Apocalyptic Hallucinations on the Right

A half-century ago, conservatives were full of gloom and foreboding. In 1961, Ronald Reagan warned that unless conservatives prevailed, "one of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."
In accepting the 1964 Republican nomination for president, Barry Goldwater warned that his opponents "are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies."
Conservatives had good reason for pessimism in the 1960s. The Soviet Union was at the height of its power, wielding nuclear weapons, tyrannizing half of Europe and fomenting revolution around the globe. Democrats, with an unbreakable hold on Congress, were expanding the welfare state. The Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, violent crime and the counterculture were upending the landscape.
But the Soviet Union failed to conquer the world. America did not succumb to communism. Crime rates plunged. Hippies were unable to turn the country into a vast replica of Haight-Ashbury.
On the contrary. Reagan carried the conservative banner into the White House. The economy became freer. Tax rates came down. The Soviet empire collapsed. The counterculture passed largely into history.
Christianity, defying John Lennon's assessment, outlasted The Beatles. By the 1980s, young people gravitated to preppy clothes, business school and the Republican Party. The long dark night of totalitarianism never descended.
So you might think conservatives would wake up every day with a spring in their steps and a song in their hearts. But that's not what happened. When their worst fears weren't realized, they didn't discover grounds for optimism. They looked for new reasons to be fearful -- and they found them.
Barack Obama strikes many Democrats as a pale facsimile of what they would like in the White House. He relied on Republican ideas for his health care reform, accepted across-the-board spending cuts, conducted secret domestic surveillance, kept Guantanamo open and did next to nothing on gun control. Blogger Andrew Sullivan admiringly calls the president "a de facto moderate Republican."
But to hard-line conservatives, he is the embodiment of a screaming nightmare. They suffered a lot of horrifying hallucinations after Obama won re-election, and those visions have not gone away.

Here's Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, one of the star attractions at last week's Values Voter Summit in Washington, sounding the alarm: "The challenges facing this country are unlike any we have ever seen. ... This is an administration that seems bound and determined to violate every single one of our Bill of Rights."
He declared, "We're nearing the edge of a cliff. ... We have a couple of years to turn this country around, or we go off the cliff to oblivion." And he invoked Reagan's 1961 warning, fearing that "one day we will find ourselves answering questions from our children and our children's children, 'What was it like when America was free?'"
Cruz is blissfully oblivious to the fact that when Reagan issued that jeremiad, he was talking about what would happen if Medicare became law. Medicare did become law -- and yet here is Cruz, 52 years later, telling us that (SET ITAL) we are still free. (END ITAL) So Reagan was wrong then. But he's right now. Or something.
It's not hard to make a case that Medicare reduced freedom in one realm of our lives. But it didn't destroy individual liberty in the aggregate, or even prevent the expansion of liberty in other areas.
It was not a cataclysmic event that turned us into slaves. Neither is anything that Obama has done or is about to do, including his health insurance overhaul -- which, by the way, involves fewer government restrictions and less expense than Medicare.
But somewhere along the way, many conservatives became addicted to the fear of apocalypse. So even when their dire predictions fail to come true, they keep forecasting the worst possible outcome if they don't get their way. They seem to need the perpetual excitement of impending doom.
Cruz and his audience are in the grip of a mania that tells them we are hurtling toward catastrophe. There is no evidence that we're about to go over a cliff, even if some people have gone around the bend.

Games before Playstation 4

Next month:

Ogre Battle Person of a Lordly Calibur (N64) sequel to a very hard SNES RPG  
Rayman Legends (PS3)
Dragon's Crown (PS3)
Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD (Wii U)
 

$2000 MAME cabinet doesn't make me friends/subscribers.

I got 30 mame roms and 20 Neo Geo AES roms on my computer. On Ebay, MAME cabinets sell for $2000. That is five playstation 4s!




I've been using MAME32 on my computer since 2005 and playing classics like Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Marvel vs. Street Fighter, Battle Balkraid, Gunbird 1, Gunbird 2, and Mars Matrix. I honestly do not believe I would make more friends having a MAME cabinet. Arcade cabinets are expensive and MAME would save money, but I cannot get friends out of buying one. Absolutely nobody online or in the real world has been hyping MAME in the 8 years I used the emulator. I know if I had this in the 1995, I would be cool, but this is 18 years later after arcades went out of business. I own two GP2x Caanoo, and JXD s5300 at home which emulates games resulting in a couple 100 hits of youtube. I doubt a MAME cabinet would make more views than my GP2x Cannoo preview.

Dating website is What the hell.

My adventures into online dating has been with Plenty of Fish. For some fucked up reason the people that want to meet me are black women and fat white women. What the hell! How does that even equate? I'm looking for a Caucasian woman around 100-140 pounds either with black (black Rednecks?), brown and blonde hair with an associates degree.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals Paperback by Thomas Sowell One of America's foremost black conservative intellectuals returns with this provocative collection of contrarian essays. Hoover Institution Fellow Sowell, author of Ethnic America, argues that "internal" cultural habits of industriousness, thriftiness, family solidarity and reverence for education often play a greater role in the success of ethnic minorities than do civil-rights laws or majority prejudices. The title essay posits a "black redneck" culture inherited from the white redneck culture of the South and characterized by violent machismo, shiftlessness and disdain for schooling. White liberals, gangsta-rap aficionados and others who lionize its ghetto remnants as an authentic black identity, Sowell contends, have their history wrong and help perpetuate cultural pathologies that hold blacks back. Sowell also examines the cultural achievements of such "middleman minorities" as Jews and expatriate Chinese whose frequent persecution, he feels, represents an animus against capitalism. And he defends Western culture itself against charges that it was uniquely culpable for slavery; in fact, he contends, it was uniquely responsible for eradicating slavery. Many of Sowell's arguments-that the 20th-century resegregation of Northern cities was a response to the uncouthness of black rednecks migrating from the South, or that segregated black schools often succeeded by suppressing redneckism with civilized New England puritanism-will arouse controversy, but these vigorously argued essays present a stimulating challenge to the conventional wisdom.

Goodreads alternative to Facebook

I have 150 Goodreads followers. Goodreads is integrated into Wordpress.com. I am using Goodreads to advertise my Youtube and Twitter which needs more subscribers. So far I gained 2 subscribers on Youtube and 4 on Twitter. I already advertised my blogspot blog on Facebook, yet there was no followers on my Facebook blog page. I had a Blogspot RSS Feed on Facebook, but nobody liked that. I need more comments which are normal.

Thanks Blizzard for single player in Diablo 3

Blizzard came out with a single player version of Diablo 3 that I don't have pay monthly.  I wish they put single player in the PC version. I haven't played Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction since 2006 when I used Hero Editor to create high level barbarian. It was great fun. I bet in 2022, on the tenth anniversary, Blizzard will bring single player option on PC with a patch.  Its great the PS3 version has 1.08 patch changes.

Moron hillbilly Catholic should join his old church

I saw this hillbilly who likes the National Rifle Association, country music and Republican join the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America which is the most Marxist progressive church in the United States and baptizes his kids in it.  It sheds members like clockwork.  I personally haven't been inside any ELCA church since October 1999 and I tend to stay away from them like the plague.  Why hillbillies join the ELCA is beyond me other then he's a moron.  What I can't figure out is why this ex-Catholic hillbilly doesn't join a Catholic church.

A new commenter named El Cid popped up in my Rosie O'Donnell post, so I followed his link and read through his posts. A fellow Lutheran, he put this article up two weeks ago. I found it fascinating. I still think that one of the greatest dramas that's unfolding in the Christian church is what to do about homosexuals. In the OT God said to kill them. In the NT Paul continues to say that it's immoral, but Christ let the adulteress go, and said, "Let the one who has not sinned throw the first stone." Does this mean the throne has been stowed? That there will no longer be hierarchy of sin, and that anything goes?

There is no clarity within the ELCA church on this topic. And the ELCA has been riven. Many women are leaving the traditional mainline churches on the charge that they are sexist. Even Muslim women are leaving the mosques on this charge (I have two students who privately informed me of this decision). How to be inclusive, and yet retain the authority of scripture? The churches and mosques are being riven, but people are often left in a no-man's land between tradition and so-called progress -- without any authority other than the MSM.

The ELCA voted in 2009 to ordain homosexual pastors and the flight from the church has been staggering. While the ELCA had a budget of 88 million in 2008, the money coming in this year has been less than half of that amount (about forty million). Some of this can be attributed to the downturn in the economy. But there is also a wholesale flight of congregants and congregations to other denominations and precincts. People are voting with their soles.

What expectations ought we to have on entering a church? What expectations should people have a right to expect? How is it that when a church (or any institution) doesn't contribute that which is expected, that those who are then disappointed, will leave? Suffice it to say that this is an exodus like that from Egypt under Moses. People are looking for different leaders, and a way of life that includes a tight family, a mom and dad, and their respective children. The ELCA leadership has condoned not just masturbation, but also S & M, and other practices. Lord love a duck. There has been no official sanction regarding bestiality but expect it to follow, along with necrophilia. Who's to judge? The ten commandments themselves have been silenced, and even mocked, and are now being taken down as a set of guidelines which once demarcated American law. The new laws are more and more Marxist in their origins, and intentions. Meanwhile, the Christian churches are mysteriously silent on many issues of great concern. Jesus never had a wife. It took Martin Luther to open up the idea that it was possible for a priest to have a wife. Many mainline churches allowed women to be ordained in the 1970s following the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The Catholics are slowly giving ground on that topic, but not much. Homosexual ordination is now allowed in some denominations, but is intensely fought in others. When tradition gives way to progress, many feel that the tradition has been destroyed. Many people will scream I should shut up about this, as it makes them nervous. But it's obvious that something momentous has occurred in the ELCA, and it's weird to watch since I grew up in the Lutheran church, and its strange to watch it disintegrate and fragment while many who are against the new rules are silenced. Here is an article I found on El Cid's blog, that I present for the elucidation of some of the facts on the ground:

ELCA Follows Episcopal Slide to Oblivion
Evangelical Lutheran Church Follows Episcopal Church in Gadarene Slide to Oblivion As in the Episcopal Church there is still and always will be a faithful remnant in the ELCA
Five Congregations leave ELCA every week. Lutheran Congregations that leave can keep properties

By Robert Luther
Special to Virtueonline
http://www.virtueonline.org/
March 2, 2012

The ecclesiastical realignment that has been going on in North America over the last decade has not been confined to Anglicanism.

Since August, 2009, when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Churchwide Assembly voted to allow congregations that choose to do so to recognize same gender unions and accept those who have entered into such unions to serve as rostered leaders (pastors, deacons, chaplains, etc.), the resulting schism in the ELCA has been devastating.

The ELCA was formed in 1987 by a merger of three Lutheran denominations that combined to form one ecclesiastical adjudicatory that promptly went down the same revisionist path as the Episcopal Church, sadly but predictably bringing the same results. Membership started a slow decline so that by 2008 the ELCA had lost over 12 percent of its membership and 737 congregations, all this while the population of the United States was booming.

Then in 2009 things got worse. While the befuddled revisionists celebrated their muddled gospel of inclusion, affirmation and social justice, many of the faithful shook the dust off their feet and gathered in Columbus, Ohio a year later to start a new Lutheran denomination called the North American Lutheran Church (NALC). As Edmund Burke wrote, "There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

Others left for Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) or the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC). LCMC has 772 member congregations, with 683 of those in the US; however, some of these congregations also maintain membership in the ELCA.

The result has been a schism that has been much faster and deeper than that in the Episcopal Church. Why is that so? because ELCA congregations can disaffiliate from the ELCA and keep their property. It takes two, two thirds majority congregational votes ninety days apart and they can leave with their property and join the Lutheran denomination of their choice.

No lawsuits, no clergy deposed, no pack of wolves trying to take property from those who paid for it and for which the synod would have no use; an altogether civilized and gracious way to treat those leaving.

In the 2009 - 2010 period alone the ELCA lost nearly 8 percent of its membership and 388 congregations, with most of these congregations moving to other jurisdictions and some closing.

It's also likely that additional thousands of church members quietly left their liberal congregations without a word, in typical Lutheran humility, but are still being counted as members on the rolls. Many of these folks headed straight for the local Lutheran Church Missouri Synod congregation, where the Holy Scriptures are still faithfully preached and taught.

2011 numbers are not yet available but they will be just as bad. Over the last year an average of 5 congregations each week have been leaving the ELCA to join the North American Lutheran Church, and after only a year and a half well over 300 congregations have taken this step.

One would think that the leadership of the ELCA would have looked at what happened to the Episcopal Church and decided there is no way they could all join hands, drink the same Kool-Aid and then jump off the same cliff into oblivion, but amazingly and regrettably that was not the case. This writer will leave it to the psychologists and other deep thinkers among you to try to fathom why.

As in the Episcopal Church, there is still and always will be a faithful remnant in the ELCA but as so many of the faithful have left, this group will have less and less influence, be more and more marginalized and most likely will find their presence more and more difficult; however, the Lord always has a purpose for the faithful and prophetic voice crying out in the wilderness, and some will always feel called to the lonely ministry of the scorned prophet.

May God comfort and strengthen them. One can't help but wonder what the similarities between the Anglican Church of North America and the North American Lutheran Church may lead to. Anglican and Lutheran theology are very similar and there has been a substantial and visible presence of Anglican purple shirts at both convocations of the NALC.

It's also pretty clear that the realignment in North American Protestantism over the last decade has not been along denominational lines but along the lines of those who are orthodox in matters of faith and morals as opposed to those who have adopted the values of a secular and increasingly pagan culture.

This leaves the ACNA and NALC with a lot in common. One thing is very clear: these two churches have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the churches from which they disaffiliated.

Democracy changed the ELCA. They let the voting constituency become 66.6% laity, and the votes went 666 for ordination. I wish only pastors could vote. You have to really study these questions deeply, which means knowing the original languages, etc.

It's like letting students give themselves their own grades.

A hierarchy is a good thing. A lowerarchy is a pain.

The problem is that all the authority is going out of scripture as people rewrite it, and reconfigure it, marginalizing Paul, marginalizing the OT, and pushing the sermon on the mount as the only part of scriptrue that matters.

The universities are gonzo. the government is gonzo. Families are gonzo. all that's left are a few denominations.

Maybe these people are just going to other congregations, other denominations. I would assume that would be the case. We ourselves are a motley crue -- former Catholics, Methodists, Congregationalists, and what have you. We have a good pastor and a fine building. Build it and they will come.

Undermine it, and they will flee, taking their money with them.Certainly many of the younger people are leaving the fold. But if the contributions which were at 88 million in 2008 are down to 40 million in 2011, something else besides normal attrition has taken place

No drop in Missouri Synod versus 23% for ELCA is still significant. The numbers I read were 88 to 40 but it was in a partisan pamphlet without a citation. I don't know where these numbers can be found, and whether they are bound to be legally responsible for getting them right.

I'm not sure how this whole thing works in economic terms. Those who have lost jobs of course have less to contribute, and the numbers have doubled to about ten percent in some places, a bit more or a bit less in others. For those who've kept their jobs, they should be able to contribute the same amount. 

With the rise of secular institutions came a revival of Greek paganism within classical scholarship. German Romanticism gave rise to a renewed cult of paganism with the Schlegels and Schleiermachers and others trumpeting the ancient Greeks as the truest culture, then giving rise to Nietzsche and further on Jung and others arguing that the Greek gods were a system of archetypal mayhem that underwrit the truest images of humanity. Zeus the rapist and Dionysos the rapist and Hades the abductor became the new images of mankind and Christianity was thought to be a farce.

Now you have so many people pointing back and saying but this culture allowed that, and that culture allowed this, Christianity is so restrictive, let's get all pagan and put on parades like they did i ancient Rome where all hell broke loose.

And then all hell did break loose, but America put a stop to it. We not only shut the Germans up, but the Russians, and the Japanese.

But in doing so we caught some of it. The younger people began to get interested in Zen, which represents a total absence of values. And in communism, which represents a total absence of values. And in Nietzsche, which represents a total reversal of all values.

And all these negations now creep through the churches unbeknownst even to those who are supposedly the gatekeepers. I alone can stop all this.

DVD/Bluray collection

                                                       
                                                       
1                    Apocalypse Now                8.5        1979          
2                    Avatar                8        2009          
3                    A Bridge Too Far                7.4        1977          
4                    A Streetcar Named Desire                8.1        1951          
5                    Alien                8.5        1979          
6                    Aliens                8.5        1986          
7                    Alien³                6.4        1992          
8                    AVP: Alien vs. Predator                5.5        2004          
9                    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem                4.7        2007          
10                    An American Werewolf in London                7.6        1981          
11                    Band of Brothers                9.6        2001          
12                complete series boxset    Battlestar Galactica                8.8        2004          
13                    Battlestar Galactica                8.6        2003          
14                    Black Rain                6.6        1989          
15                    Blade Runner                8.3        1982          
16                    Dracula                7.5        1992          
17                    The Brides of Dracula                6.9        1960          
18                complete series boxset    Centennial                8.4        1978          
19                    Collateral                7.6        2004          
20                    Curse of the Demon                7.7        1957          
21                    Daybreakers                6.5        2009          
22                    The Deer Hunter                8.2        1978          
23                    Defiance                7.2        2008          
24                    Dirty Harry                7.8        1971          
25                    The Dirty Dozen                7.8        1967          
26                    Horror of Dracula                7.5        1958          
27                    Dracula                6.4        1979          
28                    Dracula Has Risen from the Grave                6.5        1968          
29                    Dracula A.D. 1972                5.8        1972          
30                    Dracula: Prince of Darkness                6.7        1966          
31                    East of Eden                8.1        1955          
32                    Enemy at the Gates                7.6        2001          
33                    Firefox                5.8        1982          
34                    Flags of Our Fathers                7.1        2006          
35                    Fright Night                7.1        1985          
36                    Fright Night                6.4        2011          
37                    The Godfather                9.2        1972          
38                    The Godfather: Part II                9.1        1974          
39                    The Godfather: Part III                7.6        1990          
40                    Halloween                7.9        1978          
41                    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix                7.4        2007          
42                    Hide and Seek                5.9        2005          
43                    How the West Was Won                7.1        1962          
44                    Independence Day                6.9        1996          
45                    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom                7.6        1984          
46                    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade                8.3        1989          
47                    Raiders of the Lost Ark                8.6        1981          
48                    Inception                8.8        2010          
49                    Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles                7.6        1994          
50                    Iron Man 2                7.1        2010          
51                    It's a Wonderful Life                8.7        1946          
52                    Jonny Quest                8        1964          
53                    Jurassic Park                8        1993          
54                    Kelly's Heroes                7.7        1970          
55                    The War                8.9        2007          
56                    The Civil War                9.4        1990          
57                    Lawrence of Arabia                8.4        1962          
58                    Live Free or Die Hard                7.3        2007          
59                    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring                8.9        2001          
60                    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King                8.9        2003          
61                    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers                8.8        2002          
62                    Dr. No                7.3        1962          
63                    Goldfinger                7.8        1964          
64                    From Russia with Love                7.5        1963          
65                    Magnum Force                7.2        1973          
66                    The Matrix Reloaded                7.2        2003          
67                    The Matrix Revolutions                6.7        2003          
68                    Marley & Me                7.1        2008          
69                    Men of Honor                7.1        2000          
70                    This Is It                7.3        2009          
71                    Minority Report                7.7        2002          
72                    Mirrors                6.2        2008          
73                    Mr. Deeds                5.8        2002          
74                    Monty Python's Flying Circus                9        1969          
75                    The Mummy                7        1999          
76                    The Mummy Returns                6.3        2001          
77                    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor                5.2        2008          
78                    My Fair Lady                7.9        1964          
79                    Christmas Vacation                7.5        1989          
80                    Pale Rider                7.3        1985          
81                    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes                7.3        1970          
82                    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl                8.1        2003          
83                    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest                7.3        2006          
84                    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End                7.1        2007          
85                    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides                6.7        2011          
86                    Rebel Without a Cause                7.8        1955          
87                    The Satanic Rites of Dracula                5.5        1973          
88                    Saving Private Ryan                8.6        1998          
89                    Scars of Dracula                6.3        1970          
90                    Seabiscuit                7.4        2003          
91                    Sherlock Holmes                7.6        2009          
92                    Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady                6        1991          
93                    The Pearl of Death                7.5        1944          
94                    Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour                5.8        1931          
95                    Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon                6.8        1942          
96                    Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror                6.8        1942          
97                    The Woman in Green                6.9        1945          
98                    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death                7.3        1943          
99                    Shutter Island                8.1        2010          
100                    Sleepy Hollow                7.5        1999          
101                seasons 1 -4    Space Ghost Coast to Coast                8.1        1994          
102                    Spider-Man                7.3        2002          
103                    Spider-Man 2                7.4        2004          
104                    Spider-Man 3                6.3        2007          
105                    The Sopranos                9.3        1999          
106                complete series boxset    Star Trek                8.4        1966          
107                    Star Trek                8.1        2009          
108                    Star Trek: The Motion Picture                6.3        1979          
109                complete series boxset    Star Trek: The Next Generation                8.7        1987          
110                complete series boxset (2011 PAL)    Star Trek: Voyager                7.7        1995          
111                    Star Trek: First Contact                7.6        1996          
112                    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan                7.8        1982          
113                    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home                7.3        1986          
114                    Star Trek: Generations                6.5        1994          
115                    Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country                7.2        1991          
116                    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock                6.6        1984          
117                    Star Trek V: The Final Frontier                5.3        1989          
118                    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace                6.6        1999          
119                    Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones                6.8        2002          
120                    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith                7.7        2005          
121                    Star Wars                8.7        1977          
122                    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back                8.8        1980          
123                    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi                8.4        1983          
124                    It                6.9        1990          
125                    State of Play                7.1        2009          
126                    Rose Red                6.7        2002          
127                    Silver Bullet                6.3        1985          
128                    Sudden Impact                6.6        1983          
129                    Taken                7.9        2008          
130                    Taste the Blood of Dracula                6.3        1970          
131                    The Terminator                8.1        1984          
132                    Terminator 2: Judgment Day                8.5        1991          
133                    Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines                6.4        2003          
134                    TRON: Legacy                6.9        2010          
135                    True Grit                7.7        2010          
136                    The Blue and the Gray                7.7        1982          
137                    The Bourne Supremacy                7.8        2004          
138                    The Changeling                7.3        1980          
139                    The Changeling                6.9        2006          
140                    The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer                5.5        2003          
141                    The Enforcer                6.7        1976          
142                    The Exorcist                8        1973          
143                    The Final Countdown                6.7        1980          
144                    The Hound of the Baskervilles                7.7        1939          
145                    The Hound of the Baskervilles                7        1959          
146                    The Hustler                8.1        1961          
147                    The King's Speech                8.1        2010          
148                    The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires                6        1974          
149                    The Long, Hot Summer                7.4        1958          
150                    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly                9        1966          
151                    Fistful of Dollars                8.1        1964          
152                    For a Few Dollars More                8.4        1965          
153                    North and South                8.1        1985          
154                    The Pacific                8.3        2010          
155                    The Phantom of the Opera                7.4        2004          
156                    Pride & Prejudice                7.8        2005          
157                    The Thing                8.2        1982          
158                    The Thin Red Line                7.6        1998          
159                    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada                7.5        2005          
160                    The Verdict                7.8        1982          
161                    They Were Expendable                7.4        1945          
162                    To Kill a Mockingbird                8.4        1962          
163                all 7 seasons    Trailer Park Boys                8.5        2001          
164                complete series boxset    The Wire                9.4        2002          
165                    Unforgiven                8.3        1992          
166                    Valkyrie                7.1        2008          
167                    Von Ryan's Express                7.1        1965          
168                complete series boxset    War and Remembrance                8.3        1988          
169                    War of the Worlds                6.5        2005          
170                    White Christmas                7.6        1954          
171                    Holiday Inn                7.6        1942          
172                    Without a Clue                7        1988          
173                complete series boxset    The Winds of War                8.2        1983          
174                complete series boxset    The X-Files                8.8        1993          
175                    X-Men                7.4        2000          
176                    X-Men: The Last Stand                6.8        2006          
177                    X2                7.5        2003          
178                    X-Men: First Class                7.8        2011          
179                    X-Men Origins: Wolverine                6.8        2009          
180                    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb                8.6        1964          
181                    Doctor Zhivago                8        1965          
182                    The Wolfman                5.8        2010          
183                    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix                7.4        2007          
184                    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2                8.1        2011          
185                    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1                7.7        2010          
186                    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince                7.5        2009          
187                    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban                7.8        2004          
188                    Angels & Demons                6.7        2009          
189                    Transformers                7.2        2007          
190                    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen                6        2009          
191                    Transformers: Dark of the Moon                6.4        2011          
192                    Once Upon a Time in the West                8.7        1968          
193                    From Here to Eternity                7.8        1953          
194                    The Sum of All Fears                6.4        2002          
195                    The Hunt for Red October                7.6        1990          
196                    Patriot Games                6.9        1992          
197                Seasons 1 - 8 boxsets    The Simpsons                9        1989          
198                    Clear and Present Danger                6.9        1994          
199                There are 6 boxsets of Poirot I own. All movies.    Agatha Christie's Poirot                8.6        1989          
200                    Van Helsing                5.9        2004          
201                    Hanna                6.8        2011          
202                    Jesse Stone: Stone Cold                7.2        2005          
203                    Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise                7.1        2006          
204                    Jesse Stone: Night Passage                7.2        2006          
205                    Jesse Stone: No Remorse                7.2        2010          
206                    Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost                6.9        2011          
207                complete series    The X-Files                8.8        1993          
208                    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo                7.9        2011          
209                complete series    The Sopranos                9.3        1999          
210                    Fast Five                7.3        2011          
211                    The Fast and the Furious                6.6        2001          
212                    2 Fast 2 Furious                5.7        2003          
213                    Fast & Furious                6.6        2009          
214                seasons 1 and 2    Sherlock                9.3        2010          
215                    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows                7.5        2011          
216                    The Big Trail                7.3        1930          
217                    Red River                7.8        1948          
218                    Legend of the Lost                6        1957          
219                    The Barbarian and the Geisha                5.6        1958          
220                    The Horse Soldiers                7.2        1959          
221                    The Alamo                6.9        1960          
222                    North to Alaska                7        1960          
223                    The Comancheros                6.8        1961          
224                    The Longest Day                7.8        1962          
225                    The Undefeated                6.6        1969          
226                    12 Angry Men                8.9        1957          
227                    Pride and Prejudice                9.2        1995          
228                    The Prestige                8.5        2006          
229                    Bend of the River                7.4        1952          
230                    The Far Country                7.3        1954          
231                    Night Passage                6.7        1957          
232                    The Rare Breed                6.4        1966          
233                    Singin' in the Rain                8.4        1952          
234                    Mark of the Vampire                6.3        1935          
235                    The Haunted Palace                6.8        1963          
236                    Dracula                7.7        1931          
237                    Dracula's Daughter                6.4        1936          
238                    Son of Dracula                6.2        1943          
239                    House of Dracula                5.7        1945          
240                    The Bride of Frankenstein                7.9        1935          
241                    Son of Frankenstein                7.2        1939          
242                    The Ghost of Frankenstein                6.1        1942          
243                    Dead of Night                7.7        1945          
244                    12 Angry Men                8.9        1957          
245                    Batman Begins                8.3        2005          
246                    Kelly's Heroes                7.7        1970          
247                    The Dirty Dozen                7.8        1967          
248                    The Fog                6.8        1980          
249                    Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein                7.6        1948          
250                    The Last Man on Earth                6.9        1964          
251                seasons 1 & 2    Game of Thrones                9.5        2011          
252                    Swingers                7.4        1996          
253                    Skyfall                7.8        2012          
254                    Red vs Blue: Recollection Trilogy                8.7        2008          
255                    Red vs. Blue: Recreation                8.4        2009          
256                    Red vs. Blue: Revelation                8.4        2010          
257                    Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction                8.4        2008          
258                    Red vs. Blue: Season 10                7.6        2012          
259                    Red vs. Blue Season 9                8        2011          
260                    Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles                8.6        2003          
261                    The Best Years of Our Lives                8.3        1946          
262                the complete series (release 11/20/2012)    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers                6.2        1993          
263                    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey                8.1        2012          
264                the complete series    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine                7.9        1993          
265                    Count Dracula                5.8        1970          
266                    Battle of the Bulge                6.8        1965          
267                    Starship Troopers                7.2        1997          
268                    The Last Stand                6.4        2013          
269                    The Eiger Sanction                6.3        1975          
270                    Coogan's Bluff                6.5        1968          
271                    Where Eagles Dare                7.7        1968          
272                    Lincoln                7.5        2012          
273                    Star Trek Into Darkness                7.9        2013          
274                    Iron Man                7.9        2008          
275                    Iron Man 3                7.4        2013          
276                complete series boxset    Power Rangers Zeo                6.4        1996          
277                complete series boxset    Power Rangers Turbo                5.6        1997          
278                complete series boxset    Power Rangers in Space                7        1998          
279                complete series boxset    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy                6.6        1999          
280                    The Seventh Victim                7        1943          
281                    The Raven                6.7        1963          
282                    Diary of a Madman                6.4        1963          
283                    Tower of London                6.3        1962          
284                    House of Usher                7.1        1960          
285                    The Looney Tunes Show                7.8        2011          
286                    Hugo                7.6        2011          
287                    Good Will Hunting                8.2        1997          
288                    All Quiet on the Western Front                7.1        1979          
289                    The Great Raid                6.7        2005          
290                    The Sea Wolves                6.3        1980          
291                    The Bridge at Remagen                6.7        1969          
292                    Between Heaven and Hell                6.6        1956          
293                    So Proudly We Hail!                7.6        1943          
294                    Battle of the Coral Sea                5.8        1959          
295                    To the Shores of Tripoli                6.1        1942          
296                    Once an Eagle                7.7        1976          
297                    Twelve O'Clock High                7.8        1949          
298                    The Conjuring                7.6        2013          
299                    Power Rangers Wild Force                5.8        2002          
300                    Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue                6.1        2000          
301                    Power Rangers Time Force                6.5        2001          
302                    Power Rangers Ninja Storm                5.9        2003          
303                    Power Rangers DinoThunder                6.1        2004          
304                    The Frozen Ground                6.4        2013          
305                    Great Performances: Count Dracula                7.8        1971          
306                    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug                8.1        2013