"Twilight" - Otherworldly Passion - Movie Review By Nic Leobold

Twilight is a beautiful, opiate-laced, sunshine-in-rain soaked ecstasy of a movie. It envelopes you in a blanket of sensuous aesthetic comfort and the cute and sweet personalities of high school days beauty. You can recline and sleep with eyes still open and dream wide awake the most wonderful rare of fantasies in an experience that is real in front of you. A story of a good vampire and a girl brought together in a small Washington state town high school who fall in love because only they understand each other, only these two can be right for each other, the film expresses what many outsiders and quiet people long for in their hidden hearts; a love that doesn’t care and is not dragged down by the dumbness and irrelevancy of the outside world and its trivialities but seeks the supreme experience of an otherwise unknown, mysterious, transcendent and sublime existence. The two lead actors, Kristen Stewart (playing Bella Swan) and Robert Pattinson (playing Edward Cullen), are wondrous to watch on the silver of the screen, especially Stewart, whose pale white skin, slight body, delicate face and vital expressions combine to be dreamily hypnotic and awe-inspiring. This is a vampire movie where there are good and bad vampires, vegetarian and carnivorous, that is, animal-hunting and human-hunting respectively, who have a relationship with the Earth like its natural-born peoples, like the Native American tribes in America, and live both in and outside of society. The worldly Indians tolerate them but are hostile to and watchful of even the good ones. And Edward’s family is only in the town of Forks temporarily for one human lifetime, before they must disappear and assume a new identity once again in another part of the world like all immortal vampires eventually must move on. This opening chapter of the Twilight book series presents the characters’ first challenge in the form of a band of renegade carnivorous vampires who are attacking Forks townspeople and eventually come upon the Cullen’s and target Edward and Bella. I have not read the books and I come to this saga completely as a novice who has only seen the movie, but from what I have seen here I am looking forward to the second installment of the series already in planning by talented female director Catherine Hardwicke, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and original novelist Stephenie Meyer. Obviously Meyer has created some great material to work with, novels which should be engrossing to read if these movies are any indication. And the musical score and soundtrack of the movie, consisting of delicate guitar music, new wave and hard rock lend the atmosphere an otherworldly beauty. It’s a great thing that segments of Hollywood and the independents are finally targeting the young female audience with films geared to their passions. Twilight pulled in a top-15 all-time opening weekend gross this week, and teen age girls are going wild about seeing their beloved Twilight novel stories on the screen, but this film and its subject matter have a wider potential audience than just young women. This movie will appeal to anyone with fine taste from girls to boys to middle-age men and seniors. Yes, it’s that well done. And Twilight proves once again that truly great movies can be made for low budgets as long as movie making is treated as a serious art and you start with a great script.

"Why Bush Can’t Allow Habeas Corpus – And Why we Need to Leave Afghanistan"

Holy S***! Check out this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4518606
Now granted, the author identifies himself as a Democrat and seems to believe that international law should trump domestic law (that's a whole separate debate), but from what I've read this post is utterly damning to the Bush administration and its war policy. It's worth checking out.

Can we make it to January 20th -- and THEN WHAT?

I found this great picture on Facebook from freedom activist and libertarian hottie Erica Sapp. The great artwork of David Dees at http://www.deesillustration.com/.

I honestly wasn't sure we would make it this far, and I don't hold anything past Bush since he's willing to murder thousands for nothing. But if we do make it to January 20th, who knows, maybe this is what Obama has in mind for us, only with airplanes, you never know.

Cleaning Ladies, Ho's, Black Ministers, and Other Nasty Females (From the Serf City Deleted Files)

It never fails to amaze me how the Jesse Jackson’s and Al Sharpton’s of the world, accomplished slime balls in their own right, get away with attacking and destroying comedians and entertainers who are merely equal-opportunity offenders, while practically no one in the establishment or the media bothers to point out the obvious hypocrisy of these black bums: Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are not only crude racists, bigots, and outright pigs, but they’re the worst form of left-wing scum to have ever collaborated against thier own black American brothers and sisters. Rich, powerful white leftists owe a debt of gratitude to sly political black operatives such as Sharpton and Jackson who, year after year, continue to aid in the indoctrination, brainwashing, and exploitation of black people by the socialist authoritarian establishment.
We all know how The Great Society only decimated the black American family unit, how welfare and social programs have created millions of disempowered black dependents, and how high taxes, fiat money, high regulation, and minimum wage laws, all tools of the financial elites, have only prevented black Americans from moving up faster in the world. Yet year after year, week after week, Sharpton and Jackson pound away at their media pulpits, demanding more affirmative action, more special victim treatment, more handouts for Uncle Tom’s, and more black corporate welfare, while their people’s progress continues to bog down in the terrible welfare-warfare state.
I refuse to let traitorous niggers like Jackson and Sharpton off the hook (Only the N-word does justice to these traitors to the black people. Why should only black people get to use the N-word?--that's racism.). Jackson, after all, is the wonderful black leader who infamously referred to New York City as “Hymie Town”, and has cavorted with such tyrants and murderers as Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, Muamar Ghaddafi, Hugo Chavez and Kofi Annan, and also is the black "Christian" "Man of God” best known for numerous sex flings with young nubian aspiring urban professional groupies. Sharpton, as most New Yorkers know, is equally notorious for faking the rapes of young teenage girls, inciting black-on-Jew rioting, and representing predatory lenders when they wanted to get a bigger share of the African-American loan market.
I would never choose the cleaning ladies that Jackson and Sharpton like to hang out with. Of course the Rutgers Ladies basketball team are not nappy headed ho’s, although Don Imus was right that they should have won that game against Tennessee. The real Nappy Headed Ho’s of our society are all the Gwen Ifill’s, black female Stalin-wanna-be Congresswomen, and other black power females who support and collaborate with the left-wing authoritarian system instead of denouncing and fighting it.
Don Imus’ choice of language wasn’t wrong, he just stupidly targeted the wrong black people. When you want to call people cleaning ladies, nappy headed ho’s and niggers, you better be damn sure you pick the ones who really deserve it. There are very few regular black people who deserve it, but unfortunately many of our so-called black leaders do, and richly. The real embarrassment of the Don Imus Affair is not his choice of language or his choice to offend minorities and even young women, or his mistake of apologizing and caving for what was just an inconsequential comedy routine, but the extent to which Jackson and Sharpton and Ifill and other black leadership niggers will exploit such things, and the fact that almost everyone in this society is letting them get away with it.