June 27, 2020

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June 26, 2020

Overrated Movies: Films that Everyone Loves but You Can't Stand

Hey, it's Friday night, I'm in a (somewhat rare) fun mood, and I hope you are too!

For me, When Harry Met Sally was formulaic and predictable. The lady I saw it with agreed.
Pretty much everything by David Lynch, our most orrated director.
Fight Club. Even with the twist, it was a dumb movie.
The Usual Suspects. This film didn't even have a twist, as the situation was obvious less then 30 minutes in.


My favorite genre is horror, where there is no shortage of glorified dreck:
The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
The Grudge Japanese woman does amazing crocodile impression!
Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise. Saw the first movie, learned Freddy was a child-molester, never saw another one!

THE SHINING: Absolutely, positively the most overrated movie of my lifetime! Stephen King's novel was fantastic Stanley Kubrick's mutilation of it was nothing short of reprehensible! Another "Great Director" from the same abusive mold of Hitchcock, Polanski, the aforementioned Lynch, and Allen. Just ask Shellry Duvall, if she can still speak!

And the number of WORDS WASTED, in books, film "documentaries," magazine articles and college theses trying to "analyze" this ultimate cinematic equivalent of The Emperor's New Clothes is APPALLING!

My personal analysis of The Shining is brief, concise, to the point:
It's a shit movie. Ignore it!

And absolutely, feel free to share your own examples, horror or non.

June 26, 2020

Biden finally takes off the gloves, DESTROYS Trump in stunning rebuke

Brian Tyler Cohen, today:

June 25, 2020

90's Black Sitcoms Warned Us (NOT A COMEDY VIDEO)

Uploaded June 22 by Renegade Cut, whose channel I definitely recommend!

June 24, 2020

City council votes to remove John C. Calhoun statue from Charleston square

Source: The Hill

BY JUSTINE COLEMAN - 06/23/20 10:10 PM EDT

Charleston’s city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to remove and relocate a statue of former vice president and slave advocate John C. Calhoun from a downtown square.

The approved resolution will allow the 100-foot monument in Marion Square to be moved to “an appropriate site where it will be protected and preserved.” The 13-0 vote came almost a week after Mayor John Tecklenburg (D) announced he would send the resolution to the legislature.

A special panel will determine the new destination for the statue, and a date for its removal has not been scheduled, The Associated Press reported.

“I believe that we are setting a new chapter, a more equitable chapter, in our city’s history,” Tecklenburg said before the vote, according to the AP. “We are making the right step. It’s just simply the right thing for us to do.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504234-city-council-votes-to-remove-john-c-calhoun-statue-from-charleston

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Luvvit!

June 23, 2020

Steve Schmidt On Trump Returning After The Tulsa Rally

Skip to 6:36

https://twitter.com/i/status/1274772592746848256

"...almost too tragic to post."

Almost!

June 23, 2020

Deflated Donnie Arrives Back at White House After Tulsa "Rally"

https://twitter.com/i/status/1274772592746848256

"...almost too tragic to post."

Almost!

June 23, 2020

US soldier plotted with neo-Nazi group to attack own unit, indictment says

Source: The Guardian

Mon 22 Jun 2020 19.11 EDT

A US Army soldier was plotting with a British occultist neo-Nazi group to attack and kill members of his own military unit, according to a newly unsealed indictment by the Department of Justice.

Ethan Melzer, a 22-year old army private from Louisville, Kentucky, has been charged with conspiring and attempting to murder US nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country, the DoJ announced on Monday.

“As alleged, Ethan Melzer, a private in the US Army, was the enemy within,” said acting US attorney for the southern district of New York, Audrey Strauss.

“Melzer allegedly attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his own unit by unlawfully revealing its location, strength, and armaments to a neo-Nazi, anarchist, white supremacist group.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/22/us-soldier-plot-british-neo-nazi-group-to-attack-own-unit

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How many hours before Trump pardons him, flies him back here, and nominates him as the new SecDef?

June 22, 2020

"Where To Invade Next" - Germany Directed by Michael Moore

22 Jun 2020

Bizzare: We had Holocaust museums before Slavery museums! We fought against the perpetrators of that unspeakable crime!

And we've failed to make reparations to the families and descendants of those murdered, raped, chained, tortured, deliberately disrespected and spit upon victims of Our Original Sin!

If the Germans can do it, so can we.

June 22, 2020

Texas relaxed environmental enforcement during the pandemic, state data show

By Naveena Sadasivam, Grist

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is one of the largest and most influential environmental protection agencies in the country. With an annual budget of $400 million, it polices about 400,000 polluting businesses and conducts more than 100,000 inspections in a normal year. The agency inspects not only the state’s many large refineries and chemical plants, but also its neighborhood gas stations, dry cleaners, and public water systems.

Many of the state’s 29 million residents live in the shadow of heavy industry and in cities with smog levels that rank among the worst in the country. In short, a slowdown in TCEQ’s enforcement efforts could be deadly. So when the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to a halt earlier this year, TCEQ’s chairman penned an open letter reassuring environmental advocates that, even though employees were going to work from home, the agency would continue to be “fully engaged in its mission to protect public health and the environment.”

But a Grist analysis of the agency’s internal data has found that, in the six weeks after the agency asked employees to work from home in response to the pandemic, TCEQ pursued 20 percent fewer violations of environmental laws than it did during the same period in 2019. The agency also initiated 40 percent fewer formal enforcement actions resulting in fines for polluters. Finally, in a move that appears in line with the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial discretionary enforcement policy, TCEQ issued about 40 percent fewer violations to companies for failing to monitor and report pollutants emitted into the air and water.

Even as the agency reduced enforcement, it continued processing permits that allow construction companies, industrial facilities, and other businesses to pollute up to certain limits at about the same rate that it did last year.

Adrian Shelley, director of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen’s Texas office, called TCEQ’s enforcement slowdown “disappointing” and said that Grist’s investigation shows that the agency prioritizes permitting over compliance.

“There’s been a large period of very little regulatory oversight,” he said. “The implications for community health and for the workers at the facilities really concern us.”

https://grist.org/energy/texas-relaxed-environmental-enforcement-during-the-pandemic-state-data-show/

Don't mess with Texas, pardner. But we'll mess with you any dang time we feel like it!