Have you seen the movie: Fair game?

Just watched the movie 'Fair game' based on the true life story of joe wilson and his CIA agent wife valerie, and how the bush adiministration blew her cover after joe wilson exposed the truth that there was no niger-iraq uranium deal, no WMD. It's goes to show how people can stand up against tyranny in goverment and how untrustworthy and evil the bush administration was in sacrificing the lives on hundreds of american and iraqy lives over intel they knew was baseless. Quite a shame

And not just unfortunate Americans and Iraqis but other allies I would remind including us. Iraq was a mess-up then later they admitted there had been no "after the war" plan. A shame and a disgrace.

Not yet.
I must do so soon because I get all my knowledge of history from movies and television.

Originally posted by tt92:

Not yet.
I must do so soon because I get all my knowledge of history from movies and television.

i do the same too, movies are the new books... While at you should look up the movie: encontraras dragoes (there be dragons) the story of josemaria escravia set durring the spainish civil war of 1936-39, one of the bloodiest civil wars in human history

I too prefer history as mini-series. The actors are prettier, the story has even more gratuitous sex, and the violence far more tasteful than the first time around.

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

the story of josemaria escravia

You mean Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer? the founder of Opus Dei...
They recently lost the biggest Portuguese private bank for the masons in an incredible story of internal treason. Reality better than movies.

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

the story of josemaria escravia

You mean Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer? the founder of Opus Dei...
They recently lost the biggest Portuguese private bank for the masons in an incredible story of internal treason. Reality better than movies.

who is 'they'?

Originally posted by jax:

I too prefer history as mini-series. The actors are prettier, the story has even more gratuitous sex, and the violence far more tasteful than the first time around.

a good example is the 'kennedys', a tv series based on the life of america's most fabbled family. Though jfk seems more handsome than the fellow playing his charater.

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

who is 'they'?

Opus They.
Sorry, Opus Dei.

Fabled family the Kennedys? Womanisers and adulterers, let a mistress die in a canal, linked to mobsters in the early days and vindictive like old man Kennedy. Yep a great tv series basis all round.

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

who is 'they'?

Opus They.
Sorry, Opus Dei.

they have a bank?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Fabled family the Kennedys? Womanisers and adulterers, let a mistress die in a canal, linked to mobsters in the early days and vindictive like old man Kennedy. Yep a great tv series basis all round.

you know they wouldnt air it in the U.S, cos certain big wigs 'up there' wouldn't allow it

Is this the Opera version of an alternate universe?

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

who is 'they'?

Opus They.
Sorry, Opus Dei.

they have a bank?

No, corporations controlled by them have. Banks and many other things. That's not too much of a problem, they have to finance themselves as everyone else. The problem is all the rest.
Forget them, they're no good for you.

Oh i see. Never joined any society in the curch except the legion and the lay readers

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Is this the Opera version of an alternate universe?

have you been meddling with fringe science?

Re the Kennedy wasters film johnogaziechi, funny how freedom of expresion is preached for the world but can be strained inside the land of the free and all that stuff.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Re the Kennedy wasters film johnogaziechi, funny how freedom of expresion is preached for the world but can be strained inside the land of the free and all that stuff.

yeah thats true. I keep wondering why? I've seen most of the first season of the movie. It protrayed them the way they were. Joe was a pusher with d ambition of 10 people, jfk was a good president but a horrible skirt chasser. Joe was the terribly rude altar boy of the white house.

Originally posted by johnogaziechi:

i do the same too, movies are the new books...

I never saw a movie better than the book...
Anyway my words are a bit unfair, since cinematographic language can't have the "plasticity" than the literary one has.
When reading "that beautiful girl" that would represent a different reality for each reader, at cinema it would be that exact girl for everyone, like it or not. And so it goes.

Yep yep, seriously, i learnt more or should i say i was inspired more from movies and tv shows than from books.

And remember too johnogaziechi that the wonderful Ted left his bit of side totty in the water and drove off. Yet the across the pond lot thought him such a wonderful guy neatly bodyswerving that and his support for dodgy people in N. Ireland. If the Kennedys weren't such a rum lot it could have been made as a black comedy. And for an additional point for such a great Republic it is highly amusing that they repeatedly have political familes running things in a republic!

People are loosing reading habits in exchange for video and movies, all over the world. That will be catastrophic.

Actually watching and listening are very effective and information-dense ways of acquiring knowledge. It is more a mystery that we have been reading, usually at the cost of watching, for several thousand years now. Why does reading work, what makes our brains hook into those abstract symbols? What we need now is a YouTube video to explain why.

Originally posted by jax:

Actually watching and listening are very effective and information-dense ways of acquiring knowledge. It is more a mystery that we have been reading, usually at the cost of watching, for several thousand years now. Why does reading work, what makes our brains hook into those abstract symbols? What we need now is a YouTube video to explain why.

Originally posted by jax:

Actually watching and listening are very effective and information-dense ways of acquiring knowledge.

Yes indeed, Aborigines do it a lot. They also make funny drawings, I think that you can consider it as still video.

Yes, I saw it, but I read the plot in the news years prior. Today, there are still some pundits claiming the Niger yellowcake was true. The US people deserve the outcome of this lying tyranny if they're too numb from lite beer and watching Michael Bay movies to notice.

Unfortunately xyzoneon the average Joe over there is crassly ignorant of the world outside and depends on a slanted media for information. He/she hasn't much of a clue about where anything is or the indepth reasons why they are constantly in a state of war using some damn excuse or other. It's this self-indulgent great yak about spreading it's idea of what is democracy to people whether they want it or not. If they don't they are an enemy to either be attacked, or have economic squeezes put on. Most of them don't even realise why they are singing the prtaises of the greatest country in the world and their perceived freedoms those same things are being eroded all the time. Talk about numb.

Originally posted by xyzoneon:

Yes, I saw it, but I read the plot in the news years prior. Today, there are still some pundits claiming the Niger yellowcake was true. The US people deserve the outcome of this lying tyranny if they're too numb from lite beer and watching Michael Bay movies to notice.

tought i was the only one that noticed

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Unfortunately xyzoneon the average Joe over there is crassly ignorant of the world outside and depends on a slanted media for information. He/she hasn't much of a clue about where anything is or the indepth reasons why they are constantly in a state of war using some damn excuse or other. It's this self-indulgent great yak about spreading it's idea of what is democracy to people whether they want it or not. If they don't they are an enemy to either be attacked, or have economic squeezes put on. Most of them don't even realise why they are singing the prtaises of the greatest country in the world and their perceived freedoms those same things are being eroded all the time. Talk about numb.

i hate to admit it but i kinda agree with you on this one.