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Post by rmarks1 on Jul 23, 2014 13:47:33 GMT -5
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Post by Roger (over and out) on Jul 23, 2014 14:04:06 GMT -5
Yes, they're completely insane. But they're being sponsored by the US, and it was the US that invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam, and unleashed this Pandora's box of religious fundamentalism.
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Post by rmarks1 on Jul 23, 2014 15:41:01 GMT -5
Yes, they're completely insane. But they're being sponsored by the US, and it was the US that invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam, and unleashed this Pandora's box of religious fundamentalism. Oh it started much earlier than Iraq. Back in 1979 when Russia invaded Afghanistan, the CIA got fundamentalists together from all corners of the Muslim world to wage a guerrilla war. This unified the jihadists for the first time as well as giving them military training. Don't create what you can't control. It's like the Daleks from Dr. Who. Bob |
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Post by Roger (over and out) on Jul 23, 2014 15:42:45 GMT -5
Haha, I grew up on Daleks. I even had one.
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Post by raybar on Jul 23, 2014 15:58:44 GMT -5
I vote for Amelia Pond, The Girl Who Waited, as the best Doctor Who sidekick.
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Post by Roger (over and out) on Jul 23, 2014 16:58:16 GMT -5
The BBC - British TV in general - made great sci-fi programs. The Daleks were great. I had an 18" radio-controlled Dalek (I collected robots). Thunderbirds was good, too. And Quatermass, Fireball XL5, Lost In Space, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Doomwatch, Sapphire & Steel, and, of course, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... There were some great British sci-fi movies, too, like The Village of the Damned, Children of the Damned, Fahrenheit 451, The Day of the Triffids etc. In general, British sci-fi was a lot better than American sci-fi because the storylines were treated seriously (no matter how far-fetched they were), whereas American sci-fi tended to be camp and over-the-top. Also, most of the early British film-makers had cut their teeth on war-time documentaries and propaganda films, so they brought that atmosphere of wartime seriousness and authenticity to their films.
Sci-fi rant over!
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Post by Roger (over and out) on Jul 24, 2014 15:02:31 GMT -5
Incidentally, the report about Isis ordering all girls and women in Mosul to undergo FGM appears to have been a hoax.
They're still insane, of course.
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Post by rmarks1 on Jul 24, 2014 23:09:56 GMT -5
Incidentally, the report about Isis ordering all girls and women in Mosul to undergo FGM appears to have been a hoax. They're still insane, of course. They're worse than insane. They're religious. Insanity is something that happens to you, like a disease. Religious fanaticism is is a choice. Bob |
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