and other "career" Vatican bureaucrats are the real "ELITES". Note how he uses the term "the masses". Typical of the Left in its disdain for the common man and common sense. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:34:32 +0000 http://jihadwatch.org/#IDComment25220557 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdavid/2009/06/10/my-weekly-date-with-a-liberal-%e2%80%93-american-heart/#IDComment23963008 When back in 2001, some Chicago theater pals of mine found out my newly adopted dog was named "Dutch" in honor of President Reagan's nickname, they could not hide their contempt for "that senile ol' man" and me for actually admiring him. When one of the lawyers from my day job found out, he was standing a few feet away from Dutch, my darling dachshund. He actually raised his scrawny, pale little liberal leg as if to kick her, when I informed him that it would be the last time he would ever feel anything in that leg or the other one if he even tried. This is their vitriol. And then they try to pin hate crimes on "the vast right wing". Puhleez! Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:02:09 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdavid/2009/06/10/my-weekly-date-with-a-liberal-%e2%80%93-american-heart/#IDComment23963008 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/06/04/obama-in-egypt/#IDComment23459100 I wear a button -- 53 and back to my high school button wearing days--- on my purse that says "Real men don't make women wear burqas". EIght years after the jihad attacks on American soil, 9/11/09, I cannot tell you how many, many, many of my fellow Americans ask me: "What's a 'burqa' ?" Burqa, sharia, jihad, basic terms of the enemy and NOT A CLUE! I hear so many people who assume actors are dumb. Well this dumb actress has managed a few dozen books on Islam, Islamic history, Islamic jurisprudence, etc. But I find even among my friends with post graduate degrees a general illiteracy on the subject of Islamic jihad, its Quranic basis, its history, its methods and its adherehent's intentions. Under Bush and Obama we are told "NO NEED TO PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THOSE BEARDED MEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!" Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:04:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/06/04/obama-in-egypt/#IDComment23459100 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026432.php#IDComment23377078 I heard you on Savage, Mr. Spencer and you were your usual articulate self. But looking at this line up, though I am sure they are all fine shows, I see the "BIG TALKERS" are all weenie cowards who won't discuss jihad. What else is new?! Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:42:28 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026432.php#IDComment23377078 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026427.php#IDComment23369614 "...they are likely to press the ministry of the interior to deport several supporters associated with the group." Deport SOME?? How about the whole lot of them! Kick em back to the desert. You need immigrant labor, there are a whole bunch of us Italo Americans who no longer want to live under this Manchurian Candidate President with his cringing, boot licking apologias. Offer us airfare and some resettlement money or housing and we'll come repopulate the mother country. Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:44:15 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026427.php#IDComment23369614 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026368.php#IDComment22988883 Thanks for the link to the "mental deficencies of women explained". As a menopausal woman sweating and sleepless, I need all the good laughs I can get. I challenge any of these Luton bozos to keep up with my schedule with as little sleep as I AM getting right now in this beautiful stage of my womanly life. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:03:10 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026368.php#IDComment22988883 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026364.php#IDComment22988133 "The forfeiture of your liberty for the rest of your life only seems just." BUT IT IS NOT!!!! It is 25 years before the possibility of PAROLE. He will be 48. I am older than that and enjoying health and strength. First they came for the death penalty. Then they came for life in prison which they had claimed would justly replaced it. Then they played with the wording of sentences to make us believe justice was done. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:46:21 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026364.php#IDComment22988133 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026348.php#IDComment22828481 Sorry guys. This Chi Town gal is closer to the Saudis on this one than the squishy Euro and Americans. I am anti-death penalty for those who wish to convert and practice other religions but not crying for murderers, child killers, pirates. Would love to see some of our Chicago gang bangers whose brutalities have their neighborhoods in virtual lockdown hanging headless from the Daley Center Picasso sculpture. Sat, 30 May 2009 14:21:37 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026348.php#IDComment22828481 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026113.php#IDComment21470268 WHOA! This is a local story for me as a Chi town gal. (Elmhurst is a Chicago suburb.) I have always suspected she was trying to cover for something else with the self-inflicted bruises and faked "attack". I wondered from the first if her period was late, she knew she had had consensual relations and was trying to give herself an "out" should she indeed be pregnant. I am NOT sympathetic to Islam nor to those who knowingly play the victim, but I do think we need to know much, much more about her home life. I have seen little girls in the suburban malls covered head to toe (I am talking about 6,7 8 year olds). I have wondered often if such an outrageous hoax may not have been a cry to "GET ME OUT OF HERE". Thu, 14 May 2009 20:22:04 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026113.php#IDComment21470268 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026016.php#IDComment21001011 Sorry BeautyofReason but must disagree with your throwing around the term "medieval" to describe the Taliban or other Islamist groups. One of the greatest theological minds, St. Thomas Aquinas was "MEDIEVAL" as were the Cathdrals at Chartre and Notre Dame. Lots of beauty and reason came out of the times referred to as "medieval" but I don't see either with acid in the face of Afghan school girls, burning down barber shops and music stores or summary executions of couples "accused" of holding hands and having illicit relations. Not exactly the stuff of Song of Roland though medieval poet Dante sure had MO pegged on where we might find his eternal abode. Thu, 7 May 2009 22:10:34 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026016.php#IDComment21001011 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026016.php#IDComment20989290 Well, ChickCartoonist, whom do you think they see as the point man in terms of a still vibrant Christianity? The Archbishop of Canterbury? That idiot "katholic" Euro trash bishop Mullens who suggested we all start praying to God as "allah"? So many Christians have refused to preach Christ, crucified and resurrected, and instead opted for semi-soft social worker prose. Benedict, Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir, Coptic priest Father Boutros all have prices on their heads or fatwas against them for a reason. Islamists ain't worried about the Father Flakes and Sister Kumbayas. Thu, 7 May 2009 18:13:37 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026016.php#IDComment20989290 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026011.php#IDComment20982641 Well at least Rep. Sam Slom has his head screwed on correctly and knows appeasement when he sees it. Well if you are looking to honor a religion for rich religous, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions then I nominate OCTOBER 7th as CATHOLIC DAY - ROMAN CATHOLIC DAY (We will need 26 other days for our sister rites such as BYZANTINE CATHOLIC DAY, MARONITE and MELKITE CATHOLIC DAY, etc.) Yep, October 7th when Romans and other Mediterranean Catholics took to their Rosaries to pray the naval forces at Lepanto to victory through the intercession of Our Lady of Victory (now replaced in most p.c. parishes by "Our Lady of Peas, oops Peace and Appeasement"). Just have the local ICU and crash cart on stand by to revive the Democrat referred to in the last paragraph of the above article. Thu, 7 May 2009 16:17:15 +0000 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026011.php#IDComment20982641