Open Thread Monday

Mine hasn't worked for awhile either. Intense Debate has got some issues.

Can anyone answer this movie question? I was watching old movies over the weekend and saw two great ones. One was "Great Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper, from 1941. The other was "A Song is Born" starring Danny Kaye. It couldn't be my imagination, but the two movies were identical – down to the set and the folks in the movies. Can anyone tell me if A Song is Born was billed as a remake of Great Ball of Fire? If not, I can't believe there wasn't a copyrite lawsuit back in the 50's.

Mine hasn't worked since they added that little drop down menu with the choice for replies or all new comments.

They "fixed" what wasn't broke so now it's broke.

We need John Wayne right now!

Incidentally, BOTH are written by Billy Wilder and directed by Howard Hawks. Same writer, same director, so no copyright infringement!

No mine hasn't worked for a good while. This all looks like it's Javascript run and JS is notoriously fickle.

Well, we need a John Wayne type of person but remember John Wayne was only an actor.

Oh it's FUCD alright so it has my endorsement.

Think about the fun we can have with this terminology. I can see the headline once it passes "Healthcare Gets FUCD". It'll be good stuff. By the way I don't know that we can stop this so you might want to start scheduling appointments now to be sure you can get in to see a doctor in a year or two.

You beat me to it.

We did a great podcast interview with John Nolte. Come on over and have a listen.

http://www.threedonia.com/archives/8823

Breitbart, Letterman/Palin, and all things Big Hollywood.

never a big Hank Fonda fan.

'Ox Bow' is watchable, not much more. Fonda always struck us as pre-occupied; unless he had a meaty bad guy role he always looked like his mind was elsewhere. Not particularly manly, either- a problem we had with Gary Cooper too- he came across as soft. Glenn Ford was far preferable to either…

I'm waiting for the Czar Czar whose job it is to keep track of all the Czars. In Russia's whole history they've had less Czars then we've had in the last 4 months.

Today's poll question, which we have been discussing at work today. What do you think the chances of a full blown revolution in the US are within the next 15 years?

My answer 65% (and growing daily).

It doesn't time out it just keeps loading and never comes up. At first I thought it was just because of video content (our work computers are odd about that) but from time to time it will do that on my home laptop also. It is why you have seen no post from me as of late, I can't get through.

Full-blown revolution??

It is currently around 40% and growing. When it gets close to 50% it will stall because the left wing media will not be reporting it, and 20% of the country will not know it is happening; the other 30% will be trying to decide if they should offend the government that is feeding them.

The 20% figure comes from the number of people who have not changed to digital television receivers. They are apparently waiting for someone to come to their door with a new TV set.

When I was in the military we had an expression: Ten percent never get the word, and it is always the same ten percent. Years have passed and times have changed and the ten percent have procreated.

I'll look at it. I blog on it from 3 or 4 different computers and have never had other than the occasional "network difficulty".

I think you're being watched. and toyed with. Look outside. If you see a '70s era van and a slovenly dude in a robe, stained Red Sox cap, and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes… that may be Mike.

I disagree I think it worked out exactly as it should have, America won and a great injustice that directly contradicted the founding principle of all men are created equal was undone.

Here's some good movie news: Paul Haggis will not return to write the script for Bond 23. Thank God. You could literally tell exactly where his contributions were in Quantum of Solace. Plus, he was so relentlessly left-wing, it was like having Noam Chomsky doing the screenplay.

And who the heck thought ot was a good idea to let Paul Haggis write Bond in the first place? I mean, seriously.

Me too. I thought perhaps it was just me…perhaps Andrew can call the fix-it-man

So I've been pondering this question to myself the last couple of days. Who was more gifted, Brian Wilson or John Lennon? Their respective bands were rivals on the Billboard in the 1960's. Lately, I have really gotten into the Beach Boys and have come to the conclusion that without Pet Sounds, there would have been no Sgt Pepper.

I know that but what I meant was that John wayne was more of a heoric/masculine "figure" more then he was anything else. He wasn't someone who could actually "save the day". No disrespect meant to the Duke.

This individual sounds very familiar. Might he also be trying to lure people to his van with a jar of aged hard candy?

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