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23 Nov 2006 02:17:19 AM |
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OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
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Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Proud member of Earthquack's "Ghost fulla holes" convict page
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| User: "Gail Futoran" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
23 Nov 2006 05:39:01 PM |
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"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Proud member of Earthquack's "Ghost fulla holes" convict page
Aliens
Dogma (don't ask...)
all of my Xena tapes (not technically movies but - diehard Xenite here)
I'm sure there are others, but those spring to mind. After reading everyone
else's lists I'd like to add:
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
:)
Gail
aa#2247
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| User: "Mike Smith" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
23 Nov 2006 08:26:11 PM |
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"Gail Futoran" <futoran@nospam.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
all of my Xena tapes (not technically movies
but - diehard Xenite here)
I was crushed when the Xena series ended.
It was a regular routine for a long time - get
coffee, go down the basement into my shop,
and watch Xena on my crappy little 13" B&W
while fixing stuff. Saw a few episodes upstairs
on the good TV - it just looked wrong,
somehow.
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
be liable to burn in hellfire. - Matt 5:22.
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| User: "Pangur Ban" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
23 Nov 2006 08:37:24 PM |
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Mike Smith expressed precisely :
"Gail Futoran" <futoran@nospam.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
all of my Xena tapes (not technically movies
but - diehard Xenite here)
I was crushed when the Xena series ended.
It was a regular routine for a long time - get
coffee, go down the basement into my shop,
and watch Xena on my crappy little 13" B&W
while fixing stuff. Saw a few episodes upstairs
on the good TV - it just looked wrong,
somehow.
We got the Action Pack.... Hercules and Xena. Mom enjoyed Hercie and I
enjoyed Xena. I too hated to see it end - but I think they were
running out of ideas.
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Mike Smith | aa #1164 | Founder of SMASH
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
be liable to burn in hellfire. - Matt 5:22.
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| User: "Pangur Ban" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
23 Nov 2006 06:30:06 PM |
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Gail Futoran submitted this idea :
"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
-- Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Proud member of Earthquack's "Ghost fulla holes" convict page
Aliens
Dogma (don't ask...)
all of my Xena tapes (not technically movies but - diehard Xenite here)
If the site is still up, I have an entry in the encyclopedia. And
still have the Gabby staff I bought online.
I'm sure there are others, but those spring to mind. After reading everyone
else's lists I'd like to add:
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
:)
Gail
aa#2247
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Pangur Ban - nonchristian theist
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| User: "Nicola" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
24 Nov 2006 04:01:21 PM |
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:39:01 GMT, "Gail Futoran"
<futoran@nospam.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Proud member of Earthquack's "Ghost fulla holes" convict page
Aliens
Dogma (don't ask...)
all of my Xena tapes (not technically movies but - diehard Xenite here)
I'm sure there are others, but those spring to mind. After reading everyone
else's lists I'd like to add:
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
:)
Ah, I'd forgotten about those! Wonderful films. Nicely weird.
I also managed to forget the original version of Bedazzled.
Nicola
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
24 Nov 2006 05:51:34 PM |
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On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:01:21 -0600, Nicola wrote
(in article <tmpem25qsna69tn20ttaajldr0fqeg3pfd@4ax.com>):
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:39:01 GMT, "Gail Futoran"
<futoran@nospam.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Proud member of Earthquack's "Ghost fulla holes" convict page
Aliens
Dogma (don't ask...)
all of my Xena tapes (not technically movies but - diehard Xenite here)
I'm sure there are others, but those spring to mind. After reading everyone
else's lists I'd like to add:
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Ah, I'd forgotten about those! Wonderful films. Nicely weird.
I also managed to forget the original version of Bedazzled.
No one has mentioned the "Kill Bill" movies. I loved them.
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Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
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Please try your post again later."-Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "G-Ride" |
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24 Nov 2006 12:22:24 AM |
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"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here's what I can think of in no particular order:
The Princess Bride
The Blues Brothers
Star Wars triology (iv - vi)
Saving Private Ryan
American Psycho
The Abyss (my wife and I have matching Abyss replica titanium wedding rings)
Dazed and Confused
A Bridge Too Far
Platoon
Caddyshack
Office Space
Spaceballs
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
The Hudsucker Proxy
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
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The force that's forcing you to feel like busting up a Starbucks.
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| User: "Big Dave" |
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23 Nov 2006 01:39:44 PM |
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"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
OK, I have some, but my memory for names is pretty lousy so I'll list
the ones that stand out:
Dr. Strangelove
Slingblade
The Scream series.
Monty P's Meaning of Life, Holy Grail, & Life of Brian.
Snatch
Any Denise Richards movie with nudity, (hers).
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| User: "johac" |
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24 Nov 2006 01:10:35 AM |
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In article <Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120>,
Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Inherit the Wind (the original, not the one made for TV)
All Quiet on the Western Front (the 1930's version)
Casablanca
The African Queen
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Frankenstein (the original)
Dracula (the original
Star Wars, 4. 5. 6.
Star Trek 2, 4, 6
The Lion in Winter
Patton
The Graduate
Hopscotch
James Bond movies with Sean Connery
Raiders or the Lost Ark and sequels
2001 A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Anything from Monty Python
And there are more which I can't think of at the moment.
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "magilla" |
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24 Nov 2006 04:57:36 PM |
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johac wrote:
Casablanca
The African Queen
YIKES.
<hang head in shame>
Can't believe I forgot 'em.
Chris
snip
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| User: "johac" |
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25 Nov 2006 12:10:51 AM |
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In article <1164409056.547401.285920@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
"magilla" <chris.linthompson@gmail.com> wrote:
johac wrote:
Casablanca
The African Queen
YIKES.
<hang head in shame>
Can't believe I forgot 'em.
Chris
snip
That was one of the best. Bogey and Kate were magnificent.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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23 Nov 2006 10:12:33 AM |
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In article <Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120>,
Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
My favorites:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Undercover Blues
Big Trouble
Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I, Robot
Yellow Submarine
Beauty and the Beast
Borat (I just saw it last week, so it might not stay on the list...)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Aliens
Lilo and Stitch
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Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
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Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Neil Kelsey" |
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23 Nov 2006 10:31:58 AM |
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*nemo* wrote:
In article <Xns98842EE7298Dvicman@66.75.164.120>,
Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
My favorites:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Undercover Blues
Big Trouble
Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I, Robot
I worked on that one...my company made all the cars, I was the sales
guy who worked with the studio designers. That was one nice commission.
Yellow Submarine
Beauty and the Beast
Borat (I just saw it last week, so it might not stay on the list...)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Aliens
Lilo and Stitch
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Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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23 Nov 2006 11:34:35 AM |
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:17:19 GMT Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
said the following in alt.atheism and I was immediately reminded of
1,000 Chinchillas singing Handel's "Messiah" for some reason...
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
The American President
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/
The Maltese Falcon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
A Bridge Too Far
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075784/
Major League
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097815/
The Replacements
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191397/
Contact
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
Patton
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/
The Blues Brothers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/
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Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2011
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
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23 Nov 2006 01:38:25 PM |
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Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote:
The Replacements
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191397/
I loved that movie, even though I'm sort of anti-sports.
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
be liable to burn in hellfire. - Matt 5:22.
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| User: "" |
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24 Nov 2006 11:04:06 PM |
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:17:19 GMT, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
What are your favorite movies? You know, the ones you've replaced with
DVDs because you've worn out the VHS tapes?
Here are mine, in the order of when I think of them.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Twister
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Star Wars 4 (I)
Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 6 Return of the Jedi
The Abyss
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mad Max
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Napoleon Dynamite
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pirates of the Caribbean
Come on, get those skeletons out of the closet!
Favorite movies and why
(Some I bought on Dvd, others replaced).
Seabisquit:
Reminds me of my first wife.
Gives me the warm fuzzies all over.
You know the part where Seabisquit first kicks into high gear and the
only thing you can see is that horse's arse disappearing in the
distance?
Leaving was only act of kindness the woman ever showed me and I still
love her for it.
Dawn of the Dead old version and new.
Increases my sense of paranoia and keeps me safe in the real world
because it's awfully hard to sneak up on a paranoid guy.
Eraserhead:
Creepy and unexplainable.
Reminds me of what it was like to be married to my first wife.
Also reminds me that loss doesn't always have to be accepted with a
quiet and dignified grace but should sometimes be celebrated to the
hilt like a drunken idiot.
Elephant Man:
Gives me hope that even my cousin Rita isn't too ugly to have friends
someday and that her neighbors will at some point remove the cowbell
from around her neck.
(It was placed there as a warning to neighborhood children that they
should avert their eyes when she passes else risk being turned to
stone).
Night Of The Hunter.
Dazzling it's beauty.
Way ahead of it's time.
Tombstone:
I am Doc Holiday.
(Say when)
Crash:
Made me cry but if you tell anyone I'll deny I said it.
The Unforgiven.
Blast From the Past.
Final Countdown.
Back to the Future.
The Rock.
Incident.
Pumpkinhead.
The Shinning (Which I am too afraid to watch again).
Quest For Fire.
Hard days night.
Actually I had over a hundred, at least 70 or so that I had replaced
with Dvd but the creature who lived here for four months stole most of
them when I kicked her out so I have to start all over.
She's a Christian though so at least i have the satisfaction that she
will go to Hell because of it.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "Mike Smith" |
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25 Nov 2006 10:48:36 AM |
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wrote:
Tombstone:
I am Doc Holiday.
(Say when)
"Hell, Doc, I got lots of friends."
"Ah don't."
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Mike Smith | aa #1164 | Founder of SMASH
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
be liable to burn in hellfire. - Matt 5:22.
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26 Nov 2006 12:06:34 AM |
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:48:36 -0600, Mike Smith
<mikesmith@godisdead.com> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
Tombstone:
I am Doc Holiday.
(Say when)
"Hell, Doc, I got lots of friends."
"Ah don't."
I bought some spurs and cowboy garb as a joke toward one of my friends
who like me was obsessed with the movie for a while and ended up
riding all over town wearing the stuff on my motorcycle.
It got some funny, light hearted responses from people.
atheist@home#1554
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26 Nov 2006 09:53:54 AM |
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Tombstone:
I am Doc Holiday.
(Say when)
"Hell, Doc, I got lots of friends."
"Ah don't."
I bought some spurs and cowboy garb as a joke
toward one of my friends who like me was obsessed
with the movie for a while and ended up riding all
over town wearing the stuff on my motorcycle.
It got some funny, light hearted responses from
people.
There was something about that movie - I was
stuck on it for a while, too. Probably watched it
a dozen times, which is a lot for me.
So... are you getting another babe magnet? :-)
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
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| User: "" |
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26 Nov 2006 09:18:08 PM |
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:53:54 -0600, Mike Smith
<mikesmith@godisdead.com> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
Tombstone:
I am Doc Holiday.
(Say when)
"Hell, Doc, I got lots of friends."
"Ah don't."
I bought some spurs and cowboy garb as a joke
toward one of my friends who like me was obsessed
with the movie for a while and ended up riding all
over town wearing the stuff on my motorcycle.
It got some funny, light hearted responses from
people.
There was something about that movie - I was
stuck on it for a while, too. Probably watched it
a dozen times, which is a lot for me.
I've tried to figure out the appeal.
Men I've talked to always seem to be attracted to the representation
of men as men.
They were armed to the teeth if they so chose and could call out a guy
on an insult.
(An armed society is a polite society).
Remember after the gunfight between Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and
another gambler, Creek explained that his opponent had "Crawfished a
bet and called me a liar."
And Doc's somewhat impatient "Say when."
Americans live in an impolite society where people are required by law
to stand and take just about any insult directed at us; teachers are
threatened and even assaulted on a daily basis and the students
comitting the acts are aware of the fact that they will mostly get
away with it.
Women are degraded over public radio airwaves by rap performers and
the wiggers who mostly buy it openly and sometimes loudly refer to
females as "bitches" and Hos."
Many people are very, very tired of what has happened to American
society but are by law helpless against the onslought.
And justice was direct in the movie.
The bad guys got theirs without remorse or without deep, philosophical
considerations of whether or not it was the right thing to do.
On the other hand despite the fact that Mumia Abu Jamal is guilty,
that he *did* murder a cop in cold blood, that Hurricane Carter *is*
also guilty of several murders and that Che Guevara *was* a cold
blooded killer of innocent, defenseless people, each has a loyal
following of nitwits who have loinized them and made them into
something just short of saints.
(That's not a new thing in America of course. Jesse James had admirers
as did John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde; all bad people who would
have shot down their goofy admirers in a heartbeat for a buck.)
The point is, justice was direct, swift and unambiguous in the movie.
The good guys could plant their feet and take a stand in the middle of
the street against the obviously bad guys without feeling a need to
excuse the bad guy's behavior, forgive him for it, or try to reason
with him.
Point and click justice without any shades of gray.
Or maybe I'm taking too complicated a view of it :-)
So... are you getting another babe magnet? :-)
Nah.
I'm stuck with some sort of junk van (Can you believe I don't even
know the make and model?)
The electric door on the passenger side rear doesn't work and the
drivers side window sticks.
The oil light keeps coming on and despite that I can't remember to get
the oil changed.
I could buy another car, I just don't really care.
It gets me from point A to point B as long as the GPS is on.
I've even sold my motorcycle and am wearing the sloppy slouch clothes
again.
I've lost my debit card for about the third time in six months, lost a
credit card, had my lost wallet returned with all the money by a very
nice lady, bought a new bowling ball and shoes which I think I left at
the bowling alley and on and on.
I don't need a babe...I need a keeper.
(And besides, the only babe I'm interested is amazon.com :-)
Oh yeah...and the other day I discovered the last e-mail I thought I
had sent you several months ago.
I thought you had got busy and didn't have time to answer.
<sigh>
My life.
It's not that I'm confused, I just don't know what the hell is going
on :-)
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
26 Nov 2006 09:53:16 PM |
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Point and click justice without any shades of gray.
Or maybe I'm taking too complicated a view of it :-)
No, you're just romanticizing it. Have you read journals, diaries or
actual news stories from the era? Do you know how many men, women and
children died simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong
time, and there wasn't any law to speak of to deal with it? Sure, the
bad guy was immediately dealt with, but when the posse was on a roll,
they didn't bother to wait for evidence. A woman was attacked, a
stranger was seen in the area, so string him up because he's obviously
the rapist since of course none of the home town boys could have done
it.
Granted there is way too much busy-bodiness in today's US society, and
a lot of states have a prohibition against self defence enshrined in
law, but retrogressing to the days of chaos, murder at will and posses
would not be any sort of answer.
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L. Raymond
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| User: "Mike Smith" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
27 Nov 2006 02:29:39 PM |
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"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
Granted there is way too much busy-bodiness
in today's US society, and a lot of states have a
prohibition against self defence enshrined in law,
but retrogressing to the days of chaos, murder
at will and posses would not be any sort of
answer.
I think the attraction of the old days is that people
were more self-reliant, defended themselves, etc.
I wonder if you could break down people who like/
don't like this kind of movie - I'd include the Death
Wish & Dirty Harry movies - into [people who think
they can solve their own problems] and [people
who think the government should watch over us]?
Hey, you're from Texas - I thought y'all were all
vigilante types down there :-)
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
- Psa. 14a
Whoever saith 'thou fool' to his brother shall
be liable to burn in hellfire. - Matt 5:22.
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
27 Nov 2006 09:17:55 PM |
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Mike Smith wrote:
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
Granted there is way too much busy-bodiness
in today's US society, and a lot of states have a
prohibition against self defence enshrined in law,
but retrogressing to the days of chaos, murder
at will and posses would not be any sort of
answer.
I think the attraction of the old days is that people
were more self-reliant, defended themselves, etc.
I wonder if you could break down people who like/
don't like this kind of movie - I'd include the Death
Wish & Dirty Harry movies - into [people who think
they can solve their own problems] and [people
who think the government should watch over us]?
I don't accept your divisions. The movies you mention are
artificially clear cut good guy - bad guy situations. Real life is
virtually never so black and white, and frankly most people just aren't
equipped to deal with any sort of subtleties at all. Once their
emotions are up violence will happen regardless of whether or not it's
justified. Here in Houston an 11 year old girl was grabbed from a
playground, driven to the middle of nowhere, raped and put out to walk
home. Her neighbors have prepared fliers with a sketch of the suspect,
and they're stopping cars on the street to pass them out and tell people
to keep their eyes open. A woman interviewed on TV announced they were
quite ready to kill, "Yes, I said kill," she emphasized, this man when
he's found. Now, do you think that any man who closely resembled this
pencil sketch would be safe if he were seen if the area after dark,
unless we had a police force to which the neighbors would be answerable
if they killed him?
There have been societies in which the people grow up surrounded by
such discipline that I think they could be trusted to consider all
possibilities before killing someone as a criminal, but they're few and
far between, and modern America isn't one of them.
Hey, you're from Texas - I thought y'all were all
vigilante types down there :-)
The only vigilante type law here I approve of is the one permitting
homeowners to defend their property using whatever means are necessary.
You don't have to worry about being sued if you wing a burglar in your
den, or even kill him. But then, someone breaking into your house or
stealing your car is a pretty clear cut, black and white situation, and
most people can deal with it. Of course, it also cuts down on
repossession of cars since tow truck drivers have been shot trying to
get cars parked in front of people's houses at night, and it's been
ruled justifiable.
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L. Raymond
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT-AA Party Thread - All time favorite movies |
03 Dec 2006 03:33:47 PM |
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:17:55 -0600, "L. Raymond"
<badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in alt.atheism
Mike Smith wrote:
[]
Hey, you're from Texas - I thought y'all were all
vigilante types down there :-)
The only vigilante type law here I approve of is the one permitting
homeowners to defend their property using whatever means are necessary.
You don't have to worry about being sued if you wing a burglar in your
den, or even kill him. But then, someone breaking into your house or
stealing your car is a pretty clear cut, black and white situation, and
most people can deal with it. Of course, it also cuts down on
repossession of cars since tow truck drivers have been shot trying to
get cars parked in front of people's houses at night, and it's been
ruled justifiable.
Appropriate.
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "" |
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28 Nov 2006 02:25:18 AM |
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:17:55 -0600, "L. Raymond"
<badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
Mike Smith wrote:
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
Granted there is way too much busy-bodiness
in today's US society, and a lot of states have a
prohibition against self defence enshrined in law,
but retrogressing to the days of chaos, murder
at will and posses would not be any sort of
answer.
I think the attraction of the old days is that people
were more self-reliant, defended themselves, etc.
I wonder if you could break down people who like/
don't like this kind of movie - I'd include the Death
Wish & Dirty Harry movies - into [people who think
they can solve their own problems] and [people
who think the government should watch over us]?
I don't accept your divisions. The movies you mention are
artificially clear cut good guy - bad guy situations. Real life is
virtually never so black and white, and frankly most people just aren't
equipped to deal with any sort of subtleties at all. Once their
emotions are up violence will happen regardless of whether or not it's
justified. Here in Houston an 11 year old girl was grabbed from a
playground, driven to the middle of nowhere, raped and put out to walk
home. Her neighbors have prepared fliers with a sketch of the suspect,
and they're stopping cars on the street to pass them out and tell people
to keep their eyes open. A woman interviewed on TV announced they were
quite ready to kill, "Yes, I said kill," she emphasized, this man when
he's found. Now, do you think that any man who closely resembled this
pencil sketch would be safe if he were seen if the area after dark,
unless we had a police force to which the neighbors would be answerable
if they killed him?
If the law doesn't take care of them who will?
The odds are the rapist you mentioned has been arrested for molesting
children before and if caught will be released once more at some point
to do it again.
<Unless Texas has better laws than most other states>
There are four sick bastards on the sex offender registry living
within walking distance of my home, within walking distance of my six
year old granddaughter.
What am I to do?
She can't play alone in the back yard much less the front.
We are prisoners of the do gooders who believe sex offenders deserve a
second, a third, a fourth chance at life.
We are robbed at gunpoint by bastards who have violent rap sheets a
mile long and are still stalking the streets in search of new victims.
I think the attraction to movies like Tombstone and the characters
protrayed in them is just a reflection of a longing to do for
ourselves what nobody else can or will do for us.
I don't want child sex offenders living anywhere near me.
But I can't do anything about it.
I don't want murderers walking the streets and I don't want to be
cheated out of my money or to have to worry about being robbed
everytime I leave my house by a guy who should have been locked up for
life.
But I can't do anything about it.
I don't want the repeat drunk driver threatning my life or the lives
of those I love.
But I can't do anything about it.
It sort of pisses some of us off and makes us long for a time when we
could deal with such things ourselves.
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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28 Nov 2006 02:52:37 AM |
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wrote:
"L. Raymond" wrote:
I don't accept your divisions. The movies you mention are
artificially clear cut good guy - bad guy situations. Real life is
virtually never so black and white, and frankly most people just aren't
equipped to deal with any sort of subtleties at all. Once their
emotions are up violence will happen regardless of whether or not it's
justified. Here in Houston an 11 year old girl was grabbed from a
playground, driven to the middle of nowhere, raped and put out to walk
home. Her neighbors have prepared fliers with a sketch of the suspect,
and they're stopping cars on the street to pass them out and tell people
to keep their eyes open. A woman interviewed on TV announced they were
quite ready to kill, "Yes, I said kill," she emphasized, this man when
he's found. Now, do you think that any man who closely resembled this
pencil sketch would be safe if he were seen if the area after dark,
unless we had a police force to which the neighbors would be answerable
if they killed him?
If the law doesn't take care of them who will?
The odds are the rapist you mentioned has been arrested for molesting
children before and if caught will be released once more at some point
to do it again.
Is the death of an innocent man OK if it sends the message that
criminals won't be tolerated? I'm not talking about the neighbors
getting their hands on the man who did this, but about their seizing an
innocent man who happens to look like the rapist.
I think the attraction to movies like Tombstone and the characters
protrayed in them is just a reflection of a longing to do for
ourselves what nobody else can or will do for us.
Again, in Tombstone good and bad are *very* clear cut. There aren't
any rumors that so-and-so did something which was enough for a neighbor
to kill him. There weren't any actions which were open to
misinterpretation resulting in the death or maiming of an innocent
party. You seem to long for a bright moral clarity more than anything,
and that's not going to happen in the real world.
I don't want the repeat drunk driver threatning my life or the lives
of those I love.
But I can't do anything about it.
It sort of pisses some of us off and makes us long for a time when we
could deal with such things ourselves.
I don't understand feeling utterly helpless, which is what is coming
across here. If you can't see a way to attack the whole problem, start
small. Why are repeat drunk drivers on the road? Are the prisons too
crowded? If so, odds are they're crammed with victims of the "war on
drugs," so lobby to change the way they're treated. Taking into account
drunk drivers, drunk fights, cirrhosis of the liver etc., alcohol is
probably a thousand times more deadly than pot, both to the users and
innocent people around them, thus the brunt of the law should fall on
them.
Rather than wanting to retrogress into a might makes right society,
I'd concentrate on working with my neighbors to alter whatever has me so
upset.
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L. Raymond
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28 Nov 2006 05:07:08 PM |
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:52:37 -0600, "L. Raymond"
<badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
"L. Raymond" wrote:
I don't accept your divisions. The movies you mention are
artificially clear cut good guy - bad guy situations. Real life is
virtually never so black and white, and frankly most people just aren't
equipped to deal with any sort of subtleties at all. Once their
emotions are up violence will happen regardless of whether or not it's
justified. Here in Houston an 11 year old girl was grabbed from a
playground, driven to the middle of nowhere, raped and put out to walk
home. Her neighbors have prepared fliers with a sketch of the suspect,
and they're stopping cars on the street to pass them out and tell people
to keep their eyes open. A woman interviewed on TV announced they were
quite ready to kill, "Yes, I said kill," she emphasized, this man when
he's found. Now, do you think that any man who closely resembled this
pencil sketch would be safe if he were seen if the area after dark,
unless we had a police force to which the neighbors would be answerable
if they killed him?
If the law doesn't take care of them who will?
The odds are the rapist you mentioned has been arrested for molesting
children before and if caught will be released once more at some point
to do it again.
Is the death of an innocent man OK if it sends the message that
criminals won't be tolerated? I'm not talking about the neighbors
getting their hands on the man who did this, but about their seizing an
innocent man who happens to look like the rapist.
I witness in part the shooting of a young black man when I was twelve
who was actually doing a good deed that was misinterpreted because of
the times.
He was treated like trash by the deputies and later died.
One of the saddest things I'm personally familiar with.
That's why frontier justice never works.
My point is that government wants order, the citizen wants order and
government and political activists deny it to us.
The people are aware of the dangers, know where they are coming from
and government refuses to effectively take care of it.
I once met a woman who had worked at a number of bank branches, three
of which had been robbed while she was there.
The dectective handling the last one recognized the mo of one of the
robbers and had dealt with the guy several times.
He called him on the phone and told him to come in to be booked which
the bad guy did.
The guy who put in my home alarm system was a former Memphis Police
burglary detective.
<Over the years he had arrested some of my friends in fact>
He dealt with some of them so many times that they had actually become
close to friends.
See the problem here?
I think the attraction to movies like Tombstone and the characters
protrayed in them is just a reflection of a longing to do for
ourselves what nobody else can or will do for us.
Again, in Tombstone good and bad are *very* clear cut. There aren't
any rumors that so-and-so did something which was enough for a neighbor
to kill him. There weren't any actions which were open to
misinterpretation resulting in the death or maiming of an innocent
party. You seem to long for a bright moral clarity more than anything,
and that's not going to happen in the real world.
It would be nice if Mumia Abu Jamal and people like him didn't have
followers who want to release the bad guys back into society.
It would also be nice if people did their homework and recognized Che
Guevara for what he was and rejected him rather than promote him as a
hero.
But thats not going to happen and I'm not naive enough to believe it
will.
I don't want the repeat drunk driver threatning my life or the lives
of those I love.
But I can't do anything about it.
It sort of pisses some of us off and makes us long for a time when we
could deal with such things ourselves.
I don't understand feeling utterly helpless, which is what is coming
across here.
I've had guns stuck in my face and had knives pulled on me and didn't
feel utterly helpless.
But I have also on a few occasions been jumped by three or four guys
at the same time and have.
Its not a good feeling and the fact that there are some people who
believe a man or woman in that situation shouldn't have the right to
pull a gun to defend themselves is infuriating.
If you can't see a way to attack the whole problem, start
small. Why are repeat drunk drivers on the road? Are the prisons too
crowded? If so, odds are they're crammed with victims of the "war on
drugs," so lobby to change the way they're treated. Taking into account
drunk drivers, drunk fights, cirrhosis of the liver etc., alcohol is
probably a thousand times more deadly than pot, both to the users and
innocent people around them, thus the brunt of the law should fall on
them.
We have a local, much beloved tv weatherman here.
Several years ago his daughter and granddaughter were killed by a
drunk driver with multiple offenses who was on his way to the penal
farm to serve two days of his weekend sentence for his last offense.
He was drunk and ran a traffic light at a high rate of speed.
The problem is that despite the fact that a man proves he will get
drunk and drive, risking the lives of others, and sometimes on
multiple occasions government has decided that for his benefit or the
benefit of his family they have the right to risk other people's lives
by allowing him back on the street.
We have tried to change that but cannot.
We are helpless in other words.
Rather than wanting to retrogress into a might makes right society,
I'd concentrate on working with my neighbors to alter whatever has me so
upset.
You've misunderstood.
I was expressing an opinion about why people who see movies like
Tombstone would long for the myth it creates.
I worked an inner city ambulance in Memphis for a number of years and
have seen what its like.
Along with the emergency calls we had contracts with the city and
county to transport dead bodies to the morgue.
Lots of people in certain areas of Memphis are shot, stabbed, beaten
to a pulp and many die over an insult.
There are areas where the children are trained on how to react when
the bullets start flying.
Again, government fails where they should succeed.
And if anybody who watches movies like Tombstone really wants to live
it I can tell them where they can.
They wouldn't like it for very long.
atheist@home#1554
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27 Nov 2006 08:20:33 PM |
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:29:39 -0600, Mike Smith
<mikesmith@godisdead.com> wrote:
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
Granted there is way too much busy-bodiness
in today's US society, and a lot of states have a
prohibition against self defence enshrined in law,
but retrogressing to the days of chaos, murder
at will and posses would not be any sort of
answer.
I think the attraction of the old days is that people
were more self-reliant, defended themselves, etc.
I wonder if you could break down people who like/
don't like this kind of movie - I'd include the Death
Wish & Dirty Harry movies - into [people who think
they can solve their own problems] and [people
who think the government should watch over us]?
It's really just a matter of how much government isn't it?
I know liberals who like those movies.
You know we not only have the speech police <Most of whom refer to
themselves as "Progressives> telling us which words should not be
spoken and which ideas should not be expressed, we now have the food
police demanding "sin taxes" on televisions <We get fat watching tv
and they don't like fat people> and the same taxes on the food and
drinks we consume that they do not approve of.
The government of course has already shown an interest in taxing evil
foods and drinks because they should control our weight along with
everything else.
Shouldn't be too very long before they determine which gray, drab
clothing we should wear; all the same of course because that's a sign
of an orderly society and an orderly society is a happy society.
And the function of government is to assure that everything is as
orderly as our saviors can make it.
Hey, you're from Texas - I thought y'all were all
vigilante types down there :-)
Heh.
You should see it here in Tennessee.
We can stand our ground and defend ourselves without anybody's
permission.
Even our Democrats believe a man's castle is his home and that we have
a right, no a duty to self defense.
We're sort of backward in that way :-)
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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27 Nov 2006 09:35:02 PM |
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we now have the food
police demanding "sin taxes" on televisions
Seriously? This is news to me. Who's pushing this idea?
<We get fat watching tv
and they don't like fat people> and the same taxes on the food and
drinks we consume that they do not approve of.
The government of course has already shown an interest in taxing evil
foods and drinks because they should control our weight along with
everything else.
I strongly suspect that the health aspect is just an excuse to levy a
tax. It's like doing something "for the children" or saying you're "pro
life". It's a way to shut up the opposition because to oppose it is to
support high cholesterol, heart disease and goodness knows what else.
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L. Raymond
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28 Nov 2006 01:36:06 AM |
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:35:02 -0600, "L. Raymond"
<badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
atheist@home.com wrote:
we now have the food
police demanding "sin taxes" on televisions
Seriously? This is news to me. Who's pushing this idea?
http://www.cspinet.org/about/
They are liars of course and want to control what we eat.
They try to present themselves as doing good work and simply supplying
us with needed information and often take credit for things they were
not responsible for.
Basically they are just more control freaks.
They have lobbied for sin taxes but I'm not real inclined to spend
time on their site to see if they still push it or admit to it.
<I don't doubt they still push it>
They are our friends and saviors.
If you do some net research you can get a better idea of who they are
and what their goals are.
They are just one more activist group out of thousands who want to
control our lives.
And government is their friend.
<We get fat watching tv
and they don't like fat people> and the same taxes on the food and
drinks we consume that they do not approve of.
The government of course has already shown an interest in taxing evil
foods and drinks because they should control our weight along with
everything else.
I strongly suspect that the health aspect is just an excuse to levy a
tax. It's like doing something "for the children" or saying you're "pro
life". It's a way to shut up the opposition because to oppose it is to
support high cholesterol, heart disease and goodness knows what else.
http://www.cspinet.org/new/200611171.html
With political activists its always about our children and our
children's children.
Whatever you may think of C.S. Lewis he had this right:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may
be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent
moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at
some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will
torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience."
atheist@home#1554
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