I was waylaid by my neighbor and a bottle of wine. “Oh shit, I have 20 minutes.”
Links?
He’s daring Trump to punch him in the nose. Either way, it’s going to get worse.
I’ll let you decide whether or not this is sour grapes.
You reap what you sow. Not sure I like anybody in this story.
I’m just fine with them killing each other.
“Bad Things” was a pretty crappy movie.
It’s been odd watching someone orchestrate their own descent into irrelevance.
What an annoying news cycle. Oh well, I got in under the buzzer. Feel free to jazz these up with your own comments. Peace out, Glibbies.
whaddup doh’
Its Robert Redford movie night. Suggestions?
A River Runs Through It
Three Days of the Condor
All the Presidents Men
Brubaker
Honorable mentions:
Spy Game
A Bridge Too Far
Legal Eagles
Milagro Beanfield War
Sneakers
Sneakers and Spy Games are two of my favorite movies. But I was hoping to mix it up for Jugsy’s sake.
Watched “Hopscotch” last night with Walter Matthau. Recommend.
Jeremiah Johnson. My brother and I bought Hawken muzzleloaders (black powder rifles) after seeing the movie.
I remember seeing those for sale in either the Sear’s or Montgomery Ward catalogs.
Or perhaps both.
I put Sneakers as my 2nd fave movie, after Clue. Flicks going for different things, both perfectly executed, easily could be an equal tie for first. Brilliant, prescient flick. Outstanding cast and damn good fun, as well.
President’s Men is fantastic. (W & B did once do good journalisming, back when that kinda meant something to some folk.)
Spy Game needs a rewatch. Saw it when it came out as a teen and don’t think I ‘got’ it.
Quiz Show is supposed to be very good, but I wouldn’t know.
Uh, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
The Sting
Old man with Chardonnay?
Chardonnay isn’t red.
Good-looking aged reds.
We’re giving away four ’00s (merlot, syrah, Montepulciano, ?) to my uncle, who will appreciate them.
(various aughts, not 2000 vintage)
The Soviets? Once again, Trump confirms he’s Putin’s puppet.
I’m just curious how he or his administration think they can operate and maintain a base in hostile territory. I don’t even know what that would look like.
Like Guantanamo?
Guantanamo isn’t the same geographically or even in terms of the enemy. Cuba is a hostile nation-state. The Taliban is a loose confederation of warlords united by hatred of the US and religious zealotry that barely has control over the country. One is on the coastline and pretty close to the US whereas the other is on the opposite end of the world. You could never guarantee the security of that base.
So all those SWAT teams will no longer wear any face coverings? Same with riot police? No face shields or gas masks?
If you’re expecting consistency you should probably look elsewhere.
Newsom may be a retard, but you can’t be wrong all the time.
I’ve been waylaid by a Mexican/Arab/Redneck wedding followed by a day off wine tasting. I need a nap.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it is just one move in Trumpβs βunconstitutional plan to silence its critics and control what the American people watch and read.β
I’m not sure why the Pentagon would be any different than other military installations. Your average Joe can’t just walk onto a Naval Air Station and start poking around the F/A-18s, why should he be able to stroll into the DoD head offices and troll for leaks?
βThis is not anything against SpaceX β they have done incredible things,β said Douglas Loverro, who served as the head of NASAβs human spaceflight division early in Mr. Trumpβs first term. βBut the further you move from known technology, the longer it takes to go ahead and get something done.β
Aaaaaand done.
Yeah. Most sour grapes article I have read in a while.
Just stick with candles. This light bulb idea is getting too far away from known technology, and it’s going to take too long to get anything done.
Horses are good enough. Automobiles diverge greatly from known technology. What a gigantic waste of time.
There’s no need for an Internet. Just stick with the known technology of mail, telephones, and fax machines. It will take forever to get something done.
Well, SpaceX has prevented any other company from putting together a moon landing program.
Somehow.
To call Kamala an empty suit would be an insult to Barack Obama.
Well reportedly she got $20 mil advance on her book to stuff in her suit.
So, $20 mil, same as down town?
A River Runs Through It
Three Days of the Condor
All the Presidents Men
Brubaker
Honorable mentions:
Spy Game
A Bridge Too Far
Legal Eagles
Milagro Beanfield War
Sneakers
WTF?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
“If he’d just pay me what he’s spending to keep me from robbing him, I’d stop robbing him.”
Not delivered by Redford, but one of the all time great movie lines.
Not a fan. Butch Cassidy suffers from that 70’s crap version of filmmaking that’s as distinctive as Technicolor.
Released in 1969, but yeah, there’s a distinctive style from that era that has pointless zooms and pans.
And the “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” scene brings the film to a screeching halt.
Yep, I still like the movie, but that song really crapped it up.
The Candidate
Also, no love for The Sting, I guess? I recall finding the plot confusing, but I was just a kid. π€·πΌββοΈ
It’s dawning on me that I’ve never seen anything he was in and/or have no memory of the one or two that I did.
Barefoot in the Park eventually, if you like early Neil Simon.
NOT The Way We Were.
And I always think of him as Gatsby. To hell with that DiCaprio abomination.
Nice, you found one I remember enjoying.
I played the mother in high school. “More stairs?!”
And it took a whole movie to find out he was Gatz.
Ordinary People! If that counts.
If you can’t relate to it, consider yourself fortunate.
Watched βHopscotchβ last night with Walter Matthau. Recommend.
That was one of my dad’s favorite movies. Mine, too. Walter Matthau was great in everything he did. Have you seen The Fortune Cookie?
Noted. The night make take a 180Β° turn to “fuck Redford” and stay with the Matthau theme.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (the original) is great, as are Charlie Varrick and Charade.
Charade is wonderful. What could be a better combination than Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn? Oh, yeah – Matthau’s good too.
Don’t forget George Kennedy.
An all-time favorite.
Agreed about Matthau.
* pops in blu-ray, gets error message on “all-region” player that doesn’t actually play all regions, curses violently *
“[Robert Shaw] has a heavy English accent – he could be a fruitcake.”
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Agreed. Hopscotch is a delight.
“I want him to ask us to stay.”
Ugh WW3 is so retarded.
What exactly is the motivation here? Does he think he can team up with China and take out NATO?
Yes.
My guess is the retards running the EU want a hot war for some reason. And they will gin one up whatever it takes.
What is ICE afraid of?
Getting shot by democrat thugs.
https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/1969528216059855042
Still on the fence on this one.
But I will support Gavin’s bill if Antifa also gives up their masks.
I’m embracing the power of and.
Gov. agents should not wear masks, antifa needs to be put in the ground, and Newsome’s a dumb twunt.
I find masks repulsive, but they are free speech.
ICE is a federal agency. I dont think a state can dictate their uniform any more than Gavin could write California-specific items in AR670-1 for soldiers at Ft Ord.
(Or whatever its called now)
“They are blind, and they can’t fight, they want war”
I’m going to have to listen to some U.D.O.
The song is about youths, but it fits Eurotard politicians.
Watching the news here…the dems seem to be getting into more and more of a panic. They are losing their grip noticeably by the day. People are really sick of their shit. I see Omar is likely to get stripped of her committee seats. Their party is a cornered and wounded animal….that is dangerous. Still it has to be dealt with.
Thankfully this time Trump knows the enemy is in the house, and while that’s still a threat, there are not people near the top like Millie.
They could go more and more radical, or some more moderate elements could realize the ship is sinking because of the radical bullshit and try to purge those elements.
While my preferred outcome is for Murray Rothbard’s vengeful ghost to wipe away all levels of government and usher in Ancap Utopia, I’ll take that latter situation over the former.
That purge needs to happen. The problem is they don’t have any good leaders. Who’s going to initiate that purge, Newsom? AOC? Pelosi?
A superficial assay reveals that the average pol is composed of an alloy of 50% two-bit grifter and 50% coward.
They wont purge the radicals. They will jump ship.
The party is dead. The more radical of the radicals are doubling down.
Kimmel got yanked early because apparently he was planning on doubling down on the MAGA shooter bit and I just heard some congresscritter on the TV do just that.
“Whoβs going to initiate that purge, Newsom? AOC? Pelosi?”
Those are the ones that need purging.
Animals are most dangerous when cornered. The violence is just starting.
Kamala’s book might be worth reading:
https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/1969192673631486030
The Kamala campaign was transparently a bunch of criminals grabbing slices of that 2 billion or whatever dollars was the campaign coffers. Ostensibly it was to get her elected but each individual was only there to get slices of that pie. How much did they steal to ‘study why they hate us’?
“Let’s reach out to the men we have been cursing and belittling. How can we do that? Let’s get Creepy Tampon Timmy to make the pitch”
They are a criminal cartel composed of grifters, top to bottom so they behaved accordingly.
Too bad the country got wise to the shenanigans that delivered 2020 to Joe, otherwise Kamala was the perfect empty vessel to keep the charade going for another 4 years.
Harris, cankerous and cackling, should cast herself as the *true* victim in all of this. Here she was, an innocent, black -Asian woman, called into the DEI fray cuz Biden just *needed* someone of her righteous, multi-shaded origin! She didn’t *want* to, but she felt The Team’s desperation and rose to the challenge! *THEN* when the idiotic DNC kept pushing addled Slow Joe until he showed at the debate he was the corpse-puppet he is!
‘PUSHED INTO THIS NIGHTMARE AGAINST MY WILL, I pushed on for the Party like the brave warrior and leader I am. Everyone knows no soldier goes half-staff when *I’M* in charge. But I was abandoned and had to forge ahead on my own with that slightly less faggy Tim. Fucking Dems *owe* me. Until then. Fuck it. Burn, bastards, burn.’
I’d at least appreciate that, in a Lib-eat-Lib world. Ugh, ya know she’s a really talented whore. Absolutely gifted at pleasing in bed, with honed displays of sexy ‘care’ hiding the absolute void behind her words and affections. I wonder if she has a real laugh. Her fake one is worse than Seinfeld’s gf who sounded like Elmer Fudd on a juicer.
The Russians will always be able to scrounge up enough warm bodies to keep the war going. Ukraine, not so much.
We gave Hydra rockets to Ukraine. Those would be best mounted on technicals for use as mobile artillery, but I don’t think it ever happened.
Rocket artillery jeeps are cool. Straight up GI Joe stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophXDJ1OkAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HrtKoHsIf8
Ah, the Sherman rocket tank – a single tank had the same power as 15 batteries of 105 mm howitzers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwAGKHA5EY
[chef’s kiss]
I’ve really tried to understand what the imagined endgame is for the “support Ukraine at all costs” crowd.
Their version of “supporting Ukraine” is hurtling towards a situation where Ukrainians don’t exist anymore.
With so much duplicity from both sides, I think the only realistic path to non-violence and stability is to achieve and maintain a Korea-style frozen conflict for several generations until nobody really feels very strongly about the lost territories and there is no desire to fight over them. There were better deals on the table many times, including deals very early on that would have resulted in no territorial losses at all for Ukraine. But NATO and the West killed those deals and pushed for war, so here we are.
Defund NASA. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of their budget goes to transing kids. Because equity.
I’d like to see journolismists and Pentagon officials get in pro wrestling style matches over access. Loser gets thrown out of the building.
Maybe hitting each other in the head with metal chairs would knock some sense into them.
fun fact: The Pentagon has its shape because of the plot of land originally bought for its construction. It was too late to change the design even after they bought up more parcels of land.
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The site first chosen was Arlington Farms, which had an asymmetric, roughly pentagonal shape, so the building was planned accordingly as an irregular pentagon.[24] Concerned that the new building could obstruct the view of Washington, D.C., from Arlington Cemetery, President Roosevelt selected the Hoover Airport site instead.[25] The building retained the pentagonal layout because Roosevelt liked it and a major redesign at that stage would have been costly. Freed of the constraints of the Arlington Farms site, the building was modified as a regular pentagon. It resembled star forts constructed during the gunpowder age.[26]
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Highlandcore – it’s a musical style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFoiOHCh64
I dunno WTF “greyzone” is supposed to mean but does anybody actually believe this bullshit?
Not surprised. Countries bogged down in one war that has dragged on much longer than expected, depleted their strategic reserves, and is chewing up their manpower, generally look to start another, much bigger war. For reasons.
I could see Russia getting Belarus to send a bunch of third world people over the border to Poland. That already happened once back in 2021.
Definitely plausible.
I have been emailing my best friend from high school. We hadn’t talked in 35 years. We’ve been discussing the concerts we went to together, and which ones we’ve seen since.
I forgot to tell her about UB40. That was in the 90’s. They had like a dozen people on stage, all of them were having a blast. (As were the audience). During one song that singer was doing backup vocals, and he was off to one side of the stage alternating between singing a line and taking a drag off a cigarette.
I feel like kind of a jerk for this, but I don’t really go out of my way to talk to any people from high school. Only me and one other member of our little group (the one I’ve stayed close with) are holding down regular jobs, trying to make at least half-intelligent financial choices most of the time, avoiding drugs, and staying out of trouble with the law. We sort of dropped out of touch with the rest of them because they were always getting evicted from apartments, losing cell service due to nonpayment, and occasionally going to jail, so we never knew where to find them.
I’m always remembering that quote about turning into the people you spend the most time with.
Other than – once or twice – one guy I didn’t even graduate with, I never talked to anyone from HS ever again. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
There are only two I have as more then “check the box friends” on FB, and even those are maybe email once a year.
I ran into a few people in passing, but I never kept in touch with anyone either. We’re having a 35th reunion next month, and someone from “my crowd” is organizing it which got me interested. The organizer very respectfully offered to put me in touch with my old bestie (she and I had a falling out right before graduation). It’s been fun emailing. We both have normal jobs and normal lives, but there have been some interesting parallels. Turns out we were at the same Smashing Pumpkins concert in 1993.
A chick I barely knew (I did not graduate with the same kids I went through most of JHS and HS with because I lost a year in Europe) got me sort-of running the whatever they call it club of alumni for a bit, a couple decades ago. It didn’t take.
I actually enjoyed HS but I wasn’t terribly close with anyone, not like college.
Sounds like fun though I never really cared for them.
“Bad things will happen”
Adam Schiff will throw another temper tantrum?
Mike’s flip flop will get cut in half, and Greg will almost drown during a surfing competition.
Don Ho cameo for the win…
Tiny bubbles…
Ukraine’s Drones Are Dropping TM-62 Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsf5yuEHDY
Haven’t listened to UB40 in years. I’m going to have to dig the CDs out tonight.
“Three killed in massive attack.”
There seem to be a lot of headlines like this. The Russians don’t seem to be all that efficient at killing people.
Need targeting lessons from IDF. Their attacks kill scores, mostly women and children…according to Hamas authorities.
Are they touring again ?
Went to a fancy cat show and costume contest, then toured downtown Granbury, TX and saw these awesome yet raycist alien statues. I told them it was flattering how thin they made me, but itβs kind of in bad taste like a lawn jockey. They would not give me a discount so I had to leave them.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_2606-scaled.jpeg
That was far less sexy than I’d hoped.
Right? I am a sensuous Brussels Sprout and they made me a scrawny dude with a nutsack for a head! Itβs insulting!
And they made you naked too. Wow.
Naked like a Ken Doll too! Jeez!
“Smooth as a fresh jar of Skippy.”
Some dipshit has been running up and down the road WFO on his uncorked motorcycle. It didn’t sound so hot on the last pass. With any luck the piston seized.
Some jacktard does that on our street from time to time. Gotta fight the temptation to “accidentally” leave a piano wire stretched across the street at neck height, Wile E. Coyote style.
I’ll help you measure for the correct height.
This is cool: The Non-Delegation Project is using AI to find regulations passed by unelected bureaucrats:
https://nondelegationproject.org/
Finally, a good use for AI.
(That, and hilarious toilet humor songs)
I’m sharing that with many people.
One more good reason to donate to PLF.
βBad Thingsβ was a pretty crappy movie.
Very Bad Things, on the other hand, was black as pitch and hilarious.
That was a fun one.
Is that what you kids are calling sex these days?
Watched The Fortune Cookie. Meh. Took too long.
Next will either be Charade or Pelham 123.
On it.
This movie is convincing me that I made the right decision to get out of that shithole after 25 years.
Is the more recent Tony Scott version worth it?
Both remakes are completely forgettable.
It was great for a recent college graduate interested in partying a lot and unconcerned about the practicalities of daily life.
I can’t imagine why anyone stays there after that.
Livability peaked in the early aughts and nosedived after that. I would have to be independently wealthy to even consider living there again.
I don’t know how the few middle class people they haven’t driven out yet manage.
They’re in The Bronx and Queens ?
I lived 23 of 25 years in Queens or Brooklyn. It’s a challenge in any part of that city unless you’re a dependent of the state.
Tony Scott made some good to great (True Romance is an all time favorite) movies. The Taking of Pelham 123 was not one of them.
The Odd Couple was on last night. “I told you 158 times I can’t stand little notes on my pillow. ‘We’re all out of cornflakes. F.U.’ Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!”
Thats what got Jugsy interested. She’d never seen the sitcom version, and only knew Matthau and Lemmon from Grumpy Old Men.
She laughed all through it.
Movie trivia- Father Mulcahy has a brief appearance in The Fortune Cookie as a doctor.
Pelham 123 is seriously dope movie.
“My concern is for the taypayers!”
Said no NYC official after ’75 or so, or more likely ever.
This movie is more comedy than I remember.
Oh, the tax cattle are definitely on their minds, have no doubt.
“What chance does one lousy cop have especially if it’s a dame?”
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Zooming tonight?
Don’t Think Twice – Billy Strings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-T2qTLF6o
Very nice.
Dedicated to my ex-wife.
/though I doubt she would get it.
Get back from dinner with a couple glibs to find the zoom is already empty, sheesh.
Dish!
Met up with MikeS and Ron here the night before Honey Harvest
I don’t eny your hangover…
I didn’t know MikeS still walks among us.
I can go in there and First. That will bring them back and teach them a valuable lesson.
That being that I’m First.
I’m watching a months old episode of Bill Maher. Gavin Newsom is the interview. Newsom is such a slimy politician. It’s obvious why he rose so far so fast in California. I am counting on the rest of America to see this guy for what he is in the next election.
“I am counting on the rest of America to see this guy for what he is in the next election.”
I am seeing that etched in stone in an ozymandias-like setting
The problem is half of America sees him (or whoever the ultimate Dem candidate is) as their knight for slaying the Trump dragon.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen St. Elmo’s Fire before.
It’s terrible but what a cast – and damn, I want a cigarette like with any eighties movie – but it’s obvious that John Hughes would have made a better movie with this talent than that hack Joel Schumacher.
You know you are old when you find coming-of-age movies tiresome. I am old.
lol I love a coming-of-age movie. Just not this one – it’s remarkable for being so awful but with such a stellar cast. And they’re all pretty and smoking cigarettes goddammit.
But I’m happy to see a rare appearance (for me) from this chick who starred in one of my all-time favorite movies and married her co-star 35 years later. What a love story. π
And I’m not getting why she is wearing some sort of fat-suit here and trying to date Rob Lowe… none of this makes any sense. What a train wreck.
She better be using the line “Talk to me, Goose” around the house.
I’ve mentioned my ignorance of that movie before and I don’t give a crap given that Miracle Mile is like 1000x superior.
https://youtu.be/dx7vNdAb5e4
Yeah, that crap instead of New Order or the Smiths or whatever that John Hughes would have brought to the table.
Watching Run Silent, Run Deep again. Another one I can watch over and over again. Can’t believe Robert Wise directed Star Trek The Motion Picture as a bomb after his stellar career.
Hopefully another Sunday keeps the churched in and away. Yesterday was remarkably chill. Outloud thought with crew: Back to school is likely causing the slowdown we’ve seen the last couple weekends. Fantastic news, for me.
*crosses fingers to be paired with a certain colleague today* Other than that charm, on to a delightful and productive day for me, you and yours. Crack to it, layabouts.
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https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/reading-area/pickup-truck-crashes-into-house-in-exeter-township/article_e11066b1-e3b1-4a90-a090-6aa4a4ceb051.html
We need to designate pick up truck drivers as terrorists.
https://news.yahoo.com/articles/shots-fired-abc-affiliate-sacramento-223927582.html
More crazy ass old people.
MAGA, obvs.
With Indiana guns.
And as for movie viewing, I most recently watched Red Sonja.
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Mornin’ all!
Laundry day again ;-\
Good morning, Beau, Sean, homey, Ted’S., ChipP, and EfE!
Good morning!
How’s it going up north, ChipP? Last night my hubby said he’d read that the prairie provinces (except coastal BC) are ready to bail.
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inorite? I’m sure I did that last week.
Apparently the new spin is “Jimmy Kimmel is dividing those evil Republicans”.
Jimmy Kimmel is a piece of shit.
He is not a martyr for free speech. He lost his job because his employer decided his schtick was bad for business.
I get a registration wall that I can’t get around.