Tonight’s featured amusement is a clip of what is arguably the single most intense piece of acting in the history of moving pictures. There have certainly been some colossal moments of scenery-chewing over the years – Robert Shaw’s “I’ll catch him, I’ll kill him” speech in Jaws comes to mind, as does Charlton Heston’s display in Planet Of The Apes when he sees the top of the Statue of Liberty sticking out of the sand, and rages “Damn you! God damn you all to hell!” – but in terms of creating sheer dramatic intensity with just a single look, nothing could ever top this scorching moment from the late great C.J. Prairie Dog. He’s the best damned actor I’ve ever seen, that’s for sure.
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Khaled Abu Toameh:
“Here is some last-minute advice to the group of women who are planning to organize another aid ship to break the Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza Strip: Do not forget to wear the hijab and cover other parts of your body before you arrive at the Hamas-controlled area. And make sure that none of you is seen laughing in public. Otherwise, you are likely to meet the same fate as other Palestinian women who have been physically and verbally abused by fundamentalist Muslims in the Gaza Strip.”
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“Just recently, Hamas’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice stopped female journalist Asthma al-Ghul under the pretext that she came to the beach dressed ‘immodestly’ and was seen laughing in public.
“‘They accused me of laughing loudly while swimming with my friend, and for failing to wear a hijab,’ she told a human rights organization in the Gaza Strip. ‘They also wanted to know the identity of the people who were swimming with me…”
C.J. Prairie Dog obviously doesn’t want to be an sda.
Our Cat Ritzie is also very good at “over-acting” especially when she wants to be fed!!
C.J. Prairie Dog was the understudy for Dr Evil in Goldmember. He was just shy one finger to do the appropriate pose!
Ah yeszz, to be in Paree in ze summertime…
“The Chinese residents of Paris demonstrated on Sunday against acts of violence by Arabs. There was a huge turnout – 8500 people according to the police, (over 10,000 according to Novopress), in the neighborhood of Belleville, in East Paris, the largest demonstration by Asians ever organized in France. The organizers of the demonstration spoke of a ‘growing climate of insecurity’. Included among the demonstrators was the adopted daughter of Jacques Chirac – Anh, Dao Traxel of Vietnamese origin. There are an estimated 600,000 – 700,000 Asian residents in France, most of them in Paris and its suburbs.”
“‘There are too many people attacked by Arabs. They grab purses, they break shop windows, we no longer feel safe,’ cried out a young demonstrator as gongs and drums sounded…”
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/
CJ heard the weather report and is looking for a life raft. Not many logs are going to float by.
C.J. Prairie Dog is the greatest Canadian actor since William Shatner. Too bad he doesn’t work for the CBC or he would be perfect for the Governor Generals job.
On a slightly more serious note. The Asians in Paris are fighting with the Muslims in Paris while the French sit on the sidelines and do nothing. This isn’t a race problem it’s an immigration problem.
My moneys on the Asians. They know how to push back hard.
Ah, yes.
C.J. Prairie Dog, just before catching Kate’s .22 hollow point…
Obama and the War against Israel, Part II
President Obama’s overtures to America’s enemies have not made the world a safer place.
http://article.nationalreview.com/436748/obama-and-the-war-against-israel-part-ii/david-horowitz-jacob-laksin
Here’s an excerpt from Rob Breakenridge’s take on the revolting, 416-area presumptions of the “we don’t need” crowd:
“All we really know at this point is that sometime in the near future, presumably, Canadians will have an additional option when it comes to cable news and current affairs programming. Whether Canadians want such an option remains to be seen. Whether Canada ‘needs’ such an option need not be asked.
“But alas, it is being asked.
“Veteran CBC journalist Don Newman made quite a splash with his provocative online column which declared that this proposed new channel is ‘the last thing Canada needs.’
“A poll at the CBC website asked its readers whether ‘Canada need(s) another all-news network?’
“In other columns and blog posts and their respective comment threads, phrases such as ‘where’s the need’ and ‘Canada does not need’ are common refrains.”
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“Who exactly gets to determine — and then enforce — what that “need” is?…The market will make that determination — not some government bureaucrats.”
Amen to that, Breakendridge. Who is Don Newman to pronounce that a non-prog viewpoint is “the last thing Canada needs”?
*Superb* article by Horowitz and Laskin. Thanks, Revnant Dream (11:43).
“During the year and a half Obama has been in office, he has indeed brought change to America and to the world. He has transformed a nation that had been the world’s bulwark of democracy and freedom into an enabler of the very forces that are intent on destroying them. He has helped to isolate America’s only ally in the Middle East, its sole democracy and most vulnerable people. And he has brought the impending war of annihilation against the ‘crusaders’ and the Jews, which the jihadists have promised, measurably closer to its nightmare fruition.”
Wicker Hamster is still the best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdGmtCRqRQc
…America’s only ally in the Middle East, its sole democracy and most vulnerable people.
“Sole democracy” excluding Iraq. Or did all those soldiers lose their lives for nothing?
I don’t know how to break this to you but… I think I killed C.J. Oh my god! It’s so horrible but it’s true! I was driving down the TransCanada the other day and he just darted out in front of me and gave me the look… You know… The look! That was just as my front tire ran him over and I felt this thump.
I haven’t felt this bad since I ran over the Taco Bell dog…
Here is Quint’s speech from Jaws. Not the good one about the Indianapolis, the one EBD mentioned.
Thanks for the Robert Shaw clip, Black Mamba. In terms of scenery chewing, the guy’s a massive environmental threat. We’re talking triple-strength napalm.
Thanks EBD. But you’ve got to admit, this one is better. (If I like something enough, I can’t detect overacting, so I don’t know whether Shaw is tearing the scenery to a bloody, shrieking pulp and swallowing it whole here or not.)
It is the 35th anniversary this month, so we might was well enjoy it.
you think HE, that furry untermensch can chew the scenery do you ?
you haven’t seen mein Fuhrer chew the scenery…mein Fuhrer can also do the teppischfressing which your contemptible kleine rat und oder der Churchill would never DARE to attempt!
so Gesundheit already dagnabbit!
This Blog transported me to walking the streets in China…
This photographer shows you the Foxconn employee residences…. Through Razor wire?
Monolithic, with a sea of lined up bicycles. It’s not a prison camp. The hedges are neatly trimmed! Shudder!
Photog guy takes you for a late night walk to sleezy bar districts. Young woman and rough trade walking about with baby in arms at 2 am?
Big bald american guys with tattoos knee deep in ‘nice’ girls.
Display windows of weapons and tools for those employed in crime. Life is exciting.
alexhoffordphotography.com/
Most earthy and raw that one could expect to see.
Now, here’s a hockey stick that’s TRULY frightening…
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cvdgPlEKW9k/TCCDhxXk9AI/AAAAAAAABOY/tnmWr8pjffQ/s1600/graph_goldstandard.jpg
“Who exactly gets to determine — and then enforce — what that “need” is?…The market will make that determination — not some government bureaucrats.”
Indeed.
CBC is a branch of the government.
We Canadians have asked to government to ‘meet’ our needs , on so many levels, so it is not a stretch for Newman and others to determine our needs for us.
Just last fall we were informed that we all needed immunization.
How many fell for it?
I could add to the list.
Do we still have time to sy “Back off”?
OK, to recap yesterday’s GULF events:
Barry demanded to put a hold on gulf drilling for 6 months in which a LOUISIANA judge ruled out yesterday. The Fed Guv to appeal…
Now, this:
“NEW ORLEANS — The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.
The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has concerns about where the dredging is being done.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, who was one of the most vocal advocates of the dredging plan, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama, pleading for the work to continue…”
REVENGE ON LOUISIANA???
Or will the Prez use his powers and IMMEDIATELY strong arm (Like he did to BP and others) the US Fish & Wildlife Dept to stand down so the dredging can continue?
How stupid is this Dept anyway?…Oil is gushing killing life around it…Moving sand around can’t be possibly worse…What the hell is going on???
The assumptions of nefarious doings of Barry’s Administration that some consider borderlining on paranoia is not being deconstructed. Au contraire, it’s seems like the nightmare is truly happening. There is no way, the various Fed agencies are this disconnected from the command centre which should be in the larger part directed from the White House. Not after 70 days of being the worst environmental calamity in recent memory.
Via Drudge:
http://www.wdsu.com/news/23997498/detail.html
The world would love to be Canadian.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/the-world-would-love-to-be-canadian/article1612707/
And with Harper in charge, it keeps getting better and better.
#1. Sorry, George C. Scott during several scenes in Patton has it over any other actor in any other scene across the entire history of the universe.
#2. Any one of our seven hair bags are better looking, smarter and full-on divas beyond anything anyone has ever seen. And, all but one are rescues. How does that happen.
#3. I would swap teleprompter jesus for Canada’s PM yesterday knowing full well Canada would be getting the much shorter end of that stick. And, much of Canada would welcome the change, fools that they are. He’s somewhat too liberal in the George W. Bush vein, but similar to “W”, the good points outnumber the bad.
whaddabout brocolli?, that GBsenior hated brocolli that neoneaderthal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/6019200/Scientists-discover-that-Neanderthals-hated-Brussel-sprouts.html
personally I love the little cabbages.but what I really want is a gubmint grant along the lines of “is water wet”
O’Barack Petroleum: Death Watch.
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“2 People Involved in Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Have Died, Coast Guard Reports
Two people involved in the Gulf oil spill cleanup effort have died, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2540224/posts
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“Problem With Cap Causes More Oil to Gush in Gulf
New York Times”
Another left-liberal Big Lie is dead.
This Big Lie says:
the poor, the exploited, the workers of the world, the downtrodden, etc., are terrorists/murders because they are the poor, the exploited, the workers of the world, the downtrodden, etc.
That is the left-liberal “root cause” alibi.
Here is a rich, murderous terrorist from TO: Byron Sonne.
Watch for the defence to label Sonne as “insane”.
Have you driven through TO’s Forest Hill?
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“Forest Hill man charged in G20-related raid
A 37-year-old Forest Hill man faces a bail hearing today after being arrested following a G20-related raid at his million-dollar-plus home Tuesday.”
“Byron Sonne, 37, of Elderwood Drive, is charged with intimidation of justice system participant by threat, intimidation of justice system participant by watch and beset, mischief interfere with property, attempt mischief, possess explosive for unlawful purpose and weapons dangerous.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/G20/2010/06/23/14485786.html
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/06/23/sorry-about-your-dead-baby/#comment-84257
Driving Ms. Red-Green Buggy-Bumpers.
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“Natural pesticides may hurt environment
A new Canadian study suggests natural pesticides could cause more environmental damage than conventional chemicals.
University of Guelph researchers said natural compounds often are used in higher doses than traditional chemical pesticides, resulting in potentially more problems for the water table and other parts of the ecosystem.
“These data bring into caution the widely held assumption that organic pesticides are more environmentally benign than synthetic ones,” said a synopsis of the paper published in the most recent edition of PLoS ONE, an online magazine that publishes medical and scientific research.
Questions about natural pesticides
The study places in doubt the conventional wisdom that has led to the banning of chemical pesticides in cities such as Toronto.”
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/23/guelph-pesticide-study.html
From CNN comments:
nicksaysno: “its funny. BP can spill 5 million gallons of oil per day into the ocean and it takes Obama a month to get a (plan) together but a general speaks his mind about the administration and hes at the white house the next day getting fired”
Look here, Liberal Ziffy: loploplop ……
Socialists in Oz lop off the head of their Head cabbage head. Bloodless.
Rudd “the first Labor [socialist] prime minister to be dumped from office before completing a first term.”
More, please.
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Gillard takes power in bloodless coup
Kevin Rudd has decided not to stand in this morning’s ALP leadership ballot, relinquishing the Prime Ministership and handing power to his deputy Julia Gillard in a bloodless Parliament House coup.
Mr Rudd had called for a leadership ballot to be held at 9:00am AEST today but has decided not to contest the ballot after it became clear he would be soundly defeated.
Ms Gillard now has the task of leading a party traumatised and divided by the recent dramatic events to the federal election which could be held in a matter of weeks.
Treasurer Wayne Swan now steps up as Deputy Prime Minister. He was also elected unopposed.
Mr Rudd’s sudden and spectacular downfall makes him the first Labor prime minister to be dumped from office before completing a first term.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/24/2935500.htm