ain't that America!?!!
922705
When I first read 'The Long Walk' in the 1980s I thought it was a story primarily about a bunch of teenagers acting like brats whilst on some weird forced long march through Maine.  The kids play mind games on each other, and it all gets very cruel.  But upon rereading the book I paid closer attention to the entire concept and the author's description of how the folks watching the long walk behaved.  I found parallels to America's current obsession with game shows and reality television.  It's all very ugly and Stephen King brought this ugliness to light in this dark fable.

Bottom line: Stephen King himself probably didn't realize the staying power of this book.  Strongly recommended.
4462867
I have a relative by the name of Dr. Daniel Fry who wrote a book entitled " The White Sands Incident ".. Take the time out of your life to read this carefully and then watch Ancient Aliens.. Are we alone?? I say no we are not.. What or who is out there.. Let's quit bombing each other and find out.. There is a bumper sticker I am seeing more and more.. It reads " Love your Country, Fear your Government "... Don't you all agree .. We are all PAWNS in the goverment's game of chess.. Watch this and make up your own mind..
590442
I did not read this book. So why am I writing this if I have not read his book? Mainly because I just came from a website that he helped set up and the link to this book was accompanied by a burning American flag. The whole website dealt in anti-American BS! I am curious why this Eurotrash from Lithuania is still sucking up the air in the United States?

And it does not deserve any star rating but you can not post without giving it at least one. In the real world it gets a minus ten star rating from me.
319767
these tvvats in bush thought that their songs about god knows what with crappy distorted riffs would be the next big thing. america has a bad taste in music from overseas, instead of the happy mondays in '89 they we got jesus jones and instead of the decent music like suede, pulp, blur, verve and oasis we got these knobs running around with crappy rip offs of nirvana riffs. each album firther in their discography is worse and painfully so..this one is utterly unbearable and it makes no sense still how it sold 7 million plus copies. why the hell couldn't america just get into the manic street preachers? they were a great straight ahead rock group...whatevs..i have to say that america made some big mistakes and this band becoming big here was totally one of them...have fun with gwen steffani lead singer of bush...you totally deserve each other if you know what i mean
1114832
Bill's writing is OK and I usually enjoy his show but found it beyond disingenuous when he claimed that "The cover art has nothing to do with the book title." Give us a break! The Title reads from Left to Right (as English does) and the original book artwork is Obama (on the left), O'Reilly (on the right). So he calling the President a "Pinhead" and himself a "Patriot". So what? It's his book he can do as he pleases. Just really turned me off that he made that ridiculous claim (SPIN). Does the picture of President Lincoln on the cover of his book "Killing Lincoln" also have nothing to do with the title? Absurd.
4578502
Great read, it is unbelievable that this is still going on in America right now! It shows we really don't know what goes on in our neighbors homes.
4227167
A friend loaned us this video (which we are now purchasing for ourselves and our congregation.) As pastors of a small-town church we feel we are called as Watchmen. When the twin towers fell there were a few Evangelical Christians who spoke up and declared that this was God's judgment on America but the populace as a whole rejected them and - in essence - forcem them to retract their statements. Many of them did out of fear for their livelihoods. Some of us did not ... When this video was brought to our attention we KNEW it was from God. It is a warning - a stern warning - to America. Yes, we need to pray for our country and for our leaders, but it's all to no avail unless we begin REPENTING as a nation! I read some of the 1-star reports here and just have to shake my head at how blind some of us are as Believers. Too many feel we are not called  - ever - to suffer for the Gospel's sake. (I have to wonder if they have ever really read Hebrews Chapter 11?) We need to WAKE UP AMERICA!
4591505
OK, Knowledge is power. In a true democracy an empowered electorate can create change. If that democracy is the most powerful country on the planet, than THAT POWER CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE! No matter what you or I think the future belongs to whatever this country , our democracy, does every 4 years when we hold national elections. Like it or not you and I are responsible for the future! We can't decide who our political machines choose for us to vote for. We only decide which one of those machines rule. Like it or not,that is a fact!

  Facts are the big issue in this movie. Partisans on both sides of the isle want you to either believe or disbeleive the facts in this movie. There are no special effects in this movie, no Lucas film type computer graphics. In the end you have to believe what you just witnessed is true , or not. plain and simple. If you feel that Moore played fast and loose with his context of the events portrayed, than so be it. But the real fact is this: Our president is the one who distorted the facts. He is the one who broke Iraq. Secretary of state Powell is wrong. The president broke Iraq and WE BOUGHT IT! And the price is so precious! How will we ever pay for those who have been so tragically impacted. Can we ever? The human cost will never be justified. Never.

  If you are a partisan Republican than you will never admit that your precious President could ever have been so tragically wrong. He could blow up your own neighborhood, or allow a hundred 9/11's to happen and you would just keep on worshiping him like you do on every sunday. How pathetic is that.

  Like it or not the facts will make this republic sound . When President Lincoln sayed these words he was absolutely correct. The future of this planet depends on US to have the knowledge and to forget our own little petty partisan nonsense.

  This movie gives Americans the version of the facts that FOX, CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC etc never had the intestinal fortitude to show us. There is video on this DVD that you will never see on our television screens. Is it just me? or does it bother you as well that citizens of other countries saw these video clips and we didnt? Why did it take a controversial movie for us to see this footage? Why are we so obviously shielded from the FACTS?!!! I hope that EVERYONE gets to see this film and then decide with all your intellectual senses what to really think.

  THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!!!
2731843
Mr. Friedmann, what is the idea of this book? Up to chapter 5 you resume facts one should know, when reading the paper daily. Nothing new! Anyhow - serious books have a "glossary". Where did you get all your information from? Where are the links to all of your "facts"? (your wrote a book, not a blog)
What comes then, and I do not even want to talk about your Star Wars fantasy, shows me that you do not have a world vision. You have a regional vision - not a world vision. The US behaving like an stubborn adolescence and Europe being decadent? The US just going into wars to de-stablize? The US has reached a decadence far higher than Europe and the time of the US being a world power is coming to an end. Read again and study history - military overstretch! (you just can not pay it anymore - ups and did I forgot that the US owes China a couple of USD). This has already started and it is more than normal. Pls read a wonderful book called "The rise and fall of the big powers" !

Bottom line - reading this book was a waste of time!!!!
2486613
The title says it all! This book is pulled from the headlines of today!

In the follow-up to Enemys Foreign and Domestic, Matt continues the story of the United States crumbling. A communist movement in New Mexico (now called Nuevo Mexico) has taken power and has passed Espaniol Solomente (Spanish Only) laws in a effort to "de-anglo" the State. I would tell you more but that would spoil the fun!

Buy this book!!! Read it! and tell others about it! Send a copy to your congressman!
961248
The msg of this movie flies in the face of everything I have learned and held to be true!!!.  The Tree of LIBERTY is from time to time, mecessaro;u watered by the blood of patriots.  This film is teaching something opposite to that and I believe its basic premise is false and totally wrong!
2574358
I must start out with my first observation that any reasonably articulate comment to the Michael Moores, Dan Rathers and Peter Jennings along the lines of the great showtune, "It ain't necessarily so" will be met with gasps and then pummled like a French Middleweight.

My second observation I really arrived at as a child and little has ocurred to change it over any number of decades. It is: Bad stuff sells!!! Good stuff . . . .  "put it on page 17 Charley, next to the power tool ads."

So David Brooks is a loser from the outset. Imagine a concept that things are pretty good? The guile of him. Where did he get the guts to publish such tripe? Who the heck is he to tell us that America is a pretty cool and funny place to grow up in?

I have to believe that every one in America at sometime in the next couple of weeks ought to get down on their knees and thank the Lord, the Higher Power, Ra the Sun God, the Number 22 bus in Chicago, whomever, for having been born or having emigrated to America. To take a shower every morning. To pay too much at the gas pump but have great highways to use the SUV on. To have 78 channels. To watch the Yankees and The Red Sox. To go to Temple-Mosque-Church on the weekend. To be able to have therapy and diets. To have TV commercials that walk the tightrope between being wildly funny and wildly stupid and nearly half the time offensive (incontinence before dinner is not something I want to consider).

I like David Brooks. And I love America. Even with Michael Moore and those funny colored states on the left and the right. Thank you David. 5 stars. Larry Scantlebury
4219148
Franse Ron!!  Hardy hardy hardy har har har har! WHEEWWIIE!  I dun tell yull wut!  Dis sonn is a hoo't!  It dun tells us dat Bush wus rite, and dat ther dun wus wepuns of mass destruxxun in Irack!  Yee Haw!  Ime dun folly cunvinced now Yee Haw!  Dat Serj Tankeun feller from Sistum Uf A Duwn bettr dun watch hiz back, becuzz dese fokes dun relly show how itz dun!  Diz sonn iz not only funnee, but tru!  Neone who dun say der not wepuns of mass dstruxxun dun better moov to Franse!  All 70 % of Amurikah of you!  You iz kommy fashist, YEE HAW!  I dun went and dun kalled yullz a bunch of a kommy fashists, becuss dey dun bothe mene de same thene!  Ime sher glad I dun figgered out how to uze dis tiperiter thingy with de TV on it!  WHEEEWWWEEEEEEEE!
Fredtowntard out!
2694642
I have been a Greenday supporter for a few years now.  I have always enjoyed their kick ass songs.  However know i hate them and it is do to American idiot. i was excited a when i heared about Greenday's new album and i couldn't wait to buy it. When it was finally released i rushed to the store to pick up a copy. I brought it home and popped it into my CD player.  The album did not seem that bad until The song American Idiot.  When i heard this song i was so angry that i threw the cd out my bedroom window.  The basic meesage of that song is as follows.  I don't want to be American because Americans are all f@#*^$# idiots.  I am all for free speech but why would you bash the country yhat gives you that right. So i think that there are only three American idiots and thats Greenday! So i you hate America, everyone who lives here and everything about it buy this album if not stay away!  P.S- Oh yea and if Greenday hates our country why don't they get the hell out!!
1824555
This book reek's. Right off the bat when the author is asked, did the attacks of 9-11 change the geopolitical scene? he just cant help his anti-american views, he spouts off how the U.S. annihilated million's of people, conquered half of mexico, conquered Hawaii and the Philippines killing hundreds of thousands of filipinos. He calls the U.S. a leading terrorist state. He goes on to call osama bin laden a {courageous fighter}
If you love America skip this book!
4756579
What can I say?  Read the book Trance Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien to understand what he did to American women and children, to other people and the people of he world. Do we have any of the brave men in our military  in the USA?  Arrest him and his Bavarian Fraction of Nazis!

Perhaps, we do not have any more real men in the USA who can defend children, women, and seniors!  Shame!!! I am not afraid!  This is my opinion.  By way, Erick, dear, Thank you!!!!!!
Nina
2098622
I'm not american, although I live here.
I want to get that out up front, because the fact that a lot of america could put aside the constitution simply because "their" side won the supreme court decision is baffling to me. All americans lose if democracy here doen't work. I am angry for america, and I cannot understand why the media here (it never really dropped off the radar afterward in europe) let this pass.
Bugliosi does a great job of analyzing the steps that got the US to that position. His outrage is clear, but he doesn't descend into the name-calling, demonizing filth that came out from both sides after the election. He's no author - the language is often dry and isn't as engaging as I expected. But he is a lawyer, and explains clearly and simply the facts as they happened.
His analysis of what he interprets as mistakes by Gore's lawyers are interesting and heart-aching if he is correct, and his descriptions of the 5 conservative judges reasons for their votes are absolutely infuriating.
For further reading on the injustice that came to pass in that election 'decision' I suggest Greg Palasts "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" for the racist nuts-and-bolts of how little brother Jeb delivered Florida, and Mark Crispin Miller's "The Bush Dyslexicon" for how the media covered up/were biased/ignored it.
Bush's continuing to act as if the american people had actually given him a mandate for sweeping conservative reforms gives a new meaning to the words "bare faced cheek". The whole episode was sad (IS sad), and the more people realize this the better america will be.
Kudos to Bugliosi and the ever-impressive "The Nation" for printing him.