Michael Moore is set to release Fahrenheit 9/11. A movie that will no doubt have a substantial impact on the way certain Americans will view the upcoming election. His movies may be full of interesting facts and raise many good questions but at the same time, all they do is raise questions and spew propaganda. For example, his last epic, bowling for columbine, was critically acclaimed for its "damming" portrayal of the reasons behind the columbine shooting. Upon watching this movie, I was dumbstruck by how well Mr. Moore manipulates people by praying on their emotions. It?s really unbelievable. He brings up situations in a way that will achieve the desired atmosphere for his films. Never mind that there might be a rational explanation for something, Michael Moore's philosophy seems to be, why answer the questions when we can let an audience sensationalized by the topic, let their imaginations run wild in the search for an explanation.
Basically I'm sick and tired of people treated Michael Moore as some kind of martyr. He is as far from the average Joe as David was from Goliath. The man is a billionaire with the unfortunate ability to unfair prejudice people by pasting together the facts however he sees fit. I?m not saying the world is one big happy family, I?m just saying the world doesn?t need Michael Moore editing down history into a propaganda speech.
-Paul
America suffered a grave loss, on my 18th birthday nonetheless. June 5th 2004 the greatest president in our nation?s history passed away at the grand old age of 93.
Using nothing but pressure the great communicator managed to bring the fall of the Berlin wall. Using Star Wars, forcing the Soviet Union to hopelessly try to keep up, he managed to collapse their economy. Then funding enormous amounts of propaganda for them managed to get Yeltsin elected and democracy flourished, therefore ending the cold war.
There is no president who did more, and I do not want any of you dumb shits saying Lincoln because I have gone into why Lincoln was a horrible president.
The story of the emoticon began long ago, when some unfortunate soul put a heart on a letter. Since then, man has been the unfortunate perpetuator of what has become known as the emoticon syndrome. This debilitating and highly contagious medical condition has plagued man for centuries. Early Symptoms include, an unusually high usage of smiley faces in chat rooms, as well as usage of complex chartroom lingo which eventually leads the subject to create pictures to facilitate easier usage. Longer fraises such as LMAOROFL (roughly translated to laugh my ass off roll on the floor laughing) are eventually translated into cute and yet endlessly annoying little pictures that will eventually rise to power.
These emoticons must be stopped. Some Emoticoners say, "I'm okay, I can stop anytime," while others say "if I was addicted, I'd know." Here in lies the true evil of emoticons, they're like the Hot Pockets' theme. In moderation they can be fun, even enjoyable you might say. But slowly they take over a person's subconscious. At first a subject might draw one or two emoticons a day, but eventually it becomes and addiction, and the subject finds they can't stop. I've heard recovering addicts say "I found myself only going to parties that I knew were going to have emoticons, it was then I realized I needed help." The problem is help is hard to come by. Few emoticon clinics exist and those that do are full to the brim.
The easiest way to stem the tide of this emerging epidemic is prevention. Now its one to say you're going to use prevention, it's quite another thing to actually use it. I've talked with Pfizer at great length and together we've been able to come up with a simple three step process.
One: wear orange dots
Two: depending on success of step one, increase size of orange dots as necessary
Three: Utilize dots of different colors
Also there is a patch available which can last as prescribed for any length of time depending on the severity of the case. These patches have the added advantage of giving the user the peace of mind of not having to wonder if they put their dot on today.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I come before you today with the intention of opening your eyes to this impending epidemic. The road will be long and hard, but I believe that if we stand united against emoticons, then good shall prevail. For all it takes for emoticons to triumph is for good men and women to remain silent.
After all the instability that has occured in Iraq, including the assassination of the head of the governing council, there has been much speculation that Blair and Bush are going to pull out of the country. This is a mistake that we cannot afford to make. If we were to pull out, it would be a decision made in order to save political careers, a very stupid reason to abandon a country that we have an obligation to help rebuild. What happens in Iraq will decide what is going to determine the future of the Middle East for as far as the eye can see. If Iraq could become a flourishing country where citizens are given freedoms, the entire Middle East will progress towards greater liberalism as well. If the US and UK withdraw their troops, extremists will have won yet another victory and fundamentalism and totalitarianism will continue to reign over the Middle East. The United States will be dragged into the region time after time as the threat of international terrorism will continue to grow if something is not done in the Arab World. The United States must not waiver.
Beverly Hills Cop...
This movie is the pinnacle of awesome. I mean everything about this movie screams awesome. It has all the essentials...
Fast Cars, Beautiful Women, and a complete udder lack of weird al Yankovic, (on a side note the unusally low percentage of asian chicks may offend jesse)
The music....
I will for all of time and then some say the music of the 80's was awesome. I mean how many presidents can make life so depressing that a few hair bands were able to compensate with the help of crack to make everything a little more bearable and be responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer. Sorry folks, there is no music like 80's music.
aTari...
who knew a joystick and a button could change the world. On that note, asteroids shall forever remain the pinnacle of video game development.
Regan...
Despite all his shortcommings, Reagan still managed to keep the atmopshere shaky by saying "my friends we launch the missles in five minutes" and was able to joke about it. Good man that Reagan
A flock of seagulls...
what's not to love?
-paul
I've been having an ongoing argument with a moron on DA ((who out of respect for their dignity or whats left of it, shall remain nameless) who is uterly conviced that studios put out cd's that aren't forcused around for the most part two or three songs. I'm sorry, but buying one cd is one thing, but completely ignoring the fact that that 12 to 20 bucks you just spent on a disc will for the most part consist of two or three songs you love, and 9 or more you've probably never heard of and more likely than not can't stand. The music industry depends on people who dont realize how little music they're paying for.
-paul
To show you just what a tool John Kerry is, I don't care who wins the election. I think that the same policies are going to be carried out regardless. I can't think of any clear cut differences between the candidates, so as usual the status quo is going to be maintained.
Once again Americans are faced with a terribly interesting duo of candidates to the big chair. John Kerry is rapidly taking fire for not being democratic enough. Any democrats who feel they have the wrong guy running ought to take a long hard look at themselves and the beat bush frenzy that substatially boosted Kerry above Dean after Dean's not so important speech. While I still intend to vote for Bush, Im still less than thrilled about the upcoming election because it promises to have all the crap of 2000 and then some. If Kerry is to weather this storm, he's going to need to distance himself from Bush, because he stands to lose a substantial amount of his voter base to a third party candidate.
-paul
Alright I have to do some Catholic explaining. Paul you are correct in saying that Gibson is an uber Catholic, but I would say that he is so uber Catholic that he isn't really Catholic. The Catholic faith was reformed in Vatican 2, but Mel like some other freaks resisted and really aren't apart of the Catholic Church, but rather their own little pre-Vatican 2 Catholic Church. To put it into context when Mel went to Rome to shoot the movie, he had to fly in his own priest because all the other priests in Rome didn't suit his worship style.
I would also like to clear one thing up for you guys, the Hierarcy of the Church especially the Catholic Church in the United States, serves mostly a guidance/symbolic position, and that when the Pope or an archbishop says something, people don't drop everything so they can accomodate the words of that person. Basically on the Drudge Report I saw a thing critizicising Kerry for taking communion because he is pro-choice. Umm that is perfectly fine according to Catholic Dogma and just because some conservative Bishops and others are anti-Kerry doesn't meen that Catholics feel that way. What this further shows is the prejudice we have in our system against Catholics. There is a thin line Catholics have to walk when they run for office because they get critisized either way. If they are too religious people say they are controlled by the vatican, if they aren't religous enough, people accuse them of not being religous and not right for president.
Oh and lastly I would like to remind people that we can't refer to Catholics as a voting block, there are so many Catholics and there is no trend in their voting pattern (that is substantial) to refer to a "Catholic Vote." There is no such thing and Fox, Yahoo, CNN and the Drudge Report have to get it together.
I recently discovered that Mel Gibson is some kind of hard-core catholic instead of a scientologist like I though he was. I mean i gues this explains why he spent so much of his own money (I heard like 40 million) to make yet another rendition of Jesus and the cross. I mean i go to church and all that stuff, but i somehow i just dont feel the need to have Mel Gibsion indoctrinate me with his take. As for those who have had a "life changing experience" because of this movie i pity you. The bible's been around for quite some time and as far as i'm concerned the movies arent a great place to get your religion.
-paul.
