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Floyd | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 10:29:28 PM Remember March 31, 2008? Yeah… me either. Thank God.
From Perfunction (linked above):
As a novice Senator, Barack Obama introduced few significant pieces of legislation, but one that he was especially proud of was the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007. Had his signature Act gone into effect, the now-unquestionably successful surge would have [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 10:12:57 PM OK so Congressman Hank Johnson has Hepatitis C. I don’t know if that explains this, but why would Nancy Pelosi keep in a hearing such as this if he’s mentally incompetent. He may just be stupid. Either way… this is whack. h/t on the story to Blackhawk…
Video h/t: Hot Air.
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Floyd | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 09:23:03 PM Hissa Hillal, mother of 4, Saudi Arabian housewife, def poet.
From the London Daily Mail:
A brave Saudi housewife has reached the final of the Arabic version of the X Factor after lashing out at hardline Muslim clerics on live TV.
Wearing a black burkha, mother-of-four Hissa Hilal delivered a blistering poem against [...]
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Eric | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 08:53:27 PM Little behind on catching up with last week’s episode. I will now watch this clip again and again and again … and again.
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Floyd | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 05:30:19 PM I posted a longer rougher version (that’s what she said) a couple of weeks ago. This is the official trailer. Badassssssssss!
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GuestPoster | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 12:39:26 PM ( Enbrethiliel blogs at “shredded cheddar” http://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854)
+JMJ+ The Pacific and the Cost of War
After the US government acquired the Philippines from Spain, it spent 150 million dollars just to develop the island of Corregidor into a hangar for its navy. Fifty years later, US military officers inspected every structure on the famed “concrete battleship” [...]
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Rufus | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 11:25:28 AM Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com
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Rufus | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 11:14:41 AM
Endless looping video below the fold.
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Floyd | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 09:53:28 AM Southern Comfort (1981) Starring: Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Brion James. Directed by Walter Hill. 100 min. TV-MA. 8:00 PM EDT. Independent Film Channel.
I’m sure as a quasi-Southerner (I’m Texan — a breed apart — and above) I’m sure I should have been offended by this movie. I should probably be offended at the [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 31st of March 2010 at 04:25:57 AM
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Eric | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 10:04:06 PM
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 09:10:03 PM
Tron vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo.
Tron meets Saul Bass.
h/t: BoingBoing
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 09:03:46 PM Discuss away… spoilers abound.
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 07:56:29 PM “… or I’ll kill myself, then her.”
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 06:57:10 PM Two Presidents, two pictures from Afghanistan, two Foreigner songs…
h/t: Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket Blog
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 03:46:11 PM
Kitty Foyle (1940) A girl from the wrong side of the tracks endures scandal and heartbreak when she falls for a high-society boy. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli Dir: Sam Wood BW-108 mins, TV-G. 8:00 PM EDT. TCM.
Tomorrow ends Ginger Rogers month on TCM and they saved her [...]
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 03:06:02 PM
I’m happy that you’re happy Obamacare was signed into law – I really am. You are entitled to health insurance, which I had when I went to college. No, my parents didn’t pay for it, I got it through a full-time job while I went to school (at night) and paid for my transfer [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 11:51:51 AM Three words: Bacon. Machine gun.
h/t: Instapundit
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 11:40:49 AM
Theodore Dalrymple (up there with Hitch, O’Rourke, and Orwell as my favorite essayists) hits another one out of the park: Self-esteem v. self respect.
Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination. The former is a pleasurable vice, the [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 30th of March 2010 at 01:42:21 AM The Wise and Foolish Virgins by Peter von Cornelius
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