Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post about some of the movies from last week and THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all follows this post about guidelines to choosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: The Magnificent Seven, Queen of Katwe, Storks, The Hollars

By Debbie Schlussel

Unfortunately, the best new movie in theaters today is very politically correct and racist (it kills off ALL of the White heroes). Even more unfortunate, there are themes of political correctness, anti-White racism, and/or Black supremacism running through virtually every new movie.

* The Magnificent Seven – Rated PG-13: The first thing you need to know about this very politically correct movie is that ALL three of the White Magnificent Seven members are killed off by the end of this movie. Only the minorities survive. Oh, and also, the movie’s villain is also White (as is his large band of mercenary thugs–where’s da diversity?), and he’s an evil businessman/real estate developer. Always gotta insert that gratuitous, hypocritical Hollywood faux-hate of capitalism in the plot line. Plus, this movie is incredibly violent and bloody–much more than I expected, especially for a PG-13 flick. Still, despite all of that, I mostly liked the movie. That’s also despite its running time of two hours and 12 minutes.
But would it have killed them to write a movie in which at least ONE of the White Magnificent Seven lives??? This movie gets the Colin Kaepernick Black Racist Seal of Approval.
There have been several remakes of what was originally Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s truly magnificent “The Seven Samurai,” including a 1998 CBS TV series co-starring my high school friend Rick Worthy. But most Americans remember the best “remake” to be the original English language version, the 1960 “The Magnificent Seven” movie, in which a Mexican village requests the help of the White Magnificent Seven.
In this movie, a White town requests the help of a mostly minority Magnificent Seven–led by a Black guy (Denzel Washington) and also comprised of an American Indian, er . . . “Native American,” a Mexican, a Chinese dude, and three White guys (Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, and Vincent D’Onofrio. It’s unlikely that really would have happened in the 1800s Old West, the setting for this “update.”
Also, in this movie, there isn’t always stark good-versus-evil, at least at the beginning. Chris Pratt kills one or two gamblers who rip him off, and he shoots a guy’s ear off. (Of course, it’s a White member of the Magnificent Seven who does these things.) Though, this is before he joins the “Seven.”
The story: an evil White real estate developer from Sacramento (played by ultra-left-wing America-hater Peter Sarsgaard) terrorizes the people of a small town and murders some of them in cold blood–all because he wants their land at a cheap price. The wife of one of the men who is killed hires Denzel Washington and his band of six other men to come to town and fight off the real estate developer and his band of mostly White thugs (there is one exception–he has an American Indian thug, Denali, but other than that–the rest of his bad guys, which number in the hundreds, are all White).
The Magnificent Seven come to town and train the townspeople to shoot and fight. And then they help the people fight off the bad guys. But their battle is bloody, and they’ve been forewarned that many people will die.
As I watched the battle and saw the three White Magnificent Seven (plus the Chinese one) get killed, I thought, “Wow, there isn’t a lot of room for the sequel here.” But, then, I realized that White people are disposable, and they can be recast. My mind was also screaming . . .
White Magnificent Seven Lives Matter!
Just not in this racist, politically-correct movie.
Still, I love a good western, and this movie wasn’t bad as far as that goes–despite all the racist, PC baloney.
So I give it . . .
TWO REAGANS PLUS TWO COLIN KAEPERNICK RACIST SEALS OF APPROVAL

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* Queen of Katwe – Rated PG: Hmmm . . . since nearly half of the greatest chess players of all time were/are Jews, when I think of chess champions I think of Uganda. Don’t you? Of course, that’s the absurd conceit (and deceit) of this movie, even though the movie is ultimately uplifting after moving very slowly for the first half. Also, FYI, when I think of Uganda, I think of their late Muslim leader, Idi Amin, and the Muslim hostage-taking of Jews who were held and terrorized in Entebbe, NOT chess.
Also, I was horrified that a Disney movie aimed at and heavily marketed to kids–especially Black kids–repeatedly features a child prostitute who gets pregnant. And it doesn’t exactly look down on her and her exploits much. Walt Disney is turning over in his grave.
The movie goes out of its way to downplay, minimize, and whitewash the role of Christianity in the story. And, since mostly Americans and Brits play the main characters, they go out of their way to overdo their “Ugandan” accents, making it hard to understand them and what they are saying for most of the first half of the movie. The first half of the movie is also slow and boring, and the movie doesn’t really heat up and get interesting until half way through, when the chess competitions get going.
“Based on a real-life story,” this is about a Ugandan girl, Phiona Mutesi, who becomes Uganda’s first chess master, and ultimately plays and beats chess champions all over Uganda and internationally. She and the other kids in the movie live in an extremely poor ghetto of Katwe in Uganda. They are destitute. A local community organizer (really a man working for a local Christian church ministry) is a chess player and coach. He reaches out and teaches them chess. Ultimately they beat the stock Hollywood-cast snobby rich kids. But the star is Phiona. She is so good that she beats the top Ugandans and goes to international competitions. Her dream is to become a chess “master.”
Phiona’s father died, and her mother (Lupita Nyong’o) is a single mother because of that. She’s struggling to survive, and so she is skeptical of Phiona’s chess aspirations. Phiona’s sister is a teen prostitute who takes money for sex, dresses like a whore, and eventually becomes pregnant by one of the men. I was disappointed that this darkness (and other darkness–Phiona’s home, an old church, is completely flooded like a river and they lose everything) was in a Disney kids’ movie. It wasn’t necessary.
The coach, played by David Oyelowo, is actually a Christian minister, but you’d be hard-pressed to know that because–as I’ve noted–Disney mostly washed that out of this ultimately inspiring and uplifting story. The only hint of it is that in one scene you can see the van he drove has a barely-visible cross and the name “ministry” on it.
The kids in the movie are very cute and funny. And eventually the story is uplifting and inspires ambition. I liked that message of empowering one’s self and taking personal responsibility to get out of poverty. But, let’s be real: Uganda ain’t known for its chess champions, despite what the movie wants you to think.
HALF A REAGAN PLUS TWO MICHELLE LAVAUGHN ROBINSON HUSSEIN OBAMA IDI AMIN DADAS PLUS TWO COLIN KAEPERNICK RACIST SEALS OF APPROVAL

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* Storks – Rated PG: This dumb, cockamamie “kids” movie was soooooo incredibly annoying. And the very stupid story looked like it was slapped together by a two-year-old (with apologies to two-year-olds for the comparison with the writers of this crappy waste of time). In an era–and in a year–when there are so many far-superior animated kids’ movies, this falls stunningly flat. It also highlights the lack of good, original story-telling that apparently befuddles so many in Hollywood. I was surprised at the silliness of this movie. Plus it is very slow and very boring. The animation is fine, but nothing outstanding. Just the basics that we’ve already come to expect, given today’s technology. Pixar this ain’t. Not even close.
The “story” (if you can call it that): storks used to deliver babies to new parents. But it was too hard, and they had so many near-accidents. So, now, they are out of that business and into something else. Today, the storks are delivery men for a giant Amazon.com-like company, called “CornerStore.com.” The main character stork in the movie is about to be promoted to “boss” by the CEO stork. But, first, he has to attend to the orphan girl who lives in the company’s facility in the sky. She’s left over from the days of when the storks used to deliver newborns. Unfortunately, the girl and the stork accidentally set off the old factory machinery from those days, and a new baby is delivered.
The rest of the movie basically follows the stork and the orphan girl trying to brave the elements and other obstacles in order to deliver the baby to its family. (The cutest–and only interesting–scene is when the two are trying to escape a very smart and resourceful pack of wolves.) Meanwhile, the orphan girl longs to find her own family and be united with them, after all these years. And, at the same time, a “Valley Guy-esque” stool pigeon is telling on them to the CEO because the pigeon wants to be boss instead of the stork. While all of this is going on, a young boy wants a baby brother because his real estate agent parents are neglectful and devoted to their jobs instead of him. So, he begins building a giant amusement-park on the family home’s roof, in order to attract a delivery stork.
At the end of the movie, the storks accidentally set off the baby factory, and thousands of kids pop out. So the storks have to deliver them to their families. This is exactly when I thought to myself, “here’s where the political correctness starts and we see gay families and so on getting deliveries.” Sure enough, Hollywood never disappoints the PC crowd. You see all-female and all-male couples getting baby deliveries. Soooo predictable.
The first ex-Mrs. Brad Pitt (Jennifer Aniston) and Andy Samberg voice characters in this movie. I’m not a fan of either.
Believe me, I’m making this dumb story sound far better than it is. This is a snoozer, and pointless. But kids will probably love the colors.
ONE-AND-A-HALF MARXES

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* The Hollars – Rated PG-13: Oy vey. Directed by and starring John Krasinski, this movie is HORRIBLE! Absolutely awful. High quality Gitmo torture material and 1.5 hours of my life I’ll never get back. Who on earth would pay ten-bucks-plus to see this? Only a sucker or a dupe. They’d have to pay me a lot to see this again. Yuck. And it’s incredibly depressing.
Make no mistake: this movie is a deliberate and loud attack on middle American life by snobby Hollywood elitist creeps. (And it’s also, sub rosa, an attack on the lives of average White Americans, too.)
The story: Krasinski plays a guy living in New York trying to “live the dream.” But it turns out he’s not exactly living the dream and isn’t happy with his life. That comes out after he returns home to the small town from which he came to see his family. He learns that his mother has had a seizure because of a brain tumor and she must get immediate surgery to remove it. He also learns that his father’s business is about to go bankrupt and has been losing money, that the family is completely broke, and that his divorced-dad brother is living in his parents basement and lost his job in the family business. The father is a dopey, infantilized, incompetent fool. On top of that, they don’t know how they’re going to pay for their mother’s surgery. And they worry that she won’t survive the operation. But, other than that, GUH-REAT! movie.
Oh, wait. I forgot that Krasinski’s girlfriend (Anna Kendrick) is pregnant, but he really doesn’t think he wants to be a father or to marry the girlfriend. His career is basically non-existent, though, and he’s being “floated” by her financially, as she is very rich. Still, he realizes his life ain’t so bad compared to that of his family in “red state” G-d’s country. Virtually everyone in the small town is a “lesser than” and either a jerk or backward or something.
Shame on Josh Groban for co-starring in this garbage. Also, I’m not sure how this avoided an R-rating. Standards have clearly disintegrated.
I couldn’t stand this movie from the beginning, and each time when I thought it couldn’t get any worse or more boring and depressing, it got worse, more boring, and even more depressing. This is absolute crap. And that’s an understatement. I hated the veiled, sneering, arrogant, and smug politics of this. And I just hated this in every other way, too. Who needs this? Not me. And definitely not you. This movie is so bad that it won awards at all the major movie festivals. That’s how it works. Crap rises to the top.
Pointless trash. Avoid like the plague.
FOUR MARXES PLUS A COLIN KAEPERNICK RACIST SEAL OF APPROVAL

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Children of War

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about the Children of War in Africa referenced in Kony 2012. This follows this post about the woman named Esther.   For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.


Children of War






article by Louise Kleinbergs





Working with children whose lives have been devastated by war today provides some clues about how we can prepare to help people heal when peace finally does come.



War Creates Refugees” was the theme for Refugee Week in the United Kingdom in June 2004. It was a week aimed at celebrating the enormous contribution of refugees to the United Kingdom and promoting understanding for the reasons people seek sanctuary.



The Bible is packed with accounts of wars between nations. In Matthew 24 Christ talks about war being one of the signs of the end of the age. Across the world today there are over 20 wars being fought, yet most of us could only name a few. The consequences of war on the world at large, and individuals in particular, are enormous.



In my job as an EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher, I am involved with many students who are refugees. These students have been forced to leave their homes and countries because of circumstances beyond their control. In many cases they became refugees because of war.



These children, some as young as 5, know no other life. They do what they can to survive.



Some of the students I teach arrive in the classroom needing more than instruction in English. Some have no concept of the truth and fail to see that lying is a problem. Others know of no other way to solve problems than by fighting, and there are those who will steal whatever they want without a conscience pang.



There is also, at times, a lack of respect for others, particularly those in authority. This is reflected in their interaction with each other and authority figures. In short, the basic principles of right and wrong need to be taught. But how?



The horrors of war

I spoke with Norman Sheehan, CEO of War Child, a network of independent organizations helping children affected by war by developing programs to reintegrate them into society.



Some of the children they deal with were abducted, drugged and forced to kill in order not to be killed themselves. These children, some as young as 5, know no other life. They do what they can to survive.



A newspaper article by Tim Judah in The Independent, dated Oct. 23, 2004, talked of child soldiers, sex slaves and cannibalism in Uganda. Children were forced at gunpoint by the rebels to abduct and murder other children and to drink their blood.



Tim Judah goes on to describe the murder of a 14-year-old girl who had been killed by other child captives. One of the girl captives was asked why she had participated. She responded, “I was frightened, but we were told that if we did not kill, they would kill us. So you had to pretend to be brave.”



As part of his job, Norman Sheehan spent a year in Sierra Leone working with children of war. I asked him how these young people could be educated. He gave me four basic principles that prompted me to think about what I do in my role as a teacher today, and what we will all do as teachers in the world to come after Jesus Christ returns to save this world from itself. I like to think of this as the S·T·E·P program.



Safety

After the basic needs of children are met, which are food, clothing and shelter, the most important thing is to make them feel safe. They need to feel they can walk around without fear of being shot, abducted or abused. Without this feeling of safety, fear develops, and then the behavior resulting from fear occurs.



The same article by Tim Judah explained how in Gulu, Kitgum (Uganda), a local hospital gives shelter at night to “some of the 45,000 children who, because of their fear of abduction, stream into Gulu, Kitgum, and other towns every evening to sleep in the safety of the hospitals.”



When there is no more war, there will be no more children of war!



In the Kingdom of God we will need to create an environment of safety and reassure people they are safe. Have we considered the trauma that people will have experienced? Those who come up in the second resurrection after the Millennium will also need reassurance. It will be vital that we establish a place of safety for them.



Trust

Secondly, a relationship of trust needs to be established. Norman Sheehan maintains that this is very important if a teacher is to make any progress. Trust is not something that can be bought, and is not something that comes overnight. It is developed by finding opportunities to share your time with the children.



As future teachers, we will need to establish a relationship of trust with the people with whom we will be working. We have had the advantage of learning God’s way and practicing it in this life. Before we can teach our future students, we will first have to gain their trust.



Example

Norman Sheehan also mentioned how vital the teacher’s example is. The children he worked with did not know the right way to do even basic things such as wash their hands before eating—let alone how to conduct their lives in an orderly and peaceful way. His example was important for them to learn from.



Our example in the Kingdom of God will be equally significant. We will be a light to the world. Indeed we are told in Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.



See All..., “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”



People will be watching us! They will want to know what to do, how to have a happy and peaceful life and how to have a relationship with God and with one another.



Isaiah 30:21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.



See All... tells us, “Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.”



How wonderful it will be to be this guide, this light!



Patience

As a teacher, patience is crucial—without it you will fail. The civilized behavior patterns of these children in Sierra Leone have been destroyed. They need to be rebuilt, and it is a very long road to changing their behavior.



I once heard a behavior support teacher say that changing bad behavior is like breaking a bad habit. It takes time and patience for a new pattern of behavior to be learned.



One of the fruits of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,



See All... is patience. In our role as teachers in the Kingdom of God, we will certainly need patience. People will not change overnight—or even in a week!



A time to practice

We need to develop the fruit of patience now. These four basic principles of the S·T·E·P program can be developed and practiced today when dealing with people in our workplace and within our families.



We need to practice establishing a feeling of safety and a relationship of trust, as well as setting an example that can be followed. And finally we need to learn to exercise patience on a daily basis.



Our future is pictured by the Feast of Tabernacles, a time of wonderful peace, joy and harmony, when people will learn to live God’s way of life—a time when Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit, and shut up so “that he should deceive the nations no more” (Revelation 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.



See All...).



This is a time when God’s Spirit will truly be among His people. This time of the Millennium is mentioned in Isaiah 2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.



See All... when they “shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; [when] nation shall not lift up sword against nation, [and] neither shall they learn war anymore.”



And when there is no more war, there will be no more children of war! May God hasten that day when suffering will cease!

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34 U.S. citizens and residents charged with ties to international jihadists in the past 18 months

A very interesting post from www.jihadwatch.org about U.S. citizens supporting Jihad Terror groups. This follows this post about the Mosque in Staten Island and this article about the recent news about the ban offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.


34 U.S. citizens and residents charged with ties to international jihadists in the past 18 months
There are other disturbing statistics here, after the obligatory expressions of shock from the neighbors. "American-Bred Terrorists Causing Alarm For Law Enforcement," by Jason Ryan, Pierre Thomas, and Xorje Olivares for ABC News, July 22:
A Virginia man charged with providing material support to terrorists abroad appeared in court today requesting an attorney be appointed to him.
Zachary Chesser, 20, is accused of trying to join Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based Islamist militant group suspected in the recent bombing attacks in Uganda that left 73 dead and dozens more injured as they watched the World Cup final.
"I'm shocked--I'm just surprised," said Yvette Deale, Chesser's former neighbor. "It's not the kind of thing I would have expected in this neighborhood."
Chesser, who just two years ago was a high school football player and crew member in Fairfax, VA, is now one of 34 Americans accused of and charged with having ties to international terrorists in the past 18 months.
Sources say this trend represents an unprecedented spike in homegrown terror and is an emerging threat that has them deeply concerned. What they consider to be most alarming is the fact that many of those charged were radicalized on the Internet, with thousands of Americans reportedly frequenting terror websites that espouse mass murder.
"This Is What We Have Feared"
A recently disclosed FBI Directorate of Intelligence document from July 2009 estimated that there were as many as 15,000 websites and web forums that were supportive of terrorist activities. Yet, officials say the number of websites is constantly changing since many of the sites and forums are not maintained, with current estimates indicating as many as 10,000 active sites.
The FBI analysis noted that about 80 percent of those sites existed on U.S.-based computer servers. U.S. officials say these type of sites rapidly gained popularity when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, began to post beheading videos on the Internet in 2003.
"This is what we have feared for a very long time--that finally the ideology of radical Islam is effectively reaching into the United States to disaffected people here over the Internet," said Richard Clarke, a former White House counterterrorism adviser. [...]
There's a long way to go from being your garden-variety "disaffected," usually young person, to embracing a brutal supremacist ideology. And that doesn't explain the relatively well-to-do jihadists who otherwise had everything going for them.
With so many potential threats, authorities say they are in a race against time to find these radicals before they launch a successful attack on the land they grew up on.
"In the last six to nine months," Clark said, "the FBI has seen more domestic Islamist extremist activity than at any time since immediately right after 9/11."
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