Posted on 12/05/2007 1:38:46 PM PST by murdoog
Ronald Wilson Reagan had nothing to do with the fall of the Soviet Union...
You make some excellent points.
Seems like it must have been 100 years ago that someone with a D after their name would be motivated by patriotism - but then again this was pre-clintonism. I feel that clintonism is has changed a lot in our body politic.
I remember being impressed by this book in the simple fact that although there are 435 members of congress it is only the inner circle of committee chairmen and in some cases sub-committee chairman that hold the real power. The rest are just scenery.
I’ll look for that book - thanks.
However I have to question your last comment - of course the grunt work was done by Afghanis - how could it be otherwise? No one was claiming that Charlie personally went up into the mountains and shot down Russian helicopters - right?
He was in the process. After the movie came out, he went around badmouthing it.
he was pretty good in The Departed also
I need to watch that movie again because years ago when I saw it I really did not like it.....since then I have heard a lot of good comments about the film...
I saw that a few months ago, but it was subpar for Scorsese. Just too over-the-top.
This article is interesting. I hadn't planned on seeing the movie because the regular MSM was making it out to be "see what happens when Americans MEDDLE in the affairs of other countries". I still don't trust Tom Hanks. He will act all patriotic, but then he's buddies with Bill Clinton.
Mercury Rising starred Willis and Baldwin.
Alec Baldwin may be an a$$hole, but he steals the show in these kind of roles. People will be quoting him in this movie for the next century.
Baldwin may be a worthless scumbag in real life, but he is a scumbag par-excellence in the movies!
Wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.
Modern Hollywood Law is that The Hero Shall Have No Possibility of Being a Republican.
Whenever they violate that law, the movie becomes a surprise success.
There is much to agree in that book, but our war with Islam began with a camel thief named Mohamed who tried to take over Mecca and had to flee for his life to Medina where the local jews and christians rejected him. The muslims may not be well educated about the west insofar as culture goes but they do know their history and of every battle they lost. Al Qaida is merely the manifestation of the activists, but our problem has been and is with Islam itself. An absurd ideology masquerading as a religion.
It’s fantastic. What didn’t you like?
To be honest it was so long ago but I remember being real bored by it.....I have changed since then and I want to rent it because I have heard it is really a great film and I have a feeling I may appreciate it now.....
You obviously never read Crile’s book.
Mr. Schweaty runs a bakery, doesn’t he?
Have you tasted the Schweaty Christmas Balls ?
You obviously never read Crile’s book.
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