Well, I Guess We Know Who Plays Him In The Movie…
November 21, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_copernicus
James Cromwell, of “Babe” fame; also Jack Bauer’s corrupt dad!
Two Catholic Posts In A Row?
November 21, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aGSJzqaJm_b0&refer=europe
Yeah, no one else ever predicted that we might ever have some economic troubles, umhmmm. And our economy is “undisciplined?” Compared to what, the highly disciplined way the Vatican has dealt with its pedophile employees?
I’ll boil this down for you: the Vatican is making herr pope out to be a man of supernatural foresight, thereby paving the way for a declaration of one of the 2 “miracles” necessary for him to be kicked up to saint status someday. And I say fine, the sooner the better. You heard it here first.
Those Wacky Catholics Are At It Again…
November 14, 2008
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-11-14-0035.html
“Reverend” Newman would do well to consult with the hierarchy before he oinks out statements like this. What he would find is that the truth of Vatican preference is much sicker than his own edict.
The Catholic Church wants nothing more than for us to have whichever president is going to allow the most Latino aliens, illegal or not, entry into this country. That’d be Obama. Latinos are predominately loyal Catholics and are even more hyperbreeding than our domestic ones. As they prosper in our economy, the funds that they don’t send back to their own miserable sewers of nations will find their way into the coffers of “Holy Mother Church”.
I.e., Newman might not want to alienate Obama voters. The pope is gonna have a cow.
C’mon, It’s Kinda Funny…
November 14, 2008
Cartoons Du Jour
November 12, 2008
Infrared Suicide…
November 10, 2008
This isn’t for the faint of heart, although it’s basically the same thing as the SAS attack on the terrorist camp in the movie “Patriot Games,” except it’s real.
But it’s interesting. The payoff is at 0:59.
There Is No Title To This Post…
November 10, 2008
Hey! Wanna See A Snake Eating A Wallaby?!
November 7, 2008
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24615712-5014090,00.html
Don’t forget to scroll down for the video. Bon appetit!
All Hail The Messiah…
November 6, 2008
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/06/nations-look-obama-president-world/
In Kenya, where Obama’s father was born, a national holiday was declared on Thursday.
“This is the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten,” Rama Yade, France’s junior minister for human rights, told French radio.
“This may be the beginning of a new world,” an Israeli man in his mid-50s said in Tel Aviv.
“I want to congratulate you on Barack Obama’s victory that really turned a new chapter in the world’s history — that an African-American man, decent and intelligent, became president of the world,” one Iranian said.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: “I told the president that [Obama] has everything needed in order to reach deals with him: he’s young, handsome and even tanned.”
“If you look at Jesus Christ, he walked on water and fed the 5,000 and he ended up getting crucified, so I think it’s not unlikely that President-elect Obama is gonna disappoint some people also,”said Walter Russell Mead, the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Said Layinablog: “Leave it to a Frog to conclude that this election exceeds, by one order of magnitude, the Ronald Reagan-effected demise of the most notorious, murderous dictatorship in modern history. Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ.”
How About That Obama Economy, 2…
November 6, 2008
At Least He’s Screwing His Own Supporters First…
November 6, 2008
Didn’t take long:
http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=9299280
“This is a case of fraud to me.”—Imani Sankofa
“They ain’t gone mail nothin’.—Charles Martin
Quincy Stringer, of course, said it best: “They just jackin’ us out our money. Just come out with my currency.”
I Want This Guy For President…
November 6, 2008
How About That Obama Economy!
November 5, 2008
The Best Popular Fiction Author…
November 5, 2008
…whose name is not John Sandford.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,447384,00.html
Rest in peace.
I’ve read every one of this guy’s books, and every one was riveting. Most were made into movies. You’ve all seen Jurassic Park, which speaks for itself. Congo was an unbelievably insulting attempt to cash in on what, in my opinion, is his most entertaining book. Disclosure was, while it focused more on Demi Moore’s bitchy sexuality than anything else, a fair flick; great turn by Donald Sutherland as an evil CEO. Rising Sun…when you put Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, and Harvey Keitel in the same movie, it’s gonna be interesting by default. The Andromeda Strain was the first Crichton book filmed, and a B-grade cast did a great job. “Eaters Of The Dead” was a great book released in theaters as The 13th Warrior; vikings are awesome, Antonio Banderas sucks. Timeline was another fair effort by a B cast on a great book. There are others. You can skip Sphere; not even the revered Samuel L. Jackson could save this bomb from Dustin Hoffman.
The Election…
November 5, 2008
52% to 46%
64,239,421 to 56,626,340 (as of this post)
What do these numbers mean?
1. It means that you have elected Barack Obama president. Congratulations. I hope he does a great job. I hope that Americans pull together to support him as described in McCain’s concession speech, probably the most gracious, heartfelt, nonpartisan, and patriotic such oration in history.
2. It means that the estimates of an Obama-fueled record turnout of, by some estimates, 140 million was a pipedream, which is to say the people making those estimates were on the pipe.
3. It means that of the 120,865,761 who voted, only 7,613,081 more felt that Obama would make a better president than McCain. This in light of 2 wars, a failing economy, the most unpopular Republican president in our lifetimes, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the fact that 56,626,340 citizens still voted for the least conservative guy the Republicans could have nominated.
4. It means that abortion, to include partial birth abortion (infanticide), is safe for at least 4 more years.
5. It means that Hillary Clinton is history.
6. It means that you’re going to have to send me a SASE to collect your $25, because I pay my bets.
Things to be thankful for:
1. It looks like Al Franken will lose.
2. No senate supermajority
A. No union card check; i.e., secret ballots stay put
B. No “Fairness Doctrine;” i.e., the free market will continue to determine who stays on the radio
3. Opportunity to see that Jesse Jackson can cry on cue like no one since Richard Gere. Were you watching the Obama party? In several frames he was standing there with the usual smirk on his face (“This shoulda been me”). In the very next frame, realizing he was on camera, he looked like Gunnery Sergeant Foley had just told him to DOR. Indeed, Jesse, you “got nowhere else to go.”
To be updated…
