Not as up to date with my contemporary film viewing but here's a partial lost for the "aughts."

1. The Lord of the Rings (all of em)
   
2. Stardust
3. Chicago
4. Signs
5. Mystic River
6. The Incredibles
7. Pirates of the Carribean (all of em)
   
8. Secondhand Lions
9. Children of Men
10. La Vie en Rose
11. Harry Potter (all of em)
12. Chocolat
13. Big Fish
14. Grindhouse
15. Bobby
16. The Aviator
17. Shrek
18. One Night at McCools

 Mystic River is droping,Signs is a little high.  Chocolat needs moved up.  The Aviator and Bobby might deserve a betters spot as well.

How about the 90's?

1. Casino
2. Unforgiven
3. Saving Private Ryan
   
4. 12 Monkeys
5. Forrest Gump
6. Philadelphia
7. Maverick
8. Cube
9. Independence Day
10. Toy Story
11. The Haunting
12. The Silence of the Lambs
13. Austin Powers: Int'l Man of Mystery
    
14. Men in Black
15. Fight Club
16. The Shawshank redemption
17. The Usual Suspects
18. The Sixth Sense
19. Groundhog Day
20. Schindler's List

 Here's the deal.  Never like Gump - Zelig was better.  Silence of the Lambs needs to be moved up 4-5 slots.  Shawshank needs to drop 3-4 slots.  Otherwise I'm pretty happy.

1. Young Frankenstein
2. The Exorcist
3. Rocky
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Meatballs
6. The Godfather(part II)
   
7. Halloween
8. Star Wars
9. The Sting
10. Deliverance
11. Patton
12. The Godfather
13. M*A*S*H

I'm fast approaching 1900 movies over on Flickchart.com.  Come October I'll regale you with my scary movie rankings.  For tonight, let's look at the 60's.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Psycho
4. Thunderball
5. The Hustler
6. The Cincinnati Kid
7. Cool Hand Luke
8. The Manchurian Candidate
   
9. From Russia With Love
   
10. Once Upon a Time in the West
    
11. Spartacus
12. Casino Royale
13. The Music Man
14. Camelot
15. To Kill A Mockingbird
16. Inherit the Wind
17. Bedazzled
18. Goldfinger
19. Judgment at Nuremberg
20. The Magnificent Seven

Kiss of Death Special.  The last two weeks one of my top two has lost.  Schedule difficulty will STILL keep you out of the top five (Florida, Texas, Oklahoma) .... a loss no longer counts against you since IMHO every D-I but one will have one.  And we'll go bottom up from here on.

5.  Alabama.  Best team in the SEC.

4.  Ohio State.  That's spelled H-O-M-E-R.

3. Va Tech.  Beating M/F will do that for ya.

2. Southern Cal.  They've had their bonehead loss of the season.  Just too bad it didn't comeagainst OSU.

1.  Boise State.  I'll drink the Kool-Aide.

Look for a shakeup next week as some of the good teams actually play OTHER good teams.

Obama’s diplomatic clumsiness may boost anti-Americanism in Eastern Europe, the only region in Europe where the United States is actually liked.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” “It’s been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He’s sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and ‘Israeli mercenaries’ are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.” Also, evil gnomes keep mismatching his socks. So the United States decided to back a nut who was removed by his own Supreme Court? I can only imagine the press if Bush had done something like this . . . .

SARKOZY MOCKS OBAMA at U.N. Security Council. 

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“SMART DIPLOMACY.” I don’t think it’s a good sign that British papers are calling him President Pantywaist. “Obama has done more to restore Russia’s hegemonial potential in Eastern and Central Europe than even Vladimir Putin. . . . If the word is out that America is in retreat, it will soon find it has no friends.”

that healthcare stuff will be FINE!

THOSE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS WILL BE A SNAP: Baucus Claims It’s Too Difficult to Put Health Care Bill Online.

and

“The U.S. government failed to send promised college tuition checks to tens of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before they returned to school this fall, even after being warned that it was inadequately staffed for the job.”

Bill Clinton, who no doubt gets smothered in gifts, is trying something very different at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. According to Ian Wilhelm, writing in the Chronicle of Philanthropy:

Clinton Meeting Skips Swag, But Offers Other Perk

If you paid $20,000 to attend a conference, you’d probably expect a gift bag stuffed with books, gadgets, or other goodies.

But participants at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative — who do pay that amount to be here — are only getting an empty bag. Former president Bill Clinton said the decision to cut back on gifts was in part driven by the economy, but he also wanted to be different than other big world meetings.

In place of the swag, attendees get “200 points” that can be spent at the so-called Giving Back Center, a kiosk where they can allocate their points to various charitable project donated by corporations and charities.

For example, 10 points or so can go to a water filtration packet from Proctor & Gamble, which manufactures the small powdered product that reduces parasites, bacteria, and other contaminants.

While the points are symbolic, how they are spent will indicate what projects people at the Clinton meeting find important.

U.N. Passes Resolution Changing Human Nature

by Scott Ott

OK ... allegedly there's this "new" strain of political insanity going around.  We all remember the "Truther"s who believe that Chimpy McBushitler and Chaney flew planes into the WTC in order to start a war for "oooiiiiillll" ... and the "Birthers" who have yet to see proof they'll accept the President Obama was born in the USA.......and now we have "Tenthers."

Count me in.

The American Prospect, The New Republic, and other left-of-center outlets are pushing the ‘Tenther’ smear, aimed at lumping those who, horrors!, still take seriously the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in with the Obama birth certificate deniers and 9/11 truthers.

It’s such a transparent attempt at marginalizing the other side (mostly with respect to the health care issue) it seems almost a waste of time addressing. But one might start by pointing out that unlike proof that the Bush administration orchestrated the September 11 attacks, the Tenth Amendment actually exists. You can actually go to the National Archives and read it. There’s also a historical record of its drafting and ratification. Really.