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I love movies. New ones, old ones, color ones, black and white ones. They are fun and a wonderful escape from the average day. But one thing about movies that bother me, unless they are intentionally supposed to stretch credibility to the limits, is when their are gaping holes in the plot but the characters move forward as if everything is normal. Why watch a movie like this when it unfolds in real life before your very eyes?

Tap any one land to steal half your opponent’s paycheck and redirect to any other player too lazy to work…

I refer, of course, to a vast number of my fellow Americans. For example, I recall the verdict in the OJ trial. Here was a man that most felt certain was guilty and all, who paid any attention, knew that he had abused his wife. Yet when “not guilty” was announced videos of the reactions showed one room full of African American women cheering the verdict. Even if one stretches credibility and feels he didn’t kill her one knows he beat her. Yet here are a room full of women cheering a known wife-abuser. Unbelievable.

Or, in a more current example, Bill Clinton’s “rock star” status with Democrats. Americas “first black president” is out attacking Obama to cheering crowds. And many woman love this man who cheated, and the evidence suggests repeatedly cheated, on his wife. Here, too, is a man who lied under oath. Why is he - a man who disgraced himself, humiliated his wife, and embarrassed his fellow countrymen in front of the entire world - a hero to these people? Astonishing.

Another example is animal rights activists like PETA. Here we’ve had nearly 50 million babies murdered since the monstrous Roe decision and these people are out attacking KFC. Crazy.

Or feminists who view everything through that particular prism. They believe that evil men are out to subjugate them. They are particularly amusing to watch as they put themselves at the center of everything. If a man believes abortion to be murder the feminist believes it is because he hates women and is out to take away her rights. If a man sees that Hillary is a socialist - and it doesn’t matter if he equally views Edwards or Obama as threats to his liberty and paycheck as well- he is afraid of smart or successful women. As for me, I would vote for Secretary of State Rice for president in a heartbeat. Now there is a smart and successful woman. And she is African American, too! Guess I’m not racist, either, I just don’t like liberal loons that announce to the world that they will “have to take more” from me and my fellow Americans “to insure fairness.” Screwy.

And that’s another thing. Here is party, the Democrats, that admits it wants to take even more out of peoples paychecks and people actually vote for them? Insane.

And then there is the war in Iraq. Saddam was a mass murdering monster but Bush is evil for ending his reign of horror? Have these detractors read any of the reports of Saddam’s crimes against humanity? We should have just let that continue? It was none of our business? Ah, but back to the movies. We cheer when the good guy has the guts to take down the bad guy. We want to see justice done when watching fiction on the screen. Why are so many against it in real life?

As Lamont Cranston (played by Alec Baldwin) learned in The Shadow, the clouded mind sees nothing. And that is the problem today- too many minds are clouded by selfish interests, by beliefs in sound good but demonstrable negative policies, and by ignorance of or hostility to traditional moral values.