Somewhere between eight and ten million people die at the end, including two ambassadors and the wife of the POTUS.
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Name That Movie!
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Bicycle Bill
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LAST CLUE:
Somewhere between eight and ten million people die at the end, including two ambassadors and the wife of the POTUS.
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Somewhere between eight and ten million people die at the end, including two ambassadors and the wife of the POTUS.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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Jim, please put us out of our misery. This is another one of those, definitely heard of it but never saw it movies.
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Classic flick:
I also read the book when I was a teenager. Interesting detail about the book:
I also read the book when I was a teenager. Interesting detail about the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_(novel)Fail-Safe is a bestselling American novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The story was initially serialized in three installments in the Saturday Evening Post, on October 13, 20, and 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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And Lord Jim has it (and apparently has had it since Tuesday).
I just saw this on TV a few nights ago (can't remember the channel; I think it was IFC) for the first time in something like 25 or 30 years. And it's held up well; still as chilling and as thought-provoking now as it was back then.
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I just saw this on TV a few nights ago (can't remember the channel; I think it was IFC) for the first time in something like 25 or 30 years. And it's held up well; still as chilling and as thought-provoking now as it was back then.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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I challenge LJ to give us a movie initially released not earlier than 1980.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Challenge accepted, Guin:
And one well known singer....
Two Academy award nominations, and a number of well known actors...Yea, it's like a plumber: do your job right and nobody should notice. But when you fuck it up, everything gets full of shit.
And one well known singer....
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A political junkie's classic movie choice! 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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"We're No Angels"
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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"Ishtar"
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Negative.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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I think we have a winner, but leave it to BSG to confirm.
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Was it "Repulsive Crap"?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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You must be thinking of: "The Rubato Chronicles".
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Sorry for the wait flaring badly this week and collapsed into bed when I got home from the gardens.
Yes crackpot, it's:
Over to you!
Yes crackpot, it's:
Over to you!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan