HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity wrote: I don't know how it works for the Buckhead organization, but at our meetings we all wear Zorro or Batman masks, so I don't actually know the real identities of the other conservatives who use my handle
You guys get to wear Batman masks at your meetings? How can I join?
And now PETA freaks and population control enthusiasts will begin promoting this as an alternative to human children. Watch for copycats among the fringe left.
If it ends in a tie, apparently Dean and Kerry have agreed to settle the outcome in a Reality TV fart lighting contest hosted by David Letterman and Regis.
And Jennings had such an outstanding record defending civilization in the Canadian Boy Scouts and Barbara Streisand's bedroom. It's heart-warming to have such a hero of moral integrity guarding U.S. National Security.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Soviet Army fought UFOs, Lawgvr1955 wrote: I thought "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a modern story of Christ. An omnipotent and omniscient being (Klatu) comes in human form and in peace to warn man to practice the Golden Rule or else face eternal death by fire and brimstone. He is killed and his disciple (robot) who does his bidding brings him back and lays him in state (inside the ship) where he shortly thereafter comes back to life. He appears once again before man and then is lifted up into the heavens (blasts off). That cinema class I took in school was not a waste of time, eh????
Um...typologically speaking, yes, as in a vague allegory but probably one of the Jungian Christs rather than the real J.C. of Galilee. The friendly stranger motif appears again in StarWars and E.T.. The X-Files seemed to employ it also with that Jeremiah character. Healers from space. Of course, in StarWars Obi Wan Kenobi dies and then mystically reappears in a transfigured glorified form. The brown medieval Franciscan robe adds to the Christian mystical suggestions.
Interesting point, by the way. Christ figures in modern films, that is.
One of the zany aspects of The Day the Earth Stood Still was that the suave alien (Klaatu, played by Michael Rennie) was advocating some sort of world government by the UN along the lines of the World Federalists.
Gee, I hope you will be as comfortable with John Kerry as president. I have been a professional conservative for over 20 years. I know of no professional conservatives (real conservatives) in active life in Washington who are "comfortable" with Bush.