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With several new movies opening today, I could not make it to screenings of “Pride,” the film about a Black swim team in Philadelphia, thus no review of it. I did, however, see the other three big openings, and the best is–no surprise–a kids’ film:
* “Shooter“–Read . It is an unbelievable, anti-American mishmosh full of cliches and attacks on America’s presence in Iraq. A lot of lies. And it’s a rip-off of “Enemy of the State” and “Rambo II.” Skilled shooter gets hired by rogue American government operatives to think up assassination plot of Prez, in order to stop that plot. Shooter gets framed. Spends whole movie trying to get back at them. A pointless mishmosh. Skip it. And, again, .
* “Reign Over Me“–Yet another movie about the after-effects of 9/11, which doesn’t dare mention who perpetrated the attacks: Muslim Arabs. The closest we come is a mention of “those monsters from the Third world.”

Adam Sandler plays a New York City dentist whose whole life is ruined by the murder of his wife and children (and dog) on one of the planes that hit the Towers on 9/11. Don Cheadle plays a New York City dentist who was Sandler’s roommate in college. Sandler’s character is emotionally a child and plays video games all day. He doesn’t want to face what happened to his family on 9/11 and deal with it. He needs help. Cheadle has a chance encounter with him and tries to get him that help.
Cheadle has a family and is married to a demanding wife (Jada Pinkett Smith) and has a beautiful patient who is trying to perform oral sex on him and threatening lawsuits. Bored, Cheadle lives his wannabe single life vicariously through Sandler. Liv Tyler is very weak and too sweet in her role as a psychiatrist.
The movie is too long, the jokes rarely work, and Mike Binder (who wrote and directed) tries unsuccessfully to superimpose his typical genre of the married male bored with his life and wanting to be single on the topics of 9/11 and depression. It simply doesn’t work. Nor is it easy to take Sandler seriously when his childlike activities and comments and manic behavior remind you of his comedic films. Overall a depressing, pointless waste of time.
Those who lost close relatives in 9/11 deserved better than this. Just plain silly.

* “The Last Mimzy“–A lot of critics are panning this science fiction thriller for kids as too close to “E.T.” and missing magic. But I disagree. Yes, it is formulaic. But still, it’s a great kids’ movie that I found entertaining and charming.
Humans from a future generation reach out to two upper middle class kids in Seattle. They find strange toys in the water at their beachfront home, which have weird and special powers. The kids develop special magical abilities, discovered by their hippie teacher and his girlfriend.
At one point the toys even zap all the power in Seattle, and unlike in real life, Homeland Security actually finds the source of the problem, the very next day and arrests the whole family (it’s the Patriot act, post 9/11 thing). Ultimately, they discover that humans from the past are hurt and could become extinct if the sister, a specially gifted and chosen girl, does not do the necessary repair to her stuffed toy, Mimzy.
Could have done without the brief environmental lines delivered by the hippie teacher, but in general, the movie makes fun of him and his girlfriend. I found it funny, entertaining, and a movie you will find more than bearable–likely, enjoyable–even though it is aimed at your kids.
Flash from the past: Actor Timothy Hutton plays the father in this one.

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To update Mark Twain, there are lies, damn lies, and Hollywood movies.
The latest Hollywood offering starring “former” thug Mark Wahlberg–“Shooter“–is the epitome of that. It’s in theaters today and looks like a great movie, with all of its cool shooting and explosion scenes. On the contrary, it is anything but.
Aside from being a sad combo rip-off of “” and “Rambo II,” this movie is a withering attack not just on the Bush Administration and our soldiers in Iraq, it is a flat-out attack on America with no basis in fact.

Mark Wahlberg: Criminal Thug Has “Message” for America On-Screen, Off
The movie begins with a scene of genius Marine sharpshooter Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) taking out Ethiopian soldiers a mile away with a single shot. He’s that good. But the American soldiers in what he believes is a legitimate military operation decide to cut and run and abandon him and deny his existence. Disgruntled, he retires from the military to a rustic mountain log cabin.
Then, the plot gets preposterous. A group of men–one of whom identifies himself as a Colonel (Danny Glover, not a word of whose dialogue you can decipher)–come to visit him and appeal to his patriotism. But for a smart guy, he sure is stupid.
The men tell Swagger that an “inside man” wants to assassinate the President in the next two weeks. They want him to plan his own assassination as a sharpshooter and report back to them on how it would be possible to kill the President, so they can prevent it (riiiiight). And they want him to go with them to the scene of the likely assassination scenario to help them “spot” the shooter. (Yeah, even more believable. NOT.) Without verifying who they are in the least, Swagger immediately agrees to participate.
And–surprise! surprise!–they frame him for an attempted assassination of the Commander in Chief. It’s not like I’m spoiling the movie for you. All of this is in the trailer. And any ninny with a base IQ would know this dude is being set up. Come on.
But what will actually spoil the movie for you are the stark, absurd political statements in the movie. In the end, these mysterious plotters–who are apparently a rogue CIA operation working with an overdramatic, corrupt U.S. Senator (but it’s never really clear who they are)–were really out to kill an Ethiopian Bishop who was going to speak out against American corruption.
You see, America has been raping, torturing, and mass-murdering whole Ethiopian villages for years. And we’ve been doing it all to get cheap oil. Aside from the fact that gas is yet again nearing post-$3 levels per gallon, the fact is that America hasn’t and doesn’t rape, torture, or mass-murder, ANYONE in Ethiopia . . . or even Africa. No, that would be the Muslim Arab government of Sudan, which was doing that to its own people, until they wiped out its Black Christian population, and is now doing the same to its Black Muslims.
But, hey, why tell the truth, when an absurd movie plot can frame and blame America instead? That’s so much more exciting, right?
Then there are the obnoxious statements riddled throughout this movie and even its . . . wardrobe?! Actor Mark Pena, playing an incompetent FBI agent, wears a Che Guevara T-shirt. Nothing like a side of Che chic to go with the main course of America-hatred.
Mark Wahlberg delivers several monologues against the country that made this accused attempted-murderer and drug dealer into a multi-millionaire and Academy Award Nominee, including dialogue like this:

This is a country where the Secretary of Defense can tell the entire country on TV that it’s about freedom, not oil. Because it’s all a big lie.

And this:

Abu Ghraib–We knew their [the few U.S. soldiers who participated)bosses knew.

And this:

We killed raped, tortured, and killed people for oil in Ethiopia.

Since he has a lot of lines against America’s presence in Iraq and the lack of WMDs, it’s clear Ethiopia is a proxy for Iraq in this movie.
And Wahlberg goes on and on and on and on about how America is a criminal country (and that’s beside the utterances of other characters about the conspiracy on the Grassy Knoll in the JFK assassination).
Well, here’s a little news (for anyone planning to see “Shooter”) on the identity of the real criminal:
Mark Wahlberg.
In 1988, Wahlberg, after a series of arrests (he’s an admitted car thief and drug dealer), attacked a Vietnamese immigrant. Respected news sources say he took the man’s eye out with a meathook, in order to steal his beer. But I can’t see the full details of his assault because Wahlberg–who was 17 and tried as an adult–had the records sealed, according to officials at Boston’s Suffolk County courthouse. The one court document that was mysteriously obtained by The Smoking Gun states that in the process, Wahlberg called the man a “Vietnam f-cking shit.” When police brought him to the victim to have him identified, Wahlberg responded:

You don’t have to let him identify me. I’ll tell you now that’s the mother-f-cker whose head I split open.

Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder and was sentenced to two years in the Massachusetts’ Deer Island House of Corrections. He served only 45 days.
Before that, in 1986, Wahlberg was convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old Black boy and his brother and sister near Wahlberg’s Dorchester neighborhood. Wahlberg and two friends chased them on bikes, threw rocks at them, and told them:

We don’t like Black ni–ers in the area so get the f-ck away from the area.

While throwing the rocks, Wahlberg and friends yelled:

Kill the ni–er. Kill the ni–er.

A Black girl was hit by one of the rocks.
Wahlberg bragged to USA Weekend:

I was arrested so many times.

In another interview, he bragged that the number of arrests was in the teens or twenties.
And he bragged to ABC’s “Nightline” that he has never contacted the Vietnamese victim he mutilated or his other victims (to apologize or make things right) because he doesn’t feel he has to. He’s “made amends” by making a lot of money in successful pop music, modeling, and acting careers. He says he sleeps very well at night.
This is the kind of man who stars in a movie calling America a criminal nation and our generals and lesser-ranked soldiers criminals, rapists, and murderers for oil.
Wahlberg claims this movie

speaks to the sort of stuff we as a country are going through right now. I really wanted to make it.

Uh, no, it doesn’t speak to anything America has ever done or gone through, Mark. It’s fiction, unlike your criminal past.
Mark Wahlberg needs to stop delivering lectures to moviegoers about this great country that unfortunately gave so much to someone so undeserving–and unrepentant criminal thug.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Mark Wahlberg. “Shooter.” This is one Calvin Klein model you don’t want to emulate.
Skip this awful movie.

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Well, at least, it’s a case of appropriate new digs.
The Department of Homeland Sharia, er . . . Security is moving to a mental hospital facility. And wasting $3 billion in U.S. taxpayer money to do so.
Insert punchline here. (Thanks to reader Scott for the tip.)

Artwork by Fred Taub/Boycott Watch

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Just great.
An Iraqi Colonel attending an Air Force training program in Montgomery, Alabama has disappeared and fled. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents are looking for him. He left a note, saying he didn’t want to return to Iraq.
Who was the officer? No-one is disclosing his name . . . just like the missing , and ICE refused to disclose their names, too (they were, fortunately, all located).
Good to know that this fugitive was selected to learn Air Force methods and secrets before he skipped town. And why the heck did we allow his wife and children to come to the U.S. with him? (Did we pay for them, too?) Isn’t that a bad way to insure he’d return to his home country?
More from the Marine Corps Times:

An Iraqi air force colonel who fled from Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., where he was in training, is the subject of a wide-reaching manhunt, according to federal officials.
The officer has not been identified, and officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not confirm when he first went missing.
Officials at Maxwell referred all questions to ICE.
“ICE has joined the investigation into the whereabouts of an Iraqi military student, and his wife and two young children who disappeared while attending a U.S. Department of Defense training course in Alabama,” Richard Rocha, a spokesman for ICE, said in a statement. “Now ICE is working with our international and national law enforcement counterparts, and does not suspect foul play in the disappearances. Furthermore, there is no indication that this case is a national security or public safety concern.”
Rocha said officials would not discuss specifics of the ongoing investigation.
The Washington Times reported March 22 that the colonel left a note saying he did not want to return to Iraq. Officials quoted in the Times report said they suspected the man was possibly headed for Mexico.
Air University at Maxwell trains hundreds of Iraqi officers as part of the effort to rebuild the decimated Iraqi air force. The branch was strong under Saddam Hussein’s rule but now consists of fewer than 1,000 airmen.
The Iraqi air force has no attack aircraft, but it does possess numerous transport helicopters and cargo and personnel planes, including C-130s.

Good luck finding this guy. They can’t even “find” the illegal aliens who march in the streets en masse.
Just add him (and his wife and kids, whose travel here we likely paid) to the tally of the 20 million illegals.

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Thank Heaven (but NOT Allah) for small favors.
A Muslim group planned to disrupt this weekend’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, Kenya to “draw attention” to Kenyan Islamic terrorists who are now jailed in Ethiopia and Somalia. But they decided to cancel their obnoxious plans to stop the races, blaming–who else?!–the United States for “stoking fear” by issuing a terror alert.
Hmmm . . . Muslims plan to disrupt an athletic event on behalf of Islamic terrorists–sounds like quite an appropriate plan over which to issue a terror alert. And which is more frightening: a) that a group of Islamic extremists (redundant) plans to riot into an athletic event on behalf of jailed Islamic terrorist killers; or b) that a safe country, which wants to keep its citizens safe, issued a warning to its citizens to stay away from such an event?

If you answered b), go visit the Rosie O’D Ward at Roosevelt Hospital.
Sheikh Mohamed Dor, Secretary-General of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (their own little version of CAIR, only worse) is steamed at America, NOT at his friends the terrorists. He said he canceled the planned “disruption” because

“enemies” of Muslims might exploit the furor surrounding the U.S. terror alert and cause violence.
“There’s a very likely chance that our enemies will take advantage of our reputation that Muslims are the ones who like violence, and who are connected with terrorists,” Dor told The Associated Press.

Reputation? Seems that it’s not just a “reputation.” How many other religions have interrupted a sporting event on behalf of terrorists, in recent memory?

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The man who –but loves it when he’s running for President–just got an interesting, if worthless, endorsement.
The Hair Club for Men and Women (used to be just for men, but, hey, with equality comes the privilege of membership in this esteemed group) has “endorsed” Mitt Romney for President. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire, Hair Club surgeon, Jon Gaffney, says Romney’s

got the best hair of the major candidates. He appears to be coloring it some, but it’s all his.

And he knows this because . . .? (Mitt came in for a consultation?) Hopefully, Romney never gets to utter the first part of the Hair Club’s trademark motto, “I’m not only the President, I’m also a customer.”
Mitt Happens.

Blowdried Blowhard Romney: Mitt Happens . . .
But Hopefully Not to the White House

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Shariah (Islamic law) winds are not only blowing our way, they’re here. A couple of stories in the news indicate that in spades.
First, there’s the story out of Germany, which a plethora of readers sent. It’s about a completely idiotic judge, Christa Datz-Winter, who cited the Koran in her ruling that corporal punishment against women in Islamic marriages is okay. Remember, this is in GERMANY, not MOROCCO or PAKISTAN. She made this ruling in a divorce matter:

The judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said in a recommendation earlier this year that both partners came from a “Moroccan cultural environment, in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife,” the court said.
She argued that it was not an exceptional hardship case in which fast-track divorce proceedings would be justified.

When the woman protested, Datz-Winter cited a passage from the Islamic holy book, the Quran, to back up her argument that reads in part, “men are in charge of women.”

I guess that’s her way of saying, “Islam says you deserved it, bitch.” Say Good-bye to Germany, folks. Auf Wiedersehen.
But don’t rest on your laurels, thinking this can’t happen here. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has, many times recently, cited laws of other countries for some of its absurd decisions, such as the one outlawing the death penalty for youthful murderers tried as adults. If they can cite other nations’ laws for their decisions, what will stop them from citing other religions’ laws?
Nothing.
Then, there are Dr. Rafiq A. Sabir, Tarik Shah, Abdulrahman Farhane and Mahmud Faruq Brent–three men on trial in federal court in New York for conspiring to help terrorists. The jury selection will exclude anyone with anti-Muslim bias. Hmmm . . . does this mean that the men’s attorneys are finally admitting that most terrorists are Muslims?
Today, they screen for those who are biased against Muslims (which is everyone who isn’t a complete fool or left-wing America hater–hello, we remember 9/11).
Tomorrow, they will apply Sharia, just like Judge Datz-Winter did. Wake up, America! Or you, too (and your daughters, sisters, and mothers), will soon be smacked around, all with legal sanction.

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If your spouse is seriously sick from cancer–and it sounds like John Edwards’ wife truly is–you do the right thing, drop out of the Presidential race (or at least suspend your campaign), and be with her to fight the fight.
But, if your spouse is fighting the fight of her life against a returning cancer, and you stay in the race–as Edwards announced today he is doing–then, it looks like nothing more then brazen politics with no heart. Unfortunately, many Americans–gullible as they are–might see otherwise and have their heartstrings pulled by this man who claims he’s staying in the race for his wife.
I feel sorry for John Edwards’ wife. I wish her well. But his staying in the race and using it as a campaign tactic is reprehensible. And, sad as it is, this manipulation is nothing new to John Edwards. (in which I was quoted) back in October of last year.
As :

Breast cancer is a devastating, frequently fatal disease–which also strikes men. But, the fact is that John Edwards’ multi-millions in lawsuit verdicts contributed greatly to the cost of health care for the rest of us in America. The average woman doesn’t have the gazillions Mrs. Edwards does to get every treatment (several NOT covered by HMOs) available that the rest of us can’t afford. Her husbands’ lawsuits didn’t make those treatments more possible for the rest of us. Nope, those lawsuits made effective treatment more expensive and less available.
Don’t be fooled by this smokescreen book and John Edwards’ pronouncements on Oprah about his and his wife’s fight against breast cancer. When it comes to your fight, he made America’s women more vulnerable.
And so do the thousands of other medical malpractice plaintiffs’ lawyers like him around America who voted for him and gave generously to his and Kerry’s campaigns.

Adn that’s the bottom line. Watch for more John Edwards Oprah appearances in the future.
The man–any real man–should have gotten out of the race to be with his wife.

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Every day or so, I visit Iranian Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s website. Not to amuse myself with his insane rantings–those are a given. I read it (in English–I’m not a Farsi specialist) to remind myself that America has far too many kooks in our midst. And it’s not just the 9/11 “Truthers.”
Read Ahmadinejad’s site and look in the right-hand side. There are a myriad of new e-mails every day from Ahmadinejad’s fans all over the world. Many of them are from the U.S. Their comments are sickening. They act as thousands of verbal Monica Lewinsky’s to the modern day Hitler.
Here’s a selection from the latest “offerings”:

Sad: Too Many Americans Heart Ahmadinejad

Fred Thornton Cur…@gmail.com
Great site,Thank you very much Dr.Ahmadinejad for standing up for the truth and for standing up to evil and as a white male in the U.S. I give my full to you your country and i send you many blessings.

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Autm Eleven aut…@yahoo.com
Your using your position of power very wisely. May Wisdom and Justice bless your reign.

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Aaron C.
President Ahmadinejad, I appreciate your faith in the people of my nation. It is difficult even for me, a citizen, to imagine that we Americans may have some inexpendible virtues to offer the world. God bring America and Iran closer rather than further.

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Alex Wuori zyp…@yahoo.com
You may find this following comment strange. I am an American citizen. I am weakly agnostic. However, I positively absolutely feel that you should be allowed to have nuclear capabilities, for peaceful or military intentions. America needs to stop being able to push everyone around just because it and its allies are the only ones who have nukes. (China has them too, but they wouldnt stand up to America.) We need someone strong like you to stand up the big bully of the world. We need someone like you to unite the middle east against the imperialism of America. The world needs you, Ahmadinejad. You must not falter.

Yes, there are plenty of Americans–your neighbors and mine–who want us to die, who worship at the alter of this madman who would destroy us.
Reading Ahmadinejad’s site, one can only conclude that if the Internet was around in the time of the first Hitler, we’d be in big trouble. Or perhaps, not be, period.

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Can you lie to your own diary? Apparently so.
First, there was a guy in the Clinton Administration who testified that he lied to his own diary about Hillary. And, now there’s America’s best-known Silicone Valley a/k/a “Pamela Anderson.”
People Magazine quotes her as saying in her online diary:

Like any other single mom, I’ve tried to create a healthy example for my kids always.

Sure you have, Pam. You keep telling yourself that.
Pamela Anderson’s Secret Health Formula:

Size Double Z implants, plus sex videos, plus multiple Playboy layouts, plus Hepatitis C, plus several months marriage to Kid Rock, plus, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam = Healthy Example.

HOkay.

“Healthy Example for Kids”