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Leftwing Theater in Paris Offers a Free Show to "Refugees;" the Refugees Refuse to Leave, and the Theater Shuts Down After Five Weeks of Occupation
Good afternoon, everybody! I hope everyone is well on this very sunny but very cold Wednesday.
Let me start with an easy one because there's so much going on right now I'm a little overwhelmed and not sure where to start. Over in the Islamic Colonies of Europe, the Counter-Reconquista is proceeding apace.It's just so perfect.
A Paris theater known for its progressive agenda is facing potential bankruptcy after over 250 migrant youths occupied the venue in December, demanding housing, health, and education. The occupation, which began following an event promoting tolerance, has led to worsening sanitary conditions and forced the theater to cancel all scheduled events. Key Details: The Gaîté Lyrique theater was overtaken by migrant youths following a December 10th event focused on tolerance and migrant support. The group has since grown to approximately 300 occupants. The theater's management issued statements condemning the lack of action from city and state officials, highlighting unsanitary conditions and concerns for their staff's safety. The theater, owned by the Paris council, has canceled events until at least January 24th, citing financial strain from the ongoing occupation. Diving Deeper: The Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, a venue renowned for hosting radical and progressive programming, reportedly finds itself in dire financial straits after migrant youths occupied the premises last month. The takeover began on December 10th during an event organized to promote tolerance toward migrants, with activists reportedly directing the youths to the theater. Précieux, a self-identified 16-year-old Congolese migrant, summed up the group's stance, stating, "We are here to claim our right to housing, health, and education," as reported by French outlet RFI. Since then, the number of migrants occupying the space has surged, further complicating the theater's operations. The Gaîté Lyrique issued multiple statements lamenting the forced nature of the occupation while also sympathizing with the migrants' plight.
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— Liberty Pill Memes (@LibertyPillMeme) January 14, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: crabgrass farmer at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (CTUih)
Posted by: Horse named Wildfire at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (Bl7Et)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (Hkcdp)
The french are usually a bit less worried about appearances. Maybe someone decided they should have to live with the results of their own rhetoric.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (Rcnd3)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (+QlJh)
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (TN0g+)
Oh, and that they found a sucker to board them gratis.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (gxokI)
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Start from the beginning!
Posted by: AOS Advisory Committee at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (Bl7Et)
Posted by: live from the theatre at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (8EFeo)
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (snN/i)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Grayman27 at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (pgwxJ)
Oh, too bad, so sad.
Posted by: Scott_T at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (2waQ7)
Good afternoon, ace!
It's raining and 50 degrees in my neck of the woods.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (4tmpE)
Is this simply French chauvinism, or failing to realize that not everyone plays by French rules?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Dinner! at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (jiYtH)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (7VQoV)
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (snN/i)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (3Ev2O)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (luW68)
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Forrest Gump at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (4tmpE)
Set up a Yoko Ono concert in the theater.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
*looks out on day 3 of fog*
sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Scarymary at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (whIlM)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (Vyll1)
Easy layup when reality provides the cruelty. Warms the fingers.
Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (FhXTo)
Your Theatre probably has AIDS now.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM
Were they showing Rent?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (+QlJh)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Scarymary at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (whIlM)
Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (luW6
Heh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (LPS7w)
Posted by: Auspex at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (4dV5R)
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I saw Gaggle of Scumbags open for the Sex Machine Guns at the Paladium in '75.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)
Even Liberace would be like " that guy's a homo".
Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (fV+MH)
whoops! I guess you don't live where I do.
I could do with 50 degree weather, even if it's raining.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (yT7Wa)
Key point of negotiations...
Trump: Release them all or i will consider you all enemies of the human race and kill you wherever I find you. And I know exactly who you all are. You have until my inauguration to release them all. Fail, and you all die.
Posted by: Donnie Two scoops at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (HXZiI)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
And even money the theater management was in on it.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (34pOu)
Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Some Stupid at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (G5+As)
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Donald Trump announces a hostage deal has been secured in the Middle East.
https://tinyurl.com/yh2da79y
Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (LkLld)
Seriously?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM
Ghey!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (+QlJh)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM
I doubt the foreign legion would be effective in this situation as the majority of it's members come from some of the same countries as the squatters do.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (Rcnd3)
Almost. Hopefully some court (do they have Hawaiian judges) orders that the theater continues to shelter the invaders even after they shut down.
Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (GUOwU)
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Hey, they're busy getting their lives together!
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)
FIFY Ace!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (w9Wax)
Gas leaks are a common cause of commercial fires.
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (snN/i)
Talk about an own goal situation.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (Rcnd3)
It's fun to play radical in a country of normies, but when you have to live with the reality of your desires, not so much.
Posted by: Long night... at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (2NXcZ)
they're all either doctors and engineers, or aspiring rappers and youtubers
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (25k9m)
they are uber annoying
they were total Covid nuts and are still - and are still canceling many shows due to the entire cast being sick with covid STILL
that place is run by idiots
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (Pv3Rg)
Given their rep, I seriously doubt that would be a problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (xCA6C)
*
*looks out on day 3 of fog*
sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025
***
It's damply cool and cloudy here, but rain is not due until Saturday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (PgHwv)
Good to see you 'round here. Howzit goin? You doin OK?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (luW68)
Sweet, sweet, schadenfreude.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (yT7Wa)
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California got so used to the muggings, it refused to take the hint, until the Gods of the Copybook Headings came knocking.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (fcO1r)
In an ironic turn of events, the theater was playing the hit French Musical, "All My Best Friends Are Illegal Immigrants".
Posted by: naturalfake at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (LkLld)
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Depends on the cuisine, really.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: In Your Head The Rest of the Day at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (34pOu)
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Donald Trump announces a hostage deal has been secured in the Middle East.
https://tinyurl.com/yh2da79y
Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM
Well we have the first impeachment case against Trump when the democrats take back the house in 2026.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (Rcnd3)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)
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A little "now youse can't leave" is in order.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:22 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (brOX2)
Go Progressives!!!
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (/gkdL)
When the history of the Twenty-First Century is written, the main story is going to be the Elimination of Europe.
By the end of the century, you think that there still will be an England? Or an Ireland? The names of the countries may or may not change, but those countries won't be in any sense European.
There'll be some exceptions (Poland, Hungary), but the demographic changes in most of Europe seem to be pretty irreversible.
That's why the EU is so desperate to control speech and elections - they don't want the native populations of these counties to be able to change the course of what is underway.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (34pOu)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (TSQb9)
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 15, 2025 12:24 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: African Lloyd Webber at January 15, 2025 12:24 PM (4DY5T)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (LkLld)
The lefty expression is "equally valid", which is also false.
Posted by: Long night... at January 15, 2025 12:24 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 12:24 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 15, 2025 12:17 PM (luW6
Just need one guy to stand at the end of the street, point down an alley and shout "JEWS!"
Then pick 'em off as the mob gives chase.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:24 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Let's All Go To the Lobby.... at January 15, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (4dV5R)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: 29Victor at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (TL7UX)
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R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal 14m
🚨#BREAKING: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, Reuters reported citing official.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 11m
WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: mr tmz at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (uxCna)
Suicidal? Who's making this happen.
Posted by: Long night... at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (jQ+5q)
Good to see you 'round here. Howzit goin? You doin OK?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 15, 2025 12:21 PM (luW6
I'm doing okay. Some days better than others. Don't have time to spend at the HQ as I once did, what with suddenly finding myself the owner of D'oh's company. I'm blessed to have a great CEO and employees.
Thanks.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)
I think I'm a member of Gaggle of Scumbags!
I don't play music but.....
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (Hkcdp)
Go Progressives!!!
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (/gkdL)
Good! Hurry up and go broke already.
Posted by: I Point And Laugh at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (jiYtH)
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (aD39U)
They are all "Influencers".
Just look how they are influencing the French people ... to make the citizens hate them. (or I hope that is the response).
The "progressives" want them to live in no go zones, or other people's neighborhoods.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (Cus5s)
Mon dieu. Ces gens sont censés être créatifs. Ils ont suffisamment d'Africains pour organiser une représentation du Roi Lion. Cela pourrait aider leur budget.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (8/E19)
Nothing like the sound of the call for evening prayer.
Posted by: Redenzo at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (V/pbu)
Posted by: theater migrants at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (+EBfa)
Posted by: Hoist by their own retard at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (ybSPO)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (qBdHI)
Thanks.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (4tmpE)
That makes me happy.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (EL2wb)
Posted by: NR Pax at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
"Hoohahs on the Move"?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (azIf+)
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Where you see lack of action, I see more tolerance. Don't worry theater, we're all in this together!
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (i24o9)
If history is any example, if the AfD in Germany gets the upper hand and seals the border and starts re-migration (that word that was discovered to be Naaatsee all along last year) then the French will do the same.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (D7oie)
Congo is mostly Christian, with only a small percentage of goat-fuckers. This takeover might not be a goat-fucker thing, so much as just the garden-variety parasite uppity illegal alien thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)
The other prong of the Elimination of Europe is economic stagnation.
Somebody on X noted that 16 years ago, the US and EU economies were roughly equal in size. Now, the US economy is 50% bigger than the EU.
The EU is a sclerotic bureaucratic dictatorship with choking economic regulation, which has succeeded in largely eliminating economic growth.
Amazingly, the United States is still a beacon of economic freedom, compared to the EU.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (kpS4V)
A Paris theater known for its progressive agenda is facing potential bankruptcy after over 250 migrant youths occupied the venue in December, demanding housing, health, and education.
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I notice they're not demanding jobs.
I have a counter-proposal: Chain the theater doors shut and set it on fire.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (Ijbq0)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (qBdHI)
About eight hours. He's making a farewell address tonight.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (oT+t6)
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (snN/i)
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 12:26 PM (EL2wb)
__________________________
I'm not overly optimistic that a vast majority of the held hostages are still breathing.
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (4dV5R)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (LkLld)
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"Equality" really only has a definition in well-formed systems.
Otherwise it's a suspension of judgment.
We *could* declare the murderer "equal" to the law abiding. And since we're not locking up the law abiding, we shouldn't give "unequal" treatment to murderers.
It's all in what we are committed to overlook.
Thus "equal" is really a logical negative saying we are agnostic about ordering. Or "I will not order these things." Yet, life has a way of demanding an end to suspension. And when reasonable, suspensions of judgment should be ended.
We prefer to stay on the cliff as opposed to walking off it. We *could* declare those paths "equal", but that would be the course to delusion.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (19xHp)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Tonight's address at the latest.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (kpS4V)
Youthis.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (W/lyH)
French Connection, anyone?
This would be a good time to mention Gene Hackman will be 95 years old in two weeks.
(and Magnum will be 80 two weeks from today)
What's Your Favorite Gene Hackman movie?
Is it Young Frankenstein? Did you even know Gene Hackman was in Young Frankeshtein?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (PkWRv)
Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (snN/i)
Don't get overwhelmed, Ace. There's so much going on. Do what you can . It's all appreciated and if it feels like too much, go with an early cafe thread . The horde can yammer on even of it's an open thread.😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (ATT5q)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (kpS4V)
"Asians".
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (azIf+)
It's not often you get to root for injuries to both sides and the heavens deliver.
They should get Shep over there to report on the cannibalisms and other goings on in the Super-- er, theater.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:29 PM (q2q1y)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 15, 2025 12:29 PM (3Ev2O)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 12:29 PM (gaKF9)
I thought Joy Reid was just a bubble headed c*nt, but these plans sounded really good.
Was I wrong?
Posted by: From about That Time at January 15, 2025 12:29 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2025 12:29 PM (GUOwU)
Go Progressives!!!
Aargh! Correction: $960 million deficit. Still a lot.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (/gkdL)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:29 PM (/gkdL)
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (brOX2)
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Bet the floors are really sticky. Don't even get started on the seating....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (Q4IgG)
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Don't forget your right to ObamaPhones and the gang-raping of young girls ... but mostly the gang-raping of young girls.
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (r2SS9)
Posted by: Vincent LaGuardia Gambini at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (PgHwv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (4dV5R)
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (gOWVj)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (/gkdL)
Careful about laughing, and check out this funny shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (i24o9)
Charge tourist protection money to avoid rape while on the tower.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (A7kpb)
A former European Commissioner already noted that they'll invalidate the election in Germany if the wrong party wins, just as they did in Romania.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (4tmpE)
Heh.
They may crap all over the place, but damn, that would be funny!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jane D'oh"
That woudl be cruel to the pigs.
Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Stateless
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Caregiving by a family member like you is the most profound expression of selfless love that I know exists.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM
Thanks so much whig!
And all of you.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (jvJvP)
Fine. Make them do it. They won't like the result.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (xCA6C)
Maybe give Moscow a call and see if they have any left over.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: sen elizabeth warren at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: The ARC of History
Funny how the replacement population won't be able to maintain the infrastructure, much less build their own or improve any.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (h4fgH)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Lizzo available?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (WXNFJ)
We have a system that vows not to tell the difference on the basis of ethnicity.
I'm all for that. Always have been. Rah! Rah!
However, there are differences that are crucial to determine. And when they present themselves, we should determine them.
This is pragmatism.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
"Hoohahs on the Move"?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2025 12:27 PM (WXNFJ)
The C*ntmobile
Posted by: Seemed fitting at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (ybSPO)
Fine. Make them do it. They won't like the result.
Posted by: Archimedes
I dunno, could the Germans actually take the Low Countries these days? Or would they have trouble with a mildly well-skilled group of Cub Scouts?
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:25 PM (Hkcdp)
Les Misérables every night will drive them out.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:30 PM (uxCna)
That was the famous Belgian M. Thierry, and I think he is talking out of his ass like he did when he started making noises about arresting Musk.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (AfO4y)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (4XwPj)
Go Progressives!!!
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (/gkdL)
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Ummm
Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (1FWWQ)
Is it Young Frankenstein? Did you even know Gene Hackman was in Young Frankeshtein?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025
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Of course -- he played the blind man in his cottage. "Wait! I was going to make espresso!"
I'd have to say his Lex Luthor in the first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies has got to be my favorite in humor, and his Little Bill in Unforgiven for drama.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (OUMaO)
Only if the Low Countries send an RSVP invite.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (19xHp)
Because if it's hostages for terrorists, as much as it's fantastic for the remaining hostages, it's not great for all the future hostages.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (8/E19)
No, Ms. Bondi. I want you do DEI!
Posted by: Senate Minority at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2025 12:35 PM (XeU6L)
All the way up to 25 degrees here but the sun is finally out.
Time to put on the shades, blend up a frozen rum drink and sit in front of the window.
Posted by: Auspex at January 15, 2025 12:35 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 12:35 PM (Hkcdp)
If you build a man a fire, you warm him for a night.
If you set a man on fire, you warm him for life.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:35 PM (q2q1y)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (brOX2)
If the hostages are dead, then it would only be fair to return the terrorists in the same condition...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (PiwSw)
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The Fly
Oh no wait that was a gene hack, man, movie.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: AOS Advisory Committee at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh"
That woudl be cruel to the pigs.
Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (GUOwU)
Unless the boars were really hangry.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (VNX3d)
Go Progressives!!!
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:23 PM (/gkdL)
***
Ummm
Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 15, 2025 12:33 PM (1FWWQ)
Correction: "only" $960 million
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (/gkdL)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: Eromero at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (wHOXM)
The EU is a sclerotic bureaucratic dictatorship with choking economic regulation, which has succeeded in largely eliminating economic growth.
Amazingly, the United States is still a beacon of economic freedom, compared to the EU.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
I remember when the EU was touted as the only way for European countries to compete economically with the US.
It was touted as a way to create a "United States of Europe".
Apparently by people who had never met anyone from any country in the continent.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (hB7mE)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (h4fgH)
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Western Europe may eventually be known as Northern Somalia.
Make Warlords Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (r2SS9)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (8/E19)
I'm 97% good with some of that.
And even though I'm technically French-Canadian, the most insufferable kind of French.
I'm just going to shut up.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (jvJvP)
Mark Steyn was writing about this 25 years ago, and things are right on schedule.
He started thinking about this when he was eating at a typically charming Viennese cafe with a friend around the turn of the century, and there was a maternity clinic across the street. Every woman going into the maternity clinic was Muslim.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (4tmpE)
Heh.
They may crap all over the place, but damn, that would be funny!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (W/lyH)
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Pigs are odd and tend to all shit together. Ozzy tells a story in his documentary where they were filming a music video with lots of pigs in a church. The video for Miracle Man, IIRC. Ozzy was waist deep in pigs. Then they fired up the music, and all the pigs suddenly and simultaneously took a yuge shit. Imagine the stench.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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That's not funny...
Posted by: Liz Cheney at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (1FWWQ)
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You aren't wrong, but he was also damn good in Hoosiers.
Posted by: Not Joe Bob Briggs at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (HXZiI)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (PiwSw)
Wrapped in pig carcasses.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (azIf+)
Posted by: Dr Zhivago at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
The Electric Amish does Skynyrd! Kind of. Gimme Three Pigs.
https://is.gd/vumdHg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (L/fGl)
Look, they only went 115 MPH in the oncoming lanes because they were scared. Now let them call their momma.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 12:38 PM (2ocoG)
Not quite the storming of the Bastille, but times are changing.
Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2025 12:38 PM (rj6Yv)
I wonder why.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 12:38 PM (19xHp)
Second favorite movie gun line: "Daddy would have gotten us Uzis."
Posted by: Oddbob at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Kindltot
Terrible movie.
Just watched "Coogan's Bluff" for the first time in 50 years and had to laugh at what a crappy POS that was. A parody of "Dirty Harry" before it came out.
Eastwood doesn't hold up well.
Posted by: Auspex at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (p4NUW)
That's a tough one. French Connection, Poseidon Adventure, Young Frankenstein, Superman, Hoosiers, The Firm, Get Shorty, Enemy of the State, and Unforgiven are all good.
Unforgiven I guess.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (Odg76)
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Also, later used as training for Biden's Secret Service detail.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (q2q1y)
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Will it be a comedy or a tragedy?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:31 PM (W/lyH)
And what about the pigs?
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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That's not funny...
Posted by: Liz Cheney at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (1FWWQ)
Snort.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (UUrdA)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (jFCkp)
Pull out of NATO, let the Muslims have Europe.
They earned it.
A Real Man is a Conquerer.
Posted by: XTC at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (iFTx/)
The Brown Note.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (aD39U)
...Get Shorty, Enemy of the State, and Unforgiven are all good.
Unforgiven I guess.
Posted by: bonhomme
Get Shorty is a great movie.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (PkWRv)
And they're immediately back to Trump being a threat to DoJ.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:34 PM (xCA6C)
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By appointment, no less.
Did you know that when the Constitution created the position of AG it was as the President's personal legal counsel??!!!
I hope Pubs find a way to shove this fabrication of an "Independent Judiciary" down the Dems' throats, or we're going to spin our wheels during Pub administrations and the Dems are going to be back at the grinding wheel, sharpening the DoJ weapon during every one of their admins.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2025 12:39 PM (p4NUW)
They are leftard activists or have been paid by said same.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (MwvKQ)
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You aren't wrong, but he was also damn good in Hoosiers.
Posted by: Not Joe Bob Briggs
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The French Connection.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (ctrM5)
The Romanian election was, in fact, annulled, because the pro-EU candidate came in third behind two conservatives.
The official excuse for annulling the election was that the Russians had set up 800 TikTok accounts to influence the election.
This is classic EU - the population is required to vote over and over again, until the Correct Side wins.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:41 PM (uxCna)
Leonard Bernstein's daughter
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 15, 2025 12:41 PM (BHrzb)
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They were sending Ozzy a message. Pig style.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:41 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (jQ+5q)
Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (1FWWQ)
Mark Steyn was writing about this 25 years ago, and things are right on schedule.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (uxCna)
Yes, he has been prescient in his writing. Heaven help us.
.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (/gkdL)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (azIf+)
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I sat through it twice when I was a kid because when that showgirl slides down you can kind of half way see her hoo haw. Or at least imagine that you could.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
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They were sending Ozzy a message. Pig style.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:41 PM (qBdHI)
Harsh critics.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (krQz2)
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The DOJ must be independent of Republican presidents.
The DOJ must be the wingman of Democrat presidents.
It's in the Constitution.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
If the authorities released pigs into the theater, the inhabitants would likely slaughter and cook them in the lobby.
Or give the porkers names and treat them like pets.
Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2025
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That's Pulp Fiction w/ John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. I haven't seen it since it came out; time to borrow it from the library.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (J2vNu)
It was touted as a way to create a "United States of Europe".
A cargo cult United States where every state had a different language, laws, and customs. That doesn't actually work, in part because it's very difficult for the workforce to follow the jobs.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (aD39U)
was it that it was in French, or that it was in Parisian French?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 15, 2025 12:44 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 15, 2025 12:44 PM (YIxO9)
Pull out of NATO, let the Muslims have Europe.
They earned it.
A Real Man is a Conquerer.
Posted by: XTC at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (UnA8+)
Yes. Pull out of NATO..
There's probably about 30% of the native population unjabbed. Like in Canada, I hope there is a die off, revenge against the 'elites' where we take everything and eliminate the bloodline.
And politely tell the savages to leave before theynare next.
I believe ethnic cleansing is going to be very popular shortly.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:44 PM (jvJvP)
Padlock and leave.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 15, 2025 12:44 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (brOX2)
We'll take all these moribund, hopelessly inefficient economies, and by combining them, create an economic juggernaut! It's brilliant!
Posted by: The EU at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (xCA6C)
The major long-term effect of 9/11 was a vast acceleration of Muslim immigration to the West.
Not something that most people would have predicted on 9/12.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 12:43 PM (D7oie)
I think it is set in Marseille, but it doesn't matter, we was trippin'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (aD39U)
On the other hand, I do get a bit of schadenfreude watching them have to deal with these issues after they spend 100 years calling us racist backwards unenlightened idiots for how our government dealt with issues around race in the US.
There is not such an easy solution to the problem, is there, Europe? Maybe, as it turns out, when you have multiple cultures trying to live together under one government in one country, the minority culture doesn't always go along with what the majority culture wants them to do. Sometimes in violent ways. Then what?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (wtvvX)
...Get Shorty, Enemy of the State, and Unforgiven are all good.
Unforgiven I guess.
Posted by: bonhomme
Get Shorty is a great movie.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 12:40 PM (PkWRv)
Haven't seen French connection or get shorty, but I loved the feel of Hoosiers and hackmans portrayal reflected the whole tone of the movie.
Loved especially when the whole team looked him in the face and said let Jimmy shoot and he went with it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (UUrdA)
Ummm....
Posted by: Sears and K-Mart at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (xCA6C)
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Start from the beginning!
Posted by: AOS Advisory Committee at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (g47mK)
One the first day of summer vacation, I got up...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (FCbAQ)
Someone who is famous for biting the heads off of live animals is a dick? I'm shocked!
Note: Not only did he do this with a live bat on stage, he also did it with a dove in a meeting with record execs.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (Odg76)
Don't forget imposing a stifling central bureaucracy on top of all those countries!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (YIxO9)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (jvJvP)
It's the "Bonus Hole Dialogues" now, Hater!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025
***
Luthor (eyeing the destruction of the White House as the rogue Kryptonians have smashed through itswalls): "When are these dummies going to learn to use a doorknob?"
and
(to Zod about his imperious attitude): " 'Bow! Yield! Kneel!' That stuff closes out of town."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (19xHp)
Now that English people are a minority in England, the left there has seamlessly transitioned to calling blacks and Muslims "the global majority". It'd be impressive if it wasn't appalling.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:47 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:37 PM (uxCna)
Yes, he has been prescient in his writing. Heaven help us.
.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 12:42 PM (/gkdL)
I remember reading America Alone when I was young. Definitely had a big influence on my view on these issues.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (uCjyK)
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Especially if they're Muslims. Instead of having to wear a scarlet letter A, they should come with a glaring red flag on their clothes.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (xCA6C)
And no I don’t want movies with 1000 explosions. I want movies that advance the story. And where something actually happens. That movie was just dudes waiting around for things to happen.
I guess for its time it was kind of groundbreaking so I get why it’s considered a classic. But on a purely “does it entertain me or not” scale, it didn’t.
The famous car chase was good. But that’s like a few mins of the movie.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (EL2wb)
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (wtvvX)
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Was? I'd go with "was and is". Black Sabbath was better with Dio, and that includes both of the original studio albums, the latter third studio album, and then the two albums released under the moniker "Heaven and Hell"
I also prefer Black Sabbath to anything Ozzy released other than perhaps the Randy Rhodes and Jake E. Lee material, and that depends on the day of the week I'm listening.
I can't imagine anyone suffering thru trying to listen to Ozzy speak--I can't understand his words. And he and Sharon ripped off a host of musicians who worked for them over the years--they're truly horrible people.
Posted by: In Your Head The Rest of the Day at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (KRtlO)
It is 55 degrees here, sunny, and breezy, in the Valley of the Sunstroke. (h.t. Blanco Basura)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (8zz6B)
Not something that most people would have predicted on 9/12.
In light of that, I'm starting to wonder if 9/11 *was* an inside job, just not how the conspiracy theorists claim.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 12:49 PM (2ocoG)
If in a hurry and nobody to slap me then whiskey.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 15, 2025 12:49 PM (A7kpb)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:49 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: wth at January 15, 2025 12:49 PM (v0R5T)
Leonard Bernstein's daughter
Posted by: Pete
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Thanks for that, I have never read it, but now after a quick skim, I will.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2025 12:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 12:50 PM (EL2wb)
Expect much more of this.
There are protests in Poland because the Polish government is suspending the arrest warrant to allow Netanyahu to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:50 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:50 PM (L/fGl)
Note: Not only did he do this with a live bat on stage, he also did it with a dove in a meeting with record execs.
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People used to pay good money to see geeks do that at the circus.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:50 PM (q2q1y)
And it is telling that the EU is now disregarding the will of it's "citizens" just like the US Federal Government.
Funny thing about being the King.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 15, 2025 12:50 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (8zz6B)
It's been around minus 7 Celcius most of the week.
I think of you envying our beach weather. Cold for us. We even had a bit of snow..
But again, the cats barely want to go out.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:50 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 15, 2025 12:51 PM (YIxO9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:51 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:51 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (19xHp)
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Why don't you ask someone in your karass.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:51 PM (krQz2)
What was that film with Hackman as a chainsmoking rich man who had the hots for Sigourney Weaver? She and her daughter, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, were con artists?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (PkWRv)
The famous car chase was good. But that’s like a few mins of the movie.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:48 PM (6YVq3)
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It's a police procedural first and foremost: about the nitty gritty of an investigation, but done in a "realistic" style that was very different from police movies of yesteryear.
It was rather unusual for the time, enhanced by Friedkin's cinema verite approach to the filmmaking. It was different at a time when Hollywood had no real idea what the future meant for it.
It also made a good amount of money.
I like it fine, but it's one of those Best Picture winners that hasn't aged very well. Better than some (Cimarron, The English Patient) but much worse than others (Casablanca).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (fcO1r)
Katie Hopkins received an invitation to Donald Trump's inauguration.
Keir Starmer didn't get one.
Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (rj6Yv)
This is ridiculous.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:51 PM (J2vNu)
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Heartbreakers.
And I was just thinking about that one.
Big Liotta fan. Everybody kills it, IMO.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (krQz2)
Someone who is famous for biting the heads off of live animals is a dick? I'm shocked!
Note: Not only did he do this with a live bat on stage, he also did it with a dove in a meeting with record execs.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 15, 2025 12:46 PM (Odg76)
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Yea, it's in the documentary. There are pics of him after eating the dove. He was drunker and higher than all fuck. He had no idea what planet he was on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:52 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (J2vNu)
Oh no wait that was a gene hack, man, movie.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:36 PM (brOX2)
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Good one.
Although it's hard to beat "The French Connection," my favorite Gene Hackman movie is probably "No Way Out."
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (Jd8FD)
A fake shared identity? I dunno. Maybe. I think if your family has been there a couple of generations or more, you probably have a similar cultural heritage.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (Odg76)
'Give me health or give me death!'
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (hDGNI)
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The guy who was put in jail for trying to kill his wife?
No.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Auspex at
Exactly what I'm doing, only coffee.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 15, 2025 12:54 PM (4780s)
Posted by: Boswell at January 15, 2025 12:54 PM (K+UlC)
I enjoyed "The Package."
(not only Hackman being Hackman, but "Chicago" Sipowitz thrown in for good measure)
Plus, there's the added bonus of US Generals going rogue...which at the time wasn't as believable as it is today.
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:54 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 12:54 PM (hDGNI)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (V362x)
Posted by: Ian S.
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Reliance on the media is no excuse--
UK Demographics
White (83.05%)
Asian (8.60%)
East, Central, and Southeast Asian (7.85%)
Multiracial (2.68%)
Unknown /Other (1.96%)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (J2vNu)
Go to Saskatchewan.
And check out 'Corner Gas' on Roku.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (Jd8FD)
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Saw a Costner interview where he said Hackman was, hands down, the best actor he every worked with.
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (dIske)
Posted by: wth at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (v0R5T)
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Yeah and it attains classic/groundbreaking status for that. 50 years later when all cop movies are like that, it’s meh.
I’m not knocking it for what it was. Just doesn’t hold up - as you point out as well.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (fcO1r)
Posted by: Ian S.
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Reliance on the media is no excuse--
UK Demographics
White (83.05%)
Asian (8.60%)
East, Central, and Southeast Asian (7.85%)
Multiracial (2.68%)
Unknown /Other (1.96%)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)
Yeah I was going to say the UK is still much whiter than America. I'm pretty sure that's true everywhere in Europe. They're ... 15 years behind us.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (63Dwl)
Plus, there's the added bonus of US Generals going rogue...which at the time wasn't as believable as it is today.
Posted by: Orson
It's like when I watch "The Rock," now, Ed Harris is the good guy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (PkWRv)
On their knees, the war pigs shitting
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Posted by: Brown Sabbath at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (dIske)
High praise considering he's worked with Robert Duvall.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025
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WGN used to run it when they were part of my local cable package. It was sort of like "Seinfeld Meets The Andy Griffith Show," but for Canadians.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (J2vNu)
Maybe give Moscow a call and see if they have any left over.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 15, 2025 12:32 PM (QB+5g)
In this case, there appear to be no hostages, so any gas would do. Chlorine is a nice antiseptic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (8zz6B)
I’m not knocking it for what it was. Just doesn’t hold up - as you point out as well.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (6YVq3)
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I think it still works as a procedural, but that's kind of it.
I would have probably voted for Fiddler on the Roof that year had I had a vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)
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Isn't this really the story of Rosa DeLauro?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ian S.
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I think the "elites" are trying to show us the "weakness" of "democracy" or "representative republics".
When the main weakness is who they voted in to start all this crap.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (krQz2)
Hamas has to know that Mossad has turned a number of the returning Jihadis and that what's coming back isn't necessarily who got captured.
But, yeah, once they think they have them squirreled away we'll see if any Israeli captives are released alive.
Posted by: Auspex at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (19xHp)
UK Demographics
White (83.05%)
Asian (8.60%)
East, Central, and Southeast Asian (7.85%)
Multiracial (2.68%)
Unknown /Other (1.96%)
Now do the population of the UK under 15 years of age.
Yeah, the rural areas will hold out for a while, but the urban areas will look increasingly like London, which is 36.8% white British.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (QB+5g)
Perhaps, but I don't think so. We need to move on, and Netanyahu has degraded Hamas and Iran significantly - even though not totally, of course. Once the hostages (or what's left of them) come home, Trump and Netanyahu can attach a new set of conditions to ensure that this doesn't happen again. If it does (and you and I know that Hamas would like for it to happen again), there will be 'hell to pay'. In the meantime, this creates space for the Abraham Accords to get finalized. This situation was the obstacle getting in the way of that. Once that finally happens, Hamas will have no formal safe haven in the ME. They will be back to getting financially starved to make a real, lasting deal.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: Stateless
Corner Gas is hilarious. One of my faves.
Sorry for your loss, Stateless.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
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Now watch Bullitt, again.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (jFCkp)
UK Demographics
White (83.05%)
Asian (8.60%)
East, Central, and Southeast Asian (7.85%)
Multiracial (2.68%)
Unknown /Other (1.96%)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)
Typo, I meant "in London".
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (2ocoG)
UK Demographics
White (83.05%)
Asian (8.60%)
East, Central, and Southeast Asian (7.85%)
Multiracial (2.68%)
Unknown /Other (1.96%)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)
I call bigly big bullshit on those numbers.
Plus that is UK, not England. England alone has to be near 50% white.
Wales is relatively muzzy free as is N. Ireland. That skews the numbers for the UK as a whole.
Greater London is something like 1/3 British.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: mrp at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (qBdHI)
Lana!
I knew I recognized that name.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 15, 2025 12:55 PM (V362x)
Wow! Creepy, but brutal.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Day 2 of Funemployment at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (Ad8y9)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (uCjyK)
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Don't you think it telling that over 83% of UK is White, and yet the most popular baby name in England and Wales is Muhammad?
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025
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WGN used to run it when they were part of my local cable package. It was sort of like "Seinfeld Meets The Andy Griffith Show," but for Canadians.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I thought of it more as a Canadian Green Acres, without the surreal elements.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 01:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025
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No, I think that was the title. About 1972 or so? One of the old-timers I knew in Denver in the '90s said he remembered when they were filming in town, in a neighborhood to the northwest of downtown (LoDo). Denver must have been a *great* place to live then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 01:00 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:00 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 01:00 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Lady in Black
I saw it. Their American dream was to open a car wash.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:53 PM (Jd8FD)
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Saw a Costner interview where he said Hackman was, hands down, the best actor he every worked with.
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:56 PM (dIske)
No Way Out is fantastic… the guy who played Hackman’s assistant was really good too… as the gay creeper grasper-at-power guy who’d do anything to keep power. Plenty of those in real life in the pentagon I’d bet
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 15, 2025 01:00 PM (lepZb)
I didn't love Pale Rider when I first saw it. I think I wanted more of a pure action movie, like Lethal Weapon in the old west. But it's very good.
I'm giving Unforgiven a second chance because there, too, I really wanted a Dirty Harry shoot-'em-up, not a revisionist drama. But I assume I've matured since then. (I must have, right?)
A couple of months ago I finally saw Joe Kidd. It was very meh. Despite being written by, get this, Elmore Leonard.
Still have to finish Hang 'em High.
The latter two are free on YouTube.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (EL2wb)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Original source was a book regarding a real investigation by NYPD and others into heroin smuggling to NYC. Real life detective's name was Eddie Egan.
Heroin use was off the charts in NYC during the 60's and 70's to the extent that perps were called 'skels' because most of them used heroin and were as skinny as skeletons.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (wY6aV)
Yeah, I think that's reasonable, although I also question how much the vaunted Arab street gives a shit about the Pallies.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah, the rural areas will hold out for a while, but the urban areas will look increasingly like London, which is 36.8% white British.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (uxCna)
Right, that's the rub of it.
If 50% of the people of child bearing age are immigrants and 97% of people over 50 are white British, the numbers very quickly shift as the older people die off and the immigrants have a ton of kids.
Give it 15 - 20 years, I guarantee we will see huge demographic shifts not only in Europe but also in North America. Yuge.
And there is not much anyone can do about that at this point.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 01:01 PM (uCjyK)
No Way Out is fantastic… the guy who played Hackman’s assistant was really good too… as the gay creeper grasper-at-power guy who’d do anything to keep power. Plenty of those in real life in the pentagon I’d bet
will patton. he was in-demand in the 80s off of No Way Out. He's also great, playing a Columbo-style detective who just won't let things go, in the very good Michael Caine the-murderer-is-the-hero movie A Shock to the System.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (PkWRv)
I knew I recognized that name.
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Yes, Lana! She's also in one of my favorite movies called "Miss Firecracker." She was the kind of actress that, regardless of looks, just oozed sex appeal. She was always perfect in those kinds of roles, imho.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Naturally likable even as the villain. Sort of like Jimmy Stewart (in his rare villain or shadier characters like in Winchester 73).
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ShainS
That's the one where Sean Young gets nekkid, right?
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)
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The only reason they do this is cuz Saudi's Army is staffed with Pakis that were all trained by Paki Officers who were trained by the British. This gives Britain an Ace in the Hole with regard to energy. Other than that I don't think there is much winning for Britain.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (jFCkp)
The radical imam was nixed two days ago.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (dIske)
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It can easily be possible.
If a majority of Muslims name their boys Muhammad but there's nothing like a consensus around how whites name their boys, it can create a herding effect that makes the Muslim population seem bigger than it actually is.
Like, 8% of all UK kids are named Muhammad, but 60% are named an assortment of British names like Michael or Benjamin, but none of them get more than 7% of the total.
I don't know if this is actually happening, but I can easily imagine that it's the excuse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Yes, it's as bad as we thought. Hundreds of Pali fighters released for a few Hostages, on a 'time line'.... not immediately... and Palis get to return to their 'homes'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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True. Also applies to Strother Martin and Emmet Walsh.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (Dm8we)
Kill me?! Lex Luthor?!! Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age?!
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025
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Green Acres without the surreal elements isn't Green Acres any more! But yes, Corner Gas was something like that. The lead actor reminded me a lot of Jason Alexander; I guess that's why I think Seinfeld is in the mix.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (J2vNu)
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I forgot he was in that. Yes, he's really good in it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (6YVq3)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (oT+t6)
Posted by: Cheri at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (oiNtH)
Guess the check cleared.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:04 PM (PkWRv)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 15, 2025 01:04 PM (zSyrn)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (uYLU1)
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The Conversation is normally considered one of his best movies. I'd say so too.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 01:04 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 15, 2025 01:04 PM (A7kpb)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025
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I remember Will Patton impressing me when he was on the daytime soap Search For Tomorrow in about '84.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (J2vNu)
I despise Ed Harris, but, to his credit, it's a good flick.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (PkWRv)
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Was Vigo in that one? Because if it's the film I'm thinking about, then I agree. One thing that stuck out is authenticity. When you fire your gun, you don't put it away empty in your holster. You fully load, then put it away.
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 01:04 PM (krQz2)
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A movie Coppola just kind of threw together in the middle of filming The Godfather Part II.
Coppola in the 70s was king.
I still can't wait to see Megalopolis!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
Prime Cut
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2025 12:57 PM (63Dwl)
Lots of TampersandA in that movie as a young flounder celebrated.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:59 PM (dIske)
Yes, but that's not really the most telling part. Mohammed (and the various spellings) is an incredibly common name to Muslims. Moreso than any single name is for British. Pretty much every Muslim family will have at least one Mohammed.
The real number that matters is the age distribution of the population.
I don't have it off the top of my head, and it shifts daily, but the real number that matters long term is the number of women of child bearing age. And in that age group, it is nowhere near 87% white in the UK.
And as the old white people die off naturally and the women of child bearing age have children, the demographics shift dramatically in very short periods of time. That dramatic shift hasn't happened yet in most of Europe, but will in the next few decades.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (uCjyK)
Unless Darth Trump is planning on "altering the deal" once in charge, which I doubt, this is god awful.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (brOX2)
The meat locker called earlier and our beef quarter is processed, packaged, and ready for pickup! Should fill the freezer quite nicely. I have to pick that up and I don't think I have enough containers for carrying that much.
Monday we will be getting the new washer and dryer delivery! Our set is at least 25 years old and Hubbymayhem has had to fix them several times. This house has natural gas hookup for a dryer so we finally get to have one. It cost $100 more for natural gas than electric. Worth it! We get "free" natural gas. "Free" meaning we pay income tax on it, but no monthly costs.
Looking forward to the inauguration and trying to finish some projects! Hope everyone is staying warm and hopeful.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (4XwPj)
Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.
Or was that High Plains Drifter?
It's all one big movie in my head.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Yes, that occurred to me just as I hit "Post." But it's similar in that you've got quirky characters in a rural setting. So maybe Andy Griffith would be a better comparison.
And the lead actor's name is Brent Butt. That alone makes it hilarious.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (PkWRv)
I despise Ed Harris, but, to his credit, it's a good flick.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:02 PM (PkWRv)
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Was Vigo in that one? Because if it's the film I'm thinking about, then I agree. One thing that stuck out is authenticity. When you fire your gun, you don't put it away empty in your holster. You fully load, then put it away.
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 01:05 PM (dIske)
That movie was A History of Violence. Great flick.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (gaKF9)
She makes me feel funny down there.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (i24o9)
it is... slow. It's very understated and "realistic" but it does take its time.
The central conceit is that he's a surveillance expert who's taped an important conversation about a murder and a conspiracy, but the tape is inaudible in many places due to crowd noise. As the movie goes, he uses technical means to clean up the recording and reveal more of the conversation. The reveals are interesting and sinister.
This idea of revisiting a piece of media over and over, with the meaning of the media changing as more is learned, was then used over and over again by Brian DePalma, in Blow Out and the one where Nic Cage is a casino security head in Atlantic City.
I would say the Conversation is worth a watch but it is not fun and it's not rewatchable.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Concur.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (gaKF9)
Haha, that guy is such a turd
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (NtVYv)
Yeah, the rural areas will hold out for a while, but the urban areas will look increasingly like London, which is 36.8% white British.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:58 PM (uxCna)
Right, that's the rub of it.
If 50% of the people of child bearing age are immigrants and 97% of people over 50 are white British, the numbers very quickly shift as the older people die off and the immigrants have a ton of kids.
Give it 15 - 20 years, I guarantee we will see huge demographic shifts not only in Europe but also in North America. Yuge.
And there is not much anyone can do about that at this point.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Until recently, white and overall fertility was higher in the UK than in other Euro nations.
But simply projecting trends to the sky never really plays out well in history. Trees never grow to the sky, etc.
Same as Sweden now has a net outflow of migrants when they toughened up their laws on ingress and stopped a lot of payments to moochers.
Much of this invasion of Europe and US is economically driven and if the economics become untenable, many will go.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 15, 2025
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It does. The best Westerns have a lot in common with the hardboiled crime story (not the private eye story, really, but crime tales like Stark's "Parker the thief" books). Elmore Leonard came to his crime writing from Westerns, and Loren D. Estleman still writes some of the best oaters ever. And of course Robert Parker did both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: wth at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Cheri at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (oiNtH)
I despise Ed Harris, but, to his credit, it's a good flick.
i will. I want to see the Viggo Mortenson one where he rides a horse through the Sahara (or whatver that one was).
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (KRtlO)
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Snake Eyes?
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (Vh9CX)
Like, 8% of all UK kids are named Muhammad, but 60% are named an assortment of British names like Michael or Benjamin, but none of them get more than 7% of the total.
I don't know if this is actually happening, but I can easily imagine that it's the excuse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Yes, that is what is happening, and you explained it much better than I did.
At least when I looked in to it a few years ago, it was more of a cluster effect than anything.
That said, the demographic shift is undoubtably going to happen fairly soon absent some kind of massive policy change. I don't think anyone in Europe has birthright citizenship, so they mayyy have the ability to reverse this if they act like right now, but I highly doubt they will.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (i24o9)
Not to rain on parades and I *know* you know this, but the people who excel in Hearings are rarely worth a shit and often the worst of the worst.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (brOX2)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (gaKF9)
He's such a big, corrupt, lying dummy. How is she doing otherwise?
Posted by: LASue at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (lCppi)
I would say the Conversation is worth a watch but it is not fun and it's not rewatchable.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (KRtlO)
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I think it's rewatchable because of the little tricks that Coppola does to influence the audience.
It actually needs to be outlined and pointed out to audiences to figure out what he did, but once you figure it out, it's really kind of amazing but very subtle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (wY6aV)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (2ocoG)
Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.
Or was that High Plains Drifter?
It's all one big movie in my head.
no you had it right, it's from Pale Rider, when he picks up an ax or pick handle from a barrel.
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (KRtlO)
Hidalgo, I liked it. My wife hated it
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Cheri at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (oiNtH)
https://www.twitch.tv/patriotnews4u
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
She kiinda looks like Ivanka. Me likey.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (gaKF9)
Haha, that guy is such a turd
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (NtVYv)
That's my Senator! Between him and Jim Himes, CT is really hosed. The word is that now that Blumenthal is serving what is thought of as his last term, he's setting the table for his son to take over his seat. Ugh.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (KRtlO)
i will. I want to see the Viggo Mortenson one where he rides a horse through the Sahara (or whatver that one was).
Posted by: ace
Hidalgo.
I recall liking it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (PkWRv)
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Oh my!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 15, 2025 01:09 PM (wY6aV)
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It's more a remake of High Plains Drifter directly, with both having bones stemming from Shane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, other than the whinny kid, its hard to beat Jack Parlance.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: LASue at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: ace
Hidalgo.
I recall liking it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (PkWRv)
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Great film.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 01:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
She kiinda looks like Ivanka. Me likey.
Posted by: Bulg
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She makes you Bulg?
Posted by: wth at January 15, 2025 01:11 PM (v0R5T)
If she said "fuck off all of you idiots" it would be a slightly shorter hearing.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:11 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 01:11 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Cheri at January 15, 2025 01:11 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 15, 2025 01:11 PM (lepZb)
t.ly/xlPX5
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese
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Damned funny, I shortened the URL
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2025 01:12 PM (XeU6L)
Yeah, specifically Mexico.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 01:12 PM (2ocoG)
Where Gene plays ... Royal Tennenbuam.
It's one of the films where Wes Anderson really started clicking with me.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 01:12 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (azIf+)
Posted by: Orson
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Nope, Indians in UK actually outnumber Pakistanis --Muslims from all countries are about 6.5 percent of UK's population.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (PkWRv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:06 PM (i24o9)
Not to rain on parades and I *know* you know this, but the people who excel in Hearings are rarely worth a shit and often the worst of the worst.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 01:08 PM (brOX2)
Parades? I am just enjoying the show of a milfy blonde roughing up a bunch of douchebag leftists.
I think we are beyond the point at which a quality AG or other appointment can make much of a difference in the US's leftist destruction.
The necessary corrections are not the subject for conversation here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (i24o9)
Not something that most people would have predicted on 9/12.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 12:45 PM (uxCna)
When George Bush told the American public that "Islam is a religion of peace," right after 9/11, that was a big clue.
The second was that immigration from muslim countries wasn't suspended for a few months in order to vet anyone coming in better than had been done previously.
Bush is responsible for that. I don't regret my first vote for clinton nearly as much as I regret both votes for him. Sadly, there was no alternative.
Posted by: Moki at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Fist Rockbone at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 01:07 PM (ctrM5)
I don't think so. Especially once they and their kids have permanent status. Which many already do in most countries.
Would you return to Syria even if the economic prospects were bleak in Germany, knowing that you could live a reasonable life on the dole in Germany?
I'm not familiar with Sweden's exact policies, but I know they let in a lot of refugees from various places (including Ukraine), but none of them had any kind of permanent status, and they don't have birthright citizenship. So it's fairly easy for them to flip a switch and start kicking people out.
That would be impossible in the US. Even if we kicked out every immigrant both legal and illegal tomorrow, they still have tens of millions of kids who are all now US citizens. And it would be cruel to separate minor children from their parents ... etc etc etc.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Why despise Ed Harris?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)
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Annoying lefty, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
Why despise Ed Harris?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
He's a left-wing fag, for starters. He's a commie.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:14 PM (PkWRv)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 01:14 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025
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Green Acres without the surreal elements isn't Green Acres any more! But yes, Corner Gas was something like that. The lead actor reminded me a lot of Jason Alexander; I guess that's why I think Seinfeld is in the mix.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 01:03 PM (J2vNu)
Thank you both. Actually all, I'm missing someone. Sorry.
I had a female India Indian coworker who loved the British type of comedies.
I lent her 'Corner Gas' dvds which she enjoyed, Hated Hank for being so stupid.
It's just a nice quiet show to have in the background. Like Bob Barker's Price is Right.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 01:15 PM (jvJvP)
Liked him in “Heist”, a David Mamet movie.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 01:15 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: flounder
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I am down with that. All of it...
Although even watching some limp wristed fag take a torch to them is funny shit. I would just rather watch anything else than these idiots for another millisecond of my life.
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 01:15 PM (brOX2)
I would appreciate just one trip where some fat woman is not on her speakerphone talking about her effed up family.
I'm not kidding, the last conversation I had to listen to was about a daughter who gave up her child to CPS.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 15, 2025 01:16 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 01:16 PM (EL2wb)
Or was that High Plains Drifter?
It's all one big movie in my head.
no you had it right, it's from Pale Rider, when he picks up an ax or pick handle from a barrel.
Posted by: ace
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Oddly, reminds me of a line from 'Silverado', 'You know, a good smelly saloon is my favorite place in the world.'
I may have spent too much time in biker bars.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2025 01:17 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 15, 2025 01:17 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Dr Zhivago at January 15, 2025 01:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Ace.
Marco Rubio's Opening Statement Offers Tough Attack on the "Delusion" of Globalism and Defense of the American Interest
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 01:17 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 01:15 PM (jvJvP)
Corner Gas was great.
Just finished the last season last week.
Mild humor, some witty dialogue.
The hickey episode was great.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 15, 2025 01:18 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Said earlier, never assume linear trends continue. Relatively uncommon on social sciences as human behavior affects the experiment.
France and Belgium, for a variety of reasons are considered the nations most at risk. Netherlands and Danes are moving rightwards. German is beginning to, and Austria already has and is accelerating in remigration as is Sweden.
Decline and surrender are choices and not mandated in the stars nor in science.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 01:19 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 15, 2025 01:20 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 15, 2025 01:20 PM (V6W16)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 15, 2025
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Hackman's Little Bill isn't very likeable. Neither, in the last analysis, is William Munny, Eastwood's character. Both have the same first name, and both are definitely vicious men when they get going. It's not a hopeful or "Hell, yeah!" Eastwood film, but something more substantial.
It was written by the same guy who adapted P.K. Dick's book into Blade Runner, so that might tell you something.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 01:21 PM (J2vNu)
Why despise Ed Harris?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
He's a left-wing fag, for starters. He's a commie.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 01:14 PM (PkWRv)
The perfect illustration of Ed Harris' faggotry is when Elia Kazan got his honorary Oscar. Kazan is pretty well hated in Hollywood for naming names to HUAC, but respected for his talent. So the crowd gave him a reluctant ovation and polite but muted applause.
Harris and his crone wife kept their seats, crossed their arms and scowled in hatred. Someone in the control booth must have been based because the camera lingered on them both.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)
Will you be able to say no to Trump when he orders you to do something unethical and illegal??
Do you affirm that you will not support pardoning J6 defendants?
Do you believe that the 2020 election was stolen?
Do you have an enemies list?
Do you support prosecuting Liz Cheney?
And on and on.
Posted by: Cheri at January 15, 2025 01:31 PM (oiNtH)
These genders are getting more and more specific.
Posted by: corndog at January 15, 2025 01:38 PM (GwWx1)
The French selling their "cultural enrichment" to sway the Africans. Who've never seen a play and figured this was now their house! Not leaving, it is cold outside!
The bistro next door also complained as business is very bad and no one has paid them (or something, this was yesterday). Just desserts for open borders and baguettes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2025 01:49 PM (gi+MR)
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Posted by: Soothsayer at January 15, 2025 12:28 PM (PkWRv)
Where're you going? I was going to make espresso!
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