The "Bourne Yesterday" Legacy

Matt Damon ought to stick to fiction. Other people's fiction.

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[Janet]

Matt Damon’s troubled anti-frack film By PHELIM MCALEER

a good article on the anti-fracking movement & some of the propaganda.

[squaredance]

It's The Bourne Pontification, silly, and it is the sequel to "The Green Zone".

[Lappy Jones]

If bubba thinks Obama did the best possible job with the economy he inherited, someone should follow up and ask bubba if he or Hillary could have done better.

P.S. Is Shemp Smith from Fox News the same Shemp from the Stooges (the three stooges, not iggy and the)

[Jim,MtnViewCA,USA]

Thought of DrJ when I read this week's SANS computer security email...."be careful".

--Adobe Revoking Compromised Code-Signing Certificate (September 27, 2012) Adobe is revoking a cryptographic key that has been compromised by attackers to authenticate malware. The hackers managed to gain access to a build server used to develop Adobe software that in turn had access to the Adobe code-signing infrastructure. A forensic investigation determined that the attackers managed to use their access to sign two samples of malware. According to an Adobe blog post, the company is "proceeding with plans to revoke the certificate and publish updates for existing Adobe software signed using the impacted certificate."
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/adobe-to-revoke-crypto-key-abused-to-sign-5000-malware-apps/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57521794-83/adobe-to-revoke-code-signing-certificate/
https://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/09/inappropriate-use-of-adobe-code-signing-certificate.html

[Lappy Jones]

Matt Damon did some of his best work in "Team America: World Police". Unfortunately he thinks he is more like his genius character in good will hunting. Most of these actors have minimal education or smarts, but they believe there real experience is based on the characters they play on screen. Unfortunately, many Americans believe that as well.

[Lappy Jones]

Their not there. I majored in the arts or I blame it on spell check.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This little turd and his twin twit Decaprio, and the legion of dweebs and squirts they've spawned, would have been relegated to, at best, bit part punks in B movies in the Hollywood of yesteryear.

Goofy looking little shrimps without discernible talent, personality or even eccentricities to make them even slightly interesting ala Cagney, who was also a bit of a goofy looking shrimp but who had more talent, personality and eccentricities than an army of the mush-pated little polemicists who make it in the movies these days.

They're not even anti heroes; they have no charge at all, positive or negative.
Hollywood's current galaxy of stars is now made up almost entirely of neutrinos.

[hit and run]

Lappy:
If bubba thinks Obama did the best possible job with the economy he inherited, someone should follow up and ask bubba if he or Hillary could have done better.

He didn't say Obama did the best possible job.

He said:

"Listen to me, now. ::finger wag:: No president — no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years."

Clinton left himself room to say even he could have repaired only 95% of it -- without committing in the least to saying how much of it Obama repaired.

[rse]

Lesley U where his mom taught Elementary Ed IIRC is a major player in bringing back whole word sight reading. It's a political issue and he thus grew up around an environment of education as a political weapon. Deborah Meier who has comparable views to Maxine Greene even referred today to her colleague Mike Klonsky. That would be the Maoist himself. Another person I have seen her call a colleague is Damon's mom.

Let's just say he was raised to believe in democracy and social justice. And he loves to push Howard Zinn even apart from gwh. He probably doesn't know any better.

[jimmyk]

without committing in the least to saying how much of it Obama repaired.

Does that include the possibility of negative percentages?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

BTW Shemp Howard was actually a pretty talented comedian himself and had small parts in several great flicks including The Bank Dick and one or two of the Thin Man movies.
What I didn't know until today is Barney Frank is the son of Shemp's wife's cousin.
We all have our skeletons (this one unfortunately not in the closet) I suppose.

[Lappy Jones]

"Shemp Howard was actually a pretty talented comedian "

What's your opinion of Curly Joe DeRita's acting chops? Better, the same or worse than Curly Joe Biden's skills?

[pagar]

"to saying how much of it Obama repaired. "

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/28/leno-we-wasted-four-years-waiting-obama-do-something-about-economy#ixzz27mFlQpHQ

"I love how the politicians capitalize on this kind of thing," teased Leno."

Got it right!

[Sara]

esley U where his mom taught Elementary Ed IIRC is a major player in bringing back whole word sight reading.

Are they nuts? I thought teaching reading by rote went the way of the 8 track tape. I learned phonetically as did my son. His sister, 4 years younger, was caught in the rote and new math experiment. I discovered that as an 8th grader, she was borderline illiterate. We worked that entire Summer with flash cards and phonetics and I remember her saying, "reading is so much easier your way Mom."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--What's your opinion of Curly Joe DeRita's acting chops? Better, the same or worse than Curly Joe Biden's skills?

Posted by: Lappy Jones | September 28, 2012 at 05:31 PM --

Curley Joe's chops would have been better used in some large black kettle in the middle of the Congo somewhere.
With a side of fricasseed SlowJoe.

[Captain Hate]

Matt Damon did some of his best work in "Team America: World Police". Unfortunately he thinks he is more like his genius character in good will hunting. Most of these actors have minimal education or smarts, but they believe there real experience is based on the characters they play on screen. Unfortunately, many Americans believe that as well.

This. Matt Dumbass and his buddy Ben Affleck probably don't hit double digits when you sum their IQs. At least Ben was well cast as an idiot in Chasing Amy; it ruined the second half of the movie but that's at least partially due to fatassed Kevin Smith's inability to end films effectively.

[Frau Dingsda]

Speaking of show biz, we still don't know anything verifiable about the crazy(?) Coptic(?) cinematographer(?) who has caused *all* the trouble in the ME. He has more names than Mickey Rooney had wives. Three of the known ones:

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula
Sam Bacile
Mark Bacile Yousef

[Frau Dingsda]

Finally! Obama is hawking his carp right here on JOM. On the right margin, for $30, I can buy "Virginians for Obama," "Ohioans for Obama" but NO "Idiots for Obama." Censorship!

[There is a special madness.]

Pretty cool the way the perception changed about the anti-frakkers tactics, but the good guys and the bad guys remained the same.
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[Porchlight]

OT since it's Friday,

So I heard that Republicans are supposed to like Sam Adams beer and, being a good Republican, I bought some. It's the Whitewater IPA, which is supposed to be a cross between a wit or white ale (like Blue Moon or Hoegaarden) and an IPA.

Not too bad. But the slim bottle style is too small to fit in my Republican redneck koozies.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I can buy "Virginians for Obama," "Ohioans for Obama" but NO "Idiots for Obama." Censorship!

Posted by: Frau Dingsda | September 28, 2012 at 06:20 PM--

Careful Frau, your money might not being going to Barry.
I suspect fraud with that spelling of "Ohioans".

[hit and run]

I bought two cases of PBR.

I'm off the grid.

[peter]

I love craft beer, but somehow Sam Adams is not my favorite. Sort of a transitional beer, between the bland mass marketed and the more individualist craft beers. Hate Blue Moon; it's made by Coors and is not a craft beer. There are a few faux craft beers out there. If you are going to drink mass market beer, then just drink a Coors or Bud, don't buy fake with food coloring added to give you the impression that something was done specially.

[pagar]

"has caused *all* the trouble in the ME."

Presented as The real background:

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/counterterror-chiefs-company-linked-to-innocence-of-muslims-video/

" It would appear that some of the individuals and entities, including but not limited to high ranking members of both political parties, elected officials, and members of the intelligence community have some level of active or passive involvement in this and various past events of significance, but have adeptly maintained a plausibly deniable role by only slight degrees of separation."

plots, sub-plots, counter-plots, etc, what more could you want?

[Can you still get it?]

C'mon, can't beat Champale.
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[Captain Hate]

Sam Adams has some good beers but they're dangerously close to being too big to be really good at anything other than a few. For example, last year at about this time my buds and I got together to listen to music and drink Oktoberfests. Both Great Lakes Brewery and Shiner's of that type were better than Sam Adams. Don't get me wrong, there wasn't anything bad about the Sam Adams and I'd gladly have drank it instead of the macro crap of Bud, Miller, blah blah; it just wasn't very interesting compared to the others. Btw, at Beer Advocate the Sam Adams Whitewater (which they categorize as an American IPA) has almost the same numerical grade as the Oktoberfest.

[rse]

Porch-you will want to read today's in the LUN. Adult beverage will be helpful. Getting the story out is the only way to protect any of our kids still within this still ratcheting up template.

[Captain Hate]

peter beat me to it. Kim I haven't seen that in a long time; although I haven't looked for it either.

[Captain Hate]

rse, just looking at the headline gave me a headache.

[rse]

CH-we could turn this into our favorite Hefeweissens. That turned out to be a fun remark last time.

To this day they remind me of my honeymoon. Two weeks in Germany in October. I wanted to go to Europe and hubby wanted to see where Berlin Wall had been. What had been Checkpoint Charlie was still there with broken glass everywhere. I have written this before but Unter din Linden had a haunted feel after the wall came down and before any devt. You could still see remnants of WW2 bombings in the Museum facade.

[Porchlight]

I can be a beer snob or not, depending on my mood. Quite often an ice cold Lone Star or Modelo in a can is my brew of choice. I think Sam Adams does pretty well in the easy-to-find decent commercial beer department. Of course they're not going to compare to Joe Snob Microbrew from some craft brewery somewhere.

[hit and run]

peter:
Hate Blue Moon; it's made by Coors and is not a craft beer.

I used to work at a golf course owned by Coors (in Golden, CO!). So we got Blue Moon at cost. Cheap beer!!!1!11!!!

Somehow, I never warmed up to Blue Moon, to put it mildly.

Did I mention that I'm the guy that drinks High Life and PBR?

I don't even have any specific memory of Blue Moon and why I didn't like it. But then, I have the wurst palate in the world, so there's that.

[narciso]

How about that pagar, this story 're IoM, really is stranger than fiction, interesting about the power of myth, that bgates alluded to in the other thread, it was the Levick Group, which was contracted by those same emirates and satraps like were pointed out in the Atlas Shrug clips, to lobby white collar firms, like Covington, Shearman,
King & Spaulding, to present this 'narrative' to the likes of Rosenberg, Shane, Priest, et al,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Since CH is boycotting the NFL, let's hope the Bikini Basketball League gets started soon for his sake.
No word on whether they're going to allow any of that shorts pulling stuff the Globetrotters used to do.

[Porchlight]

rse,

Thanks for the link to your post. I can't pretend to understand the details, but my daughter failed the 4th grade STAAR reading assessment twice. Still don't know how she did on the actual test last year because they haven't normed it yet. We might find out in January.

I found school easy, but my daughter is different. It's all uncharted waters for us. I don't think my parents thought about it much. I wish parents of "gifted and talented" kids would count their blessings and not bitch so much about how their kids aren't challenged. Challenge them yourself, damn it.

[Frau Dingsda]

Iggy, don't kick the messanger:

Photoshop could do something with the fingers, don't you think?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Quite often an ice cold Lone Star....--

Have you ever told Mr. Porchlight when he came in from the road that Lone Star beer and Bob Wills music kept you alive since he's been gone? :)

[narciso]

This is Al Qua Qua, times eleven, of course they rarely pointed out this was the Iraq Aberdeen proving proving grounds

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/obama-administration-weve-lost-track-of-syrias-chemical-weapons/

[peter]

Since we have turned t his into a beer thread, I would also like to sa y that many craft beers are too gimmicky.

[Frau Dingsda]

rse, I hope you have watched Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three" with James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Pamela Tiffin, Liselotte Pulver and Horst Buchholz. You can watch it with or without the unusual, regional Berliner Weisse..

LUN movie trailer and worth waiting through the intro stuff. They don't make 'em like this any more.

[hit and run]

For Frau...

[Sara]

I found school easy, but my daughter is different. It's all uncharted waters for us. I don't think my parents thought about it much. I wish parents of "gifted and talented" kids would count their blessings and not bitch so much about how their kids aren't challenged. Challenge them yourself, damn it.

School was so easy for me and I loved it so, it never occurred to me that my kids were different or could have problems. Then I started getting calls about behavior problems with my son. Little did I know at the beginning that he was hyper-active and it was complicated by an undiagnosed vision problem. We got his vision corrected and by 4th grade he seemed to be back on track, but if it hadn't been for his desire to stay eligible for sports with at least a B average, I doubt he would have graduated. My daughter, as noted above, was nearly illiterate when she graduated from 8th grade and I didn't realize it. Busy working Mom assuming no news is good news. We worked hours a day through the whole Summer and by the time she started high school, she was able to keep up.

In my opinion, the school just made managing the situations worse. First, they write kids off very early and those kids fall thru the cracks. Second, they do not really let parents know the problems the kids are exhibiting. My son's problem was relatively easy to correct with corrective lenses, but they wrote it off to a bad home life because his father was deployed so often and for such long stretches. Calling his jittery behavior acting out for attention when in reality, he was seeing everything as a double exposure and was constantly readjusting his position to try to bring things into focus. Teachers were telling me he was incorrigible and would never succeed and his coaches were telling me he was the star, the go-to guy, the most knowledgeable on the team, and had the patience to work with those less skilled and they wished they had a whole team just like him. It was like Jekyll and Hyde. My daughter was such a girly girl through and through, I never felt like I could relate that well as I was far more a tom boy growing up. Now she is the risk taker, nothing girly girl about her as she jumps on her Harley and rides down to the Keys or spends the weekend skydiving. I really don't relate to those activities. But, I got them graduated and both went on to college, my son, typically, in fits and spurts finally getting his degree at almost 40, my daughter coasting through in the theater and arts dept. and then ending up in school administration, the last place I would have ever expected for her.

[narciso]

One is reminded of this example;

http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/04/king-spalding-says-yes-to-gitmo-detainees-no-to-congress/

[Neo]

Matt Damon works for "Big foreign Oil" ?? No way !!

Call a snollygoster a snollygoster when they are a snollygoster.

[Captain Hate]

rse, one of my listening buds (and former neighbor) is from Germany close to the Swiss border. He claims that micros in the US are better than German beers now. One of my favorite email correspondents is a guy with Cuban parents who lives in Berlin. He's probably the most intelligent lib I've ever interacted with; I call him the little commie son I never had. He's very open minded; in fact I'm pretty sure he likes Palin.

I loved the spontaneity with which the Berlin Wall fell; completely bloodless despite all the dire warnings. If there was one thing I'd have liked to have been to in my lifetime, I think that's it. I loved the jazz (for lack of a better term) that came out of divided Berlin when the wall was up. Although it was never stated as an underlying motif, it was a primal scream bitching about a country being divided. That asshole Ken Burns was completely missing that as he did his dipshit PBS sociology story about the obvious racial aspects of the music in the US when a much more contemporary story happened right in front of his Helen Keller eyes and ears.

[bgates]

It's been three hours of beer thread, and nobody has mentioned that squaredance made a joke. How 'bout a little positive reinforcement, guys?

[narciso]

They are still whispering 'look squirrel' in many places.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2012/09/28/abc-reports-obama-administration-knew-terrorists-carried-out-libya-at

[hit and run]

squaredance has always been my favorite.

[rse]

Porch-I will be more than happy to walk you through every detail you could possibly want. I have it. The important thing to know about the STAAR is that it has shifted to beung like NAEP and PISA. It is not a test of knowledge and the very questions are messing a bit with you head.

And I have the reading curriculum/tasks being used in Austin. If you want you can sip on you beverage of choice and so will I until you know what you think you need to know. Anytime you are ready.

[Captain Hate]

Yes thumbs up to squaredance. Btw squaredance, I'm interested; what totalitarian country do you come from. If you're from one of the central or eastern european socialist paradises, I'll have to apologize, at least somewhat.

[Captain Hate]

Btw, like clockwork, now that Romney released his tax records, the JEF's campaign ads harp on him only paying a 14% rate. Class envy, is there anything it can't overlook? Also they're using the edited 47% comments as well. Classy bunch, no?

[pagar]

Narciso, I still think there is something that we don't know about that whole passport access story in 2008.
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rse, I don't see how you study that education topic all day everyday. Just reading your blog pieces wears me out.
Thanks for all you do.

[Porchlight]

Ignatz, I haven't told Mr. Porch that. But it looks like maybe I should. ;)

rse, of course I'd love to hear. Can I reach you through your blog? I'm also on FB via many of the lovely people here.

[hit and run]

bgates:
three hours of beer

It just took my breath away to think anyone's been nursing one beer for three hours.

::reaches for fainting couch::

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I would like to note I praised squaredance highly a day or two ago without prompting.

I should probably also note I predicted he'd be an ass in short order, also without prompting, which prediction was not fulfilled.

[Porchlight]

Ken Burns is a dipsh*t of the highest order. He also nearly entirely missed the Jewish/klezmer influence on jazz. Any moron can hear it in the 20s and 30s especially. It's like that stupid saying 'the blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.' No, fools, it was the blues and HILLBILLY and GOSPEL. Any idiot with any sense can hear that. Even the Rolling Stones had more clue.

[hit and run]

CH:
now that Romney released his tax records, the JEF's campaign ads harp on him only paying a 14% rate. Class envy, is there anything it can't overlook? Also they're using

Saw the same ad (I think).

After decrying Romney's 47% comment -- which was about those not paying income tax -- the ad whines and whines about all the payroll tax and state and local taxes people make before harping on Romney's 14% tax rate.

That 14% they're harping on is not inclusive of Romney's overall tax burden . . . right?

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Obama has stopped (personally) some purchase by a Chinese company something having to do with windfarms.

Anyone know anything about it?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ignatz, I haven't told Mr. Porch that. But it looks like maybe I should. ;)--

I take that ";)" to mean you knew I was referring to old Red Steagall tune. :)

[hit and run]

Jane:
Anyone know anything about it?

You could give something . . . anything . . . about where you came up with that.

Fox broadcast? A link somewhere? Someone said something in a salon? Or bar?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--That 14% they're harping on is not inclusive of Romney's overall tax burden . . . right?

Posted by: hit and run | September 28, 2012 at 08:08 PM--

I thought it was but regardless it's on investment income which principle he already paid taxes on when he earned it so God knows how high the actual rate is.

[narciso]

It's very odd, pagar, specially with the Brennan connection, but thisnew story gets stranger, the parallel is and it's a bit of a reach, with the roots of the Protocols, conjured up by the Russian
Okrana, but thanks to a loathsome character, that Eco, illustrated in 'the Prague Cementery' a very distasteful subject

[centralcal]

Frau: When I was young (long ago, far away), I liked all the "oldie" black and white movies of my mother's generation. There was a character actress who I just adored. She was so damned ditzy and she had the most wonderful name. Zazu Pitts.

Growing up, going to work, whenever co-workers were in a gossipy mood and some air-head female was the topic, I would usually say something like, "yeah, she's a real Zazu Pitts." Eyes would blank, eyebrows would raise, mouth corners would instinctively turn up (hey, the name always gets 'em). WHO? They would say.

I would remain inscrutable and just smile and walk away.

[Captain Hate]

Well of course, Porch; it didn't fit the narrative. I also hated how he acted like the music form ended in the late 60s and became a museum piece. There's still plenty of good music played in the clubs where Kenny boy wouldn't think of going. And in Europe.

Btw, one of the most effective other sides of the coin was in John Sayle's "Matewan" where he illustrated, almost in an "oh btw" manner, how what became bluegrass was an amalgamation of the music of multiple cultures.

[Frau Dingsda]

Hit, I would love to watch as you make your magic with photoshop. That was everything a maiden gal could wish for.
Now, is Iggy still going to razz the messenger for the "Ohioans"? I saw no "Ahians for Obama" 'cause there ain't none.

[Neo]

Michael Yon reports:

We have received orders that clearly state that all CF will no longer be allowed to drop air to ground munitions within the country of Afghanistan.

Why does Obama keep any troops there ?

[hit and run]

Ig:
I thought it was but regardless

Yeah. My apples to Granny Smiths comparison point is -- he's paying taxes on that derned car-elevator house he's building that's not accounted for in that 14%.

And all the other local/county/state taxes he's paying that the Obama ad was attributing to the "47%" but not giving him credit for.

Heck, Romney might single-handedly be keeping California stay afloat right now.

More car elevators!

[hit and run]

Frau:
I would love to watch as you make your magic with photoshop. That was everything a maiden gal could wish for.

::smooches:: I put it on my blog crediting you for the inspiration.

Stupic flickr. I've reached my limit for the free account. I ain't paying, I have to come up with a contingency plan.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Now, is Iggy still going to razz the messenger for the "Ohioans"?--

I wasn't razzing you Frau.
I said it couldn't be an actual site for Barry because if it was it would have been written "Oihoans" like he spelled it.

[narciso]

Now, that's a naive response on her response, not because it isn't true;

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/28/kirsten-powers-more-americans-will-be-put-in-danger-if-the-media-doesnt-start-challenging-the-white-house-on-libya/

[Sara]

Romney's AVERAGE rate over the last 20 years has been 20.2%. This includes his years that were primarily investment and a few years where he was working with a salary at the high rates.

I don't think he has had anything other than dividend and investment income since 1999. He took no salary at the Olympics or as Governor.

[PaulL]

Obama - The College Years. video LUN

[Sara]

I posted this in the other thread alittle while ago, but I want Jane to see it.

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41 Million Tea Party Supporters Set to Vote

The Tea Party is regularly ridiculed and declared "dead" by the mainstream press and their elitist allies in Washington and Hollywood. Not surprisingly, when Tea Partiers show up and rally by the thousands, they get all but ignored, while 30 Occupy Wall Street crazies in masks will always get wall-to-wall coverage and admiration. TV shows and movies take cheap shots at Tea Party conservatives, often linking them to murder-of-the-week cases on insipid crime procedurals or dismissing them as “birthers.” But a new Associated Press poll shows tea party supporters may have the last laugh in November.

The AP/GFK poll shows that 31% of likely voters consider themselves Tea Party supporters. With 131 million votes cast in the 2008 elections, that translates into an incredible voting bloc of 41 million Tea Party supporters waiting to cast ballots. These voters have already made their voices heard in Wisconsin earlier this year, as well as in Republican primaries in Texas and Nebraska.

That 31% of likely voters figure is greater than the 19% who described themselves as either strongly or somewhat liberal. Surprisingly, liberals have escaped media characterization as being a small, fringe-like group with little power or influence. At 19% of likely voters, self-described liberals would have a turnout of 25 million voters, some 16 million fewer voters than the Tea Party. (More)

[Dave (in MA)]

Sam Adams Boston Lager would be my "session beer", if I had a session beer, but right now,

one of these is currently being enjoyed. It's made about a mile from here. "Black Hops", a pale ale with roasted malt.

[narciso]

You know it's like fracking the raw unrefined crazy over there;

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/09/28/msnbcs-harris-perry-crusades-against-voter-suppression-transgender-ameri

[hit and run]

I had a session.

[Frau Dingsda]

Make that 41 million and one, Sara. I've never been contacted, and I shall will be counted.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Hit,

It was breaking news on Kudlow.

[Frau Bitte, ein Bit!]

Of course they're not going to compare to Joe Snob Microbrew from some craft brewery somewhere.

Like this, Porch?

[hit and run]

Clint had a session:

click it

[Porchlight]

Btw, one of the most effective other sides of the coin was in John Sayle's "Matewan" where he illustrated, almost in an "oh btw" manner, how what became bluegrass was an amalgamation of the music of multiple cultures.

Interesting point, Cap'n, but Sayles (whose work I have loved) got other things wrong in Matewan. For example when the mountain people were eyeing the Italian immigrants and their polenta suspiciously. I guess that was supposed to represent white xenophobia or something. But at that time Americans had been living on cornmeal mush at least since colonial times. Another lefty cultural assumption bites the dust.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Sara,

That's why I think 2012 will look more like 2010 THAN 2008.

[hit and run]

Jane:
It was breaking news on Kudlow.

Thanks, Jane.

[Frau Bitte, ein Bit!]

narciso, if transgenders get to vote twice, I'm going to shout, "Foul!"

[Dave (in MA)]

I had a session.

Heh

[Porchlight]

Oh gross, Frau! Please tell me that isn't for sale somewhere...

[narciso]

Yes, Sayles, had a Gravity's Rainbow size tome, out this spring, in conjunction with some film about the Phillipine war, that was supposed to evoke Iraq;

Note how they write a story in the passive tense, to obscure the truth;

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-intel-20120929,0,7188365.story

[Porchlight]

I take that ";)" to mean you knew I was referring to old Red Steagall tune. :)

Now I am officially out of my depth. The answer, I am afraid, is no. ;)

[Threadkiller]

If Hit still has the picture of my chair having a session, I hereby grant permission to post it.

[pagar]

Jane, This may be the story.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-usa-china-turbines-idUSBRE88R19220120928

[narciso]

Oh, that was last year, did I say Gravity's Rainbow, more like War and Piece length;

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/up-front-john-sayles.html?_r=0

[Jim Eagle]

Back from a round of golf with our new Pastor. Great young priest - spent 9 years in college and seminary - same as doctorate in theology. 10 years as a priest so far and just joined our parish. Loves to eat, have a few and can tell more "A priest, a rabbi...." Jokes I have never heard. Fun round.

Now to beer: There is no beer in the world I would rather drink (in fact the only beer I drink) than Belgian beer. There are over 600 different beers in Belgium and each of them come with their own special glass. My favorite is Morte Subite (Sudden Death). There is a famous bar in Brussels of the same name where you can get over 100 of those beers on tap. But my overall favorite Belgian beer is Chima (Blue label). My wife prefers a blond like Hoogarten in the summer or a Duvel which is an Antwerp beer or the even more popular, pedestrian Antwerp beer de Koninick which if you really want to impress the locals is to order it as a bolleke.

/It comes it a glass shaped like a small bowl with a stem.

[hit and run]

TK:
If Hit still has the picture of my chair having a session, I hereby grant permission to post it.

What's with the "if"?

[Stephanie]

Sweetwater Ale or Fat Tire, TYVM.

Our country club has a 'beer club' that samples different microbreweries. Four new beers/ales every month to try. Some are outstanding; some are awful. They had one that was some pumpkin/blueberry concoction last year (at least I think it was, it was fruity and nutmeggy) and gross. Only really big miss, so far.

[Threadkiller]

It was tough throwing that chair away...

[Dave (in MA)]

JiB, my wife always buys me Gulden Draak for Christmas. It's too expensive to buy on a regular basis.

[hit and run]

JiB:
or a Duvel which is an Antwerp beer or the even more popular

Duvel (regular golden, which is all we get) is a favorite here.

[narciso]

A blistering 'fileting' of the nearly three weeks of lies

http://www.therightscoop.com/special-report-details-an-up-to-date-extensive-time-line-of-events-from-the-benghazi-attack-to-now/

[Jim Eagle]

That's Chimay and you can get it most places here in America. Give it a try - Blue, Red or Brown. But be careful - over 6% in alcohol. Rubber legs is a symptom.

[hit and run]

TK:
It was tough throwing that chair away...

I feel ya.

And just days before Eastwooding was born?