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Michael Aldrich
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« on: July 29, 2008, 08:42:08 PM »

Great quote in the British newspaper The Telegraph by film critic Jenny McCartney:

"America, for all its manifold strengths, is still a country in which the population can be roused to a frenzy of condemnation by the sight of Janet Jackson's escaped nipple on the Super Bowl, but views the sight of a bound man being torched to death as all-round family entertainment."

That just about says it all, don't you think?
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Mr. Dirlewanger
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Egalitarianism is simply absurd


« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2008, 08:45:34 PM »

Great quote in the British newspaper The Telegraph by film critic Jenny McCartney:

"America, for all its manifold strengths, is still a country in which the population can be roused to a frenzy of condemnation by the sight of Janet Jackson's escaped nipple on the Super Bowl, but views the sight of a bound man being torched to death as all-round family entertainment."

That just about says it all, don't you think?

To what is she referring?
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"Now to a tyrant or to an imperial city nothing is inconsistent which is expedient, and no man is a kinsman who cannot be trusted."

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Michael Aldrich
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2008, 08:48:57 PM »

Great quote in the British newspaper The Telegraph by film critic Jenny McCartney:

"America, for all its manifold strengths, is still a country in which the population can be roused to a frenzy of condemnation by the sight of Janet Jackson's escaped nipple on the Super Bowl, but views the sight of a bound man being torched to death as all-round family entertainment."

That just about says it all, don't you think?

To what is she referring?

"The Dark Knight." The article can be viewed here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/26/do2610.xml
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2008, 09:13:37 PM »

I thought you weren't a social conservative?
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Michael Aldrich
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2008, 09:15:38 PM »

I thought you weren't a social conservative?

I'm not. I just found the article interesting.
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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2008, 10:00:08 PM »

Great quote in the British newspaper The Telegraph by film critic Jenny McCartney:

"America, for all its manifold strengths, is still a country in which the population can be roused to a frenzy of condemnation by the sight of Janet Jackson's escaped nipple on the Super Bowl, but views the sight of a bound man being torched to death as all-round family entertainment."

That just about says it all, don't you think?
I think it's bullshit.  Who ever gave a shit what Britain thought about America anyways?
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