What better way to kick off the week than watching a hippy get his ass kicked. I know there are Forrest Gump haters in these parts… but this scene is unadulterated awesomeness.
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Cornell Chao and Mark Resh. KIA 28 JAN 2007. RIP troopers. It was a day I will never forget.
R.I.P. Heroes.
Amen!
RIP, Chao and Resh, never to be forgotten.
It’s a great time to work for DOD…
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/25/us/pentagon-layoffs/index.html?iid=HP_LN
So much for “investing in our future”.
something I noted over at Facebook:
.. Meet the new Boss. Same as the Old Boss…
“The greatest irony is that given Mr. Lew’s crisis-era resumé, he bears a remarkable resemblance to the bankers who President Obama says created the financial crisis and deserve federal investigation. But apparently there’s an exception as long as your liberal intentions are noble and you’re a loyal Democrat. Then you can get rich at one of Wall Street’s biggest failures and end up running the entire financial system.”
Another sad anniversary
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/challenger-explodes-after-liftoff
I watched it live from my apartment in Lubbock, TX. What a horrible, tragic event!
I had planned to get up to watch the re-enrty that morning, but had stayed up rather late the night before. So I was still in bed, but heard what sounded like distant thunder, which made me get up and look out the window to see why the weather man had lied again about rain. Not seeing any clouds, I got up and decided to take my car in for it’s servicing a little earlier than planned. Being a Saturday, I didn’t have the news on as I got ready, nor did I have it on in the car on the way to the dealership, since I have no interest in paid financial programs and gardening tips.
As I headed down 635, still unaware of what had happened, I noticed that the Emergency Boards above the road were flashing, and the message read: “IF YOU FIND ANY SHUTTLE DEBRIS, PLEASE CALL 911. DO NOT HANDLE.” My immediate first thought was that maybe some small pieces of the shield tiles had fallen off during re-entry, but then the dark memory of Challenger flashed across my mind. So I turned on the radio and discovered that once again seven heroes had been called to explore the realm beyond ours.
You are thinking of Columbia not Challenger, goozer.
Sorry, you knew that, never mind.
I was living in Brevard County at the time. Someone came in the office and told me what had happened; I went out and looked up and there was the contrail, scrawled across the sky. I’ll never forget it.
Know anyone who’s had this new stomach virus?I had one of them 20 or so years ago.Lasted on day,one day of hell.
My wife had it. Really awful.
I wouldn’t even wish it on Harry Reid!
I would.
“You can go to hell,I’m going to Texas”.
-David Crockett
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338882/mickelson-migrant-jim-pettit
“I will clear my desk of all my cases and make your life one living hell!” — Det. James “Sonny” Crockett
Here’s an interesting little tidbit from the race-monger of all race-mongers, Al Sharpton,
“First of all, if the government were to come to disarm you, you would not be able to use an automatic weapon to defend yourself. Let’s be serious. We’re in a world of drones now so the Second Amendment would not help you in that area.” (emphasis added)
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/27/sharpton-on-2nd-amendment-people-do-not-have-the-right-to-unregulated-rights-in-this-country-video/#ixzz2JHe6CdRV
He then went on to proclaim no one has “the right to unregulated rights in this country …”, which makes me wonder if he’s at all familiar with that little document titled Declaration of Independence.
But more importantly, I find it interesting how blithe he is to the idea that if the federal government were to make private ownership of guns illegal and attempt to confiscate said weapons, no one would be safe. If you refused to hand over your weapons the feds would simply blow you to smithereens with a drone fly-over.
Interesting, is it not, how the good Reverend can be so blasé about tyranny.
Sharpton’s covered because when it comes to the Democratic plantation, he lives in the house.
Nothing sadder than an old clown.
All the people who blather on about how ineffective ordinary guns are against modern military weapons have not been paying attention to our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In other words, he’s living in a world where The Man has predator drones, and black people don’t, and he’s fine with that.
Coffee, krullers, conservatism! Yes..the mojo’s working this morning!
Glad you’re feeling better, fritz.
Thanks INFJ! It comes and goes. Bad yesterday. Better today. May be bad again tomorrow. This stuff is getting to be like malaria with all the lapses and relapses!
Should have known.. with all that leather, chains, and flamboyant paraphernalia.. Judge Dredd … homosexual icon.
I knew there was something I didn’t like about the whole Dredd thing!
That’s why he never takes his helmet off. Because it symbolizes The Closet.
He is. . . the LAWR!
It is snowing in Henderson, NV! Yay!
Fritz can make a Harry Reid snowman.
Yes, since it was snowing then quit. So there’s no substance to it!
Hey. Give that back.
Sorry…you can have it all. My hand don’t fit no steenking snowshovel!
Wish he’d gone to New Mexico…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/27/michael-bloomberg-johns-hopkins_n_2563494.html
Has one reached the bottom of the barrel (pun intended) when one is posting on Facebook about what one needs for healthy bowel movements?
One of my Facebook “friends” posted how she thinks she needs a Squatty Potty Pooping Stool.
To which I can only say: TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!
But it does make me laugh, which makes me wonder: What is it about what farts and feces that guys find so damn funny?
When you sneeze,people say “bless you”…when you fart,they laugh.Go figure.
Hey…pull my finger.
Save it for Marcoe.
“Farts are cute, farts are funny. Farts are shit without the mess.”
GEORGE CARLIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDiujuv6rQ
Exactly!
It makes perfect sense to me. It makes no sense to lie prone when birthing either, see birthing stool.
The poopy stool is available in Amazonia. Get your Christmas shopping done early.
-fritz- might have to special order for chimney size.
All I need that time of year is a “chimney cozy” to keep from getting frozen to the stack!
A piece on our greatest living novelist
http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_1_urb-mario-vargas-llosa.html
Not mentioned,but “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” is one of the funniest books I ever read.”The War of the End of the World” and “The Feast of the Goat” are two of the most shocking.
Max Kampelman dead at 92
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/max-kampelman-top-nuclear-arms-adviser-during-cold-war-dies-at-92/2013/01/26/20ccea7c-67dd-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html
Liberal Anti Communism had an illustrious history.Kampelman was one of the last of the breed.
Ummm
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iranian-state-tv-says-country-has-successfully-sent-monkey-space
Laff lines welcome
Biden was an astronaut?
Hey Outlaw, I think they’re trying to lure you back into the service. http://gizmodo.com/5978740/us-military-to-install-laser-turrets-in-combat-airplanes
Not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent.
Very sad story out of Chicago: woman loses all four of her children in separate shootings. Those strict Chicago gun control laws sure are working out well for her, aren’t they?
Like someone said a week or so back, they ought to sell Chicago to Canada. It would lower the US gun-crime rate by at least 10%!
h/t: To whomever it was that said that first!
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” Oh wait, wrong clip.
I don’t care what anybody says, Forrest Gump is a great, great movie. People still accuse it of glorifying the Boomer generation, but they seem to miss out on the fact that Jenny represents the life choices the Boomers made, while Forrest manages to avoid all of them thanks to his blissful ignorance. Now remind me again, how does that work out for Jenny, and how does it work out for Forrest?
I love that movie, too. My only pet peeve is it seems to portray “Bear” Bryant as a possible racist when he sees Forrest give the black woman the book.
But that’s mostly just my Crimson Tide tribalism.
Well, Bear honestly didn’t do himself many favors in the racist realm by waiting till the early 70s to start recruiting black players.
Did it occur to you that this was Alabama in the 1960s,a place on par with South Africa?I have no love for the U of A,but Paul Bryant did the best he could under the circumstances there.
Understood, but still doesn’t make it right. The power Bear wielded on and off the field afforded him the opportunity to dictate how he would run his program, with black player had he so chosen. Still, I don’t hold it against him he chose to wait till he did start recruiting blacks. Merely pointing out a speculative reason why that scene Kit mentioned exists.
That said, I will always admire Bear’s talents as a coach beyond words, nothing but respect, a respect which sickens me even more re. that ass Saban being mentioned in the same sentence with Bear.
You spelled “Satan” wrong,Eric!
Sorry, with me it’s always understood re. not-so-darling Nicky.
I wouldn’t describe Gump as blissfully ignorant. Instead, he avoids all of modernity’s sins because of his indomitable childlike innocence. An innocence, by the way, that does not prevent him from living in the world, but keeps him from does keep him from falling in love with “this world [and] the things it offers”.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
Well put, Dan’l!
Just watched Brit Hume guffaw his way through commentary on the Prez/Hill lovefest that was their 60 Minutes interview.
Yeah. I couldn’t watch it, not even clips. Not like I didn’t know what a tongue bath it was all going to be.
Lord, I hate being this cynical. It’s not healthy. But the level of President butt-kissing is unbearable to watch. I agree with whoever called it (Kristen Powers?) “state-run media”.
Isn’t it disgusting? I can’t stand to watch any of it!!!
And eeeyyyyeeeeyyyywww, I hate those Geico/pig romance commercials.
Stands to reason
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57566258/immigrant-birthing-hotels-in-l.a-face-crackdown/
What makes America great,endless innovation.
200 years young
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/austen-fans-to-celebrate-200-years-of-pride-and-prejudice/
My mom’s read it,and seen all the movies too.
“Sorry, I ruined your Black Panther Party.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/28/170476338/reports-boy-scouts-considering-lifting-ban-on-gay-scouts-leaders
Yet they will still ban athiests.I see an episode of Modern Family coming.
I really hope they don’t cave! What a travesty of all that’s right that would be!
When Dennis Prager brings up this subject he almost always asks – then answers – the question: Why these activists don’t just go create their own groups?
Answer: They’re Leftists, and Leftists can’t create anything. They can only destroy.
And the goal is not really to get homosexual men into leadership positions in the Boy Scouts. It’s to destroy an organization that promotes American patriotism, faith, and Judeo-Christian virtues.
I’m sure that all the people who say it’s “discrimination” to keep gay men from being Scout leaders, would be fine with having straight men being Girl Scout leaders. I’m sure there’s no risk involved in leaving millions of little girls alone with grown men for long periods of time, and we wouldn’t want to discriminate against men, now would we?
http://statenisland.ny1.com/content/top_stories/176122/iraq-war-hero-from-staten-island-gets-double-arm-transplant
Floyd…I just saw L’il Turbo’s commercial again! Very cute. I can’t help but notice how much the statement the adult leader makes about “being Turbo-charged” sticks out. Almost like someone slipped him a 50 to get in a shameless “Threedonia” plug! Anything to that?
Mother M. likes that ad.When I told her I know Pop Turbo she was doubly impressed.
Another Super Bowl omen
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-raven-is-published