[ransomnote]

Clint’s success must really be putting a hole in the lib strategy to portray him as “doddering old fool” for his “empty chair” stunt.

[ansel12]

Talk about a guy living a fairy tale life, it’s Clint Eastwood, even his military plane crash where he had to swim to shore, was off the California coast where he can point it out from his home state, and the state where he has lived his incredible and golden life.

Now here he is at 84 and he is hitting his peak success as a director, and in an action movie about a young war hero and current characters and a current war no less.

I can’t help but marvel at how effortless he makes his accomplishments seem, and how he seems to preserve his own personality throughout all these decades of being such a Hollywood giant.

[43north]

Clint Eastwood is THE BEST moviemaker in Hollyweird.

[Steve_Seattle]

Slightly off-topic, but a few days ago someone posted an article in which the author objected to the line in American Sniper where he is warned that an unauthorized killing will get him in trouble. The author scoffed at this, saying that American soldiers are rarely called to account for such killings.

I looked up court-martial statistics for 2011 (general court martials, the most serious), and found that there were 1,173 court martials in that year, with 1,072 convictions, a 91.4% conviction rate.

Unfortunately, the stats did not break down the information by location or by crime, so it was impossible to say how many occurred in combat areas and how many pertained to unauthorized killings. Nonetheless, the idea that soldiers can do anything and get away with it is not borne out by the facts.

[jespasinthru]

Is it true what the conspiracy theorists say, that Chris Kyle was assassinated by Obama’s CIA? Just wonderin’.