Open Thread Thursday

I'm wondering why the White House is telling citizens to report "suspicious" activity in debates over the healthcare plan. On the White House website it says that discrmination towards the new healthcare plan is being seen in low-level chain e-mails and in casual conversation. They encourage anyone who sees this to report the person through an e-mail the White house has set-up. Is this not insane how we can no longer voice opinions about our own healthcare plan without it being called discrimination!?!?! I say, flag me all you want I will not shut-up about this ridiculous healthcare plan that the Libs want to push through as fast as possible. it continues to show signs of putting seniors at the bottom of the list and who would want a Government bureaucrat in charge of their health to begin with??? So be prepared folks, now we could get "flagged" by the White house for disagreeing with their socialist plans, pssh.

Dominic Illingworth
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I for am scared

Obama's dissident database could be secret — and permanent
The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading "disinformation" about the proposed national health care makeover could lead to a White House database of political opponents that will be both secret and permanent, according to Republican lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are examining the plan's possible implementation.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/b...

After Palin, Alaska attorney general wants to target 'bad faith' complaints
Just days after Sarah Palin left the governor's office, in part because of a crush of what she called frivolous ethics complaints, Alaska's new attorney general is proposing sweeping changes in how such matters are handled.

Attorney General Dan Sullivan on Wednesday released a 19-page opinion about the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act and said reforms are needed to prevent bad-faith misuse of the process.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story...
/a day late and a dollar short
/spit

I know how you feel, but she still would quit. It will take more than just a day to get new ethics reform that targets 'bad faith' complaints. Besides she is wasted up there in Alaska.

you'd think not, but…

I say we send them emails of our selves, telling them what we think. Why wait for someone else email them about what we are saying? Lets cut out the middle man, flood their email and use it as our ever louder voice of opposition to higher taxes and over reaching Government control.

No comments about the flick? "Midnight Cowboy" is most interesting to me in that when it was first released it carried the dreaded "X" rating (since renamed "NC-17").

Nowadays they'd show it on Fox primetime…

We have changed a lot since the '60s. Not all for the good.

I barely remember this movie. I thought it was wonderful at the time but I can't remember why. I wonder if I would like it as uch if I saw it again.

I think I liked it because of Hoffman's wonderful character. And that incredible death scene on the bus.

and your swords sharp.

excellent point…

recruiting new blood seems exactly what they are about; you are correct they can just visit the web, see this site. plug us into ECHELON and send out their ACORN agents to do us in… or try, anyway- but getting willing snitches is even better.

Nice job…

Good film, great performances…

And a killer John Barry score, with Harry Nillsson doing the hit song 'Everybody's Talkin' (at me)… Seedy stuff well done.

Edwards' ex-girlfriend at courthouse
Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former girlfriend, slipped in the back door of the federal courthouse this morning to speak to a grand jury.
FTA

A federal grand jury is investigating whether Edwards misused campaign funds as hush money for Hunter
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/163673...

That's why every American should join the NRA. Even if you don;t ever plan on owning a firearm, it's not about that it's about protecting our rights.

If or when it happens, things will get messy…..

At the end of the 60's and into the 70's, there were a crop of films that were just incredible. 'Midnight Cowboy' is one of them. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight were virtual unknowns. Although Hoffman, fresh off 'The Graduate' made a bold choice with his portrayal of 'Ratso Rizzo'. A unique story of friendship on the gritty streets of NY.

Clip of memorable ad-libbed scene, a reminder for actors always to be 'in the moment' "I'm walkin' here!…"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw&fe...

Not only that it was rated 'X' but it won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year as well. A first and last.

Re movie:
Still love Nilsson's music.

Jimmy, you might like Robert A Heinlein's book. Double Star. It is science fiction. It concerns a down and out actor who is hijacked into a situation. It has some credible acting "advice". ____

Brooks Bros. makes high end clothing, business suits, slacks, polos, etc.

Yes, I own a few pieces from them.

Didn't we see this before from this white house? They don't like patriotic dissent.

Midnight Cowboy doesn't make any sense. Overrated, too.

Good!! I feel better now.

"If or when it happens, things will get messy…"
I hope not. The French Revolution wasn't so great. The American Revolution was. The French weren't as armed as we are. I hate to think of what some unit commander orders American soldiers to fire on Americans. In that scenario all hell will break loose.

During the aftermath of Katrina, guns were seized -for the people's protection of course- illegally, violating their constitutional rights.

Should I be ordering the 3' x 5' Don't Tread on Me and Come and Take It flags?

you, and all of our neighbors should as well- we can equip a re-inforced weapons squad if need be…

This just in, from WaPo…Obama/Joker is racist:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

Obama jOker. Touching a nerve. Perfect.

When I saw that on hot air the other day, the first thing I did was turn myself in. Sent them an email telling them exactly what I think of this horse manure. And I proudly signed my name, address and phone number.

If the President wants to keep a list of enemies, I want my name on top.

I encourage every one to do the same, and let's flood that mail box with millions of emails from patriotic Americans, and crash that server.

They may believe their own polls, but when they get a load of tens of millions of Americans, they can't ignore that!

we, too, have property in the Volunteer state. And were frisked, not carded- getting into a bar in Nashville. Said we left our M-4 in the car…

How long ago was that? Because it is now LEGAL to carry a gun in a bar in Tennessee.

I'm a fellow Texan, STANDING WITH YOU!

then you must be employed by big insurance

for anyone looking for a reason to be positively excited about the new GI Joe movie, there is an actual review here:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41748

still waiting for that paycheck from big insurance…

Alright, *I'm* going to talk about the movie poster, if no one else will. "Midnight Cowboy," was probably the first, frankest, most repulsive, and oddly, the most touching film about a gay relationship between two guys who were pretty sure they were both straight that was ever made in hollywood. I'm not any kind of a fan of gay cinema, but Dustin Hoffman's performanse as smaller-than-small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo is one of the high-water-marks of his career. John Voigt's role as the dumb cowboy who's too stupid to realize he's gay is also kind of a career standard for him. While the entire movie it's a personal favorite, and while the entire thing offends me and makes me rather uncomfortable (Particularly the scenes with the gay preacher who repeatedly hires Voigt), it's hard not to be moved by the final scenes on the bus, when they get to Miami Beach.

Oh, I've sent them one already reporting the President, my local Democrat Congressional critters, most of the mainstream media outlets, and the person who opens and reads the e-mail.

When I've been posting stuff critical of the plan on FB I've been posting the flag addy right along with it. Let me be reported. If they actually move on private citizens it will only go further towards waking this country up.

I wonder if it is because of the Bush era stuff about reporting suspicious behavior. I know they are different but people will still try to link the two

Over at Newsbusters, there's a story that refers to a MASH episode that I believe was written by one of the posters here at BH. Bret P. (Not even going to try and spell that from memory).

Mr. P. if you read this, the poster at Newsbusters is looking for a copy of the script about the wounded soldier who believed he was Jesus.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2009/08...

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I'm reminded of an episode of the old television sitcom "M*A*S*H*", titled "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", about a wounded bombadier convinced he is Jesus Christ and brought to the 4077th for treatment.

Word of this reaches Col. Flagg, a cartoonish Army intelligence officer who believes Chandler is faking his injury to avoid duty.

I searched in vain for a script of the episode, but as I recall Flagg was arguing with Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt about Chandler, saying this "Messiah thing" had to be nipped in the bud because it could prove contagious and who knows where it might lead.

Midnight Cowboy – good performances, but I have no love for the film. Too scabby.

I remember 1970. Frigging song was everywhere.

Nicely parodied on SEINFELD.

Fountain pens – Do you still use one?

Why? Where?

I was in HS just as the BIC pen was becoming the 'standard issue' pen. Fountain pens were on the way out, but we still used them, though I don't remember why. So much ritual involoved with them. And remember 'blue shirt pocket'? Huge ink stain on your shirt. Great for impressing the girls.

That was actually the bimbo Boxer that made the stupid comment about "well dressed people".

<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV84OBtGpSQ” target=”_blank”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV84OBtGpSQ

What she was attempting to do was belittle the middle class people that are protesting at Town Hall meetings by claiming that the last time she "was confronted with the same type of people" she supposedly put them in their place by claiming she and Ronald Reagan are from the same state and so they needed to show her some respect. The fact is, she couldn't put a Pomeranian in its place and the only reason she's in the position she's got is because she promises to make the rest of the country pay for all the crap she's promised her greedy constituents who have already demanded so many "gimme" programs that they've financially destroyed California.

By the way, Pelosi was the bimbo that tried to compare protesters to Hitler by claiming they were carrying swastikas.

<a href=”http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/05…” target=”_blank”>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/05…

This thing is organic , it's growing…this isn't Vietnam era crap, a bunch of potsmoking hippies afraid to get shot at….or faux , manufactured *outrage* because we "illegally invaded" Iraq…this power grab is aimed right at the heart of our great Democracy, it's serious and it's DANGEROUS. If this Kenyan hadn't gotten the government involved in so much private business before this POWER GRAB, I think this still would have set people's hair *on fire*…9/12 D.C.; even though I'm taking 19 hours so I can graduate in December I'm going to be there…it's THAT IMPORTANT!

She wasn't black, by any chance?

Obviously not. If so, the City of Tulare would be paying for a trip to Disneyland right now…

When Sotomayor did not answer the question "Do people have a right to self defense?", I thought she was stupid. Now, I'm not so sure. It is possible that she doesn't believe people have rights.

I think their definition of "well dressed" is anyone who is freshly showered and shaved.

Glenn Becks Non Racist advertisers Desert his show
After Glenn Beck called the president a racist Nazi, some of his advertisers decided that bottomless white rage is off-brand: Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance ads no longer appear during his show.
The three companies were responding to a pressure campaign started by Color of Change. A Fox News spokeswoman told TVNewser that the companies simply moved their spots to other Fox News shows, "so there has been no revenue lost" as a result of Beck's ongoing on-air self-immolation. Only souls.
http://gawker.com/5331797/glenn-becks-non+racist-...
/I have been saying Obama set back race relations 50 years

Please do
One of the better shows on
I like Dexter too

Obama’s Great Race to Change America
Why does President Obama want to implement radical changes in American foreign policy, environmental policy, education, health care, and the tax code all at once?
The answer is easy: If he does not achieve these initiatives soon, he never will.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjA5NGJiOWQ1...
/VDH 2012 !

I did, but the post was KO'd.

It was just some observations on the upcoming Season 8 with minor spoilers. I don't want to type it again if it is going to get bomped.

"The National Socialist(Obama) revolution is a typical German(American) product. Its scale and historical significance can only be compared with other great events in human history. It would be false and misleading to compare this revolution to other transformations in recent European(American) history. True, it shares their impulses, their energy, and perhaps even their methods, with some exceptions. But its foundations, causes, and therefore results are entirely different. It could not have happened without the war (Iraq; opposed by MSM) and the November Revolt (Election), at least in its speed and power." "Rassenfrage und Weltpropaganda," Reichstagung in Nürnberg 1933 Joesph Goebbels (by me)