Open Thread Thursday

Watch the Washington weasels, they’re waxing nostalgic over Ted Kennedy. Be sure to contact your representatives and keep their minds clear on “government controlled healthcare.”

Marlene Dietrich

I get it– I thought you were saying the picture was of Jane. Marlene did do sultry extremely well, but I would never try to qualify those two ladies

"Teddy Care" I'm all for it. Let's give everyone the same access to health care he had tfor the last 40 years up till the day of his passing.

It's hard to believe that even a full-court MSM carpet-bombing of "Rememberances of Ted Kennedy" will sway the health care debate one way or another. Even in the best light the guy was a walking, talking billboard for the almost Neroesque excessives of the legislative class. In all fairness however many reliable sources have reported that, as a day-to-day Senator, Kennedy represented the interests of Massachusetts well and "did his homework" concerning his constituents. That's not to be sneezed at.

Also – Great Hornytoads (as Yosemite Sam would say) – Was Marlene Dietrich an amazing woman. Actually she wasn't "beautiful" in the conventional sense but projected an air of sophisticated sensuality (and not a little forbidden kink) that just blew the camera away. She was an expert technician concening her own image and always gave explicit (and correct) directions on how she was to be lit , in what focus and through which lenses. It might have ben obsessive but it sure worked. They don't make icons like that anymore.

Hail Kennedy! He's helping to push Michael Jackson off the news.

Marlene Dietrich – her early 30s work with mentor/director Josef von Sternberg is phenominal. He made her a star. Post von Sternberg – watch and see on a case by case basis.

Maybw we should call it Mary Jo Kopechne Care.

Mmm… women were so pretty back in the "Golden Age" of Hollywood… not that some aren't sexy now… but women back then had this unspoken power of seduction instead of so overt like now…

"I tired, tired of pwaying the game…..ain't it a cwyin' shame…..I'm…..sooo……tiiiyyuuuddd".

That, and talking about politics, which goes for the male actors as well.

*lol* nice Blazing Saddles reference.

Trust me it's the monochrome.
"where are you Chiana"

Uh…., Andrew Breitbart is not out to save Hollywood.

Let gay people rail away, they are a genetic anomoly that we are on the verge of eliminating.

No doubt you are tight. The graybeards of the MSM will put on their best funeral demeanor, run hours of black-and-white footage from "Camelot" and sonorously inform us what a "giant" the late senator was. My plan is not to read the paper nor watch a news program for the next three or four days. There's nothing journalists like more than a good maudlin mud-wallow. I'm dreading hte day Pete Seeger makes his exit.

I can't look at Marlene Dietrich without getting a Madeline Kahn image in my head…..

Schnitzengrubens……LMAO……

Did anybody see the ABC network special/hagiography on the hero of Chappaquidick? I saw a nanosecond of the begining sequence, with a grinning Teddy being smear-lensed up and I had to turn that junk off.

The question that immediately came to my mind is, does the fella who was here insulting us as "breeders" think that gay couples should be allowed by law to adopt the surplus products of our "breeding"? How can you disparage an act without disparaging equally the outcome of that act?

If that attitude is systemic through the gay community it seems to me a pretty reasonable argument againt legalizing gay adoptions.

Dude, who peed in your Fruit Loops this morning?

There's a picture of Marlene Deitrich up top with no text attached.

At least find one of Andrew's actual posts to rant about.

I concur. Life is so much more pleasant when you just tune out the crap. My list of topics to completely avoid, making life much more fun includes anything about Kennedys, Michael More, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Rossie O'Donnell, Garafalo, etc.

Tune them out, and spend your time enjoying the world around you!

The coverage of Ted Kennedy by Time Magazine (I know, I know, but I check in now and again to see how the other side thinks) is the most nauseating I've seen yet. The opening sentence reads: "There was a time 40 years ago, right after the assassination of his brother Robert, when it looked like Edward Kennedy would become President someday by right of succession." "Right of succession!" Ugh!

But I'm not insulted or offended. I have two children with plans to have more. Breeder isn't the term I would have picked, but it's fairly accurate, and downright innocuous to boot.

If they really wanted to offend, they should call us liberals.

Isn't "sultry" geriatric slang for "skanky?"

the health care issue is a chimera…

Pay FAR more attention to the financial mess, folks. If we don't sort this out soon (slash taxes and spending and live within our means even if it's painful) the healthcare thing won't really matter. Both parties are AWOL on this.
It's the major focus of the Town hall crowds, socialized medicine a sideshow. Our Republic is at stake, people.
Those who want radical change don't even have a clue what it is they are bringing about…

If we don't wise up- and soon- the health care will be reduced to a Monty Python 'Holy Grail' skit.

Eric Idle: (ringing the bell on a cart stacked with bodies) Ding! "Bring out yoyr dead"… Ding! "Bring out your dead"

any questions?

Guess that puts him in the untalented category, huh?

How much you wanna bet he's got a lazy eye too….

We are under siege by witless trolls!

The debate is getting interesting. Michael Steele was interviewed on NPR this morning, and he made the reporter out to be the schmuck he was.

In order to refute the death panel charge, the left is claiming these life and death decisions are already being made by insurance companies, which is a lie wrapped in a partial truth. A health insurance policy is a legally binding contract, and insurance companies can not arbitrarily change it. But they can hold the patient to their end, yes, that is true.

But unwittingly, they are also admitting health insurance is a commodity, not a right. That's where the real fight is. Getting the language of the debate un-knotted. You can not address an issue if the you don't use the correct language.

For a little clarity on the inner workings of the Justice Dept.:
Bill Rickardson is going to be cleared of Pay for Play – No more investigation necessary.
Black Panthers cleared of voter intimidation in Philly – even with the pics and video.
CIA being investigated through appt. of special council even after being looked at and cleared previously. You know – the guys who have helped to keep us safe.

Chew on that for a bit.

And his mother dresses him funny.

My TV has been off for two days now. Can't bear to watch it.

Stan, you just had a "0" rating. Either you're being haunted by the ghost a dead, drunken murderer, or we've got trolls.

By the way, am I the only one who is sick of Republicans praising dead Democrats? I don't see the left returning the favor? Good riddance is all I've got to say about Teddy K.

Just an intemperate thought… I wonder if Mary Jo Kopechne is going to “Bork” Kennedy at the “Gates of Gabriel?”

And he does poorly on standardized tests.

LOL! Andrew, it makes my day to piss off a troll.

at 43, that doesn't happen to me much anymore.

I didn't think anybody here would.

It's amazing. ABC and NBC are in a race to see who can fellate the Democrat Party the most. It's neck and neck.

You mean shaft and shaft……

sorry, couldn't help it….

ok in your and my cases it is more figurative rather than literal, but still

more like Neil and Bob…

Ahh Gigi Edgley, she made you want to "go grey."

ahh the memories…

So basically ABC and NBC employ a bunch of cast-offs from the porno-fluffer industry….

trouble is, they know and don't care…

Call me a hopeless optimist, but I don't think this is over by a long shot.

With the GOP on the sidelines, they have no incentive to try and convince voters to support this mess, so its basically We The People vs. the powerful liberal elite. And they people are finding their voices on the subject. Personally I'm extremely proud to be an American when I see average every day Americans stand up and shout "I'm reading it right out of your bill!"

Ten years ago, yes, it would have been a done deal by now. But we're in the age of the new media. The old MSM can't keep a lid on these protests. We are communicating with each other and communicating our outrage to the government, bypassing the dying MSM, and they can no longer brush it off because it's not coming from Dan Rather or Time magazine.

I get a really good, positive feeling about this!

Quite possibley the best biography ever written, IMO. Absolutely fascinating. Dietrich may not have always been likable (as if she cared!), but she was undeniably intriquing. Her life offscreen would make a terrific film.

A wed wose! How womantic!

no pooftahs!

you need to keep the hope alive. Doing nothing is not an option. But consider the dire straits we as a society are now entering and the utter lack of comprehensive solutions.
We will be quite lucky to have the medical issue as our only crisis… but we, too have hope that better times are possible.