tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8511459998584190538..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: My review of "Amazing Grace"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49171177037315452062007-10-01T12:35:00.000-07:002007-10-01T12:35:00.000-07:00Thanks for the review, Steve. I'm a little behind ...Thanks for the review, Steve. I'm a little behind the times and still haven't seen this biopic, but I did recently read/review a great biography on John Newton written by Jonathan Aitken called, "From Disgrace to Amazing Grace" and it was an "amazing" read (pun intended).Brian Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05784211896338970566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29633569195440763392007-09-10T23:21:00.000-07:002007-09-10T23:21:00.000-07:00It features a fine cast of British stage actors, i...<I>It features a fine cast of British stage actors, including...Ciaran Hinds as Lord Tarleton, chief bribe-dispenser for the slave interests.</I><BR/><BR/>Ciaran Hinds, aka Julius Caesar, for those who may have seen the terrific HBO series "Rome" (the 2nd season is just out on disc).<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Also understandable is casting handsome Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd ("Fantastic Four") as Wilberforce, although he was actually only 5'-3" due to curvature of the spine, and almost blind to boot.</I><BR/><BR/>Forgiveable, is it? It might actually be nice, just once, to have a movie show that, yes indeedy, ugly people can be great, brilliant, wise, and brave. Just a thought.<BR/><BR/><I>Unfortunately, complex historical stories like this are better suited to the leisurely pace of the television mini-series because a two-hour film has to leave out much.</I><BR/><BR/>Do television stations make mini-series anymore? Do people still watch them? Just asking...<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>For instance, "Amazing Grace" fails to mention that Wilberforce was a Tory or that his religious enthusiasm was quite unfashionable during the deistic Enlightenment.</I><BR/><BR/>Kinda like the reverse of news reports, where a Republican in a scandal is always denoted as a Republican but a Democrat has no party at all.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>The Cheap Labor Lobby that plagued Wilberforce has hardly vanished.</I><BR/><BR/>The problem today is that the cheap labor lobby has all the churches in its back pocket. As just one example, the Mormon Church owns one of Utah's two major newspapers, the Deseret Morning News. Who have they chosen as its chairman? A homebuilding robber baron named Ellis Ivory, a man with no experience in publishing who has turned the News into a shill for open borders so that he can keep having his cheap labor and increased demand for his product. And the publisher? Joe Cannon, the brother of Congressman Chris Cannon (R-La Raza).<BR/><BR/>Yeah, good luck finding your William Wilberforce. The churches today are as corrupt as the slave traders of yore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61216562478010820542007-09-10T15:53:00.000-07:002007-09-10T15:53:00.000-07:00Steve Sailer: The Cheap Labor Lobby that plagued W...<B>Steve Sailer:</B> <I>The Cheap Labor Lobby that plagued Wilberforce has hardly vanished. The government of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. possession in the Pacific, paid disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff $9 million to persuade former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay not to let the House crack down on its guest worker program under which tens of thousands of Asian women were imported to toil in sweatshops within barbed wire enclosures. Some who became pregnant were forced to have abortions by their employers. Others were assigned to bordellos. </I><BR/><BR/>This is maybe a little off-topic, but ever since I started pointing out to people that the world's intelligence & the world's fertility are almost perfectly INVERSELY related, I've always wondered what the "Northern Mariana Islands" were doing near the bottom of the fertility list.<BR/><BR/>Something is rotten in the state of the NMI's...<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations" REL="nofollow"><B>TOP 10 MEAN IQ</B></A><BR/><BR/>107 Hong Kong<BR/>106 South Korea<BR/>105 Japan<BR/>104 Taiwan (ROC)<BR/>102 Austria<BR/>102 Germany<BR/>102 Italy<BR/>102 Netherlands<BR/>101 Sweden<BR/>101 Switzerland<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_fertility_rate" REL="nofollow"><B>BOTTOM 10 TOTAL FERTILITY RATE</B></A><BR/><BR/>1.25 Moldova<BR/>1.24 Ukraine<BR/>1.23 Bosnia and Herzegovina<BR/>1.23 Japan<BR/>1.22 Belarus<BR/>1.22 Czech Republic<BR/><B>1.21 Northern Mariana Islands (US)</B><BR/>1.12 Republic of China (Taiwan)<BR/>1.07 Singapore<BR/>1.03 Macau (PRC)<BR/>0.98 Hong Kong (PRC)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com