zombie animals

Alien is a real thing.

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Whine, whine, whine is all they do.

When she was with Guy Ritchie, she sported a hilariously fake British accent.

The neocon, NeverTrump GOPe needs to be dragged out and shot.

Bottom sentence: where does the missing comma go? And a period?

more on millions of "missing" votes

drones droning on

As seen on ROK Drop:

How do you fight back against a swarm of drones? pic.twitter.com/eYuw4zi5JB

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 18, 2024

The dragon is impressive.

And as for warfighting: one drone and one grenade per NK trooper.

let's beat a dead whore

Ana Kasparian critiques Kamala's inability to "take ownership" of her mistakes and reversals, highlighting her insecurity-revealing truckload of conditions for Joe Rogan. Of course, it's now too late for Kamala to change anything. She's done. (Except for her upcoming book deals and scripted talk-show appearances with ass-kissing hosts, of course.)

Another vid on Kamala here, with Megyn Kelly. Kelly discusses Kamala's softball interviews with CNN's Dana (rhymes with "Hannah") Bash and NBC's Stephanie Ruhle, etc.

joy

Yes. This here is the single best video on the internet right now… ⚡️🇺🇸

pic.twitter.com/sSJBnRagCH

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 17, 2024

Tyler Fischer's impression of every liberal news show

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Don't like it? Move. Leave America.

Just fade away. Please.

the inside of the VP's mouth

Still waiting.

We've got four years of this bullshit coming. And Trump's not getting any younger.

another foot-healing update

Check out the latest update at the walk blog.

"distraction"

Should your tax dollars really be paying for an organization run by people who think the truth is a “distraction”? https://t.co/W79tcJJLxu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2024

not soft on crime is the key

CNN just got a rare look at El Salvador's gang prison. This is why homicides are down 92%.

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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 15, 2024

find him and hang him

No peaceful death on a bed of money for this fucker.

🚨 NEW: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is taking over the Senate Homeland Security Committee, promising to target the COVID coverup

EPIC! 🔥

He even just posted on X putting Fauci on watch, saying “I bet we find him”

Paul has been sounding the alarm about COVID and Fauci’s lies for… pic.twitter.com/f1Xy0idGHK

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 15, 2024

guilty as charged

Sure, being pathologically over-confessional, I overshare on my blog. Am I this bad, though?

You'll know it's getting bad for me when I upload pics of my free-range turds.

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Yes. No unity because there has been no unity for a long while now.

Because you refuse to see reality. And to use Oxford commas.

See the documentary "Weiner." Amazing.

Yup. Vote tallies make this obvious. Or do you now suddenly not trust the vote tallies?

Where should the commas and the periods go?

Exactly. Do you see the Steal now, idiots?

Nerdrotic on why they lost

I'd say that I wished they'd learn their lesson and get their heads out of their asses, but frankly, I like them this way. Here's hoping we get Vance or Ramaswamy (etc.) in 2028. The problem, of course, is that both sides get stupid in victory. Hopefully, that won't happen this time with Trump's new team mostly at the helm (I say "mostly" because MAGA failed to get its preferred candidate as Senate Majority Leader thanks to secret voting and skullduggery from the GOPe, i.e., the neocon/NeverTrump GOP, which still incredibly, inexplicably exists.

God only knows why

We're only partway through the day today, and I've got almost 6,000 unique visits to the blog. On the 12th of this month, I had 15.6K visitors on just that day, then the numbers went back down to around 1,500/day, which is mostly what I've been averaging this month. I still don't understand the sudden spikes in traffic; I don't suppose I ever will.

I guess the bots move in waves.

UPDATE, 5 p.m.: over 7,200 now.

UPDATE, 7:30 p.m.: almost 12,000. At this rate, I'll end the day with over 20,000 visits. Why?

Vivek vs. Charlamagne

The original Charlemagne (break it down: Charles-le-Magne = "Charles the Great") spelled his name with an "e" after the "l." Online personality Charlamagne tha God did the deliberate-misspelling thing that many black folks do to distinguish themselves from the mainstream. The misspelling is designed to be noticed. I might not like it because "la Magne" sounds feminine to me, but Charlamagne can write his name however he wants.

a possible cure for Type I diabetes?

Revolutionary if true.

another blocked video: suicide by cop

Why people think they can get away with pulling weapons on police is beyond me. So many of these scenarios end up being suicide by cop.

Fuck around and find out, motherfucker.

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Where does the comma go? And the period?

What would be her motivation? The goodness of her heart? Ha! I kill me.

Now do Lord of the Rings.

Streisand Effect 2

At 60, she doesn't looks this good. She a skank, tho.

"too big to rig"

Interesting. I'll have to cross-check this with my chart.

ultimate freakout

Headline:

Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home

A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author and journalist has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.

Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.

Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos' rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.

After emerging from the house with blood 'dripping' down her face, she confessed to police that she 'freaked out,' claiming there was 'something important about Election Day.' 

Burke reportedly told detectives that 'she knew that she could not convince her father to keep the lights off', so went upstairs and retrieved the murder weapon. 

She then tripped her father and strangled him before attacking him with the ice axe. 

Burke then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe, cops say.  His body was found in the basement. 

Way to go, Corey!

Russell Brand on Stephen Colbert vs. RFK Jr.

Byron Donalds and Joe Rogan on Trump's agenda

The left is insisting that Trump, now that he's soon back in office and has immunity, will be all about revenge. But this isn't Trump's focus at all (even if people like me wished he would take a flamethrower to the entire left): it's on things like fixing the economy and the border and all of the woke nonsense.

That said, I wouldn't call Donalds's take a "bombshell." To all rightie YouTubers:

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

oh, fuck

I spoke too soon. The cold is coming, according to the weather service. And in just a few days, too. We can expect nighttime temps to get down to near-freezing or really freezing, and daytime temps won't be higher than 12ºC (about 54ºF). If I'm out walking around 4:30 or 5 a.m., away from the heat of big cities, I'm going to need to dress for winter. This means I might need a bigger backpack than the one I've been using. I think the Gregory would still be too big, at 85 liters, but I could overstuff it with a winter coat and other poofy winter items (gloves, scarf, etc., even a mask to keep my breath close to my face). Of course, I'll be starting off in Daegu, which will be a few degrees warmer, but as I move up to Sangju and then, eventually, to Andong, I'll be losing southernness as a protection.

I just checked temps in Andong. They're not looking any better. And I'm not leaving until the 29th. There could be a whole new set of hazards with this walk. It turns out that a blistered foot might be the least of my problems. God, here's hoping it doesn't snow.

Bill Burr hilariously lambastes the talentless Yoko Ono

I was rolling when I heard this commentary.

more on DOGE

What they're saying about DOGE now:

Despite its name, DOGE will actually function as a commission outside the government that will work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to advise the president on what government bloat can be cut.

DOGE will operate on a deadline. It will finish its work by July 4, 2026, the nation’s 250th birthday, Trump said.

So it will be a paragovernmental organization (which, as I said, doesn't shield it from becoming an oppressive entity), but it will also be temporary. I like that. That's the one thing I ask for. So all the people now decrying the irony I mentioned in my previous post have no leg to stand on.* DOGE has its work cut out for it, and I hope there will be a lot of Milei-style ¡Afuera! And I mean a lot. Let's make America leaner and meaner.

__________

*Unless Musk and Ramaswamy suddenly and suspiciously extend DOGE's existence.

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I hope it's epic.

I watch too many squirrel-hunting videos to care that much about this, but I kind of get it.

How'd s/he know you're a Kamala voter? Purple hair? Rings on your face? Stupid tats? Maybe the overlong nails.

They can't turn back fast enough. (And wouldn't they be trying harder to get in right now?)

You want this all over the country?

If those huddled masses aren't yearning to be free (i.e., sharing our values, including the value of immigrating legally), they're out.

You're not wrong.

Watching Joe's spiteful revenge has been amusing, to say the least.

PA voting shenanigans in focus

Why are they still counting?

Headline:

We're Heading for a Recount in PA...and the Dems Want Illegal Ballots Counted.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has no path to victory. He’s going to lose to Republican Dave McCormick. Everyone, including Democrats, knows Casey lost. Yet, Casey refuses to concede because attorney Marc Elias is trying to steal the election. Those aren’t my words—The Wall Street Journal editorial board said as much about this fiasco occurring in the Keystone State. 

“The Associated Press and most other media have called the Senate race in Pennsylvania for Republican Dave McCormick. But never fear, Democrats, lawyer Marc Elias is on the case trying to steal the seat for incumbent Democrat Bob Casey,” they wrote. “Did someone say ‘election denial’?” 

Read the rest, especially the tweets about how the Democrats want the votes to be counted. It's absurd. And not at all surprising.

Mike Tyson/Jake Paul fight results exclusive

Seriously, though, Iron Mike lost:

the kerfuffle over Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense

Tim Pool can't stand the leftie meltdown and lies about Pete Hegseth, author, Fox News talking head, and decorated combat veteran:

With the left, the tantrums just never stop.

North Korea is proving to be a bad investment for Russia

As this video's thumbnail says: North Korean troops can't fight, despite the supplementary Russian training they're receiving as they're being shipped out to Ukraine to die. I suspect that the NK troops' best value is as cannon fodder, absorbing Ukrainian attacks before the Russian troops arrive on site. I wonder whether North Korea will build more monuments and mausoleums for these fallen heroes. Aha—confirmation of my point of view here.

new foot update

Looking better and better. And I have two whole weeks to go.

Scotty but without the accent

An old James Doohan commercial:

"True Grit" (1969): review

L to R: Glen Campbell (LaBoeuf), John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn), Kim Darby (Mattie Ross)

It's a bit weird to see the Coen brothers' 2010 version of "True Grit" first, then to go back and watch the 1969 version with John Wayne (which I may actually have seen first, maybe on commercial TV, years and years ago), but you live life as you live it. I still remember how my buddy Steve and I walked into a weird, David Lynchian theater in Luray, Virginia, back in 2010; we were late to the start of the remake, and we may have been the only two guys in the theater. The screen was tiny, more like a big-screen TV, and hung way up high. The front of our particular cinema had suits of medieval armor guarding the screen, which merely added to the unreality of the whole experience. I saw John Wayne's version—for which he won an Oscar—in the comfort of my tiny studio apartment here in Seoul a few days ago.

1969's "True Grit," directed by Henry Hathaway, stars John Wayne, Kim Darby, country singer Glen Campbell (who sings the movie's opening song, which got nominated for an Oscar), Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, and Jeff Corey. After watching this movie, I can say with confidence that the Coen brothers' version largely follows all of the story beats of the original film, with some changes, including at least one major change regarding the fate of a central character. Both versions of the movie are based on the 1968 Charles Portis novel True Grit. I can't remember whether I ever read the novel, so I'll be making no movie/novel comparisons in this review. I can, however, begin with a summary of the story.

Mattie Ross (Darby) is a young, assertive, mentally gifted teenager in Yell County, Arkansas, who helps her father Frank Ross (John Pickard) with his accounting. Frank has hired a ne'er-do-well named Tom Chaney (Corey), who has a habit of getting violently drunk and blaming others for his problems. During one drunken bender, Chaney shoots Ross dead, then flees, and this motivates Mattie to go looking for a marshal who can help Mattie to exact justice: she wants nothing less than to see Chaney swing for the death of her father. Mattie finds old, ornery, hard-drinking US Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn (apparently based on a real-life marshal of the period), a man reputed to have "true grit." It seems Chaney has, since going into hiding, taken up with a gang led by Ned Pepper (Duvall), whom Rooster knows well for having shot Pepper in the upper lip a while back. A Texas Marshal named LaBoeuf (pronounced "luh-BEEF") joins the pair because he's been pursuing Tom Chaney as well, but he claims Chaney's real name is Theron Chelmsford, and he's killed both a dog and a senator, among other crimes. Conflict develops when LaBoeuf wants to take Chaney to Texas for justice while Mattie wants him properly hanged in Arkansas, where she lives. In the end, the trio catches up with Ned Pepper's gang, and a lot of people end up dead, including Chaney, Pepper, LaBoeuf, and Cogburn's faithful horse Bo. Mattie and Cogburn had started off disliking each other, but by the end of the story, Mattie—who knows Rooster has no family—has offered to have him buried in her family plot as a sign of how close to him she now feels. After she teases Rooster about being too old and fat to jump a four-rail fence, Rooster tells Mattie to visit sometime, then tears off toward the fence, deftly leaping it on his new steed.

I don't want to waste time going over the two movie versions of this story point by point. Each has its own virtues; John Wayne won an Oscar for his performance, which was typically and iconically John Wayne-y. His Rooster is a crabby drunk prone to the occasional pratfall from off his horse; one noticeable difference between Wayne's version and Jeff Bridges's version is that Wayne's version has a patch over his left eye, but Bridges's version has a patch over his right eye. Most surprising to me was the death of LaBoeuf in the 1969 movie; in the Coen brothers' version, LaBoeuf bites his own tongue almost all the way off but lives, presumably to the end of the story. And in the old version, Mattie gets bitten by a rattlesnake but survives intact; in the 2010 version, she loses her arm. The 1969 movie contains some moments we might consider politically incorrect, especially from Glen Campbell's LaBoeuf: early in the movie, he confesses to thinking about stealing a kiss from Mattie (supposedly fourteen, but Kim Darby was twenty-one and married in 1969); later on, he spanks her using a branch as a switch. Even by the standards of the feminist Sixties, you'd think it'd be a little creepy to have a male character essentially leering at a teenaged girl one moment, then treating her like a wayward child the next. That sort of inner conflict has uncomfortable implications.

It was strange to see such a young Dennis Hopper (in the role of the ill-fated Moon; I didn't recognize him at first, then it very slowly clicked), and when I saw Jeff Corey as Tom Chaney, I recognized him for all the work he'd done in science fiction ("The Outer Limits," "Star Trek," "Babylon 5," etc.). I guess all of these actors had to start somewhere. It was also strange to find out that Kim Darby and John Wayne reportedly disliked each other so much that, between takes, they would go to their separate seats or trailers and just not talk to each other. On screen, they seem to have a decent chemistry. That's acting, I guess.

Overall, the 1969 version of "True Grit" was a good watch: the cinematography captured the gorgeous landscapes and watercourses (I can't vouch for the accuracy of the location shooting); John Wayne was a wonderful, fleshed-out Rooster Cogburn; the movie's editing and pacing never really slackened despite the presence of tropes that we would nowadays consider hackneyed. My one complaint might be that the orchestral soundtrack tried too hard to sound like 1960's "The Magnificent Seven"; I got the impression that a lot of Westerns of the era also sounded that way, riding on the coattails of "Seven." (This is one reason why Clint Eastwood's "spaghetti" Westerns, with their radically different-sounding soundtracks, are so much more appealing to me.) Derivative music aside, "True Grit" is a must-see for John Wayne fans, and if, like me, you saw the Coen brothers' film first, well, travel back in time a few decades and give this movie a watch.

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Everything was going perfectly until he forgot the fucking period.

"The fascists won, I need a gun!" Comma splice.
The fascists won! I need a gnu!

Election interference, Musk!

This would be a hoot.

Fuckin' finally.

Oh, I'd love to see some hangings. Won't happen, though.

Maybe that was secretly Bill's plan all along.

They'll make a lot of noise about leaving, but they'll never leave. Because they know it's a great country.

I love it. Just like that stupid Hillary tweet from 2016. Nice try, Mark.