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Sounds like a good movie.  I’ve always had an enourmous respect for the 300 of Thermopylae.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Go Tell The Spartans. An excellent movie. This looks fairly good, though the mythologizing is a bit much for me. They were, in the end, only men, not gods or creatures with super human powers. The greatness of their actions lies in that fact. Though I do always like a good action thriller. Big Trouble in Little China leaps immediately to mind.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Whistler,

Go look at the home page I linked to in the article.  The teasers are really quite spectacular.

I also picked up the re-release of the graphic novel (also linked) and can recommend it as well.

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Rodney Graves

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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

2H9,

Not gods.  Superbly trained men who fear disgrace more than death, and who value their oaths and their duty far more highly than their lives.

Out Here
Rodney Graves

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”

What a GREAT bad movie.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Is it getting warm in here? Or is it just me?

Honey, I never drive faster than I can see!

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Oh please, dear God, let this film be the rare gem that once in a very great while escapes the cesspool of Hollywood—land of Celeb-u-sluts, pederasts and Boo-fuuing Cowboys.

This is one of the great stories of heroism and sacrifice that every schoolchild should be taught, along with Metaurus, Leponto, Gaugamela, Teutoburg Forest, Tours, Blood River, and Midway.

Molon labe*, Mutherfucker…

[*] ..was the response of King Leonidas I of Sparta to Xerxes I of Persia at the onset of the Battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes, whose forces vastly outnumbered the Spartans and their allies, offered to spare the lives of Leonidas and his few thousand defenders if only they would lay down their weapons.

Instead, the Spartans held Thermopylae for three days and, while they died to the last man, they inflicted serious damage on the Persian army, delaying it and essentially preventing the conquest of the Greek Peninsula.

...for great justice

Jack Burton: You know what ol’ Jack Burton says at a time like this?
Thunder: Who?
Jack Burton: Jack Burton… ME!

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Rod, for all that they were still only men. That is the greatness of the deeds.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2H9,

They were men who chose to be there.

They were men who stood and fought, when they could have abandoned the field.

They were men who held off more than 100 times their numbers, at the narrow pass of the hot gates.

They were men who placed their bodies and lives between the desolation of war and their beloved homes.

Their names have endured.

Dulce et decorum est por patria morir.

Out Here
Rodney Graves

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

The story of the Spartans at Thermopylae is a very important one in the history of western self determination and war.  It is one of the earliest examples of western soldiers fighting for themselves, their homes and their families.  In all of history prior to this, and in much of the history afterward, men who fought typically did so not for patriotism or “god and country” but rather because they were compelled to by whatever powerful emperor or king or chieftain ruled them.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Yes, they were a volunteer army, which makes the question they asked the director all the more ridiculous(and a perfect example of the profound ignorance of the MSM).

Save America; boycott the MSM.