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Matt Damon's Greatest Scenes

Gah-Gah

Christopher Walken does Lady Gaga

Force Fields

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It's Sunday; this is all the news.  Go back to bed.

Change your clocks, or they'll get you “ 1) Penn pal dictator Chavez proves 'gun control' fails at stopping crime So—how has the plan worked out in the almost four years it's been in effect? From Reuters -- Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, 2) Obama-backed website on government spending is found lacking - Ah, those seven year plans. After reviewing 100 federal contracts, the GAO also found "widespread inconsistencies" in what appeared on the website and what was contained in records provided by the agencies. Auditors, for example, found discrepancies in where the work took place and the purpose of the contracts. 3) The Healthcare Bill Would Be Obama’s ‘Enabling Act’ Godwin prevails; "Hitler" not actual spoken. Why are Barack Obama and other Democrat leaders so intent on passing a government takeover of healthcare now…Now…NOW? 4) The Sniper "The difference between the good guys and the bad guys is whether they use human shields or make themselves human shields." 5) Wife of runaway slave launches 'tea party' group The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court. 6) TIMES: Does Barack Obama give a damn about us? Fuck no. 7) A POLITICO survey: The tea party's least favorite Republicans If you have to read it, you're not 8) Coffee vs. Tea: A political movement is brewing Pitiful.  Just pitiful -- if I didn't despise them so.  Laughable is better. UPDATE - The smaller the table, the bigger the crowd 9) Walmart Greeter Heart Warming must read ”

The EDSELATOR

The EDSELATOR

"A 1958 Ford Edsel Art Car is a rolling representation of SpawMaxwell"

Keep Moving, Nothing to do here

Spontaneous Civil Disapprobation

“ People in  Kemper County ,  MS have a warped sense of humor. This is the fork at Highway 39N and Fire Tower Road . A deer was hit there. The couch was dumped there previously. Day two the deer was on the couch. Day three the end table and lamp showed up. Day four the TV and TV stand showed up. The Highway Patrol had to call MS DOT because of all the people stopping to take pictures. The cardboard caption in front of the deer on the couch reads, "Sorry Hunters. Obama ruined healthcare. We can't afford to have injured hunters on our conscience, so I'm staying home! Sorry, the Deer." ” Rick B

Obtuse stuff

Don Hertzfeldt

I unfortunately took several marketing courses from Don. That's why I'm relegated here.  But, then, so is Don now.

Exit Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy's Insta-Legacy

Uncanny. Watch it. H/T Ace

On a slab

Mind Bubbles

Last night while searching for something in my Media II files, a large collection of about 200,000 pictures from the 2005-2008 era,  two images flashed by in close proximity.  The first was Nancy Pelosi spooning with Rahm Emanuel. The second was the one on the right.  Of course that's not Rahm on a morgue slab, but it sure as hell reminded me of him.  Prolly something Rorschachy about that.  Oh, did you identify the corpse ?  It will remain for history to decide which of the three was the bigger threat.  Pelosi has my vote.

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Almost Heiress

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That's right.  Insane.

Honey, I'm Home “ 1) The New BDS (Beck Derangement Syndrome): He wants to talk about chalktalks but... he.... just.... CAN'T... control... himself... Without going into the whole sordid mess-o-links, I note that Beck has been getting slammed from both the right and the left in the last week. It seems Mr. Beck did a show where he got it "wrong" about Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician.- but .... 2) Second American female convert to Islam arrested in plot to kill Motoonist Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included "STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!" 3) OMFG AP: Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences AUSTIN, Texas – A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade. 4) Kneale: Obama as Ahab, Strapped to Moby Dick My guess is that ObamaCare will pass (insert bone-wracking shudder here). And, like Moby Dick plunging to the ocean’s depths, it will take with it Obama’s presidency and the Democrats’ control of Congress. But it isn't the Obama presidency I worry about. 5) Climategate.com shuts down The entire WordPress site is still on my server and will be saved for a buyer if they are interested. First $100,000 takes it 6) SEIU_AndyStern 03/12/10 10:32 pm EST Glen Beck is after you use Facebook and see!! http://twitter.com/SEIU_AndyStern/status/10285038488 (via @SEIU_AndyStern) 7) PG&E customer refuses to take smart meter, locks up old meter "To me it's unconstitutional, it's an invasion of my privacy," said Mark Dieteman. The smart meter allows PG&E to watch energy usage remotely and lets customers monitor how much electricity they use. However, residents have blamed the devices for a dramatic increase in their bills, prompting calls for an investigation. A Bakersfield man also filed a class-action lawsuit, which claims customers were overcharged and should get a refund. 8) House aide confirms Slaughter Solution never used before; Still, 'they are moving down that road' he procedure - dubbed by critics as the "Slaughter Solution" - is the brain-child of House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who, at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, is trying to fashion a rule that would allow the House to move toward passage of a health care reform bill without a recorded vote on the Senate version. 9) Biden Debunked: Cramer Declares Avoiding Taxes a 'Patriotic Duty' "The government has made it very clear in a series of tax rulings since the income tax started - and I learned this at law school - that it is actually well within your patriotic right to try and pay as little tax legally ... ." 10) Come to Washington DC on March 16, 2010. Stop Pelosi's Health Care ”

David Brooks - Egad

David Brooks: Obama "is still the most realistic and reasonable major player in Washington"

Hollywood Scum

Which Celebrity Has Made the Most Outrageous Statement Lately?

Newsbusters asks the question.   Click on a green bar  to see what was said.   I voted for Tom Hanks.  He chooses roles that wrap him in the flag, but marches in the Michael Moore Brigade.  They're all Hollywood, and all asshoes though.  Your mileage may differ.

What I saw

At first glance

Of course it dates from the segregation era,  but for a just a second I did think it current. I mean, we do seem to have come full circle, where many Blacks are segregating themselves.

Looking for the valve stem

Blow

Let My Toons Go!

Politically Correct Tom & Jerry rewriting history

All Political Correctness does is define new classes of victim hood, and reasons for grievance.  I despise it in any form.  Tom & Jerry cartoons seem to have especially felt the wrath of public scolds.  The "Mammy maid" character appeared in many T&J toons.  During the purge, Black actress Lillian Randolph’s voice was replaced by White actress June Foray.  Since the studios  kept pictures and sound reels separately, the voice sometimes didn’t match up the correct Tom & Jerry version when the white maid spoke with Mammy’s voice.  This is all quite insane.  I've gathered some examples below.  Here's some commentary. Puss Gets the Boot" (10 Feb 1940) Puss Gets the Boot" (Re-engineered) Mammy's voice was redubbed fairly early on (before they started using the white maid voice), in the original, Mammy says "O-W-T...Out!" & later in the cartoon “O-U-W-T…Out! In the edited version, she spells it correctly ("O-U-T"). Here's more   Fraidy Cat (original version) Fraidy Cat (reissued version) Puss N' Toots (original version) Puss N' Toots (reissued version) Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943) Yankee Doodle Mouse (reissued version) After Jerry climbs the washboard, Mammy looks for a burgler and is attacked by Tom, all these shots get removed. The scene on the record player has a section removed from the middle. The part where Jerry gets a tail full of record needles and a record lands on Tom's head making him look Chinese, followed by Jerry mocking Tom is hacked out. Tom as a “blackface flower” after an exploding teapot is often removed.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal

McChrystal

“ “Doubt,” T. E. Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), is “our modern crown of thorns.” The Special Operations forces that McChrystal led in Iraq were not so afflicted, despite a home front—especially a policy nomenklatura in Washington—that by 2006 had given up on the war.  - Man Versus Afghanistan ”

Thanks tp Pappy at the O Club for the heads-up on this story about Gen. Stanley McChrystal.  “ "This show of organizational dynamism points to a ground truth: despite the awful toll of casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the near-breaking of the Army through the strain on soldiers and their families because of long and dangerous deployments, American ground troops are emerging nearly a decade after 9/11 as a force that is even more organizationally and intellectually formidable than it was after the Berlin Wall collapsed, when the United States was the lone superpower. Army and Marine Corps company commanders, for example, can lead in a conventional fight and also bring order to chaotic tribal and ethnic messes, all while they communicate effectively up the bureaucratic chain (a skill they began to hone before 9/11, in the Balkans). And these officers have mastered what is, in fact, the colonial technique of partnering with indigenous forces molded in their own image." The inability of the West to come up with an comprehensive military, political and economic solution to the challenge of failed states has been partly masked by the acquisition of those skills within the military through experience. Rather than consciously building a combined capabilities team from different parts of society, the nation instead acquired a military staffed with soldier-diplomats and amateur nation builders while they weren’t looking.  ... [Worth Reading] ”

Alien Watch Primer

In Passing - Suicide is a sin

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My inner psycho burbles

In the good way “ I turned in Colleen "Jihad Jane" LaRose to the FBI -- A Jawa Report Exclusive Pay raise sought for bilingual fed workers The old "create a problem and subsidize it" gambit Federal bonus bonanza Not everyone suffers during this gummint caused depression "A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism." This is the famous opening line of the Manifesto of the Communist Party written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels   Guess what? Joe Biden is an idiot Wizbang saves me the time Su casa es mi casa The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. One of these Walmart under fire for selling black Barbies at half price of white dolls Walmart under fire for selling white Barbies at half price of black dolls Walmart under fire for not selling enough black Barbies Registering guns in Maryland The despot's heel is on thy shore,     Maryland! ”