Alien Invasion Films:

1. Men in Black
2. Independence Day
3. The Thing - the original
   
4. Signs
5. War of the Worlds - w/Gene Berry
6. The Day the Earth Stood Still - yet again, the original

your thoughts?

 Animated Musical

1. Snow White and...
2. Pinocchio
3. Alice in Wonde...
4. Robin Hood
5. Cinderella

and we'll close this post out with my top 20 Bio-pics:

1. La Vie en Rose
2. Schindler's List
3. The Aviator
4. Monster
5. Patton
6. The Elephant Man
7. The Sound of M...
8. Funny Lady
9. Amadeus
10. They Died With...
11. The Pride of t...
12. Wyatt Earp
13. Frida
14. Topsy-Turvy
15. Papillon
16. Pollock
17. Catch Me If Yo...
18. Rudy
19. Men of Honor
20. Ed Wood

haven't given any feedback on Flickchart.com lately .... they've added a TON of movies but still have a long way to go.  They've also diversified into dozens of genres.  I've rated over 1600 so far.  Here's my top 5 AA flicks:

1. Children of Men
2. Thunderball
3. Road House
4. The Transporter
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1

Not all the genres are so nice.  How about "Addiction Dramas"?

1. Leaving Las Ve...
2. Traffic
3. Trainspotting
4. The Lost Weekend
5. Bright Lights Big City

And my "Adventures" genre has been fleshed out a bit since a few Westerns have been added - The Searchers, one of the greates westerns ever, now heads the list

1. The Searchers
2. Pirates of the...
3. Treasure of th...
4. Raiders of the...
5. The Goonies
6. The Adventures...
7. Indiana Jones ...

A DOCTOR’S PLAN FOR LEGAL INDUSTRY REFORM.

Glen Reynolds suggested something similar in the Congressional health care forum. Legal representation is a right! And what says “right” better than supervision, rationing and regulation from a government-run monopoly!

Remember A few weeks ago President Obama was regaling us with some Biblical knowledge ?

I recently sumbled accross a passage that might help him out in these trying times.  Deuteronomy 23:25-26 reflects the limits on altruism: When thou comest into thy neighbor's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn.

From the rest of us .... keep your cotton pickin' hands off my corn!

Remember the good ol' days in Bushitler's AmeriKKKa when the religious freakazoids where shaming fetuses by making them ask morally outraged pharmacists for the Plan B emergency contraceptive after having unprotected sex? When we were awash in magical (read: religious) thinking and right-wing Christians were seeing the grim visage of apocalyptoid preacher John Hagee every time they split open a pomegranate (once known on the East Coast as "Chinese apples")?

And if you don't remember any of that, you surely remember the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich saga and the tale of the Jesus Potato, don't you? Those were signs of how retarded and gullible we were as a society, right?

Yeah, those sure were good times. But now that we've pushed past all that religious crap in everyday culture and can finally breathe good, clean, cosmopolitan air with a president who doesn't speak a foreign language and stumbles when pronouncing heads of state's name, we can take a gander at secular versions of the same crap. Now it's global warming that's making found sculptures.

THIS sad face, eerily etched into melting Arctic ice, has been dubbed Mother Nature in Tears by astonished environment experts.

The weeping image was "sculpted" by water pouring from a glacier retreating under the effects of global warming.

Lecturer Michael Nolan captured the photo at Norway's Austfonna ice-shelf. The glacier has been vanishing at the rate of 160ft a year for 12 years.

Michael, from Arizona, US, regularly visits the area. He said: "Every summer there is less ice. I was struck by this image of a face - a saddened, motherly face, crying about our inability to reduce global warming."

As Baylen Linnekin (hat tip!) puts it, "see whatever you want, dude."

Georgetown University Professor John Hasnas has this take on what it feels like to be a libertarian these days:

It feels bad. Being a libertarian means living with an almost unendurable level of frustration. It means being subject to unending scorn and derision despite being inevitably proven correct by events.

Imagine spending two decades warning that government policy is leading to a major economic collapse, and then, when the collapse comes, watching the world conclude that markets do not work.

Imagine continually explaining that markets function because they have a built in corrective mechanism; that periodic contractions are necessary to weed out unproductive ventures; that continually loosening credit to avoid such corrections just puts off the day of reckoning and inevitably leads to a larger recession; that this is precisely what the government did during the 1920's that led to the great depression; and then, when the recession hits, seeing it offered as proof of the failure of laissez-faire capitalism.

things like this drive my sister the teacher  NUTZ!

from John Stossel

When Oregon’s North Clackamas School District found itself faced with a tight budget, it asked its teachers to agree to a wage freeze in order to avoid layoffs. Teachers told our affiliate station KATU that they took a poll in the spring and the majority of teachers agreed to the wage freeze. But because the teachers are represented by a union, the union handled the negotiations with the school district.
 
The result? The union refused the wage freeze and teachers were laid off. Teachers say the layoffs could mean 45 kids in some classrooms.

The teachers, who gathered outside their union office, said they want a response from the union…

Those speaking out said it shouldn't have reached this point, and they would have accepted the district's offer, favoring a wage freeze to save jobs…

Union leaders said they had no choice. They have to do what is best for the students and all of their membership, they said.

It’s always about what’s best for the students, isn’t it?

I talk to people like this every DAY .... in OHIO!!!

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