The docs were afraid of the new Texas anti-abortion law, and so refused or delayed D&Cs or other abortion-like treatments for women whose pregnancies were going seriously wrong.
I assume the TX medical board, like all of them, is captured by leftists. So they're telling these docs they should have civilly-disobediently done the procedures and become martyrs for the Party, I guess.
Or maybe the Board is actually run by real doctors, and they recognized these docs were making their patients into the aforementioned martyrs, so they're disciplining them for their malicious compliance?
Not exactly caught between a rock and a hard place - a rock and an un-comfy place? CC, JSM
A woman has six weeks to abort her child or later with medical consensus in self-defense.
Meanwhile, Trump ended the second Iraq war during his first term and now the American-Abrahamic alliance stands to abort a progressive conflict in the Middle East. He already settled a conflict between India and Pakistan, and the first president in a long time to include Africa. Mazel tov.
So the violent thug who forcefully shoved the reporter Ms. Hernandez from behind when she wasn't looking says he and his family are not violent. Using his logic if someone was to walk up to him a sucker punch him in his butt ugly face, that could not be classified as violent. I wonder what his definition of violent is?
Below is how my grade school classmate, John Zak, died. He and his wife have a large family; some are adopted. John was a Roman Catholic deacon. Martin Zak is mentally ill and was in treatment.
OWH, “ Martin Zak then left. Still not having seen her husband, Mary Zak called police shortly after 11:30 p.m. to report a missing person.
Police discovered John Zak’s body in pieces. His torso was in a tote underneath the house’s front porch. His head and arms were in a trash bag in the home’s furnished attic. His blood-soaked clothing was found in another trash bag. Police also found blood on the interior of the storm door leading to the kitchen, kitchen cabinets and the basement. Cleveland said they also found bloodstains in Mary’s car that allegedly were left by Martin that morning when she dropped him off at the QuikTrip.”
The Texas pro-life law is pro-woman and child. The doctors have to be competent and reject liberal pedagogy that seeks to socially distance mother and child through religious indulgence of technical terms-of-art. They must be capable of determining when a mother's life is threatened and strive to save both lives with unPlanned parenthood as the goal, not the exception.
Oh no "pallets full of cash" to IRAN. $20 BILLION. (they already made a fortune selling their oil and charging tolls since trump invaded) Weren't we told ONLY OBAMA made cardinal sin and gave IRAN their own money "you know pallets full of cash? WTF THE STRAIGHTS AREN'T REALLY OPEN,DO THE HOMEWORK,,, Iran turning over nuclear material...BULLCRAP that aint happening...TBC.....making sh%$ up...
Tried to get through "Ministry of Fear" (1944) a film noir classic. Usually i love film noir and old-fashioned Hitchockian style fims. But MOF felt very long even at 90-100 minutes. Partly its Ray Milland who was always a bland leading man. But its also because the DIrection. Fritz lang is no Hitchcock. And it makes you appreciate Hitchcock's genius.
Other problems - Greene's novel has to be americanized and we get the usual problems of translating good prose and 1st person writing to the screen.
Funniest scene in movie? Milland wins a cake at a fair, and is later attacked by a man who steals the cake and runs off into the darkness. So what does Milland do? He runs after the man. The man pulls out a gun and shoots at Milland. So what does unarmed Milland do? He charges the man! I guess so, the guy wouldn't miss.
Anyway Milland is saved when a German bomber drops a stick of bombs that blow up the cake thief. But leaves Milland untouched. Thats what happens when you're a Hollywood leading man.
Greene’s book was similarly awkward, almost surreal. I think it’s his worst outing. Hard to believe it’s the same guy that wrote Brighton Rock and Our Man In Havana.
This Gun For Hire has maybe the best beginning chapter of any book I've ever read. The first ten pages or so are a brilliant combination of poetic prose and dynamic action.
Of no shock to anyone who paid attention to 1970s and 1980s research, a fresh study out of Finland reports that gender transitions do NOT improve mental illness and tend to be counterproductive.
A large study of health data on Finnish youths who sought care from gender clinics has found evidence that its authors suggest challenges the prevailing claim that gender-transition interventions are tied to improvements in mental health. The study found that the use of specialist psychiatric care—a general, if imperfect, indication of serious mental health problems—increased dramatically among those adolescents and young adults who underwent gender-transition interventions.
I am so sorry for your friend and his family. Horrible. Like Rob Reiner all over again. And his poor wife. What an awful, devastating thing for the survivors. God's peace, brother.
Fritz Lang has made a lot of bad movies, but Ministry of Fear is not one of them. Up there with The Big Heat and While the City Sleeps. A+ all the way.
“As a permanent deacon, he directed the youth group and taught catechism classes, guiding the parish community through numerous sacraments. He loved history and shared this love with his students at Chesterton Academy of Omaha. He was an avid reader who loved to learn. He was a gifted musician who played numerous instruments including accordion, guitar, organ, and piano. He enjoyed gardening, traveling, and documenting his life through photography. He was a notorious sweet tooth who loved chocolate. He enjoyed a strong cup of coffee and a strong pour of whiskey. He rooted for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in good times and in bad. But most of all he was devoted to his wife and best friend of 46 years and to his family who he led, loved, and served unfailingly.
John is survived by his wife, Mary Irene Zak; his children: John J. IV (Christina) Zak, Maureen (Nick Thompson) Zak, Daniel (Kathleen) Zak, Angela (Adam) Pohlmeier, Clare (Russell Weaver) Zak, Gerard (Sarah) Zak; and his adopted children: Macario (Vanessa) Vargas, Francisco Zak, Ben Zak, Tyler Zak, and Catherine (Zachary) Bishop; his 31 grandchildren; his sister, Pam (Doug) Eischeid and by many nieces, nephews, and extended family members.”
Fritz Lang's mom was Jewish. She married a Catholic man, and converted. So Fritz was raised Catholic. (Like Hitchcock). He was a star filmmaker in Germany when the Nazis took over. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, reached out to Fritz and tried to get him to make propaganda films for the Nazis.
Fritz: "My Mom's Jewish." Goebbels: "We will decide who the Jews are."
Partly its Ray Milland who was always a bland leading man. But its also because the DIrection. Fritz lang is no Hitchcock. And it makes you appreciate Hitchcock's genius.
Hitchcock used Ray Milland (Dial M for Murder), so both he and I disagree with your assessment of Milland's abilities.
The Fritz Lang movie that is severely overrated is M, which features a guilty man, rightly accused. Hitchcock is like, "That's the wrong formula, dummy!" The whole time I'm watching M, I'm going, "Catch that bastard. Lock him up!"
M is shot beautifully, and Lorre was a fantastic actor in the 1920's and 30's. But that plot is a real stinker.
I feel like Hitchcock studied Fritz Lang (who was getting all the props back in the day), and came up with his way superior formula, "an innocent man, wrongly accused." He ran that playbook at least three times, and gave the world The 39 Steps, and Saboteur and North by Northwest. All of them A+ movies. Amazing art. And way superior to that silent crap, M.
St Croix: "Goebbels: "We will decide who the Jews are.""
Isn't that just the motto of the postmodern Woke Left? They decide who the 'Jews' are, both in terms of who's the oppressed microminority of the day to be protected, and who's the demonized source of all evil of the day, to be suppressed. CC, JSM
I first remember milland on battlestar galactica when he played a louche former senator who was unconsciously delivery the colonists to the casino planet with the bug people
Then i discovered the rest of his oevre, although i somethings mix him up with maurice evans (doctor zaius) and samanthas father
Greene had been with MI 6 in Portugal and other places rubbing up against Philby and contiguous with Fleming 'Dodgy dossiers' didnt begin in 2002, havana was transplanting the method he saw in Lisbon
That long Truth Social post about Iran reached the intended audience and the remaining power factions in Persia are fighting each other and issuing conflicting statements and screaming at each other. The cognitive dissonance for the anti-American parties is building to an unsustainable internal pressure. The Left is gonna blow.
As of April 18, 2026, Iran has reimposed strict military control and effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to most traffic, reversing a temporary reopening. The move, described as a response to a continued U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, restricts passage to approved vessels only, following reports of Iranian gunboats firing on ships.
(this is how you start a brawl, try not to lose a finger)
Notorious Rear Window North by Northwest The Lady Vanishes To Catch a Thief Saboteur The 39 Steps The Birds Foreign Correspondent Shadow of a Doubt
Hitch has another 10 movies in my top 1000. What's really astounding is how all the critics were dumping on Hitchcock for making all these genre pictures. Until the great French artist, Francois Truffaut, embarrassed them in public.
Based on reports as of April 18, 2026, there are significant indications of a fragmented and internally contested decision-making process within Iran in response to extreme pressure from the United States, including President Trump’s recent Truth Social posts demanding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC is the problem and they are scattered all over Iran. It'll be an interesting to see how the Department of Crusade deals with this.
Military-Diplomatic Divide: While some officials have engaged in talks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has taken a defiant stance, denying ceasefire violations and accusing the U.S. and Israel of fabricating reports to incite conflict.
IRGC combat troops are largely decentralized, scattered throughout Iran's 31 provinces to ensure operational independence and continuity, rather than being concentrated solely on a few bases. This "mosaic strategy" allows local IRGC units to function autonomously, supported by distributed weapons stockpiles and embedded Basij militia forces across the country.
If you have any news reports to share, BM, then by all means please inform us. Otherwise your continued passive aggressive tone just further places you in the great pool of irrelevant ninnies.
Howard, we get it. If Trump leaves any bit of the old regime functional, he's lost. If he reduces them to scattered bands in fear for their lives, he's lost.
John, you're drawing conclusions while I'm just stating the lay of the land. Will the IRGC cave in to the political leadership? Can Iranian citizens rise up and destroy these rats. Nests? Will it be a combination of that plus targeted Delta and seal team 6 missions? To me, the likelihood of larger ground troop insertions are very very low.
You know who else was in 'Them'? Fess Parker, first film role, small part, and of course James Arness. Walt Disney saw him and was so impressed, he ended up picking him for Daniel Boone, instead of James Arness. He had only gone to the movie to evaluate Arness.
I haven't seen Yesterday yet, sounds really cool. Danny Boyle did The Beach, which is beautiful, and Trainspotting, which is dirty and fun. That's my highest Danny Boyle film, just missing my top 1000.
Ray Milland starred in a couple of notorious low budget sci-fi/horror films we used to see on Saturday afternoon's Creature Double Feature: 1.The Man With The X-Ray Eyes 2. The Thing With Two Heads in which Oscar-winning thespian Ray Milland partners with ex-NFL lineman Rosey Grier to play a two-headed monster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_with_Two_Heads
The vast majority of filmmakers do not get 10 films in my top 1000.
Wilder did it, Hawks did it, Kurosawa did it, Ford did it.
Truffaut no, Godard no, Ozu no, Fellini no, Spielberg is 2 short, Fritz is one short.
It's just really hard to make 10 excellent films. So many things can go wrong.
Hitchcock has 22 films in my top 1000. That's twice what anybody else accomplished. And his number might still go higher, I haven't seen all his films.
12 more
Dial M for Murder Psycho Stage Fright Strangers on a Train Suspicion Vertigo Mr. and Mrs. Smith Marnie The Man Who Knew Too Much (remake) Lifeboat Rebecca The Man Who Knew Too Much (original)
I want to give a shout out to Bill Murray's best movie. It's underrated. You might not have seen it. I love this movie. I rate it very high, #28 out of the 6,000 movies that I've seen. I've seen it multiple times, and it's not boring yet.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Bill Murray has made a lot of brilliant art, from Caddyshack to Rushmore to Lost in Translation. This, I think, is his funniest work. He plays an idiot savant who is fearless, who plays games of life and death because he thinks it's a game. What makes this whole movie seem like a high-wire act is whether Murray will discover that his life really is in danger. If he makes this discovery, his confidence will be shattered and he will fall to pieces. It's a hysterical and brilliant riff on male confidence and male delusion. It's an ode to the power of innocence. He is oblivious to all the bad in the world. He's unaware of his own vulnerability. Compare the sweaty James Bond to the cool and nonchalant Bill Murray. It's like zen for morons. It's hysterical when you watch it and brilliant when you think about it.
Bill Murray also did a serious film, The Razor's Edge, about a WW1 vet on a quest for enlightenment in the Himalayas. I've not seen it, but it always intrigued me. CC, JSM
The dead baby scene ruins Trainspotting for me. Destroys the suspension of disbelief. Even in UK, a baby dying from an overdose would just bring everything to a record-scratch halt. And it's too sad a result to keep thinking of the addicts as lovable fuckups. CC, JSM
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Subtly superb.
Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women
https://www.propublica.org/article/tmb-disciplines-doctors-ngumezi-crain-cases
The docs were afraid of the new Texas anti-abortion law, and so refused or delayed D&Cs or other abortion-like treatments for women whose pregnancies were going seriously wrong.
I assume the TX medical board, like all of them, is captured by leftists. So they're telling these docs they should have civilly-disobediently done the procedures and become martyrs for the Party, I guess.
Or maybe the Board is actually run by real doctors, and they recognized these docs were making their patients into the aforementioned martyrs, so they're disciplining them for their malicious compliance?
Not exactly caught between a rock and a hard place - a rock and an un-comfy place? CC, JSM
Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker tried to start an Eagles chant but can't spell the word. Yikes.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1881820645560090912
A woman has six weeks to abort her child or later with medical consensus in self-defense.
Meanwhile, Trump ended the second Iraq war during his first term and now the American-Abrahamic alliance stands to abort a progressive conflict in the Middle East. He already settled a conflict between India and Pakistan, and the first president in a long time to include Africa. Mazel tov.
So the violent thug who forcefully shoved the reporter Ms. Hernandez from behind when she wasn't looking says he and his family are not violent. Using his logic if someone was to walk up to him a sucker punch him in his butt ugly face, that could not be classified as violent. I wonder what his definition of violent is?
"I wonder what his definition of violent is?"
Probably something along the lines of "What people I don't like do."
Below is how my grade school classmate, John Zak, died. He and his wife have a large family; some are adopted. John was a Roman Catholic deacon. Martin Zak is mentally ill and was in treatment.
OWH, “ Martin Zak then left. Still not having seen her husband, Mary Zak called police shortly after 11:30 p.m. to report a missing person.
Police discovered John Zak’s body in pieces. His torso was in a tote underneath the house’s front porch. His head and arms were in a trash bag in the home’s furnished attic. His blood-soaked clothing was found in another trash bag. Police also found blood on the interior of the storm door leading to the kitchen, kitchen cabinets and the basement. Cleveland said they also found bloodstains in Mary’s car that allegedly were left by Martin that morning when she dropped him off at the QuikTrip.”
The Texas pro-life law is pro-woman and child. The doctors have to be competent and reject liberal pedagogy that seeks to socially distance mother and child through religious indulgence of technical terms-of-art. They must be capable of determining when a mother's life is threatened and strive to save both lives with unPlanned parenthood as the goal, not the exception.
Martin Zak is adopted.
Very sorry for your loss, Begley. CC, JSM
Long Island Griffy - When your co-worker tries to be your boss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxiGZONA54
That’s a horrible story about your classmate, Dave Begley. Good Lord…
“The Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker tried to start an Eagles chant but can't spell the word. Yikes.”
I wonder just how many Eagles fans actually could.
They booed santa they would probably try to beat up rocky balboa
Philadelphia has become mordor
A terrible story Begley
I thought Minneapolis was Mordor???
No its raccoon city
Oh no "pallets full of cash" to IRAN. $20 BILLION. (they already made a fortune selling their oil and charging tolls since trump invaded) Weren't we told ONLY OBAMA made cardinal sin and gave IRAN their own money "you know pallets full of cash? WTF THE STRAIGHTS AREN'T REALLY OPEN,DO THE HOMEWORK,,, Iran turning over nuclear material...BULLCRAP that aint happening...TBC.....making sh%$ up...
Raccoon City is the nexus of Planned Parenthood umbrella incorporation of resident evil, a progressive philosophy and liberal pedagogy.
Tried to get through "Ministry of Fear" (1944) a film noir classic. Usually i love film noir and old-fashioned Hitchockian style fims. But MOF felt very long even at 90-100 minutes. Partly its Ray Milland who was always a bland leading man. But its also because the DIrection. Fritz lang is no Hitchcock. And it makes you appreciate Hitchcock's genius.
Other problems - Greene's novel has to be americanized and we get the usual problems of translating good prose and 1st person writing to the screen.
Funniest scene in movie? Milland wins a cake at a fair, and is later attacked by a man who steals the cake and runs off into the darkness. So what does Milland do? He runs after the man. The man pulls out a gun and shoots at Milland. So what does unarmed Milland do? He charges the man! I guess so, the guy wouldn't miss.
Anyway Milland is saved when a German bomber drops a stick of bombs that blow up the cake thief. But leaves Milland untouched. Thats what happens when you're a Hollywood leading man.
Greene’s book was similarly awkward, almost surreal. I think it’s his worst outing. Hard to believe it’s the same guy that wrote Brighton Rock and Our Man In Havana.
This Gun For Hire has maybe the best beginning chapter of any book I've ever read. The first ten pages or so are a brilliant combination of poetic prose and dynamic action.
Of no shock to anyone who paid attention to 1970s and 1980s research, a fresh study out of Finland reports that gender transitions do NOT improve mental illness and tend to be counterproductive.
A large study of health data on Finnish youths who sought care from gender clinics has found evidence that its authors suggest challenges the prevailing claim that gender-transition interventions are tied to improvements in mental health. The study found that the use of specialist psychiatric care—a general, if imperfect, indication of serious mental health problems—increased dramatically among those adolescents and young adults who underwent gender-transition interventions.
https://benryan.substack.com/p/youth-on-gender-transition-treatment
We learned this several decades ago when the gaslighted treatment victims routinely detransitioned and/or committed suicide.
Two major semitruck incidents on Interstate 40:
In Arizona:
Semi truck crash on I-40 near Seligman causes closure, power outage
In California:
Fatal multi semi crash shuts down I-40 near Desert Oasis Rest Area
What's up with that?
Begley,
I am so sorry for your friend and his family. Horrible. Like Rob Reiner all over again. And his poor wife. What an awful, devastating thing for the survivors. God's peace, brother.
Fritz Lang has made a lot of bad movies, but Ministry of Fear is not one of them. Up there with The Big Heat and While the City Sleeps. A+ all the way.
“As a permanent deacon, he directed the youth group and taught catechism classes, guiding the parish community through numerous sacraments. He loved history and shared this love with his students at Chesterton Academy of Omaha. He was an avid reader who loved to learn. He was a gifted musician who played numerous instruments including accordion, guitar, organ, and piano. He enjoyed gardening, traveling, and documenting his life through photography. He was a notorious sweet tooth who loved chocolate. He enjoyed a strong cup of coffee and a strong pour of whiskey. He rooted for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in good times and in bad. But most of all he was devoted to his wife and best friend of 46 years and to his family who he led, loved, and served unfailingly.
John is survived by his wife, Mary Irene Zak; his children: John J. IV (Christina) Zak, Maureen (Nick Thompson) Zak, Daniel (Kathleen) Zak, Angela (Adam) Pohlmeier, Clare (Russell Weaver) Zak, Gerard (Sarah) Zak; and his adopted children: Macario (Vanessa) Vargas, Francisco Zak, Ben Zak, Tyler Zak, and Catherine (Zachary) Bishop; his 31 grandchildren; his sister, Pam (Doug) Eischeid and by many nieces, nephews, and extended family members.”
Fritz Lang's mom was Jewish. She married a Catholic man, and converted. So Fritz was raised Catholic. (Like Hitchcock). He was a star filmmaker in Germany when the Nazis took over. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, reached out to Fritz and tried to get him to make propaganda films for the Nazis.
Fritz: "My Mom's Jewish."
Goebbels: "We will decide who the Jews are."
That's when Fritz fled the country.
Partly its Ray Milland who was always a bland leading man. But its also because the DIrection. Fritz lang is no Hitchcock. And it makes you appreciate Hitchcock's genius.
Hitchcock used Ray Milland (Dial M for Murder), so both he and I disagree with your assessment of Milland's abilities.
The Fritz Lang movie that is severely overrated is M, which features a guilty man, rightly accused. Hitchcock is like, "That's the wrong formula, dummy!" The whole time I'm watching M, I'm going, "Catch that bastard. Lock him up!"
M is shot beautifully, and Lorre was a fantastic actor in the 1920's and 30's. But that plot is a real stinker.
I feel like Hitchcock studied Fritz Lang (who was getting all the props back in the day), and came up with his way superior formula, "an innocent man, wrongly accused." He ran that playbook at least three times, and gave the world The 39 Steps, and Saboteur and North by Northwest. All of them A+ movies. Amazing art. And way superior to that silent crap, M.
St Croix: "Goebbels: "We will decide who the Jews are.""
Isn't that just the motto of the postmodern Woke Left? They decide who the 'Jews' are, both in terms of who's the oppressed microminority of the day to be protected, and who's the demonized source of all evil of the day, to be suppressed. CC, JSM
Top 9 Fritz Lang movies
(one man's opinion)
The Big Heat
Ministry of Fear
While the City Sleeps
Metropolis
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
The Blue Gardenia
Manhunt
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Spies
These are all in my top 1000 movies.
I first remember milland on battlestar galactica when he played a louche former senator who was unconsciously delivery the colonists to the casino planet with the bug people
Then i discovered the rest of his oevre, although i somethings mix him up with maurice evans (doctor zaius) and samanthas father
There isnt anything bland about him, louche treacherous maybr
Greene had been with MI 6 in Portugal and other places rubbing up against Philby and contiguous with Fleming
'Dodgy dossiers' didnt begin in 2002, havana was transplanting the method he saw in Lisbon
Some of his adaptations are uneven see premingers human factor (a variation on the philby theme) set partially in south africa
@Dave Begley very sad story,
Northwest was his attempt at a bond caper
Mason is supposed to be some eastern european heavy
That long Truth Social post about Iran reached the intended audience and the remaining power factions in Persia are fighting each other and issuing conflicting statements and screaming at each other. The cognitive dissonance for the anti-American parties is building to an unsustainable internal pressure. The Left is gonna blow.
Even more than they already do!
If you think the antics in the movie were ridiculous you should see how the company actually collected data in batistas day
They asked rauls future wife vilma espin to vouch for the two brother and she said they werent communists
Im serious
The cognitive dissonance for the anti-American parties is building to an unsustainable internal pressure. The Left is gonna blow
…back to the Epstein files in 5, 4, 3…
The fellow who did so was lyman kirkpatrick a former op officsr who went ironside
beetlejuice beetleseuse
Northwest was his attempt at a bond caper
Actually, the Bond people ripped off Northwest!
Critics are stupid, film at eleven
uh oh
You mean spectre possibly
theese place…
As of April 18, 2026, Iran has reimposed strict military control and effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to most traffic, reversing a temporary reopening. The move, described as a response to a continued U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, restricts passage to approved vessels only, following reports of Iranian gunboats firing on ships.
Top 10 Hitchcocks
(this is how you start a brawl, try not to lose a finger)
Notorious
Rear Window
North by Northwest
The Lady Vanishes
To Catch a Thief
Saboteur
The 39 Steps
The Birds
Foreign Correspondent
Shadow of a Doubt
Hitch has another 10 movies in my top 1000. What's really astounding is how all the critics were dumping on Hitchcock for making all these genre pictures. Until the great French artist, Francois Truffaut, embarrassed them in public.
No, Hitchcock's movie was 1959. The first Bond movie came out a couple of years later.
I surprised we haven't targeted these gunboats like we have the drug runners in the Caribbean.
Notorius was a very subtle film the mcguffin was nazis in argentina but the real story was sbout uranium
Certainly le chiffre was supposed to be a suave character although a communist operator
As I recall, the early universal studio tours featured Psycho prominently.
Operating in france not slovenia
Based on reports as of April 18, 2026, there are significant indications of a fragmented and internally contested decision-making process within Iran in response to extreme pressure from the United States, including President Trump’s recent Truth Social posts demanding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Howard said...
I surprised we haven't targeted these gunboats like we have the drug runners in the Caribbean.
Unless, of course, he has done so and you’re deliberately unaware of it.
My favorite Milland movie is Easy Living. Classic screwball.
Easy Living
Ministry of Fear
Dial M for Murder
The Big Clock
The Major and the Minor
The IRGC is the problem and they are scattered all over Iran. It'll be an interesting to see how the Department of Crusade deals with this.
Military-Diplomatic Divide: While some officials have engaged in talks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has taken a defiant stance, denying ceasefire violations and accusing the U.S. and Israel of fabricating reports to incite conflict.
IRGC combat troops are largely decentralized, scattered throughout Iran's 31 provinces to ensure operational independence and continuity, rather than being concentrated solely on a few bases. This "mosaic strategy" allows local IRGC units to function autonomously, supported by distributed weapons stockpiles and embedded Basij militia forces across the country.
The big clock was the basis for no way out
Stop messing with the auteur thread
Or actually think for a minute on your own
If you have any news reports to share, BM, then by all means please inform us. Otherwise your continued passive aggressive tone just further places you in the great pool of irrelevant ninnies.
It must be spring, the gnats are up early this morning
Yesterday a cruise ship sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. I guess Trump is right about the strait being open.
Them! Starring Ray Milland Was a childhood favorite in my neighborhood. They showed it regularly on creature features
Howard, we get it. If Trump leaves any bit of the old regime functional, he's lost. If he reduces them to scattered bands in fear for their lives, he's lost.
What outcome would constitute success? CC, JSM
I don't think he was in Them. You're thinking of James Whitmore , maybe?
John, you're drawing conclusions while I'm just stating the lay of the land. Will the IRGC cave in to the political leadership? Can Iranian citizens rise up and destroy these rats. Nests? Will it be a combination of that plus targeted Delta and seal team 6 missions? To me, the likelihood of larger ground troop insertions are very very low.
Thanks, Rusty. I've never had a Mandela effect before, 😜
Dial “M” for Moron.
You know who else was in 'Them'? Fess Parker, first film role, small part, and of course James Arness. Walt Disney saw him and was so impressed, he ended up picking him for Daniel Boone, instead of James Arness. He had only gone to the movie to evaluate Arness.
Ray Milland is not in Them!
It's probably the best monster movie from the 1950's. Big inspiration for James Cameron when he made Aliens. He ripped off a scene or two.
Or as we artists say when we steal, "it's a homage."
Xavier Becerra has seen a massive jump in poll numbers
I suspect Miss Piggy is planning another karate chop
Saint Croix, where does Slumdog Millionaire stand in your list of all time movies? I have it in my top 50.
Howard said...
I surprised we haven't targeted these gunboats like we have the drug runners in the Caribbean.
hey Judge,
Slumdog is a good movie, solid B in my book. Ranked #1,519.
I've got a few Bollywood movies ranked higher.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (#501)
Om Shanti Om (#772)
Slumdog got points off for being depressing. I prefer happy and fun.
Like RRR its fun and violent
I haven't seen Yesterday yet, sounds really cool. Danny Boyle did The Beach, which is beautiful, and Trainspotting, which is dirty and fun. That's my highest Danny Boyle film, just missing my top 1000.
Ray Milland starred in a couple of notorious low budget sci-fi/horror films we used to see on Saturday afternoon's Creature Double Feature:
1.The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
2. The Thing With Two Heads in which Oscar-winning thespian Ray Milland partners with ex-NFL lineman Rosey Grier to play a two-headed monster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_with_Two_Heads
The vast majority of filmmakers do not get 10 films in my top 1000.
Wilder did it, Hawks did it, Kurosawa did it, Ford did it.
Truffaut no, Godard no, Ozu no, Fellini no, Spielberg is 2 short, Fritz is one short.
It's just really hard to make 10 excellent films. So many things can go wrong.
Hitchcock has 22 films in my top 1000. That's twice what anybody else accomplished. And his number might still go higher, I haven't seen all his films.
12 more
Dial M for Murder
Psycho
Stage Fright
Strangers on a Train
Suspicion
Vertigo
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Marnie
The Man Who Knew Too Much (remake)
Lifeboat
Rebecca
The Man Who Knew Too Much (original)
I want to give a shout out to Bill Murray's best movie. It's underrated. You might not have seen it. I love this movie. I rate it very high, #28 out of the 6,000 movies that I've seen. I've seen it multiple times, and it's not boring yet.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Bill Murray has made a lot of brilliant art, from Caddyshack to Rushmore to Lost in Translation. This, I think, is his funniest work. He plays an idiot savant who is fearless, who plays games of life and death because he thinks it's a game. What makes this whole movie seem like a high-wire act is whether Murray will discover that his life really is in danger. If he makes this discovery, his confidence will be shattered and he will fall to pieces. It's a hysterical and brilliant riff on male confidence and male delusion. It's an ode to the power of innocence. He is oblivious to all the bad in the world. He's unaware of his own vulnerability. Compare the sweaty James Bond to the cool and nonchalant Bill Murray. It's like zen for morons. It's hysterical when you watch it and brilliant when you think about it.
Bill Murray also did a serious film, The Razor's Edge, about a WW1 vet on a quest for enlightenment in the Himalayas. I've not seen it, but it always intrigued me. CC, JSM
The dead baby scene ruins Trainspotting for me. Destroys the suspension of disbelief. Even in UK, a baby dying from an overdose would just bring everything to a record-scratch halt. And it's too sad a result to keep thinking of the addicts as lovable fuckups. CC, JSM
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