Totally off the topic of the film review but important nonetheless to mention I think.

My previously posted question was directed at O'Hehir, and not about your list.

Finding the non-mainstream films of note and impact is a quest better pursued by living in a larger cultural mecca than via a commercial internet library. Where these types of films tend to briefly appear, and then vanish back onto the producer's web site. Especially since now everyone with time can be a filmmaker/producer.

I tend to think that while you may not find the missing netflix films at

http://www.thefilmconnection.org/

- you can probably work with them to secure the films.

Then you and others have them more readily available.

I haven't used the film connection because I've not been able to get a group together to watch the same film at the same time. Although the idea has plenty of merit.

It's practically unanimous, one way or the other everyone commenting here agrees Babies Are Really Trouble.

Some things never change. Even compassion appears to be largely dead; meanwhile truckers keep rolling along ancient dinosaur bloodlines.

More directly to my point, Cary you need to use BART.

I do know how seductive it is to truck over to Berkley singing out those ancient refrains lost to you in the quietly swhooshing world of BART.

I too was one of those people who thought it best to drive into my job in the city BECAUSE I could chant and sing for a couple of hours a day. Multitasking and enhancing my sound channels. How selfish can we be ?

Do what I did to break this selfish habit -

Park your truck at your mechanic so he can work on it, while you're practicing those quiet humming refrains in the BART train car. You may even hear the background chorus hidden in those landscapes you hurtle past this way.

And then sometime during the day practice singing and chanting louder - it's possible to find those spaces. But you'll have to work at it.

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Exactly.

The attack on Iran has always been more a matter of when rather than if. I would much prefer to be wrong about this.

After watching the film 'No End In Sight' http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/ last evening it is quite clear to me the film's well documented 'apparent' bungling of the Iraq war illuminates the smoke screen most clearly.

The actual intent (and effect) of this 'un-managed' Iraq war was to incite a holy war in the mid-east at the end of time. Iran is just the next inevitable step in this fundamentalist scenario. I spent too much time in my younger days in the great state of Utah not to recognize the storyline, nor its importance to a eschatological philosophy which seeks out its own end.

There appears to be nothing in place in our democracy any longer which will stop this madness from being played out on the stage laid before us by our technologies. For reasoning and reasonable human beings seem not to be found in the halls of power.

Possibly if enough members of our military could watch that movie, there might be some slim outside chance they would balk at the next installment of this war. Which gives them yet another opportunity to become glorified in action.

When reasonable people might want only peace, happiness and the pursuit of liberty to prevail.

Oh wait, they just now are thinking maybe that war surge is not working -

The Terrorism Index

Third Semi-annual, Nonpartisan Survey of Foreign Policy Experts from the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/08/terrorism_index.html

US Foreign Policy Experts Oppose Bush’s Surge by David Morgan

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/20/3290/

US Foreign Policy Experts Oppose Bush’s Surge by David Morgan

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-08-20T081152Z_01_LAU029396_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-USA-BUSH.xml

[Glenn]: Are you under the impression - as seems to be the case - that this contradicts anything that was said here?

What appears at first glance to be the FPC's wiggling about, seems more to me to be just an adjusted set of statistics about the 'war on terror'.

Without reading or wishing to read the Times article, it's possible that it was nice of McCain to remind us of the 'failure' of the Iraq police AND who was responsible for that failure, the General in question.

However misleading it's intent may have been to deflect this criticism today:

ARUN GUPTA: "...'Petraeus’s role in helping to set up the Special Police Commandos. In 2004, 2005, he was given the mission to train all Iraq military and police forces. And, in fact, in July 2004, Newsweek had this cover of him, saying that Petraeus was going to train Iraqis to take over the fight. Now, the reality is, is that was, of course, a failure, because three years later he was back with an escalation of US forces."

A Look At How Petraeus Helped Arm Warring Sunni and Shia Militias in Iraq

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/12/1410237