Weekend open thread
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton politely declines to eat more cake samples, after having tried the coconut pound cake and purchasing items to go from Saffron Cafe and Bakery owner Ali Rahnamoon as she greets people at his cafe in Charleston, South Carolina February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Here’s your open thread for the weekend. Enjoy!!!
Category: Open thread
First!
Second First.
Also, why is she practicing her perp strut in a cake shop? No reason to tarnish a perfectly good business with *that* display.
That photo makes it look like her head is coming out of the wall. Creepy.
That picture of Shillary says:
Who are you calling a two faced liar?
Talk to the hand.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
Who’s the cankliest gurl of all?
Oh, you missed it, Claw. The head coming out of the wall only appears when other people aren’t watching. Look at the baker. He’s turned away. The head is the REAL shrillary. The one walking around in the pantsuit is a golem – a puppet.
Well, I never was any good at deciphering trick photography.
And what the hell is that topcoat she’s wearing? Looks to me like a hundred pound gunny sack stuffed with two sixty pound bobcats.
Oh, you really don’t want to know what lurks in my imagination, Claw.
Das Hildebeast’s facial expression and body English are like she’s saying “ENOUGH, Peasants! I’ve done the photo op for my campaign, now leave me alone you petty serfs!”.
That is one peculiar photo. I know it’s the angle, but it’s so Twilight Zoney…
One of these days I’ll be retired and get to be first………
The sad truth is . . . I’m still on my first term of enlistment.
But you can’t start the workday right with a feel good story in the morning.
Hang in there bud, 20 goes by pretty fast…….
Hahaha, hell no.
I got 9 years left and it feels like forever.
On the other hand, i hope i get another real war before i kick the bucket.
You hope you get a real war??
Oh bro, your life sucks. Sorry.
Im gonna play Chandelier on my phone just for you.
Correction.
Play it again by Luke Bryan.
Last?
Why is hitlary in a weekend open thread?
John Giduck – the second turd with a face
damn I didn’t even make the top 5 oh well
see what happens when you have to change a poppie Lol…
Get to the bathroom quicker. (smile)
Fuck Bernie Sanders and all the fucking Bernouts who support that piece of fossilized shit.
http://truthinmedia.com/bernie-sanders-calls-for-sweeping-gun-ban-that-would-outlaw-all-self-defense-firearms/
One response: WWNC. ‘Nuff said.
He must be terrified that someone – a LOT of someone – isn’t afraid of him.
So even Bernie is willing to whore his principles to get elected. How sad.
Both Bernie-heads and Hillaroids, FUCK ‘EM ALL!!
The power company decided that today was the time to test our generator. Again.
And folks are bumfuzzled at our anger, as our standards continue to erode. The natural order of things in the free world is for each generation to improve upon what the last generation built. Watching that reverse in a lifetime is disturbing. Damn the lefties for doing this to us, and damn everyone else who let them do it.
There are still stores that sell wood-fired cookstoves and oil lamps with all the things that go with them.
https://www.lehmans.com/
Yes, I do see things starting to slide backwards, and I wonder why anyone would think that’s okay. Next thing, we’ll have to make our own bread because the bakeries are considered to be polluters. Oh, wait – someone did that a few years back: the scent of baking bread was a pollutant. Not a joke. It was 1994, and the EPA was feeling its oats.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/377933/PLEASANT-SMELL-OF-BAKING-BREAD-IS-ADDING-TO-OZONE-POLLUTION.html?pg=all
If you ever get the chance, do go to Lehman’s. Had a chance a few years ago to do that on a road trip though Ohio – well worth the bit out of the way that it is. Could have spent a couple of days in their store!
We already have most everything to shelter in place, with or without the power grid. Mostly, it’s what normal people have for winter, camping and such plus some old timey things like canners and crocks. Now it’s a big deal prepper thing – we just called it living.
Maybe we should just turn the clock back to 1950.
A two-party phone line was a lot less expensive than a cell phone account with internet access and all those silly apps.
I think the Amish had it right, all along.
My first (wireline) phone cost $7.50 a month — plus long distance charges by the minute. This was a few years ago – maybe 45.
I will be moving in a year and I will be getting an 16-megabit DSL internet account plus — a wireline phone 🙂
If you get a contract phone with all the bells & whistles, maybe.
If you go to pre-paid, it’s a lot cheaper. I use Virgin Mobile, which uses the Sprint network.
Also please recall that for land-lines long distance was extra, and one paid a very large premium.
I think we can blame the current state of power companies on -God forbid- a free market.
Back when utilities were highly regulated, each local utility made sure the network was reliable. It was the only one they had, so that made sense.
These days, with deregulation, a larger company such as Duke Energy can buy up local utilities and experience “cost savings” by cutting then-redundant employees. When you have (say) 10 companies, each one needs its own maintenance group, but when they’ve been acquired by a single owner, company needs are less. Simple economics.
Alas, what is economical is not necessarily reliable. I recall when there was a major event (Galveston?) on the Gulf and Duke sent a large part of their repair crews down there to fix things. Problem was that not long after the Midwest experienced severe wind storms. My place of business went down for at least a day, and I lost power for a couple of days. Good thing it was September.
What would have been an addressable issue for the local utility (formerly Cincinnati Gas & Electric) became a critical issue because Duke had sent their crews south!
Redundancy & reliability -something required for a power grid- are expensive, hence are subject to cost-cutting measures within a for-profit company.
Utilities are one area, in my opinion, where regulation is a good idea.
So, who is up for some recipe trading?
I have a decent spaghetti meat sauce that I want to get the opinion of the crowd.
15 pounds firm, ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup water
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
1 small green or red sweet pepper, chopped (1/2 cup)
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms (optional)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup snipped fresh parsley
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons basil, crushed
2 tablespoons oregano, crushed
1 teaspoon dried marjoram, crushed
1 teaspoon pepper
2 bay leaves
1/2 lb sweet Italian sausage
1/2 lb hot Italian Sausage
Directions
1. Wash tomatoes. Remove cores; cut into quarters.
2. Place tomatoes in an 8- or 10-quart Dutch oven or kettle. Heat to boiling, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium. Cook, uncovered, for 20 minutes. Press tomatoes through a food mill; return tomatoes to Dutch oven. Discard seeds and pulp.
3. Remove casings from Italian Sausage.
In a medium frying pan, heat appx 1 tablespoon EVOO and then add sausage, green or red pepper, onion, and garlic, then brown meat and
drain appx 1/2 of oil from the meat.
4. Stir in sausage, onions, green or red pepper, garlic, parsley, fennel seed (if desired), salt, basil, oregano, marjoram, and pepper. Add in oil from meat. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, about 2 hours or until reduced by half, stirring frequently.
It may be used fresh, frozen, or canned as desired.
I forgot to add that you put the bay leaves into the sauce in step 4.
Okay, this is the Cake Boss’s recipe for pasta sauce.
Tomatoes
Olive oil
Garlic
Basil
I use crushed tomatoes, minced garlic and minced basil.
Cook on low heat.
Tomatoes have a natural sugar so keep stirring it to keep it from burning and sticking to the bottom of the pot.
You can also use it for pizza sauce.
Chicken Piccata
3 large skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cut into 1/2-inch medallions
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons vegetable oil, or as needed
1 clove garlic, minced
1 cup low sodium chicken broth
1/2 lemon, thinly sliced
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons capers, drained and rinsed
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons minced Italian (flat-leaf) parsley
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). Place a serving platter into the oven to warm.
2.Season the chicken breast pieces with salt and pepper and dredge them in flour. Shake off excess flour. Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet; pan-fry the chicken pieces until golden brown on both sides, about 3 minutes per side. Work in batches and do not crowd skillet, adding oil as needed . Place the chicken pieces onto the warmed platter in the oven. When finished with all the chicken, drain most of the oil from the skillet, leaving a thin coating on the surface of the pan.
3.Cook and stir the minced garlic in the skillet until fragrant, about 20 seconds. Pour in the chicken broth. Scrape and dissolve any brown bits from the bottom of the skillet. Stir in the lemon slices and bring the mixture to a boil. Let cook, stirring occasionally, until the sauce reduces to about 2/3 cup, 5 to 8 minutes. Add the lemon juice and capers; simmer until the sauce is reduced and slightly thickened, about 5 minutes more. Drop the butter into the skillet and swirl it into the sauce by tilting the skillet until the butter is melted and incorporated. Add the parsley; remove from heat and set aside.
4.Arrange the chicken medallions on serving plates and spoon sauce over each portion to serve.
Serve over pasta, with parm, white wine and crusty bread.
Add a robust red wine, like a cab. sauvignon, approx. 3/4 cup, add approx. 3/4 cup grated parm. cheese about 15 mins before serving. Ditch the salt, there’s enough sodium in the onion, garlic and sausages.
You could also sub Italian seasoning instead for all your dried herds.
If you sub canned tomatoes for fresh, look for low sodium crushed tomatoes or Italian stewed tomatoes. Those are both tasty.
forgot to add that the wine should be added a the beginning of the sauce process so it has time to cook the alcohol off ^_^
eat the cake naughty gurl, daddy likes you chubby
This is evidenced by photos of the girlfriend of the Democratic primary leader’s husband’s ex girlfriend.
The cake is a lie. 🙂
Also, for the record, here is your safety brief.
Ensure that you PMCS your vehicle, paying attention to fuel and fluids before you begin your trip. (This is for our non CPO stalker. I hope that he remembers his cane when he goes to get the mail from the curb.)
If you are painting or using any sort of aerosol cans, ensure that you have plenty of ventilation in the area. Otherwise you may end up riding the ShOrTbUs and SLurpInG YouR SOUp.
Please moderate your cheese intake, it has been known to act as a binding agent on your Giduck Matter when you are on the crapper.
Anyone else may add to this list.
Said fake CPO NEVER needs a cane, crutches, or walker whenever he’s near a REAL USN CPO, they must have an awesomely powerful healing aura about them that makes people want to MOVE, look at how easily Bernath the Fred Phelps clone pranced around his lawn in bare feet when The Hair®™ visited!
PROUD, in Maine for job. Can you and Grog swap out the things. I’ll pick them up on Wednesday.
FOURTEENTH, and Bernath still works balls while sniffing wino taint behind bus stops.
A free public service announcement here on TAH.
Holy crap … I gave up a lot for Lent, now all for nothing after watching that!
Thanks Dave!
17th … I is gettin’ closer suckas!
Here’s your weekend Public Service Announcement (PSA) from the resident Grammar Nazi:
Capitalization is important.
It’s the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
That is all.
AWWWRIGHT, their they’re there…
This is an old one…
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
“Why?” asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
“Well, I’m a panda,” he says. “Look it up.”
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
A little something from the past for you.
http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/vietnam-war/raw-vietnam-combat-footage/664064459001
28!!! Works for me!
As much as I scoff at Bernie, I can find no fault with his analysis of Das Hildebeast.
http://www.ijreview.com/2016/02/546423-bernie-supporters-describe-hillary-clinton-in-one-word/
Even a blind socialist, errr, chipmunk, finds the occasional ACORN.
Awwww, they’re so cute. They used the ‘B’ word and the ‘L’ word. You see? They really are semiconscious.
The Rise of the Machines has begun.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3461251/He-s-Watch-Google-s-new-Atlas-robot-stand-getting-knocked-giant-stick-amazing-video.html
The video is about halfway down the page.
Must be Sara Connors’ newest friend.
This machine is quite amazing. I hope the EOD bubbas pick it up first and put it through its paces.
I am a big fan of robots, I can’t stand most of the so-called humans walking around with iPhones planted in their gobs … Oh … Sorry, they are robots!
Nevermind.
Note: Advances in robot tech are big in the EOD world. Droids sent down range on IED is a good thing provided they can ‘render safe’.
Very true, robots and their parts are replaceable, human lives and limbs aren’t.
Wait until they turn on you.
https://youtu.be/kYt2HmAxHL4
As long as your name isn’t Sarah or John Connor you should be OK.
I know something you don’t know!
Same here.
Who wants to go first?
I am rounding third and the other POS is not!
Could it be …..
Jonn,
Your Rum will be in its way to VA. Enjoy..
DA PAIN TRAIN SMASHED YOU DANNI-BOI!!!
Non-CPO
Disbarred lawyer
Deadbeat dad
Fraud
Liar
Danni-boi got dorked in the squeakhole by the CA state bar!!!
So how long until it’s official?
CA posts the disbarrment rulings online, and really, REALLY can’t wait to read it.
Here’s hoping this dumb fucker will finally get the hint and fade away quietly.
It ain’t gonna happen, but it’s still a nice thought.
Disbarred on MY BIRTHDAY & AS OF FEBRUARY 28, 2016 ITS OVER BYE BYE BUTTHOLE, HE AIN’T GOT ONE, COLOSTOMY BAG
OK … goes like this …
Nah, I can’t!
But I can recommend that all TAH personnel buy popcorn!
Good news because my popcorn stash is reaching its sell-by date.
The popcorn is on hand, so I hope whatever it is happens before my plan has to come to fruition.
My plan is that just before I die I will swallow a cup and a half of popcorn kernels just to make my cremation a little more interesting.
Nothing better than putting a little “fun” in funeral.
Buy popcorn, Hell no! Buying STOCK in popcorn for this little show!!!
(But if someone could pass some over I would appreciate it) 😀
I hope there’s a perp walk in this story… and some characters that have names like Bubba, Thor, Julio and Mr. “Tiny”
We would certainly hope so!
On the other hand, if you added up what all of us know that you don’t, it just might be more than what you know that none of the rest of us know…
Or something. 😉
No. Add the collective. Divide by two, multiply by 4, say “fucht it” and realize we are all as smart!
But, but, but – that equation would require the use of all my fingers AND some of my toes! It’s still winter here. Don’t wanna use the toes for mathematical calculations yet.
Joe has a handlebar mustache and is wearing a red shirt with a black Stetson.
Three long years of intense investigation and verifications we have more then enough to put the hippie WOODWARD and the others in hell. First non President, first PTSD diagnosed veteran, who President Obama called to honor with placing the wreath on the Unknown Soldiers.
WOODWARD is now claiming brain tumors, but, he’s been collecting VA benefits for over forty years. He was in MO, as a radio repairman, during his secret Army Ranger Gundog Team F mission was in Vietnam to extract POWs Intel said we’re being moved to another camp.
To my horror the asshole who did the honors with him is a not vet, but a convicted felon named McCary. The motorcycle club, non veteran’s and documented criminals. Others who were involved just blew me away.
I had old friends help me identify each via mugshot and tattoos. Years ago they started to document everyone arrested with pictures of tats. Sadly, Judge Watson who proclaimed it John Louis Woodward day is dead was involved in the scam along with other fakes.
BURKETT said if he collected VA benefits, as the author of STOLEN VALOR, I will put him in prison. I just put everything in a package and labeled it from beginning to end.
Thank you SIR.
Once he goes through everything and its a go, this is what we’re going to do…..?
DISBARRED IN CALIFORNIA NON KNOWN AS PLAN BERNASTY, why does everything I write have to do with your punk ass. This has nothing to do with you so KINDLY FUCK THE HELL OFF,before someone drops a coconut on your ass.
Charming young lady shitcanned!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/25/mizzou-professor-who-pushed-reporter-away-from-protesters-is-fired/
Well, bye.
That’s damn fine news. Thanks for posting that.
Be shocked if she doesn’t get a soft landing at some other esteemed liberal kollege asylum. She is just no longer Mizzou’s headache.
That’s an unfortunate truth. As long as she’s liberal and PC enough…
Finally, a relaxing weekend at Casa de SEA.
And come Monday, back on the road again. I can run software, but code? Hence my mobile lifestyle. Fortunately, I’m Hilton Platinum, IHG Spire Elite, among others, and the first quarter of 2016 ain’t even done yet.
I am so proud. I finally got threatened with a lawsuit for exposing a phony. The funny thing is, it wasn’t by the phony but one of his sympathizers. It brings a tear to the eye. This is about the phony Navy Commander and phony EOD Tech, Jerry Foster. Aaaaand, so everyone knows, the DAV Simi Valley Chapter 55 is rallying around this phony. They will not answer my phone calls, they will not return them and they have also banned me from posting on their Facebook page.
Dammit…I’ve been hitting up all sorts of sites about that slipknot and nobody has taken the time to threaten me. I feel so cheated.
Good work Jay!
I asked them to kindly put the lawsuit on the docket in the summer because a cross country motorcycle trip would be fantastic. I could also gather a bunch of EOD Techs to attend the proceedings for a good chuckle and tale to tell.
Summertime in Simi Valley?
You may regret that, good sir.
Send the info to Scotty…..He’ll send some midgets after the louse….
I tried posting on their FB page-No dice. Go figure..
Hey, I think I found that nirvana place.
There’s some place in Oregon where you can spend an entire weekend soaking in tubs of beer.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/31319344/nations-first-beer-spa-opens
It’s perfect, man. You get massages, too. Beer and massages. What else is there?
Couple hours drive from my house 🙁
Oh, you lucky dog!
That woman scares the maggots off a gut wagon…..
Got picked up for a GS-11 job. 🙂
If y’all come through Osan, lemme know and we’ll do lunch.
Sarge
Congratulation, Sarge. Well done. Wish I could take you up on that offer, but my traveling days are over.
The ghost image in the mirror is answering, “Does This Make My Ass Look big? Wait a minute, the mirror is laughing. Mirror is also saying, Come back in June since it is National Dairy appreciation day. We’ll take you to lunch that month!!!!!
OK Crappie get ready to get introduced to my live well! Reelfoot Lake here I come!!!
Stolen Valor of the month award:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3466731/Flight-attendants-use-ice-hammer-coffee-pot-subdue-drunk-passenger-tried-kiss-stewardess-falsely-claiming-Green-Beret.html
GDC. Paging GDC.
“Call for GDC. Call for GDC.”
“2/17 to GDC. Over.”
“GDC. I know you can hear me. Pick up the phone.”
“GDC. You have won a two week vacation in Hawaii. Please redeem by contacting TAH.”
“Hey, isn’t that GDC’s face on the milk carton?”
Present!
I have been busy reading Tom Kratman books and trying to ignore current Donald events. Did I tell you guys I won a Kimber .45 in a raffle? I can’t remember. Can I take a pistol with me to Hawaii? That would be so awesome.
// in the past 5 yesrs, I have won the annual gun raffle 3 times. Sig 556 patrol swat, Colt LEO AR, and now a Kimber full frame 1911. I have no explanation for the wins. I don’t even like guns. That’s why I give them all to Dave Hardin.
You can take it to Hawaii, but given their gun laws, you won’t be able to take it back, assuming you don’t spend a while in the state prison first.
And 2/17 dude, you gotta read some Kratman. Start with A Desert Called Peace.
Yeah, okay, but you can’t neglect your duties at TAH! Set aside the wife, the job, and the other myriad mundane matters that squeeze your time and spend more minutes here. Or esle. And you do not want to know what else is. I kid you not.
Nor do you want to know what esle is.
I will endeavor to do better!
I second that recommendation.
Excellent stories, and you will learn all sorts of interesting things from them.
His commentary on the Every Joe web site is also quite worthwhile.
The NORK Army will absolutely DESTROY its enemies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89YC_e2WdT8
That is, if their enemies are concrete slabs…
If they consume copious quantities of kimchee, they can destroy the enemy with their breath.
Kimchee? I thought that smell was Bernastys pants.
(This was written by one of my shipmates Kevin R Young Sr. Describing the events on the night of 24 February 1991) It was 25 years ago today. I was on board the USS Horne CG-30 in the northern Arabian (Persian) Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. We were about 10 miles off the coast of Kuwait supporting combat operations which were in full swing at this time. It was late at night with a nearly full moon illuminating the white caps on the Gulf’s stormy waters. My good friend and fellow ICman Dewayne Holman came down to Forward IC Missile Plot where I was standing Inertial Navigation watch to tell me about a troubling development. According to Holman, EWs (electronic warfare operators) had informed him that an Iraqi Silkworm missile battery on shore in Kuwait had radar lock on our ship as well as other nearby allied ships. My BS detector went off and I responded, “No way… if somebody had missile lock on us we’d be at General Quarters.” Just then… right on cue… CLANG CLANG CLANG… General Quarters… General Quarters… all hands man your Battle Stations.” My GQ station was on the Bridge/CIC (Combat Information Center) It takes me less than a minute to race up 4 decks and walk into CIC. It’s like all hell is breaking loose. Captain is ordering birds on the rails… (SM1/SM2 surface to air missiles on the launcher ready to fire) and our CSO (combat systems officer) is barking at the MEC (missile engagement coordinator) while the WEC (weapons engagement coordinator) is gathering additional information on the threat. Air controllers are providing target information to allied aircraft based on electronic signals intercepted by our EWs. Everybody seems to be talking at once… but it’s all controlled chaos… when suddenly somebody shouts… “Incoming!.” Then a hushed tone falls over CIC. A few seconds pass. And then, “Another one… incoming.” Fire control radars are spitting out targeting data on the Silkworm threat approaching at over 500 kts. Then over Ship to Ship comms I hear a delightful (and rather exuberant) British voice ask a… Read more »
Just for shits & giggles I took a look at the first thread outing Bermaggot (2,163 comments!) and prowled through some of the comments. “unfortunately phallic-shaped hedge”, “Santorum-faced liar”, “MEGA-CLASS PATHETIC LOSER”,… and come to think of it those terms STILL describe that unfortunately phallic-shaped hedge of a glittery gargoyle gonad-gazing taint-lusting Santorum-stained dingleberry Fred Phelps clone today!! Oh, and he STILL hasn’t found me to this day, ain’t that a surprise?
PROUD..
Just got verification THE WOODWARD GIG is on. Fly out Thursday morning and we meet up with our backers. I’m flying home from Boston tomorrow. Their accents are worse then TN.
FUCK IT, CALL ME 12 YOUR TIME.
BERNATH! Reading this?
Your now under the root of a tree. Not even above ground. No one cares about you as of February 28, 2016. JUst a fake crippled, non attorney, Phelps clone piece of shit without friends. Ask Dallas, he’s now my Buddie ?????????
If this ain’t the funniest sneeze ever, I don’t know what is!
Well, I did it.
The snow finally melted and I went over to my neighbor’s yard and scooped a BUCKET full of Phil Monkress out of his yard.
I told you guys I would do it.
For the entire winter, my dog has been dropping huge, steaming piles of Phil Monkress in his yard. So now that the weather has turned, per se, I did my civic duty and cleaned them up.
But I have to tell you, that was ALOT of Phil Monkress. Especially to be face to face with.
I may need therapy.
I have to ask,GT….What did you do with that Bucket of Monkress? Recommedation: If you have not gotten rid of it, perhaps you can put it in the yards of two certain folks who live in the same AO as Phil… 🙂
“Bucket of Monkress” would be a good name for a rock band.
You read it here first.
Making the national news round is a Virginia cop that got killed on her first day on the job as she responded to a domestic disturbance.
Her killer was an Army Sergeant, who also gunned down his wife.
Coming next: PTSD excuse
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-virginia-police-officer-killed-20160228-story.html
“And the wiener is…”
How screwed up are the Oscars? Very. The film that won best picture was seen by about, oh, 17 people. The Oscar win should at least double that number. Of course, the Oscars is apolitical and those who vote are only interested in film as art, right? And that explains why the Oscar’s best picture won no artistic awards. Instead, the movie, Stage Right, Red Light, or something dredged up the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandals and cover-ups from 15 years ago. And that’s just dandy. If it earns about $600,000,000.00 more at the box office, it might rival American Sniper in popularity. Then there’s the Oscar gift bag. I never heard of it before today. Losers get goodies, with each gift bag worth about $200,000. Yes, you read that amount correctly. Anyway, there is something of an uproar from the apolitical Oscarinians. It seems that Israel’s tourism office donated a trip to Israel, worth about $55,000 per gift bag. So? So, that’s what the furor is about. Hollywood’s Palestinian cheerleaders do not approve. Is this a hoot or what?
Glad that you updated us, A/C because I would remain more than ignorant about the event had you not. We just don’t do the movie theater thing. Maybe every decade or so. Haven’t regularly since admission was about 75 cents.
Let’s see – we did a couple’s thing and saw “Big, Fat Greek Wedding.” It was hilarious, but the experience was less than enjoyable because of a very noisy action flick showing next door. Even that had some pretty funny moments what with the extremely inappropriate background noise at times.
Before that, it was “Backdraft.” Correctly figured that was one which needed to be seen on a big screen at least once. Then a couple of “Dare ya to go with us” movie excursions, one being ET, the other an Arnold flick premier shown at 12:01am. Never can remember the name of it – Sharon Stone (?) played a good guy or maybe a bad guy or something and there were implanted memory chips, or something equally stupid.
I did see a movie in the theatre this decade. I did it for my wife. It was mistake. Even she didn’t like the movie, but at least I am covered for another 10 years. At the speed with which movies hit the DVD market nowadays, I wait, rent, and watch from the comfort of my home. And even at that, there are very few movies I rent that were made in the past 30 years or so.
OWB, the Arnold flick was *Total Recall*.