Breitbart is a fanatic. A biased ideologue with no interest in moderation or dialogue with the other side. We need more people like him, especially in elected office.
Glenn Beck is an assclown and so is James Cameron. Who gives a damn what some director thinks? Why is Beck wasting airtime on some personal beef with Cameron? Why is this news? Can he report on something real for a change? Last I checked a giant healthcare bill just passed, and there are two wars going on. Surely there has to be a real story to report on.
This is why I don't watch TV.
She is not being racist. Its hard for a black actress to find roles. There is definitely more opportunity out there for white actors or black men (name ten black actors, now try naming ten black actresses). In general there is less of a market for women than men, and more of a market for a white actress than a black actress.
That said, the fact that she is young and cute makes her a hundred times more likely to get a role than someone who is old or ugly.
What Moore did, was dig up Goebbels. I think it was Godard who said "every edit is a lie" Michael Moore lives by that statement. His movies are lies, malicious lies with a political agenda. You are wrong, Bowling for Columbine is a perfect example of this. That cartoon in the middle of Columbine that everybody loves equates a constitutional right with the KKK without a shred of evidence, proof, or logic. Its all done through simple juxtaposition "here are guns, and here is racism, they are the same thing because I say they are, more importantly, they are the same because I put them in the same frame". Its taken right out of a North Korean propaganda book.
But while a North Koreans are by now resistant to the process, Americans are too dumb and too unused to this approach to notice. They love to not have to think about something, to have a propagandist insert opinions into their mind without need for processing. The Columbine cartoon was funny and nobody really notices the offensive and ridiculous point it makes (your brain noticed).
So Michael's genius is that he took something that has been a staple of tyrannical regimes since 1920, and exported it to the free world.
This is terrible, my biggest worry is that Republicans do not have the backbone to override this. Even if we had a Republican President and the Congress was a reverse of what it is now, I do not see the political backbone to do this. Simply voting out the Democrats will not change anything, we need to vote out a good chunk of the Republicans. How can we do this? As we speak, Sarah Palin, the tea partiers most beloved candidate is campaigning for McCain.
Republicans will have big gains this November, bigger gains 2012, maybe even the Presidency. But will they do something proactive? Will they reverse Obamacare and other policies? I suspect that no.
Did you honestly find that surprising? Has there been a non-Christian movie in the last twenty years that didn't say the word "god"? 99% of all new films break that particular rule.
One of the best animated movie ever made. Though it is actually about the firebombings, not the atomic drops.
The Japanese didn't want the US to admit the divinity of the emperor, what they did want was absolute assurance that he would not be killed, imprisoned, or deposed. It was more than a technicality to them, the emperor was the symbolic manifestation of the nation, kind of like the queen is to the British or the Constitution is to the Americans. If the US refused to provide guarantees for the emperor's safety Japan would likely fight to the last.
I respectfully disagree, in 1945 there was one man on earth who could stop the invasion of Japan and that was Stalin. The US was determined to make friends with the Soviet Union and desperately needed the Russians for rebuilding Europe, forming the UN, and making sure Germany is permanently defanged. If Stalin dug in his heels, Japan may have walked away with its independence, the logic was that Stalin would prefer a weakened Japan as buffer between himself and the US. Japan was indeed desperate for peace, but its leaders felt that should Stalin offer his protection, they would be able to maintain independence.
As fate would have it, Stalin wanted Japan gone, so the last diplomatic lifeline was cut. When the Soviet Union declared war, Japanese leadership realized that the only alternative to capitulation was national suicide. They opted for the former though many wanted the later. I do not think that the bomb by itself would have convinced them to surrender, on the other hand, Russia declaring war may have been sufficient without the bomb.
No I got my history from history books. You should try that. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan is a good start. If you are worried about bias, read original sources liek the minutes from meetings of American/Japanese leadership and make your own conclusion.
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