Open Thread Monday

I can't say I'm a fan of Mondays myself.

1. To borrow the tagline from Alien vs. Predator: "Whoever wins… We lose."

2. I agree. I thought it was a perfectly entertaining film but not exactly Oscar-worthy. I know everyone enjoys that little underdog movie that comes out of nowhere and hits it big but I think this, like Juno (which I also enjoyed), was a case of Fox Searchlight trying too hard.

I like Mondays now that football is back! Go PACK!!!!!

From the 1941 pop tune – "Watch the Birdie"

We're looking for a tall dark handsome man
With eyes of blue and a golden tan
Strong white teeth like Joel McCrea
Hey you, get out of the way!

Watch the birdie, we'll take a camera candid shot
Watch the birdie, come on and give it all you've got
Watch the birdie, just look around and pick a spot
And hold it!

About the photograph for today's thread…

Joel McCrea was one of the best, most under-rated lead actors of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a favorite of Preston Sturges, and he was most memorable in the great Sullivan's Travels. Beginning after the war, he devoted his attention to making Westerns, culminating in the wonderful Ride the High Country,

McCrea was a modest, soft-spoken man who listed his occupation as "rancher" and he was married for nearly sixty years to one of the authentic beauties, Frances Dee.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566948/

1-Are we talking dominant hand or non-dominant hand? Or dual-wielding? If the latter two, I give it to Kate. She has more experience juggling. If it's dominant hand, I give it to octo-mom. She looks shady, and probably has some knife fight experience.

2-Haven't seen that one, but I put Sideways in the same boat. I think it got some big awards, and it wasn't even all that entertaining. Just a bunch of dislikeable characters doing dislikeable things.

I saw this line on my friend's Facebook page:

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine Kanye stealing the microphone… forever" – George Orwell

Well I don't know why that link to the video isn't working..

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/09/12/HP/A...

I don't know why that link to the video wasn't working but here it is again.

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/09/12/HP/A...

Nice finish there. Brett who??

Oh, I don't know, Mondays take on a different veneer when the school year starts!

Apparently there were 10,000+ people in Fort Worth on Saturday for the Tea Party… I didn't even know there was going to be one (shows how much I am paying attention)…

I wonder how Obama loved his National Day of Service? Oh wait, that's right we gave respect to those that lost their lives on that day and waited until the day after..

But I agree, give'em all hell… one that they will remember for a long time.

Question. If a quarter of a million people show up to WashingtonD.C. to show their disapproval of our current expando government (Democrat and Republican alike) and the mainstream media isn't there to cover it id It Really Happen? "La La La La La .I can't hear you" " La La La La La.I can't see you"

on #1, that is much more thought than I had ever put in. Well done.
I just wonder if one of them will pull a fake dominant ala Princess Bride

if a tree falls in the forest and hits a mime, does anyone care?

i think that is closer. It is republicans protesting and they didn't even start any fires. So it can't be a real protest.

Continued arrogance… While the Acorn story is vastly ignored, the tools in the trade, the MSM continues to go after Joe Wilson. This is a tried and true tactic of radicals. And time and again – its working. This reminds of me of the classic Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. Smith cannot get the truth out, because the powermonsters own the media and spin lies to besmirch and nuetralize. Capra's movie, made in 1939, still holds relevence. It's proof that the more we appear to move forward, the more we continue to be the same. Systemic character flaws.

Photo URL:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/09/J...

Unless they somehow manage to kill each other, in which case we all win.

For that matter, if the MSM finally falls down and no one is listening anymore, does it make a sound?

Joel McCrea is the most under-rated, under-appreciated leading man of Hollywood's golden age, IMHO. If you've seen "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" but not "Sullivan's Travels" there is something wrong with you.

It shows 3 replies, but I only see 1 reply.

huh?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1213...

Repulsive photos.

Way to go, short, ugly squat dude. Does it taste better right from the bottle?

If it had been some country dude up there getting the award, you would never have seen this short stack anywhere near the mic, but he has no problem hassling a little white teenage girl.

All good points, Ed. I know this is just the sort of agitation that has been going on for years with groups like ACORN.

My concern is the rank and file black Americans who are in the middle of (especially) the Acorn scandal. There is a lot of confusion in the black community right now about what and who to believe and many, especially the younger, are quite dismayed about the whole thing. I see the shock and sadness everyday in the faces of my friends. I am sure I am not the only one to have noticed this.

I know for a fact that the calls of 'racism' are being applied very strongly in this community by organizations such as ACORN right now with the goal being further agitation.

We know this is really about Freedom and Individuality and the Constitution. It is a delicate situation. ACORN has been always propagandized as a force of good in the community. IMHO.

The Democrats have tried to shove their Distorted Perceptions on America since the Civil War.
That's when they formed the KKK.

The Democrats have tried to shove their Distorted Perceptions on America since the Civil War.
That's when they formed the KKK. Later they made the Jim Crow laws.

The More The Merrier, starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. Great movie!

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

I have yet to hear of a government run system anywhere that works better than ours does. When I am told of a country that does a better job than the Cuban, Canadian or British failures, two points undercut those successes.

1)Those countries have never had economies that actually sustained themselves by paying all their military defense bills. They function under our umbrella, which we in the USA pay for.
2)Those countries were never able to achieve economies that allowed for the development of the medical procedures and drugs that they use. The USA develops 75% of each, Japan 12.5% and Europe 12.5%.

In other words, to the extent that any country considers itself more successful at limiting health rationing, it is because of the largesse of America and our economic system that drives thriving scientific and technological applications experiments.

B. Hussein O. Jr.’s goal which he has stated many times, including often pointing out that to achieve it might take 20 years, is a system in which the government is in charge of rationing medicine.

A government funded option will only serve as a step in that direction, ultimately to put our current system under the control of his bureaucrats.

In doing so, he turns control of 1/6 of our economy over to those government workers, which means 1/6 of our total economy no longer exists, but is extracted every year. This leads to his ultimate goal which is to slow us down for the Rothschild, Bilderberger, New York Fed, Goldman-Sachs, US Treasury, Congressional stinkers (Frank, Schumer, Waxman, et at) nexus. This is a European led economic powerhouse that wants to subordinate American’s to their financial and military will.

You can bet your ass that if Emperor B. Hussein O. Jr. succeeds with his American health rationing scheme that within 10 years of leaving office, they will make sure that he is worth billions.

I, like the Boom Town Rats, dislike Mondays. Well maybe just this particular monday. And so I have a couple of odd questions:
1. In a knife fight between the Octo Mom and Kate plus 8, who wins?
2. I watched Little Miss Sunshine yesterday. What am I missing? Someone got some academy awards and buches of other nominations. Why? I don't get it. Entertaing, yes, but not much else.

yeah I though that Juno was overrated as well. Funny and all, but not as funny as everyone wanted it to be.

is this the same with Slumdog?

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one's there to hear it, is the husband still wrong?

Derek Jeeter hit a big mile stone too recently. Passed Lou Gehrig for most hits in Yankee history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4msaZTJrTA

About the best response I can think of to your thoughts, is, just keep doing what the right is doing. Explain basic freedom, liberty, economics, civics, morals, show common courtesy and decency and lead by example.

I believe it was St. Francis of Assisi once said he would do what ever it took to convert people to Christianity, even resorting to words when necessary.

Not when this is an 'artist' that people and perhaps your children listen to and emulate….like that other low-life Chris Brown.

Are these the 'musical Obamas' of a new generation? People who will say or do anything because THEY WANT TO?

What he really required and asked for was to be popped in the face right there and laid out on the floor.
"Swift" justice.
He'll get his.

wow… James Craig. Nice pull.

How about Laird Cragar begat Raymond Burr? there's a trivia for ya…

The more we expose the true nature and methods of organizations like acorn, the more people will understand what is going on. The "racist" charges are beginning to fall on deaf ears. Right now, they are confused. They have been told a lie for a generation plus. It's going to take awhile. We have to remain firm and continue to expose the left for the bankrupt sham that it is. There was a guy on Fox about a week ago. A Phd who, was a boomer. He made the statement that "America will be just fine, if it outlives my generation." Very true.

Maher is be marginalized into obscurity. Don't be fooled by his cherrypicked audience. If BH, Hot Air, etc. didn't run articles about him, I would almost never hear about him. Very few people I know even know who he is. Granted, I live in flyover coutry. The more the country sees firm, full-throted, peaceful opposition from decent folks OF ALL political persuations, except the mid to full left, the more his ilk becomes irrelavant.

You are right. Maher's audience of useful idiots are the same dolts that applaud that Jon (sans H) Stewart's simian mugging every night. HBO is sooo yesterday, anyway…Only someone as plug-ugly as Maher could make it there.__

Some good coverage of the march..The first site might be down because it was not loading when I last clicked on it but save it for later cuz it's a good one.
<a href="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/09/conservat…” target=”_blank”>http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/09/conservat…

This is an AWESOME video of the march coverage at CSPAN it's almost 3 hours long but worth watching, I'm watching in bits and pieces.

I also want to say that I am just so freakin' proud of all of my fellow Americans who were able to take time and march.

one more.

<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article…” target=”_blank”><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article…” target=”_blank”>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article…

Some one needs to do something.

First this guy Spike Feresten uses this character: "Lil Bill O'Reilly".
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kKE3j0OaA&fe…” target=”_blank”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kKE3j0OaA&fe…

Now Bill Maher <a href="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=Gd8zqG…” target=”_blank”><a href="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=Gd8zqG…” target=”_blank”>http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=Gd8zqG…

It needs to be pointed out loudly that these people and their laughing audiences are racists. They have merely found a clever way of utilizing others as a shield to proctect them from responsibility for their own racist humour.

Did anyone notice the NEW YORK JETS did not look like a third rate minor league college team yesterday?

Favre and the Jets had a real oil and water relationship. Amazing what a compatible QB can do. Also, with the "Mangenius" gone, they may have a chance.

James Craig was a talented actor who gave worthy performances in any number of films including two truly wonderful 'family' films in the mid 40s at MGM – THE HUMAN COMEDY and OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES.

But if you saw his photo, he is a near dead ringer clone for Clark Gable – mustache, expressions, etc. I think he was actually a better actor than Gable, but none the less.

Another Gable clone – George Montgomery over at FOX.

Laird Cregar begat Raymond Burr? I dunno……..the clones usually turn up while the original is still on the screen….I presume so that other studios get a shot at a so-and-so type in their own films.

I had a short list of 30s and 40s clones here once.