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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
IMDB rating: 5.80
Plot: Although life hasn’t turned out the way they once dreamed, life-long buddies Mark, McGriff and Jason are managing to stay above water in their small Pennsylvania hometown. Mark, whose fleeting college football glory has morphed into a dangerous obsession with gambling, McGriff, the beer truck driver who has never let go of his rock-n-roll aspirations, and Jason the high school Valedictorian working as a clerk in an office supply store. After the death of Marl’s Dad and McGriff’s discovery of his wife’s infidelity, the guys embark on a cross country road trip to a football game, boozing and misbehaving every step of the way. They finally discover what is really important: in this crazy, uncertain world, the one thing we can count on is our friends.
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here i find movie Two Tickets to Paradise
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Actors: McGinley John C.,Sweeney D.B.,Bellamy Ned,Currie Brian,Dowd Tad,Gretzky Tristan,Harris Ed,Hingle Pat,Hipp Paul,Hofstetter Dutch,Linn Rex,Moses Mark,Parati Tim,Pike Rodney,Rockefeller Zack,Comedy,
Would a Moslem Re-Education Trust be Helpful?
Money is a form of privilege, particularly when the money comes from just pumping oil out of the ground, and the rights to the ground were given to the Arab Moslems by the Brits and the Americans in the 1930’s. The Western powers set up and created the House of Saud and declared it to be the owner of the oil.
There are about 5000 Saudi princes. Only a few hundred are 1st generation decendants of the original King. The vast majority are second or third or fourth generation.
So far nobody in the second generation removed from the original King has become King. So, there’s a power struggle waiting in the wings.
But in the meantime, the conduct of some of the Saudi princes has been totally deplorable.
A few hundred of them routinely give huge amounts of the money to support the Madrassas movement around the world. These are schools in which very young people are trained so they are mentally ready to become suicide bombers. They must go on after the Madrassas to a Terrorist Training Camp, where they learn the operational techniques of killing Westerners with explosives and poisons.
Here’s what I think makes sense morally at this point. The Saudi Peninsula should be re-taken by the British and the Americans.
The several hundred Saudi princes that have actively supported the Madrassas movement should be put in Orange Jumpsuits and taken to Guantanamo, or maybe to a facility on Tristan de Cuna.
The remaining Saudi princes should get job training and career counselling. The women should get annuities so they have financial support that does not depend on any Saudi man.
All the the oil pumped from now on should be sold on the world market, except not to enemies of the USA and Britain (not to North Korea for example).
The cash should be used to create and set up Moslem Re-Education Centers all over the world to de-program people and if possible reverse the effect of the Madrassas movement.
Moslems should be taught that killing Westerners is not what Allah wants, that Allah will be angry with them if they do that. That it is not an automatic ticket into Paradise, in fact if innocent Westerners are killed, Allah will not permit that Moslem to enter Paradise.
It’s a U turn that’s required. And it should be paid for with money from the oil that is now called "saudi oil" — but actually is up for grabs, and we should grab it, and re-designate the use of the money it generates until the re-education process is complete, which I think would take about 75 years.
The Re-education Centers should be run by authentic genuine Imams who just happen to believe that homicidal lunacy is not acceptable conduct for Moslems, if any such people can be found.
If they cannot, then the major universities of the West should create Departments that are designed to investigate the Koran, and see if there is anything in it that would support a non-homicidal approach to Westerners. Imams can be generated, if the text of the Koran permits such an interpretation.
In any case, the very best possible people should be in charge of the re-education centers. They should have leadership qualities, and sermon writing skills and verbal delivery skills, so that they make a huge impact on the students.
Moslem nations should be told that the foreign assistance support they get from the West is entirely dependent on how many of their popualtion graduate from a Moslem Re-Education Center. This would be a four year program, leading to a Bachelor’s Degree in Non-Violent Islamic Studies.
Any students receiving such a degree would be entitled to two years of vocational training, and a year of job placement counselling.
This would all be paid for with the same saudi iol money that created the problem in the first place.
This would be a U Turn that fixes the problem.
Fixing problems is something we no longer know how to do, so any suggestion made in good faith, should be taken seriously, and considered by the Powers that Be.
Another 10 years and they won’t be powers anymore, if things keep going as they are. So it’s kind of a use it or lose it situation for USA and Great Britain. Solve the problem, or it will eliminate the present world order. Act or be passive. Live or die.
This is a choice that can be made by people who are not actually as smart as Albert Einstein. Even us!
For Maria:
Yes, I am talking about a worldwide moral code against first degree murder.
If you think this is part of my own personal culture, and that it would be wrong for me to impose my personal culture on the dear Saudi Royals, yes, then OK, I want to be wrong according to Maria.
We have to face a real problem, not an abstract moral dilemma about multi-culti psycho-babble. There are a billion people out there, and a very significant percentage of them have been brainwashed into the idea that Allah wants them to commit first degree murder on Americans and that if they do, they will go to Paradise.
You say I should value their culture as highly as my own. I say anybody that puts value on first degree murder is crazy, I don’t care what culture they come from — could be Saudi Arabia, could be American psycho-babble multi-culti High Schools.
It will cost a lot to de-program 1 billion people. Let it be Saudi money. So we need to take the oil, so the remedy can begin.
For Maria Part Two:
Yes, I would like to change their beliefs.
So instead of believing that Allah wanst them to kill Americans and they will go to Paradise if they do …
they now believe
Allah does not want them to kill Americans, or commit any other first degree murder against anybody else, and that if they do they will not go to Paradise.
You call this the Western Bandwagon. Why not just commit a couple of muders in Singapore, or Japan, or China — you will see that my idea is not actually the Western Bandwagon. It’s what all civilized people of very nation (except Saudi Arabia and their brainwashed Madrassas students) believe.
We have become so lost in value free multi-culti nonsense that our High School graduates are unable to muster the intellectual focus to stand up for the prepremptory norms of human conduct.
No culture anywhere acts like murderers and holds that a value except the Saudis.
I’m no cultural imperialist, just a regular person with values.
I agree that people should not be taught to be bias toward others and thereby become suicide bombers, however asking one hemisphere to police another is only going to cause world war 3.
We have no more right to whats under their soil then they do ours, so how can you call the oil up for grabs? I agree that the many princes should not claim it, but the money from the oil belongs to the people who live there, not the USA or Great Britain.
I am very concerned that you seem to think there can be any justification in invading and changing a cultures beliefs or forcing them to get on the western band wagon. When they try to do it to us everyone is like "kill um!" yet you seem to say we have the right to change them. If we continue on that path we can expect retaliation.
So I guess I think that providing the opportunity for refuge and education would be a really good thing. Actually I think that would fit nicely into America’s Declaration of Independence. But to go over, arrest the existing government (even though they are bad by our standards) and force education on the people would make us the terrorists. Its about offering freedom of choice and allowing people to have the benefit of the work they do, not controlling people who are not even citizens of our respective nations.
Just remember that we can’t police the world or try to enforce a world wide moral code. We need to respect the soveriegnty of every nation, whether or not we like them. If we think they are bad then we need to offer refuge, not treat the citizens like criminals because their government sucks. That will only cause animosity from the people and give them reason to believe that we really are as bad as their governments say.
So good intention but wrong action. We cannot expect people to respect us if we don’t respect them. Invading and taking their natural resorces, no matter how we use the money, is a blantant missuse of power and will result in rebellion.
marla | Oct 29, 2009
The only way we can work ourselves out of being the target of islamic fanatics, much less make amends to any part of the Arab world; eject all Muslims out of the United State for one to two generations (re-evaluate the ones that willing pledge allegiance to this country).
Put our noses to the grindstone on green energy, which would include: Natural Gas, Wind Power and Nuclear. And to the chagrin of the EPA and environmentalist, start pumping off our own shores.
No one country would stop selling oil to us during our Future Industrialization, in fact prices might go down if they knew we were planning on dumpling them as a supply. I suspect it would be less than a decade before we could flip them the proverbial finger and let them fight between themselves for what ever they want.
As for Israel, Who’s really worried they can’t handle themselves anyway?
ggraves1724 | Oct 29, 2009
Interesting question! You’re definitely on to something there…!
well, I have to say that I agree with marIa that we can’t really just take over one part of the world because we don’t agree with them.
We have the privilege of living in the civilised western world and we live in a democracy, therefore forcing a re education program on them would go against our democracy… we’re supposed to respect and allow people to have freedom…
and it would definitely cause rebellion… it might make things so much worse…might even start WW3 as MarIa said….
Come to think of it again…. you do have a point…
But maybe it would be better to help them differently rather than forcing a re education program on them…more peacefully?
oh, I don’t know lol
I understand your intentions are good for everyone but if you had power in the government and you actually did something like that, they would eat you alive!
btw "a Bachelor’s Degree in Non-Violent Islamic Studies" ouch!
there are muslims that don’t associate islam with violence but they believe is the most peaceful religion. just change the name to something like Degree in True Islamic Studies. lol
Emma K prays to God for help | Oct 30, 2009
A new British Empire could be on the cards here, well done.
Ahmad | Nov 04, 2009