In the early days of this blog I lameted Obama's trashing of our special relationship with England.

Today a member of the House of Lords offered a 10 million Pound bounty on his head.

THE GREATEST OBITUARY OF ALL TIME: ““Mike wanted it known that he died as a result of being stubborn, refusing to follow doctors’ orders and raising hell for more than six decades. He enjoyed booze, guns, cars and younger women until the day he died.”

stumbled across these this morning ....you might wanna add them to your daily reading:

http://lmaobama.com/ ... self explanatory

and Return Of The Diplomad. looks interesting.  Figure I'll pull a bit from them.  The linked to post and the following BOTH look interesting.  It's the kind of stuff I WISH I wrote!

OK, so the top 50 movies on my all time list didn't pan out.  So I'm reducing it to my top twelve and we'll look at one per month.  I've already done Groundhog Day, Dr. Stangelove, and Lawrence of Arabia.  So for April we have Casablanca (1942).  Do I NEED to revisit the cast?  Bogart, Bergman, Veidt, Henreid, Rains, Greenstreet, Lorre, Sakall.  We get down to Madelain LeBeau as Yvonne (who has the best scene in the whole MOVIE!) before most movie viewers will say "who?"

And did I mention Dooley Wilson?

from IMDB: But what exactly is so special about it? Is it its great genre mix, never equaled by another film? When we think of 'Casablanca' first, we remember it as a romantic film (well, most of us do). But then again, its also a drama involving terror, murder and flight. One can call it a character study, centering on Rick. And there are quite a few moments of comedic delight, just think of the pickpocket ("This place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere!") or the elderly couple on the last evening before their emigration to the US ("What watch?").

But 'Casablanca' is not only great as a whole, it still stands on top if we break it apart and look at single lines of dialog, scenes or performances alone. Is there any other film which has more quotable dialog than 'Casablanca'? 'Pulp Fiction' is on my mind here, and 'All About Eve' and 'Sunset Blvd.' come close, too, but still I think 'Casablanca' tops everything else. And not only is the dialog great, it's unforgettably delivered, especially by Humphrey Bogart ("I was misinformed.") and Claude Rains ("I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here"). Many of scenes have become a part of film history; the duel of 'Die Wacht am Rhein' and 'La Marseillaise' is probably one of the greatest scenes ever shot (the only I can think of that would rival it for the #1 spot is Hynkel and the globe from Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'), and the last scene is probably even familiar to the few people who've never seen 'Casablanca'. Am I the only one who is absolutely convinced that the film wouldn't have become what it is today if Rick and Ilsa would have ended up as the lucky couple?

see it again.  And again.  And again.

and I've left out all of the hoohaa over T Martin.

Democratic Legislator Calls for Cheney’s Execution. Amusingly, he’s the chair of the “moderate caucus.”

WAY behind on THIS little project.

Currently #50 on my list is Sunset Blvd. (1950).  Holden (whom I LOVE!), Swanson, von Stroheim ... lesser roles by Jack Webb, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton and Cecil B. DeMille.  As noted in an IMDB review: The images of this beautiful black and white powerhouse are fascinating and unforgettable: the dead writer floating in a pool, eyes wide open, looking right at us at the beginning; the eerie pipe organ that plays by the breeze in the middle of one of the most deep and dustiest sets ever; the funeral ceremony of the dead monkey in Norma's courtyard ("That must have been one important chimp. The grandson of King Kong perhaps." says Holden in a delightfully crisp and wise voice-over.) Holden pulls his car into a driveway off of the boulevard that will change his life forever. He is the emblem of the struggle to get notoriety. He has only a few B Movies to his credit. Swanson as Norma Desmond is the symbol of lost fame and has become the talk of legend. What is ironic about her character is that she may be playing herself in an odd way. She WAS an actual silent star whose career went down the tubes after the talkies came about. Her madness combined with Holden's last drop of naiveté combine to give us one of the most electrifying "give and take" between actors I've ever witnessed.

Some GREAT scenes.  A must see.  REALLY!

#225 o Flickchart, #32 on IMDB

POTUS professor Charles Ogletree whom I respect made a silly remar today that may/should come back to haunt him....and his student....and their followers. 

He joined Al Sharpton's race-baiting mob in Washington, DC and said: "I want to see the first black man who uses the 'stand your ground' defense and see if it works. I want to see the first white victim of 'stand your ground' by a black defendant and see if it works."

The Tampa Bay Times compiled a list of 140 cases since 2005 in which the stand your ground law had been invoked in Florida alone. Among those 140 cases, the newspaper reported, there were 11 in which the circumstances were similar to those in which George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin.

One case from 2009 involved a black defendant, Demarro Battle, who was initially charged with second-degree murder for shooting and killing an unarmed white male, Omar Bonilla (whose race was confirmed today by the Fort Myers Police Department). The charges were dropped by the state because of the stand your ground law.

Just one.  From one state.  But enough to rebut the chicanery being spewed by the left.

per George Orwell:

“The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc [English Socialism], and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short . . . protective stupidity.”

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