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11/20/2009 8:05:35 PM
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topic:
2012
Sam Wilson
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They will be in 2012: THE NEXT GENERATION. EVERY DEAD BODY from the first movie will attack the arks.
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11/20/2009 7:58:29 PM
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Movies - Winter 2009-10
Marian
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Pirate Radio is a lot of fun. Great 60's rock music. I hadn't known any of the history but in the early Sixties, the British wouldn't play rock on the radio so pirate radio stations set up on boats and broadcast from there. The movie is pure fiction but the music and the background are real. Here's the true story http://radiolondon.co.uk/kneesflashes/stationprofile/hist.html
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11/20/2009 7:48:18 PM
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topic:
2012
Marian
Posts 2178
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A zombie attack!!! That's what 2012 was lacking!!! Why oh why didn't the director consult you ahead of time?
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11/20/2009 7:38:25 PM
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Newsmax: How 'Bout " civilized " Military Coup ?
AspE
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/full_text_of_newsmax_column_suggesting_military_co.php?ref=fpblg
Conservative mag Newsmax ran a colum suggesting a military coup against Obama would be a peachy-keen neat thing ( Note: There was some vague " Not to REALLY suggest it...hh hh hh " distancing in the immortal prose . ) , until giving in to the forces of poiltical correctness and taking it down ! Like taking down the Star Spangled Banner or Iwo Jima flags !!!!!!!!! Like not , like William Kristol and others during Bush II's run , suggesting that the New York Times and Washington Post be peosecuted for whatever that was that was traitourous that they did !!!!!!!!! Somebody else kept it up . So .
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11/20/2009 7:38:18 PM
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topic:
Pragmatism
Bill Gleason
Posts 36
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I've never started at topic in the Asimov basement before. In fact, I don't think I've ever started a topic here at all. But my hope is that the basement here isn't as non-deliberative as its reputation would suggest, and that a worthwhile political discussion can exist in this thread. We'll see.
The focus of this thread, as the title would imply, is a discussion of the pragmatic consequences of various proposed national emphases. Obviously, from healthcare to Afghanistan to North Korea and beyond, this is a wide-open topic. The only rule is that the posts focus on what the realistic outcomes of various efforts might be, both pro and con.
To kick it off, though tempted to take a domestic policy course, I'll take Northeast Asia, and in particular, North Korea.
What is the best course in that region? I suggest it is a decisive push for reunification of North and South Korea. A combined military invasion/pacification of North Korea via coordinated military offensive from South Korea, Japan, Russia, China, and the U.S. seems the best geopolitical move---if we can pull it off.
North Korea is a dinosaur. Their GDP is a pittance compared with its neighbors. It boasts the largest army in the world, and most of them are standing about 25 miles from Seoul, but are they really dedicated infantry? Will they fight to the death against far-advanced resistance? I don't think so. I think they're not so brainwashed as Kim Jong-Il thinks they are.
And communism aside, do we need a dictatorship there, disrupting the regional balance of power, retarding economic development? Escpecially since toppling it wouldn't be hard if/when China finally accepts the inevitable? Certainly we shouldn't let this tiny, misguided country blackmail the world with the threat of nuclear development and proliferation. South Korea wants reunification (and so, I think, does the population of North Korea, really). I say we give it to them.
As I see it, the only real stumbling blocks is for the invading coalition to predetermine the disposition of the existent political regime in North Korea. That and convincing China and Russia to go along with it. Might be a few provinces to give up, which a unified Korea might later try to regain in The Hague, but wouldn't we all breathe a lot easier if that was the outcome?
Is this not a pragmatic approach?
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11/20/2009 7:28:48 PM
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topic:
2012
Sam Wilson
Posts 634
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John E. Rogers, Jr. wrote
I appreciated the quiet, understated tone of the film. Thoughtful. Unhurried. Eschewing special effects and loud explosions in favor of the hidden pain and angst caused by the coming disaster. In fact, set for the most part in the dimly lit interior of an English country manor. Lots of staring out windows. Hugging. Tearful poetry reading. Private grief. Men and women getting in touch with their feelings. Wind soughing through bare trees. Solitary figures on garden paths. Almost Merchant-Ivory material. Magnificent.
I got the Director's Cut, on a DVD screener the studio sends out to industry members. Same as you describe, except for the added zombie attack on the manor and the asteroid strike.
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11/20/2009 7:28:26 PM
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topic:
Bang! Pow!
John Thiel
Posts 1462
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Just watching a couple of episodes of INVASION today ("The Last Wave Goodbye", named after a Dylan Thomas poem, and "Lights Out", named after an old TV fear series) and I noted their disaster special effects were especially good, at least on these two episodes, though nothing else about the episodes were especially good. But I was thinking as I watched about how people like to watch things happen to a bunch of people and this reaction of liking that can only be considered sexual. In "The Last Wave" the actors were doing it for such people and the cameramen kept it tightened up so that it wouldn't jangle the audience too much. The scene where they were all run off the wharf into the water was definitely orgasmic.
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11/20/2009 7:21:55 PM
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topic:
Movies - Winter 2009-10
Sam Wilson
Posts 634
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Read that the Coen Brothers are remaking TRUE GRIT. Not a joke. NO COUNTRY FOR ROOSTER COGBURN will star Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Matt Damon. (Made up the new title, but the rest is true.)
Supposed to be a more accurate reflection of the novel, which was cleaned up, like the novel for THE SHOOTIST, for John Wayne's image when he did the movie.
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11/20/2009 7:21:10 PM
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topic:
Stargate Universe
John Thiel
Posts 1462
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Mayhap they think the Gate has a cult following. (If it does, they surely must have rioted over "Seth".)
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11/20/2009 7:18:13 PM
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topic:
A CUPFUL OF SPACE by Mildred Clingerman
John Thiel
Posts 1462
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What's your avatar, Brian? Looks like a cuban bossa nova player, maybe.
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11/20/2009 7:18:01 PM
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topic:
Global Warming Revelations.
Loki
Posts 47
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Byron, and I'm sad that I'll never behold the mighty dodo.
If anyone doubts what the whole AGW fraud is really about, here it is out of the horse's ass's mouth:
http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/new-eu-president-confirms-new-world-order-desire-19nov09/17989978
Hate to say I Told You So...(actually, I love saying it!)
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11/20/2009 7:14:05 PM
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topic:
2012
Sam Wilson
Posts 634
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Marian, one reason I liked THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK was that the t-rex eats the family dog in the back yard.
2012 wasn't much on character credibility---when the scientist asks the president's daughter to hook up at the end of the movie, she doesn't say "I JUST LOST MY FATHER AND EVERYBODY ELSE I LOVE AND CARE ABOUT IN A WORLDWIDE CATACLYSM, YOU DOLT!" Thandie Newton just smiles shyly like they're doing a scene from OUR TOWN.
But. Best. Special. Effects. Ever.
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11/20/2009 7:04:23 PM
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topic:
UNDER THE DOME: The journey begins...
Sam Wilson
Posts 634
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Bill Moonroe wrote:
John, the audiobook is also out. I don't know who the narrator is, but it's a two-volume set in audio. It's two bricks.
That would be Raul Esparza, Bill, an actor in Broadway musicals and one of only 2 male actors to be nominated for a Tony in every acting category (4).
Which means, I guess, that if there are any songs Under the Dome, they should be done pretty good. 
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11/20/2009 6:54:27 PM
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UNDER THE DOME: The journey begins...
Sam Wilson
Posts 634
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Thanks for the responses. Bruce, if it's fast-paced, that's a big plus for me with King, who many a time I'd wish he would just GET ON WITH IT!!! I've never been that impressed with King's characterizations, which are more "writerly" than reflective of what you'd find in life, though many critics disagree.
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11/20/2009 6:41:55 PM
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topic:
Global Warming Revelations.
jimbraiden
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Actually Byron most sceptics do not reject global warming- it is the man made part of it that we tend to have our doubts about.
And finding that type of equivelence coming from you is disappointinf.
I expected better.
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11/20/2009 6:17:08 PM
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Global Warming Revelations.
Byron Bailey
Posts 2413
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The AGW crowd have done enormous damage to the trust the public have in science and the scientific method.
They have cherry picked data, refused access to raw data and methodologies and employed statistical methods that have real statisticians screaming in horror.
And that in the end is what really annoys me about the whole AGW scam- the damage done to science.
Most of the people in my neck of the woods who reject global warming also reject evolution.
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11/20/2009 6:09:29 PM
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topic:
Global Warming Revelations.
jimbraiden
Posts 1755
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Mark,
Yes that is pretty poignant.
You have by the way put your finger on the crux of the matter- trust.
The AGW crowd have done enormous damage to the trust the public have in science and the scientific method.
They have cherry picked data, refused access to raw data and methodologies and employed statistical methods that have real statisticians screaming in horror.
And that in the end is what really annoys me about the whole AGW scam- the damage done to science.
If you read through the items some of the most damning are a series of emails suggesting possible methods of "freezing out" ( no pun intended) scientific journals that publish papers from AGW sceptics -thus enabling the supporters of AGW to claim that no peer reviewed papers have appeared in accepted scientific journals.
And it is about time that the real scientists out there stood up and defended their calling.
Oh and for those who are interested in just what Phil Jones meant by "Mikes's Nature trick":
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/20/mikes-nature-trick/
A final point.
If I were Phil Jones or Michael Mann I would be very careful what I post in response.
It might just be that those who have posted these emails and documents are taking a page out ot Andrew Breitbarts book.
Remember how he played the Acorn scandal?
Release a few tapes and then let your opponents respond-"these tapes prove nothing, isolated incidents etc"
Then hit them with some more emails/films even more damaging than the first ones.
Not saying that's what will happen but it is how I would have played it.
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11/20/2009 6:08:53 PM
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topic:
Global Warming Revelations.
Byron Bailey
Posts 2413
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And I'm poorer by never having seen them live.
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11/20/2009 6:02:53 PM
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topic:
Global Warming Revelations.
Loki
Posts 47
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Sadly, Byron, the passenger pigeon is extinct. Yet somehow the earth abides...
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11/20/2009 5:55:13 PM
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topic:
Global Warming Revelations.
Byron Bailey
Posts 2413
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Plenty of passenger pigeons, too!
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