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.
MEAT IS MURDER
(tasty, tasty murder)
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.)
How about Thomas a Becket??? Isn't that the "canonical" example?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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