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Trump's vision of the future doesn't actually have anything to do unity. -k

I think it's great that you can start off with a brain-fart like this: ...and walk away convinced that you've shown everyone how clever you are. Good for you! -k

People have the right to be racists. And others have the right to call them what they are. -k

Whaaaaa? That doesn't make any sense. Many people use their right to free expression to express racist ideas or opinions. -k

I think the last "rom-com" I saw was "500 Days of Summer" a few years back. I think crappy Katherine Heigl films may have singlehandedly killed off the genre. Does one imagine that Scorsese is talking about the death of a particular genre? I don't think so. One of the quotes I clipped in my previous message seems to touch on that... he talks about the popularity of westerns in the 1950s... but westerns went out of vogue for a very long time, prior to their renaissance in the 1990s with Unforgiven and Tombstone and a few others. Then they went out of vogue again for another long stretch and came back again with the True Grit remake and several other recent films. When was the last "When Harry Met Sally"? Hey, when was the last "Ten Commandments" or "Cleopatra"? Historical epics are pretty dead right now too. Sooner or later people will get tired of super-heroes and zombies, and something else will rise up instead. Perhaps it will be tea-and-crumpets period dramas, perhaps it will be romantic comedies, perhaps it will be movies about monster-truck drivers. Who knows? (Personally, I feel that the Nora Ephrom rom-coms that used to be hugely successful are even less realistic than movies about superheroes or zombies, but that's just my opinion.) -k

I personally wouldn't move to Iran and then complain that there's too many Muslims... Leaving this individual nitwit's psychological issues aside, do we all at least agree that these Tweets are an example of anti-white racism? -k

Most Christians believe the Bible to be "divinely inspired" and that the Ten Commandments came straight from the Big Guy himself... but I don't see a lot of people getting stoned to death for adultery, working on the Sabbath day, or sporting "graven images". You seem to be of this notion that guys like Tarek Fatah or Naheed Nenshi are going to open up their Qurans some day and think "holy crap, I'm doing it wrong!" and go on a killing spree or something. That's nonsense. The Muslims I have known in real-life have been regular guys who dressed up on Friday night, spritzed up with alcohol-based cologne to dance and drink. -k

I wonder how GM shareholders feel about the orange wonderchief sinking their stock value by tweeting falsehoods about their company? I'm sure Trump's Canadian fans will continue cheering along when he turns his attention to Ontario-made automobiles entering the US. Good opportunity to buy housing in Windsor! -k

Who cares? Your notion that you can define people by the contents of some books that many of them probably haven't even read remains silly. -k

And the Bible is very clear on gay people, but few Christians in modern countries believe in taking Leviticus 20:13 as a command (some Deep South pastors being notable exceptions.) People are not defined simply by the words in their religious texts. You have this ongoing theme of saying "Muslims be like this, because it says here in their book." Real life doesn't work like that. -k

....aaaaaaand we're done. Feel free to start a new, non-retarded thread to discuss any subject you wish. -k

No, I called your topic retarded. Whether you are retarded is a question that people can decide for themselves. You told Benz earlier that if he doesn't leave then he's dishonest. Do that again and you'll have time off to consider better ways of interacting with people. -k

It's not even hindsight... everybody said as much at the time. There's no way it should have cost a billion dollars to provide security. And it wouldn't have if they'd held it someplace more secure rather than in the middle of Toronto. -k

I don't get it. Cinema is dead because Scorsese doesn't like the kind of movies that make lots of money right now? Cinema is dead because visual techniques have greatly advanced? Cinema is dead because more people have access to the technology to make films now? -k

You have a disgusting attitude. -k

Your game is retarded. Call anybody else dishonest for giving an answer you don't like and you'll be getting a holiday for insulting forum members. -k

A couple of songs Google Music recently recommended for me that I found pretty catchy. Thee Oh Sees: Dead Man's Gun. The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Devil's Tattoo. -k

I mean that if I want to hear a bunch of bigoted, ignorant, hateful crap being said, I can go out to breakfast at a family restaurant on any Sunday morning and sit near a table full of elderly "old stock Canadians." This is an example of the kind of think ?Impact was talking about earlier: even if a guy does passionately believe in stoning rape victims to death for participating in adultery, he's not going to tell you so. I recall seeing some of the tapes from the British "Undercover Mosque" documentary series, seeing some of the scumbag imams talking about western values, mocking the idea of tolerance for gay people, mocking the idea that women are equal. It's not that they don't understand western values, it's just that they have utter contempt for western values. -k

Following last year's terror attacks in Paris, there was a call for values screening in France... the intriguing part is that it came from France's Muslim community. "The time for action has come. The Muslims of France will play their part," said Anouar Kbibech, the president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion, according to the website. Specifically, they want to screen foreign (meaning Saudi, no doubt) imams who come to France before allowing them to preach. If French Muslims are willing to point out the problem, why are so many non-Muslims so desperate to deny it exists? Similarly, in the aftermath of the New Years Eve sexual assaults last year in Cologne (and elsewhere in Germany and other European nations as well) many Muslims were willing to speak out and acknowledge that yes, there is a major problem in the Muslim community regarding western women, while many non-Muslims were desperate to find any other factor they could blame the assaults on. -k

This list pretty much highlights the problem with trying to "screen for Canadian values". My town (and probably yours too) is full of Canadian-born dumb-ass old white people whose views are a lot closer to the Muslims' on some or all of these four issues than to yours and mine. -k

We can be as arbitrary as we like in choosing who to let into our country. We can choose how many, who we let in, and who we keep out. -k

Her career was doing just fine. She was already one of the best known journalists in America, and I think the Kelly File was the 2nd highest rated cable news program just behind O'Reilly if I'm not mistaken. If anything, getting into a "war" with Trump was a setback for her, because "Trump Nation!" types are the core audience of Fox News. -k

This leaves Chris Wallace as the last actual journalist at Fox News. It's worth pointing out that this "war" happened because she asked him a perfectly reasonable and obvious question at the debate and he flipped out over it. -k

Nobody is going to leave the forum because you tell them to. -k

Likewise, Charlie Sheen. Reacting to the latest celebrity death-- Debbie Reynolds-- by responding "Dear God: Trump next, please!" seems to have #Triggered some Trump fans, but more interestingly it seems to have also triggered a dialogue between Charlie Sheen and Ted Cruz, in which Sheen has offered to help Ted Cruz win the 2020 Republican nomination: Cruz responds: Which is actually pretty hilarious. -k