debbie, i get the feeling youre a guy’s kind of girl. it makes it all the more demoralizing to me that you are single. it’s just a microcosm of what’s happening to secular intellectual jews like us. as much as i enjoy your 2 cents here i’d be interested if you had any insights for us about more personal issues.

shleppy on October 19, 2005 at 11:22 pm

Oooooooooo, racist! Calling Japanese people Japs! The biggest racists will be the ones calling me Japanese and not an American. Good story Deb. My uncles wanted to go to Japan and kill them Japs but Uncle Sam couldn’t trust us, so we ended up in Europe. NNot that fighting the Nazi was bad but there was a sense of anger against the Japs in Japan. I wish that Dirty Harry keeps his mouth shut, what he doesn’t know is that people like me, proud American, will end up being labeled as a traitorous Jap. Thanks Deb

KOAJaps on October 20, 2005 at 8:44 am

Ehhhhh…I wasnt too excited about Million Dollar Baby, but I have no problem with the movie like most conservatives about its ending. As for clint eastwoods new movie, i’ll hold judgement before seeing the script. Have you even see it yet Debbie or are you riding your Clint hatred over MDB into his new movie?
Besides the point that the Japaneese are now one of our greates allies, whereas islamists are not. I’d stick to being critical over sympathetic movies towards Suicide Bombers who still hate us(like Mark Cuban’s new movie) over a movie where not much is known about it and just shows the war from the Japanese side. If the movie shows americans as being suicidal, torturing maniacs, then the movie would deserve your wrath.

Avatar on October 20, 2005 at 11:55 am

I was watching a special (on the History channel I believe) on the Japanese warship the Yamato a couple weeks ago. The majority of the show focused on the Japanese perspective about the contruction and use of the warship. They had interviews of a couple guys that were stationed on the ship.
I know these guys were our enemy, but just because shows like this are made doesn’t mean that they are dishonoring the memory of the Americans that fought against them (although admitedly in this case, American forces promptly destroyed the Yamato. I believe with few American casualties as well).
I feel the same way about movies made that are based on history. As long as they are acurate from a historical perspective, then why shouldn’t they be made? It’s not like the movie he’s making from the Jap perspective is going to convince Americans that they were the good guys. No one believes that.

Clompo on October 20, 2005 at 2:00 pm

I guess Debbie is correct when she said Clint must be feeling guilt pains over traditional American films like ìDirty Harryî in order to appease the America-hating Left in Hollyweird. He also made some great Western films, too, such as, The Outlaw Josie Wales, High Plains Drifter, etc., that also portrayed good ol’ American values like justice and retribution.
However, lots of Republicans get afflicted with this sort of dementia when they get old, lose their marbles, and refuse to leave the stage….does anyone remember Barry Goldwater?
After Clint makes his next movie, “9/11: Beat Your Swords Into Airplanes”, Hollywood gossip columnists are saying that he’s going right to work on yet another epic, “How The Beatles Framed Charles Manson”.
To misquote a truly great American hero, General Douglas MacArthur, I think it’s appropriate to say; “Old actors never die, but they don’t fade away, either.”

Thee_Bruno on October 20, 2005 at 2:49 pm

You have articulated, Debbie, in your subtext, what I think is among the foremost differentiations between liberals and conservatives: the willingless to criticize one’s own party members when criticism is deserved. I know liberals who would willingly vote for Hitler or the devil if he were running as a Democrat, but I know many fewer conservatives who would vote for them running as Republicans. In another realm, look at the criticism Bush has gotten from conservatives as opposed to the complete support the Clintons received from liberals. As I see it, a skunk is a skunk whether wearing Democrat or Republican clothes. If Rove, DeLay or any other conservative is proven guilty of wrongdoing, conservatives will be among the first to tell him to resign. But how many liberals told Clinton to resign even after he was impeached and lost his law license?

Bachbone on October 20, 2005 at 10:45 pm

Oh, come on Debbie, don’t censor yourself! I am disappointed. Put Jap back sweetie!!! Because if you don’t then I will rewrite it
Shame on Dirty Harry: Eastwood’s Pro-JAP film

KOAJaps on October 21, 2005 at 12:22 pm

Yea Debbie! You broght the Jap back, so anyone who complains that Debbie’s a racist, F-off you faeggot

KOAJaps on October 22, 2005 at 10:26 am

well i guess i know wat u feel but u shudnt be so hard on em the marines made up with them so why cant you whats past is past and we will hopefully never do it again

Ramen on January 8, 2007 at 12:19 am

Oh wow…Debbie, are you another one of those erstwhile defenders of the American fighting man (a la Hannity, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Cheney, Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham, Bush) who just couldn’t, or can’t, find the time to wear the uniform themselves? And btw, the Americans who fought and died at Iwo Jima did so so that movies like “Letters From Iwo Jima” could be made.

lucslawyer on January 9, 2007 at 5:18 pm