en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/350841 Comments by firstHat http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment305828153 By the same director: The Lovely Bones is about exactly that Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:41:06 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment305828153 http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/#IDComment305504455 Yes, but I also have the feeling that somehow he is still fighting for us and will never really rest until we succeed in his stead. Dumb feeling, but I can't escape it. Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:16:23 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/#IDComment305504455 http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/#IDComment305490327 There is now a huge gap in our world. What a brave and wonderful life. So very sad it is gone. I hope we all can live up to his example and carry on his work. Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:54:15 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/#IDComment305490327 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2012/02/27/alan-dershowitz-declares-war-on-media-matters/#IDComment303275899 Yup. He was one lone lib voice who supported Sarah Palin when she called the press's handling of the Gifford shooting "blood libel." Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:05:17 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2012/02/27/alan-dershowitz-declares-war-on-media-matters/#IDComment303275899 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment292849219 I don't think it glorified evil at all. What it did was illustrate human frailty and seemed more a cautionary tale about the dangers encountered when one loses oneself to (or gains one's only sense of self from) another person and chooses to escape into fantasy rather than confront the real vissitudes of life. It travels some of the same ground traveled by Dostoyevsky, but is more frightening and repulsive to us because it happens in a time and culture that seems more familiar. If anything it presents an indictment of the adolescent tendency (shared by many adults) of blurring art and life or of following a narrative rather than living in the world. It reminds me of my mother's oft repeated accusation when encountering what we would commonly call a drama queen: "she watches too many soap operas." Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:47:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment292849219 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment292481858 Hmmm.. .how do you feel about mythology? Tolkien was trying to create mythology. Whether Jackson's films hit that mark or not is a question, but before you dismiss LOTR as fantasy, you probably should understand its particular (peculiar?) genre. What would a purely English mythology look like if it was unsullied by the French or Roman influences? That was one of the (many) questions he was trying to answer. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:48:20 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment292481858 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment292478562 Does it sicken you to know that the protagonist's novels (murder mysteries) are best sellers? Actually, it is a better exploration of adolescent descent into stupidity than any other I can think of. As a psychological study I do think it did so much more than other movies of that genre. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:43:24 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/01/21/heavenly-creatures-blu-ray-review-still-director-peter-jacksons-greatest-film/#IDComment292478562 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289076695 I'm sorry, but I watched a dear dear sister die while on life support. Her blood pressure couldn't be stabilized. There was too much damage to her organs to continue. It drives me crazy when people seem to think that life support would keep a cadaver alive. It doesn't. So if people can die while on life support, why shouldn't that support be continued in case something beyond our understanding (and believe me, medicine is an art, not a science-- there is plenty that we don't understand without recourse to religion) decides for us that there might be a different outcome. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:41:14 +0000 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289076695 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289073801 Your opinion here can't be stated logically. If you were to be in a "permanent vegetative state" (and there is no clear way of knowing whether you are or aren't right now unless you are already dead in which case you wouldn't be) you would have, by what limited definition we have of such a thing, no knowledge that you were in one. However, since no one has returned from such a state (if someone had, then it wouldn't have been permanent), there's no saying how someone could or might feel in that condition. The other argument I hear goes something like, "I don't want to be a burden." I find that usually when people say they don't want to be a "burden," when I poke and probe what they usually end up admitting is that they don't want someone to end up being a burden to them. I look at my father who is admittedly in the last days of senility, and I see a being who (though he only has a few cursory memories that exist more as recitations than as true, felt memories) enjoys each moment as if it is his first. The birds on the deck need to be announced every other minute as though they only just entered into creation and needed recognition as the wonders of creation they are. Where is the "burden" in his continuance? Though many have tried to convince me otherwise, It isn't on he who celebrates each moment as though no other moment like it ever existed (and maybe we all need to do that more). The "burden" is not and should not be not on the state. The "burden" when it can be said to be one is and should be on his family and his closest community who should rejoice in his joy in life even if that joy is not one we can share in the same way. My father is not a burden he is a joy. Are our lives as we originally planned them, interrupted? Oh yes! Does the day to day care wear on my sister the caregiver? Oh yes! Would she miss a moment of his time with us. Oh my, NO! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:36:37 +0000 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289073801 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289059076 Actually, I have read the whole thing. It only gets worse, not better. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:14:17 +0000 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289059076 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289057577 By the looks of the screen name on this one, I do believe it is a troll lurking there. Nice way of saying exactly what I said above. :-) The evil is out here now. Now we can talk about it. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:11:53 +0000 http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9901/#IDComment289057577 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment289042743 Funny, I didn't know that Nolte was on TV or owned his own network. oh! wait... who's the dipstick here? I'm sorry I mistook someone down a quart for the dipstick. Forgive me. One Ad Hominem attack deserves another :-) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:48:59 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment289042743 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment289031688 I'll be the lady and mark how high they pee if you'd like! (with thanks to Flame CCT for that image!) Yup. And guys think cat fights are a problem. Zip up your pants, boys, and move on, please. There is a country about to crumble around you! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:31:08 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment289031688 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment289027676 Pardon me, when did "Beck" attack Sarah Palin? Read the article and the blog, please. It wasn't Beck, it was a blogger at the Blaze. Unless, of course you want to commit the same crime you are accusing Beck of committing? eh? eh?... Crickets.... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:24:44 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment289027676 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288940558 1) He still has a disease that may make him go blind. So does his sister. No telling if or when. Would you feel better if he wept about it every week? 2) He still has the problem with neuralgia. These things come and go as anyone who has an auto immune disease will tell you. Do you want daily reports? 3) The only thing that is holding back hyper inflation here is the same thing that is holding it back in Japan. As long as you keep the economy from growing, that inflation will remain under control. Watch out if the economy truly improves. Whether or not the powers that be can find a way to grow the economy without also causing hyper inflation remains to be seen. Beck is right in that no country has ever navigated that balance in the past so in the meantime we watch and wait and hope. 4) Beck is the first to say he has no sense of timing, but most of his "crazy" predictions and statements have come true. The fact that we shrug off most of them without a growing sense of fear says more about how much we are lulled by Big Media in this country than whether there is a problem or not. If you want to call Beck crazy, then you've got to include Horowitz, Poe, Geller, Napolitano and to some extent, even Bolton.. are you ready to do that?: 4.a: Crazy talk: The "Arab Spring" is the beginning of a move to a caliphate when Bill Krystol and company were applauding. Answer: Even the NYT finally admitted that this was the danger and the recent activity in Egypt certainly doesn't suggest otherwise. 4.b Crazy talk: The housing bubble will take down the economy. Answer: hmmmm don't think I even need to fill in the blanks there 4.c Crazy talk: George Soros and his buddies are trying to (and have been trying for a long time) to destabilize the economy. Answer: Listen to Soros' own words. I could go on, but I don't need to. Your "imbecilic routine" is either ignorant or complicit with what is bearing down upon us. You need to grow up or go join the folks who are working to make all the "crazy" predictions come true (as I once did) and then come back and apologize when you realize you are wrong. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:11:30 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288940558 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288930244 yup I was sorely tempted to simply post: Fire Hydrant this way ----> Go do it there. But I'm too much of a lady ... or maybe not :-) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:56 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288930244 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288910795 hmmmm ... Was it Beck who wrote it? Don't think so. If you have problems with Beck and the way he presents HIS opinions, then take that up in another venue. Don't ride something as silly as this it just makes your argument look petty and silly. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:29:55 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288910795 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288909853 Thanks for the heads up. I've not been paying as much attention to Fox lately and I probably should. I'll send them a note as soon as I can. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:28:42 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288909853 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288870100 Actually, I think the Bigs have fallen off the cliff. This isn't about YOU you idiots! Geeeez look at what is going on around you, concentrate on saving this country and quit this stupid incessant bickering. If you really think Beck is such an idiot, quit reading his site. I like Palin, but as others have said, Palin can take care of her self and has an open line to Beck if she wants to complain. You don't have to do it for her. Keep your eye on the real targets and quit worrying when someone else forgets what that target is. . Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:34:00 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/10/becks-blaze-doubles-down-on-palin-smear-writer-scrubs-whore-tweet/#IDComment288870100 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/wkopping/2012/02/03/cultural-jihad-cair-wants-anti-islamist-documentary-removed-from-counter-terrorism-training/#IDComment282878644 The left is in an unholy (adjective chosen carefully) alliance with radical Islam. It wants to harness the motivation behind it for its own purposes, ignoring the contradictions between its asserted/pretended agenda (gay rights, women's rights....) and those of militant Islam in order to gain the momentum and disruption of Western Civilization available within the movement. Look no further than the thoughts of one of the intellectual darlings of the left, Foucault, who wrote many decades ago "As an Islamic movement, it can set the entire region afire, overturn the most unstable regimes, and disturb the most solid. Islam which is not simply a religion, but an entire way of life, an adherence to a history and a civilization, has a good chance to become a gigantic powder keg, at the level of hundreds of millions of men. . . Indeed, it is also important to recognize that the demand for the 'legitimate rights of the Palestinian people' hardly stirred the Arab peoples. What it be if this cause encompassed the dynamism of an Islamic movement, something much stronger than those with a Marxist, Leninist, or Maoist character? " What fools! Doesn't the left realize that it will be the first to go when Islam takes hold? I can't help but think of the last of Lewis's Narnia series. There the first to be destroyed were the unbelieving bad guys who called on the terrible god, Tash, not because they believed in Tash, but in order to coerce the people who believed. The left has called Tash not believing that Tash is real and Tash will come and they will be his first victims. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:18:09 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/wkopping/2012/02/03/cultural-jihad-cair-wants-anti-islamist-documentary-removed-from-counter-terrorism-training/#IDComment282878644