MOVIES AND MEDIA bye outtacontrol62

Just a few thoughts and ideas about movies for this summer. MOST OF THEM SUCKED, but I've unearthed a few gems that may interest you. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!!!!!! Although dubbed from its native swedish......This is an excellent movie based on an excellent book. The acting is great.......especially the girl who plays Lisbeth. For the stealers you can download this movie as there is a great torrent for it. For the rest of you I understand its available in yer vid store or netflix (thank-you Barry)...Another little flic I stole/downloaded was the Danish film Valhalla Rising....Kinda artsy.....very violent, but interesting. There's something dead sexy about vikings, even if they only have 1 eye. Although a Danish production everythings in ENGLISH. So fear not and give it a try! Ok, one last film which I hesitated to watch although I downloaded it 2 months ago.........The Stoning Of Soraya M. The story is frightening and realistic looking and just plain sad. I cried and cried. Reminds me of the Shirley Jacksons short story "the Lottery"..Some good performances and very Dramatic themes.
So to wrap it up....... The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Valhalla Rising
The Stoning of Soraya M. (also recommended by Jann)

Should Flying the Confederate Flag Be Illegal?

Hot2Speak says make it illegal. But even shawkknawe disagrees.

Shawk you think flying the confederate flag should be illegal?
shawkknawe: No I don't

Komrad had an interesting opinion:

komradpizmeov: ithink all flags should be 'illegal"its all about psychological manipulation

Obama Job Approval

Obama Job Approval

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

Reaganomics, a Success Story

Awesome article:

Reaganomics, a Success Story

MopNGlow on THE MOSQUE

You know which mosque I mean.

It's simple. If a Presbyterian Church or a Jewish Temple would have been allowed in the space of the old Burlington Coat Factory, then the City of New York can't stop the mosque.

The only exception I can think of is a legitimate national security issue. But what kind of a national security issue could a mosqe or a community center create? Are enemy combatants going to build missile silos in the basement?

How is a building a threat to national security?

If individual people are a threat to national security, the answer is simple -- arrest them or deport them, but why is an individual building a problem?

MopNGlow on 911

The question of a government coverup of 911 has been the subject of numerous heated debates in PalTalk Chat rooms.

Various rooms deal with the topic from different perspectives. For example, The Wake Up Project room takes the position that that mainstream media is a propaganda arm of Big Corporations and the Federal Government, while not taking a specific stance on the question of whether there is United States Government coverup of the events on and leading up to the 911 disaster.

As I understand it, the The Truth Movement room takes the position that there is, in fact, an ongoing government coverup, but unlike the Wake Up Project room, The Truth Movement room does not have a blog or a web page that describes their position, at least not one I can find.

A few days ago (approximately August 13) I offered to do a fairly open ended interview of a member of the Truth Movement room. The interview would take place in the 2Way Street Politics room.

Various members (including admins) of The Truth Movement room, expressed a preference for the interview to be held in their room, but I think holding the interview in 2 Way Street gives the Truthers a fair opportunity to enhance the credibility of their position.

My offer to the paltalk Truthers stands (despite my permanent red dot in their room).

Interesting Words and Phrases

post hoc ergo propter hoc

Thanks to mac_talla for this latin phrase which directly translated means"after this therefor because of this".

It refers to a logical fallacy based on the idea that one event following another implies the first event caused the second.