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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (60379)	6/25/2007 7:27:22 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

There was a James Bond movie fest on some cable station over the weekend. I watched a few. The years were 1973, 1989 and I think one in the late 1970/s/early 1980's. The one from 1989 with Timothy Dalton wasn't very good. (I liked most of the other Bonds better than he.) This story was about South American drug lords manufacturing loads of cocaine south of the border at a facility fronted by Wayne Newton playing Papa Joe...lol Anyway, in the closing credits, there was a big Surgeon General's warning about cigarettes. IOW, acknowledging that cigs were smoked in the movie, but that they were dangerous yadda yadda yadda. I lol'ed. Where was the warning about using cocaine? How about all those car and truck crashes? What about all the machinery with unguarded points of operation? How about all that sex with no suggestion of condoms? What about the martinis, shaken, stirred or otherwise? And all those guns and stinger missiles? How come there was no monitoring of the sharks by the humane society. (I was waiting for the disclaimer--"No sharks were harmed during this movie.") They even pressurized a guy to death in a tank. Where were the warnings....!!! I felt like I could go out and just hurt myself for want of adequate warnings after watching that movie.....<g>

To: TimF who wrote (60379)	6/26/2007 1:35:05 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 90947

DINGBAT ALERT! Message 23651387 Does anybody remember the friendly local environmentalists who drove steel spike into trees with the intention they would break a high-speed chainsaw blade and said blade would whip around and kill the cutter? Nice folks, those. ELF? We all know all of them are nonviolent and wouldn't hurt a fly, much less kill a human. seattletimes.nwsource.com Then there's their buddies ALF: "In 2003, self-appointed ALF spokesman Dr. Jerry Vlasak, while acting as a spokesperson for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), openly endorsed the murder of doctors who use animals in medical research, saying, "For 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives." When a member of his audience objected, comparing Vlasak's approach to that of abortion- clinic bombers, he replied: "Absolutely. I think they had a great strategy going." In 2003, self-appointed ALF spokesman Dr. Jerry Vlasak, while acting as a spokesperson for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), openly endorsed the murder of doctors who use animals in medical research, saying, "For 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives." When a member of his audience objected, comparing Vlasak's approach to that of abortion- clinic bombers, he replied: "Absolutely. I think they had a great strategy going." Must be nice to live in your own reality.