The comment miraculously reappeared, so you can pass judgment now if you find some time... and scroll up a ways.

I was commenting about the filter though.
If past performance is a reliable indicator, comments caught in the filter do not appear and then disappear... they just don't appear.

That is what led to my speculation.

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Heh

Did your comment make any sense? That's one of the comment policies, you know.

Someone's in a hurry.

I was really moved at how well things turned out with the Kennedy-lived timeline... It was a great movie..

Then I read Stephen King's November 22, 1963 which was also (partly) about an alternate Kennedy-lived timeline..

Equally moving....

Not so cheery..

The polar opposite of cheery..

Michale

I had to view a trailer to make sure, but I saw it around 2006 ....my son screened it as part of a school project on time travel in books and film (he's not great at math). There were a bunch of teens making comments - so the event had an MST3000 feel to it. More of an alternate history movie than a time travel film, sort of along the lines of Guns of The South, which was big in the South, where I happened to be living in the early 2000s. That was a fun read, but a bit long.

Ahhhh I see.. OK, that makes sense...

Have you seen Timequest?? It's got a hokey title and the production is vintage 80s (especially the time travelers shield). But the acting is decent and the story line is mind-blowing...

I can make it available to you to download if you want it. It's so obscure that I doubt NETFLIX has it..

Michale

I was referencing your comment over at the reboot of the vintage Smoot column.

"Especially because of the title of the obscure movie TIME QUEST..

Downloaded it and watched it."

Bruce Willis starred in 12 Monkeys and Looper, my personal top two favorites among time travel movies. Rand Paul reminds me of Bruce Willis in another brilliant movie, 6th Sense...Rand doesn't realize he is politically dead as far a the nomination is concerned. He is still trying to interact with the politically quick, who don't notice him any more.

I am still scratching my head, trying to figure out where the Willis/Time Travel comment came from???

Michale

You catch the 12 Monkeys series??? It's actually pretty good.. My wife even likes it which is surprising.. She's like Geordi LaForge.. Time travel gives her nosebleeds.. :D

Michale

Nothing really new in the Republican side of the park. Trump in slump. Bush flat, Rubio sustaining a healthy upward trend, Fiorina as well. Carson and Kasich trending down. Some of the zombies are still shuffling about (coin it "Cruz control?) others are simply looking very natural (Jindal, Graham). Rand Paul is still cheerfully going about as usual, like one of those characters in an Italian movie that doesn't realize they've been dead for a few days, or Willis in 6th Sense.

M - Willis has been in two of my fav time travel movies, 12 Monkeys and Looper.

Not in JFC-World I am sure.. :D

Haha. I don't think so. You're going to have a very difficult time linking to anything that proves your ridiculous assertion. It's just shocking that you would post something that is objectively false and then try to bluff. Shocking.

Tell ya what, sonny... When you start linking your so-called "facts" then you earn the right to cap on others that don't..

Not until then, jackass... :D

Michale

"I am NOT a troll!! I am a chatbot!"

FYI - they're not mutually exclusive.

"Ask and ye shall receive"

Haha. I don't think so. You're going to have a very difficult time linking to anything that proves your ridiculous assertion. It's just shocking that you would post something that is objectively false and then try to bluff. Shocking.

My second comment appeared to have posted normally, but is now gone.

???

I don't believe it came anywhere near any comment policy issues...

Thanks
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A more honest term would be Judeo (fork) Christian prong, Muslim prong.

A lot of the Christian and Muslim faiths is derived from Judaism, with rather less flow in the opposite directions. Truth is, lots of religious concepts get traded around, and lines tend to be a bit blurry. Greek influences are underplayed in the understanding of Judaism. In many key respects, Islam is closer to modern Judaism than Christianity. That's obscured by post 1948 unpleasantness.

If you mean American-Israeli, use that.

Antibiotics for an idiopathic let's play it safe put me on my back for 4 days last month.

"Nausea during several weeks of antibiotic treatment is a warning sign that you are likely to have severe allergic/toxic reactions."

"You know I always complain I feel sick on antibiotics. Why are you telling me this now?"

Doctors play the odds. Even with good odds, you sometimes lose.

That would be once every 30 mins... :D

Michale

You have been looking at my surveillance cams, haven't you?? :D

heh

Seriously, though.. Foot's good.. Thanx for asking. The Antibiotic cocktail they have me on seems to be doing the trick. I can actually wear a shoe...

Michale

How is the foot doing? Are you walking on it? My exercise physiology guru says the heart doesn't have quite enough ooomph to get all the blood back from the feet and calves. Feet tend to swell. You need to work your heel pumps to prevent that. The guru says walk a bit at least once an hour. Sitting is the worst. Standing not much better, and only if you flex your calves parade ground fashion. Your profession is probably hazardous to your health, but starving is probably worse. All in all, walking to the fridge once an hr. to get a beer might be an acceptable compromise. I'll ask. :-)

Ask and ye shall receive... :D

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/12/13/ftp285/

Michale

OM-! (I'm pretty sure that is how orthodox Jewish kids text. I'll ask the kid down the street for confirmation.)

I am NOT a troll!! I am a chatbot!! :D heh

Irregardless of that, I guess I am the only one here who must provide links to every claim, eh??

If ya can't prove it, it didn't happen..

Michale

Link please or your rule is just a troll making shit up.

Links, or it didn't happen...

"Pics or it didn't happen, eh?"
-Charlie Bradbury, SUPERNATURAL, The Girl With The Dungeons And Dragons Tattoo

:D

Michale

As usual, the media and politicians are obsessing about this birther from White Plains insulting Obama rather than his call for ethnic cleansing that Trump did not address. The fact that Trump didn't challenge him on the birther nonsense is unsurprising since Trump is the birther king. Now we know that Trump is Milosevic as well.

"It may also be seen as horrific by Zionist Jews, who would likely see Bernie as insufficiently supportive of Israel"

I think this aspect would make an interesting column in and of itself.

The rich Jewish donors pouring gobs of money into the Clinton and Republican campaigns could end up being responsible for preventing the election of the first Jewish president.

And it may be that Zionism is not the main factor, but rather self interest... preventing changes to the tax code, environmental regulation, Wall Street regulation and our warmongering foreign policy that defense contractors crave. Interests that Bernie's campaign may threaten. Future profits and income are at risk.

In other words, the neolibcon (neoliberal/neocon) policies that have been dragging down this country for thirty years may arguably be more sacred to these donors than Israel.

The fact that these neolibcons are also Zionists and that many neolibcon policies undoubtedly benefit Israel can't be ignored. And of course, true motivations are impossible to determine.

But it seems to me there is a great assimilation story in there... into the horrible anti-social club that has a long history in America among the wealthy.
Not Israel firsters.
Not America firsters.
But me firsters.

Another interesting aspect is that this dynamic is also in play in Israeli politics, where right wing ideologues have been attacking socialist policies causing increasing inequality and discontent with the ruling elites.

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Edit that to read:

I mean, isn't that the goal?? To make religion or race or gender so completely and so utterly irrelevant that the issue is not even brought up??

My bust....

Michale

Why should Trump have to???

Do ya'all correct each other when someone spouts off BS about Trump or any other Republican???

and also brushes aside how today's Republican Party could be described by many as a "culture that treats women as second-class citizens,

{cough} Anthony Weiner {cough, cough} Eliot Spitzer {cough, cough, cough} Bill Clinton...

'nuff said...

A Jew is currently in second place in the 2016 Democratic field, and yet the issue hasn't even really arisen.

And THAT is where we exactly want to be, right??

I mean, isn't that the goal?? To make religion or race so completely and so utterly irrelevant that the issue is not even brought up??

"Good God, you're a woman! I honestly, I couldn't have called that. I mean, I would apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first."
-Tony Stark, IRONMAN

:D

Michale

Edit needed-

"Barack Obama had to follow in Kennedy's footsteps when he gave his own speech about the Reverend Wright, during his 2008 campaign"

Remove the "the" or add "controversy" or something like that after Wright.

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