Open Thread Monday

"I'm not going to make you pay me because I won't accept blood money." Great line.

Don't worry America!

Secret Agent Obama is on the job!

AGENT DOUBLE NAUGHT ZERO: OBAMA RESPONDS TO TERRORISM WITH MAKE-BELIEVE

http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/agent...

Good catch, although from what I've read on Big Government and Big Hollywood, 'conspirator' has a nice ring to it.

Dr. Qing-Bin Lu, assistant professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo…”In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years…"
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/ind...
"50 years of cooling predicted"

Both.

The MSM is in the game for one reason only, money. Obama attracts eye balls, and advertisers pay through the nose for them.

On the dark side of that equation, if the MSM creates you, they can destroy you, and will as soon as it becomes apparent they can make even more money doing that.

That's also one of the reasons the MSM hates Rush. They didn't create him, so they can't destroy them, and it infuriates them.

"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." –Ronald Reagan

Edie Falco's a fantastic actress. I enjoyed "Nurse Jackie'" first season as well. Amazing scene. Can't remember who the actor is, but this was his only scene and he's just perfect. The Sopranos, along with The Wire, had some of the best guest casting on t.v. ever. You get a sense of what his entire practice is like, from the old fashioned office to his weary comments. Just nails Carmela's faults completely–and you can tell she knows the right answer before he even says it, even though she desperately wants his psychiatric absolution. And then I think a few episodes later Tony gives her a new Porsche Cayenne. Carmela got lucky, even though she's ignoring sound advice. Adriana? Not so much.

"I'm not going to make you pay me because I won't accept blood money." Great line.

The highest powers of the left are motivated by money and power only use leftist ideology to deceive their followers because that ideology will serve to only solidify their dictatorial power.
The lower echelon of the left does consist of many true believers who are nothing more than true dupes.
The rest consist of people in it for what they can steal or get away with regardless of who they stomp.
It may seem against logic, but I'm betting that they're betting that there's eventually a type of tax payer bailout waiting for them in the long run.

Hey, Algore would just tell you that the ice shelves are dropping into the oceans, which cools the water and air, hence the transition from "global warming" to "climate change".

Good point. And we all know that it's only a short step from there to a global blizzard that will kill everyone in New York except a few young attractive people, who will instantly freeze to death if they take one step outside, and will then have to be rescued by a heroic dad. Suit up, Dennis Quaid! The fate of Brokeback Mountain rests in your hands!

Great scene and one of many "conservative" moments in The Sopranos. I believe one of the major themes in The Sopranos is self-deception. This may well be the only moment in the entire series when someone is speaking the unvarnished truth about this family, at least until Dr Melfi realises much later that she has been an enabler, too.

Check out the trailer for "From Paris with Love", by the director of the great "Taken" and produced by Luc Besson. Three observations: 1. The French are really kicking our asses in terms of old-fashioned non-CGI action movies. 2. Apparently they didn´t get the memo from Obama that there is no war on terror. 3. While I´m not a big Travolta fan, here he looks tough, mean and like he is having a load of fun.

It is and you are one good observer.

I´m quite convinced that he was shot the moment the screen went blank. Only thing that makes sense. Also there aren´t any virtuous people in The Sopranos at that point. You could have shot the whole lot of them and not be wrong (it seems David Chase felt the same).

Never watched The Wire but it seems I will have to eventually. Everybody´s raving about it.

I just saw a pic of Roger Ebert… does he have AIDS?

No, just a mean and evil heart.

The Wire is opera. But at its height, The Sopranos was pretty damn good.

Yeah. my wife hated "Oz" and "The Sopranos." What does she watch? Freaking "Flip this House" and crap like that.