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The 4th Global War on Terror - Deja vu all over again!

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XYZ said:
Al Jazeera English shames anything in the US when it comes to legitimate news content generation. This could be a very welcome thing for some people (admittedly like me)
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Watching a non US news channel is always interesting, if only to see what they emphasize and what they gloss over.

Al Jazeera sports channel has some pretty good futbol (i.e. soccer) offerings.

I wonder what a soap opera that is acceptable to their sensibilities would be like? :confused:
 
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FreshFish said:
Watching a non US news channel is always interesting, if only to see what they emphasize and what they gloss over.

Al Jazeera sports channel has some pretty good futbol (i.e. soccer) offerings.

I wonder what a soap opera that is acceptable to their sensibilities would be like? :confused:
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Remember the Christian soaps?

Didn't think so.
 
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joecct said:
Remember the Christian soaps?
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I don't know if they ever were filmed, but we had to read Lives of the Saints when I was in elementary school and I think they would qualify. I think it was St. Lucy for example who chose to remain a virgin and be martyred rather than the alternate option, IIRC.

Some of the Catholic writings from the 11th and 12th century were quite passionate in their religious rapture too.

There is a best-selling series of fundamentalist novels that would qualify as "soaps" but I know nothing about them other than an article I read several years ago. "The best-selling author you never heard of" and they were right, I'd never heard of them!

I know for sure that they have LDS soaps from our time in Wyoming, the local LDS-owned station in Salt Lake City broadcast some.

I still remember a really funny line from one of them.

Two young Mormon men were on their mission, and they introduced themselves to a woman they'd met. "Hi, I'm Elder Smith and this is Elder Jones." She replied, "Oh, isn't that interesting, you both have the same first name." Then she invited them inside out of the cold to have some hot chocolate.

There was passion and ecstasy of the religious kind there as well.

Catholic porn involves sex with your wife, no?
 
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IIRC, the Christian Broadcasting Network (now ABC Family) actually ran a soap opera maybe 20 years ago. I do not recall it being successful.
 
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joecct said:
IIRC, the Christian Broadcasting Network (now ABC Family) actually ran a soap opera maybe 20 years ago. I do not recall it being successful.
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I thought Highway to Heaven got pretty good ratings while it was on, no? Wasn't it still going strong when Michael Landon died? I thought so but I could be wrong.

Although Joan of Arcadia only lasted two seasons, it developed quite an extensive devoted following. I really enjoyed it.

"Queen of the Zombies" from Season 2 is hilarious, and "The Uncertainty Principle" from Season 1, in which they had a Columbine-type set up that was interrupted by an act of kindness jsut before the shooting started, was one of the most powerful hours of television I've ever seen in my life. I still get the chills just remembering it.

They had a top-notch cast: Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenbergen, Amber Tamblyn, Jason Ritter. Fantastic writing too.
 
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Those were dramas - and pretty good ones.

I was referring to a Christian classic soap - like All My Children without the sex, drugs, and immorality.
 
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joecct said:
Those were dramas - and pretty good ones.

I was referring to a Christian classic soap - like All My Children without the sex, drugs, and immorality.
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So....just the commercials, then? Actually, some of them would probably have to go, too!
 
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FreshFish said:
I wonder what a soap opera that is acceptable to their sensibilities would be like? :confused:
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"Mullah Tawhid issues a fatwa, but is kidnapped by the villainous Jew agent Yoram...Riyad dons a suicide vest and prepares to heroically kill dozens of the infidel dogs of the West, but will he push the button before Mossad gets to him?...Al-Amar is forced to stone his wife Habiba after she gets raped by his cousin Abdullah...Safiyya, Abdullah's harlot daughter, joins the Great Satan U.S. and becomes brainwashed."

These plot lines really just write themselves.
 
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Kathryn Bigelow delivers a classy response to people who criticized the inclusion of waterboarding scenes in Zero Dark Thirty:

Director Kathryn Bigelow defends torture scenes in her Oscar-nominated film "Zero Dark Thirty," saying torture was an undeniable part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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"Experts disagree sharply on the facts and particulars of the intelligence hunt, and doubtlessly that debate will continue," Bigelow wrote in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

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"As for what I personally believe, which has been the subject of inquiries, accusations and speculation, I think Osama bin Laden was found due to ingenious detective work," she continued. "Torture was, however, as we all know, employed in the early years of the hunt. That doesn't mean it was the key to finding bin Laden. It means it is a part of the story we couldn't ignore."

"War, obviously, isn't pretty, and we were not interested in portraying this military action as free of moral consequences," she added.

Bigelow wrote that torture was part of the story and the backlash may be misdirected.

"I do wonder if some of the sentiments alternately expressed about the film might be more appropriately directed at those who instituted and ordered these U.S. policies, as opposed to a motion picture that brings the story to the screen," she wrote.

Last week, Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal responded forcefully to a "Zero Dark Thirty" anti-Oscar campaign waged by Ed Asner and other Hollywood actors, saying "to punish an artist's right of expression is abhorrent."

Bigelow and "Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter Mark Boal had said previously that they "depicted a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods that were used in the name of finding bin Laden.

"The film shows that no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt, nor can any single scene taken in isolation fairly capture the totality of efforts the film dramatizes," they said.
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I agree with her, but her comments don't say what you think they do since you posted them in this thread. Michael Hurley would concur.
 
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Funny to watch Hillary biatch slap that idiot Ron Johnson yesterday at the Benghazi hearing. Surely that @_ssclown must know his time is up come 2016 when he and his fellow brain cell challenged pals (Ayotte, Kirk, Portman and Toomey) get to face the voters during a Presidential election year. Still, never good when a senior citizen old lady puts you in your place.
 
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I want to know how much we were supposed to spend to prevent the tragedy in Benghazi.
 
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I want to know how much we were supposed to spend to prevent the tragedy in Benghazi.
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Good article here:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/hillary_clinton_s_benghazi_hearings_republicans_missed_their_best_chance.html

Hearing looked like a bunch of tired crabby old white guys like McCain not wanting to accept their own responsibility for not funding security over there.
 
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Rover said:
Good article here:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...ngs_republicans_missed_their_best_chance.html

Hearing looked like a bunch of tired crabby old white guys like McCain not wanting to accept their own responsibility for not funding security over there.
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I wonder if State had raised holy heck about embassy security, they may have prevailed? However, it takes two to tango. The blame, dear Petronious, lies with both houses.
 
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