[Note]:This is an opinion article – it is an opinion. By reading it you acknowledge that I have an opinion. If you think I don’t have one, please stop reading. If you think I’m proporting everything in this as fact, you’re wrong. And now back to our show….

So I watched the Moore vs. O’Reilly footage on FoxNews.com and I have to say that the time was limited and Mr. O’Rielly is a bit of an antagonist as a host [Michael Moore is not an antagonist either ;)]. That aside I was concerned with Michael Moore’s main argument which was that President Bush sent people’s kids over to Iraq and they were victims of some scheme that tricked them into a situation where they could die. Arguments about Bush’s honesty aside, if you sign up to be a soldier you are signing up to potentially go lay your life down.

Death in combat is an honorable thing and so I do not want to belittle anyone who is a soldier, but I am concerned that Michael Moore paints a picture that 12 year old US citizens are out there getting shot at because they were held hostage by the Bush administration. Soldiers are eighteen years or older to my knowledge – legal adults with full voting rights [apparently drinking and gambling are still too sophisticated for them though]. I chose to not join the miltary at a young age (unless drafted) because I did not want to lay my life down for this country. Bill Clinton, ex-President of the Untied States [that’s a joke] chose not to lay his life down as well (and boy was he heckled for that – this means you can heckle me for the same) and that is legitimate. However, if you join the military you put yourself at the mercy of a small "handful" of people in power who can send you to death on the battle lines.

I don’t like how the war in Iraq has turned into another US babysitting job, I don’t like how the US is babysitting much of the globe. I don’t like how the UN (should that be United Notions instead?) handles things either (I generally don’t like the UN). I think that much of the situation that has developed since 9/11 has been completely ignored: this is spiritual and not political. Muslim fundamentalists do not care if you’re politically aligned with the Republicans or the Democrats – they care if you’re aligned with Allah!

As a contrast, I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat either – I care if you’re in fellowship with Jesus Christ.

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OK, I’m done now. I do want your comments if you can explain to me how the soldiers didn’t know that they could die when signing up. And if that’s the case I think we should utterly destroy the GI bill so that soldiers join the military for the sole purpose of being soldiers.

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We (I) rented HellBoy yesterday because I’m always intrigued by adaptations of comic books into movies. This one generally was good, plus it had incredibly good special effects that were rather lifelike and not feeling too ‘digitized.’ The storyline was not too ‘blow the crap out of anything you can as often as you can’ and it had some unique and fun characters. The villains were incredibly cool in that the characters were all from the past and were involved with (surprise) some sort of magic – Rasputin being one of them.

What was really odd was the intertwining of spiritual things with physical things. The concept of resurrection is just blown out of the water as this one creature keeps resurrecting, but the resurrected creature keeps splitting up. Once splitting and spreading the now multiple creatures are wiped out at once to stop them from spreading. So the resurrection is quite different from a biblical definition.

Hellboy being a demon is also, um, theologically different. However, in the end I discovered one important thing: it was a fictional movie. Satanism was not pushed or the occult glorified. However, a demon was presented as having good character.

Oh, well. It was a fun movie, but Jessica didnt’ like the ending – she said it was too open ended. Sequels abound 🙂