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10-08-2008, 12:23 PM
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Jasmine ’08: This is What it’s Like When Worlds Collide
Jasmine ’08: This is What it’s Like When Worlds Collide
by RS Davis The Freedom Files  Hello Freedomphiles! I'm totally messed-up here because two of my worlds have just collided. I'm frantically trying to avoid some sort of sci-fi paradox here, as i09 has asked six political pundits to assess what sci-fi movie or show we are facing in this years presidential election. National Review's Jonah Goldberg brought up Angel: Season Four. The beautiful Gina Torres, who also played Zoe on Firefly (who, incidentally, also made my list of 20 kick-*** women from television and movies), played the demon god from another dimension that entralled the entire planet, brought peace and love to the world, and devoured humans as a price. Let's not talk about the abomination of a season that brought about Jasmine, because her arrival marked the turning point that set Angel back on the right track. What did Jonah say about it? In the story, the world is mesmerized by a god from another dimension played by a charismatic black woman who truly does bring universal peace and love to the planet. Her only price: we all must worship her (and provide her with a statistically irrelevant number of humans to eat) and unify around our love for her. I don't think Obama is evil or a villain of any kind. But the lesson is pretty valid. Obama is the high priest of a cult of unity. Unity can be useful, but it is also very, very dangerous. That's why the founders conceived of a system of divided government, after all. It's an interesting point. A cult of personality has certainly been created around him, as it was around my boy, Ron Paul. Personally, I think the movie should be The Invisible Man, because Libertarian candidates are all but invisible to the mainstream media.
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10-08-2008, 12:38 PM
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Unity at all costs, eh? Sounds like the old Thief in the Night/Distant Thunder movies of the 1970s and early 1980s.
A Thief in the Night (1972) A Distant Thunder (1978) Image of the Beast (1980) The Prodigal Planet (1983)
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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10-08-2008, 02:29 PM
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I just watched that recently. I would never want to be in that situation.
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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke. "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill
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10-08-2008, 02:36 PM
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"Oh, bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...
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