I find it interesting that Women's Groups will object to a pro life ad but have NO objection to the Superbowl Go Daddy tits and p*ssy ads which sexualize women AREN'T offensive to them Effing hypocrites! These are the same women's groups who claim to be' pro choice'.... well you can't be pro choice if you don't let allow OTHER choices! KUDOS to CBS for allowing this ad to run and not caving in to a butch of bitching bitches. And major Kudos to Tim Tebow for sharing his story and having the courage to stand firm and remain dignified in the face of unending bigotry and hatred from alleged "progressive liberals".

I'll say it again... you can't be pro choice if you don't allow other choices.

Abdul was NOT on the Do Not Fly list. .. he was on a 'watchlist'. His father ---a wealthy Niigerian banker called the US Embassy 7 days ago and warned them his son had been highly radicalized, and that he was a serious threat. WHY OH WHY was Abdul NOT ADDED TO THE DO NOT FLY LIST at that time. What does it take to graduate from the "watchlist' to the Do Not Fly list??

AND it gets better peeps--- he only had a small carry on bag and HE HAD NO PASSPORT. Who travels from Nigeria to Europe to the US with ONLY A SMALL CARRY ON BAG????

Oh and it still gets better people....... A slick well dressed man wearing expensive threads approached the NWA counter at Amsterdam airport with Abdul and 'persuaded' the counter reps to LET ABDUL ON THE FLIGHT WITHOUT A PASSPORT... claiming he was from Nigeria and they don't have passports in Nigeria ----- sob sob sob story.

The counter reps referred him to their Manager who apparently OKAYED Abdul to board the plane WITHOUT A PASSPORT, with NO luggage to check in, even though he was on a "watchlist'!!!

THIS IS APPALLING in a post 9/11 world. HIS PARENTS NOTIFIED THE US EMBASSY THAT HE WAS HIGHLY RADICALIZED AND A SERIOUS THREAT and YET he was NEVER added to the DO NOT FLY LIST. He was NEVER prevented from boarding the plane even without a passport!!

This isn't about increasing security measures ... its about THE MAJOR SCREW UPS that occurred every step of the way with the security measures we have in plae. I mean seriously with these kind of screw ups don't be surprised if Bin Laden himself walks onto a flight without much trouble!!

This series of blunders would be laughable if the consequences were not so dire. We have boys dying in AFG to prevent another 9/11 and the real problem is the UTTER INCOMPETANCE of US Embassy, Homeland Security, NWA, the keepers of the Watchlist & the Do Not Fly List.

We have gatecrashers who can walk into a whitehouse party and shake hands with the President, we have a guy whose OWN parents notificed the US authorities that he was a radicalized threat that can walk onto a plane without a friggin passport and nearly kill Americans, WHAT IS WRONG with this picture???

Homeland Security, NWA, Amsterdam Airport Security, the US Immigration and Visa Dept, the US Embassy that was contacted, are all to blame, they are all culpable and they are ALL IN-EFFING-COMPETENT.

And now everyone of us flying to or from the US will be patted down, our bags searched ad nauseum, we aren't allowed to get out of our seats one hour prior to landing we aren't allowed to have anything on our laps, only one bag allowed as carry on - meaning only a purse or a laptop bag but not both, baby formula is being checked, kids are being patted down, no liquids incl. water, no hand sanitizers, no gels, yada yada. yada.. all knee jerk reactions ....and what good are they when a guy who has been on a watchlist for 2 years can board a plane to the US WITHOUT A PASSPORT, after his PARENTS notified the US EMBASSY that he was a radicalized threat!

Great work O'Keefe & Giles!

FYI- Everyone might be interested in checking out this website where there is 30 minutes worth of video footage from a documentary on Acorn malicious practices during the 2008 primaries. This film is the product of two democrats from Hollywood! http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.ht...

In light of what O'Keefe & Giles have uncovered & remembering that we are a few months away from the 2010 congressional hearings in which the dems will do ANYTHING to keep their power in Congress - IT IS VITAL we expose ACORN actions in the primaries in order to prevent not only ACORN but the DNC from pulling similar fraud in 2010 and again in 2012.

I call on all Americans to DEMAND that ACORN stop its racist attacks on Fox, and to stop using the irrelevant, tired, overused racist card . The boy has cried wolf to often. Hey Margaret.. is the Census Bureau racist for severing their relationship with you? Come on Madge....I dare you to call them racist!! Lets all Call Brian K.. and let him know who the real racists are. Desperate, falling apart, Margaret falls back on the tired liberal mantra of "Blame anyone but me". Blame Whitey,Blame Capitalism, Blame Bush, Blame FOX. yada yada blah blah boring bullshit.

The mission to spread freedom throughout the world is a noble endeavor. Pres. Reagan understood the threat of communism in the same way as Pres. Bush understands the threat posed by jihadists. Communists and Islamist Jihadists both harbour contempt for individual liberty, and both share a propensity for mass murder in the name of a utopian future.

While leftists, including the Hollywood elite, stage "anti war" protests--- jihadists engage in their own "anti modernity" protests, which involve homicide bombers, killing of children and women, the kidnapping, torturing, and beheading of coalition members, local politicians and civilians and the annual "Death to Isreal, Death to America" protest rally.

During the time that Penn was in Iran shaking hands with the Mullahs, Iran and almost every Islamic in the Middle East country was banning "foreign films that promote secularism, feminism, drugs, alchohol use, and violence because these films, which are a reflection of our liberal secularist democratic freedom loving country, "damage and humiliate eastern traditions and culture".

So it would appear that all the schmoozing and handshaking and "photo opping" which Sean Penn had engaged in during that summer with his mullah-buddies only served to prove how fucking stupid he was & still remains ---while the Actor may have loved the Mullahs -- the Mullahs didn't love Hollywood... and still don't!

Hollywood has an history of supporting non democratic regimes - one need only to look back about 60 years ago where many in the Hollywood community were card carrying communists who believed in the goodness of the Soviet Union.

Even the revelation of Stalin's crime elicited such ludicrous justification about how great it was the Soviet Union would admit the horrendous things they perpetuated.

Robert Fulford penned "Hollywood's False Martyrs" for Canada's National Post newspaper in October of 2005 in which he posits this question:

"Why did the Hollywood 300 become secret communists in the first place, and why did they later allow themselves to be manipulated by the party for the sake of anti-American propaganda?

James Lardner wrote a poignant article in the Washington Post, "The Gilding of the Blacklist: A Son of the Hollywood Ten Revisits a Heroic Legacy." He asked how those men could possibly have overlooked the fact that communism produced a monstrous dictatorship in the first place it was tried, the Soviet Union?

Quoting from Robert Fulford's piece "The answer turns out to be sadly banal. Communism was fashionable (and this was Hollywood), it was hard to get out once you got in, and when the party ordered its still-loyal members to remain silent it was morally easier just to follow orders.

In Hollywood, HUAC and the communists helped each other: HUAC needed ready-made villains and the movie communists wanted to look like victims of a right-wing witch hunt. The communist party hoped to make anti-communism itself appear evil, a strategy that worked beautifully while destroying a few dozen careers. Joseph McCarthy's mendacious campaign served communism in the same way.

Dalton Trumbo, the cleverest Hollywood communist, realized that keeping membership secret was the great mistake, a damning indictment in itself. He also understood the nature of Soviet communism, yet remained dutifully silent for decades, supporting what the Radoshes call a "fable of innocence destroyed by malice ... that Hollywood tells itself each night when it goes to sleep."

In Hollywood, the myth remains alive. In 1999, when Elia Kazan (an ex-communist who "confessed") was recognized for his lifetime achievement at the Academy Awards, many eminent Hollywood citizens (Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, etc.) sat in sullen silence through his standing ovation.

Do the Hollywood communists still matter, more than half a century after they faced HUAC? Absolutely. To this minute, their rewritten story distorts cultural history and colours the self-image of Hollywood leftists, making even the dullest among them feel like brave radicals and potential martyrs."

In 2005 I wrote a piece in my blog titled "The Actor & The Mullahs" which focused on a piece written in The Boston Globe titled "The Philosopher & The Ayatollahs" http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2...

Written by Wesley Yang, the article is about the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who, in 1978, "went to Iran as a novice journalist to report on the unfolding revolution. His dispatches — now fully available in English thanks to Kevin Anderson & Janet Afary's translation of Foucaults writings ( which can be found in their book "Foucault and the Iranian Revolution") — shed some light on the illusions of intellectuals in our own time."

The article was rather timely and relevant when one remembers that at that time Sean Penn was in Tehran to cover the "election" for the San Francisco Chronicle, and that he and the Hollywood friends have a propensity for supporting dictators, such as Castro, Saddam and the Mullahs of Iran.

Here's an excerpt:

"There is a long tradition of Western intellectuals going abroad to sing the praises of revolutionaries in distant lands and finding in them the realization of their own intellectual hopes.

But the irony of Foucault's embrace of the Iranian Revolution was that the earlier intellectuals who had sung hymns to tyrants tended to share a set of beliefs in the kind of absolutes — Marxism, humanism, rationality — that Foucault had made it his life's work to overturn."

Author Kevin Anderson says that the debate over these 25- year-old writings has relevance when some leftists focus more energy on criticizing an administration they scorn than on speaking against a radical Islamist movement that also violates all their cherished ideals

"It's not that radical Islamism is getting a pass from Western progressives and liberals, but it is the case that many are not being critical enough," says Anderson. When certain polemicists are spreading simplistic ideas about "Islamo-Fascism," he continues, "there's a tendency to say that this isn't so. But the fact is that while radical Islamism has many features and faces, everywhere it is antifeminist, everywhere it is authoritarian, and everywhere it is intolerant of other religions and other interpretations of Islam."
( end of excerpt)

One had to wonder why Penn--who was happy to hobnob with the Mullahs--- showed NO interest to visit Iran while the University Student massacres of 1999 were taking place or when Iranian intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, journalists, etc. were being assassinated and when Iranian women were being sold in advertised sex-slave auctions in the Persian Gulf nations?

With Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Benecio Del Toro, Danny Glover, Naomi Campbell & Oliver Stone now shaking hands with Chavez--- it's clear that there still remains an ignorant, myopic, cognitive dissonance that exists in the Hollywood intelligentsia, the MSM elites, and the left wing pseudo intellectual self appointed "progressives" who continue to sing the praises of revolutionaries in distant lands.

Quoting @theotherandrewb "What a wonderful, beautiful, perfect film. I, too, wish that I could live forever in the sophisticated New York and the storybook Connecticut of this movie--dinner at Cafe Felix (was there EVER a cozier setting?) then off to a picture-perfect farm in Connecticut. I imagine that Holiday Inn is just down the road."

ME TOO *sighs*

quoting @chambers
" The conversaton between Stanwyck, Gardiner and Robert Shayne (the nervous editor) where they set the scheme up is a jewell filled with intelligent and witty dialogue. Not only a great Christmas film but a tribute to the day when terriffic character actors roamed the Earth."

AGREED! This movie is the PERFECT blend of charming, witty, romantic, and hilarious. Beautifully acted, filmed & directed. It is, in my opinion, flawless.

Merry Christmas!

I don't have the same nostalgic feeling for Holiday Inn as I do for White Christmas, but the 4th of July Firecracker Dance Sequence is nothing short of brilliant!

White Christmas remains my all time fave holiday porn .. for all these reasons " when you’re feeling Christmassy, the sets, costumes, and oh-gawd-yes, the Vista-Vision, works the senses like mainlined eggnog. And of course, there’s Irving Berlin’s unforgettable score, the stunning Rosemary Clooney, the impossibly leggy Vera-Ellen, the energetic Danny Kaye, and the unique pleasure of watching the ease with which Crosby — Mr. Christmas himself — does everything"

Merry Christmas!!

"Nine" was a Broadway hit - which I paid nice coin to see. It was well spent. I was looking forward to the movie but after reading Tolkin's latest piece of trash in the LA Tripe errrr Times, I don't feel the least bit of guilt at NOT paying a cent to see the film by downloading the movie and inviting friends and family to watch it for free at my place.
(Disclaimer: I live in Canada where downloading is legal)

Don't waste money on "Nine" however I do strongly encourage everyone to spend money to see "The Blind Side"... based on the heartwarming true story of Michael Oher & the Touhy family - a Christian family in middle America who take in and eventually adopt Michael Oher, who now plays for the Baltimore Ravens.
"The Blind Side" is an uplifting heartwarming empowering inspiring true story.

Sometimes----- Hollywood Gets.It.Right. :>)