Talk about the PassionÖ
Just from the reviews Iíve read so far, it seems VIOLENCE is the theme that Mel is trying to get across. Not just VIOLENCE, but REPEATED, GORY VIOLENCE. Great family entertainment, huh? Jesus is flogged repeatedly, from all different angles, like itís Behind the Green Door or something. Theyíre even hawking pewter replicas of the crucifixion nails as merchandise, for crying out loud!
The whole point of Jesusí sacrifice wasnít the violence, or that he suffered more than anybody who has ever lived. Thatís where Scorceseís Last Temptation was betteróand more controversial. Christ could have chosen humanity over divinity. He could have easily saved his own life, put Jerusalem behind him, married that piece of ass Mary Magdalene, had a whole litter of rugrats and lived to a ripe old age before he finally died. Who wouldnít?
Instead, he chose to sacrifice his life on the behalf of a bunch of idiots: people so fickle in their loyalties and so easily corruptible that they could be persuaded by the rabble rousers of his day to put him to death, when they had so warmly welcomed him only a week beforeÖyou know, people like me and you.
Jesus despised hypocrites and demagoguesóthe self-righteous moralistic scolds (Bill Bennett), the money changers in the temple (Pat Robertson), and pharisees like Zell-lot Miller and Roy Moore would probably be screaming for his death if that long-haired hippy commie dared show his face in the USA. But his death was to atone for those he didnít particularly likeóeven the people who sold him out.
How many of us would do that? I know I wouldnít. I can barely forgive Rusty for ashing in my can of beer that one time.
Following Jesus is a lot harder than it looks. It involves more than joining some congregation with ìChrist,î ìBibleî or ìSaintî in its title, or saying a bunch of hokum every Sunday morning.
Christianity is a bunch of crap, and so is Melís little snuff filmótheyíre both out to make a buck off somebodyís death. Some things havenít changed in 2000 years.
Just from the reviews Iíve read so far, it seems VIOLENCE is the theme that Mel is trying to get across. Not just VIOLENCE, but REPEATED, GORY VIOLENCE. Great family entertainment, huh? Jesus is flogged repeatedly, from all different angles, like itís Behind the Green Door or something. Theyíre even hawking pewter replicas of the crucifixion nails as merchandise, for crying out loud!
The whole point of Jesusí sacrifice wasnít the violence, or that he suffered more than anybody who has ever lived. Thatís where Scorceseís Last Temptation was betteróand more controversial. Christ could have chosen humanity over divinity. He could have easily saved his own life, put Jerusalem behind him, married that piece of ass Mary Magdalene, had a whole litter of rugrats and lived to a ripe old age before he finally died. Who wouldnít?
Instead, he chose to sacrifice his life on the behalf of a bunch of idiots: people so fickle in their loyalties and so easily corruptible that they could be persuaded by the rabble rousers of his day to put him to death, when they had so warmly welcomed him only a week beforeÖyou know, people like me and you.
Jesus despised hypocrites and demagoguesóthe self-righteous moralistic scolds (Bill Bennett), the money changers in the temple (Pat Robertson), and pharisees like Zell-lot Miller and Roy Moore would probably be screaming for his death if that long-haired hippy commie dared show his face in the USA. But his death was to atone for those he didnít particularly likeóeven the people who sold him out.
How many of us would do that? I know I wouldnít. I can barely forgive Rusty for ashing in my can of beer that one time.
Following Jesus is a lot harder than it looks. It involves more than joining some congregation with ìChrist,î ìBibleî or ìSaintî in its title, or saying a bunch of hokum every Sunday morning.
Christianity is a bunch of crap, and so is Melís little snuff filmótheyíre both out to make a buck off somebodyís death. Some things havenít changed in 2000 years.
by at 10:21 AM
well, my man ralph nader is in the big race again.
yes, i managed to get up early enough to see the ol' boy on meet the press this morning. he looked good. is he on that atkins? i wonder.
now i hear you already. nader took too many votes away from gore and that's why bush is the white house. horseshit i say.
maybe al gore should have carried his home state of tennessee. then he would have had a better chance of winning,. but see, it's easier to make nader the scapegoat.
nader did not cost gore the election. gore beat himself, that poor slob. god bless the man, but in 2000 he just got on his knees and blew it,
"oh, but wait, rusty! shouldn't us liberals rally around the man who has the best chance of beating bush?"
no way. beating bush alone does not accomplish poop-dick if we replace him with another slimeball, already bought and paid for before inauguration day.
and that's what we'll get with either bush or this year's democratic stooge - another filthy politician with too many "favors" to return before he gets to thinking about honest and true americans like me and you.
ol' ralphie boy knows what he's talking about when he says corporate america has washington right where it wants it. and both democrats and republicans are willing to keep it that way.
so, run ralphie, run! i will be right behind you!
yes, i managed to get up early enough to see the ol' boy on meet the press this morning. he looked good. is he on that atkins? i wonder.
now i hear you already. nader took too many votes away from gore and that's why bush is the white house. horseshit i say.
maybe al gore should have carried his home state of tennessee. then he would have had a better chance of winning,. but see, it's easier to make nader the scapegoat.
nader did not cost gore the election. gore beat himself, that poor slob. god bless the man, but in 2000 he just got on his knees and blew it,
"oh, but wait, rusty! shouldn't us liberals rally around the man who has the best chance of beating bush?"
no way. beating bush alone does not accomplish poop-dick if we replace him with another slimeball, already bought and paid for before inauguration day.
and that's what we'll get with either bush or this year's democratic stooge - another filthy politician with too many "favors" to return before he gets to thinking about honest and true americans like me and you.
ol' ralphie boy knows what he's talking about when he says corporate america has washington right where it wants it. and both democrats and republicans are willing to keep it that way.
so, run ralphie, run! i will be right behind you!
by at 7:24 PM
Thanks to PWInsider.com for the following blurb, proving yet again that professional wrestling and rock n roll heed similar tread tracks in the dust. Oh, and this story ain't no joke. You can read more about it in the Boston Herald--
"Former WWF and WCW superstar Ed ìBrutus The Barber Beefcakeî Leslie caused an anthrax scare at a Boston subway station, where he has been working as a fare collector, yesterday when he left cocaine unattended at the station. It was assumed at first that someone had left anthrax, which is also a white powder, but Leslie finally came clean and admitted that it was his cocaine and is going into rehab."
"Former WWF and WCW superstar Ed ìBrutus The Barber Beefcakeî Leslie caused an anthrax scare at a Boston subway station, where he has been working as a fare collector, yesterday when he left cocaine unattended at the station. It was assumed at first that someone had left anthrax, which is also a white powder, but Leslie finally came clean and admitted that it was his cocaine and is going into rehab."
by at 6:56 PM
I almost called in sick today...I'm still ill from Dubya's HORRIBLE vomitous appearance on Meet the Press Sunday morning. CAUTION--do not take internally!
Transcript
God, it was so awful...and keep in mind, this was not a live interview either! It was pre-recorded on Saturday. If even post production isn't enough to make somebody sound intelligent and lucid, then we have a serious problem, from the top on down.
Surprisingly, Tim Russert asked some tough, cogent questions, particularly about the recent "controversy" over Bush's enigmatic military record. If you recall, this was covered extensively by the Boston Globe in 2000, but was ignored by the press at large, who had all but decided Gore's credibility was more of an issue (thanks to Michael Moore and Wes Clark for bringing back the Boston Rag!)
Bush: "I got an honorable discharge from the National Guard; that proves I served." Um, no, your actual RECORD proves you served. Employers ask for your academic transcript at interviews, not a copy of your diploma! Your daddy called in chits to get you assigned to a "champagne unit" of the NG, and probably pulled a few more strings to get you out again.
When asked about releasing his records he all but admitted they had been redacted of any incriminating evidence, or destroyed:
Russert: But would you allow pay stubs, tax records, anything to show that you were serving during that period?
President Bush: Yeah. If we still have them, but I you know, the records are kept in Colorado, as I understand, and they scoured the records.
"Scrubbed," you mean? Hell, those records are never going to be found--Bush family High Fixer James Baker has already seen to that. He was so smug when he mentioned that "people have been looking for these files for a long period of time," like a snotnose kid who has convinced himself he'll never get caught.
When Tim turned from his service record to questions about the economy you could hear him breathe a sigh of relief ("Yesssssssssssss....." sounded like steam escaping) but he fared no better there...STILL talked about 9/11-Saddam-War on Terruh, and denied the POSSIBILITY his ill advised tax cuts were responsible for the mess we're in. Truly, the transcript from MTP does not do justice to the utter ineptitude with which Bush comported himself. The pauses were interminable and irritating, and he had an annoying habit of making wild hand gestures when he couldn't make his point otherwise.
Even listening to ManQueer Muller this morning I was shocked to hear Chicago's third tier Liddy/Bell cum Stern wannabe dissing Bush...he even suggested the US has Osama, and that Bush will pull him out of his hat in time to save the election! All this from a guy who just a year ago was calling anybody to the left of Ivan the Terrible a traitor who should be shot in the street! Wonders never cease.
Muller's always been an opportunist at heart, but I guess it's safe to criticize the prez now if even a toesucking shill like the 'Cow can open the mikes on a Monday with a devastating volley across the bow of the USS Bush. Damn the torpedoes! Ramming speed!
Transcript
God, it was so awful...and keep in mind, this was not a live interview either! It was pre-recorded on Saturday. If even post production isn't enough to make somebody sound intelligent and lucid, then we have a serious problem, from the top on down.
Surprisingly, Tim Russert asked some tough, cogent questions, particularly about the recent "controversy" over Bush's enigmatic military record. If you recall, this was covered extensively by the Boston Globe in 2000, but was ignored by the press at large, who had all but decided Gore's credibility was more of an issue (thanks to Michael Moore and Wes Clark for bringing back the Boston Rag!)
Bush: "I got an honorable discharge from the National Guard; that proves I served." Um, no, your actual RECORD proves you served. Employers ask for your academic transcript at interviews, not a copy of your diploma! Your daddy called in chits to get you assigned to a "champagne unit" of the NG, and probably pulled a few more strings to get you out again.
When asked about releasing his records he all but admitted they had been redacted of any incriminating evidence, or destroyed:
Russert: But would you allow pay stubs, tax records, anything to show that you were serving during that period?
President Bush: Yeah. If we still have them, but I you know, the records are kept in Colorado, as I understand, and they scoured the records.
"Scrubbed," you mean? Hell, those records are never going to be found--Bush family High Fixer James Baker has already seen to that. He was so smug when he mentioned that "people have been looking for these files for a long period of time," like a snotnose kid who has convinced himself he'll never get caught.
When Tim turned from his service record to questions about the economy you could hear him breathe a sigh of relief ("Yesssssssssssss....." sounded like steam escaping) but he fared no better there...STILL talked about 9/11-Saddam-War on Terruh, and denied the POSSIBILITY his ill advised tax cuts were responsible for the mess we're in. Truly, the transcript from MTP does not do justice to the utter ineptitude with which Bush comported himself. The pauses were interminable and irritating, and he had an annoying habit of making wild hand gestures when he couldn't make his point otherwise.
Even listening to ManQueer Muller this morning I was shocked to hear Chicago's third tier Liddy/Bell cum Stern wannabe dissing Bush...he even suggested the US has Osama, and that Bush will pull him out of his hat in time to save the election! All this from a guy who just a year ago was calling anybody to the left of Ivan the Terrible a traitor who should be shot in the street! Wonders never cease.
Muller's always been an opportunist at heart, but I guess it's safe to criticize the prez now if even a toesucking shill like the 'Cow can open the mikes on a Monday with a devastating volley across the bow of the USS Bush. Damn the torpedoes! Ramming speed!
by at 4:20 PM
john kerry did it again yesterday. amazing. i thought he was an absolute fool when he borrowed $6 million on his beacon hill home to continue his run. who is the fool now?
that does not mean i will vote for him. in fact, there is no way in hell i will vote for john kerry. he is the worst kind of slime that oozes on capital hill.
my sources tell me kerry has hired an weatherman, who travels on the campaign bus with him, just to let hium know which way the wind is blowing. then kerry can jump out, go fly his kite high overhead and amaze everyone with absolute nonsense.
he will sell you out. make no mistake about it. and he has no leadership. he believes in nothing. don't believe his filthy lies and sound bites.
don't believe me? then consider in nearly 20 years of serving in the senate, john kerry has not proposed one bit of legislation. ever.
plus he (like bush) is a skull and bonesman. certainly not be trusted, except to help his bretheren.
but i fear he will win the nomination, unless edwards can carry either new york, calfornia or florida, which seems highly unlikely.
and if kerry gets the nominatioin, rest assured i will vote socialist, even if it means risking four more years of bush. sometimes you have to hit the bottom before you can get back up, you know what i mean?
but there is good news from yesterday's election events. joe lieberman? he gone! and about time. i mean really, why would anyone vote for lieberman over bush? it's the same guy!
and where is dean? sinking fast. he may have all those superdelagates now, but they won't help him if he can't get to boston. i give dennis kucinich a better shot at taking his d.i.y. presidential campaign to beantown.
that's all for now! see you on the trail!
that does not mean i will vote for him. in fact, there is no way in hell i will vote for john kerry. he is the worst kind of slime that oozes on capital hill.
my sources tell me kerry has hired an weatherman, who travels on the campaign bus with him, just to let hium know which way the wind is blowing. then kerry can jump out, go fly his kite high overhead and amaze everyone with absolute nonsense.
he will sell you out. make no mistake about it. and he has no leadership. he believes in nothing. don't believe his filthy lies and sound bites.
don't believe me? then consider in nearly 20 years of serving in the senate, john kerry has not proposed one bit of legislation. ever.
plus he (like bush) is a skull and bonesman. certainly not be trusted, except to help his bretheren.
but i fear he will win the nomination, unless edwards can carry either new york, calfornia or florida, which seems highly unlikely.
and if kerry gets the nominatioin, rest assured i will vote socialist, even if it means risking four more years of bush. sometimes you have to hit the bottom before you can get back up, you know what i mean?
but there is good news from yesterday's election events. joe lieberman? he gone! and about time. i mean really, why would anyone vote for lieberman over bush? it's the same guy!
and where is dean? sinking fast. he may have all those superdelagates now, but they won't help him if he can't get to boston. i give dennis kucinich a better shot at taking his d.i.y. presidential campaign to beantown.
that's all for now! see you on the trail!
by at 4:31 PM