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More from Howard Beale - I've added emphasis to the parts that especially apply to today's society and mainstream media. Network (1976) - Memorable quotes *Until Dec 2009, NBC was owned by Gen. Electric - the 5th largest corporation in the US at the time they sold 51% control to Comcast. GE...

How many of us are old enough to remember this speech, who made it and when? Was this guy spot on, considering today's economic and social problems or what? Do you remember him yet? He continued: Congratulations if your answer was Howard Beale, the newscaster from the movie Network made in...

There are other YouTube videos on this Etheridge guy that confirm the obvious fact that he's a total jerk. What great material for his campaign opponent's ads this fall! And the Dems try to say what clods the Tea Partiers are. He's lucky the guy didn't have him arrested for assault and battery...

You've got to be kidding?!

As Greg alluded to earlier, it was our isolationist position in the late 1930s that contributed to the Nazis being able to invade the Rhineland uncontested. Had there been a coalition involving just the US, Britain & France to stand against Hitler's aggression and threaten to enforce the...

There are many historians - Churchill among them - that have said WW2 could have been prevented if the British and French had stopped Hitler at the Rhineland and militarily called his bluff. At that point in time he had not developed his war machine to a sufficient level that would have been...

Indeed...what happened when Chamberlain returned from Munich in the Fall of 1938 with the "Anglo-German Agreement" signed by Hitler was the basis for false hope among the British population that war between the two countries had been avoided. Chamberlain was hearalded as a hero upon his return...

There might be some military equipment that is to be sold to the South Koreans, but I doubt very seriously that we'll have significant troops involved in any type of conflict involving Korea or Vietnam again. It's still a bit galling that N. Korea can sink a S. Korean ship killing 37 and hardly...

This should serve as an alert to people with kids in the public school system - pay attention to the textbooks they use and their homework assignments (assuming they still have those). The NEA has an agenda to indoctrinate your children, be forewarned.

Dealing with the Iran/Israel situation doesn't remotely resemble controlling the whole world. It's all about dealing with a conflict with which we're already involved - a war with radical Islamists. We have been attacked repeatedly by these barbarians, and now we have a muslim sympathizer in the...

They offered that option to the Turks, routing the ships to the port at Ashdod, from where the goods could have been inspected and gone overland to Gaza. Those on the flotilla refused this option - they wanted the confrontation in an effort to break the blockade - delivering humanitarian goods...

Considering the volume of oil being discharged into the ocean from a highly pressurized pocket under the earth's crust, I'd say we could call it an eruption.

And here we go... Iranian Authorities Prepare to Send Aid Ships to Gaza | Middle East | English The gambit here is plain as day. Just as the Turks tried to break the blockade with ships full of clothing, food and medicine, the Iranians will do the same thing except with a military escort to...

This might be your "major conflict" in the making if the Iranians are stupid enough to follow through with their threats: Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships - Yahoo! News

A majority of the American public - with the assistance of a biased mainstream media - bought into the non-substantive concept of "hope & change" along with the fashionable notion of electing a person of color to the most demanding position of leadership in the world. Never mind that he was the...

Wooden was probably the greatest coach of a team sport that ever lived, especially considering his success during the socially turbulent times of the late 1960s when team play, conformity and self discipline were very much out of favor. It's a shame more of today's coaches don't follow his...

There are just so many nut cases out there now that the slight reward from this type of constructive criticism is just not worth the risk. For the rare individual that might respond positively to a "wash your hands" comment there are way too many others that will ignore it or go postal. Perhaps...

There are no real criteria for determining the degree to which a TV program is "mainstream" other than its Nielsen ratings. Although Maher's show on HBO has been renewed for its ninth year, keep in mind that he's buried in a time slot (11PM Friday) where the competition is minimal. The number of...

I think this horse is just about dead enough, but let me just add a few random comments / opinions: I've seen enough of Maher's clips, quotes, snippets of his shows to have formed an opinion: he's a jerk and I have never seen any point in staying up that late to watch his show. I feel the same...

Let's take just one example of Maher's insensitive, ignorant and inflammatory statements - the one above. For those that are so much more enlightened than I am, please explain the context in which the above declaration is (a) appropriate and (b) intended to be anything but controversial. If...