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Band of Brothers

I knew this kid (my sister knew them much better) when he was knee high to a grasshopper (and his older brother) — would not have pegged them for this back then or even up until into junior high. I guess it’s called growing up for a reason.

One Stone

It seems in their zeal to denigrate America and her armed forces including it’s former Commander in Chief, Matt Daemon, Paul Greengrass, and Universal (as in Universally detested) have killed another America-hating franchise:

But here’s the problem: Desperate to find a way to open the picture, Universal marketed the movie — as anyone who saw the [...]

The World According to Jack Marino

As only he can, my friend (and friend of Threedonia) Jack Marino has been letting loose the hounds of hell on Tom Hanks (and Hollywood) in the comments section over at Big Hollywood. For those who don’t slog through those parts, notably the comments, which can admittedly get out of control sometimes, thought it’d be [...]

I Live in the World As It Is.

Yeah I subscribe to HBO:

Sopranos, From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers, The Wire, Taking Chance, Gathering Storm, Conspiracy, Citizen X, Fatherland, Stalin, Truman, etc., etc. Fine entertainment all produced by HBO. That’s not to mention Gran Torino, Taken, The Dark Knight, etc. I have ON Demand and in Hi-Def for [...]

Basketball

I finally saw the HBO documentary Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals last night. Like most documentaries… when it sticks to the subject — Magic and Bird — it is riveting. I also saw more fundamentally sound basketball in 5 minutes of highlights than one would see in 5 games of today’s [...]

Sunday Gospel

Creedby Rich Mullins

Al-Qaeda Seven Ain't John Adams

John Adams, American Founder and talented lawyer, represented the British soldiers prosecuted for the “Boston Massacre”. There has been a move — successfully — to get the Obama DOJ to release the names of seven political appointees in the Attorney General’s office who voluntarily represented Gitmo detainees — aka captured member of al-Qaeda. [...]

It is accomplished

Potential Tea Party anthem? Perhaps. I also prefer to look at this song as a thumb in the eye of any politician who wishes to be our overlord instead of serving WE THE PEOPLE.

Want Some Candy?

So we’re talking about sentencing and punishment today in my Courts/Criminal Procedure class and one of students makes a comment that we should have a return of gladiator battles for punishment. “For whom?” I ask. “Child molesters” he says. So then I ask if he expected them to have slap fights in [...]

Bring Da Amabalamps Bring Da Pain

I’m not really sure what to add to this.

NSFW or kids… multiple F-bombs. Rated R for “f*&king awesome.

Floyd’s Highbrow Moment

Not for kids Tracy! or PC folks — which I guess is the same as kids.

Merlin Olsen — R.I.P.

Merlin Olsen (74) and Deacon Jones rush Johnny Unitas

Merlin Olsen, NFL Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome, actor in the 1970s on Little House on the Prairie and Father Murphy, and football color commentator with Dick Enberg has died at age 69 of cancer.

I liked Olsen a lot… [...]

Now This is Too Much

From Fox New York:

Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of [...]

Eric Porvaznik Programming Note

Eric during a broadcast of Radio Free Threedonia…

For the second time our very own Eric Porvaznik will be cheating on us guest hosting Big Hollywood blogger Larry “Stage Right” O’Connor’s BlogTalk Radio show this evening from 9:00 — 11:00 PM PST. Call-in number is (347) 850-1946. Call in and ask any question [...]

Quick Note to Kathy Griffin

Damn, she just makes her hatred so easy to mock. Miss Nasty-Ass, you wanna go out the window or YOU take the stairs?

The Door Just Hit Her In The Ass

Today Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in jail for her role in a bribery scandal.

The 37 months is the top of the sentencing guidelines recommended by the probation department. She has 10 days to appeal; otherwise she’ll start serving July 1.
Of course, nothing Conyers transpires without controversy:
Before the sentencing was announced, a strange series [...]

Yes, She Did

Nancy Pelosi, Rufus’ Speaker of the House, gave a speech to the Legislative Conference of the National Association of Counties yesterday. Her full remarks are here (if you dare):

Here’s a snippet of what she said:

You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t [...]

Wednesday Open Thread

Kostya Govnuchkiovich Borienka, aka The KGB, unavailable for comment

Floyd’s High Brow Moment

Earlier this past weekend a new commenter accused us, here in Threedonia, of being high brow because we poked fun at a enviro-comedy (oxymoronic) film called Furry Vengeance. In fact… SlipperyjackHawkEye (not his real name) wrote:

What a bunch of High Brow folks hypocrites here, bet you never watch anything but PBS, and
no crust living [...]

No Suh Massa

As a post mortem on the Eric Massa brouhaha… I like the way Althouse summed it up:

Massa says he was persecuted, and all he did was make a stupid drunken sexual remark at a New Year’s Eve party. If it wasn’t so bad, don’t resign. Man up, or shut up, Massa.

If avoiding gov’t [...]

Tuesday Open Thread

Get A Load Of My Weapons!

No really.

Saudia Arabian lawyers - high comedy or extremely dangerous?

The latest from Christopher Hitchens touches on a Saudi Arabian legal firm and its efforts to extort several Danish newspapers for reprinting the infamous Muhammed cartoons from several years ago.

[I]t is my belief that your newspaper’s fulfillment of the above-mentioned conditions would be perceived as a sign of respect and understanding throughout the [...]

The Other Shoe: Eric Massa

Last week I posted on Democratic Congressman Eric Massa in Dutch for “sexually harassing” a “junior” male staffer. Well, as with most things related to the House of Representatives in the Age of Obama it seems there’s more — a LOT more to the story. Outlaw had linked to a bit from [...]

Oooh, this can't be right...

…but sometimes it’s good to be wrong, n’est-ce pas? From friend of Radio Free Threedonia Bo “Bald Eagle” Clark and featuring 40 Year Old Virgin’s Gerry Bednob.

We Were Remiss… Sorry Outlaw

March 4 was Hug a GI day — here ya go Outlaw.

Time for a New Emancipation Proclamation

Federal pay has now officially outstripped private sector pay. From USA Today:

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.

Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more [...]

No Quarter Given!

In today’s Texas history class students we find that on this date in 1836 the Alamo fell to the Mexican Army. For 13 days between 100-150 Texicans held out against the onslaught of over 1500 Mexican soldiers under the command of General Santa Anna. The battle became a rallying point for the Texas [...]

Riddle Me This....

First term Massachusetts Congressman Eric Massa — a DEMOCRAT — is not seeking reelection this fall. He says the reason is his health… others say it is that he made unwanted advances to a male staffer. Massa is married with kids.

From Politico.com:

First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, [...]

Matt Daemon

I wasn’t planning on seeing Matty’s new flick The Green Zone in any case, but Kyle Smith pretty much confirms my suspicions.

I can’t believe what I just saw, so I’ll think about it some more before I go into detail. But if I were the kind of excitable guy who believes in boycotts, [...]

Patriotic in Pittsburgh

The Buffalo Sabres (for whom Ryan Miller is goalie) played the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pitsburgh in the first NHL game back from the Olympic break. Sidney Crosby — game-winning goal scorer for Team Canada plays for the Penguins. The fans give Ryan Miller a great standing O for his great work for Team [...]

Pick a Little Talk a Little Pick a Little Talk a Little

I thought wimmins were supposed to be enlightened benevolent rulers — all-wise Earth mothers. Somehow more competent in the ways of peace and diplomacy. Welcome to the big time ladies! Get a load of this from the Times of London about our Secretary of State chatting with Argentina’s La Presidente about the [...]

Happy Independence Day!

Since none of you heathens mentioned it, allow me to remember that TODAY is TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY!

To be honest if I wasn’t reminded by 67 Cougar I would have forgotten. Not much of an excuse I know but I was supervising 3 attack weapons teams flight operations over Iraq, so I nearly jacked it [...]

For Outlaw and his compatriots

We Meant What We Wrote

Let me preface this post regarding the Chicago gun ban case by saying this: I think the Chicago ordinance is foolish, evil, stupid, and an abomination. The plaintiff, Mr. McDonald is correct when he says the city government favors thugs over him. It does. I also believe Heller v. DC was correctly [...]

Monday Open Thread

Top 5 Where Have I Seen You Before?: Y Chromosome Edition

You might be asking yourself — who is this guy? He looks familiar. That’s because he has like a million credit on IMDb.com. I was watching an episode of From the Earth to the Moon on DVD the other day and he had quite a substantial role — and he was great. [...]

The Goreacle Awakes

He’s back!

After the scandal of the CRU e-mail revelations and the IPCC lies  (and vice versa) many wondered if the high priest of the global-warming alarmist movement had permanently retired to his electrified compound to curse, moan, and count his carbon-offset millions.

Alas, we’re not done with Al Gore, yet.  If the former vice-president learned nothing [...]

Flyover Too Good for Flyover Country

This is not a new story, but it’s new on Snopes, where I saw it.  (It took them over six months to check this out.)

It appears some bitter clingers—you know, typical white people—in Idaho requested a military flyover at their “God & Country” festival, at which “new military recruits [are] inducted and all military [are] [...]

WTF?!? TMI and a bunch of other letters

It seems the Ghost Whisperer likes to have jewels glued to her special place.

“What’s that?!?” you say.

More People You've Probably Never Heard Of

David Bellavia visits a theme I have discussed here once or twice. The real heroes this nation produces and how we never hear of them or celebrate their stories.

This is the story of Melvin Brown

…PFC Brown was nineteen-years old in 1950. Rosy cheeks and bright eyes. From my assessment of his pictures he barely [...]

Uncle Cholly

Saturday Open Thread

Fifth Column?

From Iowahawk, this is absolutely hill-fing-larious.

That’s right, mister!

The Axis automotive powers have declared war on American motorists and our cherished union-made way of life. They’ve established secret assembly beach heads in so-called “right-to-work” occupied Vichy states like Alabama and Tennessee, manufacturing six sigma deathtrap jalopies with hillbilly slave dupes paid less than prevailing wages!

And now [...]

Is no Crap of Bull

H/T to Daniel Crandall