en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/323660 Comments by Stuart_Creque http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/03/16/how-many-idiots-does-it-take-to-turn-off-a-lightbulb/#IDComment17158139 Christmas lights? Hell, call up a rental company for some searchlights -- like for a grand opening. You can use a whole city block's worth of juice on those puppies! AND they'll be extra-visible against a darker-than-normal sky... assuming that anyone actually DOES turn out their lights for this event. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:14:22 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/03/16/how-many-idiots-does-it-take-to-turn-off-a-lightbulb/#IDComment17158139 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/02/26/hey-peta-eat-me/#IDComment15846192 MEAT IS MURDER (tasty, tasty murder) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:02:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/02/26/hey-peta-eat-me/#IDComment15846192 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/02/25/fear-and-loathing-in-the-mystery-machine‏/#IDComment15810880 Quisp! Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:00:54 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/02/25/fear-and-loathing-in-the-mystery-machine‏/#IDComment15810880 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15798126 I like "WAGD" as a shorthand. The entire message of Obama's address to Congress was delivered better by Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: "Come with me if you want to live." (Implicit is the idea that anyone who won't follow Obama blindly into massive carbon taxes, socialized medicine and the rest must be a suicidal nut case.) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:25:27 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15798126 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ykochar/2009/02/23/the-war-for-the-castle-of-our-imagination/#IDComment15797937 How about Thomas a Becket??? Isn't that the "canonical" example? Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:19:28 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ykochar/2009/02/23/the-war-for-the-castle-of-our-imagination/#IDComment15797937 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15717111 Selene (also known as Luna or Phoebe) is one of the forms of the Moon goddess. Roman Diana (Artemis, or sometimes Cynthia, in Greek) is another. Hecate is the third form. Three different goddesses with different personalities and powers, all of whom are incarnations of the Moon at different phases. So your Mom's honor is intact. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:00:36 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15717111 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15715081 You're reminding me of the Disney Channel movie Zenon: Z3, where the intrepid teen heroine of the space age has to engineer the removal of a moon base from the moon in order to propitiate the Moon Goddess Selena. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:42:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15715081 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15714068 They can't even acknowledge the diametric contradiction between worshiping Earth as 'Gaia.' the all-powerful goddess, and believing that human beings are all-powerful over Earth's fate. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:14:56 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15714068 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15714028 Interesting thought experiment: we could build a band of photovoltaic cells around the equator of the Moon (so that half of it would always be in direct sunlight) and then beam the electric power back to Earth in microwave form. You could power all of mankind's needs in this way. What would the environmentalists' objection be to that scheme? Because you know they'd have to object. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:13:28 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15714028 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ykochar/2009/02/23/the-war-for-the-castle-of-our-imagination/#IDComment15713878 I will have to search out the citation from my books at home, but the history of Communist infiltration of Hollywood was one of failure during the 1930s to the 1950s. Very few movies were made from overtly or covertly Marxist or pro-Soviet scripts. When the Comintern complained to its handlers about the lack of output, they were told to be patient, that it was very difficult to get these themes into production. Meanwhile, the handlers were living a high lifestyle in Hollywood -- definitely better than back home in Moscow. The balance really shifted in the 1960s, when the Red Scare faded and Communism was no longer viewed as the existential threat that it had been. That allowed Leftist views to be explicit in American movies. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:09:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ykochar/2009/02/23/the-war-for-the-castle-of-our-imagination/#IDComment15713878 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/02/23/the-foreclosures-burg-address-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech/#IDComment15712957 I'd put this up in the same satiric league as Iowahawk. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:47:47 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/02/23/the-foreclosures-burg-address-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech/#IDComment15712957 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15712850 That's true. For people who claim that the anthropocentric view of the Bible (that the Earth was created for man, and that man has the duty of stewardship over it even as he has the right to use its resources) is evil and wrong, they have an anthropomorphic view of ecology that says that humankind can affect things that in reality are determined by cosmic forces that overwhelm man's contribution. Human beings are not more powerful than the Sun, the Moon, the tides, plate tectonics, atmospheric chemistry, ocean currents, the rest of the biosphere.... Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:44:45 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15712850 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15712663 Don't beat yourself up so much, Nathan. Think of all the people who voted to re-elect Clinton when they pretty much knew who and what he was. I recall almost all of them being able to rationalize after the fact why their vote was justified, even in the face of his undeniable lies and indefensible acts against the women around him. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:40:32 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15712663 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15711527 The upside of that strategy is that you win either way: either the guy you voted for wins, or the guy you want to win does. You just have to be willing to stomach the guy you vote for. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:11:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15711527 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15711470 I wonder how many people realize that at the height of the last Ice Age, Canada was under a sheet of ice two miles thick, or that sea levels were 300 feet lower than today? And that this was within the last 20,000 years (the last Ice Age having ended only about 12,000 years ago, when human beings were well-established in North America)? How is it that the natural processes that heated up the globe from that point were benign, but any slight change from today's climate is a cause for universal panic? Not ranting at you -- ranting at the ignorance of the masses. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:10:14 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15711470 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15711147 They need crisis to induce panic. They need panic to get the masses to agree to hare-brained "solutions" that conveniently concentrate power and wealth in the hands of the panic-mongers. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:01:29 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15711147 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15709571 There's also the laziness factor, in which the incumbent relies on the laziness of the voters to keep them from learning about the challenger's record, positions, principles and plans. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:24:42 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/02/23/the-reality-of-reality/#IDComment15709571 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/#IDComment15708896 I agree with some of what Fred Reed writes. But I disagree that Israel is still trying to annex the West Bank in total, or that its rule there is brutal. Also, Israel totally withdrew from Gaza, so it can't be said to be pursuing brutal rule there. Perhaps the new discovery of a vast natural gas field offshore in Israeli territorial waters will change the balance -- if it allows Israel to become not only energy independent but an energy exporter. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:09:43 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/#IDComment15708896 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/#IDComment15622872 Charles, I've often said that the sign that the world is finally sane will be when there are photos of the Gay Pride Parade in Mecca. (It's already a regular event in Jerusalem.) Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:54:33 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/#IDComment15622872 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/#IDComment15622785 It really has the most to do with the desire of Hollywood moguls back in the 1930s to blend into the background of American life. In the 1920s, there were movies that had explicit Jewish-American themes -- The Jazz Singer, for example -- but in the 1930s, maybe because of the rise of Father Coughlin and the specter of Soviet Communism, being Jewish in America wasn't something you wanted everyone to know. The moguls did their part by making Jews scarce on the silver screen. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:51:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/#IDComment15622785