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Overnight Open Thread (24 Jan 2015)
The Liaoning
How China got their first aircraft carrier. That was a pretty sweet deal they worked. B-52
Reminds me off this scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:03 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:03 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:04 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 10:04 PM (M/hc7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:05 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 10:05 PM (M/hc7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:05 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Molly k. at January 24, 2015 10:06 PM (IzS3s)
People identifying as chairs or even tampons? Surely this must be a parody of special little snowflakes! But then, who can tell now-a-days...
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=7932
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 24, 2015 10:06 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: tbodie at January 24, 2015 10:06 PM (hUQVp)
Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at January 24, 2015 10:07 PM (dFi94)
I keed, I keed! Maybe Top Gun
Nah. I keed again.
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:08 PM (93D1V)
Not from a child's POV of course. I would have been thrilled if my mother had sent me to school with 4 candy bars and Ritz crackers. I would have traded the pickle and marshmallows for something else. I only like marshmallows when they're cooked over a fire.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:09 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: joncelli at January 24, 2015 10:09 PM (ENczY)
Posted by: tbodie at January 24, 2015 10:09 PM (hUQVp)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2015 10:10 PM (RzZOc)
Posted by: tbodie at January 24, 2015 10:09 PM (hUQVp)
Your piss papers please.
Posted by: A Pisstapo Officer at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (93D1V)
Vee haff vays uff making you squat.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (yxw0r)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (KH1sk)
Some chocolate covered bunnies would be nice.
http://landingsbirdcam.com/
Posted by: The Owl at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (fBxC6)
Seems to be a lot of problems with low pressure in New England these days...
Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (9F2c1)
So do I, but everything's pretty much melted around here. Today was mild.
I was afraid this winter would be like last year's winter from hell, but so far (knock on wood) it hasn't been nearly as bad.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:12 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:12 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:12 PM (+XMAD)
Early Feb looks brutal for temps.
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (93D1V)
You didn't think I was talking about an AR-15, did you?
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (TwDq4)
I wish Whoreywood would mock Obama the way they mock Kim Jong Un.
Can you imagine if Whoreywood did a film in which Obama is killed?
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (10ydV)
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (93D1V)
CDR M, I just happen to be in Hampton this weekend too. The wife is in town doing a workshop, and I followed her too. Her friend that was supposed to go bailed at the last minute.
Visited the VASC museum. Pretty cool! Lots of nice planes there.
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:14 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:14 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (KH1sk)
I have absolutely no doubt those topics will come up. They're topics personally relevant to me, seeing as how next August I'll have a 3rd grader and a kindergartener.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:14 PM (GEICT)
Guns of Navarrone should be on the short list AFAIC.
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:14 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 10:15 PM (syGA0)
Thanks for mentioning the VASC. I really need to take my kids there. Got it bookmarked now on the computer.
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:15 PM (93D1V)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:15 PM (oFCZn)
I also enjoyed Gettysburg. The individual actors were not exceptional, but overall it was an interesting portrayal of the battle. Missed several important sub-battles, but the ones it focused on were covered very well.
Posted by: CQD at January 24, 2015 10:16 PM (2dzsA)
Posted by: Realistically Colorized Japanese Archer at January 24, 2015 10:16 PM (fBxC6)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:16 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:16 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (T1005)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (AVEe1)
Used to love "Battle of the Bulge," too.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: troyriser at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (ptcFO)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:13 PM (LImiJ)]
Her and Elizabeth Taylor both.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (10ydV)
Ah yes, Guns of Navarone. Forgot about that one.
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (93D1V)
Yeah. Maybe the kid packed it.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 24, 2015 10:18 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:18 PM (V70Uh)
I'm staying at the hotel next to it. Walked over when it opened up. Wanted to watch the space movie in IMAX but I had to get back.
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:18 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:19 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 24, 2015 10:19 PM (Qs8ZN)
Don't worry about the lack of snow in Hampton Roads this year, we haven't gotten any in Roanoke yet. Further south? Yep. Further north? Yep. Roanoke-Blacksburg? Nope.
We did get teased with flurries yesterday morning before it started to pour down rain.
14 years ago we were in the midst of one of the worst droughts ever in the western 1/2 of Virginia. Since 2003? Some of the wettest years on record.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (+Fae7)
I spent the first 10 years of their education trying to enforce respect and cooperation, even when I thought the teacher/school official was not clearly in the right - I felt that was my job as a parent.
However the crazier the demands, the more inappropriate and disrespectful they are with us - the more unwilling I am to put up with it.
Now when my son says "That's stupid" and it is stupid, I say
"yeah, that is stupid. Sorry - in life sometimes you have to navigate stupid people and pick your battles. Just think of this as good practice for when you're an adult and you have to get a building permit from the county. "
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (M/hc7)
Posted by: vizzy at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (VWXUq)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (5f5bM)
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (LImiJ)
Still gorgeous tho......
I wonder what she'd have looked like at about 120 lbs.
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:22 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 10:22 PM (Ae09I)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (5f5bM)
It's been awhile since I watched that one. I need to go and cue it up.
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:22 PM (93D1V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:22 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (LImiJ)
I'll take Tora, Tora, Tora over that one thank you very much.
Posted by: CDR M at January 24, 2015 10:23 PM (93D1V)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (V70Uh)
Word.
Posted by: tbodie at January 24, 2015 10:23 PM (hUQVp)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:23 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:24 PM (LImiJ)
Still gorgeous tho......
I wonder what she'd have looked like at about 120 lbs.
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (MDgS
I'd put her on a high protein diet, IYKWIM...
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 24, 2015 10:24 PM (10ydV)
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 24, 2015 10:24 PM (FUlNJ)
Michael Caine's first big screen role.
He was nearly fired when the producers saw the early rushes, which would have destroyed his career on the launch pad.
Only the early 1960s time lag in comms between London and Kwazulu-Natal saved him. By the time the order to can Caine came in, the field production crew had too much footage including him to back it out.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 24, 2015 10:24 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: SARDiver at January 24, 2015 10:25 PM (Q5bdJ)
Stalag 17
D-Day
Tora, Tora, Tora!
Sahara
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Gone With the Wind
Saving Private Ryan
Great topic. Too many great films to count.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:26 PM (V70Uh)
Still gorgeous tho......
I wonder what she'd have looked like at about 120 lbs.
.....................
I'm going to have to google. What did she weigh? I look like a skeleton at 120.
Posted by: Molly k. at January 24, 2015 10:26 PM (IzS3s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2015 10:26 PM (JO9+V)
I know some Pucketts. They are exactly the sort of people to tell meddling authority to go cfku themselves. And then make it stick.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2015 10:27 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 10:27 PM (Ae09I)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:27 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:27 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Trey Parker, Matt Stone at January 24, 2015 10:27 PM (fBxC6)
Who doesn't like Operation Petticoat?
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:27 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Nikkolai at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (aEfC9)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (Cq0oW)
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Tell me about it, CDR. I walk out back, and it looks like someone installed an acre koi pond while I was at work.
This time last year, we had almost a foot of global warming on the ground.
Evening, all.
Posted by: shredded chi at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (2dN/8)
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (JcN7j)
Paths of Glory and
All Quiet on the Western Front
made their list.
Schindlers' List wasn't there, though.
Posted by: old movies at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (Zv8Cl)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (syGA0)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (vVSOO)
Last winter was the worst one I can remember in a long time. Tons of snow and subzero temps....
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (oFCZn)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/559022898774802432
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/559023500535803905
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/559023865058566144
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/559024489631985665
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 10:31 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:31 PM (LImiJ)
thrilled if my mother had sent me to school with 4 candy bars and Ritz
crackers. I would have traded the pickle and marshmallows for something
else. I only like marshmallows when they're cooked over a fire.
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:09 PM (+XMAD)
NTIM but the doctor dad explained on his FB page that one of the chocolate bars was for her, one for her brother and two for trading. Why am I explaining? THIS IS NOT MY CHILD!
Posted by: ...Bill Cosby, Dad is Great, Gave Us the Chocolate Cake at January 24, 2015 10:31 PM (whMsz)
movie every three or four years, largely to confirm that it is as good
as I remember it. It's a shame Jurgen Prochnow, who played the captain
of the boat, never found another role as rich as the one he played in
that film.
--
Wasn't he in Dune as Leto?
ummm... never mind
Recently I saw director's cut(?) of DB and I did love the added scenes.
Posted by: Lost Tom Servo at January 24, 2015 10:32 PM (Fzw7L)
If you follow the link you see a picture of the perfectly healthy child with her family and an article about how they usually pack a vegetable or fruit but let the child put a pickle in her lunch for a change.
If you've never sent a less than perfect school lunch, then you've probably never actually packed lunches. There's negotiating the child's preferences, there's "oh shit I didn't make it to the grocery last night" and there's "we need to get out the door in 2 minutes or we're late!" But you get the lunches packed day in and day out.
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 10:32 PM (M/hc7)
Best War Movie:
A Bridge Too Far - covers the strategic and operational goals for Market Garden as well as the tactical level problems.
And an amazing score.
http://youtu.be/4Gls47FozfQ
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 10:32 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 10:32 PM (e+1S5)
First would have to be "Das Boot". It's the story of a group of sailors working on a cramped, hot, sweaty submarine with only the support of their fellow sailors. Sleeping in hammocks almost on top of each other, so close that they could feel the hot breath of each other. I only have 3 words to describe it: Dee Lish Ous.
The second is "Operation Petticoat". It's the story of a group of sailors working on a cramped, hot, sweaty submarine with only the support of thier fellow sailors. They have to pick up a school of fish (pew) and transport them, but these sailors decide to let their freak flag fly and paint their submarine pink. This one gets the famous two snaps up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWdL9mrYNmQ
Posted by: Antoine Merriwether at January 24, 2015 10:32 PM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 10:32 PM (Ae09I)
Posted by: SARDiver at January 24, 2015 10:33 PM (Q5bdJ)
Ooh, "The Bedford Incident" with Richard Widmark is another good one.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:33 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:33 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: CQD at January 24, 2015 10:16 PM (2dzsA)
I went to that because I enjoy history. However, I didn't realize that it was, what, 4 hours long. It was good enough that it kept my attention for the full four hours.
Posted by: Zombie Margaret Sanger at January 24, 2015 10:33 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (vVSOO)
I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago. I absolutely loved it! I knew of Alan Turing as the father of early computing, but really didn't have any info beyond that. Pure genius on the hoof, this guy was. Go to see it. You won't be sorry.
Posted by: TX ette at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (sUJHF)
Posted by: Old Blue at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (tBSrv)
I'd be walking dead at 120. I'm a solid 190-195 now and I thiink I look best at 180. Muscles and boobs.
Posted by: Gingy at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (WvS3w)
Crimson Tide.
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: old movies at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (Zv8Cl)
While it took place during WWII, I think they're defining war movies as ones with combat scenes. In Schlinder's List, you saw soldiers murdering unarmed civilians, not fighting other troops.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (+XMAD)
Not from a child's POV of course. I would have been thrilled if my mother had sent me to school with 4 candy bars and Ritz crackers. I would have traded the pickle and marshmallows for something else. I only like marshmallows when they're cooked over a fire.
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In the linked article, the dad says that not only was the teacher being an annoying busybody, but they also got the contents of the lunch wrong. He said there were ham slices, and possibly some other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head. And no crackers. A few marshmallows were present, as was three pieces of chocolate. The latter was split between the girl, her brother, and a friend (and the friend's parents were aware that their kid was being given chocolate).
Posted by: junior at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (N+HLW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: Lee Marvin at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (fBxC6)
Posted by: CMU VET at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (ejB0r)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (oFCZn)
Cause and effect IMO - I think a lot of great beauties end up as walking surgical scars. Too bad they think their lives are over if their looks go.
Posted by: no one of consequence at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (whMsz)
Now I'm drinking bourbon.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (e+1S5)
I'd have voted for it to take the whole kit and kaboodle.
My choice for WWII would be A Bridge Too Far, also not listed.
When I check the results, Saving Private Ryan had a huge lead. I can go with that from what was listed. But the Vietnam choices were pathetic.
The Green Berets by far.
At least the movie with Demi Moore as a SEAL wasn't listed. Or was it?
Posted by: i like anchors at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (6E2VN)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (MDgS8)
I didn't follow the link. Thanks for clarifying that.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:36 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 10:36 PM (Ae09I)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (pJs3P)
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Proving or refuting my point? I haven't seen that one.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:36 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 24, 2015 10:36 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: eman at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: awkward davies at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (Z+Mqb)
Posted by: vizzy at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (VWXUq)
Posted by: eman at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (pJs3P)
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Proving or refuting my point? I haven't seen that one.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:36 PM (KH1sk)
Proving.
Crimson Tide was awesome.
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (syGA0)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:37 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: eman at January 24, 2015 10:38 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:38 PM (pJs3P)
Public schools are no longer schools. Insofar as they ever were.
They are now welfare disbursement agencies, leftist indoctrination centers, and government agenda enforcers.
The piece that ran a few days ago in the WaPo was just jaw-dropping in terms of the "family" dysfunction which is revealed via the public schools.
One teacher profiled is described as having had to stock "a drawer with clean socks, underwear, pants and shoes" for the kids who show up without any of those.
Wait, aren't Mom and Dad supposed to provide that stuff? Or at least Mom, since the system pushes dads out of the picture? No. In the modern era of eleven thousand dollars per year per pupil, that's the job of classroom teachers.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mq8g4ag
But it's actually worse than that. I make it a point to read the UK press because it's a preview of coming attractions. Damn near every horrible problem the US has today, the UK has already had 15 or 20 years ago. They're just ahead on the decay curve.
There are articles in the UK about underclass children now showing up to school _not even knowing their own names_.
The welfare state has gotten to where the human brood mares on the dole will crank out these luckless bairns to get the benefits check, and then so totally ignore them that the kids arrive in schools not even really able to speak, let alone ready to learn to read.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 24, 2015 10:38 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: awkward davies at January 24, 2015 10:38 PM (Z+Mqb)
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The movie scene I was haunted by was the little boy sliding down banister and getting impaled on the spiked fence in Hitchcock's Spellbound.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (GEICT)
Yeah. Maybe the kid packed it.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 24, 2015 10:18 PM (9BRsg)
If you read the full story, the school's letter is wrong about the contents of her lunch. Go figure.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (mx5oN)
I couldn't even narrow it down to a top five.
The Patriot, We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down, Green Berets, Sands of Iwo Jima, the first half of FMJ....probably another twenty or so I'm missing.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (KH1sk)
Now I'm drinking bourbon.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (e+1S5)
Did you see the new show that's on Travel Channel? Booze Traveler. Some guy gets to tour the world and drink booze every episode!
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (oFCZn)
Cause and effect IMO - I think a lot of great beauties end up as walking surgical scars. Too bad they think their lives are over if their looks go.
Posted by: no one of consequence at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (whMsz)
In her case it was more poor health. She almost died numerous times, supposedly, from myriad conditions. Had lots of surgeries.
Not saying she didn't have the plastic stuff done, but I think her poor health and the numerous operations really ruined her looks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (LImiJ)
Every time I see that I jump out of my seat!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 10:20 PM (M/hc7)
Or have a stupid boss. I had to work for a woman who was an incompetent, alcoholic, man-hating bitch. There was a young, pretty, petite, red headed gal that she took a particular hate to. Fortunately she was fired within a year. The pretty red head was not sad to see her go.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (DXcH1)
Didn't see Master and Commander on the list.
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (+XMAD)
Thanks for posting that, Old Blue!
Posted by: old movies at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (Zv8Cl)
The landing at Omaha Beach had to be the most historically accurate portrayal of it ever.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (4gN5w)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM
There are other movies that the subject/war/campaign etc interests me more... and are also truly monumental works of film, that I would PREFER to nominate. But, I have to be objective. LOA is an unmatched masterpice. It really is that good. Even without the "war film" tag, it sits near the top of movies, period.
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (tBSrv)
Posted by: Marmaduke at January 24, 2015 10:42 PM (mx5oN)
Vee haff vays uff making you squat.
.
Snort
Posted by: Javems at January 24, 2015 10:42 PM (ZnvRl)
Lucky bastard.
Is it like that show where they had the stuffed monkey named Plepleus and just got shit faced in a different city every episode?
What the hell was that show called?
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 10:42 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (MDgS
I read a story once about what she and her mother went through during world war II. I think they lived in the Netherlands during Nazi occupation. She ended up malnourished. Maybe she never got all her weight back.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:42 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: Lee Marvin at January 24, 2015 10:34 PM (fBxC6)
A/k/a my wang.
Posted by: Marmaduke at January 24, 2015 10:42 PM (mx5oN)
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No, that's Clifford.
Posted by: Gingy at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (WvS3w)
The landing at Omaha Beach had to be the most historically accurate portrayal of it ever.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (V70Uh)
My favorite scene is at the radar tower when Hanks explains who he is in real life and talks about how can he go home and tell his wife about days like today.
That resonates a lot because how many times (here on the blog too) do you hear someone talking about a veteran in the family who never talked about what happened over there?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (KlVdw)
He was a randy old guy.
Posted by: Minnie the Moocher at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (eeTCA)
The first half or so is unmatched.
Then, IMO, it went downhill.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (+XMAD)
If you read the note carefully, you will notice that it says the child's lunch "included" the various things listed afterwards, not that that the lunch consisted only of them. I think that just makes it worse, though.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (TwDq4)
Posted by: Gollum Was Framed at January 24, 2015 10:43 PM (fBxC6)
"Battle of Britain"
Posted by: The Great White Snark
And Susannah York in her Assault Knickers:
http://tinyurl.com/kbn7orm
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (e+1S5)
I mean the first half hour. The beach landing is indeed a harrowing scene.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (V70Uh)
You don't have to shovel rain.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (DXcH1)
Platoon is a ridiculous movie, but I was floored the first time in the scene where they are ambushed, and Oliver Stone moves the camera angle down to 4" off the ground, which is where you actually observe combat.
And some of the details in Private Ryan haunted me for several days afterwards -- the pinging of bullets off the beach obstacles in the background sound, the contempt for the REMFs shaving and making coffee in Tom Hanks' face when he visits the battalion CP after losing his company.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (5f5bM)
Lawrence of Arabia. Mentioned this one ONT before, but you can tour the Wadi Rum, where the scenes of Lawrence's rallying the Howeitat tribesmen on horseback to take Aqaba were filmed, with grandson of one of those who rode with Lawrence and Abu al-Tay'i (Anthony Quinn). And it's as beautiful as it looks in the movie. (Aqaba's actually not as scenic as the Spanish coastal town that stood in for it in the movie, but it's nice)
Das Boot, esp. the original release with only sub-titles, for sure. Believe we have a moron here whose father was crew on a U-boat (Capt. ???). Would love to hear his reaction to that movie.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 10:45 PM (afQnV)
Also, Obama's socialist buddy, Botox queen Cristina Kirchner, had special prosecutor Alberto Nisman murdered last week, but that should be obvious to anyone with a brain who gives a shit by now. Not that we care about the rule of law anymore ....
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 10:46 PM (bS6uW)
The Sand Pebbles
Was a thing back in days both the novel and the movie. But for some reason never gets mentioned much.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 10:46 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: CMU VET at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (ejB0r)"
You can buy a machine to transfer the VHS tape to a DVD burner.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:46 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (V70Uh)
You don't have to shovel rain.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (DXcH1)
Shit, I've been doing it wrong all these years!
Posted by: Insomniac at January 24, 2015 10:46 PM (mx5oN)
Oh, so SOMEbody read the rules, or something! Thanks for the clarification, Donna&&&&
Posted by: old movies at January 24, 2015 10:47 PM (Zv8Cl)
Posted by: Minnie the Moocher at January 24, 2015 10:47 PM (eeTCA)
Yes, Breaker Morant is a great film.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:47 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2015 10:48 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Gingy at January 24, 2015 10:48 PM (WvS3w)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2015 10:48 PM (eeTCA)
Funny how good war movies used to be when Hollywood actually had people who loved their country
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 10:48 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (oFCZn)
Big boobehs and a gorgeous face.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (Ae09I)
Yes, Breaker Morant is a great film.
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:47 PM
It is indeed.
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (tBSrv)
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (9BRsg)
http://tinyurl.com/kbn7orm
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Yeah, that scene "haunted" my boyhood, too.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 10:50 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 10:50 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: eman at January 24, 2015 10:50 PM (MQEz6)
How about Dr. Zhivago? Ok, not a war movie but Julie Christie......Yowza!
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 10:50 PM (syGA0)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2015 10:51 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 10:51 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: old movies at January 24, 2015 10:51 PM (Zv8Cl)
The Beast 1988
A bunch of Afgans pursue a lost Soviet tank.
Adapted from a play, and a good movie in it's day. Lost a lot of it's appeal after 9-11 when it became impossible to sympathize with the mujis.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 10:52 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Garrett at January 24, 2015 10:52 PM (81OM+)
Posted by: davidt at January 24, 2015 10:53 PM (fBxC6)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 10:53 PM (bS6uW)
The Beast 1988
A bunch of Afgans pursue a lost Soviet tank.
Adapted from a play, and a good movie in it's day. Lost a lot of it's appeal after 9-11 when it became impossible to sympathize with the mujis.
"RPG. Kaboom. Tank."
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 10:53 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 10:49 PM (GrXXa)
Saw that one in a hotel room with my parents during a family vacation.
The exploding head shot nearly caused me to spew and I think my mother almost passed out.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:53 PM (oFCZn)
Here's common sense regarding the kid's lunch. If the kid isn't fat, you assume that she doesn't normally eat 4 candy bars and a bag of marshmallows for lunch. I would have assumed that for some reason the kid packed her own lunch, and that this would not be an ongoing problem. School personnel need to worry more about all the kids they have that aren't functioning like they should academically, and stop insulting parents.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:53 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: Tmitsss at January 24, 2015 10:54 PM (Pa9vP)
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I love that movie. It is one of those movies I loved as a kid then saw as an adult and understood so much more of it. The Bridge On the River Kwai is another such movie.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:54 PM (LImiJ)
There is a Beylorussian movie called "Come and See" that will curl your hair. The Eastern Front was a bad, bad place to be.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 24, 2015 10:41 PM (l3vZN)
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I highly recommend "The Ascent" (1977) for a look at partisan life in the USSR.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 24, 2015 10:54 PM (5f5bM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2015 10:48 PM (eeTCA)
I'm thinking a lot and God bless all of them.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:55 PM (oFCZn)
Can no one rid us of this troublesome ginger?
Anyone else follow the nuclear war between Dana Loesch and Charles (not the LGF one) Johnson this afternoon?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:55 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 10:55 PM (kdS6q)
We don't cover Wisconsin.
Posted by: Lunch Czarina at January 24, 2015 10:55 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 10:55 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:56 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:56 PM (V70Uh)
Seems to be a lot of problems with low pressure in New England these days...
Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at January 24, 2015 10:11 PM (9F2c1)
Thread winner!
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 10:56 PM (sdi6R)
There is a Beylorussian movie called "Come and See" that will curl your hair. The Eastern Front was a bad, bad place to be.
Oh yeah I've seen that one.
The scene with the kid running away and in the background there's a pile of bodies on the side of the house.
And the last part. Where the Krauts fire the village.
Horrific and not for the weak of heart.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:57 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 24, 2015 10:57 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: fluffy at January 24, 2015 10:57 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 10:57 PM (bS6uW)
"Gallipoli" - the Australian regiment that got caught in a meat grinder in WW I with then unknown Mel Gibson
"Enemy At The Gate" about Russian sniper Vasily Zatsev at Stalingrad
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 10:57 PM (GrXXa)
Midway deserved to be on the war movie list
Posted by: Tmitsss
Midway is on another whole level of perfect. More than a movie, it's a Gospel. After scores of viewings I've got it pretty much memorized.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 10:57 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:30 PM (oFCZn)
Cause and effect IMO - I think a lot of great beauties end up as walking surgical scars. Too bad they think their lives are over if their looks go.
Posted by: no one of consequence at January 24, 2015 10:35 PM (whMsz)
In her case it was more poor health. She almost died numerous times, supposedly, from myriad conditions. Had lots of surgeries.
Not saying she didn't have the plastic stuff done, but I think her poor health and the numerous operations really ruined her looks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (oFCZn)
Booze and pills.
By the 70's, she couldn't even function because she was drunk and high 24/7.
When John Warner ran for US Senate in 78, the big draw for him at fundraisers was OMG Elizabeth Taylor was gonna be there!!!! She never was because she was "under the weather".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 10:58 PM (+Fae7)
The Sand Pebbles was nominated for a metric-shit-ton of awards.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:58 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: The Vapors at January 24, 2015 10:59 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 10:59 PM (bS6uW)
sliding down banister and getting impaled on the spiked fence in
Hitchcock's Spellbound.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:39 PM (LImiJ)
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Yep that and one other: the scene in the original (bw) The Desperate Hours when the girl stabs the intruder in the eyes and his face is a mass of blood and eye ooze. How did they get away w/ that graphic stuff way back then?
Posted by: still shuddering at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (whMsz)
Oh God yes. I actually saw this one in the theater when I was a kid.
The last ten minutes will fucking tear your heart out. I occasionally go on youtube and watch the final part of the movie just so I don't forget.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (MDgS8)
*sigh*
What happened?
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (pJs3P)
Then I started thinking of movies they left out, which I see y'all have been discussing. Has anyone mentioned Gettysburg?
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:01 PM (sdi6R)
Not saying she didn't have the plastic stuff done, but I think her
poor health and the numerous operations really ruined her looks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (oFCZn)
...................
OK wow I didn't know that. Yeeks.
Posted by: no one of consequence at January 24, 2015 11:01 PM (whMsz)
One day a guy comes in the museum wearing a WWII Vet/P-47 hat, so I jokingly say "well that means you weren't shot down" and he laughs "yes I was!". March '45 in Europe, he was put in the one of the five Luftstalags in one area that included "The Great Escape" camp for hardcases.
Old friend who enlisted in the Marines a month before Pearl Harbor appears in a brief segment of The Shores of Tripoli, released in 1942. He also used to race motorcycles alongside McQueen in the 50s (Lake Elsinore).
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:01 PM (afQnV)
My sister works as an aide in a public school. In the middle of winter, they have 5 year olds coming to school without mittens, boots, and so on. They're getting more and more kids who are so screwed up that they have to picked up and hauled to the office. They hit teachers, throw furniture, spit at teachers, are completely defiant. These are 5 and 6 year olds.
Our welfare system pays the dumbest, most irresponsible people to have kids, and the results are one hundred percent predictable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 11:01 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: racism, racism, and more racism at January 24, 2015 11:02 PM (8CdUx)
170 67 Rain is fine with me. I hate snow and ice. Just too effing cold.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 10:21 PM (V70Uh)
You don't have to shovel rain.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:44 PM (DXcH1)
Shit, I've been doing it wrong all these years!
Posted by: Insomniac at January 24, 2015 10:46 PM (mx5oN)
We could stand a metric buttload of either, here in California -- soon to be known as Calidesertia.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:02 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Farmer at January 24, 2015 11:03 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 10:40 PM (DXcH1)
Unfortunately there are a large number of folks who like to gin up trouble rather than take any effort to be of help. Our current "Victim adulation" society is increasing this by leaps and bounds.
I'm particularly enraged and disturbed by the lazy thugs that run and ruin our education system for the following reasons:
1. I had a wonderful experience with my small town public education. Books saved my life and I had teachers that made me excited to learn. I naturally looked forward to sharing this experience with my own children.
2. My children have had profoundly disappointing experiences in school, to my great sadness. We have had difficult years navigating teachers that were at best profoundly lazy and poorly educated and at worst hysterical, shrewish, bitter harpies like the "lunch reporter" above. I moved my kids into private education at great expense, with only marginal improvement. I still socialize with the 3-4 excellent teachers they had along the way, but oy vey the bad ones suck the life out of you and your kids.
Maybe one positive - my son who is very bright and capable is completely unimpressed with ivory towers and over-priced education. He's very patriotic and much more conservative than I was at his age - he seems to have a good BS detector. He has decided he can direct his own learning without racking up huge debt.
I wanted my kids to get a life-long love of learning from their teachers, but what he got is not the way I did. He may chose to keep learning so he won't be stupid and incompetent like so many of the teachers he's had.
I guess everyone in life can teach you something even if it's just how not to be.
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 11:03 PM (M/hc7)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 11:03 PM (Ae09I)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 24, 2015 11:03 PM (nL0sw)
I was only 11.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 24, 2015 11:03 PM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: still shuddering at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (whMsz)
Eye violence? I'll give you eye violence. Watch it to the end.
NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjv3iixAe0
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (oFCZn)
Maybe the Rub' al Cali?
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (bS6uW)
Oh yeah. What a godawful mess that was.
I believe that was Gibson's first movie. Very young and still with the Aussie accent. (I think the director was the same guy who did "The Year of Living Dangerously" one of my all time favorite romantic/action movies.)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2015 11:05 PM (eeTCA)
Enemy at the Gate's first 15 minutes is the closest eastern front equivalent we have to the opening Omaha beach scene of Saving Private Ryan. Not as well done of course but intense and fairly accurate.
Speaking of Stalingrad, the 1993 German movie of that name is pretty good - and pretty overwhelming. The 2013 Russian version is OK, but more Hollywood and less epic/searing experience.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:05 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:05 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: davidt at January 24, 2015 11:06 PM (fBxC6)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (pJs3P)
He and Dana got into a war on twitter. He was calling her a fraud and a liar and saying that he knew "everything" about her and was going to ruin her. Blah blah blah.
She basically said "then post it, bitch" about 47 times.
His response was more or less "You can't tell me what to do!"
He finally did post something and, God help me, I went to his site and read. Rambling, barely coherent mess. She responded.
He's just a fucking troll. Worthless.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:06 PM (GEICT)
Yes, we just want acceptance, not to piss on your religious beliefs, sayeth teh Ghey.
Golly, why didn't they travel to Mecca and do this on the Kaba?
Posted by: Sharkman at January 24, 2015 11:06 PM (hk/xA)
Can no one rid us of this troublesome ginger?
Anyone else follow the nuclear war between Dana Loesch and Charles (not the LGF one) Johnson this afternoon?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 10:55 PM (GEICT)
I'm almost getting the feeling that he is running some kind of false flag operation. He started out attacking the left, but not too personally. Then he really goes after those on the center-right to right side with a vendetta that looks and sounds personal.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:07 PM (+Fae7)
Ah, gee, there aren't any rules. I just personally think (and feel free to disagree with me) that Holocaust movies are sort of sub-genre of their own. Once you include Schlinder's List as a war film, you'd have to include "Sophie's Choice," "The Sorrow and the Pity," "Seven Beauties" etc.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:07 PM (+XMAD)
The sad truth of college:
http://bit.ly/1EHbuLU
Posted by: The Collegiate Hat at January 24, 2015 11:08 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:08 PM (+XMAD)
Seriously? I don't care about his sexual preferences but what a douche.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:09 PM (bS6uW)
Word. My service was peace time, but I thought it really captured the social dynamics of an infantry platoon.
Oliver Stone's "Platoon"? GFY.
Posted by: fluffy at January 24, 2015 11:09 PM (Ua6T/)
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Ingun hiding in the Chuck wagon got him.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 11:09 PM (LImiJ)
Posted by: Tmitsss at January 24, 2015 11:09 PM (Pa9vP)
Ooh, ooh. ooh, Mr. Kotter! Mr. Kotter!
Cause they didn't want to be stoned to death?
Posted by: Arnold Horschak at January 24, 2015 11:09 PM (V70Uh)
I had to explain why the troops were being locked into the rail cars and it just got worse from there.
She knew all about the Pacific theatre and what Japan had done, not so much on the Germans and the Russians
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (afQnV)
One thing is that they used real airplanes for the dogfights. In "Pearl Harbor" it was all CGI.
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Alfred at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (fBxC6)
Movie -- broadly interpreted,
Saka no Ue no Kumo
Japanese TV mini-series of the story of the Japanese military in the Meiji Era up thru the Russo-Japanese War.
A fascinating view of an obscure era of history, in the West at least. Covers the politics and social effects, as well as the land and sea battles. The series climax at the Battle of Tsushima is amazing.
Well worth tracking down.
Clip: http://youtu.be/KFfiNM2o-BM
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Lost Tom Servo at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (oF6oK)
He finally did post something and, God help me, I went to his site and read. Rambling, barely coherent mess. She responded.
He's just a fucking troll. Worthless.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:06 PM (GEICT)
Hell, he posted the hacked nudes of Dana. That's worth something.
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: The Kirksville Primary School Food Nazis at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (syGA0)
NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjv3iixAe0
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (oFCZn)
Poseur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJZ-fmjDQRw
Posted by: Luis Buñuel at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:07 PM (+Fae7)
I don't know what the fuck he's doing, but lately he seems to enjoy going after women. Holly Fisher, now Dana.
Dana pegged him right when she called him "Gossip King".
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Tuna at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (JSovD)
Sam= a shitty player who is trying to extend his 15 minutes of fame because he can't cut it in the NFL.
End of story.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (+XMAD)
Eye violence? I'll give you eye violence!
Heh. One day my wife and daughter were having a convo about makeup. I was nearby half-listening when the wife sez "You know what would really bring out your eyes?"
And I said "a melonballer"
blink blink.
I thought it was hysterical, and was surprised at the response.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (XmOA9)
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM
Gallipoli wasn't Gibson's first and he did Max Max before Gallipoli, which was directed by Peter Weir who did the great Master and Commander. Can't remember who did "The Year of...".
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 11:12 PM (tBSrv)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:12 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (zxCGA)
Wait....what?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:13 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:13 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: fluffy at January 24, 2015 11:13 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 11:03 PM (Ae09I)
Hell your metabolism alone at that age would burn that off.
I was the same: skinny.
Really skinny.
I weighed 120 in high school.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:14 PM (oFCZn)
http://bit.ly/1EHbuLU
Posted by: The Collegiate Hat at January 24, 2015 11:08 PM (0Ew3K)
Is it sad that I'm laughing at that cartoon? A lot of truth there.
My husband and I are both in professions that require lifelong learning. I enjoy going to a course or listening to a lecture series and reading new articles and books. It is a rush to learn something new and even more of a rush when you use that thing to be of service to another human being.
So sad that the official purveyors of education have lost that passion.
Posted by: Jade Sea at January 24, 2015 11:14 PM (M/hc7)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 10:59 PM (bS6uW)
As big a deal as was made over Patton slapping the soldier in the hospital, in the beginning of Enemy At The Gates the Russians are crossing the Volga under shelling. Panicking Russians jumping overboard were shot at by their own officers.
In the first firefight scene, Russian units did not have nearly enough rifles for every soldier, so unarmed troops would run behind and pick up the rifle of a dead comrade. Any Russian losing his nerve was mowed down by his own units which pretty much assured that the Russian assaults would keep moving forward.
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 11:14 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:13 PM (bS6uW)
*leans in*
Tell me more...
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:14 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Wimpy at January 24, 2015 11:14 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:05 PM
The 1993 Stalingrad is very, very good.
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (tBSrv)
The tank turret flings open, the commander stands up, throws up his arms, and greets one of the civilians - a relative! A plausible, and yet outrageous, scene.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 11:12 PM (tBSrv)
Also Peter Weir.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (+XMAD)
"Year of Living Dangerously". Great movie and Mel Gidson was drop dead gorgeous when he was young.
Posted by: Tuna at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (JSovD)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:06 PM (GEICT)
That Chuck Johnson guy? Not a troll, I don't think. Seems like he has genuinely serious mental health issues. Emanates that out-of-kilter weirdness you get from old guys at bus stops who claim they knew Elvis growing up.
Posted by: troyriser at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (ptcFO)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:16 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: torquewrench at January 24, 2015 10:38 PM (noWW6)
My sister works as an aide in a public school. In the middle of
winter, they have 5 year olds coming to school without mittens, boots,
and so on. They're getting more and more kids who are so screwed up that
they have to picked up and hauled to the office. They hit teachers,
throw furniture, spit at teachers, are completely defiant. These are 5
and 6 year olds.
Our welfare system pays the dumbest, most irresponsible people to
have kids, and the results are one hundred percent predictable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 11:01 PM (DXcH1)
Don't forget that many of the more responsible parents are pulling their kids out in favor of private schools and homeschooling. It's not just supply, there's filtering.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:16 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:16 PM (zxCGA)
Gibson did the voice of Max in the American dubbed version. He lived in New York until he was about 8, IIRC.
Posted by: fluffy at January 24, 2015 11:16 PM (Ua6T/)
Twelve O'Clock High was good, too.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:17 PM (LImiJ)
Yeah, Twelve O'Clock High is my favorite. The list seems to be light on pre-60's. Best Years of Our Lives was really good too. And Stripes, of course.
Posted by: duke at January 24, 2015 11:16 PM (enhDu)
Link may be screwy.
http://tinyurl.com/p6rmudb
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (zxCGA)
I move to ban RWC.
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:16 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM
Ak, ok. It was Weir. Thanks.
Posted by: otho at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (tBSrv)
Hell, he posted the hacked nudes of Dana. That's worth something.
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (zxCGA)
The what what what?
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (sdi6R)
Link may be screwy.
http://tinyurl.com/p6rmudb
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (zxCGA)
ಠ_ಠ
Posted by: Rick Astley at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: davidt at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (fBxC6)
Oh yeah. What a godawful mess that was.
I believe that was Gibson's first movie. Very young and still with the Aussie accent. (I think the director was the same guy who did "The Year of Living Dangerously" one of my all time favorite romantic/action movies.)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (+XMAD)
Yeah Mark Lee was supposed to be the breakout star in that movie but Gibson got all the attention.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (zxCGA)
I don't know who you are and I don't know why you did that, but I'm going to find you...and I'm going to kill you.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: chuckr at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (6Q/zI)
http://tinyurl.com/llsbxky
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (eeTCA)
Posted by: biancaneve at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (6Turu)
We could stand a metric buttload of either, here in California -- soon to be known as Calidesertia.
Maybe the Rub' al Cali?
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (bS6uW)
That was better than mine.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (T1005)
Link may be screwy.
http://tinyurl.com/p6rmudb
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (zxCGA)
DAMN YOU TO HELL SIR!
LOL!
Man rolled hard on that.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (afQnV)
One of my favorites. Top fifty or so.
Lots of great ones mentioned thus far.
Posted by: i like anchors at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (6E2VN)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Joe 'Two-Flasks' Biden at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (6CTxJ)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (pJs3P)
Not little green turdballs.
The CJ Johnson who has been all over Ferguson.
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:17 PM (pJs3P)
Not the one with the ponytail and the bicycle. The other one, the self-styled newsman who thinks he's the Edward Morrow of the Internets.
Posted by: troyriser at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (ptcFO)
Posted by: TJ at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (GLL1E)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (pJs3P)
I haven't seen the whole thing, but other scenes that I did see were very good. From what I've read, the Hitler Youtube meme overwhelms the fact that it was an excellent movie
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (GrXXa)
Yes they do.
Charge unarmed...because the person in front of you will die and you can pick up their weapon.
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (zxCGA)
Damage marble? What kind of pressure do you pee out, Hoss?
Posted by: fluffy at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:15 PM (afQnV)
That story reminds me of something I read a while back about the chef Pierre Franey, who used to be on Julia Child's show from time to time. He came to America for the 1939 World's Fair, stayed and joined the US Army. He was marching through his hometown in France with his platoon and saw his mother in a crowd on the sidewalk. She was waving a makeshift American flag as he went by. He was covered with mud. She didn't recognize him.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: ALH at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (btTLZ)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (bS6uW)
That was better than mine.
Thanks. Crown Reserve is a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (bS6uW)
Only the Horde. Heh.
Posted by: still shuddering at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (whMsz)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (zxCGA)
Link?
For research use on this feud.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (+Fae7)
That Chuck Johnson guy? Not a troll, I don't think. Seems like he has genuinely serious mental health issues. Emanates that out-of-kilter weirdness you get from old guys at bus stops who claim they knew Elvis growing up.
Posted by: troyriser
Yep. Creepy.
Also lay dollars to donuts he follows the same trajectory of the other Chuck Johnson. Conservative hero of the day who doesn't feel he's appreciated enough, morphs into rage queen spending the rest of his life frothing at the Right.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 24, 2015 11:22 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2015 11:22 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: Tuna at January 24, 2015 11:22 PM (JSovD)
I pick sides in meaningless internet fights based on who has the better tits. So I'm fully Team Dana.
Plus that Chuck dude just seems like a guy I'd kinda like to hit in the face really hard.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 11:23 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: ALH at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (btTLZ)
No she died last year or the year before.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:23 PM (oFCZn)
312 War of the Roses.
Best. War. Movie. EVER.
Posted by: Joe 'Two-Flasks' Biden at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (6CTxJ)
Seconded.
Posted by: ALH at January 24, 2015 11:23 PM (btTLZ)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 11:23 PM (e+1S5)
With a 2x4. Repeatedly.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:23 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:04 PM (+XMAD)
"The Year of Living Dangerously" is a good movie.Also makes one wonder what the heck Obama's Momma was doing moving there Barry in the middle of that mess. That part of Barry's past is enough not to vote for him.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 24, 2015 11:23 PM (NaeCR)
Link?
For research use on this feud.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:21 PM (+Fae7)
#283
*hold my beer and watch this*
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (zxCGA)
Sitting on the computer all the time really screws with your memory.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (Dwehj)
A strategy proven time and time again!
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (pJs3P)
A grotesque illustration of the violent evil that was Stalinist totalitarianism.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:18 PM (afQnV)
The Eastern Front was especially brutal because you had two totalitarian systems fighting each other, neither of which had any regard for individuals. Heaven help the civilians who were caught between them.
I remember reading that after the Holodomor, the Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators. While I can't blame them, that's pretty hard to wrap my mind around.
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:25 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Bunky at January 24, 2015 11:25 PM (OGcwf)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:25 PM (+XMAD)
A strategy proven time and time again!
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (pJs3P)
Thank God we have kbdabear to remind us of what's really important.
He's like the priest of AOSHQ but with 250% more titty pics.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 24, 2015 11:26 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: TJ at January 24, 2015 11:19 PM (GLL1E)
German toilets have a weird design intented to facilitate examination of their stool:
http://tinyurl.com/rjlwq
Posted by: The Handle-Jiggling Hat at January 24, 2015 11:26 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:25 PM (bS6uW)
Someone asked that exact question earlier this afternoon.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:26 PM (GEICT)
A bicycle built for two?
Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 24, 2015 11:27 PM (Dwehj)
I have a problem with people who wreck other people's homes.
As a sin, it's one of the Top Ten.
Posted by: ALH at January 24, 2015 11:27 PM (btTLZ)
Must have been holding it in for a while.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 24, 2015 11:27 PM (W5DcG)
"Blood Lands" is a very apt term for Eastern European and the USSR at that time in history.
Good God, am I glad my grandparents got the f out of there.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:27 PM (+XMAD)
You want to talk about the ultimate "rooting for injuries".
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:28 PM (GEICT)
Ah, yes. Grace Kelly and William Holden, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: Tuna at January 24, 2015 11:28 PM (JSovD)
The only good thing about Ginger Johnson is that he drives his fatassed ponytailed namesake into Captain Ahab level obsession over "exposing" him
I'd like to lock both of them into a death cage match and shoot whomever walks out of the cage when the match ends
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 11:28 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:28 PM (+XMAD)
Awesome flic. The theater was almost full for our showing at 2 pm. The theater had two of their auditoriums showing the movie. When we left, there was a long line of folks waiting to go in for the next showing.
Posted by: ALH at January 24, 2015 11:30 PM (btTLZ)
Posted by: Chuckles Johnson at January 24, 2015 11:30 PM (Dwehj)
Kate Upton?
Who dat?
I give you Charlotte McKinney (being pushed as the new Kate)
http://tinyurl.com/ovt6lg7
Yes please
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:31 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 11:28 PM (GrXXa)
Ginger would finish off ponytail.
Note to self: if you meet any Chas. Johnsons in future, run like hell.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:31 PM (+XMAD)
This is pissing off the left as much as Passion of the Christ did.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 24, 2015 11:32 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 11:32 PM (syGA0)
Dana pegged him right when she called him "Gossip King".
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:11 PM (GEICT)
Deciding to out someone who had an affair is pretty shitty. That is the kind of shit that has consequences that will innocents, but Johnson seems to be the type that doesn't give a shit.
I would bet AB would punch him in the nuts.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:32 PM (+Fae7)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:33 PM (T1005)
Getting way tired of this continuous warthog debate.
If the groundpounders want the warthog - give them the f-ing warthog. As many as they want - or more.
Posted by: phaedrus at January 24, 2015 11:33 PM (43xOp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 24, 2015 11:32 PM (W5DcG)
Many sheep hate the sheepdogs.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:33 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:31 PM (zxCGA)
Her eyes weird me out. Reminiscent of Sondra Locke.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 24, 2015 11:34 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:32 PM (+Fae7)
Oh, don't you know, he worked for AB. He screams that at every opportunity. They were great friends. Supposedly. According to the Ginger.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:34 PM (GEICT)
I'd have to agree with that. Ponytail is after all a major pussy.
Ginger should have to face Conor McGregor afterward though.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:35 PM (bS6uW)
Time to put DC's Law of Internet Fights to the test.
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (Ae09I)
Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators. While I can't blame them,
that's pretty hard to wrap my mind around.
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (sdi6R)
After Stalin, anything sounded good.
Also (not to generate a row here), but the Ukrainians are pretty anti-Semitic, and the Holodomor, albeit ordered by Stalin, was orchestrated Genrik Yagoda, the founder of the NKVD and a MOT, as were a substantial fraction of the NKVD's top brass.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (afQnV)
Yep and It went well, right up to the point when the SS started shooting them and transporting the survivors to death camps. Kind of went downhill from there.
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (syGA0)
I hear the Germans are taking care of this problem.
Posted by: tbodie at January 24, 2015 11:37 PM (hUQVp)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 24, 2015 11:34 PM (nL0sw)
Elbows are pointy as hell too
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:37 PM (zxCGA)
I'd say yes for pre-cooked but I don't think I can eat a whole elephant seal, do you think anyone would want to go in on it in shares?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2015 11:37 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 24, 2015 11:37 PM (L6/+u)
Your ideas have merit. Do you, perchance, have a newsletter or other publication to which one such as myself may subscribe?
Bonus points if said publication has cheesecake pics.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 11:38 PM (e+1S5)
ctulhu, where, down at San Simeon? that's a bit of a haul (no pun intended) for you .....
Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (afQnV)
Ano Nuevo.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:38 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:39 PM (zxCGA)
face is a mass of blood and eye ooze. How did they get away w/ that
graphic stuff way back then?
Posted by: still shuddering at January 24, 2015 11:00 PM (whMsz)
The audience weren't pussies.
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 24, 2015 11:39 PM (4y6pr)
Posted by: lurking grandma at January 24, 2015 11:40 PM (2VaQu)
Posted by: fluffy at January 24, 2015 11:40 PM (Ua6T/)
"please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!!
Love, Dropkick Murphys"
Posted by: Thrawn at January 24, 2015 11:41 PM (d7XFS)
I give her a solid meh. Those fun bags are gonna be real floppy by the time she's 35. And her face looks...I dunno...just, weird.
Don't get me wrong, I won't kick her out bed for eating crackers, but she's not the hottest girl even in my little city. Granted, my little city includes Cougar, so that skews the curve.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 11:42 PM (e+1S5)
Cthulhu, what are my options? Is steaked out an option or do I have to take it hanging?
I'd
say yes for pre-cooked but I don't think I can eat a whole elephant
seal, do you think anyone would want to go in on it in shares?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2015 11:37 PM (t//F+)
Strictly on the hoof.....er, fin. And, being that adult males weigh about as much as a 60s Lincoln Continental, I'm not going to be putting one in my Accord wagon.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:42 PM (T1005)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 24, 2015 11:43 PM (syGA0)
It's called a mechanical license. You signed up for it, and you got paid. So suck my dick.
Sincerely,
etc.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:43 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:34 PM (GEICT)
According to ginger boy, he was the last person AB talked to.
AB even ate his lunch.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:44 PM (+Fae7)
AB even ate his lunch.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 24, 2015 11:44 PM (+Fae7)
You saw that too, huh?
You know what it reminds me of? Jesse Jackson's claims about him and MLK.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:45 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: carla tortelli-lebec at January 24, 2015 11:45 PM (L6/+u)
Your skeptecism is worse than Selma.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:46 PM (bS6uW)
http://www.booksareweapons.com/2014/01/26/coming-attractions/
Goes to show ya, there's nothing new under the sun. Although when you consider how infrequently people bathed in the 18th century, oral sex - ah, jeez, you'd think it would gag a goat.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:46 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: Tuna at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (JSovD)
mostly of Gulag inmates, and fed into the worst meatgrinders (also with
NKVD behind them)."
The Ostfront memoirs of a former Wehrmacht infantryman said that they were baffled when they saw units forming up in non-regulation black uniforms behind the Soviet lines.
You can imagine they initially figured these to be the equivalent of the Germans' own Waffen-SS. Or former tankers lacking vehicles and hastily shoved into "scratch" infantry companies. Both of which had been known on the German side to wear black.
Nope. Zeks from the Gulag, hauled directly from Stalin's destructive-labor camps and pressed into front-line combat service with no training and minimal equipment. With the chekist machine guns close behind to remind them of their attention to moving forward at all times.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (noWW6)
I head of it in Bill Buckley articled that called it "the best movie I ever saw."
Posted by: duke at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (enhDu)
I've been away taking a shower, but if you are still here, teachers changed a lot after unions took hold. I graduated from high school, when you still had teachers who were old fashioned enough to take their jobs seriously.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (DXcH1)
Glad I'm not the only one to notice that. Dude's a scumbag. Also, backpfeifengesicht.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 11:48 PM (e+1S5)
Yeah, I thought so.
Good night all.
Posted by: Null at January 24, 2015 11:48 PM (xjpRj)
It's called a mechanical license. You signed up for it, and you got paid. So suck my dick.
Sincerely,
etc.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:43 PM (bS6uW)
Sorta like Rush Limbaugh using Chrissy Hynde's "My City Was Gone".
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:48 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 24, 2015 11:49 PM (Ae09I)
Here's what the official Twitter account of the Dropkick Murphys Tweeted today about Scott Walker using their music:
"please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!!
Love, Dropkick Murphys"
Posted by: Thrawn at January 24, 2015 11:41 PM (d7XFS)
I would truly love to see the Walker campaign reply using, "here's a copy of our check to ASCAP, bitchez!"
Maybe with a "P.S. -- love your music....too bad you shorted your education in order to play it."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:50 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:51 PM (+XMAD)
They can accelerate like one for the first hundred feet or so.
Dopey people go down to the elephant seal haulout and try to get closeup photos, and then are shocked when (a) the bull takes offense at their proximity, (b) comes after them, and (c) is moving faster in the deep sand than they are.
Not a good mistake to make.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 24, 2015 11:52 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:52 PM (pJs3P)
Dack Thrombosis: thanks for helping reassure me I'm not the only one who liked "Hamburger Hill." ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 24, 2015 11:52 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (pqOzY)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:31 PM (zxCGA)
You sir, are a giver.
I'll be in my bunk
Posted by: kbdabear at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 24, 2015 11:52 PM (elbY7
Broths blood!
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (zxCGA)
We don't have all day to watch some sissy slap-fight...
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (4gN5w)
Chicago Transit Authority - South California Purples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKzgYAY_6w
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:54 PM (zxCGA)
Posted by: Baldy at January 24, 2015 11:54 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (pqOzY)
You must be this "big" to get on this ride.
Hahaha!
Posted by: EC at January 24, 2015 11:54 PM (pJs3P)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:51 PM
Tom Petty bitched when GWB was using "Won't Back Down" during the campaign
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 24, 2015 11:55 PM (4gN5w)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:56 PM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 24, 2015 11:57 PM (UVfht)
"being that adult males weigh about as much as a 60s Lincoln Continental"
They can accelerate like one for the first hundred feet or so.
Dopey
people go down to the elephant seal haulout and try to get closeup
photos, and then are shocked when (a) the bull takes offense at their
proximity, (b) comes after them, and (c) is moving faster in the deep
sand than they are.
Not a good mistake to make.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 24, 2015 11:52 PM (noWW6)
I've seen 'em do full acceleration. There was a four-foot bank on the beach and one came off of it so fast that it was still airborne almost its full length before falling. But (a) it's seldom over deep sand, (b) I haven't seen one react to a human yet, and (c) but if that SOB over in the water is makin' eyes at Lucy in his harem, he'll go catch that motherfucker and teach him to think otherwise.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:58 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 24, 2015 11:58 PM (bS6uW)
I'll be heading to Taiwan in a couple of months. I will investigate the sex park and report to the Horde.
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 24, 2015 11:53 PM (pqOzY)
Taipei?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:59 PM (T1005)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 24, 2015 11:59 PM (e+1S5)
I was watching How The States Got Their Shapes, which is fun but he talks about how cities in Texas have no zoning laws. He says that like its an unthinkable horror, something that is almost impossible to conceive of. Then he goes to talk to a guy who had an amusement park built next to his nice home. The guy with the house said "well its loud sometimes, but I can live with it."
There's not enough of that any more. People willing to put up with other peoples' freedom. People willing to pay the price.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 24, 2015 11:59 PM (39g3+)
Dropkick Murphys suck anyway. I hate that Boston Irish crap.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at January 25, 2015 12:00 AM (ObXhH)
You know what it reminds me of? Jesse Jackson's claims about him and MLK.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 24, 2015 11:45 PM (GEICT)
You are like Bull Conner turning the firehoses on marchers.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:01 AM (+Fae7)
That's a terrible lunch and dad should be ashamed, but its none of the school's business.
I was watching How The States Got Their Shapes, which is fun but he
talks about how cities in Texas have no zoning laws. He says that like
its an unthinkable horror, something that is almost impossible to
conceive of. Then he goes to talk to a guy who had an amusement park
built next to his nice home. The guy with the house said "well its loud
sometimes, but I can live with it."
There's not enough of that any more. People willing to put up with other peoples' freedom. People willing to pay the price.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 24, 2015 11:59 PM (39g3+)
If you want to exclude amusement parks from the vicinity of your nice home, get a nice home on 40 acres.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:01 AM (T1005)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 24, 2015 11:55 PM (4gN5w)
The lack of self-awareness of the Limousine Left wears thin. I'm tempted to boycott them all. I mean, the thought of a Tom Petty-free life doesn't exactly fill me with dread and trepidation.
Posted by: troyriser at January 25, 2015 12:01 AM (ptcFO)
Accurate, sure, but waaaaay compressed. IRL it took the Rangers 4 hours to get off the beach, not 15 minutes. Consider the reality of that.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (7TK5d)
That was my initial reaction as well, but I was schooled on that upthread a ways. If you follow the link, the lunch wasn't that bad. The teacher misrepresented the lunch in her note.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (+XMAD)
Also, I like cthulhu's thinking about this issue.
And then there's when Tom Scholz of Boston found out that Mike Huckabee was personally performing "More than a Feeling" at his rallies. Scholz is also a nutty lefty but at least he was polite about it. Supposedly he just wrote a letter to Huckabee that said in so many words, "I'm glad you like my music, but would you please *not* perform it any more? I don't agree with you or your platform."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:01 AM (+Fae7)
I have, many times in fact, advocated using firehoses on some of these idiot protestors we get now. The Occupy types could use the bath anyway.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 25, 2015 12:03 AM (GEICT)
I think that was mostly just reactionary and demonstrating your authenticity to leftist buddies.
The landing at Omaha Beach had to be the most historically accurate portrayal of it ever.
From what I read, actual vets said it was so realistic they had to leave the theater.
Except for the magic water-penetrating bullets. They can't kill that deep and if they were moving that slowly they wouldn't anyway.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:04 AM (39g3+)
The child had 3 squares of chocolate, NOT full sized candy bars, and she had three so she could she give one to her brother and one to his friend at after-school care.
She had 4 small marshmallows in a baggie.
She had slices of ham for protein and a pickle, which is a fucking cucumber, ffs!
I'd have lost my shit if this were my kid.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 25, 2015 12:04 AM (Pauop)
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 25, 2015 12:04 AM (pqOzY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (upitO)
http://www.booksareweapons.com/2014/01/26/coming-attractions/
Goes to show ya, there's nothing new under the sun. Although when you consider how infrequently people bathed in the 18th century, oral sex - ah, jeez, you'd think it would gag a goat.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 24, 2015 11:46 PM (+XMAD)
Whenever I hear about Catherine the Great, I think of this NSFW:
http://tinyurl.com/mlyuqcm
Posted by: H 馬 at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 25, 2015 12:03 AM (GEICT)
Should have used them on the Boston protesters in January. They would have gotten the hell out of the way in a hurry.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (+XMAD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)
Huh. I didn't know that.
So Rush is a PETA donor. The things you learn around here.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (sdi6R)
Bull Connor fucked it up for everyone. These stupid riot/protests could all be fixed with a few hoses and a few German Shepards off lead.
Goddamn democrats ruining good peace keeping techniques.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (e+1S5)
@yesnicksearcy
Weird. Why does everyone on Twitter named "Charles Johnson" turn out to be an asshole? @ChuckCJohnson @DLoesch
Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (GrXXa)
@yesnicksearcy
Weird. Why does everyone on Twitter named "Charles Johnson" turn out to be an asshole? @ChuckCJohnson @DLoesch
Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (GrXXa)
That dropkick murphy thing pissed me off. Fucking losers.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at January 25, 2015 12:06 AM (ObXhH)
Is it worth a rental?
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM (zxCGA)
Yes, and Yes
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:06 AM (nL0sw)
Both pretty darned riveting to me..
JustDave in GR..
Posted by: JustDave in GR at January 25, 2015 12:06 AM (gCcwL)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:05
AM (e+1S5)
Slight edit for accuracy.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 25, 2015 12:06 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:07 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:08 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 25, 2015 12:08 AM (syGA0)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 12:08 AM (vM/v3)
Posted by: @JimmyTwoTimes at January 25, 2015 12:08 AM (GrXXa)
Ah. Yes, but drapes don't match the rug.
Posted by: wertyh at January 25, 2015 12:09 AM (Zv8Cl)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:10 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:10 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:12 AM (39g3+)
Midway is on another whole level of perfect. More than a movie, it's a Gospel. After scores of viewings I've got it pretty much memorized.
Best thing about Midway? They got the Kaga attack right. Yorktown got her, not Enterprise as almost every history has it. The first American blows to land.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:12 AM (7TK5d)
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 25, 2015 12:12 AM (KDbAT)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:13 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 25, 2015 12:13 AM (+XMAD)
_____________
That movie stuck with me for...decades.
Das Boot was simply awesome. I was living in Landstuhl Germany at the time so it was especially interesting to me.
Posted by: fly gal at January 25, 2015 12:14 AM (pq76f)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:14 AM (39g3+)
I liked A Bridge Too Far also.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 24, 2015 10:28 PM (LImiJ)
Which brings to mind "Bridge on the River Kwai". That has to be in the running.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 12:14 AM (upitO)
Also love Gallipoli, Year of Living Dangerously, Patton.
And fictional ones including Castle Keep and Kelly's Heroes
Posted by: Truth at January 25, 2015 12:15 AM (WQ7Wn)
rickl: I've read Chrissie Hynde is actually okay with Limbaugh using "My
City was Gone" and has even been on the show. Supposedly she said Rush
could use the song if he wrote the licensing fee out to PETA... and Rush
complied.
Also, I like cthulhu's thinking about this issue.
And then there's when Tom Scholz of Boston found out that Mike
Huckabee was personally performing "More than a Feeling" at his rallies.
Scholz is also a nutty lefty but at least he was polite about it.
Supposedly he just wrote a letter to Huckabee that said in so many
words, "I'm glad you like my music, but would you please *not* perform
it any more? I don't agree with you or your platform."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)
Just to beat a dead horse....I also like the subtext of "I paid, whore -- go argue with your pimp" that is involved. Artists hire ASCAP and BMI to go extract revenues from anyone who "uses" a song in a "commercial" way -- which, predictably, snags anyone who uses it as background music while they're working. If I had a small antiquarian bookshop that had two customers every three weeks, and listened to some of my albums -- that I had legally purchased -- while I dust, sort, and fill internet orders.....some guy could walk in and say, "nice music."
And when I replied, "yeah, I like it -- you want I should go look and see what album is playing?" He could say, "I know it's XXX by YYY, I'm here from ASCAP, and I'm looking for royalties." And due to mountains of graft supplied to the US Congress since sound recording was invented, he'd probably be legally in-the-right.
If a political campaign had a canceled check from the appropriate licensing agency, they should absolutely say, "GFY" -- they've paid and they should get maximum value from their investment.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:15 AM (T1005)
@yesnicksearcy
Weird. Why does everyone on Twitter named "Charles Johnson" turn out to be an asshole? @ChuckCJohnson @DLoesch
Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (GrXXa)
*****
Dear Nick,
Yes. We are looking into the reasons for this assholishness phenomena. It's all very sciencey and stuff. Undoubtedly though, in this case, correlation is causation.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:15 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 25, 2015 12:04 AM (Pauop)
Seriously horde....I'm gonna be the dirty old man???
You people disgust me!
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:16 AM (zxCGA)
There was one where a soldier watches a cannonball come bouncing towards him, right before it takes his head off.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 12:16 AM (sdi6R)
rickl: I've read Chrissie Hynde is actually okay with Limbaugh using "My
City was Gone" and has even been on the show. Supposedly she said Rush
could use the song if he wrote the licensing fee out to PETA... and Rush
complied.
Also, I like cthulhu's thinking about this issue.
And then there's when Tom Scholz of Boston found out that Mike
Huckabee was personally performing "More than a Feeling" at his rallies.
Scholz is also a nutty lefty but at least he was polite about it.
Supposedly he just wrote a letter to Huckabee that said in so many
words, "I'm glad you like my music, but would you please *not* perform
it any more? I don't agree with you or your platform."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)
I should also point out that it sounds like Tom Scholz was much classier.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:17 AM (T1005)
Apparently I'm the most out of touch American living on the Internet, I never hear about any of these memes until months or even years later. The Moon Moon thing was news to me too. I hate being old.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:17 AM (bS6uW)
Rush syndicates his show, so he needs to get a license to use the music from the performer/composer of the song since he is generating income from it. It is one reason why some things that had music in it on television doesn't have the same music on it on the DVD.
It is why this SNL skit went from this:
http://tinyurl.com/24asdyz
to this:
http://tinyurl.com/k4cz8au
SNL didn't secure the rights to use the song after it was broadcast.
Now, politicians using performers' music is entirely different. The campaign or venue pays a licensing fee to SESAC, ASCAP, and BMI to use music, much like every radio station pays those fees. If you decide not to pay any one of those, you need to stop playing any songs/artists that they represent. The artists/composers could very easily decide who gets to play their music, but they would have to go out and collect from the thousands of radio stations throughout the country, so they usually just let one of those firms do it.
Since the venues and/or campaigns pay the fee, they can tell the artist to go pound sand if they want to.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:17 AM (+Fae7)
Yes, and Yes
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:06 AM (nL0sw)
Thanks. I was hoping it wouldn't be a let down.
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:17 AM (zxCGA)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:15 AM (VHKLL)
I think I've found a genetic correlation:
http://youtu.be/On73aHpgdSQ
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:18 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:18 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:18 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: troyriser at January 25, 2015 12:01 AM (ptcFO)
I know how you feel. I had the misfortune of seeing a small part of "Rock of Ages" last night with Russell Brand. He strikes me as a Pauly Shore type. He has a way of speaking that gets annoying really quickly. Some leftwing douchebags actually have some talent, but he's just grating on the nerves, even without the stupid political rants.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (DXcH1)
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 25, 2015 12:12 AM (KDbAT)
The Seven Samurai should be included. The battle scene went on forever but it was so good that it seemed too short.
Posted by: The Seven Hats at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:17 AM (zxCGA)
Overall a really good movie, but I didn't like the ending (but I don't want to spoil it, either). Worth watching; I'm waiting for it to come out on Netflix to watch again.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (zxCGA)
It was nice visually but cannon balls move too fast to watch in real life. Its like how in movies you can always watch the rocket come out of a launcher and see it track across the screen. They move nearly as fast as a bullet in real life. Unless they're those little tracking rockets Gene Simmons fired at Tom Selleck in Runaway.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Redshirt at January 25, 2015 12:20 AM (Ae09I)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (nL0sw)
Is it total fiction or based on true life?
Wondering, cause I have no idea.
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:21 AM (zxCGA)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 12:21 AM (KG0mU)
Taipei?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 24, 2015 11:59 PM (
=====
Yes sir.
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 25, 2015 12:04 AM (pqOzY)
I was there a number of years ago. I had one very fun dinner at "Mr. Stone" -- they give you a bunch of goodies and a 500 degree chunk of granite in a tray, and you cook 'em on the granite yourself. Couldn't do it in the US, of course, since you'd be sued out of existence as soon as one dumbass customer dropped the stone into his lap.....
I stayed at the Mandarin Oriental, which was seriously over-the-top for what I need -- had a HELLUVA breakfast spread, though -- with Continental/Asian/Hearty sections.
Is this your first time there?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:21 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:22 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 25, 2015 12:22 AM (8zCR+)
Russian RPGs move so slow I've heard stories of Marines jumping over them in Fallujah. Slow is relative, but still.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:22 AM (e+1S5)
"I guess you need big tit's to do the weather anymore"
me:
"dad, everyone knows that small breasted women don't know shit about the weather"
90+yo dad:
" laughs....guess you are right"
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:23 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Ben Asslick at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (pq76f)
And the lunch ladies used to cook real meals back the too.
Posted by: Redshirt at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (Ae09I)
Since the venues and/or campaigns pay the fee, they can tell the artist to go pound sand if they want to.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:17 AM (+Fae7)
Also, if they do an original recording with "parody" lyrics that are pro-candidate, they can play that regardless of what the artist or their handlers want.
You can thank Mad Magazine and SCOTUS for establishing that "parody" can't be stopped by the owners being parodied (in part).
Posted by: The Parodical Hat at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 25, 2015 12:25 AM (39g3+)
DC in River City
I would like to see one of those NFL hotshot receivers do a one-handed Russian RPG catch. Could be a thing.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 12:25 AM (KG0mU)
Tom Scholz holds a BS and MS in M.E. from MIT, I expect a learned man to be polite.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:19 AM (bS6uW)
I thought it was EE. He did the sound processors for Boston's eponymous album himself....and then, there's the Rockman.....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (T1005)
"Hitler finds out Der Untergang wasn't listed among the greatest war movies"
Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (GrXXa)
Whatever.
Posted by: Odell Beckham Jr. at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (bS6uW)
(Not meant to belittle the lives lost)
Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon have their pick of the 72 virgins. God bless them.
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (zxCGA)
Fiction, but they used consultants to try to be as realistic as possible: http://tinyurl.com/m8qt9ee
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Goldilocks at January 25, 2015 12:27 AM (5D7mX)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:28 AM (bS6uW)
485 Pearl Harbor. Pearl effin' Harbor. Nailed it
Posted by: Ben Asslick at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (pq76f)
Titanic with bombs and planes.
Never saw it, never will.
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:28 AM (zxCGA)
I think my party has a real chance of regaining the presidency in 2016
if we nominate a solid conservative like Jeb Bush. We will run into
trouble if we go to the far-right extreme with the likes of Walker or
Jindal.
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 25, 2015 12:22 AM (8zCR+)
I think you need an "in Brattleboro" in your nic.....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:28 AM (T1005)
And when I replied, "yeah, I like it -- you want I should go look and see what album is playing?" He could say, "I know it's XXX by YYY, I'm here from ASCAP, and I'm looking for royalties." And due to mountains of graft supplied to the US Congress since sound recording was invented, he'd probably be legally in-the-right.
If a political campaign had a canceled check from the appropriate licensing agency, they should absolutely say, "GFY" -- they've paid and they should get maximum value from their investment.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:15 AM (T1005)
Your bookstore would be fine if your weren't playing it over a PA system, or on more than 2 speakers. So if you have a boombox behind the register playing music, or a stereo system playing music, you are totes fine with SESAC, ASCAP, and BMI.
This is one reason why a lot of businesses use MUZAK. MUZAK licenses everything and charges a fee to the business owner to play the service. In return, MUZAK writes a check to the three mafia families and the business gets to play music.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:29 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 25, 2015 12:04 AM (Pauop)
*******
I actually had to stop by my daughters High school about a year and a half ago after receiving a very concerned note from her Counselor about the choices she was making in the lunch line at school.
#1. How dare you monitor and apparently keep a record of my daughters choices in the food THIS SCHOOL SELLS TO STUDENTS?!
#2. We are her parents, and are the arbiter of what she may and may not eat. We have told her to eat as she wishes from your cafeteria,,because at least she will actually eat what she chooses from the food you provide.
#3. Any further communication about this issue will be handled by an intermediary most of us refer to as an attorney.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:29 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: Country Singer at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (nL0sw)
Oh good. Thanks.
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:29 AM (zxCGA)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2015 12:30 AM (hk/xA)
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:31 AM (e+1S5)
We were Soldiers
Blackhawk down
Bridges over Toko-ri
Patton
A bridge too far
Zulu
Bridge over river Kwai
the longest day
Golllipoli
tears of the sun
act of valor
sands of Iowo jima
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:31 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 25, 2015 12:32 AM (W5DcG)
504 Donna is in...any other drinkers in the crowd?
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:31 AM (e+1S5)
Not here. But I'm buying.
*breaks out GoPro to extort y'all later
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:32 AM (zxCGA)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:32 AM (bS6uW)
Just throwing them out there. War for girls.
Posted by: Goldilocks at January 25, 2015 12:32 AM (5D7mX)
Just to beat a dead horse....I also like the subtext of "I paid, whore
-- go argue with your pimp" that is involved. Artists hire ASCAP and BMI
to go extract revenues from anyone who "uses" a song in a "commercial"
way -- which, predictably, snags anyone who uses it as background music
while they're working. If I had a small antiquarian bookshop that had
two customers every three weeks, and listened to some of my albums --
that I had legally purchased -- while I dust, sort, and fill internet
orders.....some guy could walk in and say, "nice music."
And when I replied, "yeah, I like it -- you want I should go look
and see what album is playing?" He could say, "I know it's XXX by YYY,
I'm here from ASCAP, and I'm looking for royalties." And due to
mountains of graft supplied to the US Congress since sound recording was
invented, he'd probably be legally in-the-right.
If a political campaign had a canceled check from the appropriate
licensing agency, they should absolutely say, "GFY" -- they've paid and
they should get maximum value from their investment.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:15 AM (T1005)
Your bookstore would be fine if your weren't playing it over a PA
system, or on more than 2 speakers. So if you have a boombox behind the
register playing music, or a stereo system playing music, you are totes
fine with SESAC, ASCAP, and BMI.
This is one reason why a lot of businesses use MUZAK. MUZAK licenses
everything and charges a fee to the business owner to play the service.
In return, MUZAK writes a check to the three mafia families and the
business gets to play music.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:29 AM (+Fae7)
You expect me to dust, sort, fill internet orders, and have retail in a space with only two speakers???
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:33 AM (T1005)
Sounds like something the GOP should go after in 2015 just like cancelling the Hollywood tax breaks.
Gee. I almost typed that with a straight face.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2015 12:34 AM (L6/+u)
I'm to the point that if someone offers (or were to offer) legal insurance for people who need it, in order to have an attorney on hand to help combat today's everyday government harassment, I'd think real seriously about signing up for it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2015 12:34 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:21 AM
=======
No, this will be my 7th trip there. Great place to visit.
Posted by: fastfreefall at January 25, 2015 12:34 AM (pqOzY)
Posted by: Ben Asslick at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (pq76f)
A retort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3GJiZqDCI
Posted by: Spottswoode at January 25, 2015 12:34 AM (0Ew3K)
Daddy needs a shot. Who's with me?
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:18 AM (e+1S5)
******
Sure, got some left in a bottle of Rumple Minze. Who is doing the tower?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:34 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 25, 2015 12:35 AM (syGA0)
You can thank Mad Magazine and SCOTUS for establishing that "parody" can't be stopped by the owners being parodied (in part).
Posted by: The Parodical Hat at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (0Ew3K)
Weird Al makes sure to get permission from the composers/perfomers to do his parodies. Doesn't have to, but he wants to make sure that they are okay with it, and I think only one person (Coolio) was upset with it. Al thought they had gotten permission from him personally, but had only gotten permission from his management.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:35 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 25, 2015 12:35 AM (P+IZm)
Yes, I do.
Posted by: Qui Tam at January 25, 2015 12:36 AM (bS6uW)
Wonder Woman caught a bazooka round and aimed it back to whence it came.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 25, 2015 12:36 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:36 AM (N21UI)
Donna is in...any other drinkers in the crowd?
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:31 AM (e+1S5)
Are you going to run your yap or try to keep up?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:36 AM (T1005)
This is one reason why a lot of businesses use MUZAK. MUZAK licenses everything and charges a fee to the business owner to play the service. In return, MUZAK writes a check to the three mafia families and the business gets to play music.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:29 AM (+Fae7)
That is why a campaign should do a "parody" version with lyrics tweaked as pro-candidate. Once it's a "parody" it is protected and you can't be stopped from playing it. IIRC, you have to pay royalties, but unlike a non-parody version, the blood-sucking music industry can't stop you simply by not accepting fees.
Posted by: The 1st Amendment Hat at January 25, 2015 12:37 AM (0Ew3K)
May the worst day of your future
be better than the best day
of your past.
Slainte!
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:37 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at January 25, 2015 12:37 AM (ObXhH)
Shit, toast, not tower. Freaking, well....you know.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:38 AM (YNkME)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 12:39 AM (KG0mU)
You can spend all your time makin' money...
Name song/artist too.
Eagles, "Take it to the Limit".
You can spend all your love making time
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 12:39 AM (UVfht)
If it all went to pieces tomorrow, would you still be mine?
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 25, 2015 12:39 AM (P+IZm)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 25, 2015 12:41 AM (P+IZm)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
also classified as best western and best epic
Posted by: Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez at January 25, 2015 12:41 AM (LoIJo)
Posted by: RWC at January 24, 2015 11:47 PM
Ummmm... I'll say, "yes". You might like it. I was... underwhelmed. Apart from the tank angle, it was just another potboiler WW2 flick. It tries hard, though.
Posted by: otho at January 25, 2015 12:41 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 12:41 AM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (8zCR+)
May the worst day of your future
be better than the best day
of your past.
Slainte!
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:37 AM (e+1S5)
*****
Not exactly, the shot is down. I repeat, the shot is down. Sinuses cleared, eyes lubricated.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (VHKLL)
Nope. But daddy is dipping. Baccy is yummy especially when coupled with shots of GM.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (e+1S5)
Iranians bomb a Jewish center in Argentina kill 85 wound 200. Ambitious political hack in Argentina covers it up in exchange for a good deal on oil contracts. Even let's Iran investigate itself. Jewish Argentinian prosecutor fights for 10 years to investigate it. He files a criminal complaint last week saying the ambitious politician is the president of Argentina now. He is supposed to testify in court the next day. He asks a friend to bring him a gun because he feels he is in danger. He emails copies of the complaint and evidence to three people. One in Israel. . One the head of counter intelligence who was fired by this president. The next day, the day he is to testify, he is found behind a locked door with a bullet in his forehead and no gun residue on his hands. Police say suicide. President says suicide, then says murder. She says he was fed false information by someone trying to destroy her presidency. She's hinting at an Israeli false flag
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (PiqHB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2015 11:05 PM (eeTCA)
Oops. I was searching for an earlier comment, and I missed this. It wasn't me. I've never seen that movie.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 12:43 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: dartist at January 25, 2015 12:43 AM (ahBY0)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:33 AM (T1005)
If the music is being used for "commercial purposes" which playing over loud speakers/PA system would be.
A stereo system/boombox is "personal use".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:44 AM (+Fae7)
This Iran Argentina thing is stuck in my head.
Iranians bomb a Jewish center in Argentina kill 85 wound 200.
Ambitious political hack in Argentina covers it up in exchange for a
good deal on oil contracts. Even let's Iran investigate itself. Jewish
Argentinian prosecutor fights for 10 years to investigate it. He files
a criminal complaint last week saying the ambitious politician is the
president of Argentina now. He is supposed to testify in court the next
day. He asks a friend to bring him a gun because he feels he is in
danger. He emails copies of the complaint and evidence to three people.
One in Israel. . One the head of counter intelligence who was fired
by this president. The next day, the day he is to testify, he is found
behind a locked door with a bullet in his forehead and no gun residue
on his hands. Police say suicide. President says suicide, then says
murder. She says he was fed false information by someone trying to
destroy her presidency. She's hinting at an Israeli false flag
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (PiqHB)
Your point being.....?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 12:44 AM (T1005)
Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at January 25, 2015 12:45 AM (XlFLJ)
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:46 AM (zxCGA)
{Ed.} Yes, it was - http://tinyurl.com/mlvt2yw
Speaking of ancient muzak, I loved Guyana Punch by the Judys when I was a lad. Then came techno, industrial, grunge, rap and whatever the fuck they play now ... I feel like I'm under the hood of a car looking for the rotor cap -- what I'm looking for doesn't exist anymore.
Posted by: Qui Tam at January 25, 2015 12:46 AM (bS6uW)
It is like we are stoopid, er somtin'
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:46 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (PiqHB)
To what end? It makes no sense, but then, it's Argentina......
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2015 12:46 AM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (PiqHB)
FIFY
Posted by: Argentine Conspiracy Theorist at January 25, 2015 12:47 AM (0Ew3K)
No Simo Hayha though,so far.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 25, 2015 12:48 AM (e+1S5)
@yesnicksearcy
Weird. Why does everyone on Twitter named "Charles Johnson" turn out to be an asshole? @ChuckCJohnson @DLoesch
Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2015 12:05 AM (GrXXa)
Did the GotNews one step on his dick again. I know costanza defense continues pushing him as if he's a legitimate source.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 12:49 AM (MHOKI)
Posted by: The 1st Amendment Hat at January 25, 2015 12:37 AM (0Ew3K)
Unless you have someone doing it full time, it's cheaper to just pay a license to SESAC/ASCAP/BMI.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:49 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:49 AM (PiqHB)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:51 AM (bS6uW)
Iranians bomb a Jewish center in Argentina kill 85 wound 200. Ambitious political hack in Argentina covers it up in exchange for a good deal on oil contracts. Even let's Iran investigate itself. Jewish Argentinian prosecutor fights for 10 years to investigate it. He files a criminal complaint last week saying the ambitious politician is the president of Argentina now. He is supposed to testify in court the next day. He asks a friend to bring him a gun because he feels he is in danger. He emails copies of the complaint and evidence to three people. One in Israel. . One the head of counter intelligence who was fired by this president. The next day, the day he is to testify, he is found behind a locked door with a bullet in his forehead and no gun residue on his hands. Police say suicide. President says suicide, then says murder. She says he was fed false information by someone trying to destroy her presidency. She's hinting at an Israeli false flag
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:42 AM (PiqHB)
When in doubt, the Left blames the Jooooooos.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:51 AM (+Fae7)
"Selma 2: The Sharptoning"
"Love Handles: The Musical!" (starring Lena Dunham)
"Mo Better Botox" (Robert Redford biopic)
"Michael Moore and Twinkies: A Love Story"
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2015 12:51 AM (elbY7)
Other war movies I think don't get a square shake:
Battleground (Bastogne) very atmospheric, realistic sound effects, no musical score until the very end (probably a Jack Warner brainfart)
A Bridge Too Far
And the most deeply closeted naval story ever, Away All Boats starring Jeffrey Chandler.
Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 25, 2015 12:52 AM (XO6WW)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 25, 2015 12:52 AM (8zCR+)
We were Soldiers
Blackhawk down
Bridges over Toko-ri
Patton
A bridge too far
Zulu
Bridge over river Kwai
the longest day
Golllipoli
tears of the sun
act of valor
sands of Iowo jima
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:31 AM (N21UI)
cross of iron
Stalingrad (the German version)
das Boot
Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2015 12:52 AM (TETYm)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (MHOKI)
words to live by
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (N21UI)
Yea, because Gangster Paradise is such a song for the ages. *rolleyes* Dollars to doughnuts that more people today know Weird Al's parody than Coolio's original.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (7TK5d)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 12:54 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 25, 2015 12:52 AM (8zCR+)
******
Yep, those racial dogs are certainly whistling up a storm.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:54 AM (YNkME)
the Rangers 4 hours to get off the beach, not 15 minutes. Consider the
reality of that.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:02 AM (7TK5d)
I would have to say Blackhawks Down is by far one of my favorites. True to life, recent, and the soundtrack is awesome.
(Not meant to belittle the lives lost)
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (zxCGA)
***********************
In both cases (and We Were Soldiers also comes to mind) the compression for movie purposes is not just in time, but in space, too. The soldiers are much too close to each other.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 12:54 AM (5f5bM)
yo dog, you B a troll-y rat.
go away
who da fuck thas a nic 'moderate Repubilican'
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:55 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: fly gal at January 25, 2015 12:55 AM (pq76f)
Crap. I wish I knew it was on. I caught some of it earlier today - Fallujah.
I met Gunny Hathcock when I was a kid, I think. He used to hang out at a Bait shop we frequented, and my step dad knew him.
I have a signed copy of his book here somewhere, with his business card as a bookmark.
I would've liked to catch that part of the show for sure.
Posted by: shredded chi at January 25, 2015 12:55 AM (2dN/8)
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 12:55 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2015 12:55 AM (TETYm)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:55 AM (PiqHB)
Posted by: dartist at January 25, 2015 12:56 AM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 12:57 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 12:57 AM (KG0mU)
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:26 AM (zxCGA)
***********************
I knew both of them, in the sense of knowing who they were, not that we were buds and hung out at Bennigan's while they wore their beepers. Good guys.
The first American casualty in Somalia was a Delta sniper, MSG Freedman, who called himself "Super Jew." Vehicle hit a land mine. The news reported that a US civilian employee of USDA (I believe) had died in an accident.
I wasn't there, but had a lot of friends who were, including some who were wounded.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 12:57 AM (5f5bM)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:49 AM (+Fae7)
ah, but with a parody, you can trot out a 1st Amendment defense and go after the offended artist(s) as anti-free-speech NAZIs...
Posted by: The Free Speech Hat at January 25, 2015 12:57 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 25, 2015 12:58 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (7TK5d)
Irony: Bitching about Weird Al stealing a song you originally stole from Stevie Wonder...
Posted by: The Hat Paradise at January 25, 2015 12:58 AM (0Ew3K)
Yea, because Gangster Paradise is such a song for the ages. *rolleyes* Dollars to doughnuts that more people today know Weird Al's parody than Coolio's original.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (7TK5d)
Yeah. But weird Al has a lot of respect in the music business and part of that is because he does seek permission even if it is an artist or song who won't be remembered in 2 years. He also directs music videos and actually brings them in under budget. So again more respect.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (MHOKI)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (7TK5d)
And Coolio acted like "Gangsters' Paradise" is one of the most socially relevant songs of all time.
"Amish Paradise"? You are right, more people know that song than Coolios.
Uhh, uhhh, uuhhh. Just found out today that Weird Al is actually coming to Roanoke. Mind blown.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (PiqHB)
Stalingrad (the German version)
das Boot
Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2015 12:52 AM (TETYm)
Enemies at the gate was ok, stallingad snipery show
she wore a yellow ribon, john wayne calvery flick
the fighting seebees, too
Battle LA and Battleship were kinda cool but vs. aliens
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (l3vZN)
You sure about that in the case of WWS? I've read the book, it seems that they were damn near touching each other in the elephant grass a lot of the time.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 01:00 AM (7TK5d)
Dollars to doughnuts that more people today know Weird Al's parody than Coolio's original.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (7TK5d)
I'll bet that's true with a lot of Weird Al songs. Hell, I know it's true in my case.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:00 AM (sdi6R)
561 "moderate repub......"
Is getting lame.
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 12:53 AM (91eZY)
Funnier than anything the Mary cloggenstein sock has put out in about 2 years.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 01:01 AM (MHOKI)
Westboro Baptist is scheduled to picket my church next weekend. Trade?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:01 AM (UVfht)
Unless you have someone doing it full time, it's cheaper to just pay a license to SESAC/ASCAP/BMI.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 12:49 AM (+Fae7)
ah, but with a parody, you can trot out a 1st Amendment defense and go after the offended artist(s) as anti-free-speech NAZIs...
Posted by: The Free Speech Hat at January 25, 2015 12:57 AM (0Ew3K)
And be pilloried in the press, who already portray the actual party of Bull Conner and the KKK as being for "fairness" -- and the party of MLK and Lincoln as being racist.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:02 AM (T1005)
Posted by: conservative republican at January 25, 2015 01:02 AM (KG0mU)
the book, it seems that they were damn near touching each other in the
elephant grass a lot of the time.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 01:00 AM (7TK5d)
Yeah, look at the maps to scale and think about how few soldiers there were to cover that much terrain. Interestingly, the vets from Ia Drang Valley went on to be a very tight community within the Army for the next 20 years. They could tell funny stories about each other, you know, from when one Sergeant Major used to be the jeep driver and the other was a machine gunner, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:03 AM (5f5bM)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:01 AM (UVfht)
*******
Where are you? I ride Patriot Guard. If you are anywhere close to GA, I may be around for that event.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:04 AM (rsO9D)
Absolutely!
That is one of the greatest war books ever written!
His other stuff is good too.
"Master Mariner, Running Proud" is fun and different......
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2015 01:04 AM (Zu3d9)
Wouldn't it be equally effective (if not more so) for Israel to, you know, simply let the dude present his evidence? WTH would they kill a Jewish prosecutor claiming government coverup of the bombing? Kirchner fucking offed him.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:04 AM (bS6uW)
581 cross of iron
Stalingrad (the German version)
das Boot
Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2015 12:52 AM (TETYm)
Enemies at the gate was ok, stallingad snipery show
she wore a yellow ribon, john wayne calvery flick
the fighting seebees, too
Battle LA and Battleship were kinda cool but vs. aliens
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (N21UI)
Enemy at the gates has probably the hottest clothes sex scene I've ever seen in a movie. The rest of the movie is really good too.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 01:04 AM (MHOKI)
485 Pearl Harbor. Pearl effin' Harbor. Nailed it
Posted by: Ben Asslick at January 25, 2015 12:24 AM (pq76f)
Titanic with bombs and planes.
Never saw it, never will.
Posted by: RWC at January 25, 2015 12:28 AM (zxCGA)
I did see "Pearl Harbor" when it came out. There were a few decent scenes, but overall it was underwhelming. "Tora, Tora, Tora" it ain't.
I mentioned it in an earlier comment:
261 Another war movie I remember was "Battle of Britain" which I saw in a theater when I was about 10 or 11. I haven't seen it since, so I don't know how it holds up.
One thing is that they used real airplanes for the dogfights. In "Pearl Harbor" it was all CGI.
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:10 PM (sdi6R)
The CGI aerial scenes in "Pearl Harbor" were awful. It was like "Star Wars" transported to the 1940s. It was like they were trying to juice it up for youngsters who were used to sci-fi shoot 'em ups.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:06 AM (sdi6R)
yo dog, George Wallace
you R stoopid
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:06 AM (N21UI)
A little too far west for you, AZ. We've already been warned to stay away, and they're only going to be there for about 30 minutes. They're trolling a bunch of churches out here that weekend.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:07 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:02 AM (T1005)
The press are going to push that line anyway. Just as well use the 1st Amendment while we still have it.
But then, this is coming from someone who was declared to be "the official oppressor of 1000 years".
Posted by: The Hat o' Oppression at January 25, 2015 01:07 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: The Free Speech Hat at January 25, 2015 12:57 AM (0Ew3K)
True, but campaigns are usually just around for a year or 2, and they don't want to be fighting fights like this while their opponent is attacking them.
You gotta be smart when fighting battles in a campaign. Fighting a 3rd party that does nothing to get votes is a battle you don't fight.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:08 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:08 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:08 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:03 AM (5f5bM)
I met a guy who was there, nice guy.
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:09 AM (N21UI)
It's about a three hour drive.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:10 AM (UVfht)
The Bikini atom bomb test looked like a lovely tropical paradise. So much prettier than in black and white.
And whaddya know? The Japanese archers circa 1860 were indeed holding their extra arrows in their hands while shooting, just as we saw in the video yesterday.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:11 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:11 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:07 AM (UVfht)
*******
Damn, that is unfortunate (geographically). The words of caution are good ones. Every one of those slimy fcuks are lawyers and are experts on what they can say to piss you off while not quite breaking legal barriers. Be well.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:11 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: puddleglum at January 25, 2015 01:11 AM (syGA0)
Posted by: here at January 25, 2015 01:12 AM (C+vOU)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:13 AM (l3vZN)
Well there you have it, that sentiment may be why I didn't see it while it was out, I really can't remember.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:13 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:13 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 01:01 AM (MHOKI)
Running out of material fast though.
Bring back Dorcus Blimline!!!!!
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 01:13 AM (91eZY)
She's saying someone trying to discredit her killed him. So who would
that be? Um Israel and Jews who blame her for the lack of prosecution
of the Jewish center bombers.
Wouldn't it be equally effective (if not more so) for Israel to, you
know, simply let the dude present his evidence? WTH would they kill a
Jewish prosecutor claiming government coverup of the bombing? Kirchner
fucking offed him.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:04 AM (bS6uW)
Really? I'm goin' with Iranians. Problem is, the Kirchner government has too many balls in the air -- any covert ops group would likely have to get a facility, desks, cubes, computers, equipment, etc. through central government purchasing.....or be managed within itself through a largish grant that, itself, would attract attention from the central government.
Iranians, by contrast, are only in-country to stir up crap. They could have a guy go to his superior, "we need to liquidate some problematic dude -- it'll cost $1,000" and get the reply, "here's $20,000 -- do 20." And any probe would go, "do you remember the names of the people you liquidated, or who killed who?" and get an honest, "no."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:14 AM (T1005)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 01:14 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:14 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:13 AM (N21UI)
That was one of the good scenes I mentioned. She looked quite fetching in a 1941 swimsuit.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:15 AM (sdi6R)
It's just as well. The logistics of filling and then air dropping hundreds of urine filled balloons looked like it was going to prove a bit difficult to pull off in a week.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:15 AM (UVfht)
The words of caution are good ones.
It's just as well. The
logistics of filling and then air dropping hundreds of urine filled
balloons looked like it was going to prove a bit difficult to pull off
in a week.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:15 AM (UVfht)
Some day, they're going to go out to protest in some remote location.....and just not come back. And nobody who actually went there will remember having seen them.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:18 AM (T1005)
tight timeline then... Too bad, I'll probably drive right past some
good conversation over coffee.
I hope you enjoy the trip in any case. Bullhead City is a bit warm for my taste, but at least you can jump in the water.
If you dare.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:18 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:19 AM (5f5bM)
But if you flipped one upside down in a large jar of urine, you could call it Piss West Church and claim 1st amendment protection.
Posted by: Adriane the Art Critic ... at January 25, 2015 01:19 AM (P+IZm)
You gotta be smart when fighting battles in a campaign. Fighting a 3rd party that does nothing to get votes is a battle you don't fight.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:08 AM (+Fae7)
Only two years?
Perhaps this will help teach others that campaigns are perpetual.
Posted by: The Perpetual Hat at January 25, 2015 01:20 AM (0Ew3K)
Could be, hell I don't know, but that seems even more obvious than Kirchner simply whacking him. So, your theory is that the Iranians did him, with the likely understanding that Kirchner's goons would "investigate" the situation and find nothing? That might be right, but she's looking and acting pretty strange (well, more than usual anyway). I don't put anything beyond the socialists.
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:20 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:20 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:21 AM (bS6uW)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 01:21 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:18 AM (T1005)
********
Regrettably, they are too experienced to let this scenario occur. They only show up at events with a somewhat high profile, and the attendant coverage. They are vile and evil, but smart enough not to lured to an event in the remote desert.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:21 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: Adriane the Art Critic ... at January 25, 2015 01:22 AM (P+IZm)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:22 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:01 AM (UVfht)
Meh.
Whenever my old company would get protesters, the owner would make sure that the protesters were comfortable because he loved the attention it got in the press.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:22 AM (+Fae7)
You gotta be smart when fighting battles in a campaign. Fighting a 3rd party that does nothing to get votes is a battle you don't fight.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:08 AM (+Fae7)
Also, that's the type of fight you want to have. The right is pre-established. The media scripts determined beforehand. The briarpatch made nice and pleasant...
Posted by: The Perpetual Hat at January 25, 2015 01:23 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 25, 2015 01:08 AM (bS6uW)
Please don't. I--along with many unsuspecting others--took that bullet for you. Trust me, it was painful. Don't let our sacrifice have been in vain.
Posted by: troyriser at January 25, 2015 01:23 AM (ptcFO)
I ran across them one. Was about 60% sure as I was pulling up, was thinking if I was 90% sure, I would be saying like
"God bless you all, doing great things..." all while holding up a big bold middle finger.
Mixed signals really screw people up, like saying 'Yes' while shaking your head, or vice versa...
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2015 01:24 AM (NaeCR)
of that is because he does seek permission even if it is an artist or
song who won't be remembered in 2 years. He also directs music videos
and actually brings them in under budget. So again more respect.
My rolleyes was directed at Coolio, not Al.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 01:25 AM (WvS3w)
I sock her all the time
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! See the violence inherent in the system !!!
Posted by: Mary Clogenstein... at January 25, 2015 01:26 AM (P+IZm)
I sock her all the time
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:22 AM (N21UI)
I've done it a couple of times. There are lots of different hashes. She's a community sock.
Some do it better than others, of course.
Once at the end of a dead thread I saw a comment by a guy who claimed to have invented her. He was a military guy, but I don't remember who it was.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:27 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:27 AM (KG0mU)
I sock her all the time
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:22 AM (N21UI)
With our beloved President's Affordable Care Acts you can use proper contraceptives like RU-486 instead of a sock, you silly Rethuglicans!
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro at January 25, 2015 01:27 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:19 AM (5f5bM)
You realize you just butchered the hell out of that don't you. Mary has always been from Brattleboro. Dorcus started using it in an attempt to legitimize he's pathetically weak copy attempt of Mary.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 01:27 AM (MHOKI)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:28 AM (KG0mU)
I sock her all the time
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! See the violence inherent in the system !!!
Posted by: Mary Clogenstein... at January 25, 2015 01:26 AM (P+IZm)
*******
The last name has 2 g's in It, and is from Brattleboro, Vermont. Step up your game(s).
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:28 AM (YNkME)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:30 AM (l3vZN)
been warned to stay away, and they're only going to be there for about
30 minutes. They're trolling a bunch of churches out here that weekend.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:07 AM (UVfht)
Where in AZ? I am currently in Apache Junction. I think it would be a hoot to troll the Westboro gangsters. Don't actually confront them, just go after having loaded up on cabbage, pickled eggs, and pinto beans. Sidle up close, smiling and whistling, on the upwind side of them, and fart them into submission. Apologizing profusely, of course, after each instance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:30 AM (upitO)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 01:27 AM (MHOKI)
Typical right wing male wingnut, denying the very existence of a womyn!
Posted by: Dorcas Brimline at January 25, 2015 01:30 AM (0Ew3K)
Perhaps this will help teach others that campaigns are perpetual.
Posted by: The Perpetual Hat at January 25, 2015 01:20 AM (0Ew3K)
Only campaign that usually lasts longer than 2 years is the one that wins the Presidency.
All the other Presidential campaigns start up about 18-22 months before the next election.
If we start worrying about fighting and responding to musicians because we are playing their music, then we are truly fucked because the left will be attacking us and not worrying about petty things.
Plus, the optics of a Presidential campaign engaging with an airhead musician are awful.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:31 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:31 AM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Dorcas Brimline at January 25, 2015 01:30 AM (0Ew3K)
******
Annnddd...now you're getting closer, Hat.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:32 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat
--------------------
Tell me about it!
Posted by: The Chicken at January 25, 2015 01:33 AM (2dN/8)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:30 AM (l3vZN)
yep, that fucker is real fucked, except for me, cuz I drive islamic men crazy with sex desire
so I got that going for me
Mohammed said you can't butcher and eat an animal you had sex with
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:33 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:34 AM (T1005)
Enjoyed the banter and the read tonight.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:35 AM (l3vZN)
Posted by: The Perpetual Hat at January 25, 2015 01:23 AM (0Ew3K)
Two things that campaigns never have enough of: time and money. Engaging them wastes both, and these people have all the time to waste our time.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:35 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:31 AM (+Fae7)
That is why conservatives struggle.
It is not a campaign for a particular election or office, but of a promising politician, or far more broadly, of organizations and of movements.
Life is a political campaign, whether electoral or in society at large.
We must stop focusing exclusively on Election Day, but everything that leads up to every election day.
Posted by: The Electoral Hat at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (0Ew3K)
If only you riechwinger rethuglicans would join the cause instead of dreaming of womyn with over sized breasts.
Posted by: Marry Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (91eZY)
I remember reading that after the Holodomor, the
Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators. While I can't blame them,
that's pretty hard to wrap my mind around.
Posted by: rickl at January 24, 2015 11:24 PM (sdi6R)
After Stalin, anything sounded good.
Also
(not to generate a row here), but the Ukrainians are pretty
anti-Semitic, and the Holodomor, albeit ordered by Stalin, was
orchestrated Genrik Yagoda, the founder of the NKVD and a MOT, as were a
substantial fraction of the NKVD's top brass.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 24, 2015 11:36 PM (oKE6c)"
I 've been reading "Ivan's War" a book where the author interviewed WW II veterans of the Soviet Army. A number of the interviewees were party aparachiks. There was a lot of overlap between members of the Party and members of the Tribe.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (KDbAT)
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (5f5bM)
Some day, they're going to go out to protest in some remote
location.....and just not come back. And nobody who actually went there
will remember having seen them.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:18 AM (T1005)
********
Regrettably, they are too experienced to let this scenario occur.
They only show up at events with a somewhat high profile, and the
attendant coverage. They are vile and evil, but smart enough not to
lured to an event in the remote desert.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:21 AM (VHKLL)
I'm just sayin' sometimes the roads to remote high-profile public places lead through lonely deserts....or dark forests.....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:37 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 01:37 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:38 AM (KG0mU)
Remember Kay in Maine......
She wasn't a sock; she was real.
I wonder if Mary first appeared as a mockery of Kay?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2015 01:38 AM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 01:38 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (5f5bM)
maybe, I've been in and out since 2010 and Mary has been from Battleborro since feb 2010
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:39 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 25, 2015 01:30 AM (l3vZN)
yep, that fucker is real fucked, except for me, cuz I drive islamic men crazy with sex desire
so I got that going for me
Mohammed said you can't butcher and eat an animal you had sex with
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:33 AM (N21UI)
And then when they slather peanut butter on it, BAM, they call old Toby to "work his magic tongue".
Posted by: Toby the Beagle at January 25, 2015 01:39 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:39 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Marry Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (91eZY)
but first you will blow me !!
Posted by: you know who at January 25, 2015 01:40 AM (N21UI)
spelling is raaaaacist ... geography is raaaaacist ... and sports are organized macro aggression and raaaaacist ... H8ter !!!
Posted by: Mary Clogenstein... at January 25, 2015 01:41 AM (P+IZm)
And by the way, you or one your minions sucked my sister into the stentorian depths. You son of a bitch.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:41 AM (KG0mU)
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:33 AM (N21UI)
**************************
And the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa that if you "spoil" your neighbor's goat or sheep so that he can't eat it, then you have to pay your neighbor. Seriously.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:42 AM (5f5bM)
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:33 AM (N21UI)
But you can sell the defiled goat to the next village to butcher and eat; that's totally OK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:42 AM (upitO)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 25, 2015 01:42 AM (cNJvW)
Posted by: The Perpetual Hat at January 25, 2015 01:23 AM (0Ew3K)
Two things that campaigns never have enough of: time and money. Engaging them wastes both, and these people have all the time to waste our time.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:35 AM (+Fae7)
Ah, plan for it and use it.
I speak not of a single schmucks Presidential campaign, but of a Stand Alone Complex that will take the ball and run with it.
Be bold, or GTFO.
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
quam tua te fortuna sinet.
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 25, 2015 01:42 AM (0Ew3K)
hoot to troll the Westboro gangsters. Don't actually confront them, just
go after having loaded up on cabbage, pickled eggs, and pinto beans.
Sidle up close, smiling and whistling, on the upwind side of them, and
fart them into submission. Apologizing profusely, of course, after each
instance.
I'll just say I'm not too far from you, and could probably be to Ironwood Drive in about 30 minutes.
(Somewhere, an overly obsessive person is drawing yet another circle on a map.)
While I like your suggestion, please remember that they're lawyers, and may drop a dime on you for violating EPA regs on methane and sulfer emissions.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 01:43 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:43 AM (KG0mU)
And I'm pretty sure the chicken, couch and toaster secretly want it.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:31 AM (KG0mU)
Not to mention, http://tinyurl.com/9ztumpk
BTW, one of the girls in the vid was the choreographer -- and I'm sure 22M+ views is on the resume of each-and-every-one of the participants.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:45 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:45 AM (oprjK)
Posted by: Adriane ... at January 25, 2015 01:45 AM (P+IZm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:42 AM (upitO)
well I was getting to that.
muslimbs are fuck tarded, seriously who would eat a goat you bought from the next village??, they all know what happend to it.
so again, the new village always has some Husain who does the naught on my backside
but at least I'm not a camel in a beauty contest, so I got that going for me
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:46 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 01:37 AM (8zCR+)
Various sources. Reddit, Twitter, people I know, college level connections. College Insurrection, &c.
I was at the forefront of the college-level B.S. way back... and it has only gotten worse by multiple factors of ten.
Laugh all you want at it, but it is th "truth" that registered voters will vote for...
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 25, 2015 01:47 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 01:47 AM (8zCR+)
cthulhu, they would never attack a target if there was a chance of real danger.
And by the way, you or one your minions sucked my sister into the stentorian depths. You son of a bitch.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:41 AM (KG0mU)
Whut?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:48 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:45 AM (oprjK)
*******
Well, those are just great sales people with an eye toward phenomenal client relationships going forward right there.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:48 AM (rsO9D)
Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade at January 25, 2015 01:49 AM (cmBvC)
Perhaps this will help teach others that campaigns are perpetual.
Posted by: The Perpetual Hat at January 25, 2015 01:20 AM (0Ew3K)
Only campaign that usually lasts longer than 2 years is the one that wins the Presidency.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 25, 2015 01:31 AM (+Fae7)
See, I think that's a big part of the problem. I don't remember presidential campaigns lasting that long in the past. Back in the old days the federal government wasn't the epicenter of American life, and the President didn't have near-dictatorial powers. I think the length of the campaign has grown in direct proportion to the power of the Presidency.
I don't think I watched a single debate in the 2012 cycle, although I saw some clips afterwards. That's because modern TV debates are complete horseshit. If I tune out the endless political yakking, I can only imagine the effect it has on LIVs. It bores them to tears, which is why they latch onto the candidate who is best-looking, acts coolest, or promises them moar free shit.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:49 AM (sdi6R)
Remember Kay in Maine......
She wasn't a sock; she was real.
I wonder if Mary first appeared as a mockery of Kay?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2015 01:38 AM (Zu3d9)
Kay has gone quiet in the last few months. Nothing on Twitter and nothing on her webpage. Maybe the tard finally found someone to throw her a bang every once in a while.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 25, 2015 01:49 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:50 AM (oprjK)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 01:51 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:51 AM (N21UI)
But you can sell the defiled goat to the next village to butcher and eat; that's totally OK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:42 AM (upitO)
well I was getting to that.
muslimbs are fuck tarded, seriously who would eat a goat you bought from the next village??, they all know what happend to it.
so again, the new village always has some Husain who does the naught on my backside
but at least I'm not a camel in a beauty contest, so I got that going for me
Posted by: The Goat at January 25, 2015 01:46 AM (N21UI)
Deuteronomy 14:21 -- proof of a Practical God....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:52 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 01:47 AM (8zCR+)
I used to be a player in the college Republican scene. I was also involved in Young Americans for Freedom and their activities on campuses. Still involved in other things, of course.
"Gorilla politics"? I'm an old Hat master at that.
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 25, 2015 01:52 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 01:36 AM (5f5bM)
Nope. Mary has been around for years and always used Brattleboro. Dorcas is only about a year or so old as a sock. And it was several months before he coopted the Brattleboro residence.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 01:53 AM (MHOKI)
The station is in a neighboring town, and they have often done slimy things like that. It has never really worked, but they keep trying.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (oprjK)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:50 AM (oprjK)
*****
I remember those from the late 80s. Always hated them. I guess what is old and ugly really does become new again.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (YNkME)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (KG0mU)
I am checking IDs tonight at the karaoke bar. A woman came in tonight
with a Mohawk cut that ends in a long ponytail. A mo-lett, if you will.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:50 AM (oprjK)
Was she really skinny? Maybe she's one of those "otherkin" that Hat talks about, and identifies as a toilet brush.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (upitO)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:52 AM (T1005)
Gimme my bacon-cheeseburger.
Posted by: Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! at January 25, 2015 01:56 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:56 AM (oprjK)
Posted by: # key at January 25, 2015 01:56 AM (N21UI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (upitO)
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!!1!
Posted by: Toilet Brush-kin at January 25, 2015 01:57 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:45 AM (oprjK)
*******
Well, those are just great sales people with an eye toward phenomenal client relationships going forward right there.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 01:48 AM (rsO9D)
Radio sales departments aren't known for trying to grow the industry. They see themselves fighting for a piece of the pie of the advertising pie that is radio-television-newspaper. Instead of trying to get more of the newspaper-television slices, they fight over the smaller radio slice and whore themselves out thinking that 2 week advantage will put their station over the top. In reality, it cuts their future prices and shrinks the radio slice even more.
Sad thing is that the salesperson will probably be working at CW's station in the next couple of years.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 25, 2015 01:58 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:59 AM (sdi6R)
you "spoil" your neighbor's goat or sheep so that he can't eat it, then
you have to pay your neighbor. Seriously.
Posted by: Caesar North
I thought that was if you spoil their infant.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2015 02:00 AM (NaeCR)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 01:56 AM (oprjK)
Oooh, scary stuff. How goes the battle with the post-surgical depression, Captain?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:01 AM (upitO)
Sad thing is that the salesperson will probably be working at CW's station in the next couple of years.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 25, 2015 01:58 AM (+Fae7)
****
Copy that. No sign whatsoever of a professional Sales strategy or,a,plan for the future from Sales Management. Got it.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 02:01 AM (YNkME)
Not likely. Our DJs (except for me) double as salespeople when they're off the air. They're not your typical sales weasels.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 02:01 AM (xX2Fy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (upitO)
Forty years ago, homosexuality in California was illegal and considered a disease of the mind. Today, it is absolute truth.
Do you really think that the insanity that I post is a greater leap towards "absolute truth" than homosexuality was in the 1970's?
We've already leaped down the rabbit-hole. Let's not be surprised that there is not bottom aside from a true tabula rasa upon which will be built something that is at least consistent with true human nature?
Posted by: Teh Future is DOOM at January 25, 2015 02:02 AM (0Ew3K)
cthulhu,
Yeah, act all innocent.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 01:54 AM (KG0mU)
It might help if I knew which sister was being sucked into which abyss.....really, the recordkeeping gets complicated....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 02:02 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 02:02 AM (MHOKI)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 02:03 AM (xX2Fy)
Not to mention, http://tinyurl.com/9ztumpk
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:45 AM (T1005)
That was hilarious.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 02:04 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 02:06 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 02:08 AM (91eZY)
Went to a talk about Disneyland steam trains earlier today -- it was
great fun and very informative. They had a guy who was a former railroad
foreman at Disneyland and is now Chief Engineer on the Silverton, a guy
who was roundhouse lead at Disneyland and convinced Matt Ouimet to
restore the Lilly Belle railcar, and the guy whose shop has been
restoring/rebuilding Disney trains of late....and then there was a
surprise speaker, who owns the only private locomotive to ever run the
Disneyland circuit....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:34 AM (T1005)
Fun fact -- the railroad wheels are mounted to their axles using "interference". The axles are made slightly larger than the wheel centerbore, then the axles are cooled to -400 degrees using liquid nitrogen and the wheels are heated to 500 degrees -- whereupon the axles are smaller than the wheel centerbores. You then have about five seconds to get 'em in there properly or you end up with $20,000 of scrap.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 02:08 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cm9000 at January 25, 2015 02:06 AM (8zCR+)
E-mail me at the e-mail address given there.
Posted by: Teh Future is DOOM at January 25, 2015 02:08 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 02:09 AM (zOTsN)
Deuteronomy 14:21 -- proof of a Practical God....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 01:52 AM (T1005)
Gimme my bacon-cheeseburger.
Posted by: Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! at January 25, 2015 01:56 AM (0Ew3K)
I'm sorry, Hat -- I can't let you have that....
Posted by: Kosher HAL at January 25, 2015 02:10 AM (T1005)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 02:10 AM (zOTsN)
I am a married man with a child, please stop sending me dirty texts and naked pictures
thank you
Joe
hola my little RINOs in a box
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:11 AM (/2Qtx)
Posted by: Marcus and Dory Cloggenline at January 25, 2015 02:11 AM (tdmtT)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2015 02:00 AM (NaeCR)
*****
No, the neighbor has to pay you a dowry then and you take the infant as a bride. It's confusing.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 02:12 AM (5f5bM)
business and part of that is because he does seek permission even if it
is an artist or song who won't be remembered in 2 years. He also
directs music videos and actually brings them in under budget. So again
more respect.
Posted by: Buzzion at January 25, 2015 12:59 AM (MHOKI)
--------------------
Yep. And just FTR, Coolio has since said he was stupid to say he didn't want Weird Al to do a parody; Al's parody was good and he doesn't know what he was thinking taking himself so seriously. Probably a combo of people giving him grief and a little more distance between himself and the song.
Posted by: no one of consequence at January 25, 2015 02:12 AM (36Aak)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 25, 2015 02:13 AM (UVfht)
One day, we'll take up the mantle of our courageous mom and dad, and be
here posting on the greatness that is our first female President of
color, Sasha Obama.
Posted by: Marcus and Dory Cloggenline at January 25, 2015 02:11 AM (tdmtT)
Cloggenline? Joe the plumber could fix that for you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:13 AM (upitO)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 02:15 AM (zOTsN)
here posting on the greatness that is our first female President of
color, Sasha Obama.
***************
I personally cannot wait for the 2036 matchup between Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinsky and George P. Bush.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 02:16 AM (5f5bM)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 02:16 AM (zOTsN)
See, I think that's a big part of the problem. I don't remember presidential campaigns lasting that long in the past. Back in the old days the federal government wasn't the epicenter of American life, and the President didn't have near-dictatorial powers. I think the length of the campaign has grown in direct proportion to the power of the Presidency.
I don't think I watched a single debate in the 2012 cycle, although I saw some clips afterwards. That's because modern TV debates are complete horseshit. If I tune out the endless political yakking, I can only imagine the effect it has on LIVs. It bores them to tears, which is why they latch onto the candidate who is best-looking, acts coolest, or promises them moar free shit.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 01:49 AM (sdi6R)
In 1948, 12 states had primaries/caucuses for the GOP.
In 1952, only 13 states had primaries/caucuses for the GOP.
In 1960, only 13 states plus DC had primaries/caucuses for the GOP
In 1980, all 50 did.
Guess why the cost went up?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 25, 2015 02:19 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 02:16 AM (zOTsN)
Probably a scan off a Daguerrotype from her high-school graduation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:19 AM (upitO)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 02:16 AM (5f5bM)<<<
George P. Bush/Meghan McCain -vs - Chelsea Clinton/Joe Joe Joe Kennedy
Posted by: the 2036 Presidential Election at January 25, 2015 02:22 AM (tdmtT)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 02:24 AM (91eZY)
out of chicken stock
just made hamburger steaks, we put stock in the pan during the last half of cooking and cover, then add butter to the sauce for gravy
its great!!
but I have to send the slave to get stock makings now
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:25 AM (/2Qtx)
willow I think?
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:26 AM (/2Qtx)
Posted by: ThunderB, Sharia Compliance Officer at January 25, 2015 02:26 AM (zOTsN)
Not likely. Our DJs (except for me) double as salespeople when they're off the air. They're not your typical sales weasels.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 02:01 AM (xX2Fy)
The sales manager at the station I worked at started off as an announcer, and he had some of the best pipes in town 20 years after going into sales.
He was a big proponent of going after the television and radio money, and he got it. The other stations in the market couldn't figure out how we were making money hand over fist while they were fighting over the scraps.
Didn't make us any friends at the newspaper and television stations, so they always ran negative stories about us. We didn't care one bit.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 25, 2015 02:27 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Kosher HAL at January 25, 2015 02:10 AM (T1005)
Greco-Roman and Anglo-Saxon legs of WeirdDave's "Aberration" post would disagree with you upon that.
Bacon.
Now.
NOW.
NOW!!1!`~eleventy!!1!!!!
Posted by: The Bacon Cheese Hat at January 25, 2015 02:27 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 02:28 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 02:24 AM (91eZY)<<<
Isn't dear old John's mother still kickin'? And he'll of course be around to torment us for years, and years, and years to come.
Nah. She'll make it. That family is almost as resilient as me.
Posted by: Abe Vigoda at January 25, 2015 02:28 AM (tdmtT)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 25, 2015 02:31 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: no one of consequence at January 25, 2015 02:12 AM (36Aak)
Coolio also probably discovered that his career was as the kids say it, "over".
Plus Weird Al also IIRC gives a writing credit to the people he parodies, so they receive some of the royalties.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 25, 2015 02:31 AM (+Fae7)
2014 was a tumultuous year, but I can't say it was a bad one.
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:32 AM (18q33)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:34 AM (upitO)
it appears the jug eared idiot bear hugged the leader of india
doesn't he have anyone at State to inform him of do and don'ts?
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:35 AM (/2Qtx)
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:36 AM (/2Qtx)
Long time. I disagree about MM. I hear a truck delivers 12 cartons of Twikies a week to her.
Thats a lot a carbs hot air wont burn off.
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 02:38 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:38 AM (18q33)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:32 AM (18q33)
You weren't by chance a pheasant plucker, were you?
Posted by: Knocked-up country girl, down the road from the pheasant farm. at January 25, 2015 02:39 AM (upitO)
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:35 AM (/2Qtx)
******
After 6 years of O Bumbles cluelessness, along with that of all of his staff and advisors, you need to ask this question? Really?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 02:41 AM (VHKLL)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:43 AM (18q33)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:38 AM (18q33)
Damn! I want one of those Jeep Bumper beds. With a wench on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:43 AM (upitO)
Thats a lot a carbs hot air wont burn off.
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 25, 2015 02:38 AM (91eZY)<<<
We'll see the return of whistle-stop campaign tours when she runs. She'll have to rely on freight trains to haul her bulbous ass around.
Posted by: Abe Vigoda at January 25, 2015 02:44 AM (tdmtT)
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:45 AM (/2Qtx)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:47 AM (18q33)
They are accustomed to curtsies.
And I'm pretty sure you can kiss the Japanese, but don't try that with Zimbabwe Bushmen.
Keep it straight, Mr. President.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 25, 2015 02:47 AM (KG0mU)
it appears the jug eared idiot bear hugged the leader of india
doesn't he have anyone at State to inform him of do and don'ts?
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:35 AM (/2Qtx)<<<
The Indian leader got off easy. I was almost crushed by a squatch.
Posted by: Queen Elizabeth II at January 25, 2015 02:47 AM (tdmtT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:50 AM (upitO)
I guess it could have been worse
Mooch could have cut him with her bat'leth
...or mistaken him for a lobster.
Posted by: Garrett at January 25, 2015 02:50 AM (81OM+)
Posted by: Jen Psaki at January 25, 2015 02:51 AM (tdmtT)
We are making big moves into digital. So far, it's working. Our owner also has a billboard company. He is well on his way to being King Of Local Media.
Now I gotta get out of here. G'night, y'all.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 25, 2015 02:53 AM (hqpQJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2015 02:55 AM (upitO)
Gotta say though, it was pretty hard to talk to them. Almost like being in a Dunkin' Donuts or 7-11 back in Delaware.
Posted by: Joe "Grabby Hands" Biden at January 25, 2015 02:56 AM (tdmtT)
that of all of his staff and advisors, you need to ask this question?
Really?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 25, 2015 02:41 AM (VHKLL)
*************************
For some reason unknown to me, I was thinking about the Paris debacle the other day. Among other things, it is the job of the Embassy staff, ultimately under the Ambassador's direction, to know (a) what is going on in the country where they're located, and (b) which high-ranking Americans are in country.
It is inconceivable that the Embassy staff didn't know that the march was going to be a big deal and that Eric Holder was in town. It is conceivable, however, that they were so stupid they never put two and two together.
As for getting the President or Vice President, our Embassy staff couldn't have been so ill-informed that they did not know other heads of state were going to be there -- and not only that, remember the French have an Embassy in Washington that was trying to nail down the President or someone high-ranking at the same time. So the decision not to send someone had to have been deliberate.
Someday the e-mails are going to come out on this. Not JEF or Big Ketchup's finest hours.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2015 02:59 AM (5f5bM)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 02:32 AM (18q33)
If 2015 is better, than 2014 was not bad in that the future was bette.
If 2015 is worse, than at least 2015 wasn't as bad.
Eithr which way, at least 2014 isn't as bas as now!!1!
Posted by: The Overly-Optimistic Hat at January 25, 2015 03:00 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Joe B at January 25, 2015 03:01 AM (5f5bM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snzf_SdzXH4
Posted by: The Galloping Hat at January 25, 2015 03:03 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at January 25, 2015 03:04 AM (18q33)
Posted by: The Metal Hat at January 25, 2015 03:10 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 03:26 AM (iRJ+A)
I thought when you met the Indian chief, you were supposed to raise your hand and say, "How"?
Posted by: Joe B at January 25, 2015 03:01 AM (5f5bM)
Fried.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 03:26 AM (T1005)
is cooth around tonight?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 03:26 AM (iRJ+A)
Hey, jc -- how are you doing?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 03:28 AM (T1005)
766
is cooth around tonight?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 03:26 AM (iRJ+A)
Hey, jc -- how are you doing?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 03:28 AM (T1005)
===some good, some bad. I am thinking about something serious related to stepped-up basis on a main home.
I am facing a loss of 1/2 of the C/G exemption from 500K to 250K on a 24-month window after missus jc passed and whether or not I can depend on a step-up for her might be a big factor in whether I have to sell or not.
If I can take advantage of a step-up for her, is there anyway that the step-up has to be documented now to remain force after the 24 month window or is all of that just goofy?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 03:40 AM (iRJ+A)
768
766
is cooth around tonight?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 03:26 AM (iRJ+A)
Hey, jc -- how are you doing?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 03:28 AM (T1005)
===some good, some bad. I am thinking about something serious related to stepped-up basis on a main home.
I
am facing a loss of 1/2 of the C/G exemption from 500K to 250K on a
24-month window after missus jc passed and whether or not I can depend
on a step-up for her might be a big factor in whether I have to sell or
not.
If I can take advantage of a step-up for her, is there anyway
that the step-up has to be documented now to remain force after the 24
month window or is all of that just goofy?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 03:40 AM (iRJ+A)
OK, so just some random thoughts (and not actual tax advice) -- first, state law has a major effect on what happens upon (presumably testate) succession. I've never practiced in Alaska, BTW.
In California, a community-property state, it is basically assumed that property acquired after a marriage is community (unless you make a deal of purchasing it with personal assets never commingled). If you have a house that you bought for $200K in 2001, and it is worth $500K now, your basis after the dust settles will be $350K. That would be $100K of your basis (half of $200K purchase) plus $250K of her basis (half of $500K at DoD). That step-up in basis would be subject to estate tax if you were brother and sister (in fact, the original basis would be similarly subject to tax [estate tax would be levied on her entire half, $250K]), but bequests between spouses are generally exempt.
The nice thing about a spousal step-up in basis is that is not recoverable by the government under current law.
Now, if you were in a state without community property, it may very well be that you own the house outright. In that case, your basis after the dust settles would be $200K -- same as the purchase price. Alternatively, she could have owned it entirely, in which the basis to you would be $500K.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:00 AM (T1005)
====
Alaska is strange because it is an opt-in community property state, but I didn't know that and now it is too late. I could have had the double step-up if I had acted.
anyway, I think I can get my 1/2 basis + her 1/2 step-up and get a new higher basis that way. There is no state tax.
so the only question is -- is there anything I am REQUIRED to do in terms of an IRS form to lock in the step-up now under the assumption that more than 24 months would pass before I sell?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:06 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:00 AM (T1005)
====
Alaska
is strange because it is an opt-in community property state, but I
didn't know that and now it is too late. I could have had the double
step-up if I had acted.
anyway, I think I can get my 1/2 basis + her 1/2 step-up and get a new higher basis that way. There is no state tax.
so
the only question is -- is there anything I am REQUIRED to do in terms
of an IRS form to lock in the step-up now under the assumption that more
than 24 months would pass before I sell?
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:06 AM (iRJ+A)
I would advise you to consult an expert on the ground up there -- it would likely be a state form or practice rather than Federal -- and, frankly, I've never heard-of opt-in community property [and, BTW, you'd only get a double step-up if she owned the house outright]. The good news is that such consultations tend to be short and productive if you know what might be going-on in the first place.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:11 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Zombie Michael Jackson at January 25, 2015 04:12 AM (fIv/H)
===
thanks. that's a good place to start.
here's the coolest part about Alaska opt-in -- it is not limited to alaska residents -- estate planners around the country can use it based on the trust law here.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:14 AM (iRJ+A)
So, I need to buy my wife a red dress, just so I can ask the bandleader to play Chris DeBurgh's "Lady in Red" and dance with her.
The years and the lives and the bullshit fall away. "Such a feeling of complete and utter love". Give me that and "fundamental concepts", bills, work, REALITY...it can all fall away. It means nothing for that one moment of perfect bliss.
Wait, what am I saying? That's my life. It's a bit rough around the edges though, maybe I'll buy her that red dress after all.
Sorry folks, tonight, I'm just happy tonight for what I have, for how blessed I am. I'll be back to DOOM soon enough(probably when I wake up and my head says "Had fun? Now let's talk").
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 04:14 AM (WvS3w)
Uh-oh, Dave's drunk. What does Dave do when he's drunk? He posts about how much he loves his wife. Yea, fuck me, I'm boring.
So,
I need to buy my wife a red dress, just so I can ask the bandleader to
play Chris DeBurgh's "Lady in Red" and dance with her.
The years
and the lives and the bullshit fall away. "Such a feeling of complete
and utter love". Give me that and "fundamental concepts", bills, work,
REALITY...it can all fall away. It means nothing for that one moment of
perfect bliss.
Wait, what am I saying? That's my life. It's a bit rough around the edges though, maybe I'll buy her that red dress after all.
Sorry
folks, tonight, I'm just happy tonight for what I have, for how blessed
I am. I'll be back to DOOM soon enough(probably when I wake up and my
head says "Had fun? Now let's talk").
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 04:14 AM (WvS3w)
We're kind of fond of you both, so I hope the scheme comes off if it'll make her happy. 'Cause that would make you happy.
I should note, however, that I don't buy the fiancee clothing AT ALL, 'cause she likes what she likes and if it pinches or doesn't flatter.....well, that wouldn't be fun.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:18 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:11 AM (T1005)
===
thanks. that's a good place to start.
here's
the coolest part about Alaska opt-in -- it is not limited to alaska
residents -- estate planners around the country can use it based on the
trust law here.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:14 AM (iRJ+A)
You most likely have to have some nexus within Alaska for it to apply to any part of your assets. You can't live in Rhode Island and just decide that Alaska probate law applies.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:23 AM (T1005)
Alaska for it to apply to any part of your assets. You can't live in
Rhode Island and just decide that Alaska probate law applies.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:23 AM (T1005)
====no, you have to set up a trust or agreement first. can't be done post-death.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:31 AM (iRJ+A)
Wait, what am I saying? That's my life. It's a bit rough around the edges though, maybe I'll buy her that red dress after all.
Sorry folks, tonight, I'm just happy tonight for what I have, for how blessed I am. I'll be back to DOOM soon enough(probably when I wake up and my head says "Had fun? Now let's talk").
Posted by: Weirddave at January 25, 2015 04:14 AM (WvS3w)
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand not lie nor sit
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop 357
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?
What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings,
Dry bones can harm no one.
Only a cock stood on the rooftree
Co co rico co co rico
In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
Bringing rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.
Then spoke the thunder
DA
Datta: what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms
DA
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall, aethereal rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
DA
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam uti chelidon - O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih
Posted by: What the Thunder Said at January 25, 2015 04:32 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:33 AM (iRJ+A)
You most likely have to have some nexus within
Alaska for it to apply to any part of your assets. You can't live in
Rhode Island and just decide that Alaska probate law applies.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:23 AM (T1005)
====no, you have to set up a trust or agreement first. can't be done post-death.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:31 AM (iRJ+A)
Hmmmm....
.....on to more pleasant subjects, how's the weather? Had any interesting wildlife encounters lately?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:33 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:33 AM (T1005)
====weather actually starting to seem like winter. we got a little snow and it cooled down to a normal temp for this time of year.
not outside much yet. sorting, cleaning and throwing shit away. huge job and not much fun. that's a key part of why this 24-month window shit is on my mind.
pissed at myself for not knowing about this opt-in thing before. I coulda saved myself a gubmint shafting really easy and I just didn't know.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:40 AM (iRJ+A)
Saw them both in action during the Gulf War. Yikes. Felt sorry for those who received what they dished out.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at January 25, 2015 04:41 AM (nywSB)
example--
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nkkv72v
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:33 AM (iRJ+A)
I'm not so sure about this -- they're saying that things have been settled this way since 1947, but this certainly did not reflect current practices when I was doing bunches of returns. I'd look at section 1014(b)(6) more closely when it was less late.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:49 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Political Hat (of a poetic vein) at January 25, 2015 04:49 AM (0Ew3K)
.....on to more pleasant subjects, how's the weather? Had any interesting wildlife encounters lately?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:33 AM (T1005)
====weather
actually starting to seem like winter. we got a little snow and it
cooled down to a normal temp for this time of year.
not outside much
yet. sorting, cleaning and throwing shit away. huge job and not much
fun. that's a key part of why this 24-month window shit is on my mind.
pissed
at myself for not knowing about this opt-in thing before. I coulda
saved myself a gubmint shafting really easy and I just didn't know.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:40 AM (iRJ+A)
Aren't you in Alaska?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:50 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Weather Report Hat at January 25, 2015 04:54 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:50 AM (T1005)
====yep. but I figger I am too late for the best moves now.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:54 AM (iRJ+A)
Night all.
Here is "Xanadu" by Rish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3s2T0VBug
Posted by: The Political Hat (of a poetic vein) at January 25, 2015 04:49 AM (0Ew3K)
I don't know of any band named "Rish" doing "Xanadu". There is video out there of "Rash" doing "Closer to the Heart", however -- http://tinyurl.com/l94jcy4 .
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:56 AM (T1005)
Aren't you in Alaska?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:50 AM (T1005)
====yep. but I figger I am too late for the best moves now.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 04:54 AM (iRJ+A)
Just scanning things, it appears that "opt-in" is only for those out of state. If you're in-state, you're in. How was the property purchased?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:58 AM (T1005)
only for those out of state. If you're in-state, you're in. How was the
property purchased?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:58 AM (T1005)
====I woulda had to place it in the trust.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:00 AM (iRJ+A)
"Closer to the Heart", however -- http://tinyurl.com/l94jcy4 .
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:56 AM (T1005)
Let's not be pedantic...
Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVkb7ulSnjA
Posted by: The Weather Hat at January 25, 2015 05:01 AM (0Ew3K)
Just scanning things, it appears that "opt-in" is
only for those out of state. If you're in-state, you're in. How was the
property purchased?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:58 AM (T1005)
====I woulda had to place it in the trust.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:00 AM (iRJ+A)
Regular community property is community property if purchased when you're married. No trust necessary.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:05 AM (T1005)
I don't know of any band named "Rish" doing "Xanadu". There is video out there of "Rash" doing ...
"Closer to the Heart", however -- http://tinyurl.com/l94jcy4 .
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 04:56 AM (T1005)
Let's not be pedantic...
Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVkb7ulSnjA
Posted by: The Weather Hat at January 25, 2015 05:01 AM (0Ew3K)
You do know these guys can't play their instruments, right? It's scientific -- http://tinyurl.com/kfvruud
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:09 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:05 AM (T1005)
====alaska is not a community property state. alaska is a community property TRUST state. "An Alaska Community Property Trust is a joint revocable living trust."
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:09 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:09 AM (T1005)
A Retort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U
Posted by: The Scientific Hat at January 25, 2015 05:11 AM (0Ew3K)
Regular community property is community property if purchased when you're married. No trust necessary.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:05 AM (T1005)
====alaska
is not a community property state. alaska is a community property TRUST
state. "An Alaska Community Property Trust is a joint revocable living
trust."
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:09 AM (iRJ+A)
So, who bought the house? Whose name is on the deed? Is it tenancy-in-common, or JTWROS?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:13 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:13 AM (T1005)
===I am being coy because of our venue. If we were together I would tell you details.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:17 AM (iRJ+A)
This times for real.
Here is the album "Once More 'Round The Sun" by Mastodon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hA5MeYV1eI
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 25, 2015 05:20 AM (0Ew3K)
A good friend is moving to South Carolina
So, we were reading the South Carolina gun laws concerning purchase, possession and carry.
Judging by the smile on his face, I think he left with an erection that may last longer then four hours.
But.....I didn't personally check to be sure.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2015 05:25 AM (fL+1V)
So, who bought the house? Whose name is on the deed? Is it tenancy-in-common, or JTWROS?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:13 AM (T1005)
===I am being coy because of our venue. If we were together I would tell you details.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:17 AM (iRJ+A)
'Sokay -- I just get irritable when someone says something like, "pissed
at myself for not knowing about this opt-in thing before. I coulda
saved myself a gubmint shafting really easy and I just didn't know." -- 'cause it sounds like rolling over and giving up. Never give up.
With the fiancee's mom, she had a living trust, then went a little soft for a bit and didn't do some things, then passed.....and we got a court to say she "coulda shoulda woulda" when it was all too obvious she didn't.....and now, we're conveniently past the statute of limitations. Never give up. If the law is against you, use the facts; if the facts are against you, use the law; and if both the facts and the law are against you, pound the table and hope your judge is a mush-head.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:26 AM (T1005)
====
understood. I will do my best, but I will draw the line well short of where a certain mr. snipes did.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:28 AM (iRJ+A)
G'morning, all.
A good friend is moving to South Carolina
So, we were reading the South Carolina gun laws concerning purchase, possession and carry.
Judging by the smile on his face, I think he left with an erection that may last longer then four hours.
But.....I didn't personally check to be sure.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2015 05:25 AM (fL+1V)
Where's he moving from?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:29 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:26 AM (T1005)
====
understood. I will do my best, but I will draw the line well short of where a certain mr. snipes did.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:28 AM (iRJ+A)
I said, "don't give up" -- I didn't say, "turn your back on 'em, bend over a solid object, and smear K-Y all over your ass."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:31 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2015 05:39 AM (fL+1V)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:31 AM (T1005)
====I'm not sure he got the KY. My situation is at worst a missed opportunity. Nothing dire -- just a waste of money for no good reason cuz I didn't do enough reading first. Or, at best, it is a newly found opportunity that I will pursue and avoid throwing money down the dc rathole thereby staving off the inevitable gubmint collapse by another billionth of a second.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:41 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: Eromero at January 25, 2015 05:42 AM (go5uR)
"Where's he moving from?"
The Peoples Republic of Baltimore
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2015 05:39 AM (fL+1V)
Well, yeah -- that's an easy improvement. Baltimore was the place where they were checking out-of-state-plates against out-of-state gun registrations, wasn't it?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:42 AM (T1005)
Why yes, yes they were.
They never did fully explain how that flow of information happened.
Almost like listening to Belichick explain football pressures.
Lots of words were said.
And not much else.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2015 05:46 AM (fL+1V)
I said, "don't give up" -- I didn't say, "turn your back on 'em, bend over a solid object, and smear K-Y all over your ass."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:31 AM (T1005)
====I'm
not sure he got the KY. My situation is at worst a missed opportunity.
Nothing dire -- just a waste of money for no good reason cuz I didn't do
enough reading first. Or, at best, it is a newly found opportunity that
I will pursue and avoid throwing money down the dc rathole thereby
staving off the inevitable gubmint collapse by another billionth of a
second.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:41 AM (iRJ+A)
No, he greased himself up good -- "At his sentencing, prosecutors said Snipes, a
resident of Windermere, Florida, had earned more than $38 million since
1999 but had filed no tax returns or paid any taxes through October
2006." http://tinyurl.com/d67smud . That's not fighting, that's the equivalent of saying "the lion is a butterfly and, thus, your premise is invalid."
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:48 AM (T1005)
"Baltimore was the place where they were checking out-of-state-plates against out-of-state gun registrations, wasn't it?"
Why yes, yes they were.
They never did fully explain how that flow of information happened.
Almost like listening to Belichick explain football pressures.
Lots of words were said.
And not much else.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2015 05:46 AM (fL+1V)
Congrats to your friend. South Carolina's nice, and reasonably sane, but it's demographically questionable for long-term investment according to http://tinyurl.com/cxb4wzg -- their ratio is 1.06. He might note that neither North Carolina nor Georgia is on that list of 11 states.....though the food in Charleston is mighty tempting.....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:54 AM (T1005)
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:55 AM (iRJ+A)
thanks cooth. CYA.
Posted by: jc at January 25, 2015 05:55 AM (iRJ+A)
You're welcome to whatever help I can give -- and if my help is worthless, you still have my concern.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 25, 2015 05:57 AM (T1005)
I'm from N.News We should have coffee sometime.
Posted by: Elliott D. at January 25, 2015 09:03 AM (l4+Yx)
Almost the best: Midway; Run Silent, Run Deep; The Enemy Below; Sahara; Enemy at the Gates; Battle of Britain; Guns of Navarone; The Horse Soldiers; The Lighthorsemen.
Let me make a special recommendation for The Lighthorsemen, since so few have seen it or even heard of it. It's an excellent Australian movie about the battle of Beersheba (191
and the great cavalry charge of the Australian and New Zealand Light Horse, the last great cavalry charge by a Western army in a set-piece battle in history and the best cavalry charge on film in my opinion. (And yes, I've seen both Charge of the Light Brigade movies.) The Light Horse were actually mounted infantry, not true cavalry, they weren't supposed to be doing real cavalry charges, but they did, and they took the fixed artillery and machine gun Turkish defenses at Beersheba. A great story, and a true one.Posted by: matthew49 at January 25, 2015 09:51 AM (S0m11)
Posted by: matthew49 at January 25, 2015 09:53 AM (S0m11)
It's been a long time since I've watched it. 4 stars.
Posted by: mrp at January 25, 2015 09:56 AM (JBggj)
If "The Wind and the Lion" hasn't been mentioned, it should be.
Posted by: mrp at January 25, 2015 09:59 AM (JBggj)
willow I think?
Posted by: NCJ at January 25, 2015 02:26 AM (/2Qtx)
=====Nope. Piper
Posted by: mrp at January 25, 2015 10:01 AM (JBggj)
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