You might remember this post by Outlaw of a douchebag bailing out on a foul ball while his date got hit with the ball. I invite said douchebag to watch this. This lady falls out of the saddle and gets right back up.
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A man whose girlfriend has broken up with him has bought a $15,000 sex doll that is just — mostly — like her.
Can you see that just down the road? Squint a little… you can just make out the end of Western civilization.
Great war movie as well as POW flick. It’s a good day on FMC tomorrow. At 9:00 AM is Fritz Lang’s The Return of Frank James. Bandolero! with Raquel Welch and some other guys is on at 2:00 PM and prior CPOD Patton is on at 8:00 PM. Over on TCM prior CPOD Shane is on at 4:00 PM EDT.
There are a lot of reasons the folks who attended Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally attended. Many are fans of Glenn Beck’s radio and television programs. Many are active in the tea party movement. But I think most, and an immense number who were not there, are like the Whos in Dr. Seuss’ book, “Horton Hears a Who.” Our country has never been monolithic. America has seen immense change in its brief history and that change occurred at a breakneck pace. When George Washington died in 1799 the fastest way to travel was horseback. Neither information nor material objects could move from point A to point B any faster than about 15 miles an hour, the same limit that existed when Alexander the Great died, the same limit that existed when Julius Caesar died and the same limit that existed when Moses died. George Washington’s world was not very different from Julius Caesar’s. Gunpowder had changed warfare a bit, and printing presses made copying information much, much easier…
Play along with, Real or Fake? Fans of the TV show Seinfeld might remember the episode called, “The Summer of George” where reoccurring character George Costanza spends the severance money he received from his former employer, the New York Yankees on shall we say questionable things, with his summer ultimately ending with him in the hospital. James Taranto in a column for the WSJ describes a summary sent in by a reader named Daniel Lomis where he compares “The Summer of George” to “Recovery Summer”…Seinfield and another George might just come out ahead.
Eastwood’s been a great director for a long time and these early films give a good glimpse into the genius inside. I still hold to Josey Wales and Unforgiven as my favorites, but this is in my Top5 Eastwood films. On at 8:00 is prior CPOD Once Upon A Time in the West
That green broad in New York asked for huddled masses. That’s all well and good, but I want you to remember the last part of that sentence too… “yearning to be FREE.” Not as in FREE school lunches, FREE housing bailouts, et al. There are no free rights or free things — only free people and even that is conditional on human nature and a few unchanging principles. Within those boundaries… you have FREEdom, liberty… the opportunity and the ability to think and do for yourselves… to use your God-given talents to make your way in this world. The liberty to take from the fruits of your labor and help those less fortunate or less abled, but still working hard nonetheless. You have the freedom to succeed — to allow your children to surpass you in opportunity and wealth. You have the freedom to worship or not worship, to explore ideas for your entire life or to lock yourself in an ideological box early on. Those things are not free — you are free to do or not do them. Freedom brings with it the freedom to fail. You are or should be, free to be a fool and lose your house. You are free to quit smoking, to quit eating out so much, to quit running up your credit cards, to quit going on 2-week vacations you can’t afford, to quit voting Democrat or Republican because you’ve always done so, to quit equating all violence with hatred or all religion with science-phobia. In fact, you are free to stop voting if you use your free time to do nothing — especially read and contemplate books. You are free to stop dressing your daughters as whores and to stop emasculating your sons. You’re free to tart up your daughter or pussify your son too, but the rest of us are free to not pay for your grandchild or your son’s AIDS cocktail on government health plans. You’re free to pay for your own damn embryo destroying “research”. You should be free to not have to pay for “research” that holds out little hope and results in the devaluing of human life. Devalue your own life — you are free to do so. You are free to stay wretched refuse if you choose. You are free to not recognize the boundaries on human freedom written on the heart, but that failure usually leads to forfeiture of the freedoms you do have so tread lightly You are also free to choose life, liberty, and to pursue Happiness. As that most important of our foundational documents says, “I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity… I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants….” Quit huddling in masses. Get up! You are free to live — NOT LIVE FOR FREE. It’s not enough to BE free you have to STAY free — yearn for it. “Free” has very little, if anything to do with monetary value. It has everything to do with inherent value. You have rights — inalienable rights. I can’t take them away from you, but you are free to give them away — the ultimate freedom. Use your freedom wisely — once it’s given away getting it back is nigh impossible and is damn sure costly. Choose life — choose liberty. Floyd Here: originally posted March 10, 2009 3 Doors Down…there might be more than you can see
It’s nice to see science confirm what Bach and millions could’ve told us intuitively. And I wager Slipknot and Alice in Chains are NOT good for pain management — unless deadly overdose is your idea of “pain management”. A Bakersfield, CA woman — a doctor — tried to break into her “on-again/off-again boyfriend’s house last Wednesday — hereafter known as Ash Wednesday.
Break the window!
I’ve heard of burglars doing this and getting caught by police and I’m sure that this has happened before somewhere, but for the life of me I can’t think of what possessed her to do this other than intoxication or a blinding rage/obsession. Very sad, yet very deserving of a Darwin Award — from which no one is exempt.
(2nd Anniversary post. Original posted 10/06/2008) I think you can tell a lot about yourself if this picture bothers you, inspires you or leaves you with massive indifference. Sarah Palin is a very polarizing figure. Hillary Clinton is a very polarizing figure. Barack Obama is a very polarizing figure. Which pole do you get sent to when you think about which one, and why? Please let us know in the comments, and if you are especially bored you can read my take on this below the fold…
(2nd Anniversary re-post. Original posted 4/22/2008) O.K., I promised you all an answer regarding this post, http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=1091, and I won’t take the easy way out, and wait for the Pennsylvania returns. First, thanks to all for some good comments. You raised some good points. Troy, regarding your questions about the Latino vote; what states will that matter in? Even if it loses Obama some votes in California, the Dems have Californian sewn up. Except for Arizona and Texas I think the Dems have all other states with significant Latino populations sewn up. Obama will win the nomination. Hillary goes to the convention with fewer delegates than him and her argument is she won the big, populous states. Unfortunately for her, that argument doesn’t hold water. She’s mainly getting the “Democrat Machine” votes, and those voters will pull the lever for whichever Democrat is put in front of them. And, even more problematic, the Democrats cannot risk disenfranchising black voters by nominating Hillary. In the game of identity poltics; first Black President trumps First Woman President. Without a clear majority of delegates choosing her over him would alienate a lot of potential voters, and the Dems cannot take that risk. So, it’s McCain vs. Obama this November. Here’s how that will break: Both are very good campaigners. Both are witty and comfortable taking questions. Both are confident. I think Obama is a much more intriguing candidate than either Kerry in ‘04 or Gore in ‘00, and Kerry and Gore almost won enough electoral votes to be President. (this is a cool site for tracking state projections http://www.270towin.com/2008_polls/mccain_obama/) McCain is not Reagan and Obama is not McGovern. I just don’t see Obama losing any of the states Kerry did, except maybe, maybe Pennsylvania. Obama’s a lock in Illinois, California, New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. Let’s not forget Obama is still in a primary race, and that’s very different from a Presidential race. The guy is a very good speaker. He inspires people. DH posted this on Libertas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA, and yeah, it’s a funny parody, but it makes clear how easy it is to use the guy’s words and speeches to make an inspirational video. The guy is inspirational. Yes, I agree, most of his plans are ludicrous, at best, and many would be akin to economic and military suicide, but purely as a politician the guy looks Presidential. That means a lot to a lot of people. Look at how much money he’s already recieved. It all comes from people who are not listening to the substance of his words, but believe in an idea. Barack Obama fits many people’s ideal of what a President should look and sound like. And John McCain is 72 years old. I like the guy, and believe he’s more fit at 72 than Bill Clinton was at 42, but when people see these two side by side in a debate Obama will appear more energetic and able. And Obama will be uttering platitudes people want to hear. I think Obama can win Ohio and Missouri. Tack those two onto Kerry’s ’04 total and he’s the winner in November.
Ms. McArdle exercising her 2nd amendment rights. (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 2/10/2010) At a rather young age (10?) I recall reading an article about standardized tests. Researchers were doing studies to determine if standardized tests unfairly measured “low income” and/or “minority” children. The example they used was one of those common, simile problems often used to test a kid’s vocabulary, “cup is to saucer as…” The researchers claimed questions like that were unfair because some kids may live in households were saucers were not used. I laughed. At the age of 10 I laughed at that supposition. I knew what a saucer was! Everybody does! I thought to myself that I couldn’t recall ever seeing anyone use a saucer, but saucers were everywhere… in literature. At the age of 10, living in a concrete, urban landscape, I had also never seen a raft made of driftwood, but I’d read “Huckleberry Finn.” I had never seen a chiffarobe, but I had read “The Yearling.” I had never seen a spaceship, but I had read about the Mercury, Apollo and Russian space programs in the newspaper. It was utter nonsense to assume that a reasonably intelligent kid would not understand the simile “cup is to saucer as…” Did I go to school with some kids who would not understand that type of simile problem? Sure. But it wasn’t because their folks didn’t serve high tea every afternoon. They simply were not very bright. At the age of 10 I realized the researchers were making a ridiculous assumption. They had never lived in an “impoverished” neighborhood, nor had they ever lived among minorities. Did they know what a “derelict” is? How about a “drug addict?” “Gang member?” “Graffitti?” “Prostitute?” “Bookie?” “Ex-con?” None of those things were likely in their neighborhoods (all existed in mine) but they could understand the simile; “Prostitute is to John as…”
(2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 12/01/2009) I hope I don’t offend anyone; this is a sincere question and I am very interested in learning what y’all (you’se guys for Rich and Stosh, you’ins for Eric) have to say. I haven’t looked at the numbers but there is no question our nation graduates way, way, way too many people in certain majors. Now I’m glad we’re all free to choose our own courses of study, and I’m glad we have a great system of Colleges and Universities offering great courses that elevate young (and old) minds, but I fear there is some dishonesty going on. Or, at the very least, some insincerity. Judging from what I’ve gathered in the comments there are more than a few folks here who may have studied some of the fields I’m going to touch on here, and please understand I’m not picking on anyone. My own course of study was not ideal and if I could go back and be 18 again I’d do things vastly differently. I’m not throwing stones. But let’s take Art History (or any type of History), or Film, or Political Science, or Business Administration, or Drama or Dance… When’s the last time you opened a newspaper and saw an ad, “Help Wanted Art Historian?” Now I know some people are employed in all of these fields and many of those jobs are wonderful. I imagine most of us would thoroughly enjoy being the head Art Historian at the National Museum of Art, or the Louvre. What a cool job! But how many spots open each year and how many new graduates do we churn out each year?
“Herpetarian Monarch” (2nd Anniversary celebration re-print. Original posted 2/25/2009) I’m not a Baby Boomer but their generation has been a force of inspiration throughout my life. Although many of you likely share my disappointment at missing out on being one (due to the cruel fate of a mis-timed birth), I am sure you all share my admiration. Please join me as I take time each week to shine a spotlight on one of the many heros from this fine, fine generation of Americans! Jim Morrison! James Douglas Morrison was born in Florida, in the United States of America. His father was an Admiral in the U.S. navy (a tool of “the man”). Jim’s mother, Clara, stayed at home with their children. Steve and Clara were unselfish, devoted parents who worked tirelessly to ensure their children were well fed, well educated, had shelter and were in good health. I am sure you can already see why Jim would grow to hate them…
“Loser” (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 2/25/2009) Yes, the Baby Boomers have given us many brilliant people to idolize, even worship. Yet, like all generations theirs was not without its problems. Despite the enlightened course so many of its members demonstrated, some people born in this era failed to follow the obviously superior path of maximizing one’s potential through obsessive self-examination and a slavish devotion to one’s “needs.” The Baby Boomer family does have a few black sheep and it would be intellectually dishonest to gloss over these outcasts. This week we examine one such Boomer Loser: Robert Koffler Jarvik
I suggest the Hollywood Test. If Roman Polanski is turned on — then they are definitely underage. If Woody Allen is turned on – then they are at least 16. Floyd here: Going deep in the archives: 08/22/08 — part of our dry run on Dirty Harry’s Interwebs. I’ll be re-posting a few of my older favorites today. A few posts from the old site and from years gone by will appear today in honor of our second birthday. Some of these will come from our first spot at Dirty Harry’s Place — even before Chuck Kane came on board…. Feel free fellow Threedonians to get drunk and sloppily reminisce. This one — post title — Mickey and Maxi Mouse: Th original post had comments from billypaintbrush and “ahem!” — old Dirty Harry’s Place readers — and last year it had a comment from Tony Rome (also absent for a few months). Donde esta fellas?
On this day in 2008 some ones and zeros were uploaded to a vacant outpost on the world wide web and thus, rather inauspiciously, www.threedonia.com was born! As with most offspring, threedonia has developed quite differently than Floyd, Chuck and I foresaw, gazing through the celebratory cigar smoke on that storied day. We began as a spin-off from John Nolte’s Dirty Harry’s Place, primarily devoted to politics, media and the law. Then Dirty Harry’s Place went away and all heck broke loose. In the ensuing months JohnFN, Eric, Rich, Wankette, Outlaw13 and -Mike! joined the staff as a growing cast of characters joined the ranks of our followers. Thanks to you all for making our inaugural year so much fun! Head on out to your favorite watering hole this evening and have a drink on Eric. And, if you can do us a favor, drop a line in the comments on how we can make the site better. What would you like to see more of? Less of? The same of? If you don’t feel like registering do it anonymously. We do like to hear from you. We’ve got immense egos that require nearly continual stroking. Hail, Hail Threedonia! Floyd Here: Very slightly edited post originally by Rufus (I put the word “Second” in the title) from last year. We be two. Party on!
Don’t know if this has been photoshopped or not, I have seen it in several places but don’t know it’s source…it’s damn funny though. UPDATE! According this this site that has the original AP caption…not a photoshop job. Here’s the caption as written: “President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk through a rainy Columbia Parc Development in New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)” I taught a course called “Congress and the Presidency” this summer and I’m polishing off the finals for that course as I begin the Fall semester tomorrow. Anyway… I asked the class, as part of a larger question:
Anyway… here is a snippet of my favorite answer. This young woman gave her answer as “JFK” and after rattling off some specifics as to why her opinion had changed she ended with this:
I’m out! The text I assigned for the Presidency was John Yoo’s Crisis and Command – highly recommended… Was (Not Was)…boom, boom, ackalacka boom boom
It’s a light day tomorrow so “classic” is a bit of a stretch for this one, but it is a good movie and the Bridges are good as is Michelle Pfeiffer who has been sitting the 21st century out mostly. She had quite a good run in the 1980s and early 90s though.
Ever notice how much Carnac looks like Floyd? When President Obama speaks to America on Tuesday night about the war in Iraq he will be engaged in a political mission, one that will require the ultimate in political finesse. Democrats can’t claim much in the way of success after and year and a half of hope and change, so the mission will be to attach themselves to the success that our troops have achieved in Iraq without doing so in manner that is overtly crass or partisan. Subtlety is the key and Obama’s people are savvy enough to understand that. How to do that? Were I my evil twin working as a speechwriter for Obama, here’s what I would suggest – below the fold. Set out to make a case for INXS’ rightful and beyond-deserved place in rock’s history for this week’s TIUT, but between Michael Been’s passing and, much more personally, one of my best friends apparently losing his mind before going MIA towards the end of last week, just hasn’t been a happy time of late. Sure, celebrating Stevie Ray therapeutically helped, especially Friday, as music usually does for me (don’t worry, Scott M., no more SRV vids … at least not at the moment). However, reminding myself of yet another dearly departed singer, one of my favorites at that, while my friend’s whereabouts remain unknown will take a back seat till a later date. Instead, a little bit o’ Hanson for some cheering of the spirits. That’s right, all-groweds-up Hanson getting a little funky, plus below the fold, one of the most clever videos of the last 25 years, directed by a certain tambourine player in the Hanson clip. Continue reading Turn It Up Tuesday: Turn that frown blah-blah-blah
The Tubes…don’t want to hear it again tonight
Tomorrow is Clint Eastwood’s day on TCM. TCM is showing all three Sergio Leone/Eastwood films, but this is my favorite Eastwood western (or maybe Unforgiven). The doggedness of it… the seething hatred that was the Kansas/Missouri bloodletting before, during and after the Civil War, his personal quest for vengeance… Eastwood captures it well in his acting and directing. John Vernon is also great here as Fletcher and Bill McKinney personifies the word “ruthless” as Captain Terrill of the Redlegs.
This one will frighten you: I’ll be publishing a new book in the Spring of 2011. It’s called Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry and will be published by Encounter Books. The last Trzupek-authored tome was a techno-geek crap. This is a lot more in the political mainstream. Will it sell? It will if you force everyone you know to promise to buy a copy when it comes out. If you’ve ever written a book, you know that the process of writing is both exhilarating and exhausting, but finishing the book is about as good is it gets. Who said “I hate writing, but I love having written?” I don’t quite feel that way – I love to write – but writing a book is a whole different beast. You have be disciplined and determined and you have to fight your way through all the times that you’re sick of looking at the damned thing. But – as of today – the manuscript is finished and has been shipped to Encounter (on time!) Anyway, the “brain trust” (using the term loosely) here at threedonia have known about the project for a while, but I didn’t want to break the news to y’all until I was actually done. Which now I am (save for all of the inevitable editing from the publisher to come) so now you know too. For those of you who love nostalgia there’s a nice little reminder in the video between 1:29 and 1:34. Calling all science guys and gals! I came across this piece in The London Telegraph on how thorium is the “magic bullet” — or may be — that renders oil and uranium obsolete.
Any thoughts on this? I’m perfectly drilling all over the world for the vast amounts of oil under there, but I’m always open to new and cheap and safe energy sources. Welcome back Threedonians! Time once again for your weekly tiptoe through this past weekend’s This weekend was a Wankless task and we sorely missed her — though not as sore as when she’s here. So I stepped in and as usual brought The Environmental Protection Agency seemed to be a theme this weekend. I posted this story about the EPA trying to get the lead out of your guns — and then backing away — bastards. We’re watching you. Rich, our resident In other topics… Rich asked you how weird are you? What are your quirks — NOT fetishes. Interesting stuff in the comments on that one. John FN posted this on the media’s obsession with race — in light of the Glenn Beck rally this weekend. Senator Jim DeMint fires a warning shot at Republican Senators. And though we were a little light on entertainment posts this weekend… Eric posted this on one of his favorite character actors — so who in Hollywood deserves more screen time? Thanks once again Threedonians. And you’re welcome for once again saving you the hassle of scrolling.
Jim Treacher has a rather solid re-capping of ledes from various reportage on Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington D.C. this weekend. Instead of focusing on the rally, the focus is on race. Quite ironic. Some points: I say this as a major Beck critic, and someone completely un-enamored with one Sarah Palin. Shouldn’t the press be hailing anyone who can draw thousands of mostly-white people to an event honoring Martin Luther King? Lets change parties and say Joe Biden or Barack Obama had done such marvelous work with the same audience and the same quota, wouldn’t this be viewed as a historical rising tide of tolerance? Second, nearly every mainstream article I’ve read has focused on the race issue, either by bringing up the faces in the crowd, or by sideways questioning about the Manhattan Mosque. Let me inform these people — the civil rights war is over. The right side won a long time ago. If you seek proof that racism is no longer a seething undercurrent in this country, and now exiled to the edges of society, look no further than the election results in 2008. If you want further proof, the people you have demagog-ed as racists are more than comfortable wrapping themselves in the words and wisdom of Martin Luther King. The Atlantic sent a blogger to cover the event, the entire story focused on the Mosque and race issue on one hand, and the Muslim/birther nonsense on the other. My rejoinder is the same I have for all my leftists friends – I’ll save my outrage for the 30-percent who believe Obama is Muslim when the left purges the 30-percent who believe Bush was behind 9-11, or the higher percentage who believe they live in some quasi-police state, all as they fume away on their iPhones from the coffee house or their condo. Third, the outrage against Tony LaRussa and Albert Pujols is both palpable and disgusting. Buzz Bissinger, who once hailed Tony LaRussa as the smartest man in baseball and immortalized his intellect in a book, is dragging the corpse of Godwin through Twitter with comparisons of Beck to de Fuhrer. Charles Pierce now rats LaRussa as an impostor baseball genius, quite the different take of LaRussa from when he declared himself a vegetarian. Those examples are just in the sports writing world. These are the same writers who implore a Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods to start speaking out on politics, when in actuality they mean speaking out for their politics. Most athletes won’t, and now you know why. Keep an eye on how LaRussa and Pujols are covered from here on out. It will also be interesting to see if this affects the National League MVP voting. Four, where is this all coming from? It’s always there in the left media, but it has become much more incendiary and callous. You get the feeling it’s 2004 all over again, with liberal sites mocking maps of “Jesusland.” Instead, it’s decrying every bit of opposition, no matter what grounds, as racist. We HAVE to build a mosque near Ground Zero, or else we’re racist.You don’t want a public option, because you’re racist. You aren’t happy with the economy because you’re racist. Not only is this over-reach of the race card burying the left, it’s also exposing them. James Taranto and Charles Krauthammer touched on this over the weekend – their agenda is massively unpopular, nearly every item. This is the natural reaction. Five, I don’t deny anyone their right to build anything anywhere as long as they follow the rules, the mosque included. That doesn’t make it a good idea, it also doesn’t mean people don’t have a right to be suspicious, or question why it’s being built, or even be angry about it. It doesn’t mean a construction worker has to build it. This is America, after all, and expression wasn’t supposed to be limited to pop stars, hippies and the keepers of the politically-correct canon. The death of the post-racial era wasn’t when Rick Santelli called for a tea party, or when Glenn Beck hit the air – it was when Obama’s poll numbers died.
Go read the whole thing and support Sen. DeMint wherever you can and however you can.
Coincidental reminder with recent viewings of Drugstore Cowboy and Cliffhanger how I haven’t seen Max Perlich, one of my favorite younger character actors from the late 80s/early 90s (read, my age at the time), too much in recent years, at least since Blow. Always loved his nervous, hyper-kinetic/wired and/or high performances (or all three in one scene) and one IMDb search later, yet another nudge to get watching Burn Notice, if only to see Max in one episode. P.S. Hollywood: seeing Max pop up in the movies above, as well as Maverick, Beautiful Girls and Rush (plus the music videos below the fold), always made me and my friends a little bit happier with what we were watching. Understand we’re not that big an audience for you, but Perlich deserves better than Ninja Cheerleaders, Dinocroc or non-recurring guest-spots on TV. Howsabout you, Threedonia? I know it’s Sunday, but any other lesser-known character actors you think deserve more higher-profile work and less direct-to-video schlock?
Tomorrow is Thelma Todd day and in a stroke of inspiration they are showing Thelma Todd comedy shorts most of the day tomorrow — ZaSu Pitts, Patsy Kelly, and Charley Chase taking turns pairing up with the beautiful and funny Thelma Todd. If you’ve never seen her or maybe know her from some of her femme fatale efforts (as in the first film version of The Maltese Falcon in 1931 — showing at 3:15 AM EDT) then you must check out some of these shorts. She had a short life, but her legacy is memorable. If you want to know the inspiration for the name and avatar of a certain beloved Threedonia commenter then you must, among many other reasons — watch Horse Feathers tomorrow. At 8:00 PM is another “pairing” with The Marx Brothers in Monkey Business. Sandwiched in between the Marx Brothers movies and The Maltese Falcon is a series of shorts she made with Laurel and Hardy.
Yesterday, Mr. From today’s Washington Times…
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