[mrnoodle]

Saw "Kingdom of Heaven" over the weekend. Visually cool, but the characters weren't so great. They were trying to make sure that the "voice of reason" character was present in the Christian camp, the Muslim camp, and to a lesser extent, the Jewish side. What ended up happening instead was a whole range of people who were indistinguishable from one another save for the style of their headgear.

The scene where the Muslims breach the wall but can't make it through was shot from overhead and showed a mass of ant-like people hung up at the breach and unable to move in any direction...kind of a visual interpretation of the whole fight for Jerusalem over the years.

Not sure where I was going with this. No point, really. But they figuratively flushed the bible and the koran a long time ago, at least from a moral standpoint...why are we giving two hoots about physically destroying them? And when is America going to stop walking on eggshells when it comes to politically correct garbage? We have no problem with deliberately and/or wantonly offending every religious faith on the planet -- just turn on MTV for 10 minutes to see an example.

Even more importantly, would it kill our own media to have an occasional outbreak of pro-American bias? Anyone who dares say anything positive is immediately branded a Bush apologist and a shill for Rupert Murdoch. There are too many fronts in this war as it is without making more on our own soil.

Bleh. I really did have a point, I think.