KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland, Ore. – Elderly woman fights off naked invader
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said an 88-year-old woman fended off a naked intruder by grabbing the man's crotch and squeezing. Deputy Paul McRedmond said the man got into the house Tuesday through a sliding door. He backed the woman into her living room and pushed her face down onto a chair.
That's when the woman reached behind and squeezed. The man tore free and fled.

It gets better. The guy's name is MICHAEL DICK!!!!!

IRAN after the Israelis take out their nuclear caapability.

How about we declare Israel the fifty first state and then we can send the IDF to war to protect us.

If you are interested, here is the Draft Sarah 2012 url: http://www.2012draftsarahcommittee.com/

Nuff said?

Happy Hannukah!!!

"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 'Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, to men of goodwill!' So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, 'Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.' And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying, which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things, which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them." (Luke 2:1-20)

This was the stupidest todo ever. Hillary is a big girl and has been in politics a long time. She didn't freak, so why did other people? Besides when Hustler said that Jerry Falwell had had sex with his mother and Rev. Falwell sued for libel, the court ruled that it was satire and, therefore, allowable. That is okay but this is not?

This just about says it all.

This is really called "The Dark Doodad Nebula" No word yet from the hospital people.

It may be a while till I post again as I am going into the hospital. Keep the faith.

Two views of the Immaculate Conception. The first is by Velasquez-the second by Murillo.

Just in case any one reads this blog. I am going into Latrobe Hospital on Monday. My legs are seriously infected again. It is also the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

"O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."
"Holy Mary, Mother of G-d, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death."
"Ark of the Covenant pray for us." This is by favorite title for the BVM. It is from her litany.

Just in case they get a brain before tomorrow. NBC, the network that brings you MSNBC and, therefore, Keith Olberman, has been running a promo for a "Holiday Special" They show a clip of Bing Crosby and run the name of White Christmas over it and refer to the movie as White Christmas in the voice over. The problem is that the black and white clip is from the movie Holiday Inn where the song White Christmas first appeared. Accuracy in media at the GE owned network. BTW how many clips of Hannukah movies do you think you will see on the Holiday Special?

If you are a fan of Star Trek-TOS and not a fan of Keith Olberman, try this link:


http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/04/rockefeller-gambit.html

A SOUTH Wales couple caught in the Mumbai terror attacks claimed last night that CNN put their lives at risk by broadcasting where they were.
Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.

Mrs Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

She has appealed to the media to be careful with the information it broadcasts because safety could be compromised and lives lost.

The couple flew back into Heathrow yesterday morning on a flight arranged by the British Consulate.

Mrs Shaw had been forced to hide under a table as terrorists stormed the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

She and her husband were later rescued by Gurkhas and taken straight to the Australian Embassy for safety.

The couple were at the end of a month-long visit to India and were staying in Mumbai for a few days before heading back to the UK.

From her home in Penarth yesterday, Mrs Shaw said: “We have been asked by the British terror police not to talk to the press.

“But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were.

“The terrorists were watching CNN and they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about us on television. For that reason I would appeal to the media to be very careful about what they broadcast.

“When we left Mumbai there were still around 100 people trapped there.”






Terror in Bombay made worse by CNN. Note that the couple were rescued by Gurkhas but taken to the Australian Embassy for safety before they were returned to the UK.

National Debt as a PerCentage of GDP per presidential term.

BATON ROUGE, LA - After their crushing defeat in November the Republican Party was left with no clear leader. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal hopes to fill the power vacuum, and has entered talks with Satan to do just that.

Jindal and his lawyers contacted the Prince of Darkness, most likely through Craigslist, and are currently negotiating an IS-w1 deal, immortal soul for one wish, that would have Jindal crowned the figurehead of the Republican Party. Despite his formidable legal team, if granted the nomination Jindal will certainly not escape with his soul.

Jindal is well acquainted with Satan, having led his high school Exorcism team to the state championships three years in a row.

If the deal goes through and he is chosen he will be anointed with ram’s blood in the basement of the Fox News headquarters.

More on this story, as it develops.

Before you criticize anyone else, walk a mile in his shoes. You may then criticize him; you are a mile away from reprisals, and YOU have the shoes.

My sentiments exactly.

"Lord G-d of hosts be with us yet, Lest we forget; lest we forget."
Rudyard Kipling
Requiem

For the paranoid among us, a diagram of the LHC-large Hadron collider at CERN. There are physicists who worry that it might create a mini-black hole which would destroy the Earth, but don't panic, it is controlled by the SWISS.

For all those who are as crazy as I am-Macrame Daleks with TARDIS and Stargate. Happy Thanksgiving!

Does this person make anyone else nervous?

God raised up Barack Obama for one purpose, to wit, to usher doomed america and the world to final destruction. You should close your big mouths for once in your worthless meaningless vain lives, and spend some time reading Danie 8 and Revelation 12, 13 and 14, and get a stinkin’ clue you bombastic bunch of brutes! Judgment Day she cometh! And this doomed unjust unmerciful nation is just the people who fully understand judgment day. You love to put people on trial; you love your rules, policies and procedures; you love your courtroom dramas; and you love to put people in prison and throw away the key. You are the very picture of the tyrant unmerciful nation that God will judge and find wanting; and you will be absolutely without excuse when you stand your mean butts before the White Throne. You gave no mercy; you get no mercy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dan3wM3rns&eurl=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html&feature=player_embedded

WOW, the Canadians have all the fun!

The mommy state in the UK banned all private ownership of guns many years ago. Even their Olympic Rifle team must practice in France or Eire. Now they are having a serious outbreak of knife murders. Goodbye cutlery! Jamie, Gordon, and Nigella will become public enemies.

This is the ninety ninth anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer, the third greatest lyricist and the fourth dreatest composer-lyricist of the American musical scene. His ASCAP list is simply incredible, but for those not historically minded may I say two Oscars, one for "Moon River" and one for "The Days of Wine and Roses" For the historically minded, the other two wins from his nineteen nominations were "On the Atchison-Topeka and the Santa Fe" and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" which he wrote with Hoagy Carmichael. Mercer's "Skylark" also written with Carmichael is one of the most lyrical pieces of music written in the Twentieth Century.

I was watching a special on the Tungusku Explosion and theories of its origin. One of the scientists held that an incursion of "mirror matter" caused this event. I have never heard of mirror matter before. Is it like anti-matter? Is there dark mirror matter? If we substitute "mirror mass" in Einstein's equation, do we get "mirror energy". Would that be the same as "dark energy"?

Yes, Tungusku really happened. It is not just a joke in Ghostbusters.
Yes, Gene Rodenberry did not invent Anti-matter.

For any SGA fans out there.

I just finished rereading Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express then I watched the Albert Finney movie. They both are excellent examples of their genres, but the book is better as a mystery. The movie ignores several clues and plot points to shorten an already overlong film-from the producers' not the audience's viewpoint. The cast of the movie, however, is one of those accumulations of acting power seldom seen in modern movies-Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Wendy Hiller, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam, Sean Connery, John Gieguld, Anthony Perkins, and Richard Widmark. WOW! What a bunch. I did not include Pierre Cassel as he is French and not much known in the US.

"History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Government price-fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared." --Calvin Coolidge

Michael Crichton died last Tuesday. He was 66. He was not only an author but also a director and producer. He was a SF writer in the sense that he based his novels on extrapolations of current science, i.e. The Andromeda Strain and Jurrasic Park as well as the underrated Terminal Man. He was an MD and his Five Patients is a non-fiction account of cases at Mass General where he trained after graduating from Harvard. It is probably his best book although I love The Great Train Robbery in both its book and movie forms. If you have not seen it, rent it!

Don't blame me; I voted for Sarah Palin.

Customer: "Why do they call it rump roast?"

Butcher: "Because no one would buy it if they called it cow ass."

From Larry, the Cable Guy

"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." --Samuel Adams

WEDDINGS; Susanna Pueschel, Scott Stossel
Only eight years late, and yes, he is John Stossel's nephew.
Published: July 2, 2000
Susanna Joy Pueschel and Scott Hanford Stossel were married yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Leslie Smith, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony at the North Universalist Chapel Society in Woodstock, Vt.

Mrs. Stossel, 26, teaches the third and fourth grades at the Arthur D. Healey School in Somerville, Mass. She graduated cum laude and received a master's degree in education from Tufts University. She is a daughter of Barbara Pueschel and J. Kristian Pueschel of Lawrence, Kan. Her father is the headmaster and her mother the business director of the Bishop Seabury Academy, a preparatory high school in Lawrence.

Mr. Stossel, 30, is the executive editor of The American Prospect, a current affairs magazine in Boston. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. He is the son of Anne Hanford and Dr. Thomas P. Stossel, both of Belmont, Mass., and the stepson of Kerry Maguire and of Michael Putziger. The bridegroom's mother is a counsel to Murtha Cullina, a Boston law firm. His father is the director of the division of experimental medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.

The Witch's Broom Nebula backlit by 52 Cygnus

The Witch Head Nebula
Appropriate do you not agree.

Oh Dear, something unprecedented-after the team won the World Series, some Phillie fans MISBEHAVED. Wow! That has never happened before.

by Michael Ramirez from Powerline

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN---THE PHILLIES WIN THE SERIES!!!

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From Patriot Post:




INSIGHT

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” —Chief Justice John Marshall

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” —Calvin Coolidge

“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.” —Fredrich August von Hayek

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” —H. L. Mencken

The A**holes at Comcast sports picked the best baseball movies of all time. They Included A League of Their Own and that stupid flick with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, left out Eight Men Out and Pride of the Yankees, and included The Sandlot. Which was Number 1? Bang the Drum Slowly-no #5, The Natural- no #4, Field of Dreams-no #3. So what were numbers 2 and 1? 2 was THE BAD NEWS BEARS. #1-----BULL DURHAM Baseball Movies??????????????? Who are these people, obviously Yankee Fans and Obama supporters

The Eagle Nebula-M16_ a region of star birth-the hand of G-d.

Saturn and Titan as taken by the Cassini spacecraft. WOW!!!!!

I am tired of an error that has been around a long time. It is even propagated by Ayn Rand. It is the error of Robin Hood. In Atlas Shrugged, Ragnar Danskold says that he is trying to reverse the myth of RH. That is what it is, a myth. If one reads the books or looks at the 1939 movie, one sees that RH takes money from the TAX COLLECTORS and TAX SPENDERS-i.e. the Abbot of the Black Friars and returns it to the people who have had the tax extorted from them sometimes by torture. Embrace Robin of Locksley, my friends. He was a medieval conservative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=491_5WxfcgI

If you think John McCain and Sarah Palin run attack ads, watch Penn and Teller's ad here at YouTube.

The Milky Galaxy or Home as we know it from APOD.

Photo of victim from previous blog.

Woman Attacked At ATM, Assailant Carves Letter Into Her Face

Woman Robbed, Attacked With Knife At Bloomfield ATM

POSTED: 4:03 pm EDT October 23, 2008
UPDATED: 5:12 pm EDT October 23, 2008

PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank's surveillance cameras.
The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
The Obama-Biden campaign released a statement, commenting on the attack. The statement said "Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice."

Plus, I just loooooove that pic of Angie.

Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn are Republicans as are Sarah Michelle and Freddie .

Most of you do not know that I am the last remaining anti-Federalist. I revere the Constitution, but I think that we would have been better off under the Articles of Conederation as they might have been amended at the Convention in 1789 instead of under our current document especially as altered by the Late Unpleasantness of 1860-65 and by usurpative courts as well as the innovations of the single worst president in US history, Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
To see the articles go here: http://PatriotPost.US/histdocs/

The title is Rainbow over Peleliu, which is the ship.

• Max Payne, $18 million

• Beverly Hills Chihuahua, $11.2 million

• The Secret Life of Bees, $11.1 million

• W., $10.6 million

• Eagle Eye, $7.3 million

Nice to see how well W did on its opening weekend.

BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank Heaven that this is Photoshopped!

For those of my age, it was a sad day yesterday. Edie Adams died at 81. She was not only the widow of the legendary Ernie Kovacs but was a fine comic in her own right as her career after Kovacs's death proved. She was also a "hot babe"

"Call of Silence" was on NCIS on ION TV, whatever that is. Charlese Durning, who won a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts during WWII, play a Medal of Honor recipient who confesses to a murder he committed on Iwo Jima during our invasion sixty years ago.

Well Palin has a career after politics:


PUSSYCAT DOLL NICOLE SCHERZINGER has invited U.S. vice presidential candidate SARAH PALIN to join the sexy girl group, if her election campaign fails next month (Nov08).

The singer is convinced former beauty queen Palin has got what it takes to join the all-singing all-dancing five-piece.

The Buttons hitmaker says, "She seems like a headstrong woman, a tough chick. And she's hot."

It's not the only offer on the table for the 44-year-old Republican governor of Alaska - Playboy boss Hugh Hefner has already asked her to strip naked in the famous men's magazine.

Two notes from SpikeTV:

On Sunday there will be a Steven Seagall movie marathon. You Have been warned.

The SpikeTv show Manswers answered the pressing scientific question:

How would big boobs bounce on the moon?

Surely this is way more important than discovering dark matter.

But just to show where science and capitalism lead: Earth from Space at Night, and NO it is not flat!

Well just a note to cheer us all up. The Hadron Supercollider at CERN is still out of service, so we will not be sucked into a black hole anytime soon. On the other hand, we will not find the Higgs Boson or Dark Energy either, so is the survival of the human race really more important then scientific knowledge?

From www.ogresview.com:

US Marines for Congress
Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Ogre
Have any of you see the silly commercial showing “If Firemen ran Congress?” Just imagine if Congress were full of Marines (and no, Murtha doesn’t count, he’s a clear example of a ex-Marine). Kieran Michael Lalor is one such Marine, running for Congress in New York. Sounds good to me.

And there’s 17 other Republican Iraq vets running for Congress as well. Right now, after this bailout, it’s crystal clear there needs to be A LOT of change in Congress. Every last one of those Congressmen and Senators who voted for the bailout should be voted out — no matter their party or position on other issues. They’ve sold out the country. Support anyone who runs against them.

If you really hate Sarah Palin or are interested in lack of mentation in the swamps of the media left's thinking, go to "www.post-gazette.com/pg/08281/918018-153.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX". It is a column by Tony Norman from the Pgh Post Gazette. It should have your blood flowing faster.

What a nice way to begin the day.
Also, the Supremes decided not to hear an appeal from Mumia Abu-Jamal who was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.

Perhaps another thing for which Barry Obama's friend William Ayers has "no regrets"?
The photo is from 2001. Taken from Little Green Footballs blog.

EEEEEEEEEEGH---another nightmare.

BTW the Stillers for those of you who speak Pickburghese, are 4 and 1, have next week off, and are at the top of AFC North. They will stay there no matter what the rest of the division does on their off week. Ain't love grand.

Palin won on artistic expression, all but the East German judge thought so.

From Tammy Bruce's blog:


Rudy Giuliani blasted prominent conservative columnists who have criticized Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as being unqualified and even worthy of being removed from the GOP ticket...“I think they look like a bunch of jerks after the debate the other night,” Giuliani said. “I think they should all say they made a mistake.”

Giuliani said Palin did a “terrific job” at the debate, overcoming the pressure put on her to perform well in front of 70 million people.

“I can’t remember a candidate who’s done a better job than her,” he said.

When Giuliani was presented with recent polls showing a minority of respondents believe Palin won the debate, he dismissed polls as stacked against Republicans.

“Republicans never win polls, they win elections,” he said.

Is the above not truly frightening? No wonder we love Sarah Palin.

Dennis Miller on politics and the media"

There seems to be this etiquette that her[sic] and John are adhering to ... they’d better realize they’re in enemy country, for God’s sake. These people establish their bona fides, and indeed their seating positions at Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee’s Christmas party if they take her out. They’d better get it together.

"Math Geniuses" at CBS

In case you haven't seen this graphic.

If "other countries" take money out of the US economy, where are they going to invest it? I hear that the Sri Lankan stock market is undervalued or may be that is just valued. Get some historical perspective. The same things were being said when RMN took us out of Bretton Woods and made the dollar non-convertible. I was in Portugal when it happened and dollar transactions were suspended-IN PORTUGAL WHICH WAS AN ALLY. It should be noted that AmEx would not redeem more than $100USD in their own travellers' checks.

A Poster

Isn't this a wonderful thought? The second worst president of the twentieth century would be silenced by the best president of the twentieth century. BTW if you think that JEC is the best president, you need serious therapy or the really good drugs, and why are you reading my blog?

Pam Ayres, the British Ogden Nash has sold out her entire comcert tour to date.

The Wonderbra
I bought myself a Wonderbra
For fourteen ninety nine,
It looked so good on the model girl's chest,
And I hoped it would on mine,
I took it from the packaging
And when I tried it on,
The Wonderbra restored to me
All I believed had gone.

For a little over seven dollars plus postage, you beloved reader, if there are any, can buy a book titled Rules for Radicals. The author is Saul Alinsky the mentor of William Ayres and, I am told HRC. It is the book which defines what a "community organizer" is and what he is to do. You will find it enlightening. "Community organizers"
are, according to Alinsky, less like Christ and more like Barrabas.

Have a nice day.

From a Michael Smerconish column in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 9-08-08.

I ran into David L. Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast and former chief of staff to Mayor Rendell. David is one of the most politically astute individuals anywhere. When our talk turned to Palin, Cohen told me that he had just entertained Alaska's governor at the brand-new Comcast Center.

In July, Palin was in Philadelphia to attend a reception during the Na tional Governors Association's annu al meeting. Cohen said he first saw her standing on the 43d floor, hold ing newly born Trig. Talk about calm before the storm. Cohen ended up giving Palin a tour of the building.

I asked him for a firsthand assessment of the woman few had[verb edited for tense by blogger] met who was about to make her speech at the RNC.

"Having met her, having met John McCain on a number of occasions, I understand why he chose her," Cohen said. "He sees a lot of him in her. She's a blunt speaker. She's very direct. She's got guts. She's tough as nails."

For the first time in two weeks, I wasn't being fed talking points. Cohen, a Democrat who has rubbed shoulders with every political player on a state and national level, was telling me there was a very special quality in the candidate .

Be sure to read Christopher Hitchens's column on Obamessiah on Little Green Footballs.

According to todays Daily Telegraph, Baroness Warnock who is a government advisor and ethicist said in an interview:

The veteran Government adviser said pensioners in mental decline are "wasting people's lives" because of the care they require and should be allowed to opt for euthanasia even if they are not in pain.
She insisted there was "nothing wrong" with people being helped to die for the sake of their loved ones or society.
The 84-year-old added that she hoped people will soon be "licensed to put others down" if they are unable to look after themselves.

Well, I wonder which one of you will get the license when I am NOT ready to go?
"helped to die" I wonder if that means drugs or smother the old bastard? Lots of questions-few answers.

BTW they are already doing this in Holland. Doctors decide on your Quality of Life and slip you the purple Kool Aid if they think you're not having fun. So all you old Dutch people-Smile your butts off or get to meet the Maker-ready or not.

Thought this was neat. The moon and three planets. You may have to open the link in a new window to see it.

I was sitting in the dayroom of Sheesley Hall when the first plane hit the North Tower. The kids, freshmen, came back to the dorm shortly thereafter. The second plane hit. The boys were reasonably calm until an idiot on a local Pittsburgh station, maybe in response to Shanksville, began talking about Downtown as a target. The kids then went ballistic and tried to call their parents who worked in Pittsburgh or who lived close to Downtown- Mount Lebanon for example. I spent the rest of the day talking to the boys and trying to calm them down.

My Recollections of 9/11 by Uncle Tony

Just saw this on Ann Coulter's column page:

Q: How many community organizers does it take to screw in a light bulb? -

A: Nine. One to screw in the light bulb and eight to organize the busloads of protestors to the nuclear plant that powers it.

(courtesy of Freerepublic.com)

Ah-Lipstick on a Pig-no reference to SP. In LA it is illegal to post a McCain sign: see Moxie's blog for the details.

Bones is appearing to be ready to "jump the shark" allowing Booth and Brennan to become an item. Has Hollywood learned NOTHING from Moonlighting.

Mission to Mars was on again last night. I love the part after Tim Robbins dies.

Saw an ad for The Day the Earth Stood Still. If this is a remake of the classic, I may lose my lunch just thinking about it.

On the good side TESB was on.

Well, I have been absent watching the anti-Palin firestorm. The most bizarre charges, contradictory ones even, have been levied. ALL have proven false. Yes she had a baby. No, she did not try to ban books in the Wasilia Library. No, her husband's partner did not try to have his divorce records sealed to hide an affair with Sarah.
I could go on but why bother. This stuff must drive Obamsessiah disciples crazy as it causes blue collar moms-i.e. Reagan Democrats- to become aware of her views.


Drill, Drill, Drill or Palinomics as it is now known.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

I just saw a post that Richard Widmark died in March. He was a very good actor and much underrated. Watch "Pick Up on South Street" or "Panic in the Streets" for some of his best work and Film Noir at its finest.

So Vladimir saved newsmen from a tiger. This is supossed to be a good thing? At least he only tranked the poor tiger.
Penn State won; Pitt lost; WVU won. One hopes that this is a preview of the coming season. Temple plays this Saturday.
I really hate the "male enhancement" ads. "Be sure to seek medical attention if you have an erection lasting more than four hours." Yeah, I would certainly wait that long.
"Punisher" to have a sequel. Well "Toxic Avenger" had one, but it was funny and set in Newark.

AARGH I am 61 today, and the Pirates are looking at their 16th straight losing season. That's "losing" NOT "loosing". I taught English and Speech for 31 years and there is a difference between the two words.

Saran Palin looks better and better.

WOW

Well it is Sarah Palin, mother of five and governor of Alaska to be JM's VP. She is the essence of "Drill, Drill, Drill". Just what we need.

Bosworth Field

I started this blog a little late to commemorate the slaying of King Richard III at Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485 by the bastard usurper Henry Tudor. May G-d have mercy on the souls of those who fell so long ago on both sides. Read Josephine Tey's mystery "The Daughter of Time to learn some of the truth about this most maligned king.

To the left is the painting from the National Portrait Gallery, London which Tey mentions in her book.

Well, the Comolympics are over, so we should begin to look at politics. I don't like the idea but we SHOULD as one of the idiots will be the king for the next four years.

Some posters from Beijing celebrating Freedom in the PRC.