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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Meh... Nicholas Cage pokes fun at himself in a movie-within-a-movie kinda thing. A couple of chuckles, pretty scenary - of the foliage kind, not the flesh kind. Maybe worth it on some home service, not worth wasting date night on. A "C" rating. Sidenote: trailer for Top Gun 2 rolled. Mrs brickhistory said she didn't want to go. "Darling, I will miss you..."

The politics of this thing aren't quite so devastating as have been claimed. Remind me which major political party controls the legislature and the executive branch? If they want to pass a national abortion law, they can. They don't have the votes. Although some squishy Republicans will also have to fish or cut bait if put to the test. But neither side will apply said test. Too much fundraising to be had railing for/against the issue. Not so much in actually making it a law.

Progress: https://thekingofstocks.com/2022/05/03/maskless-hillary-clinton-walks-red-carpet-at-met-gala-as-masked-servant-tends-to-her-custom-gown-video/

I refer you to the FBI's deliberate misuse of the FISA legal system. Not just against people in Trump's orbit, but just American citizens. I refer you to several NSA programs that look at US citizens communications that deliberately circumvented the "legal review" system in place. I refer you to the IRS' targeting of Tea Party entities in the early 2000s. I refer you to the CIA's spying on Americans in the 1950s/60s/70s. I refer you to the DoD's program to monitor the social media of service members today. I can go from today back to the John Adams Administration and the Sedition Act of 1800 with such examples of the government not being trustworthy and stifling wrong think. But sure, you rail against the enemy of "white, Christian, conservative men" and trust the government. A) Let me know how that works for ya and B) that is a great gig if you can be the one deciding.

This guy...sigh... Just run along to K Street, Adam. Since CNN+ folded after less than a month and Psaki nailed (no sts) the MSNBC gig, the odds of you being the pet "Republican who bashes the GOP" TV gig is probably not gonna happen now. Liz Cheney is more photogenic and a better demographic than a crying white guy anyway. Just go away.

That is, indeed, some magnificent acting...

To be fair, both "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game," and Iron Eagles I-IV both sucked, just in different ways (sts...). However, at least Red Flag had Nellis backgrounds and lots of correct colored F-4s... Also:

It would take more than this year's fat cars to get me to go near Austin. However, the track there combined with the porpoising of the cars this year should be quite a show. Lewis earns the largest paycheck in the sport from Mercedes. Does he want the continued cash or the 8th title before he ages out? Dunno... I believe Latifi's dad pays a considerable sum to Williams so I don't expect his son to go anywhere.

Godwin squared:

Why?

"We find this belief to be disinformation. We shall be monitoring your communications, both incoming and outgoing, to ensure that you do not attempt to spread such disinformation." a note from your friendly Ministry of Truth... And given the support for such, even on this thread, it's likely to happen. And I can assure you, it's a GREAT gig to get if you can be the one that decides what is and isn't disinformation. Just ask any of the 50 former IC officials who signed the letter assuring us that the Hunter laptop was classic Russian disinformation. What could possibly go wrong?

And that, as the poem goes, has made all the difference...

"10 percent for the big guy..." "I've paid his bills for years..." "I don't know what Hunter does in his business dealings and don't know his associates." - 2 x letters of recommendation for sons of PRC business partners of Hunter's. - Photos of ol' Joe with Hunter and his business partners at a DC restaurant - 19 WH meetings with Hunter's business partners while VP - Hunter accompanied the VP on AF2 to trips to Ukraine and PRC. Shortely thereafter, major business deals for Hunter in those two countries Now some $5.2 million in unexplained income earning for Joe "Cornpop" Biden in the period from leaving the VP to becoming POTUS, including paying Hunter's business legal fees. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/04/26/joe-bidens-unexplained-income-starts-to-connect-the-dots-to-his-degenerate-son-n556356 The linked site is conservative. The facts presented are not of a political bent. They are simply dollar amounts that haven't been explained.

So definitely not in the "latest" category, but I rewatched the 1960 "Judgement at Nuremberg." Simply outstanding movie. Great, understated acting. Superb writing. And a subject that makes you think about "orders."

Last Friday, Special Counsel Durham dropped court filings that state that five Clinton campaign staff have invoked 5th amendment regarding the Russia collusion matter while Durham is charging one lawyer already. In addition, court documents contain findings from the CIA, from early 2017, that the machine language supposedly between Trump, et al, and a Russian bank, was "user created," i.e., phony and manufactured by somebody. The indicted lawyer, Sussman, says he didn't lie to the FBI when he said he wasn't working for any client. Fusion GPS, hired by Clinton campaign, and the Clinton campaign itself, are trying to have the documents thrown out due to "attorney client privilege." So which is it? No client or attorney-client privilege? I still hope for some perp walks before I'm dead.

Jeezuz wept: https://nypost.com/2022/04/18/easter-bunny-stops-biden-from-answering-reporters-question/ And this was a WH strategy to keep the dementia patient from stepping on himself. You work hard in school, you pay your dues in various political jobs to land at the White House...and you're the bunny lady. Nice.

I remember which is why I asked him if he's happy that another unnecessary mort is occurring due to the goatrope that ensued. The ending of the mask mandate (mostly) is just a last gasp of the stupidity that occurred. Lest we forget...

Are you happy about this?

One of the commenters after the article was making the same argument; it's not his fault...

All my life I have read military history, including a lot of WWII stuff. Well, duh... Reading the accounts of the mass, systemic literal raping of everything that moved once Ivan moved into Germany, I kinda figured it was just some sick payback for the Nazis killing millions of your countrymen/women/children. I was wrong. Seems its cultural. Too many stories of low-ranking Ivans doing really heinous things in a war they started.

Happy for Max.

Woke stupidity should hurt (or at least be expensive): https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/04/09/the-cost-of-woke-appeals-court-rules-oberlin-must-pay-gibsons-bakery-32-million-n461248

This is really, really odd: Secret Service agents assigned to Biden, Harris suspended amid bribery investigation (msn.com)

Indeed. Even grandmothers are getting into the act: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/displaced-88-year-old-ukrainian-woman-laughs-as-she-recounts-telling-russian-soldier-fck-your-mother/ Also in the good news department despite the spin: https://thehill.com/policy/international/3261917-kremlin-spokesman-admits-we-have-significant-losses-of-troops-calls-it-a-huge-tragedy/