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C-Man

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  1. I wasn't either when it won Best Picture. I enjoyed it then but absolutely love it now. It's a great film and Hackman is such a great bad guy. I think The Royal Tenenbaums is my favorite movie of his. Probably pick Unforgiven, Hoosiers, No Way Out, The French Connection, Crimson Tide, Mississippi Burning, No Way Out The Birdcage and Superman to pick out the next four of my top five. I know it was a small role but he's in one of my favorite all-time movies (Young Frankenstein).
  2. Kash Patel wants to bring UFC to the FBI https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=119255318
  3. They hadn't been seen in weeks and the bodies were "decomposed." https://deadline.com/2025/02/gene-hackman-death-suspicious-police-1236303855/ “Affiant believes that the circumstances surrounding the death of the two deceased individuals to be suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation because the reporting party found the front door of the residence unsecured and opened, deputies observed a healthy dog running loose on the property, another healthy dog near the deceased female, a deceased dog laying 10-15 feet from the deceased female in a closet of the bathroom, the heater being moved, the pill bottle being opened and pills scattered next to the female, the male decedent being located in a separate room of the residence, and no obvious signs of a gas leak,” the document adds. Two men who worked on Hackman’s property reported the decomposed bodies in the home on Wednesday. The 30-year long married couple had not been seen for a few weeks, sources say. He was in so much great shit. I saw Mississippi Burning for the first time a few years ago. I'll have to think about my favorite Hackman movies. The French Connection absolutely holds up. One of the greatest car chase scenes in cinematic history.
  4. Better fit here
  5. Sachet is fantastic and you’re right about the pita. I’ve had a couple of work lunches there and I get one of their bowls that is outstanding. Need to check out their new concept around the corner from the house — Claremont.
  6. Um, I assume this has been covered. (My apologies — I’ve been at a work conference since Monday.)
  7. So insanely corrupt The Trump Staffers Who Get Paid by Private Clients https://apple.news/Ae3U3HpybRlqAVGRL3EQcPQ
  8. Maybe Grok is further along than we thought.
  9. https://apple.news/AgyAimePBQ8e8Rq5xy32spw
  10. Absolutely true. However, in going and looking at the election maps for every year back to 1912 my recollection is very rarely did states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania go to the same candidate in the same election more than a few times. Most of those were in routs. That he nailed all seven by just enough votes to not trigger recounts and not get 50% of the popular vote is pretty remarkable. (Almost too remarkable. /wink)
  11. I guess the idea of which states are truly "swing" states can change over time but no candidate has won this collection of seven (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin) in the same election since Reagan whipped Mondale's ass in 1984. (Nixon did it in '72 thrashing of McGovern, FDR in '36 and that's it going back to the 1912 election when all 12 had become states.)
  12. ‘Krasnov’ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-34726995?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3b0NbRv4bW3gygSz1qZQh0Ahci6BVIL-sDQLgrgVtcgoQlPMBY5Zc4tig_aem_UMKLcZPwpXFGZJLt03gi3w#n9esbdbujbhu70na46iz5mc43it4xico Not sure this story is all that new but maybe it is.
  13. That's where you tell the kid he'd better investigate his add/drop options because there's no way he's passing your class
  14. I know a few people who are trafficking in these ideas. I'll need to go back and find the source material but the basis of their argument is that the Stop the Steal people illegally got their hands on Dominion voting machines back in 2021 (the Colorado chick went to prison for allowing it). They had plenty of time to reverse engineer them. While the machines are not physically connected to the internet during the election, there is nothing stopping them from having had software installed at some point that allows Starlink to access them (or so this theory says). Starlink had massive rollouts in some crucial counties in the seven swing states. That gets us to the bullet ballots portion of this. This same piece that I'm going to go look for said Trump won all seven swing states -- the first time any POTUS candidate has done that in four decades. It goes on to say the chances of winning all seven of those states and go ever-so-slightly above the threshold that avoids and automatic hand recount WHILE not surpassing 50% of the popular vote nationwide was on the order of 35 billion to one. (That seems sky high to me but I'm a C-level math student.) This is where the bullet ballots come in -- some key counties in these swing states had an extremely inordinate amount of bullet ballots, which are where the voter votes for POTUS and nothing else. Usually, the number is less than 1% and they were seeing 5-9% in some counties. The final piece to their puzzle was Musk's creating voter rolls with his $1M daily lottery giveaway to get people registered to vote. Not saying I believe any of the above but it's certainly more evidence than I ever saw Sidney Powell or Mike Lindell present for the 2020 election. EDIT: here's the link to the piece I read. It's from way back in late November: https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
  15. Dude done fried his brain on conspiracy theories. I think Cousin Eddie is smarter than Quaid is these days.
  16. My wife was openly rooting for Canada. She fell asleep during the third period intermission and woke up just after Connor McDavid scored the game-winning goal, saw the celebration and said, "Good." In the pregame, ESPN aired a team official talking to Trump on speakerphone and then taking the phone into the locker room where King Dipshit addressed the team. It definitely curtailed any US fandom I might otherwise have had. Well, I see they've already got an Oddjob in Stephen Cheung (my apologies if that joke has already been issued)
  17. Maybe somebody should tell Trump's press secretary to not say the administration is rooting for the US hockey team to beat the "soon-to-be-51st-state." And on cue ESPN shows Trump on a speakerphone talking to the US locker room. Fuck it all -- let's go and win this.
  18. You should log all the times he plays golf too Yes, please Ditto
  19. Infuriating. Here are some selected passages:
  20. For anybody traveling abroad in the near future.
  21. Boo-fucking-hoo, Jesse Watters. Go. Fuck. Yourself. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jesse-watters-makes-on-air-plea-to-trump-for-veteran-friend-who-got-doged-in-pentagon-cuts/
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