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Bateshorn

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  1. He said that Bill Clinton fucked her (no CR). Which he quickly retracted, but I think most people believed him.
  2. This one will hurt. He was in several of the best action films of the last 30 years and was often the glue that held an ensemble cast together. He just had a natural ease for action acting. There’s a moment in Saving Private Ryan on the beach where he takes out a dip in the course of a scene transition. It’s such a little movement, but it was so natural and easy. Just a bit of umami, so to speak, that makes the shot . For me, the action is the juice.
  3. Listening to titty babies cry about the pitch clock makes me realize how few people have regularly attended a minor league game in recent years.
  4. this, I worked one summer in a cubicle farm and I got some chuckles out of the strip, but in general, Office Space did it better, and Dilbert gets old pretty quick. It was certainly no Calvin and Hobbes.
  5. I read it. The error is an error, but the signature page 2 is wrong. Basically, they said “ DOT’s NTSB. “ they should have said “NTSB” It’s more or less a proof reading mistake. Buttigieg is kinda being that grammer guy in the internet.
  6. Staff should have known better. But that letter is weird, because it’s signed by Jim Jordan, who is not the chair (James Comer is the OGR Chair). Here’s a full oversight letter I found on line (I’ll admit I haven’t read it in detail. I don’t do transportation stuff for a living) https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-24-Letter-DOT-Norfolk-Southern-Derailment.pdf
  7. I liked it, I didn’t love it. Agree that Colman is masterful, but the movie is a touch uneven. It’s nothing like the trailer. I tried The Fablemans the other night and turned it off after about 25 minutes. It failed to hook me, and Michelle Williams is just creepy.
  8. When they talk about bullet magnets in Black Hawk Down, that is the Russian version.
  9. The “quantity has a quality all its own” worked for Russia, exactly once: WW2. And that’s partially (mostly) because we were supplying them with the materials they needed beyond humans to make it work. Plus we destroyed the Nazis oil sources in Romania. Had the German’s not elected to try and fight and win a 2 front war after D-Day and invest his reserves in the Bulge, started quiet negotiations with the West, and instead focused on the Eastern Front, I’m not sure the Russians get across the Oder before we capture most of Germany and Berlin. Basically it was a one off that needed everything to come together to be successful.
  10. Yeah, modern Tankies are not classic Tankies. I suspect that if say, Nikki Haley won the presidency, and continued support for Ukraine, you’d see some left wing MOC, like Jayapal or Ro Khanna suddenly start talking about the need to negotiate.
  11. One of the very clever things this Administration is doing is remaking the Ukrainian military into our military’s image. Just Like the Poles. This makes it very hard for certain elements (no CR) to walk away from Ukraine because there are jobs in their congressional districts that are now dependent on our continued support for Ukraine. And that means getting the Ukrainians on board with our SOP. And that likely doesn’t involve use of old, warehoused cluster munitions that probably are only still in existence because the Pentagon doesn’t have the cash to do safe and proper disposal (I.e. not burnpits).
  12. My understanding is the US Military moved away from them not because they are woke babies, but because they were seen as a military liability all things considered, and not in line with our overall focus on accuracy when blowing shit up. Basically the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. It’s similar to our abandonment of napalm: there are better tools for the job.
  13. I’m in short sleeves, with the grill on, in February, in Washington DC. At least one cherry tree on my street is in bloom.
  14. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie Tankies are basically left wing people who will excuse anything former Soviet/current China does as it’s all for the cause (which is completely malleable depending on the issue) in this current setting: because Biden is ascendant and all of Europe(including the Greens) is unified, they are very quiet. Amnesty International is probably as close as you are going to get as their public face.
  15. Not sure about ATACMS, but there is wisdom here about the politics. Tankies are a thing. They might be hiding, but the are waiting to come out the moment a pro-Ukrainian GOP leader shows up.
  16. With China, you strangle them economically. Use sanctions and trade embargoes to force EU and US manufacturing to look elsewhere for low cost producers.
  17. It’s been a good day.
  18. I don’t want to downplay the Russia-Iran thing, but “sophisticated “ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.
  19. Fair enough. I loved it, but it’s always tricky recommending foreign language movies
  20. It’s just so damn hard to find anything good these days that goes bang and doesn’t take 2.5 hours and is a mediocre quality CGI fest. I felt like the movie wasn’t trying to explore a deeper meaning and instead just took the viewers for a ride, letting them find their own meaning.
  21. I wasn’t aware there was a sliding scale for riot quality. You’ve obviously never tried to keep up with lightning fast German subtitles before. There were no good guys and lots of tactical wtf in Apocalypse Now, and yet it’s a classic. Literally nothing made sense in Maverick, which was basically a rewarming of the first movie, with the Star Wars trench scene tacked on and Miles Teller’s mustache. If you can find a quality sub 100 minute action movie with cool visuals and multiple long tracking shots, I’m all ears.
  22. Athena. About a riot in a French housing project and a group of brothers living/fighting through it. It's pretty much straight action from the jump. 99 minutes. Cinematography is absolutely astounding and the action is breathtaking. Because it's French, the subtitles are easy. I don't know how this movie didn't end up on everyone's top ten lists. 5 out of 5 stars. Maybe the only movie this year that can hang with Maverick on the action/entertainment front.
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