Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
My husband and I can’t wait to see this movie!
Rumor has it commenter “Yamashita” is eithe Duck Durban, Barney Frank, or Joe Biden….he/she keeps coming back with stock “talking points,” yet never a word of the great “truth teller” Michael Moore, who never made any jingoistic propaganda……
BLACKFIVE nails it when he writes: This is a grass roots effort by the SEAL operators themselves who were very mindful of their roles as the direct representatives of the SEAL community past and present.
The only currency that has any value in the SEAL Teams is your reputation. These operators well understood that not only their reputations, but the eternal legacy of the SEAL Teams was at risk here.
Those of us who have crossed paths with the SEALs out on the field of battle and seen them as they quietly and confidently go about taking out the “trash” overseas understand what this movie means to those in the SEAL community, all their NAVY shipmates and all others that have sacrificed for our nation.
In regards to the Lefty Lib Moonbats at HuffPO, the blame-America-first idjits and other domestic enemies of our nation who take offense at this great movie, we have no problem telling them to take a flying leap.
yeah, those guys built a rep with some of us. I didn’t like having them on my side. I will take SPECOPS any day or night.
Everything I’ve seen about this movie makes me believe it will be a great film – I plan on seeing it on Saturday next weekend.
I’m sure it’s giving folks at HuffPo heartburn.
I’m sure it’s giving folks at HuffPo heartburn.
And they can take some Tums or Prilosec and just deal with the fact that this film is going to be B.I.G.
This movie looks to thoroughly soak theater goers with bucket loads of awesome. The “making of” trailer is terrific, especially where the Hollywood types talk about filming during live fire exercises.
I can’t wait for opening day.
The inability of the left to recognize human behavioral traits such as honor, integrity, brotherhood in arms
never ceases to amaze me. Those folks that claim their moral and intellectual superiority over the “neanderthals”
of the military / conservative / religious people, display a hypocracy that transcends belief.
When the usual suspects don’t approve of a movie, about real military folks, I must spend my money & see it, for it will
surely be be very good.
No matter what though, Lex is right. Haters ‘gonna hate, even if they are kinder, gentler, more tolerant haters.
Roger, it’s not that they can’t recognize those traits, but rather they’ve been subjected to forty-plus years of propaganda that soldiers are psycho baby-killers, and that it’s pretty much impossible for them to be admirable, much less noble.
When you’re submerged in that world, it’s difficult not to get swallowed by the narrative.
I personally suspect that the modern tendency to view an ideological opponent as somehow flawed, or even innately evil, has something to do with their disbelief as well. They just can’t believe that “those guys” are good people.
The Left. Meh.
“Act of Valor” does sound like it lives up to suggested content. Coincidentally, while you were writing this post about that movie, M.E. was writing about a different movie with Navy SEALs whose timing seems, so far, very suspicious POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING: http://aquilinefocus.blogspot.com/2012/02/curious-timing-for-new-thriller-movie.html
I can’t believe that Yamashita troll is claiming Black Hawk Down is a propaganda movie. I think people need to WATCH the damn thing before spill crap like that.
BHD works as a Somali warlord propaganda movie, and nothing else.
Plan to see it got a few clients past and present who were
SEALS. Glad I didn’t have them as enemies..
Much of the “storm” over “Act Of Valor” parallels that which came out over John Wayne’s “The Green Berets” back in ’68. The left had a pretty good hate over that as well.
I’d tell that Huffpo reviewer to eat a bag of dicks, but he probably likes that sort of thing. NTTAWWT.
Lex, my apologies for using bad language in your parlor.
If one hundred percent of you don’t know the history of the USS William D Porter I’d be surprised, I was laughing out loud and had so many tears streaming down my face I had to stop reading for several minutes.
The best bit:
They announced “Fire one!” and the first fake torpedo was fake fired. “Fire two!” and the second fake torpedo was fake fired. “Fire three!” and a swooshing sound was heard. The crew watched in horror as an actual torpedo left the tube and made a beeline for the Iowa and the president of the United States.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-same-ship.html
I am definitely looking forward to seeing the movie; although I am of the opinion that these folks need to fade into the woodwork. . .
OT: But something to take away from this seriousness and blend the powered antics of the host, with those who trust the wind, and lift and drag….without thrust: Red Bull Wingsuit Base Jumping in the Chinese Mountains.” Note: Know your glide ratio!
Now “Redtails” WAS propoganda, just not the wrong kind- and I heard nothing but crickets…
I just saw Red Tails here at Camp Buehring, Kuwait last week. Pretty good movie, but it was riddled throughout with stereotypes, both good and bad. Very cliche, IMHO – and I very much wanted to like it. At times, the lines seemed stilted and almost pandering in their overarching need to apologize and be racially correct.
Agreed, Padre. Fun action movie, but terrible history. Feh. Tuskegee Airmen was far better, on a much smaller budget. Even if they used P-51D Mustangs the entire movie.
I don’t know why, but it still amazes me that folks (pundits & critics, mostly) will cheer for any movie which depicts military folks as deranged, crazy, depressed, psychotic, suicidal, etc. Thus, movies such as “Platoon,” “Apocalypse Now,” “In The Valley of Elah,” and “Stop-Loss” are lauded, but anything which attempts to show military folks as heroic (or even normal) are decried as Pentagon propaganda. I mean, I know we’re not all plaster saints, but come on – what do they think the average soldier/sailor/airman/Marine is like? Wait, don’t answer that…
That is the problem, they don’t know the average soldier/sailor/airman/Marine.
Wife stunned me tonight by scheduling this for date night next week. Generally, not her cup of tea at all … but she’s heard good things and the the fact that the left is a little huff(y) about it just increases her interest.