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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:00 AM

2006 political ads: The star(?)-studded response to Michael J. Fox

The conservative response to the Michael J. Fox ad -- in Aramaic?

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:54 AM

Warner in cellblock B

So did Kurt Warner do his spot from the clink or what? I wonder if the sponsors of the ad paid his bail in return for his participation.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 09:35 PM

Gibberish is more like it!

stupid fucking religious wingnuts - what do you expect?!

Monday, October 30, 2006 08:11 AM

I used to think........

that Patricia Heaton was sexy......thanks Pat, you fu**** up that image! Now I'll never again be able to watch Everybody Loves Raymond reruns, knowing that poor Ray's wife is a right wing nut case.

Sunday, October 29, 2006 09:20 AM

Stem Cells

I have had Type One diabetes since I was 2 years old. I don't expect that when stem cell research finally gets going and produces results that that will help me out. But if it can find a cure for diabetes and spare other adults and children from the traumas of the disease, then let's go for it.

As for Patricia Heaton, she'll probably end up in those Christian apocalyptic movies, like born-again Kirk Cameron.

Friday, October 27, 2006 10:05 AM

Translation

"I ran out of my meds and I can't get any more until they finish filming me"

Thursday, October 26, 2006 08:28 PM

Sadly, It's Real

I was poking around on YouTube today and saw this ad there.

A ton of comments are posted by people saying, "Wow -- I didn't know that. I won't vote for Prop. 2!"

I suspect there's an effort from anti-embryonic stem research people to stuff the ballot box of public opinion. Interesting thing is that I tried to post some responses - profanity-free, laden with scientific facts - in their forum and YouTube has refused to post them.

I e-mailed them and haven't heard back. I suspect I won't.

The lesson learned is that I should get all my video from Salon's Video Dog.

Let's review using the polemics from current political campaigns:

Salon/Video Dog = good

Other sources of video = bad.

Lesson learned.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 07:17 PM

It is Aramaic: "The Son of man with a kiss"

He is saying "l'bar anash w'nashaq," which means "the Son of man with a kiss." This is a fragment from Luke 22:48.

(I don't know Aramaic, though I have a very faint understanding of Hebrew grammar, so it took some detective work to piece this together. It is not taken from the ancient Syriac Aramaic translation of the Christian bible, but instead retranslated into Aramaic from the English King James version. Thanks to Wikipedia for its "Son of Man" article for helping to decipher the key phrase.)

The full verse in the KJV reads: "But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?" This can only be meant as a coded message to the most extreme of evangelicals: Michael J. Fox = Judas.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 09:58 AM

the language

Seriously what is he saying at the beginning? I'd like to know.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 08:11 AM

Celebrities need to get their facts straight.

When I hear rhetoric about what ballot initiatives mean, I like to go straight to the source. Here it is:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006petitions/ppStemCell.asp

It says right there at the start "No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being." This hardly sounds like it makes cloning a constitutional right. They try to tell you there is all sorts of political trickery in the 2000-word text. Most of the text is restrictions on how stem cells are used and collected.

But don't listen to me. Read it for yourself.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 05:25 AM

He might be saying...

"oh shit is that another lightning bolt..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3209223.stm

Perhaps God does talk to fundamentalist assholes like Caviezel, though it appears they may be missing the flaming letters that read "STFU and stop shitting all over me and everyone around you"

Thursday, October 26, 2006 04:46 AM

The List

I hope Patricia Keaton's name is also on the lists of Hollywood producers, who never again cast her in anything.

And the "note" to Albertson's is a great idea.

Did anyone notice that one of the "horrors" Keaton lists is that millions of "low income" women will donate their eggs ---> i.e., BLACK women. Just couldn't have any more BLACK babies, could we now, Patricia?

Thursday, October 26, 2006 01:18 AM

Breaks my Heart

Where exactly did America turn this crazy corner, where grandstanding and psuedo-Christianity and illogic rule? As a Christian myself, I am appalled by the disingenuousness and outright lies that spew out of those who speak so publically on behalf of the faith. If Patricia Heaton truly cared about the "low income" women she purports to defend here, she would not be a Republican, a party which pretty much gives them the finger on a regular basis. The notion that "low income" women (read: blacks and Latinos) are easily "seduced" by big paychecks! So says the millionaire Albertson's spokeswoman? The one who didn't mind proudly sporting fake breasts and a lipo-sucked gut?!? Is she serious?

The very IDEA that we should not use what would be simply DISCARDED to save lives! That we should not spend billions if we have to on the ethical pursuit of such an end? While these modern-day Pharisees defend the squander of TENS of billions of dollars, not to mention American and Iraqi lives (yes, God loves Iraqis too!)on a war that solely benefits the already-rich and power-hungry?

Disgusting. Lies.

Shame on you, Ms. Heaton.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 07:50 PM

You Put the Politics In, You Take the Politics Out - Celebrity Hokey Pokey

It's interesting that in a commercial for funding to find a cure for Autism, Patricia Heaton tearfully pleads to "take politics out of it...people's lives are at stake".

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 06:19 PM

Yes, millions have been spent on support for propositions

...of all stripes. Let's tote up the Republican budgets for flag-waving, anti-gay initiatives and raise-the-terror level announcements. That might explain why more than $2 billion has gone into this mid-term election. The stakes are high. The prices are steep. And someone has to pay for the lobbyists' tabs at the local steakhouse. Maybe it's all corrupt. But you don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 05:05 PM

I don't know Aramaic

Maybe it says "I'm Jesus Christ, and I approved this message."

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 04:55 PM

Translation...

"I'm Jesus, and I approve this message"

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 04:52 PM

Translation of JC

The bro of Nash bit a Shaq.

Ain't it obvious? Graham Nash's brother bit Shaq. Probably because Rush Limbaugh told Nash's bro that Shaq supported Michael Fox's heroic battle against Parkinsons.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 04:38 PM

He's saying

"Will you betray me with a kiss" (Jesus to Judas)

nesheq is 'kiss' (also weapon).

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 03:59 PM

Why does it cost $25 million, Kurt?

To avoid having their commercial sound like they recorded it in the john.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 03:25 PM

After Many Hours of Rigorous Research...

...I have discovered the translation of the Aramaic spoken by Mr. Gasundheit at the beginning of this ad:

I can suck my own cock...wanna see??

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