That experiment in creating democracy we started back in 2003 seems to be going really, really well. *snerk*

But I guess Tommie would point out that to make that giant Omlette Of Freedom, you need to break some eggs.

Many, many, many, many eggs.

Iraq demonstrates that it is theoretically possible to go from an old Hama Rules tyranny to consensual politics — but it required $1 trillion, thousands of casualties, a herculean mediation effort by the U.S. and courageous Iraqi political will to live together — and even now the final outcome is uncertain.

so…it’s…working?

wtf? fywp!

soooooo…is all pasted text bad now?

And you know what? The Mustache’s last cab driver agreed with him!

P.S. FYWP says it’s mustache, but moustache looks right to me for some reason…
~

You know, I never realized how much Friedman looks like Mario (as in “Super”).

Maybe we can bring democracy to the Middle East by jumping on turtles.

Heaven forbid that the people of the Middle East be allowed to decide their future for themselves or conceivably actually pursue their own interests, rather than ours.

P.S. FYWP says it’s mustache, but moustache looks right to me for some reason…

In this case it is properly “Pornstache.”

ok, I’ll say it.

Suck. On. This.

This simpleton sunnabitch still believes his own bullshit at this late date? Friedman units should be measured with a body count, not periods of time.

Friedman units should be measured with a body count, not periods of time.

Guess we’ll know in six months either way, right?

kg beat me to the punch. Since these are new Hama rules, maybe we should name them after a more recent Hama-like city.

Maybe we can bring democracy to the Middle East by jumping on turtles.

stands a good chance of working better than what we’ve been doing to date.

“It’s turtles all the way down!”

“I like turtles”

Fuckin’ douche.

I hate his picture on the interweb site. He’s trying to look all pensive and wise, like he actually knows something.

I want a job being an op-ed writer for the benchmark newspaper in the US. I could just get really high and write stuff and probably get paid like a pimp.

New game;

Guess which mentally handi-CAPABLE buckethead wrote this jagged edged eyesore:

As William Friedkin, the director of “The Exorcist,” observed 27 years after Linda Blair’s head spun 360°, horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question: “Why do bad things happen to good people?”

Btw; The article that quote is lifted from is purported to involve the debt ceiling fight. It’s jammed full of horror movie references and an accusation that Obama is big scaredy-cat.

We should just send in the CIA to secretly assassinate any new leaders in the mideast who might threaten the hegemony and profitability of American oil companies in the region, and replace them with “respectable”, quasi-royal dictators, propped up by American weapons and money. They would be loyal to us, and would keep their own populations in check in order to hold onto power. What could possibly go wrong with a strategy like that?

Guess which mentally handi-CAPABLE buckethead wrote this jagged edged eyesore:

jonah?!?!?

since i cant’ lift text from the article and drop it in here…again, fywp…he claims the us’ *neutral* mediation and $1 trillion and a zillion casualities works…well, theoretically…oh, and we’re still not *certain* of the outcome…what the hell? so…it’s working? it’s not working? we don’t know…but let’s do it again?

Tea Party budget-slashers didn’t sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force epitomized “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and evoked comparisons to our most mythic creatures of the night.

Not Jonah, this is a NYFT OP-ED writer…

Here’s another sample of (hint) her LSD induced word diarrhea.

horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question:

Bad writing, like Hitler, poses a chilling, unanswerable question: Is are children learning?

Humor, like Hitler, poses a chilling, unanswerable question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

(hint) her LSD induced word diarrhea

if it’s a girl, imma goin maureen-baby…

horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question:

Hitler was a terrible horror movie.

It’s so predictable too. You just know that after they’ve “killed” Hitler, he’s just going to come back to hunt down the final girl. I mean, seriously, show some originality.

Also note – Friedman here is explicitly stating that the regime change currently occuring in the Arab world is a worse model than the one that ousted Saddam Hussein. That is seriously his argument.

Also too, caveat I don’t know much about 20th c. Syrian history so I’m going by conjecture and Gizoogle hits. This one in particular was very educational.

Friedman is citing teh Hama massacre of 1982 as teh bad, not-good, double-plus bad of crazee Arab dictators and teh reason why teh US should intervene moar. Maybe it’s a good thing that I’m pretty ignorant about Syrian history, because teh moar I read, teh moar this assertion seems hideously awful.

Teh story starts post WWI with the de-colonializing of everything, including Syrian independence announced variously until French troops withdrew in 1946. There followed a period of massive instability with twenty cabinets and four constitutions in a period of ten years. Totes fuckawesome. And where was teh neutral arbiter to referee in all this? Teh usual – plotting to undermine popular nationalist movements, supporting this or that military coup as the situation arose, neutrally arbiting and refereeing access to oil. Uh, I mean “opening the door to Peace and Progress”.

In 1957, the neutral arbiter had to referee the Eisenhower Doctrine by plotting to assassinate Syrian leaders, in order to protect all that oil the civilized world from The Red Menace. They also funded a coup in nearby Iraq by teh Ba’athist party (including you know who) because those guys sure hated teh commies a lot. That Ba’athist movement was trans-national with a vision of a Pan-Arab nationalist state and was founded in Damascus. Basically immediately following the Ba’athification of Iraq, was the first of the many Ba’ath takeovers of Syria.

Guess what political party Hafez Al-Assad belonged to.

As William Friedkin, the director of “The Exorcist,” observed 27 years after Linda Blair’s head spun 360°, horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question: “Why do bad things happen to good people?”

wrapping up so many internet bad writing traditions like that, I would LIKE to believe that is a Poe.

vs answered the unanswerable question in the previous thread: “Because God is a BASTARD!”

Maybe we can bring democracy to the Middle East by jumping on turtles.

Mitch McConnell in the house!

Err, make that Mr. Elaine Chao.
~

Why does the ‘Stache of Profunditity and all the other profundicators assume Arabs want democracy? Maybe they would prefer Socialism. Or a semi-theocracy similar to Iran.

Maybe we can bring democracy to the Middle East by jumping on turtles.

WTF? ROFL! This made me GIGGLE.

if it’s a girl, imma goin maureen-baby…

WINNER. Full on stupit.

Little Tommy is surveying the Arab playing field as to where to best start his movable goal posts.

Funny, I’m thinking more Swedish Chef than Mario…

Why does the ‘Stache of Profunditity and all the other profundicators assume Arabs want democracy? Maybe they would prefer Socialism. Or a semi-theocracy similar to Iran.

They don’t assume they want democracy. In fact they’re generally quite sure they don’t want the system that Western goverments like. That’s why people like Friedbrain here relentlessly lobby for military intervention by the West. They have a few very convenient excuses–9/11, heavy handed rebellion crushing by the ruling classes, and the fact that they’re brown and icky.

The point is that Americans are all about self-government and democracy anytime they’re running for office or dreaming up other inane shit to put on bumper stickers that morons seem to need for some sort of moral compass. Otherwise, we’re just an ordinary empire like all the others.

WINNER. Full on stupit.

wha? me or maureen?

Why does the ‘Stache of Profunditity and all the other profundicators assume Arabs want democracy?

BLASPHEMAH!

Lil Tommy has had this “neutral arbiter” stiffy for a while now, whether it be for unrest in the middle east or resolving the political gridlock in DC. If only there was a wise, bipartisan saint to sit above it all, then the world would be a much sunnier place and the ponies would roam free.

But I’m not sure Lil Tommy sees the USofA as the neutral arbiter here, he might have just enough self-awareness that right now we can’t carry this off. I think instead he sees this as a role for… himself. Mr SuckOnThis has his shortcomings, but a lack of confidence, that he could play God and resolve most of the world’s problems through his inherent awesomeness and network of insightful cab-drivers, is not one of them.

wha? me or maureen?

Why would you even ask that question?

Why would you even ask that question?

cuz i am one sarcastic smart ass…but srsly? i wish i could get a sweet paycheck to write crap like that…

But I’m not sure Lil Tommy sees the USofA as the neutral arbiter here

It’s a warning. That if teh US doesn’t step up and fill that role, China will.

I’m sure next up Little Tommy will write “The New HamaS Rules” about the democratically elected Palestinian parties struggles with Israel. I’m quite certain he will write glowingiy about how brave Palestinians stood up for their rights after their families homes were bulldozed.

Guess which mentally handi-CAPABLE buckethead wrote this jagged edged eyesore:

MoDo, bless her pointed little head.

Also too, that Tommy Friedman is bringing up teh spectre of that ’82 massacre in Hama right now. OMFG. Maybe, perhaps, a little too soon?

Maybe, perhaps, a little too soon?

Also, not exactly clear how a “neutral arbiter” is going to help.

Of course the “neutral arbiter” has to be from America or Europe. No Frenchies tho.

I don’t know how teh Grey Lady timelines columns or anything, but I imagine that Tommy had to have submitted his column after July 31 for today’s dead tree edition. They shot a hundred people in Hama on July 31st.

Also too, don’t they have some sort of op-ed editor? Andrew Rosenthal is listed with two deputies on the Masthead. I imagine that they could still have pulled this piece yesterday. When tanks were rolling into the city.

So while Tommy ponders The New Hama Rules, the rest of the world witnesses Calvinball for Tyrants.

Tsam, Tommy ponders the significance of lunch meat condiments.

I’m sure next up Little Tommy will write “The New HamaS Rules” about the democratically elected Palestinian parties struggles with Israel. I’m quite certain he will write glowingiy about how brave Palestinians stood up for their rights after their families homes were bulldozed. – Bay Gargarian

Actually, “Hama rules” is a dog-whistle about Palestinians based on the original situation in Hama that brought this phrase to notoriety: to unpack the allusion, the point (and not an unreasonable one … or not entirely unreasonable anyway*) is that “whatever Israel has done to the Palestinians, it pales in comparison to how Arab states, who claim to support the Palestinian cause, have treated actual Palestinians … consider what happened in Hama, for instance”

* at the very least, if the Arab world didn’t continually invade Israel pre-1967 but rather allowed a Palestinian state to be established, would there even be a “Palestinian problem” today?

Tsam, Tommy ponders the significance of lunch meat condiments.

Shit cracks me up. Could there BE a more self-important fucking pose for writer to mug?

Tommy ponders the significance of lunch meat condiments – Bay Gargarian

Maybe he’s just constipated?

Actually, I think he spends his life hoping someone would take his picture in profile so he could look like this. I am still trying to figure out the connection, if any, between Friedman’s “philosophy” and the works of Nietzsche, however.

that he could play God and resolve most of the world’s problems through his inherent awesomeness

that was also basically how Frank Lloyd Wright saw urban planning.

SRSLY. Here’s the situation:

The city has been under seige since March with violence escalating in June. Thousands are dead and while it is astounding that they gathered half a million protestors on July 31st – it’s not surprising that the regime is repsonding with military action. Just like they did a month ago at the last mass protest.

Seems like a kind of inappropriate time for rambling head-up-ass pontificating about that time thirty years ago when the same city was flattened and tens of thousands were killed.

that he could play God and resolve most of the world’s problems through his inherent awesomeness

that was also basically how Frank Lloyd Wright saw urban planning.

That’s how FLW saw toilet design.

N__B said,

August 3, 2011 at 18:31

that he could play God and resolve most of the world’s problems through his inherent awesomeness

that was also basically how Frank Lloyd Wright saw urban planning.

That’s how FLW saw toilet design.

Nah, that would be Buckminster Fuller.

Nah, that would be Buckminster Fuller.

Still looks easier to use than one of FLW’s “I’m 5′-4″ and therefore all fixtures shall be designed for someone of my perfect size” toilets.

Little Tommy is surveying the Arab playing field as to where to best start his movable goal posts.

Just wind ’em up and watch ’em go!

The #1 item on every Republican’s Christmas list.

Still looks easier to use than one of FLW’s “I’m 5?-4? and therefore all fixtures shall be designed for someone of my perfect size” toilets.

Yeah, it seems like every new place I move into, the kitchen counters are lower than the last one. Cooking or washing dishes is like fucking picking cotton! I know midgets are the oppressed minority and so everything has to be dome their way, but Goddamnit! They can kick around a milk crate to stand on. I can’t very well carry a hole around with me to stand in! </myfuckingbackiskillingmerant>

That’s how FLW saw toilet design.

But I like the Guggenheim.

It’s all so clear now… Democracy= What the multinationals want. How could I have been so blind as to trust actual human beings?

Shit cracks me up. Could there BE a more self-important fucking pose for writer to mug?

whoa…for a second there i thought that was joey fatone…but joey knows about lunchmeat condiments…

I can’t very well carry a hole around with me to stand in!

Silly reverend, you can always get one of those newfangled portable holes.

OT: i didn’t ever tell y’all that i did not get to meet al franken cuz he couldn’t leave d.c. due to the budget clusterfuck…but dude’s at farmfest today…really? i’m annoyed…

Yeah, it seems like every new place I move into, the kitchen counters are lower than the last one.

I wonder if it’s an ADA compliance thing? (Not being facetious here.)

I wonder if it’s an ADA compliance thing? (Not being facetious here.)

That could be in general, but this place we moved into in December, the cabinets look like about 1973, so probably not in this case.

I wonder if it’s an ADA compliance thing?

Probably not. ADA is surprisingly reasonable about general counter height.

It’s all so clear now… Democracy= What the multinationals want. How could I have been so blind as to trust actual human beings? – BBB

It’s the ultimate result of a mis-interpretation of the doctrine of original sin. Individual humans are inherently evil and hence not to be trusted. Governments are either despotic, in which case the despot is clearly evil, bureaucracies, which are composed of bureaucrats who are evil or democracies in which case, by definition, the people (who are evil since the sin of Adam) rule.

OTOH, corporations are themselves fictive individuals but who are untouched (being fictive) by original sin. Thus corporations, who obey the invisible hand of the market (and we know whose hand that is) rather than the urgings of Satan, are the only truly good agents in this world.

That’s what the operating philosophy of some folks seems to be at least to me …

“Ruthless People” reference, but it edits to fit Tommy post.

Tommy F. -I think the deli’s using
a different mustard.
The last time it was tangier.

and you’re discussing
the inconsistency of
lunch meat condiments!

I wonder if it’s an ADA compliance thing?

Probably not. ADA is surprisingly reasonable about general counter height.

depends on the provenance of the place you’re moving into. WHEDA, who have coordinated financing on some of my recent projects, includes accessibility requirements a bit more extensive than the ADA itself. So if the apartment is funded through federal funding (and THAT is going to end, isn’t it?) there may be a few more units with more extensive accessibility features than normally required. This has been true for federal projects since the 1970s.

Also, just to be annoying clear (explaining voice) The ADA does not, by itself, mandate any construction standards. The ADA did include in reference material ANSI accessibility standards, but since construction codes are enforced locally, it was left to States and municipalities to figure out how they wanted to enforce the more vague “accessibility” standard of the ADA. And as codes change, the requirements do also. The ANSI standard referenced in the ADA was also recently updated, so there are a few more minor changes in the pipeline. [/explaining voice]

That could be in general, but this place we moved into in December, the cabinets look like about 1973, so probably not in this case.

People were shorter, and lived near the water.

Counters have been made lower as part of the upcoming stimulus program where everyone installs 8 inch thick granite slabs for countertops.

i wish i could get a sweet paycheck to write crap like that…

You’d become like MoDo? She doesn’t masturbate, she hate-fucks herself.

That could be in general, but this place we moved into in December, the cabinets look like about 1973, so probably not in this case.

People in the distant past were shorter because of their relative poverty and insufficiently nutritious diets.

I hate fast zombies.

“Yeah, it seems like every new place I move into, the kitchen counters are lower than the last one. Cooking or washing dishes is like fucking picking cotton! I know midgets are the oppressed minority and so everything has to be dome their way, but Goddamnit! They can kick around a milk crate to stand on. I can’t very well carry a hole around with me to stand in!”

That’s funny.

My last house (in Matagalpa) was built for Andre the Giant. The shower head was mounted on the ceiling, two feet over my head. By the time the water reached me, it was cold. The toilet was sitting three feet off the floor, causing my legs to dangle like a child’s. The shower head in the house before that one was mounted chest high (and I’m not very tall), meaning I had to sit on a stool to bathe or do the duck walk and suffer cramps in my thighs all night. Why can’t everybody just be the same size?

funny, a new post “Suddenly Surber” appears in my google reader feed but when I click on it I get page not found.

When I go to sadlyno.com this is the top post.

That could be in general, but this place we moved into in December, the cabinets look like about 1973, so probably not in this case.

People in the distant past were shorter because of their relative poverty and insufficiently nutritious diets.

That’s probably it. I shouldn’t complain, though. This is the first place I’ve ever lived with no steps, not even a curb; and we have one of the only two angled parking spaces, four feet outside the door and pointing right at it! Easiest move I ever did, I can tell you that.

funny, a new post “Suddenly Surber” appears in my google reader feed but when I click on it I get page not found.

When I go to sadlyno.com this is the top post.

kg, u r such a tease…

You’d become like MoDo? She doesn’t masturbate, she hate-fucks herself.

nope, don’t think i actually could…people tell me i have warmth and depth…

Why can’t everybody just be the same size?

That could be arranged, my dear fellow!

I know. Sorry to ruin it but here’s the shorter

While watching a movie musical, it occurred to me that the way for the United States to solve its fiscal crisis is to tax the poor, who are all way too fat anyway.

At least you’ll have to wait for the shop which is superb.

Obamacare raises it’s ugly head! Now our countertops have to comlply with dental standards!

funny, a new post “Suddenly Surber” appears in my google reader feed but when I click on it I get page not found.

When I go to sadlyno.com this is the top post.

That happened a couple of days ago—the post with Geordie La Forge in a wooden cell with Dick Solomon. It appeared, then suddenly disappeared, and didn’t come back for 24 hours. I think it’s a temporal anomaly. I blame the Romulans!

White Man’s Burden 2.0 = We bomb you so much because we really care, maaaaaaan. Also, you can only vote for the parties we approve because that’s how “democracy” works now … & if you disagree, we’ll replace those loving bombs with angry bombs.

Full on stupit.

Hey! Respect the craft, yo! I’m sure that took her entire minutes on end to write!

Tommy ponders the significance of lunch meat condiments.

Suggested Caption: “Nobody can tell I’m smelling my fingers right now.”

Probably not. ADA is surprisingly reasonable about general counter height.

I may have to go looking– I honestly have no idea. The last ADA-compliant thing I looked at was a toilet, for guests like my father-in-law (who, alas, is now where long travel is out of the question: a trip from San Diego to central CA? Ferget it!). ADA toilets are taller than average.

Procrustes

I’m anti-crusty myself.

Probably not. ADA is surprisingly reasonable about general counter height.

I may have to go looking– I honestly have no idea

I believe the design guidelines allow a portion to be low, or something like that.

On the other hand, a town building inspector insisted that ADA required me to install a ramp at a loading dock for use by wheelchair-bound stevedores.

hey! we’re here…we steer…get used to it!

While watching a movie musical, it occurred to me that the way for the United States to solve its fiscal crisis is to tax the poor, who are all way too fat anyway.

At least you’ll have to wait for the shop which is superb.

Why can’t we just feed all the poor people to a giant carnivorous plant? That would also improve our carbon footprint because the plant would sequester CO2 in its tissues.

On the other hand, a town building inspector insisted that ADA required me to install a ramp at a loading dock for use by wheelchair-bound stevedores.

I like the braille on the keyboards of drive-through teller machines at the bank.

On the other hand, a town building inspector insisted that ADA required me to install a ramp at a loading dock for use by wheelchair-bound stevedores.

Are there any provisions for shortshoremen?

Why can’t we just feed all the poor people to a giant carnivorous plant? That would also improve our carbon footprint because the plant would sequester CO2 in its tissues.

Day of the Triffids flashback there, B^4?

Are there any provisions for shortshoremen?

One more quip like that and ye’ll be swinging from the footarm, mate.

I suspect that no-wheelchair bound stevedores are probably pretty happy with having a ramp at a loading dock. WTF N__B?! Why the hell wouldn’t you put a ramp in at a loading dock?

footarm

I’m betting that a man with hands can beat a man with feet on his arms, any day.

ugh. noN-wheelchair bound. You know what I meant.

like the braille on the keyboards of drive-through teller machines at the bank.

your problem with that is what?

Why the hell wouldn’t you put a ramp in at a loading dock?

The dock height matches the interior of the trucks that pull up. So what purpose would the ramp serve?

I saw a demonstration of wheelchair basketball lately, and it’d be a hella better game if the damn hoops were lowered by at least a couple feet. Regulation hoops are just waaaay too high when launching shots from a seated position, and made the game almost painful to watch.

made the game almost painful to watch

Since the purpose was to cause pain, obviously the hoops need to be higher.

At a minimum, ease of getting dollies/loaders/&c. to and from where they’re used. I suppose that if it’s a municipal building, they’d have dedicated equipment for the building. Still, what about skateboarding?

At a minimum, ease of getting dollies/loaders/&c. to and from where they’re used.

Urban loading dock: all that stuff’s inside. The truckers pull up ass-first, open the doors, the trucks are unloaded from the dock, the doors are closed. Nothing moves between the upper and lower levels except unloaded people.

I like the braille on the keyboards of drive-through teller machines at the bank.

That actually doesn’t bother me as much as it does so many third-rate standup comedians: it’s easier to make all ATMs with the braille keyboards/panels than keep track of two different types depending on install location (for one thing, you never have to deal with returns when a walk-up location gets the one without braille…).

Also, fuck the skateboarders with a rusty chainsaw. Also. Every fucking curb and stair in the country seems to have divots out of it from them.

Of course we need to tax the poor more. That is the fastest expanding tax base in the country, so best get to it.

I saw a demonstration of wheelchair basketball lately, and it’d be a hella better game if the damn hoops were lowered by at least a couple feet. Regulation hoops are just waaaay too high when launching shots from a seated position, and made the game almost painful to watch.

Yeah, they should lower the baskets for wheelchair basketball. By the same token, now that the NBA is nothing but fucking mutants who just walk by and drop the ball in the basket, they should raise theirs at least back to the original 10 feet—or preferably 12.

Okay then, emergency evacuation of storage. I dunno what’s stored there, but maybe they might have to get it out of the building toot sweet.

Also skateboarders! Is there a nutshot railing on the ramp?

Day of the Triffids flashback there, B^4?

That would make a terrific musical, but I had something else in mind.

Three letters for you, WNBA! Lotsa fun to watch.

B^4, that’s the musical JimBob was talking about!!!!

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/39385

Now we’re dissecting threads and hunting for mangoes before they’re even posted. Efficient!

Big Bad Bald Bastard said,

August 3, 2011 at 20:47

Day of the Triffids flashback there, B^4?

That would make a terrific musical, but I had something else in mind.

Yeah, I figured as much. I usually spend most of that movie screaming at the TV screen about their use of the portmanteau atrocity “Skid Row“, so I don’t pay as close attention as I should.

B^4, that’s the musical JimBob was talking about!!!!

Oh, fuck, I’m channeling Surber?

I usually spend most of that movie screaming at the TV screen about their use of the portmanteau atrocity “Skid Row“, so I don’t pay as close attention as I should.

To be fair, “Skid Row” has been in the lexicon for many years, and its use places the story firmly in Manhattan’s Lower East Side (our “skid row” is The Bowery.

There is a new kook at Big Hollywood. And she is kooky:

This ridiculously asinine excuse for a movie [Cowboys and Aliens] (thank you, Stephan Spielberg) about aliens stealing town folk from an old west mining town to ‘see how they tick’ so they could annihilate the human race, started to become a perfectly normal paradigm of how the left is infiltrating every aspect of our lives. And in case you hadn’t figured it out yet … the left are the aliens and us red-blooded conservatives are the cowboys.

Wait. What? Steven Spielberg’s a Republican? I kinda got distracted with the NAKED Olivia Wilde.

“Also, fuck the skateboarders with a rusty chainsaw. Also. Every fucking curb and stair in the country seems to have divots out of it from them.”

OMG, N_B, you just officially became THE MAN.

Were you shaking your fist at a cloud when you wrote that?

Obamacare raises it’s ugly head! Now our countertops have to comlply with dental standards!

Dentistry is theft!

To be fair, “Skid Row” has been in the lexicon for many years, and its use places the story firmly in Manhattan’s Lower East Side (our “skid row” is The Bowery.

Yes, I recognize that the metaphorical use has detached itself—the was the idea. You don’t need logging skids to have a Skid Road. Just don’t stitch it together with the back end of Cannery Row in —Monterrey, was it?

This ridiculously asinine excuse for a movie [Cowboys and Aliens] (thank you, Stephan Spielberg) about aliens stealing town folk from an old west mining town to ‘see how they tick’ so they could annihilate the human race, started to become a perfectly normal paradigm of how the left is infiltrating every aspect of our lives.

Actually, it’s based on a comic book whose only attempt at social commentary was to directly and very bluntly ram home the point that what the aliens are doing to the cowboys is exactly what the cowboys were doing to the Indians.

(The studio removed most of that commentary in order not to upset the precious fee-fees of the people who read Big Hollywood and their ilk).

And in case you hadn’t figured it out yet … the left are the aliens and us red-blooded conservatives are the cowboys.

Not really, because the red-blooded cowboys only win by holding their nose and joining forces with the Indians. Show me a real life conservative who’s willing to do that with any of their present-day Other, and I’ll show you ocean front property in Oklahoma at a very affordable price.

OMG, N_B, you just officially became THE MAN.

Were you shaking your fist at a cloud when you wrote that?

I knew I had officially become an old fart when I was waiting for somebody in a shopping center parking lot and this kid just kept trying and trying some maneuver—flip, bang, clatter…. And I kept muttering to myself: “Fuck, kid…if you want to kill yourself, that’s none of my business—but can’t you go behind that pylon and quietly open a vein?”

OT – WTF?!?

More Deanna Murray:

Wives, children, friends and family – people we love and trust — are being taken from our ranks because we aren’t ready to fight the battle and can’t refute the argument of the left effectively! We can possibly spout off a few Constitutional issues or even make them agree with us on a few of Obama’s faults, but we can not hold a conversation compelling enough to actually sway opinion. Therefore, the glitz and glamour of the left, coupled with the joyless, greedy cartoonish picture the left paints of us wins out almost every single time.

Wives, children, friends and family can’t resist the glitz and glamour of COMMUNISM, bitches!

Rev, I think I discovered I was old when I turned my back on skinny jeans & realized I was not aware of MOST Internet traditions.

Wives, children, friends and family can’t resist the glitz and glamour of COMMUNISM, bitches!

It’s the Mao jackets.

“Wives, children, friends and family can’t resist the glitz and glamour of COMMUNISM, bitches!”

Oh, I laughed.

Wives, children, friends and family – people we love and trust — are being taken from our ranks because we aren’t ready to fight the battle and can’t refute the argument of the left effectively! We can possibly spout off a few Constitutional issues or even make them agree with us on a few of Obama’s faults, but we can not hold a conversation compelling enough to actually sway opinion. Therefore, the glitz and glamour of the left, coupled with the joyless, greedy cartoonish picture the left paints of us wins out almost every single time.

If you actually “loved and trusted” these people so much, you’d sit down and take in their opinions – not just “spout off” and try to “make them agree” with you, then run off to bawl about it on the Interwebs when they fail to take their marching orders from you.

(thank you, Stephan Spielberg)

Stephan, Steven, Soros, whatever. All those big-nosed moneygrubbing Christ-killing Jews Hollywood Liberals are the same to me.

…we aren’t ready to fight the battle and can’t refute the argument of the left effectively! We can possibly spout off a few Constitutional issues…

But don’t even suggest that we actually fucking read the Constitution, because that would be limiting our FREEDUMB to just make shit up!

Stephan, Steven, Soros, whatever. All those big-nosed moneygrubbing Christ-killing Jews Hollywood Liberals are the same to me.

Except for Andrew Breitbart! He tells it like it really is! !!1111!!

nothing sez glitz and glamour like Bernie Sanders. Who are you to resist it?

I’l love to see a Wonkette give Bernie the Blingee treatment.

Mr SuckOnThis has his shortcomings, but a lack of confidence, that he could play God and resolve most of the world’s problems through his inherent awesomeness and network of insightful cab-drivers, is not one of them.

Had to see that again, especially the “network of insightful cab drivers”

some funny shit, that.
.

From DKW’s link;

(Swing! And a MISS!)

Don’t count out this tactic completely. In the 1840 presidential election, one thing the opposition Whig Party did to cement its momentum from the economic depression was to mount a national effort of handing out hard cider at campaign events, tying it to the manufactured image of nominee William Henry Harrison as a rugged outdoorsman. Though come to think of it, 40 jars of peach jelly probably isn’t as convincing as hard cider.

I’ll show you ocean front property in Oklahoma at a very affordable price

Now I’m interested! Tell me more. I want to cash out my 401k and buy something before the republicans sink the dollar forever with their bullshit budget shenanigans.

I want to cash out my 401k and buy something before the republicans sink the dollar forever with their bullshit budget shenanigans.

Don’t you know nothing? You have to get gold because when there is no social system and no faith that a hunk of metal is worth some amount of food, water or shelter, gold will help you out ALOT DUDE.

We … can’t refute the argument of the left effectively!
Unexpected honesty is unexpected!

Yup, Bernie Sanders, Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, Jerry Brown, Ralph Nader, Alan Grayson…

That’s some serious suave sophistication on the left, alright

horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question: What is the sound of one hand clapping?

I always go to horror movies (& Hitler) for Zen enlightenment.

Anonymous said,
…
ADA toilets are taller than average.

Yes. An old glibertarian acquaintance of mine used to rant about that all the time — that because of the ebil gubmint he couldn’t properly take a shit at the newly-remodeled work bathroom. This is supposedly because everybody knows that we evolved to shit in a squatting position, and sitting that little extra bit off the floor made him all constipated and cranky.

I told him that at least that explained why he was so full of shit.

And then he proceeded to rant about how our local land use codes were oppressing him and his desire to build and live in a giant tree house.

Somebody at Teh Nat’l Respew is trying to out-racist Pat Buchanan.

Can these people say anything that will get them fired, scorned, or even mildly rebuked?

Ick.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

More importantly, what is the sound of one hand fapping?

Can these people say anything that will get them fired, scorned, or even mildly rebuked?

Wow. I guess not.

started to become a perfectly normal paradigm

Aroo?

Why did Norway open itself to such an influx of utterly different peoples? Well, because among the educated classes of the country, well nigh everyone subscribes to the ethnic masochism that leftist white elites everywhere are enthralled to.

Shorter Derbyshire:
If all white people were racist shits like me and my Anders (who’s actions I toooootally don’t condone mostly) then things like this Norway shooting wouldn’t have to happen.

Even Shorter:
How can you blame a guy when those nasty sand niggers are taking over everything?

horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question: What is the sound of one hand clapping?

I always go to horror movies (& Hitler) for Zen enlightenment.

Was ist das Geräusch von einer klatschenden Hitlergruß?

Why did Norway open itself to such an influx of utterly different peoples?

Isn’t Derbs an immigrant with an immigrant wife?

Probably not. ADA is surprisingly reasonable about general counter height.

Honestly, ADA is surprisingly reasonable about most of the issues it addresses. It’s a constant facet of my business, second only to fire and life safety, and constantly competing security for second consideration.

I find that local interpretations are much more stringent and baffling than IBC’s guidelines. There’s no reason not to make buildings accessible to the greatest number of people possible.

On the other hand, a town building inspector insisted that ADA required me to install a ramp at a loading dock for use by wheelchair-bound stevedores.

I believe I know this inspector, or at least his brother.

we’re just an ordinary empire like all the others.

Nuh-uhhh! The US-of-A is an exceptional empire, completely unlike those old Europeany and Middle-Easterny and Asiany empires.

You wanna know why we’re different? The United States was created by God His very own Self, working His divine will through the bless-ed Founding Fathers who wrote the Holy Constitution.

That “Cowboys and Aliens piece gets better:

So what is our Kool-Aid, fellow conservatives? Come on, I know you’re wondering …

I’m wondering if a “Poe” slipped by them, although it’s impossible to tell anymore.

You wanna know why we’re different? The United States was created by God His very own Self, working His divine will through the bless-ed Founding Fathers who wrote the Holy Constitution.

Indeed. The desperate search for reasons why we’re Exceptional and far above the common rabble of countries continues… We’re exceptional because, uh, we’re founded on Christian values! totes unlike every other Western country for the last 2,000 years. Uh, we’re exceptional because we’re a free country! Totally unlike all of our allies. Or because we have limited government! Again totally unlike… yeah. I don’t think they even know, at this point.

She seems to be advocating a suicide attack on The Left (***HEAVY DUTY SPOILER AHEAD***) for those of you sufficiently interested in an Olivia Wilde nude scene to actually watch this movie:

Olivia Wilde, the time-travelling, reborn, now clothed gun-blazing beauty, found a secret weapon. She hides inside the bowels of this disgusting space tower as it rips itself from the earth.

A woman saved the world … and seriously … I think that’s pretty cool … (and I’m ready to do it, btw … are you with me?)

I always go to horror movies (& Hitler) for Zen enlightenment.

What is the sound of one Hitler Hitling?

OMG, N_B, you just officially became THE MAN.

I hated skateboarders when their idiocy was new in the 70s and I was a teenager. Now that I’m in advanced middle age, i regret that I never went through with my 1979 plan to string fishing line at neck level at the entrance to my schoolyard.

She seems to be advocating a suicide attack on The Left (***HEAVY DUTY SPOILER AHEAD***) for those of you sufficiently interested in an Olivia Wilde nude scene to actually watch this movie:

Saw it yesterday. If there was anything memorable other than the good looks of the two leads, I’ve forgotten it.

In another Christ-like reference, she looks upward while engaging this computer chip board and hugs it to her chest… and causes the ship to implode … annihilating the entire alien colony and saving the old west from lasso-swinging, body snatching aliens.

A woman saved the world … and seriously … I think that’s pretty cool … (and I’m ready to do it, btw … are you with me?)

and didn’t they go all apeshit over ‘avatar’? which is basically this movie reversed?

and didn’t they go all apeshit over ‘avatar’?

i mean by their mockery of any librul who wrote glowingly of said movie and compared it to the good ol’ u s of a and the native americans?

Derrrrr, or, How to Refute Yourself in One Stupid Sentence:

Deana, what you are saying about Conservatives being sort of naive is what I’ve been saying for a long time. We never knew what hit us because how could rational minds contemplate the existence of these Modern Liberals/Progressives????

Yeah–those conservatives sure do know a thing or two about rational thought.

Saw it yesterday. If there was anything memorable other than the good looks of the two leads, I’ve forgotten it.

You forgot Olivia–she’s good looking too.

Saw it yesterday. If there was anything memorable other than the good looks of the two leads, I’ve forgotten it.

i thank god that nobody in my immediate family or circle of friends will want to watch this movie and i shall never be subjected to it…

We never knew what hit us because how could rational minds contemplate the existence of these Modern Liberals/Progressives????

well, you know…common decency and giving others a fair shake once in awhile is pretty mind-blowing stuff…

You forgot Olivia–she’s good looking too.

I’m not sure if you’re kidding. I meant her and Craig. Ford is well past good-looking and hasn’t managed to pull off distinguished.

Ford is well past good-looking and hasn’t managed to pull off distinguished.

maybe for you…

i mean, deana shur has the hotz for him…

feck! nym-change fail again!!! why do i even bother?!?!? the irony is that the last nymchange was the blind leading the blind…

i mean by their mockery of any librul who wrote glowingly of said movie and compared it to the good ol’ u s of a and the native americans?

Silly liberal. Unprovoked invasion of the Them people by the Us people – good. Unprovoked invasion of the Us people by the Them people – bad.

i mean, deana shur has the hotz for him…

If that were the only way I could be distinguished from Deana, I’d chug Drano.

And very idea that the Us people doing bad things is morally equivalent to the Them people doing bad things, or that the Us people are even capable of doing anything as bad as the Them people, or that it’s appropriate to comment “hey, isn’t that kind of like…” when they do – criminal, blasphemous, unpatriotic and treasonous.

Thinking Like A Conservative 101 – “good” and “bad” are team identities, not moral qualifications.

I’m not sure if you’re kidding. I meant her and Craig. Ford is well past good-looking and hasn’t managed to pull off distinguished.

I was kidding. James Bond is dreamy, isn’t he? Olivia too.

A woman saved the world … and seriously … I think that’s pretty cool … (and I’m ready to do it, btw … are you with me?)

I was always kind of disappointed that “Only Begotten Daughter” did not become a much more popular book, because all the head asploding would have been zombizzle smorgasbord. even if they were just stunted, rightwing brains.

Thinking Like A Conservative 101

True conservative tactical warfare: Take your worst qualities and project them onto your opponent.

(Liberals are the real racists!)

Rove’s Art of Sleaze.

James Bond is dreamy, isn’t he? Olivia too.

Somewhat different styles of dreaminess.

Ford is well past good-looking and hasn’t managed to pull off distinguished.

Random thought of the day: Harrison Ford should play a villain some time. Not an antihero, not an asshole, a straight-up villain. He’s been playing heroes for so long, I think it’d be kind of cool if he knocked himself out playing a bad guy for once.

(The thought occurred to me when they introduce him in “Cowboys and Aliens” and he’s “interrogating” one of his men that he thinks took his cattle).

I prefer my shaken, not stirred.

What? Sorry, wrong thread.

Mine. Nym change flail too.

“I hated skateboarders when their idiocy was new in the 70s and I was a teenager.”

This is so ornery. I approve.

Way to stay with it, guys.

“I hated skateboarders when their idiocy was new in the 70s and I was a teenager.”

i wish i would have had your wisdom at such a tender age…i believe i have already bored y’all with my ‘the first time i ever skateboarded was down a huge hill in st. paul park with my kiss army cousin and i wiped out spectacularly half-way down’ story…i have regarded the skateboard as another of the devil’s implements ever since…

Random thought of the day: Harrison Ford should play a villain some time. Not an antihero, not an asshole, a straight-up villain. He’s been playing heroes for so long, I think it’d be kind of cool if he knocked himself out playing a bad guy for once.

That worked spectacularly for Henry Fonda.

Harrison Ford should play a villain some time.

Han Shot First!

ADA toilets are taller than average.

yeah. standard toilet height is 15″

ADA requirement is 17-19″

Fuck you, Whiny Ass Tea Bagger, suck up the two inches YES I WENT THERE.

Also, the poster whose acquaintance whined about plannign guidelines preventing him from building his awesome house? Perhaps if he was hiring the right fucking architect, we could navigate those requirements, protecting botht he public safety and HIS FAMILY’S. Hiring some guy with a pirated AutoCad version and a high school drafting education won’t get you there. And I know just the guy….

Random thought of the day: Harrison Ford should play a villain some time. Not an antihero, not an asshole, a straight-up villain. He’s been playing heroes for so long, I think it’d be kind of cool if he knocked himself out playing a bad guy for once.

Didn’t you ever see The Conversation? He was a terrifying villain in that.

Don’t count out this tactic completely. In the 1840 presidential election, one thing the opposition Whig Party did to cement its momentum

And that’s why the Whig Party is so successful today!

On the other hand, a town building inspector insisted that ADA required me to install a ramp at a loading dock for use by wheelchair-bound stevedores.

Who here thinks that a ramp at a truck-height loading dock is actually a GOOD IDEA, wheelchair or not, at least for those who are loading freight into and out of a variety of different types of vehicles?

Actually, there are many good reason to install a ramp at a loading dock, not the least of which is it’s a lot easier for the EMTs to get the gurneys up and down in the event some bone-headed non-OSHA compliant building owner’s employees suffer an industrial injury.

Thinking Like A Conservative 101 – “good” and “bad” are team identities, not moral qualifications.

Chris nails it.

Harrison Ford should play a villain some time. Not an antihero, not an asshole, a straight-up villain.

Agree. See Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

Expecting an AHEM from a Big Bad Bald Person.

Didn’t you ever see The Conversation? He was a terrifying villain in that.

Never even heard of it. Yes, we younguns, if it’s older than the Internet we don’t remember it…

… on the other hand, it’s on Netflix Streaming.

Tenahu: Agree on Ford in “The Conversaation”. But it was such a tiny part. Plus he was s-o-o young. I’d like to see Ford in a major role as a mature villain.

Also, I’m with g on the ramps-at-loading docks thing.

I was kidding. James Bond is dreamy, isn’t he?

When I first heard he’d been cast as the new Bond, I was like WTF? A blond Bond?!!! But I think he’s a great–if very brooding–Bond.

But what do I know? I liked Timothy Dalton.

But what do I know? I liked Timothy Dalton.

High five.

Favorite Bond to date (not counting Connery, who’s in his own untouchable sort of league).

Harrison Ford should play a villain some time.

Does trying to kill Michelle Pfieffer in a bathtub count?

winning!

That’s one of my all-time favorite movies.

No way–Craig destroys all the other Bonds. Connery was great, but a total anachronism to modern espionage type shit. Moore was a joke, and I did like Dalton and Brosnan. But I thought the last two movies were fantastic.

I never got the fascination with Connery. And he never really gave ‘gina tingles either.

never got the fascination with Connery.

hesh your mouth! although i have to admit i cannot look at him in the same light after watching the jeopardy skits on snl…

imma hang with tsam on this one….except for the rude and uncalled for remarks about connery…craig is by far the hottest bond…

And he never really gave ‘gina tingles either.

Dalton did?

gina tingles either.

gotta remember this one…is it geena or gIna?

….except for the rude and uncalled for remarks about connery

Watch Dr. No again. He was perfect for that era–before movies got so flashy and full of martial arts and shit like that. Connery will forever be the guy who epitomized Bond. I just love Craig’s style and the new –feel?– of the Bond series. The dude is the consummate badass.

David Niven is the best James Bond ever!

“Dalton did?”

Well, kinda. He was all broody. I like my brooders.

Well, kinda. He was all broody. I like my brooders.

You should see my death angry/pensive look. It’s fabulous. I mean BADASS.

Shit.

Expecting an AHEM from a Big Bad Bald Person.

Too busy watching Leone clips.

Never even heard of it. Yes, we younguns, if it’s older than the Internet we don’t remember it…

You’re in for a treat, laddie. It’s also an important movie to watch in light of our newfound surveillance lifestyle.

“You should see my death angry/pensive look. It’s fabulous. I mean BADASS.

Shit.”

LOL

So close!

Excavating at the care home on Churchhill drive is ongoing since I moved down the street last October, they dig a hole, they fill it with gravel. rinse and repeat. Gunfire is frequent there, the residents change often. Earlier this week, one Brenda Huegle was in the area, and I’m almost certain was at the care home, and in fact was the person who fired the shot. She abducted me many years ago, and made me forget by making me ill. Brenda Huegle did at one time work in care homes, and many died in her care. She’d come home and say, another one died. A parapalgic youth died in her “care”, sometime during the night she mysteriously managed to flip herself over and was smothered by the pillow. That’s the story anyway. She was given an award from Luther Care. When I was young, she arranged for men to sexually assault me, providing they paid a fee. She’s a monster, and she’s armed and dangerous. Brenda has a new sort of stun gun, as well as a firearm. She is trained in torture techniques. She has harmed my children, and prevented me from seeing them. They are now being harmed by Walter Roy Francis, who is a child molester, sex offender and murderer. I do not know where they are.
I was in the hospital recently and witnessed nurses cleaning up a crime scene in the middle of the night. The smell of blood permeated the entire floor. There was screaming in the night, and there are tunnels between the floors, that allow for abuse and the removal of corpses.
It has come to my attention that nazi prostitutes are now abducting children and bringing them to the prisons. There is innocent, guilty, men, women and children in holding cells together.
Eveyone knows that population control is an official agenda in China. Everyone knows that the babies are being murdered, especially females. Some people don’t know that there is no such thing as SIDS. Some people don’t know that The School (it’s so prestigious it needs no other name) has observation rooms that some children spend weeks on end taking care of babies, with no direct supervision. They are encouraged to kill the babies, and some of them do. NO ONE IS HELPING THE BABIES!!
Now, the nazis are instructing people to kill as many babies as possible. It’s carnage. Of course there are still abductions occuring. The world health organization WHO, the un UN are facilitating and funding the nazi policies. nazi’s come in all shades.
I have pleaded with the Saskatoon City Police and the Canadian military to help, to no avail. I was on the Mickey Mouse club, if anyone knows my name.
Sincerely, I have no name.

hesh your mouth! although i have to admit i cannot look at him in the same light after watching the jeopardy skits on snl…

Holy crap, whatever you do, don’t google “Zardoz”.

**stepping on zrm’s dick**

I never got the fascination with Connery.

ZARDOZ!!!

you heathen.

But I thought the last two movies were fantastic.

The last TWO movies? That’s outstanding. I loved both of them too, but QOS took a lot of crap from viewers (some of which I agree with, but not enough to dislike the whole movie).

Watch Dr. No again. He was perfect for that era–before movies got so flashy and full of martial arts and shit like that. Connery will forever be the guy who epitomized Bond. I just love Craig’s style and the new –feel?– of the Bond series. The dude is the consummate badass.

This. Most of the Bond movies are just fine for the period they’re in – the way the franchise keeps changing and reinventing itself is one of the things I like about it. (Preferring Dalton may be partly related to my love for eighties movies in general, actually).

fuck you with a big stone dick, Bastard.

Whoa, buddy, I was wearing cleats when I stepped on your penis.

Holy crap, whatever you do, don’t google “Zardoz”.

gah! why don’t i listen?!?!?

Wasn’t Gina Tingles a Bond girl?

“I’m urging the House and the Senate to take care of this”, Obama said at the White House. “This is an example of a self-inflicted wound that is unnecessary”.

This is an example of how a Harvard guy says “shooting yourself in the foot”.

“This is an example of a self-inflicted wound that is unnecessary”.

Along with the one we just had?

What’s a necessary self-inflicted wound? Cutting open your own ass cheek to suck the venom out after you’ve been bit by a teabagger?

A country disappeared, and Asia, Europe, the middle east and India appear to have experienced a union… at least in the maps… (one must maintain the illusion of control at all times, dummies) one country has disappeared from Asia… I can’t think of the name, but its the one with all the beauty queens that are men… the babies, the babies are dying there. Especially the girls.
Singapore as well: population control and infanticide has become a policy. Children die in the hospitals.

fuck you with a big stone dick, Bastard.

You all wearing the costume? Because HOT.

I have a brother named Nicky.

Remember what I told you.

Another notebook stolen today. Get out of my house.

A country disappeared, and Asia, Europe, the middle east and India

Been dipping into the benzos, have we?

I have a brother named Nicky.

i like eggs…

OT…but connected to the thread. Mostly for Chris when I began it, but ending up a very different place.

‘The Conversation’

The film’s plot centers on audio and photo surveillance. Gene Hackman turns in a terrific (imo) lead performance as a surveillance freelancer specializing in audio.

The character is hardly the usual Gene Hackman role. The man is middle-aged, solitary, socially shy. Hackman’s character has some facets similar to the obsessive photographer in Blow-up (another obscure reference).

As Tenahu said, Harrison Ford has a great turn as a secondary villian. Ford is v-e-r-y young; the film must be one of Ford’s earliest. ((Warning: The female lead is played by the semi-annoying Cindy Williams.))

The film’s surveillance technology is completely out-dated, of course: Everything is reel-to-reel. No auto-filters. Hell, no computers. The world is still analog. The film skillfully uses the R-t-R as part of the story-telling: Playing-and-replaying, slowing the tape, filtering sounds, re-recording a cleaner version.

The film’s resolution does not play fair with the audience. I disliked that the first time I saw in the theater. That flaw becomes more glaring with repeated viewings.

The plot is placed in the context of the mafia, you know, Organized Crime, not surveillance by Goverment against its citizens.

So the film might be worth viewing if you live in a Surveillance State.

If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

(not counting Connery, who’s in his own untouchable sort of league).

At first I was all for the “untouchable” bit but then I was like for the league bit. Not that he was bad but what a fucking trainwrwck of a movie.

I was watching the The Untouchables just a short while ago, the Odessa steps part while loading the second disk of first season Dexter which we are only now getting around to viewing, thank you Netflix.

What, no love for … whoever it was in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service?

I have a brother named Nicky

He was once bit by a moose.

The other, other, other, other, other Bond.

You all wearing the costume? Because HOT.

Yeah, the big stone head is hot- I had to stuff it with ice-packs to keep from keeling over from heatstroke.

What, no love for … whoever it was in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service?

Diana Rigg? Words cannot express how much I love her.

one country has disappeared from Asia

… large rocks are falling from the sky … and there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.

I used to say Diana Rigg, as Mrs. Peel, could turn me straight. But what I loved most was what’s his name’s Bentley.

…mynd yu, moose bites kan be pretti nasti…

stuffing the big stone head

Diana Rigg? Words cannot express how much I love her.
who doesn’t? oh, what i would do for a voice like that…and the smirk…don’t get me started…

biting the moose

Thinking Like A Conservative 101 – “good” and “bad” are team identities, not moral qualifications.

+1,000,000 internets.

I was thinking about the last thread a bit earlier. It struck me that the whole “Persecuted Man Of God Struck Down By The Enemy” bit, particularly in the linked beggin’ thread, was there to necessarily cement the team identity, because human compassion of any stripe is Verboten outside of The Tribe for these people.

What a sad and petty existence.

Yeah, the big stone head is hot

I took a Vicodin and have one martini under my belt. I’m having trouble keeping John Boorman, Roger Corman and Milos Forman separated in my chemically improved little haid. How can one keep them straight?

Also FYWP.

Also I SAID FYWP.

loving what’s his name’s Bentley

Diana Rigg? Words cannot express how much I love her.

So fine. So very fine.

I’m guessing you also love Julie Christie? I surely do.

“I asked and they said ‘Our Mrs. Peel is in Ladies’ Lingerie’, so I rattled up the stairs three at a time.”

“Merry quips is on the fourth floor, sir.”

The plot is placed in the context of the mafia, you know, Organized Crime, not surveillance by Goverment against its citizens.

Sometimes, they’re one and the same. And that’s just one example.

What, no love for … whoever it was in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service?

Love the movie. Love Diana Rigg, still the best of the Bond girls. Lazenby himself? Just meh.

John who?

The Big Stone Head!

How can one keep them straight?

Show them pictures of Diana Rigg!

I freely admit to lust for the Bentley. Even if though it wasn’t the Blue Train Bentley. But not in a Don Surber way, you bastard!

I freely admit to lust for the Bentley.

Here’s a frightening thought: the amount of time from when that car was new to when the Avengers was filmed is less than the amount of time from when the Avengers was filmed to now.

I hear Bill Clinton has a Bentley.

A well-loved one at that.

I never got the fascination with Connery.

I just assumed that VS was referring to Connery-as-Bond. (I can’t weigh in the other Bonds. I gave up during Roger Moore.)

Connery has turned in some remarkable non-Bond performances.

My favorite: The Man Who Would Be King Also with a superior perfomance by Michael Kaine … and Christopher Plummer in a supporting role as Ruyard Kipling. Directed by John Huston. Filmed in Morocco.

Another excellent Connery film: The Wind and The Lion Set in Morrocco and largely based on historical characters and events there. Connery is a Berber chieftan who kidnaps an American teacher (Candace Bergen), precipating an international crisis. Brian Keith turns in the best performance of his career as Teddy Roosevelt.

Btw, I saw Zardoz in its first (only?) theater run. It didn’t seem all that bad at the time. But I was tripping. Also Charlotte Rampling.

Don’t forget this fine piece of cash.

Connery has turned in some remarkable non-Bond performances.

Sword of the Valiant? Man, what a soundtrack.

Also, I’ve always had a soft spot for Live and Let Die. Well, for Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die, anyway. Okay, maybe soft isn’t the right word.

As an adaptation of the book, The Name of the Rose was pathetic. But Connery was pretty good in it.

And “Suddenly Surber” is back—at least momentarily

Connery has turned in some remarkable non-Bond performances.

Indiana Jones’s dad. Loved the transition from action hero to stuffy academic completely out of his element but still having the time of his life.

“Darby O’Gill and the Little People”. Connery’s finest moment.

Robin and Marion? With Aubrey Hepburn as Abbess Marion. Good villainy from Robert Shaw as the Sherrif of Nottingham. Richard Harris has a turn as Richard Lion-Heart. Directed by Richard Lester (but non-comedic film). Oh, a Bond connection: Score by John Barry.

The final, prolonged showdown between Connery and Shaw is wonderfully portrayed. Two aging warriors wearing chainmail and wielding heavy swords, utterly exhausted by the effort. A major departure from most screen sword fighting.

I have heard good things about Connery’s voice work in Dragon Heart.

I have heard good things about Connery’s voice work in Dragon Heart.

Oh man, I forgot that one. Yes, that was very good work.

I saw Darby O’Gill in grade school! It was the mostest bestest movie I had ever seen! No, not Connery’s most memorable film role.

Also his role as the older Scottish immortal in Highlander. Best thing in the movie, and far better than the wooden ‘star’ of the film.

Also Roy Urqhart in Bridge Too Far, though the rest of the film was mostly forgetable.

Christ, do I sound like a Sean Connery fan? Well, don’t get me started on Burt Lancaster….

Almost forgot! Ian Holm does as turn as King John in ‘Robin and Marion’. (I finally went to Wikipedia. Also learned that Marion was Audrey Hepburn’s first screen appearance in nine years.

My work here is done.

new thread, dudes…

I have heard good things about Connery’s voice work in Dragon Heart.

Deep inside, we all know that dragons have scottish accents.

Dr. Phil?

I know, double nu thread, everyone’s moved on, &c.

I rate for Lazenby. Best Bond of them all*. SRSLY. He got saddled with OHMSS and I believe that that is why no one recognizes how great his performance was. I mean he had to portray the ultimate womanizing escapist fantasy d00d who had found himself in an actual meaningful relationship, there are no fancy gadgets or other superspy accoutrements, the action sequences are extraordinarily underwhelming. OHMSS is not your typical Bond film, and measuring it by the usual metrics means you miss out on a lot.

Also too and because of the idiosyncratic nature of OHMSS, we should be clear as to whether we’re slagging the Lazenby Bond or Lazenby as Bond** or both. I mean, imagine if Connery had to play the OHMSS Bond. LuLz.

Anyways, Lazenby managed to portray a supremely confident and insufferable bastard without making him a super-mega-badass. I concede that if anyone should get to be a super-mega-badass, Commander Bond sure should be the guy***. BUT, this other take made him much moar human.

And the end? Managed that tricky scene without overblown melodrama or that cliche angry emo shit that they foisted on all the other Bonds. And maybe some of Lazenby’s performance earlier in the movie might have been off (although I personally don’t think so) this one scene should go a long way to redeeming Lazenby’s acting talent in anyone’s eyes.

I think Lazenby gets short shrift because his one movie is so much different than the others. Because as much as every actor placed their own stamp on the character – they were still playing the same Golden Age comic book superhero guy – whereas OHMSS Bond is moar of a Modern Age comic book superhero guy. In 1969.

*Okay, maybe not best. I really like the new guy too. It’s hard to choose one as better since they are so different.

**I used “saddled with” before, and maybe that isn’t the right term. It’s a good match thing. If Lazenby did a moar traditional Bond movie, he would have to had to put in a totally different performance – and I don’t know if he could have. Conversely, I don’t know if any of the other Bonds could have managed OHMSS without making it into a giant parody. Probably Dalton would have come closest (incidentally, my least favourite Bond).

***Okay, so I’m gauging by my own personal scale of how much I like and/or am able to relate to characters. If you are instead going on the James Bond scale where no one cares about anything and the only metric that counts is fuckawesomeitude – Lazenby is probably vying with Moore and Sellers**** for the basement.

****Yeah, I went there.

I’m with you DKW — I really liked OHMSS. I’ve read a few of the books, and that one seemed truer to their style than the later movies did.

(yes, I know nobody will read this)

(yes, I know nobody will read this)

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