Open Thread Tuesday

If I recall, the dent was actually where the bullet pierced the vest. It didn't hit the iPod itself; only dented it from the other side of his armor. (Apologies for improper terminology.)

Still good advertising.

According to Rasmussen this morning, president mcspendypants hit a new low on his approval index – negative 3!

HAH!

Perhaps some of the demented 52 are waking up.

Lets hope so… especially since this administration is seething with hypocrisy…

Another movie I've never even heard of. I'd probably watch this one though, I mean lecherous guys who could resist.

The book is much better but this is still a good movie to watch. Wayne Knight who is "Newman" from Seinfeld is a uncredited gang member. That would be ten years or more before he was on the show.

Don't know if anybody's been over to Dave Burdge's website (Iowahawk under links) but he's got some pretty funny stuff up right now.

I love the term President McSpendypants–may I steal that?

Ah, yet another movie that was watched on cable as a kid. Love the big gang brawl at the end with all the opposing ethnic gangs joining together to face off against the real killers that showed up.

But I'm more of a "Warriors" fan.

"Can you Diggit!"

K8blujay! You are still in college? Go for it! Study languages and history as well. Not that I've ever worked for the CIA but when I was in college I really considered it seriously. I went law enforcement instead. Now I'm acting. Go figure!

Warriors? cmon what about the the Outsiders?….. the warriors, wow does that bring back memories!

I had a great 4th. My offspring and I spent 4 hours on the line next to a very busy street holding signs, smiling, waving at on coming cars, and cheering at the honks and waves and smiles we all received back. (A few jeers or people just refusing to make eye contact but that's okay!) I rigged an umbrella with scripture tea bags that I held against the sun and the heat. (I was also keeping a wary eye out for surveillance but didn't really see anything. Just some nut holding up a mini digital camera as the car he was in streamed by.) A city police officer drove by and furtively honked a waved. They are supposed to remain a-politcal, you know. It was a tremendous day! May momentum build!

War-ri-ors! Come out and Playy-ee-ayyy!

Its all so unfair!
Didn't you like SP in her waders this morning?

That movie poster was the best…. I remember seeing that like 5 times in ine day at the cineplex by my house….

another of the gems in my personal collection.

Ooooo you are well trained! Good onya! My daughter's got two B. Sc. in Asia Studies (china) with History minor, and Linguistics with a minor that never played out for her but she knows 4 languages and is very detail oriented. You two would make quite a team were you ever to work for the same agency.

Proving my theory "not so perfect"!

A fun film, and it holds up better than expected. Anything with the glorious Karen Allen is worth watching, and where else can you find the Kennedy assassination, great doo-wop music, Bob Dylan, terrific fights and supernatural gangs of tiny, mutant Irishmen? It isn't as good as The Warriors, but "Leave da kid ALONE" was a watchword in my neighborhood for years after this came out.

Hate to bring it up …..
Those negative numbers are brownie points for the libs
They blame it on all of us racist islamaphobes

I'm sorry…I don't follow you.

…aaand there's Al Sharpton on the t.v. machine. The memorial was fairly dignified unti now. Time to wash the kitchen.

oh, not a fan, that's all…referring to my original post ( guess everyone likes MJ….(smile) )

I gotcha! ;-D It's a shame (for those of us that care), but every moment of genuine emotion is quickly smothered under layers of self-serving cheese.

Does that make us racist ?

I love McSpendypants, too — LOL!

Pray it with me!! The country wanted change, it's about to see change in a real, glorious way.

I'm trying to sooth my grief by reading pithy comments and watching the People's Court. (that title sounds strangely socialistic, doesn't it?) Ah, alas! Poor Michael. I knew it not. and frankly, my dear, I'm glad I didn't. I might have watched his funeral from behind bars.

I just found out another friend of mine is in the Armed Forces. I have a cousin in the Navy, a co-worker from my first real high school job (Target) in the Army, and now a girl from FSU (I only spent one year there) in the Navy, too. And a friend from film school has a friend who was in the Marines. He even showed me his iPod with a dent in it – "That's where the bullet hit!" he told me.

I'm proud of these guys. As for me, I'm trying to get into the NASA bed rest study; the objective is to develop countermeasures against the physical effects of long-term spaceflight. I know it's not the Army or the Navy but it's my chance to contribute to a greater cause and I've always been an amateur space buff (and Star Trek geek). Like the Three Stooges said in one of their early shorts, "For duty and humanity!"

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space...

Ha! We've probably been going at it for the same length of time. Nice to know we're not alone, eh?

But, for my money, its a bit like watching a pot boil…

Wanderers, Warriors, Outsiders, I saw them all in the theatre. That was like 30 years ago! Wft happened? Where is my youth? Where is my hair?

Very. There are a lot of us.

I forgot about this gem. One of my first rentals from the early 80s video store. Beta rules! Ken Wahl. Linda Manz. Karen Allen. You just can't go wrong.

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