Posted on 12/14/2016 6:52:14 AM PST by xzins
Did any of you know HillsDale college has a a skeet/trap range on campus?
Yes. That’s the front view of Nully’s back view that he uses/used for the nut job ping. It’s from Take Shelter in which she co-stars with another FReeper favorite, Michael Shannon. It’s a Peter Weir/Last Wave like pre-apocalyptic film.
Well Hallelujah.
Re: Libs...I’d like to add to your list the “French taunt” from Monty Python’s Holy Grail...
http://giphy.com/gifs/pZXqPpygK0lAk
http://giphy.com/gifs/monty-python-john-cleese-and-the-holy-grail-7cAGURf0zN2Bq
Everyone knows they don’t care about background checks, they want universal registration.
That is how I feel EVERY TIME Hollywood produces a movie or TV show whose stupid sound people dub in a hammer-cocking sound when an actor points a Glock or other striker-fired semiautomatic pistol. Absolute. Nonsense.
My Glock does not cock.
LIBERALS?
WHAT ARE LIBERALS?
LIBERALS = The crabs in your crotch, the lice in your linens, the leeches on your legs, the spirochetes in your chancre, the stench of your gangrene, the suppurating ooze from your pustules, the parasitic infection of your society, the trichinosis in you ham sandwich, the leprosy on your limbs, the hookworms in your bowel.
For a complete list of LIBERALS, check the Control of Communicable Diseases in Man.
The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed towards the end of the war. The ship was not reported as overdue, and the survivors of the sinking were left in the water.
Many died of exposure, and many were attacked and eaten by sharks.
If I recall correctly.
Yes...I am pretty well versed in it...you are correct. It was an awful thing.
Most people don’t understand how much predation there was by sharks on humans during the war, particularly in the naval battles around the Solomon Islands. It wasn’t talked about because it was so bad for morale, it was an unspoken thing. But there was a lot of it, men taken within sight of ships trying to rescue them.
Truly the stuff of nightmares.
LOL, it is hard sometimes. I am an amateur historian, and have read a lot, particularly WWII and the American Revolution, as well as the conflicts since then including the politics and societal elements.
So, when I see a movie that is not fiction, and it is about something I know about, I find it difficult, and have to force myself to disregard things I might notice.
For example, if the markings, coloration, or type of aircraft is off...I fixate on it for a bit...because I am a former navy jet mechanic and aviation nut, it is something that is meaningful to me.
So when I watch a movie about Guadalcanal and they show Hellcats instead of Wildcats, and the insignia is wrong, and the paint scheme is wrong, I fixate on it. I force myself to say “Okay. It is Hollywood, they might have just needed some flying planes, and assumed everyone would just let it pass...”
Sometimes it is a catastrophic entertainment failure for me, as it was for the Indianapolis movie I described.
One of the most annoying for me was a DVD set my wife got me, the History Channel’s “Sons of Liberty”. I find that era fascinating (living in New England), so when my wife bought it for me as a stocking-stuffer last year, I was pretty pumped because I had just read a coupe of great books from that era. When I watched it, it was so historically inaccurate it made me angry. For example, they portrayed the Boston Tea Party with the redcoats lined up on the wharf, fingers on the triggers, and the colonials on the deck of the ship with guns aiming back, and every significant name from that period all on scene watching. It was the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Just awful, it was such a let down.
LOL, I could never enjoy “Tora, Tora, Tora” because they had an Essex class carrier in it. I watched it and tried to glean some entertainment from it, but I never watched it again after that.
Fiction is kind of okay. I know it is laughable, and I am embarrassed to admit it, but I love the movie “The Final Countdown”. I know. It was like being a boy in the early Seventies and letting people know you liked “The Carpenters” music. But I make the rule that if a movie has a time travel twist to it, nearly anything can be fair game.
But how can you not like a movie that has a couple of F-14 Tomcats tangling with a coupe of Zeroes? One of my favorite scenes from that movie is when they do the high speed pass over the politician’s yacht, wings swept back...just beautiful planes.
Yep. They’ll use background as a foot in the door, though, along with medical records to deny ownership.
ISRA Thursday Bulletin - December 15, 2016
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
The Ohio State Legislature has passed and sent to Governor John Kasich an expanded concealed carry bill that would allow concealed carry on college campuses, as well as a few other places. The enemies of concealed carry claim the expansion of concealed carry is unnecessary because Police Officer Alan Honijko was near enough to stop the recent terrorist attack on the Ohio State campus. Of course, if the officer was around the block, the results would have been horrific. What about many of the Ohio college students who have already been murdered by thugs? There wasn’t a policeman there to save them. They never had a chance. If Kasich signs the bill, the present students will at least have a chance.
President-Elect Donald Trump continues to confound the media and the talking heads with his cabinet picks. His choice for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, present CEO of Exxon Mobil, is being criticized for his friendship with Vladimir Putin, as well as other world leaders. Some Republicans, Democrats and the lame stream media are all jumping up and down and piling on.
The last two Secretaries of State were both political hacks and grifters. Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments for the benefit of the United States are exactly - um, well none. She did do a great job in shaking down foreign governments for the benefit of the “Clinton Foundation” and personal enrichment. It is hard to overlook the thousands of people slaughtered in the Middle East, the thousands of foreigners crammed down our throats, and the Americans that have been murdered, but she was not a friend of Putin.
Then there is John Kerry. This cat wouldn’t be anywhere if he hadn’t married the widow, the heir to the A. J. Heinz fortune. Kerry was in Vietnam and received three dubious Purple Hearts (you could go home after three Purple Hearts). He threw his United States Military medals in the Potomac River. Recently, he received the Legion of Honor from France. I wonder if he will throw that medal in the river. It is a beautiful medal, maybe we should keep the medal and........ Kerry’s record as Secretary of State equals Hillary’s. John Kerry in not a friend of Putin’s either. Maybe it is time we try a new tactic, perhaps someone who at least knows Putin. The media portrays Tillerson as a friend of Putin. I can tell you this: just because you know and deal with someone, does not mean they are your friend. You work together because you have to.
One of the interesting tidbits coming out of the election is the formation of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus. Congressman Thomas Massie (Kentucky) and a group of other conservatives want to propose and support good Second Amendment legislation, as well as aid President-Elect Trump in defending and promoting the rights of law abiding gun owners. One of the bills they will be looking at is the National Reciprocity Bill for concealed carry. That bill is not quite ready to go yet because it does not have penalties for states who do not comply. It will be interesting to see how many Illinois Congressmen join the Second Amendment caucus.
In the not so newsy news department, the Brady Campaign admits to partnering with Hollywood in promoting its anti-gun agenda. “Miss Sloan” is the latest unabashed chapter in their deceptive saga. The opening weekend average for the movie was just $1167, per theater. That ranks as the 79th worst opening since 1982. I’m pretty sure they won’t get any of my money, or yours either.
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“Hollywood can,wil and does ruin any book ever written in a process I call Hollywoodizing.”
I agree.
I never trusted them again after what they did to “Bonfire of the Vanities”,a book I loved.
The did a SUPERB job on “The Godfather”,though.
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You are right...the “GODFATHER” is/was a great book and the movie version was/is a great movie. I say is/was because I’ve re-read the book over and over, and watch the movie whenver it is on.
I kinda think that when the ACTUAL author is part of the movie, and has his PERSONAL interest and input, that we get a movie that can equal the book.
Some of the worst butcher jobs have been movies filmed AFTER the author has died.
Many years ago I read a book written by one of the survivors (can’t remember the title now).
The book scared the crap out of me, I love to go saltwater fishing, but every time I board a boat I remember that book.
I remember the survivors drifting together for a while; but knowing that every minute, they were drifting farther and farther from where anyone would search for them.
The thing that really struck me, was when I had a chance to converse with this gentleman, and I always made a point when I could to ask if someone had served in the military (I am ex-navy, so it is a good conversation topic that I enjoy) and when I said I had served, I asked him and he said he had, in WWII in the navy. I asked him what ship, and he said the USS Indianapolis.
I think I might have stared at him for a second longer than necessary, and stuttered a bit. and when I asked if he had been on her when she was sunk, he said yes.
He mentioned his job on the ship, and began to speak about it, and his face began to get really red.
I told him he didn’t need to talk about it if he didn’t want to, but he said it was okay, that he hadn’t talked about it in a long time. He said that since that time, he could not say or hear the Lord’s Prayer without becoming completely emotional, and as he said it, his face turned bright red and he choked up and stopped speaking.
I was very affected. Here it was, 50 years later, and it had that effect on him. It just blew me away. It struck me how traumatizing it must be to have that effect after all this time.
He has since passed on, but I think of him often.
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