en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2358712 Comments by mozarkite http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/27/denis-leary-mocks-islam-in-charlie-brown-spoof-fascistic-left-predictably-freaks-out/#IDComment248632672 I have read multiple interviews with various imams, some western-based, some in islamic hell holes, kindly explaining to us that the koran existed from eternity, that the laws based on koranic teachings are therefore heavenly & 'man made' laws are "unjust" by definition, that BECAUSE the koran existed from all time it can never be changed, and therefore none of mohammad's teachings or sharia can ever be changed. As a result, the teaching that moslems MUST force all non moslems to convert or accept death or slavery (dhimmitude) can NEVER be changed....Moslems might have to wait indefinitely till they're strong enough to establish a global islamic state, but that *MUST* remain the goal of any and all true moslems . So why don't leftists admit that this satiric video is expressing essentially the truth about islam? Are they so arrogant that they believe that these imams are just too ignorant to realize that what they *really* want is "economic justice" or a better sex life? Are leftists just incapable of taking religion seriously? Are they too lazy to read up on islam? Or is it something worse? There is a group of activist men online who call themselves "men's rights activists" or MRAs for short. That men are often treated unfairly in matters of divorce , custody, child support, accusations of abuse etc, is accepted as truth by many people including women. But a few of the MRAs seem to be less interested in fairness and more in re establishing male dominance. In the online MRA boards on which I lurk, I have read a few posts from MRAs who state that once sharia courts are established in their countries , that they intend to convert to islam and use these courts, believing these courts will be biased in favor of men, particularly in matters of custody or spousal support. Granted, talk's cheap...But is it just possible that these MRAs are not the only westerners hoping to use islam for their own gain? Are at least a few of the pro islam leftists not so much ignorant, as thinking THEY can feign conversion & then have power over 'society', both moslem and those westerners who will refuse to convert & so will be forced into dhimmitude? That leftists want to control everyone else's lives is a given; look how they tried to use AGW . Why not try to use islam as they are trying to use environmentalism? Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:07 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/27/denis-leary-mocks-islam-in-charlie-brown-spoof-fascistic-left-predictably-freaks-out/#IDComment248632672 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtaylor/2011/12/20/top-five-christmas-films-for-non-christians/#IDComment242952832 A year or two ago, my cable company accidentally did the exact same thing! I was all set to watch me a good supernatural serial killer show (sometimes only a serial killer movie really hits the spot), and then that sap fest came on! I was so mad! Or...was it an accident....? Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:20:32 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtaylor/2011/12/20/top-five-christmas-films-for-non-christians/#IDComment242952832 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/zleeman/2011/12/19/stephen-king-helps-fellow-mainers-doesnt-see-irony-of-higher-tax-stance/#IDComment242652991 Stephen King's early works (and The Stand is a VERY early work) treat blue collar and poor people with respect and as individuals. By the time his It was published, I noticed a tendency to put in little asides in to remind the reader that the author hob nobs with wealthy celebrities. This tendency grew until not only were most of his protagonists upper class, wealthy , successful people, but those of his characters which were not were often treated as degenerate failures and were mostly cardboard caricatures . IOW, as King became wealthy he associated with wealthy people, he began to take on their attitude towards middle class and working class people as his own, and it shows in his works. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:23:25 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/zleeman/2011/12/19/stephen-king-helps-fellow-mainers-doesnt-see-irony-of-higher-tax-stance/#IDComment242652991 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2011/12/19/nation-reporter-deep-racism-at-the-heart-of-food-stamp-reform/#IDComment241870604 The last figures I saw (this was from a few years back, maybe circa 2000-2002) had whites as only 33% of all welfare recipients nationwide-even though whites are 70+ % of the nation's population. Blacks, at only 12-13% of the nation's population, make up 36% of all welfare recipients nationwide. Asians were 2% of the nation's population but 6% of welfare recipients, the remaining 25% are divided between Latinos and everyone else (American Indians, Pacific Islanders, and *probably* unknowns/refused to say. ) So whites are no doubt the majority of welfare recipients in some largely white cities and states, but nationwide? Not even close. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:18:16 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2011/12/19/nation-reporter-deep-racism-at-the-heart-of-food-stamp-reform/#IDComment241870604 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/epokroy/2011/07/24/a-brief-history-of-comics-part-ii/#IDComment176997937 Wouldn't surprise me. I have been reading comics since the early 1970s, and I have NEVER seen so much lickspittle adulation of a sitting president in all those years. Not just the "biography" comics, but the comics in which BHO made an appearance as a heroic figure, for pete's sake! Sure , presidents have always popped up in comics now and then as the plot demanded, but I have never seen a sitting president treated as a fantasy/action hero in my lifetime any way. And there were, what 5-6 comics doing that from 20008 on till maybe late 2009/early 2010. I guess lousy sales killed those comics-a sign of hope? Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:38:27 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/epokroy/2011/07/24/a-brief-history-of-comics-part-ii/#IDComment176997937 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kloder/2011/07/23/captain-america-review-marvel-origin-story-done-right/#IDComment176996209 Me, too. The film was quite enjoyable, but all through it , I would think of the contrast between then and now, and various...THINGS...I read about daily (obamacare/"personal mandate" aka Death of the 13th amendment, flash mobs, attacks on the 2nd amendment, the debt debacle, unemployment-too many things to list, really...And my eyes kept stinging. But it was one of the best super hero movies I've seen. I thought it better than Thor (which I also enjoyed) and certainly better than Green Lantern (it's not good when , the first time the "hero" uses his power, you're hoping the unemployed men beat the crap out of him any way.) Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:32:46 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kloder/2011/07/23/captain-america-review-marvel-origin-story-done-right/#IDComment176996209 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kloder/2011/07/23/captain-america-review-marvel-origin-story-done-right/#IDComment176994611 First Iron Man was great, but I thought the first Spider-Man was pretty good too. Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:28:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kloder/2011/07/23/captain-america-review-marvel-origin-story-done-right/#IDComment176994611 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/epokroy/2011/07/24/a-brief-history-of-comics-part-ii/#IDComment176993245 Yep, I mostly just buy GNs and TPBs these days....Right now, I buy Mice Templar, The Unwritten, Fables, and...that's about it. Every other purchase is a "nostalgia" buy : eg, DC Showcase TPBs of the horror comics I was reading as a child back in the 1970s, or collections of romance and crime comics from before my time (1930s-early 1960s). I was really sorry to see Strangers in Paradise, the Sandman, Bone, and ElfQuest come to their respective demises. :-( but at least all those stories wrapped up . What I REALLY hate are the great story lines and comics (especially the self published/small publisher comics from the late 1980s-1990s) that just petered out. Disappeared. Just weren't showing up in Advance or Previews. A Touch of Silver, HepCats, Naughty Bits...too many to mention, really. Pretty much all the collections, GNS, and archives being published today are readily attainable on amazon and for substantially less than cover price , but I am buying them at my one local comic book store to help keep the place going. I will do that for as long as I can afford to. By the way, I am a 46 year old woman. Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:23:43 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/epokroy/2011/07/24/a-brief-history-of-comics-part-ii/#IDComment176993245 http://bigpeace.com/elcid/2011/07/17/islamic-teacher-bring-back-slave-girls/#IDComment175145777 "Mohammedans"? For followers of islam? That doesn't make sense-their prophet's name was mahound ! ;-D (I was reading a book published in 1972, and as late as that, mohammedan was used and apparently considered an acceptable, interchangeable term with moslem. It would be interesting to find out exactly when all that changed : I'm guessing late 1980s/early 1990s.) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:31:20 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/elcid/2011/07/17/islamic-teacher-bring-back-slave-girls/#IDComment175145777 http://bigpeace.com/elcid/2011/07/17/islamic-teacher-bring-back-slave-girls/#IDComment174800076 I believe they actually HATE the moslem spelling and pronunciation...Which is why I use it, of course. Apparently 'moslem' sounds somewhat like their word for oppressor, if you believe wikipedia: "Until around the late 1980s, the word was commonly spelled Moslem. The spelling has since fallen into disuse. Muslims do not recommend this spelling because it is often pronounced "mawzlem" /mɒzlɛm/ which sounds somewhat similar to an Arabic word for "oppressor" (Za'lem in Arabic). The word is pronounced /muslem/ in Arabic, but often /mʊzlɪm/ in English. The word is now most commonly written "Muslim". They may hate the obsolete 'musselman' even more, so perhaps that's the term we should be using. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:55:45 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/elcid/2011/07/17/islamic-teacher-bring-back-slave-girls/#IDComment174800076 http://guyism.com/lifestyle/annoying-shows-women-watch-and-how-to-survive-them.html#IDComment173424224 I'm a woman, and I've never even seen a single episode of these shows-or even HEARD of some of them (4,5,7). If Louise gets a prize, I better get a bigger one-a pony, maybe! Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:07:42 +0000 http://guyism.com/lifestyle/annoying-shows-women-watch-and-how-to-survive-them.html#IDComment173424224 http://www.sundriesshack.com/2011/07/13/oooh-that-evil-netflix-why-ill-just-wait-theyre-going-to-have-to-pay-how-much-oh/#IDComment173422228 Netflix's streaming is pretty bad. The movie "hangs" and won't download, sometimes for minutes rather than seconds, there's the issue of availability (most of their downloadable library is pretty old, movies (eg The Godfather trilogy) are available for 3-6 months and then they are no longer available)....When I first read netflix intended some day to be ALL streaming, I wondered how they would address those issues,AND just how they would charge for streaming (Flat monthly rate? So many hours a month total? By the film?) I knew they wouldn't be able to stick to the now cancelled plans. So I am not as upset as others, as I knew *something* would have to change, if only to pay for the massively increased server capacity that will be needed. We have 2 out, unlimited streaming, which will go from (roughly) $20 a month to (roughly )$25 a month. Still a pretty good deal...For now. We also have amazon prime, so we will probably use that service a bit more, and if it + Hulu is a better deal than netflix, well....But for now, we'll stick with netflix. For now... Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:59:31 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/2011/07/13/oooh-that-evil-netflix-why-ill-just-wait-theyre-going-to-have-to-pay-how-much-oh/#IDComment173422228 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhanlon/2011/06/29/transformers-dark-side-of-the-moon-review-in-a-word-awful/#IDComment168105667 I already hate this film because its release date seems to be what prevented Captain America from being released over the July 4th weekend, which would have been so *RIGHT*. That, and I hated the first two...though at least the first one had a cute chihuahua in it. ("You have a rodent...Shall I exterminate it?" "It leaked on me!") Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:19:52 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhanlon/2011/06/29/transformers-dark-side-of-the-moon-review-in-a-word-awful/#IDComment168105667 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lstranahan/2011/04/07/review-the-wild-and-wonderful-whites-of-west-virginia-a-good-film-about-bad-people/#IDComment140720097 For anyone interested in seeing this documentary : If you have a netflix membership, it's currently available for instant viewing or streaming. Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:45:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lstranahan/2011/04/07/review-the-wild-and-wonderful-whites-of-west-virginia-a-good-film-about-bad-people/#IDComment140720097 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/19/sanity-and-sanctity-the-ennobling-fantasy-of-j-r-r-tolkien-part-1/#IDComment129229859 Agreed on Tim Powers, particularly his On Stranger Tides, which deserves better than to be thought of as the original source for POTC IV. I also recommend Hope Mirrlees Lud-in-the-Mist, and ER Eddison (though his prose style is not to everyone's tastes.) Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:54:48 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/19/sanity-and-sanctity-the-ennobling-fantasy-of-j-r-r-tolkien-part-1/#IDComment129229859 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127891632 I'm glad someone else upthread mentioned Tim Powers. I agree with that writer's praise of Drawing of the Dark, and Stress of Her Regard, and I'll add that Powers On Stranger Tides is one of the finest fantasy novels I've ever read. It's best described as a fantasy/alternate reality/voodoo/pirate novel-seriously. It's being made into a movie and it would be a shame if being turned into POTC IV were to dim the memory of the original novel. I also recommend Hope Mirrlees Lud-In-The-Mist. It's one of the few fantasy novels worthy of being compared to LOTR-and it's NOTHING like LOTR. It depicts a city-state or small country (the Lud of the title) that's a part of Faerie.(Lud seems to be based on 17th century Holland and /or London, or both. ) But it regards itself as a sober, workaday country and the people are afraid of neighboring Faerie, particularly of Faerie infiltrating and infecting their city. In this city, a man is forced to go into Faerie to rescue his young son. An ordinary man rising to heroism, a father's love for his child, a discourse on the need to balance fantasy and reality,a murder mystery, beautiful prose-what more can a reader want? Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:39:54 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127891632 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127890246 Agreed. After reading a few, I was depressed for a day or two. I have a vivid imagination, and I "go into" books when I read them. As I read the books, I didn't find the "feeling" of being a woman on Gor remotely erotic-I felt trapped and a bit panicky (sometimes becoming too involved with books is not a good thing!) I was mildly depressed after my 'reading experience' was finished, just thinking about how there were people out there who thought the Gor books a sexual stimulant. That said, I certainly would not want the books banned . I don't question the right of John Frederick Lange to write the crap, or of other people to read it. I just won't make that mistake again. As for good fantasy books, I recommend Hope Mirrlees 'Lud-In-The-Mist'. Lovely book, both with its depiction of a sort of 17th century Anglo-Dutch fantasy world which itself regards neighboring Faerie as the true and dangerous fantasy world,( seeing itself as sober reality), AND for its theme of a father's love for his young son, and his willingness to rise to heroism to save his child. Mixed in is a murder mystery...Really, it's undescribable...I recommend it to all fantasy lovers, particularly those who are tired of squalid fantasy worlds. Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:28:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2011/02/12/the-bankrupt-nihilism-of-our-fallen-fantasists/#IDComment127890246 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/05/faster-pussycat-cult-legend-vera-satana-dead-at-72/#IDComment126316992 I've noticed that move and more netflix movies in my queue are long wait/short wait. It used to be that the only movies with waits were new releases-it was rare to see an older movie with a wait period. But starting 2010 or so, the number of movies with waits increased dramatically. I thought this was because netflix plans to go entirely to streaming, and so they are no longer bothering to buy discs . DH says it's because the membership at netflix has risen, so there aren't enough discs to go around. All I know is, back when I joined in 2005 or so , netflix rarely had waits on anything but newer releases...Now, half my queue seems to have waits. Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:58:37 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/05/faster-pussycat-cult-legend-vera-satana-dead-at-72/#IDComment126316992 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2011/02/04/why-hollywood-cant-find-americans-to-portray-american-superheroes-not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that/#IDComment125991432 Wholehearted agreement. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:11:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2011/02/04/why-hollywood-cant-find-americans-to-portray-american-superheroes-not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that/#IDComment125991432 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2011/01/31/the-curious-case-of-free-thinking-film-critic-armond-white/#IDComment124968982 When the Joker gave that, "Hello, Beautiful!" line in TDK, there was audible, derisive laughter in my local theater. Apparently that was a pretty common response Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:49:17 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2011/01/31/the-curious-case-of-free-thinking-film-critic-armond-white/#IDComment124968982