Open Thread Saturday

Didn't he do the film version of "Hello Dolly" with Streisand?

As a song-and-dance-man, slightly better than Lee Marvin…

I liked Matthau in everything he did……the classic lovable grouchy 'dutch uncle'.

I meant to post the slide show which isa better way to look at Cardboard Obama:

http://s810.photobucket.com/albums/zz24/NoMoBama/...

Rumblings in Baltimore that the Baltimore office of the State AG just might charge the investigators of Acorn with law violations. Now, isn't that just lovely? It's getting real close, people.

Larry Gelbart (writer – "Tootsie", "M*A*S*H" the TV version) has passed away. He also worked on "Your Show of Shows". Very funny man.

Just reading about Obama putting trade penalties on Chinese tires,

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ALQ0TG0...

thinking about the lead-paint-on-Chinese-made-toys furor not long ago, and started wondering which tire brands are made exclusively in the US or Canada?

If I was the American President, I would be radical Islam's biggest worry. I would be a total bitch to Islamofascists.
I would employ the punishment of decimation to put fear and respect into my enemy. If there were any sort of terrorist attack perpetated by Muslims, bang! One tenth of mosques here in America shut down and razed, the mosques almost randomly selected, but the ones the attackers belonged to absolutely would be torn down. The attackers' families, every member, deported. If there was an "honor killing" committed here, the women will be allowed to decide if they will stay but the men are deported absolutely. The mosque which the person ordering or perpetrating the killing belonged to is razed. All Imams seeking federal or state positions as prison clergy are screened. Then again, Christianity has a better message for prisoners, so maybe Islam will not be welcome in my prisons and jails.

Thank you Big Hollywood for the many 9 – 11 tributes yesterday. This year the remembrances seemed to have a more powerful impact on me, maybe because it seems we are now being attacked from within, by an enemy with as little humanity as the Islamic lunatics who still threaten, plot and murder around the world. Even the ones of us who truly will never forget that day might need to have the individuals, victims and heroes alike, have their stories retold. Or want them told, now and forever.

OBAMA ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER OF BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS AFTER SCOUTS ANNOUNCE NEW COOKIE TO HONOR HIM, http://stopthepresses2.blogspot.com/search/label/...

There is a scene in Fail-Safe at the beginning where Matthau's character is at a function and he explains the two groups of people most likely to survive a nuclear blast: prisoners (because of the solid construction of the prisons) and file clerks (because of all that paper).

At the time I was working as a file clerk and all I could think of was, "Uh… good?"

For two hours of entertainment, you can't go wrong with The Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Matthau and a badass Robert Shaw.

There is a scene in Fail-Safe at the beginning where Matthau's character is at a function and he explains the two groups of people most likely to survive a nuclear blast: prisoners (because of the solid construction of the prisons) and file clerks (because of all that paper, or something to that effect).

At the time I was working as a file clerk and all I could think of was, "Uh… good?"

And for two hours of entertainment, you can't go wrong with The Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Matthau and a badass Robert Shaw.

The Fortune Cookie. is one of my all time favorites, And a New Leaf is a good one as well. But you can never go wrong with seeing Walter and Jack in the same movie. Those two were just about joined at the hip.

When he and Lemmon got together you ended up laughing.

Two minutes ago AP posts a story stating Obama claims he will be held responsible if health care reform does not work. No wonder, he chose not to have it implemented until after his re-election has been decided.

Or for the big bills on the grand health care plan coming due after he is out of office.

I saw an interview with Neil Simon a few years ago, and he was talking about writing "The Odd Couple" with Mattheau in mind for Oscar. He sent him the script, and Mattheau called him the next day and said, "I read it, I love it, I want to play Felix!" Simon's response was basically, "Huh??" Mattheau replied, "Well this Oscar guy, I could phone that part in; but Felix, THAT'S acting!" Simon told him, "Uh-huh, act in someone else's play; I want you for Oscar." It was a stage play before they filmed with Jack Lemmon. I think Art Carney was Felix.

I am certain that everyone writing here is aware of the following, but I still want to remind everyone that this ploy can just as easily work in reverse.

I am a Sons Of Anarchy fan. I realize that eventually I am probably going to be profoundly disappointed when it turns out that Ron Pearlman is a flaming Liberal and for the same reason will have regretted enjoying Katey Sagal looking and holding her body like a thinned, aging speed freak, tweaking, cynically wise (in the context of biker gangsters) cunt.

This season opens with White Racists moving into Charming with the goal of permanently removing SOA.

I always remember him from Taking of Pelhem 123 and from Bad News Bears. Great actor.

Channel surfing when the story broke, hit CNN and that was the basis of the discussion there.

1. There are laws against secretly taping people in Maryland ( ..we know that because Linda Tripp broke the law taping Monica Blowbillski.)
2. This isn't journalism because ACORN says they tried this at a number of A-offices and were shot down. Not disclosing that fact somehow makes this not jounalism.

At no time was any concern about ACORN tax advisors helping a pimp setup a prostitution ring mentioned.

There are two worlds we live in, the one where news happens, and the one where the mainstream media just spins reality to suit the socialist agenda.

But remember: Opie appears to be the only SAMCRO member with t-ball age kids, and he's not exactly being a good dad at the moment. Jax's son is still an infant (remember–Grandma said she doesn't want feeding him soy milk to make him a "vegan p****y") And the comment needed to be said by someone who isn't SAMCRO since those are the 'better' bad guys–they only run guns to gang members–perfectly moral behavior! ;-D

If it makes you feel worse about the show, Sagal got her job because she's married to it's creator, Perlman can't really ride a motorcycle, and the lead, Charlie Hunnam is English. Nah, didn't work for me either. I LOVE the show. Sagal has been superb since last season. And Adam Arkin and Henry Rollins as Nazis is a pretty funny twist. I also would hardly call a show that makes sexy heroes about a gang of vicious criminals to be leftist propaganda. Its just good, nasty fun. (my fave moment last season was Sagal bashing the woman with a skateboard)

Great post, man — GREAT post.

If you want to make sure: There is a Department of Transport code on the wall of every tire sold in the US. Look for a row of letters/numbers starting with DOT. The first two letters tell you which plant it was made in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_code

http://www.tirebusiness.com/subscriber/databook/t...

http://www.harriger.com/tires.htm

You would think Goodyear is mostly an American tire maker, but as with most products these days, it´s hard to say. The best experience I had was with Michelin tires, but of course it´s a French brand…

Our so-called comedians say it is not possible to make fun of Obama. I say he´s a treasure trove. Rich Lowry is no comedian, but don´t tell there isn´t a wealth of material here:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjI4MDJiZTQ3...

IMO, SAMCRO are vicious criminals (and also quite racist themselves–they're just equal opportunity businessmen as they sell illegal guns to black and Mexican gangs alike); they are hardly characters that should be espousing valid child rearing tips! Don't get me wrong–I love the show, but it's in the difficult position of finding adversaries for 'heroes' who are all violent felons–Nazis are about it. (Sure, you could bring in terrorists I suppose, but that totally changes the scope of the show) Regarding the t-ball comment–in an episode featuring a man getting shot graphically in the head, then getting a giant "A" carved in his stomach, as well as a violent gang rape, the t-ball comment is by far the least socially irresponsible thing in it.

Possibly none of these thugs should be given a voice of reason, but then how do you counter the t-ball insert/suggestion, the one that belittles the idea of raising kids in the real world to know that to succeed they must compete?

Can we hook up electrodes to writers and zap them every time they consciously represent the old communist party line against individual imitative? When they are dumbing us down to accept Big Brother being in charge of every minor decision?

Possibly the solution is to encourage writers to leave the t-ball scenes out. If they don’t, we end up with several thousand suggestions a year that are each viewed and to some extend accepted by millions as reality.

The only way to enjoy SOA is if we have a way of identifying into it and in that sense, these characters aren’t all bad. They do have families and they are concerned about how they are raised. Maybe normal American values can be extended to some extent to the humanizing aspects for each anti-hero thug.

I don’t care how Sagal got the part. She is great in it.

The Arkin character also has a fantastically creepy look. Something about his cheeks tell me that he is likely to turn out to be the Grand Wizard who really likes to insert his penis in little boys.

I am not talking about the beat for beat whether or not any given dialog or scene can exist within the logic of any given story line.

Nor am I saying that the entirety of the whole show adds up to Leftist propaganda.

However, as we all know it is impossible to present any piece of media without ideological implications to be merely “just good, nasty fun.”

The t-ball remarks undercut basic American exceptionalism. When these ideological thrusts, though not the front and center point of any given work, are inserted thousands of times a year into public consciousness and then viewed by millions, the effect is subliminally anti-American.

You know that. I know that. Why are you trying to misrepresent that to me?

My posts are being eaten also. The above isthe last paragraph of what I wrote. I am going to try again.

The Laughing Policeman – great flick

Dude–you got the c-word through in your first post. Whatever the flagging system is, it makes no sense at all!

Yes, except they allowed that post and partial posts later in the same thread. I think the problem is with other words embedded in the other posts. It all happened too quickly for a person to be the censor.

Further, the word "cunt" was an artistic expression of the reality of the Sagal character. After all she did in a paranoid rage knock a younger innocent girl on her butt with a skateboard.

Let me see? I have both hands out to weigh the situation. The word "cunt" is in one hand. The fact of bashing a woman's head in with a skateboard is in the other. I don't know. I think you have to remove the skateboard scene before my description of the character who performed it.

More importantly, mind control begins with words. No word should ever be off limits – especially in a discussion of art. You begin by taking away words, then phrases, then whole ideas, then thoughts of ideas, then actions. Voila, the politically correct police have castrated its population.

Mattheau played his scenes as if he were momentarily trapped in the movie but really wanted to be some place else. Like Emmet Walsh, he improved any movie he appeared in.

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