My lunch with Barry ...

I am not "incompetent." cuzzin ricky

Cleanskins with Foreskins

Cleanskin

BRITISH A person who does not have an existing criminal record or who has not attracted the attention of police or security forces. Intelligence officials have been concerned for some time about the threat posed by cleanskins" This ↑is a movie  This ↓ is not, but should be The headlines tell the story: evil is running amok around the world. Just this week, 21 Egyptian Christians were beheaded in a horrifying five-minute video, 45 Iraqis were placed in cages and burned alive within five miles of a base where 300 U.S. Marines are surrounded by ISIS. Yemen has fallen to al Qaeda and our Embassy Marines were ordered by the President to give up their arms to the enemy and leave the country. Boko Haram, the African Islamic group that President Obama used the "#BringBackOurGirls" hashtag campaign to fight their kidnapping of 200 Christian girls, has now attacked Chad and is on the move terrorizing Christian Africans in Nigeria and surrounding countries.  Apparently, Islamic-driven murderous armies intent upon world domination #arenotimpressedwithtwitterhashtags. And in Copenhagen, Denmark, a free speech seminar was disrupted by an Islamic follower of Islamic State who murdered two participants. Just in time, President Obama is having a "Confronting Violent Extremism" summit.  A summit where it is against the rules to mention the common denominator in the horrific violence it is meant to discuss — Islamic extremism. [Full Obama's See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil summit] Cleanskin, a film I had, until last night,  zero awareness of, rocks!   My opening screen cap (Obama's "inclusive doctrine," which is really "Obama's See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil summit") came early, and made me stand at attention!  Charlotte Rampling plays "Q" to Sean Bean's rather scruffy  "licensed to kill"  character.  This thing is wild; fast paced with plot turns that gave me whiplash.   Here's one review that sums up (but only gives 3 stars to this, at least, 4 star thriller). Streams on Netflix. Plot Secret service operative Ewan (Bean) is escorting an asset when he's caught in a well-planned assassination attempt that results in the loss of a shipment of Semtex. The hit was orchestrated by Islamic terrorist Ash (Galeya), a young British man with murder in mind. Verdict A brutal, unsparing thriller, if a little on the long side. Director Hajaig's should be applauded for striving to show a balanced view of the radicalisation process and the campaign against terrorism. Sean Bean should be applauded for kicking several shades of ass.

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Black Spots

Dressin' Up 4 Wal-Mart

Oh My

Lindsey Lohan WHAT?

Lindsy Lohan Graham Sees an Opening

HUH? The conservative GOP core don't want another Bush They want an actual conservative, and right now that's Scott Walker. The GOP czar's favorite, Jeb Bush, has 14 Zillion dollars at his disposal.  Jeb really only needs $200 since the GOP rig the process and get what they want.    Somehow Sen. Lindsay Graham, aka John McCain Lite, sees an opening here? Bottom line.  There must be good deal of pocket money available from anyone who wants to stay in Lindsey Lohan Graham's good graces and need a reason.   What else?

Guns 'n Saddles

I bet RAK (Simply Rugged) can do this Tommy GUN Mann

Today's Selfie

Looks Legit

Robber's Family Outraged

Holder's Mustache

Poor Adric White MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The family of a suspected thief is lashing out after their son was shot during an armed robbery. Relatives of Adric White, 18, believe the Good Samaritan who opened fire should have "just left the store." Just happened upon this 2 month old story. I'm posting it in the Holder's Mustache file because it's representative of the mindset much of the Black community have formed since Obama/Holder took office.  It's a culture of whining entitlement based on the Administrations non-stop rabble rousing and race baiting.  Eric Holder's refusal to  condemn, let alone prosecute Black crime is worn like a bullet proof vest by the Adric Whites and relatives. Another Genie that will be very hard to put back into the bottle. [Story]

Shove the genie back into the bottle)

Obama's Waffen Schutzstaffel

AND THE IRS SAY ... This year is the first time ordinary Americans will experience the complicated interactions between the health care law and taxes. Based on congressional analysis, tax preparation giant H&R Block says roughly 4 million uninsured people will pay penalties. The IRS has warned that health-care related issues will make its job harder this filing season and taxpayers should be prepared for long call-center hold times, particularly since the GOP-led Congress has been loath to approve more money for the agency. [...] And the cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly. For 2014, the fine was the greater of $95 per person or 1 percent of household income above the threshold for filing taxes. That fine will be collected when taxpayers file their 2014 returns. But this year the fine will jump to the greater of 2 percent of income or $325. By 2016, the average fine will be about $1,100, based on government figures. Polls show that many taxpayers are unaware of the potential financial exposure. Democrats (trying to shove the genie back into the bottle) seek relief from health law penalties "Polls show that many taxpayers are unaware of the potential financial exposure." Quick thoughts: Polls will also show that many taxpayers are unaware of their potential exposure to living in a police state, which powers our currently corrupt IRS have. That said, while a majority evidently voted Obama into office, a solid majority were, and still are, against Obamacare.  It was shoved down our throats by Democrats holding a solid majority, which in itself ought be warning enough about the fragility of a free nation. Say Amen.

BAND of BROTHERS AGAIN

Band of Brothers again for the first time

I stumbled across a real treat last week.  Band of Brothers.  I know, but when it ran as a miniseries in 2001 I missed a few episodes, and—well, it's my nature to not even watch a movie if I've missed the opening, so I would wait for re-runs.  But I didn't.  I forgot all that history, so every time I've seen it streaming I thought, "seen that."  Until last Saturday, on Netflix. Horry clap, I didn't remember squat.  Just finished the final episode and I'm blown away.  This 11 Actors You May Have Forgotten Were in Band of Brothers is interesting, although Kieran O'Brien may be the most interesting, if not notorious, of the lot after his role as Matt in the previously reviewed  9 Songs.  By the by, the only thing I remembered from watching 14 years ago was David Schwimmer as the noxious Lt. Sobel (who retired as Lieutenant Colonel). His character on Friends was my least favorite, and that bias carried over.  This time around I was able to enjoy it. The prick. Unplugged

A real mother-fracker

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Greedy, Crooked, Green

When Progressives are in charge                                                                  Kitzhaber and the Greedy Greens Energy isn’t the only thing that’s green when you’re pushing the clean-energy agenda. Then there was Demos, a New York–based left-wing group normally prominent in attacking voter-ID laws. But in Oregon, Demos persuaded Hayes and Kitzhaber to consider using a “genuine progress indicator” as a substitute for traditional GDP models of growth. Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting started. While the story involves personal failings, the green-energy lobbying scandal that brought them down has national lessons and implications. If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns shouldn’t exercise undue influence in government, the same is true for green energy — which can’t yet survive in the marketplace without giant subsidies or special tax favors. While Hayes was living in the governor’s mansion with the self-bestowed title of “Oregon’s First Lady,” she collected a series of consulting contracts and “fellowship” money from people with an interest in shaping state energy and environmental policy. She then ordered state employees to help run her private business and take actions in accord with the wishes of the green-energy groups that were paying her. [Etc] Hang them

Interesting Facts

Pssst. Knew most of it . . . didn't know some, like no natural lakes in Ohio. Got in an argument with a guy about the ethnic makeup of New Yawk Sitty.  He got all upset when I told him there are basically 15 million Jews in the entire world and about half of them are in the New York/New Jersey area.  Also told him there are almost 7 times as many Irish people in the US as in Ireland.  Couldnt' believe it. Gotta give him credit, tho . . . he apparently looked it all up and came back later to apologize to me on the same thread. Metzger A Few Interesting Facts More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica. This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert. Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village." Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world. Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road, anywhere.   Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents. Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A. The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time -- The Big Apple. There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel. There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is manmade. The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4.53 sq. km. The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy, in 133 B.C. There is a city called Rome on every continent. Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests. The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is. In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two million years. Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.' St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the first business there. Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A.: 1%, in Canada: 75%. The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in emergencies. The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls. Barack Obama has never produced a valid birth certificate.

Security Certificate Question

Raja, I'm getting a lot of security certificate problems.  Now that includes something on your site, the most recent post:  Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate. Any idea how I can fix this? Skoonj It seems to me that somewhere you must have elected to block anything that doesn't pass security certificate muster?  Sounds like something IE would do. Anyone else?

Multiculturalism in France

Multiculturalisme et islam en France reportage de CBN This is France, but it's happening all over Europe and in a relatively nascent stage, here.  The French of course have a history of doing the wrong thing (their saving grace  perhaps being the instrumental role played in our emancipation from  King George III).  Right now France, while awaiting another Charles Martel, have schizophrenically lumped Jews into their enemies list. What a mess.  This  cannot end happily.  U.S. multiculturalism has left us without a cohesive national identity, or even a national language.  cuzzin Ricky

Best Commercials of the 60's ...

nostalgia                                                  WHO REMEMBERS ... CLANKY CHOCOLATE ?

Ephemeral VHS is a gold mine of memories.  Even the FBI warning is classic. Want more? Jack Webb Show 1946 Average rating: Bob & Ray WOR #202 Tuesday, December 18, 1973 Average rating: Bob And Ray And Leona. A mysterious snippet. Average rating: Bob & Ray WOR #201 Monday December 17, 1973 Average rating: Colonel Stoopnagel and Bud Off the couch with a grouch Average rating: