Posted on 11/03/2005 7:19:52 PM PST by Pyro7480
Tonight, on CSI: Las Vegas, the main plot line involved a single mother whose apparent suicide was staged. The mother was a virgin (determined by the autopsy), and was described as a "prude" by the victim's sister. After a DNA test, it was determined the baby found with the dead woman wasn't biologically-related to the mother. After further investigation, it was found out that the mother had adopted an embryo "left over" from a fertility clinic. A fictional pro-life organization called "Project Sunflower" had found the embryo a mother. As one woman CSI investigator told the details of this organization to the other woman CSI investigator, her boss, the look on her face was one of disgust. When the underling investigator stated that the organization believed it was doing God's work, the lead investigator (whose character is an ex-stripper) said, "I've known strippers who've said the same thing."
The two women CSI investigators went to the headquarters of this pro-life organization. The investigators questioned the organizations director, a blonde, middle-aged white woman with a Southern accent. In the course of the conversation, the lead investigator, in a hostile fashion, brought up the subject of the supposedly previous position of Christianity that Christians, including a Catholic pope apparently, had taught that the soul of an unborn child didn't enter its body until the mother felt the baby moving. This line of questioning did obviously not please the director of the pro-life organization. When the lead investigator asked for records, the director said they were confidential. The investigator countered that they could go get a court order, and the director said to go ahead and get one.
Later in the program, the lead woman investigator's boss, the head of the CSI night shift (and as the first season of the show indicated, a lapsed Catholic), confronted her, saying that the head of the pro-life organization had filed a complaint against the investigator, accusing the investigator of verbal harassment. The investigator explained herself to her boss, saying that in the course of her questioning, her viewpoint had slipped out. When her boss asked of this viewpoint, she flat out said that she was pro-choice and pro-stem cell research. She asked her boss what he would have done. He said that if he would have been in her position, he would have cited Leviticus 17:11, which supposedly indicates that according to the Bible, the soul doesn't enter the body until after conception (The verse says "Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul." In it is proper context, it's about the Temple sacrifice.)
This has been going on since the mid-1060s... Before that most films and TV series stayed away from politics and supported patriotism.
Re: "In my opinion, their plan will work"
It has! When the media found they could lose us a war they didn't like and bring down a President they didn't like... They just poured it on! And will keep on pouring it on...
And the way things look, they will win in the end unless we Conservatives get out and set up films and TV series reflecting our views!
It will never happen. Conservatives have far too much common sense to get involved in show business.
<< More disturbing is their use of little flashlights. Why do they need them outside and why can't they turn on a light switch when entering a darkened room? >>
That's a bit of a daggy question. One that, for years, I've been asking my poor wife in movie theaters and while watching cops and robbers tv:
"Why don't the dumb b*sta*ds just switch on the bloody lights!!!!!!????????"
Tune in, turn on and drop out of TVland. I am not connected to cable OR antennae. All I watch are DVDs and videos. That's all my kids watch and quite frankly even that is limited. I got tired of TV garbage a long time ago. Take my advice and take a Sabbatical from it. Your perspective can only improve.
...and while I'm at it, cops in Vegas must be paid pretty well. They all seem to wear $300 designer sunglasses.
She's a pro-abort. When I saw her on the following list I lost enthusiasm for her too:
Margie Adam, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Aniston, Curtis Armstrong, Elaine Aronson, Bea Arthur, Ed Asner, Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, William Baldwin, Meredith Baxter, Shari Belafonte, Maria Bello, Polly Bergen, Thora Birch, Amy Brenneman, Betty Buckley, Jessica Capshaw, Lynda Carter, Stockard Channing, Jill Clayburgh, Kate Clinton, Glenn Close, Cindy Crawford, Sheryl Crow, Alan Cumming, Tyne Daly, Blythe Danner, Kristin Davis, Ossie Davis, Dana Delany, Laura Dern, Ellen DeGeneres, Ani DiFranco, Illeana Douglas, Denise Dowse, Fran Drescher, Kirsten Dunst, David Eigenberg, Hector Elizondo, Emme, Eve Ensler, Giancarlo Esposito, Melissa Etheridge, Morgan Fairchild, Edie Falco, Frances Fisher, Calista Flockhart, Jane Fonda, Bonnie Franklin, Janeane Garofalo, Ana Gasteyer, Indigo Girls, Annabeth Gish, Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Graham, Maggie Gyllenhaal, LisaGay Hamilton, Ben Harper, Ed Harris, Salma Hayek, Marg Helgenberger, Isabella Hofmann, Helen Hunt, Amy Jo Johnson, Kathryn Joosten, Ashley Judd, Catherine Keener, Carole King, Swoosie Kurt, Christine Lahti, Sanaa Lathan, Sharon Lawrence, Lisa Loeb, Amy Madigan, Natalie Maines, Wendie Malick, Joshua Malina, Camryn Manheim, Frances McDormand, Ewan McGregor, Marilyn McIntyre, Sarah McLachlan, Moby, Demi Moore, Julianne Moore, Alanis Morissette, Kathy Najimy, Alyson Palmer, Joe Pantoliano, Mary-Louise Parker, Adrian Pasdar, Pink, Martha Plimpton, Doris Roberts, Paul Rudd, Susan Sarandon, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Martin Sheen, Cybill Shepherd, SONiA, Fisher Stevens, Gloria Steinem, Julia Stiles, Corky and Mike Stoller, Sharon Stone, Amber Tamblyn, Mary Testa, Charlize Theron, Uma Thurman, Heather Tom, Stanley Tucci, Kathleen Turner, Ted Turner, Sarah Weddington, Audrey Wells, Bradley Whitford, Alfre Woodard, Thom Yorke, Amy Ziff, Elizabeth Ziff----Link
BTW, although Martin Sheen is listed above, I think I remember reading that he withdrew his support when he realized that this was an abortion rights protest.
Re: "It will never happen. Conservatives have far too much common sense to get involved in show business."
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That sounds like something some German once upon a time said to another about Joe Gobbles propganda...
Wipe another show off my list... Tuned in just in time to hear the smug Leviticus quote. Morons.
I watch TBN. Little else, save sports.
I can't do that at the moment, since I live in a house with two other people, and we split the cost of the utilities, but I may just do that in the future. Like I said earlier, I don't watch much Tv, and most of what I do watch is educational programming.
Give a conservative $200 million and they'll build a shopping mall, invest in bonds, and possibly some solid stocks, etc.
Give $200 million to a movie guy and he'll hire a guy living in a studio apartment in West Hollywood to write 120 pages, then assemble a group of craftsman, emotionally dicey performers and technicians and spend $210 million producing a very long strip of plastic that can hopefully be cut and pasted into something resembling a story that someone, somewhere will pay money to see.
O.K. It's time for Dr. Dobson to organize a boycott of all advertisers for the CSI series.
I watch CSI. Not a bad show. But I miss the reruns of Gunsmoke on Encore's Western channel. Matt Dillion was great.
That plot line and the smug, pro-abortion message grated on me as well. Yet I also remember a CSI opening scene that had Grissom concluding that a body had been posed and that its position "was as phony as a Chappaquiddick neck brace."
You mean they actually had an episode that didn't involve deviant sexual behavior? I stopped watching this show after the "porn star and husband murdered in their driveway" program...
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