Offering constructive criticism to the social cripples in our midst since early 2005.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Final orgy scene in Behind the Green Door?

Oh, you can't count porn. Apples and apricots.

[SlaveNoMore]

sebastian_dangerfield
Is there a better 10 minutes in cinema?

Actually, no.

Beacuse all at once, that scene makes me (1) usually listen to the Stones for a while, (2) hungry for veal, and (3) worry that my "mine is turning to mush".

[Penske_Account]

First WMDs, now this:

"He was one of the top two or three leaders," Col. Scott said in a telephone interview. "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."

Looks like we have good reason to start moving the troops east, although a few strategic nukes might be a more efficient choice. The Islamic Bomb, indeed.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wasn't BtGD the last movie in which your mom fluffed before she reached mandatory retirement?

Yes. Did your dad ever thank her for getting him the interview where he got hired to replace her?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Actually, no.

Beacuse all at once, that scene makes me (1) usually listen to the Stones for a while, (2) hungry for veal, and (3) worry that my "mine is turning to mush".

Oh, shit... that's right. They jammed the Stones' "Memo From Turner," Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy," Nilsson's tune and Harrison's "What is Life" all into that collage.

Runner up is the opening scene from Blow where the camera is scanning through the fields and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is playing. Tied with that is the scene where Pesci's stealing all sorts of shit and handing out beat downs all over Vegas with thugs in "Casino" while, again, "CYHMK" is playing. You really can't beat CYHMK for background music to volcanic scenes in flicks. Its just such a dirty riff, and the tune is just so rawly and shoddily slpped together and screamed out. Scorcese's such a dicked over genius. Its oversaid, but it really is a travesty he doesn't have an Oscar...

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Yes. Did your dad ever thank her for getting him the interview where he got hired to replace her?

Wheef.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Yes. Did your dad ever thank her for getting him the interview where he got hired to replace her?

Really funny. You're a big comedian. You know my dad's a paraplegic with lockjaw, right?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Really funny. You're a big comedian. You know my dad's a paraplegic with lockjaw, right?

Extra long wheef.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Extra long wheef.

w-a-t-e-r (lowercase)

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Wheef.

Original? Paigs, can we get a ruling?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Really funny. You're a big comedian. You know my dad's a paraplegic with lockjaw, right?

I thought that was a result of fluffing Johnny Wadd, no?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
w-a-t-e-r (lowercase)

This is not your best material.

[Valentine]

IRAQ: Let America Be -- http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

http://www.bushflash.com/antiwar2.html

http://www.bushflash.com/liberation.html

Look, in the next several months, American politicians and pundits will talk a lot about 'leveling' with the people by speaking the hard truth about Iraq, meaning an admission that the war is sure to rage for years and require an even heavier sacrifice in money and blood. BS from talking heads. Speak Truth to Power? Nope. This 'leveling' will be just the latest spin. What they won’t tell you are these two other hard truths:

(1) First, whatever lies ahead in the Iraq War, the outcome is almost certain to be far worse for Iraqis and Americans than it would have been if the U.S.-led invasion had never happened. Despite the uplifting political rhetoric about democracy and peace, the smart money is on a staggering death toll, a grisly civil war, possibly even genocide, with Sunnis killing Shiites and Shiites killing Sunnis.

CIA analysts also have concluded that Iraq is emerging as a far more effective training ground for Islamic terrorists than Afghanistan ever was. Iraq is both more central to the Arab world and provides hands-on experience in bomb-making, kidnapping, assassination and conventional attacks on military targets.

(2) If the Iraq insurgency ever ends, these battle-hardened terrorists also would be freed up to turn their skills on American targets around the world or on pro-U.S. governments in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan, according to an internal CIA analysis written in May 2005. Most of these countries are de facto client-states for the US military-industrial complex. More so than ever.


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Originally posted by Valentine
http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

http://www.bushflash.com/antiwar2.html

http://www.bushflash.com/liberation.html

Re saving face n Iraq, in Vietnam, by the spring of '68, it was clear to just about everyone—including our intelligence agencies—that the war was lost. I think that Iraq may be in a similar 'quagmire'. The Tet Offensive made it obvious that the combined forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong weren't being defeated or decimated. The United States insisted that it would never talk directly or negotiate with the communist North and their allied partisans in South Vietnam, insisting that the quisling regime in Saigon was the lawful government. So the war dragged on for another five years, killing tens of thousands more Americans and hundreds of thousands more Vietnamese.

Finally, during 1972-1973, the United States did what it had previously said it wouldn't do: it essentially abandoned its puppet government in South Vietnam and began direct talks with the Vietnamese communists. The communists were magnanimous enough to give the United States a face-saving way out, rather than forcing Washington to admit that it was surrendering. And we left. That Iraq was clearly a mistake is crystalizing as a given.

That's a given. I don't know if Bush will find a way for the U.S. to save face here. Who knows, at this point, there may be no face to save. If that's the case, Bush should just hurry up and bring our gals and boys back now. 2,000 dead for no reason is treason. The more I think about it, the more I agree that Team Bush should be impeached and tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Words, words, words.

Once you go to rational basis as a standard, a plaintiff has to just about show fraud to overcome the court's deference to the legislative and administrative branches.

But, absent a finding of protected status or bad faith, rational basis is always the test for governmental regulation.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Penske_Account


Like Bush when he went into the oil business.

Oh, you mean your Daddy is gonna buy you the first couple parcels and force all his banker and builder buddies to give you a sweetheart deal?

Or were you referring to Bush I?