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HBO's Supervillainous 'Young Pope' (Who Watches HBO?)
Townhall.com ^ | January 27, 2017 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 01/27/2017 5:39:31 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: HotHunt

Why would you support HBO, owned by Time Warner?

Time Warner consists of three divisions: Home Box Office Inc. (HBO), Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and Warner Bros.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Turner brands include CNN, HLN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Turner Sports, and more.


21 posted on 01/27/2017 6:45:16 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: VanDeKoik
It’s actually the more bit-torrented TV show ever.
It is.

Paying for HBO is so 1980s.
It is.

22 posted on 01/27/2017 6:46:37 AM PST by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: HotHunt

Well maybe the ad guys totally did a poor job at selling me the premise, but the imagery they gave me was of some creepy, almost demonic freak that was looking to dissolve the catholic church from the inside and replace it with some neo-satanic cult order. And of course there were the suggestions of some sexual sub-plot. I really dont want to see that mixed in with a setting like the Vatican.

Not really a prude, just those two things are like oil and water for me.

Not that the CC has been pure and light its whole history, but in light of today’s state of the church and the west, I really got a bad impression that left me completely turned-off.

But I’ll watch some reviews and see if I’m just being a bit to squeamish.


23 posted on 01/27/2017 6:47:04 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Red Badger
Well, that was a giant leap.

I don't specifically support HBO. It is included in my satellite movie offerings from DirecTV, which is bundled with my AT&T internet, phone, and TV. I live in the country and this is all that is offered out here.

Gee, I must be supporting all those Lefty companies because I am online typing this comment in response to you, via one of those companies supplying my internet provider services. Not very sound logic.

Where do get your internet provider, TV and phone services from, some politically pure company untainted from the evils of the world?

24 posted on 01/27/2017 7:07:54 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: VanDeKoik
Well, TV is not real life. Nor are movies. They are mostly entertainment, with some educational value thrown in here and there.

I don't always agree with movies, or in this case a ten-part TV series, just because I watch them. It is impossible to escape and exclude the world out there we don't like unless we just withdraw and avoid what reality is.

I am not trying to convince you that this series is something that you shouldn't miss. But only that before you make a blanket pronouncement about it being "really disturbing" maybe you should think about seeing what it is about.

25 posted on 01/27/2017 7:20:10 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

I have DirectTV basic with no premium channels. No Cell phone, landline only from CenturyLink and Internet only at work, and they use a local company for access..................


26 posted on 01/27/2017 7:20:53 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Red Badger
Well, out here in rural Florida, where our cattle farm is, there is only one provider. I have no choice other than to have no TV at all. Basic channels is like watching 60 channels of crap.

No land lines for over ten years, just cell phones. It's hard to locate my wife on the 30 acre farm from a landline inside the house. She doesn't carry a "land line" with her.

Its nice that your digital life is untainted by the outside world. But I bet you wear or drive or have things in your life that those dastardly liberals or foreigners have had a hand in making. It's hard to avoid it in the modern world.

So you're surfing FR from work? So am I...from the farm. I'm retired.

27 posted on 01/27/2017 8:46:38 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

I’m in Ft. Walton Beach. We shop at Goodwills and Salvation Army, and other 2nd hand stores for clothes and household stuff, on weekends.

I drive a 14 year old car I bought used, and we do not go to movies or buy them, unless it’s used in the thrift shops, so no money goes to the original artists.

We watch mostly HGTV and DYI shows on the TV, and local news channels....................


28 posted on 01/27/2017 9:04:10 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Kaslin

Granted, the series is absurd, the premise laughable, and the script simplistic nonsense designed to support an all too typical leftist fantasy narrative about reality.

But I take issue with Bozell on two points:

1) Atheists do not “hate Christianity.” Some may, but Bozell forgoes a qualifier, implying that all do, which is clearly fallacious. Many atheists respect ancient religious traditions, and honor their important place in the world. For them, atheism is purely a personal matter of conscience.

2) Bozell seems to believe that the the 3.5 percent number for homosexuals in the general population coincides with its incident among Roman Catholic clergy. As a cradle Catholic whose aunt was a Mother Superior in the Dominican order and who counted two male relatives (now deceased) as priests, I have good reason to believe the Lavender Mafia has the hold on the church that it does because a large number of gays and lesbians are attracted to the “celibate” life the church offers. Percentage-wise, while I hesitate to assert a hard percentage, the number of homosexual men and women among Catholic clergy is certainly many multiples higher than in the population at large.


29 posted on 01/27/2017 9:08:48 AM PST by beckett (Amor Fati)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Yep. Sopranos was awesome as well. Not to mention Band of Brothers. Sure they have some “difficult to watch” shows but they’ve done some of the best work on Tv the last 15 years.


30 posted on 01/27/2017 9:12:31 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Kaslin

Well... it’s not an IMAM being shown.
Ya might accidently insult Mohamed in some fashion.

HBO is at least THAT smart!


31 posted on 01/27/2017 10:04:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Travis McGee

GMTA


32 posted on 01/27/2017 10:04:42 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: .45 Long Colt
The most lopsided unfair trade deal in history.

Hey!

I got one; TOO!

I hear there are a lot still available.

33 posted on 01/27/2017 10:07:09 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: .45 Long Colt
---“Do you realize Heaven is full of gay saints?”--- Unsubstantiated supposition
34 posted on 01/27/2017 10:12:52 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: HotHunt
The nuns were like tyrants.

LIKE?


You've got filthy mouths and bad attitudes

35 posted on 01/27/2017 10:13:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger
I used to live in Ft. Walton Beach years ago, stationed at Eglin AFB.

We live on SS income, so we don't have much excess income. We shop at the thrift stores in the big city and always have, even when we worked in our career jobs. Buy and sell a lot of farm necessities on Craigslist for a fraction of store-bought stuff we need. We do all the work on the farm ourselves and have learned how to work on the tractors and equipment without outside help. I am currently wiring a hundred year old shed for electricity to make it more functional. I don't know anything about electricity except what I read in a book but have learned the basics of it and plumbing to get by here on the farm. Last month I replaced the well pump without help. We've learned to make do with what what's available since we don't have much money to throw around. But we live comfortably with a big garden, fruit trees, chickens and beef cattle for some food necessities.

My farm truck is 13 years old that I bought used before I retired. I do go to the movies occasionally when I go to the big city for my VA appointments. Yesterday I saw Patriots Day. Great patriotic movie.

Sounds like we have more in common than not.

36 posted on 01/27/2017 10:21:48 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

You would hardly recognize the place.
We have lived here since 1981 and I hardly recognize the place from what was here when we got here!..............


37 posted on 01/27/2017 11:48:54 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Red Badger
We lived in an apartment about a block from the beach. It was so humid in the summer, it is the only place I have ever lived where is was difficult, if not impossible, to do my training runs in the summer. I was a marathoner at the time and ended up having to train at night about midnight or 1:00 AM to tolerate the oppressive heat and water in the air.

I am from the West and am used to dry air. I have learned to tolerate the humidity here on the farm in the summer by taking frequent breaks in the house in the air conditioning. I no longer go on long training runs but physical activity outside when it is hot and humid is insufferable.

38 posted on 01/27/2017 12:29:30 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

The humidity hasn’t changed..............


39 posted on 01/27/2017 12:31:32 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: HotHunt
I don't know anything about electricity except what I read in a book ...

I got out of the Air Force knowing LOTS about electricity; repairing and maintaining racks of tube and newly transistorized equipment.

After four years and a marriage and buying an old house, I was ready to tackle problems.

The first was installing a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink.

I knew that Black was GROUND and thus White must be the power.

.................

It was a shocking experience to find that houses and 'tronics are; shall we say; a wee bit different!

40 posted on 01/27/2017 2:33:10 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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