en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1172008 Comments by Ofnir http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/16/remove-the-carriers-from-the-persian-gulf/#IDComment499448787 While it was the biggest single loss of aircraft in a while, 8 does not equal "most of our aircraft fleet". The bigger issue with that attack was how easily they got into the base. Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:41:14 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/16/remove-the-carriers-from-the-persian-gulf/#IDComment499448787 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/29/the-new-blacklist-how-hollywood-turned-valor-into-triumph-of-the-will/#IDComment304619776 Some people having doubts I can see...but an entire unit, whining nonstop for an entire mini-campaign? Having grown up in the military community (dad was USAF, uncles were USMC and Army, mom and Grandpa were Navy...I grew up on or right next to military bases of assorted types), I'm having a hard time seeing anything other than the combat sequences in Private Ryan as anything more than Hollywood drama-induction via watered-down Vietnam-era's soldier memes. Even with my friends who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, there wasn't that kind of whining. They complained about conditions, weapons, ROE, etc; but I've never heard them whine about "ZOMG WHY ARE WE DOING THIS/WHY ARE WE HERE?!" like the guys in Private Ryan; and they get disgusted with civilians who try to do it on their behalf. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:07:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/29/the-new-blacklist-how-hollywood-turned-valor-into-triumph-of-the-will/#IDComment304619776 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/28/how-act-of-valor-broke-through-to-the-mainstream/#IDComment304322573 And it's literally like one line of dialogue. He was a smuggler who we kept interdicting, so he was mad at the USA. He was just incidentally Jewish. As Jumpmaster said, the interrogator was surprised and asked why he was helping the Muslim terrorist badguy, and it was because they both were mad at America and the Muslim guy converted after they'd parted ways after being friends as kids. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:18:31 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/28/how-act-of-valor-broke-through-to-the-mainstream/#IDComment304322573 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/28/how-act-of-valor-broke-through-to-the-mainstream/#IDComment304319182 Exactly. Easier to blame it on piracy and Netflix than to actually do any market research. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:12:29 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/28/how-act-of-valor-broke-through-to-the-mainstream/#IDComment304319182 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/24/harry-reid-and-senate-democrats-are-holding-up-24-jobs-bills-passed-by-the-house/#IDComment301070018 Sorta, the natives were probably packing a few Winchester M1866s, which uses the same repeating system as the Henry and were produced in far greater numbers (about 10x as many were made); but recent forensic studies of the field and recovered shells shows they used basically whatever they could get their hands on and picked up 7th Cav weapons as they went . 7th Cav was equipped with Model 1873 Springfield Trapdoor Carbines and Colt .45's (officers could buy their own weapons; Custer had custom dual pistols and a .50 Remington sport rifle). They had slightly longer effective range, but a lower firing rate than the repeaters. Custer also left the canons behind because they were too slow for how he wanted to move, and he refused to deploy his two Gatlings at all because he didn't believe they'd work. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:54:49 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/24/harry-reid-and-senate-democrats-are-holding-up-24-jobs-bills-passed-by-the-house/#IDComment301070018 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/21/director-oliver-stones-son-makes-excuses-for-ahmadinejads-holocaust-denials/#IDComment298741774 Also, ignoring the fact that a lot of the Jews are only there to begin with because of the Holocaust and the Nazi's initial attempts at deportation, and later Jews trying to escape, and the Brits trying to find a place to put them... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:18:36 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/21/director-oliver-stones-son-makes-excuses-for-ahmadinejads-holocaust-denials/#IDComment298741774 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2012/02/14/do-keith-olbermann-and-markos-moulitsas-think-that-rape-doesnt-matter/#IDComment292854904 Jester, the problem lies in that the Occupiers set up these safe zones only after women had to just about overthrow the leadership meetings and threaten to start making a stink out of it to the press. Not that long ago -about a month or so-, one of the Occupy group' leadership boards (think it was Oakland) beat one of the women raising the issue into a concussion with a chair for bringing it up repeatedly when they were trying to ignore the issue. They've also been dissuading going to the police, and instead want women to report it to some sort of internal security apparatus; which has been doing nothing (thus the one lady who got beaten being a pain) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:56:31 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2012/02/14/do-keith-olbermann-and-markos-moulitsas-think-that-rape-doesnt-matter/#IDComment292854904 http://biggovernment.com/nsorrentino/2012/02/04/why-many-young-people-love-ron-paul-and-why-many-older-people-despise-him/#IDComment284106156 I'm 29, and most of my friends are around that age. A lot are more fond of Paul than I am. My problem with him is he starts off saying some good stuff; then goes off into realms of crazy/ignorance with it. Like his belief that if we pulled out of everywhere, then everywhere would at least be neutral to us. History does not bear this out (Barbary anyone?). His Constitutional stances are much the same way; like when he gets going off on how not being on the gold standard is unconstitutional. The gold standard and it's pluses and minuses are debatable, but the only place gold is even mentioned at all is in Article I, Section 10, where it bans states from printing individual state currencies of gold and silver. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:58:42 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/nsorrentino/2012/02/04/why-many-young-people-love-ron-paul-and-why-many-older-people-despise-him/#IDComment284106156 http://biggovernment.com/nsorrentino/2012/02/04/why-many-young-people-love-ron-paul-and-why-many-older-people-despise-him/#IDComment284102405 Txborn, I'm firmly convinced they'd still go after us even if we did a 100% pullout. In fact, I believe if we invented cold fusion and a non-petroleum based safe artificial lubricant for those engines (not gonna happen...), they'd hate us all the more for inventing the end of the only thing they really have for an economic resource. That a lot of these groups we're having trouble with blame us for stuff we haven't done, and some of it stuff that happened before we, as a country, existed tends to bear this out, I think. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:51:20 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/nsorrentino/2012/02/04/why-many-young-people-love-ron-paul-and-why-many-older-people-despise-him/#IDComment284102405 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/20/chuck-todd-rips-stephen-colbert-his-real-agenda-is-anti-republican-msm-aids-and-abets/#IDComment269667333 The problem is that they both go off, in interviews, about how they're informing the public; but when caught in outright lies, they fall back to "WELL I'M JUST A COMEDIAN! IT'S A JOKE! LIGHTEN UP!" You expect some exaggeration to go on in their particular field; but they make stuff up out of whole cloth and run it as the serious/factual setup for a later joke far too often for my taste, which is why I stopped watching both years ago. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:20:18 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/20/chuck-todd-rips-stephen-colbert-his-real-agenda-is-anti-republican-msm-aids-and-abets/#IDComment269667333 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/22/trailer-talk-ridley-scotts-prometheus-looks-like-this-summers-must-see/#IDComment245121986 I still have to laugh about this, considering the contemporary Christian chronicles play Saladin up as this great guy. How much of this was to make Richard look more awesome by having an honorable opponent, to save face when he and the King of France failed their Crusade, and just not knowing he murdered his way to the top are debatable. Saladin was pretty much a footnote to the Muslims until the Arab nationalist movements started in the early 1900's. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:16:18 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/22/trailer-talk-ridley-scotts-prometheus-looks-like-this-summers-must-see/#IDComment245121986 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/19/occupybatman-dark-knight-rises-villainess-spouts-obama-campaign-theme/#IDComment242802750 Since you haven't looked into it, they had CIA kill teams on bin Laden three times (that I know of). They were ready to move in on him, twice with personnel, once with a drone strike. Clinton just had to give the go command and it would have been done a few minutes afterwords, but he was afraid of the political blowout from operating the CIA inside another country's borders...which is kinda it's entire purpose. So they'd request a deportation of bin Laden afterwards, which just tipped them off that the CIA teams were there anyway. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:34:22 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/19/occupybatman-dark-knight-rises-villainess-spouts-obama-campaign-theme/#IDComment242802750 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/19/occupybatman-dark-knight-rises-villainess-spouts-obama-campaign-theme/#IDComment242140025 As we all know, all analogies have to be 1:1 exactly, but with names replaced, right? I mean, it's not like you can represent broad themes without making everything EXACTLY THE SAME between the two situations being analyzed...it's not like you can use symbolism or anything to represent broad ideas. Such a concept is unprecedented in all of human history! That's assuming your scenario is 1:1; which it's still not, even by liberal memes on the GWOT standards. "But if the Dark Knight movies are rightwing, and Hollywood keeps producing them, then that means Hollywood doesn't discriminate against rightwingers, right?" Because one or two movies out of 5,476 (according to iMDB) in 2008, mostly slightly left-leaning to full-out moonbat = intellectual parity. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:54:24 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/19/occupybatman-dark-knight-rises-villainess-spouts-obama-campaign-theme/#IDComment242140025 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/15/first-look-poster-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus/#IDComment239117235 That's why the first one worked too. The whole human race is never explicitly at stake in that one; but based on what the Alien does on the ship, it's not that hard to extrapolate in your own mind; and you get to see a taste of that extrapolation in Aliens. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:39:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/15/first-look-poster-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus/#IDComment239117235 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/15/first-look-poster-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus/#IDComment239114196 It started as a direct Alien prequel, but Scott went through several revisions and now, from what's been released and officially stated, it's the same feel and universe, but not a direct prequel. Based on the leaked trailer and images, it looks like they find another derelict like in the first Alien movie (or the same ship before it crashed); which I'm guessing is how Weyland-Yutani gets the comm codes/location for the derelict in the original Alien film. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:35:20 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/15/first-look-poster-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus/#IDComment239114196 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/15/first-look-poster-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus/#IDComment239107825 "By the way, the first Alien was the best, space marines, power suits and 'You bitch!' aside. " Not sure if trolling.... On the assumption of not trolling, that was the 2nd movie (Aliens), and was directed by James Cameron. The first one, done by Scott, was the one with only one alien on the spaceship and a cast of all of like 6 people. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:28:05 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/15/first-look-poster-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus/#IDComment239107825 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/14/daily-call-sheet-a-gift-from-the-l-a-times-rise-of-the-apes-podcast-and-the-ugly-truth-behind-erin-brockovich/#IDComment237534795 I read several articles about that a few years ago too. It made a bit of a round on the conservative blogs, and if memory serves there was one of the biggie newspapers doing an online only story about it. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:12:16 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/14/daily-call-sheet-a-gift-from-the-l-a-times-rise-of-the-apes-podcast-and-the-ugly-truth-behind-erin-brockovich/#IDComment237534795 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/11/video-game-depicts-occupy-wall-street-types-as-terrorists/#IDComment236478289 Clancy hasn't exactly had a ton to do with the games since Red Storm was bought out by Ubisoft. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:04:18 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/12/11/video-game-depicts-occupy-wall-street-types-as-terrorists/#IDComment236478289 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/07/panicked-left-wing-entertainment-media-mocks-conservative-muppet-backlash/#IDComment234396440 I was wondering this too. Dad watches FOX News, and I haven't heard anything about this when he's had it on. In fact, I've only really heard it out of libs complaining about FOX being on an anti-Muppets witchhunt. Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:08:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/07/panicked-left-wing-entertainment-media-mocks-conservative-muppet-backlash/#IDComment234396440 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/05/report-pedophilia-rampant-in-hollywood/#IDComment233357284 I kinda wondered about this after the latest reaction to Polanski. The kinds of defense (It's not rape-rape, it's okay because the mom knew and was pimping her out so be mad at the mom and not Polanski, he's an artist so it's okay, etc.) we saw there doesn't happen unless there's a general acceptance Tue, 6 Dec 2011 01:06:45 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/05/report-pedophilia-rampant-in-hollywood/#IDComment233357284