Open Thread Saturday

One of my all time favorite movies. I characterize this as a Scorsese movie for people who don't like Scorcese movies. The set decorations, writing and acting are all first class. A literal feast for the eyes!

Well, she said she wanted to make a difference.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090808/D99UJ4B0...

She is right. Obamabots can say all they want about choice, but how else can the government keep the costs down of health care?

I don't think it can be repeated enough. The "fishy" bill before Congress is not about health care. It is about control, eugenics and euthanasia. Concepts brought to the depths of human experience in Hitler's Germany.

To continue…

Let’s read Bill’s mind and illustrate who he thinks about when he characterizes the dumb American. Here’s Bill’s scenario: A guy from the South, a beer drinker, maybe. Smoker, perhaps. Works in a garage, has a beaten down wife and two snotty kids and lives in a trailer park. This dumb fool can take apart the engine of a 57 Chevy piece by piece and put it together again. He can listen to a car backfire 5 miles away and tell you exactly what is wrong with it. What a moron, right, Bill? Let’s compare him to the brilliant self-aggrandizing third rate comedian who hosts an obscure chopperpop on a cable network to which three-fourths of the country doesn’t subscribe. This genius’ hero is a doddering old man who lives in stinky pajamas in a crumbling mansion surrounded by plastic Barbie dolls.

"Needless to say, Bill makes a very small splash. "
Quote of the day !

Its nice that Laura Ling and Euna Lee were released by the North Koreans, but what of the tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) who really did get sent to the gulags? Who speaks for them?

Certainly not THIS administration. Good thing one of them worked for Al Gore; otherwise, they'd still be there!

Look for Iran to threaten the hostages soon (those goofy kids who had been hiking in Iraq) in a bid to get concessions form the U.S. Obama will fold like a lawn chair.

Who paid for their release? Did I? Did you? If they were stupid enough to go, I want to know who paid to schlep them home?

Sarah Palin tells it like it is, the elderly, the sick and the disabled will suffer greatly under this socialized health plan, It is EVIL and needs to be defeated soundly. Socialized Health Care is a lose lose for everyone, always has been always will be!!!!!!!!!

After giving it a lot of thought….I think Bill Maher is on to something. This country is dumb! After all, there are some people who think that Austrians speak Austrian. And there is the geographically challenged who think the US has 57 states. And what about the great unwashed who know nothing about history and think that Hirohito himself signed the terms of surrender on board the USS Missouri? You know, Bill, you do have a point and I commend…
…hey, wait a minute…

And they were the ones who complained that the busy CEO's of GM and Chrysler flew on jets to a meeting at Washington DC!!!

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened."

–Joe Biden

I'm sure this little gem just slipped Billy Boy's oh-so brilliant mind when he was writing his homework assignment over @ HuffPo.

Can The POTUS be recalled ?
Or only Impeached ?

It reminds me of this book I have called Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read and is full of bon mots like Biden's gaffe.

As for TVs being around back then… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-PlnJ3kkk

(skip to 4:35)

For Dems, a new public enemy No. 1
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is outspoken, conservative, media-friendly — and for many in the Democratic Party, a new public enemy No. 1.

Now that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out of office, there are few Republican officials in the country Democrats would rather unseat in 2010 than Bachmann, a two-term congresswoman with a habit of pushing the buttons of liberals on everything from ACORN to global warming to even whether President Barack Obama is, as she once asked, "anti-American."
"She's definitely somewhere up there," Bachmann chief of staff Michelle Martson said of where the Minnesota congresswoman sits on the Democratic campaign hit-list.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25928.h...
Damn the dems and their hatred of all things good

I love the works of Wharton, Scorsese, and Day-Lewis so this movie was right up my alley. The narration by Joanne Woodward was especially memorable. It's kind of a shame it didn't receive more attention, but this came out in 1993 and there were a lot of exceptional movies released that year.

Hey have you seen her Gangster Government video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thR-lVuztIY

as much as we hate to admit it- that our countrymen would do this to us-

We agree…

Enjoy yourself. My wife and I had our first visit to Maine last October. Beautiful place. Cape Elizabeth, Rockport, great towns. Met some really nice people. I miss New England, especially Cape Cod.

Although in fairness, it is a beautiful day here in the LA area.

NoW I am MAD! Steeling from our TROOPS so congress can burn more CO2

WASHINGTON — The House's bid to buy new executive jets on the Pentagon's budget has broadened a conflict between Congress and the administration over defense priorities.

"It forces us to take money from things we do need to fund and redirect it for things we don't need," Geoff Morrell, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said Friday. "And in a time of war, we just can't afford that."

Lawmakers' move to upgrade the fleet of government jets — used for travel by lawmakers and other senior government officials — is just one of more than 1,000 spending projects lawmakers added to the Pentagon's budget for next year that weren't requested by President Barack Obama.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12496943130341616...

A comment from a reader of NY Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/politics/08t...

"As a well educated, nuanced thinking progressive New Yorker, I hope these hooligans get what they deserve, namely their cozy healthcare plans pulled out from under them. I really don't care if 45,000 health insurance jobs move out of NY. Let them move to North Carolina, Texas, Iowa, India or whatever stinking place they feel they must. And the pharmaceutical companies can go with them, to China for all I care. New York is a knowledge based economy and we don't need them. I agree with Nancy Pelosi that these well dressed brown-shirted idiots are simply trying to retake congress! As a social worker I have good benefits, but I also know many people don't. I would be willing to support a New York State income tax healthcare surcharge of 5% on salaries over $56624, adjusted for inflation, as long as it does not apply to NYS pensions. And thank heavens the SEIU is going to send some members to these meetings to stare down these fascists."

How long until a New York accent equates stupidity?

You said it !
I think it may be too late to save America

I love how this person begins with the standard , "As a well educated, nuanced thinking progressive…"
and then proceeds to write like a moron.

Me too.

No. It happened over thirty years ago.

I once worked for a woman who was the single most hateful person I'd ever met. She was always angry, always sarcastic, always condescending, always just plain mean. It seemed her only joy in life was to call someone stupid in front of a room full of people. She treated everyone with contempt. At first, I hated this woman, but as time went on, I just started feeling sorry for her. She was a successful businesswoman, but she was just miserable. That's how I see Bill Maher. He is filled with such venom. He's not interested in discussing opposing views because he's having too much fun calling people names because they don't agree with him. In his mind, he's enlightened and cultured, and even he is willing to sit back and let the "elite" make decisions for him. So, the rednecks in fly over country who "don't know anything" should just shut their mouths and do the same. In the end, Bill Maher is just a miserable, angry, mean little man whose only joy seems to be making fun of people so he can feel good about himself. How pathetic.

The only people I've seen stand up to Bill Maher in any real sense of the term were Andrew Breitbart and Christopher Hitchens.

When that happens, we'll wind up getting the argument that "There were old German ladies who supported the Nazis, too."

Girl here plays nice piano
RENEE ROSNES TRIO – I Hear a Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aew2vfOVaQ
I subscribe to a Jazz video list and they sent this out.
Never heard of her but she plays very well on this old 1940s pop tune.

http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dont-want-the-folks...

Same attitude here as the fat blond with the big butt at the AARP meeting. It must be contagious.

Notice how Obamama has to remind himself to smile to conceal his impatience with people who irk him and trouble his agenda.

Oops. Too late, Barry. Another slip in a parade of slips and insights as to who you really are inside.

LOL funny to hear the left complain about the use of the word nazi….. sort of like a dog calling a cat an "animal"

Really good movie, except I never understood why they switched the blonde and the brunette. But I remember liking it a lot. Wharton is great to begin with, and there've been some excellent adaptations of her work.

I guess it did not take long for Wall Street Journal to comply with that White House request.

Guess WSJ just updated the article……..

Congress Gets an Upgrade
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12496040473021295...

or there's this one……..

Lawmakers' Global-Warming Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12496750281051526...

Stopthepresses psychics (psycho chics) using advanced crystal ball technology predicts that very shortly the used car market will be flooded with repossessed cars. Thanks to the government's Cash for Clunks program, giving money to people that otherwise could not afford to buy a new car and keep up the car payments. Another home mortgage type fiasco brought to you by the Democratic Party. Remember you hear it from our psychic chics first.

Yes, please send some of those 45k jobs to my "stinking place," I mean home state of N.C. We just turned into a blue state last election and need all of the jobs we can get. The liberals are not even trying to cover their real intentions now, are they?

Thow him off the raft, but get rid of the bloody chicken entrails first, if you catch my drift.

They do run on hate, do they? Always a new enemy. Executives, cops, doctors, insurers, Rush, Joe, it never ends.

Well, I do not live in Minnesota but I did send some money to Bachmann and so can everyone else.

Nope.

Actual letter.

From "…a well educated, nuanced thinking progressive New Yorker"

Those are much different especially in tone.

NoW I am MAD! Steeling from our TROOPS so congress can emit more CO2

WASHINGTON — The House's bid to buy new executive jets on the Pentagon's budget has broadened a conflict between Congress and the administration over defense priorities.

"It forces us to take money from things we do need to fund and redirect it for things we don't need," Geoff Morrell, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said Friday. "And in a time of war, we just can't afford that."

Lawmakers' move to upgrade the fleet of government jets — used for travel by lawmakers and other senior government officials — is just one of more than 1,000 spending projects lawmakers added to the Pentagon's budget for next year that weren't requested by President Barack Obama.

<a href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12496943130341616…” target=”_blank”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12496943130341616…

I knew, I knew!! I knew they wouldn't show up. It happened to a conservative. Thanks.

I believe this is the defining moment of Obama's regime.

I knew too.

Which makes us two who knew.

Dr. Seuss where are you?

No matter, I'm fairly certain the NY Times will cover the story tomorrow or the next day or the day after that.

Al Sharpton makes an intelligent comment!

Asked by TMZ what he thought of Paula Addul leaving American Idol, he replied-

"I'm not going to lose any sleep over it'."

Why can't he be brief, cogent and right like that all the time?

Haha.

Also agree.

You took the words right out of my knowledge-based Midwestern mind.

Smaller details have brought down bigger communists than Fidelio. Hmmm. Fidelio sounded good, but it does not really work.

I see a Christo like brown ring around Cuba very soon.

For those deluded supporters of Obamacare, I suggest they get a copy of SOYLENT GREEN and see where this craziness is taking us.

Winona was excellent in the Woody Allen movie "Celebrity". She played a much stronger and independant woman.