From Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels (1941). Open Thread below...
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Lawrence O'Donnell: The Single-Payer Solution |
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#StopColbert: Pelosi Says Stephen Doesn't Even Like Kittens |
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Stuart Varney Thinks Pro-Obama Ad Directors Tricked Clint Eastwood Into Chrysler Ad |
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Breitbart: 'Crooks and Liars is a Radical Leftist Website' |
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Rick Santorum's Bizarre Revisionist View of the French Revolution |
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Ellen Responds to Anti-LGBT Group: 'My Haters Are My Motivators' |
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#StopColbert: Pelosi Says Stephen Doesn't Even Like Kittens |
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YouTube Yanks Clint Eastwood Chrysler Ad After NFL Copyright Claim |
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Michael Steele Loves States' Rights Argument Against Gays, But Not Against Blacks |
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Emails Show Handel Behind Komen's Planned Parenthood Decision: Report |
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SNL: GOP 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate |
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UPDATED: Audience Boos Gay Soldier At GOP Debate |
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Bill O'Reilly: There's No Question That Mr. Stewart is Going to Hell for Criticisms on Fox's 'War on Christmas' |
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Chris Hayes on the Iraq War Architects: Where Are They Now? |
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Ellen Responds to Anti-LGBT Group: 'My Haters Are My Motivators' |
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I am watching Eraser now. I love this flick!
personally, the two conans rock for me. along with terminator.
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I love me some action movies!
True Lies...action from start to finish! LOVED IT.
True Dat!
Jamie Lee (the Body) Curtis.
oooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!!
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she shows the power of the little black dress...as she was hanging from a helicopter.
as she was hanging from that bedpost. she's a great comedienne in the part as well.
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Just like this one.
Vanessa Williams is getting shot at by 6 guys, she runs out of bullets and in comes Arnie - after jumping out of an airplane and nearly crash landing into a junkyard.
Vanessa: You're late.
Arnie: Traffic.
Vanessa is brilliant, talented and so very womanly. better than halle berry and tyra banks combined.
but that's just me.
h/t to your taste in women leads.
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is one stunningly beautiful woman. I wish I looked 1/1000 as good as she does.
from people a lot closer to it.
no politics, no american press.
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we have a President-Elect of social and moral significance, an answer to neo-Conservatism, who shows we're no longer dunking our heads in the sand like a bunch of ostriches, a man who reflects our modern conditions, who faces with stark realism the problems that confront the average man, a man of dignity, a true canvas of the suffering of humanity.
AND, he's drop dead gorgeous. All that AND a little sex, too!
:)
there are some who frown on PDAs.
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Is that like a BOB?
In any case, I'm standing in a long line of female admirers, right behind Barbara Walters...
and you're way ahead of BabaWawa. If you ever saw her in person, you'd know why she's single. She had her face altered for the TV lighting. It's hideous up close.
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Joan Rivers who looks like (who was it, Nicholson as?) the Joker.
more lipstick.
and a crowbar to pry her jaws open.
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corner thing she has going on. Maybe it's just too much botox...the corners of her lips are frozen into the weirdest permanent smile.
it certainly holds up on first viewing.
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the Geico commercial with her in it.
Heh. Think of me...and chuckle. ;-)
hilarious!!!!!
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He's a bit too skinny for my tastes. Now, give that man about 70 lbs, and DELISH! :-)
I don't recall any previous President-Elect making so many public statements, using the period between the Election and the Inauguration as an opportunity to speak to the nation and influence events by the force of his character.
Granted, never before have so many channels of communication been available, but there is nothing making him use them.
I am quite impressed.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Bush is absent and beyond lame duck status, everytime anyone in the current admin opens their yap the economy tanks worse and worse, and whenever Obama speaks, things calm down.
He HAS to do this. And I give him enormous credit for doing so.
who wants to actually DO the job..
It's a more-than-welcome relief - actually it energizing and inspiring.
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..but I'm jolly impressed too by President (Elect) Obama.
Haven't felt this calm in eight years, even knowing full well that he's going to have to make some very controversial and ripple-effecting decisions early on in his presidency.
The man seems to possess dollops of balance, humanity and spirituality. His has all the makings of being a very fair and just first term in the Oval Office.
Simple! The man is eager to bring America back from the cold.
I love it!
well come on home then mommy and join in the orgy!
I have a problem on the weekends. I have broadband through comcast. On weekends I keep getting knocked off my connection. Who is the grand old geek out their that can tell me what is going on. Poor service or what?
I wish I could help. I ditched Comcast years ago for all their problems.
I've ditched everyone else.
You are in an apartment complex, it could be drag on their node. The more people on a line slow it down...like lunchtime at a workplace. If that is the case, there is little you can do other than bitch and get them to do a doubler or whatever.
That could be it, but it's not a large apartment house.
just kidding(a little).
if you can, look into Verizon DSL. (I know, telecom bill and all). but it's your money and one megalomaniac is as bad as the next, but you DO get to vote your own interests with your dollars.
that said, I dropped ATT and picked up Verizon local and my DSL is faster than most broadband and it doesn't get the 'comcast slowdown' because of too many users.
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I can't keep switching. Comcast is supposed to be the best around here.
what's the proof if you have not tried it?
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I had the same problem with my DSL(Embarq), until they changed their security software. Some Saturdays if my internet was working at all it was very slow. Embarq now has a free secuity suite called F-Secure and it works great. Ad-ware and spy-ware are a huge problem when it comes to computer and internet speed. A good security program that is constantly updated is a must.
I'll try everything.
Hey! Check if your wife is doing some cleaning. I was out for two hours.
I checked everything. She saw me and asked. What are you doing down there.
I said the internet was out. She replied. Ooops! Three minutes later
I was back on the web. I never asked her what happened.
Garcia writes at 02:36: "Hey! Check if your wife is doing some cleaning. I was out for two hours. I checked everything. She saw me and asked. What are you doing down there. I said the internet was out. She replied. Ooops! Three minutes later I was back on the web. I never asked her what happened."
Oh, Garcia, you must ask her! Please, I'm dying of curiosity!
Three Days
This is a pretty chilling explanation on how 10 people killed almost 200 strangers in Mumbai. I try and translate this same hatred being perpetrated in NY or Wash. D.C. even ignoring the possibility of this many innocent Americans being killed, what will the government reaction be to what seems to me be an inevitable terrorist attack? We have generated so much ill will and hatred in the Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran regions of the Middle East that surely the "chickens will be coming home to roost" someday.
Ehh.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
the way america treats blacks.
from people a lot closer to it.
no politics, no american press.
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GN All Y'all!
Keep the love!
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Take good care!
Damn, BG. One of my favorite films. One of the few that gets more relevant with the passing years.
I have ComCast too, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
I'm using their 'basic' connection speed (8MBPS advertised, 3-5 MBPS actually delivered).
I switched from Verizon DSL 2 years ago. The Cable connection is so much faster and instantly-on, no login required.
I'd suspect your problem is 'geographic'.
I'm in a high-use cable-internet city but it appears the infrastructure is matched to the demand. That may not be the case where you are.
You may well be experiencing a slow-down due to insufficient infrastructure bandwidth, especially at certain times of the day because there aren;t enough "tubes".
DSL only looks good if the area cable connections are limited.
For myself I haven't looked back since switching from DSL.
I've also had excellent tech support from ComCast which has really surprised me, but again that might be a local factor. I'm very well aware of what Comcast has been up to on the federal level, but I'm forced to "dance with the devil" for now.
They better fix it. I just got back on line the 3rd time since my 1st post.
that's really bad.
I've been dropped 3 times since I last posted.
the volume:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_re_...
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The first blast occurred inside Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's office compound, which protesters seized in August and have held ever since.
Ah, if only we could have done something similar to the WH a few years ago...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
its all down hill from here , the botts ran everyone whos interesting off! its incest i tells yah!
Wow, less than four minutes allowed. It's been a while. My, how things have changed. I was just looking for Mirth, or blugal, or tyree, or sphinx, somthin' or other or someone I used to know.
greetings from the one of the few servivors of the old days !
mirth moved on to ab , bluegals here among the ruins sphinx can be found at times on the music threads uncle fester lurks has been lost to time, dont wait so long next time to visit, this time next yr all these posters will be gone and thier will be a new batch ,,
It's nice to see that there's still a few of us left who aren't afraid to speak up.
I love Obama and want him to succeed, but if I have concerns about him I will be speaking up about it. If someone is offended by that, too bad.
good afternoon calgary yes i think if we have doubts and questions its only right to want answers and expect a decent government, the republicans trusted and went along with every thing bush wanted, my concern is and has been obamas votes such as fisa ect, he has his chance to make our government better but with the corporations pulling all the strings i have to many doubts, if hes not in thier pockets the first year will tell us one way or another, if he is in the corporations pockets i expect only alibis and excusess by the party faitfull, like you they cant shut me up, ill voice my concerns and they can lump it if they dont like it,
It's unfortunate that some regulars here feel that questioning Obama in any way is forbidden. Trusting Dubya and the criminal cronies in his administration is how we got into this mess in the first place.
Although Preston Sturges made a small collection of masterpieces, this is for me the definitive Sturges film, with an opening scene 40 years ahead of its time, multiple levels of meaning, everything and everyone both conservative and liberal in the crosshairs of his humor and use of my favorite device for satire: a consistently humorous plot that suddenly takes you places you did not expect, leading to an "Oh...wow" moment that you just didn't see coming. If you have not seen this, you have a real treat in store.
Oh, and jeez, guys, are the comments in this thread about as far from the subject as they could possibly be? I mean, try and focus a little...
I thought it was an Open Thread.
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