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Impromptu movie night @ Latebra
Went to Latebra early evening, watched Bowling for Columbine. I don't think I'd ever seen a Michael Moore movie before (nor read any of his books), and I really liked it--I'd like to see more, and perhaps even read some of his books. Amusing, informative, and biased in a direction I agree with. :) (The message seems to be that thought Americans have a lot of guns, gun ownership isn't the problem--Canada has more guns per capita than we do, and yet have almost zero gun violence. Fact is, the U.S. has over 30x the gun deaths annually of the first runner-up, and no simple explanation for it. It isn't violent games or movies, it isn't Marilyn Manson, it isn't lack of religion--those are conditions existing in every developed country, and yet.. neglibible gun violence there. Guess we're just violent--or scared, because the government and media tell us to be.)
Update: Yeah, yeah, biased, propaganda, faked stuff, etc. I still like what I saw, and would like evidence from the opposition.
Then we had dinner at about 9pm, of rissoles and sausage. Mmm, meat.
We were then called to the TV, where they were showing Tomb Raider on SBS--I think we saw about half of it, as it was over awfully quickly.
Next, dessert, which included some caramel & vanilla ice cream that I'd brought, made into iced coffee.
After that, Jillian and I started watching Pirates (which has an upcoming sequel! O_O!) on Kit's computer, which was very choppy and bad, so it was stopped about 6 minutes in. Instead, we watched The Guru, which I was hesitant about at first--didn't sound very good from the description at IMDb, but I gave it a try, and quite liked it. Funny, romantic, and with a cheesy, happy ending that pleased me greatly.
Finally, Jillian and I talked flight for a while, and I headed home. :)
Update: Yeah, yeah, biased, propaganda, faked stuff, etc. I still like what I saw, and would like evidence from the opposition.
Then we had dinner at about 9pm, of rissoles and sausage. Mmm, meat.
We were then called to the TV, where they were showing Tomb Raider on SBS--I think we saw about half of it, as it was over awfully quickly.
Next, dessert, which included some caramel & vanilla ice cream that I'd brought, made into iced coffee.
After that, Jillian and I started watching Pirates (which has an upcoming sequel! O_O!) on Kit's computer, which was very choppy and bad, so it was stopped about 6 minutes in. Instead, we watched The Guru, which I was hesitant about at first--didn't sound very good from the description at IMDb, but I gave it a try, and quite liked it. Funny, romantic, and with a cheesy, happy ending that pleased me greatly.
Finally, Jillian and I talked flight for a while, and I headed home. :)
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His disinformation does NOT help make his case, it only serves to further polarize the masses.
dig through my old posts, I mentioned this before.
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What I saw today was clearly propagandized, but featured plenty of legitimate information, not to mention clever/entertaining editing.
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i haven't seen BfC yet, but i won't be able to watch it without a freaking SALT LICK.
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/weeping_angel/101610.html - Read the links contained there
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I read a couple of the links there and they all seem to be saying about the same thing. I did NOT read all of them so i will not vouch for their veracity -
But a few prime examples - he changed a Bush/Quale campaign add to fit his purposes, He edited a speech/ interview with Charlton Heston to make him look like a fanatic (as opposed to using what he ACTUALLY said which was fairly reasonable)
I don't know but that kind of freehand with the truth just irks the historian in me.
Come on Scott, you are a fairly smart guy - even you should be able to recognize bullshit when you see it. just do some research.
Oh and Moore's defense about his "truth indiscretions" - was "When does comedy have to be accurate?"
He doesn't present his BS as comedy - he presents it as fact. He presents himself as representative of the "facts" yet he is willing to alter timelines of PUBLICLY DOCUMENTED events to make some thing more "dramatic". His disregard for the truth and fact are inexcusable.