http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 05:11:25 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:11:25
Unlike you, I wasn't there (I was only ten when the helicopters were being ditched into the sea in April of 1975, and I was not in or of the USA at that time, anyway), but my thoughts echo yours. I'll watch her in films -- truth be told, though, with a few exceptions I tend to find her a very ann... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/222 Sun, 31 May 2009 15:11:40
I've studied a lot of 'external' martial arts (basically those in the Shaolin tradition, or related: Buddhist and Muslim 'kung fu') and, even now that I'm twice the age I was when I started, it's still all that sweaty jumping around that captures my imagination most. I've done a little bit of ta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/221 Mon, 25 May 2009 19:36:17 But "best martial artist ever" is just as meaningless a title as "best [i]artist[/i] ever" or similar. Bruce was a tireless self-promoter both as a martial artist and as an actor -- I don't mean this in a negative sense because he played an important part in transforming both martial arts culture a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/220 Mon, 25 May 2009 07:10:45
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3792/supermax220081223123823.jpg

Are these characters the Symbionese Liberation Army?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/219 Fri, 22 May 2009 07:14:59 Still...

Not that this matters all that much in light of more weighty current events, but I've long noticed (nowhere perhaps more than here on DU), when James Bond is mentioned, a tendency toward rather knee-jerky proclamations that Sean Connery was the only real James Bond. I never really under... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/206 Fri, 22 May 2009 06:28:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeI5y2ohifo (though the misuse of 'your' in the typed lyrics drives me to distraction)



And, of course, this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8E7heonUo

(R-rated language in both, I hasten to warn)



With a special guest appearance from one of h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/218 Fri, 22 May 2009 05:31:51
I've been watching the Bond James Bond films lately (I grew up on Roger Moore's Bond and it wasn't until the last couple of years that I finally saw any of the '60s films and most of the post-Rog ones) and just now it occurred to me that picking the Bond that best suits a person's inner state migh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/217 Thu, 21 May 2009 17:45:17

articles....

http://www.stpns.net/stpns/media-repository/53/bd499ffa-47b7-4d43-a139-a93c363a4a2c_v.jpg

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/216 Thu, 21 May 2009 17:03:49
Under Junior, they no longer even paid lip service to pretense. They did so many flagrantly wrong and illegal things in the open, or nearly so, in part undoubtedly because of arrogant utter contempt for We The People and those who are supposed to serve us (and that contempt was warranted, in a wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/215 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:59:25
(1)
Harry Reid is from Nevada
He was small, so he tried harder
He was a boxer
And now he works with Barbara
Harry Reid
He is from Nevada
The loons
The loons


(2)
Harry Reid was a man
He was a biiiiiiig man


(3)
There once was a man from Nevada
Whose....(censored)


Oh, I cou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/214 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:41:56

It Was Worth A Try.





On the bright side, a few other countries improved their lot by borrowing inspiration (and sometimes a Constitution or two) from the American Experiment. They even have health care for their citizens...

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/213 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:37:33

THIS is a fear canard:

http://rookery2.viary.com/storagev12/995000/995354_4ddb_625x1000.jpg


And here's another one:

http://www.wheelchairanglingandhamradio.co.uk/clonedpictures/Duck_crocodile.jpg



Clear?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/212 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:25:31
right.

1. Yep, the Gracies are Brazilian, but the UFC got off the ground once they'd established BJJ here in the US and was in collaboration with an American entrepreneur. Anyway, I didn't mean that the UFC, and certainly not the wider arena of MMA, was necessarily a [i]byproduct[/i] of US cu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/211 Thu, 21 May 2009 15:53:06
http://www.mcphee.com/items/11580.html



Or my favorite:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/henk/images/nun%20chucks.jpg

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/210 Thu, 21 May 2009 14:59:14
And what's a "nun chuck"? Is it like dwarf tossing?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/209 Thu, 21 May 2009 14:57:20
I understand very well the skill involved in intelligent Western boxing but I've always had almost zero interest in watching it it other than being enthralled by Ali when I was a kid (and still an admirer of his....also, I sometimes surprise myself with how compelling 'boxing movies' can be, even ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/205 Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40:06

That is [i]sooooooo[/i] 1776, dude.

We've moved on since then.







And we've got Tivo!

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/208 Wed, 20 May 2009 06:58:18
would do is repeal the 'Patriot' Act(s). I am beginning to think that this is not especially a priority held by those in charge.

I'd like to say that not doing so, and not belatedly introducing real universal health coverage, and not holding accountable those who so flagrantly trashed the Cons... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/207 Wed, 20 May 2009 06:55:17
Perhaps it's the wacko-Scientologist thing. I find Scientology pretty disgusting, not least because it's such a patently obvious scam (I mean far more so, and intended to be so from the very start, than what most people would call 'religion') but I can separate a person's works from their weirdne... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/204 Mon, 04 May 2009 08:46:11
[div class="excerpt"]

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lose their lives.....You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours..... Y... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/203 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:05:57
It was a rough day for the Freepers. They could barely make mince meat, a sure sign of low self of steam if ever I seen one. And then the sound of an ambulance, rushing to the scene to a chorus of "Whoa is me!" and other exclamations of shock and awe. Nobody seemed to know exactly the fate of t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/183 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:43
totally escapes you.

How about "fuck you." Does that resonate?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/187 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:47:01
simply send me a PM in which you express your gratitude for me holding down the pinkish end of the melanism spectrum. Yes, I am a White Person and I am trained to deal with such situations.

Operators are standing by.





Cash donations accepted, too, of course. And flowers. And stripp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/185 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:30:21 along my route to work (nowhere near the Strip but out along Sunset Road, the road that runs along the south side of the airport...one group was outside the main post office there, not surprising because it was tax day and that place is busy then).

I worked today doing the Elvis-impersonator th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/186 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:10:52
Shocking. But, then again, perhaps not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4agolhWJb3w&

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ForrestGump/193 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:06:03