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If it looks like a coup and smells like a coup… Sub-headline from nypost.com: “The 51 former ‘intelligence’ officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president.” No doubt they consider themselves patriots and not overpaid government hacks out to fully reinstating the swamp establishment and their own perks.
Is it a fish or a dinosaur? It was caught in the Fraser River in Canada. It’s actually a sturgeon, ten-and-a-half feet long, estimated at between 500–600 pounds, 100 years old. It was released.
LOL at this NYP headline: “Google accused in lawsuit of systemic bias against black employees.” But it gets away with its political bias. Still, it’s fun to see liberals skewered by their own.
Here’s an interesting NYP headline: “Killer AI invented 40,000 ‘lethal chemical weapons’ in just six hours.” The first thought that comes to mind is: Suppose bad guys get wind of this? Unfortunately, many are probably already way out in front on this.
Marvel Comics #1, published in 1939, sold for more than $2.4 million at auction. Feel free to yell at your mom if a copy was among those she threw away.
I wonder if environmental extremists have ever considered sabotaging private aircraft. According to a Google search, as of 2019 there were 21,979 active private aviation jets, more than 70% of them in North America. Climate envoy John Kerry has one. I doubt he’d be targeted, as he may be viewed the way the Soviets viewed many fellow citizens, as a useful idiot.
Joe Carnahan has been a Hollywood jack of all trades, producing, writing, directing, acting and editing. He wrote and directed the vastly under-rated The Grey (2001), starring Liam Neeson, which plays like an Ingmar Bergman existential angst action pic. It prompted me to add his latest effort, Copshop (2021) to my Netflix list. Set in the Southwest, it is a violent story of police and hardcore criminals, engrossing from start to finish. The body count is high, the flow of blood brisk, and profanity rampant. Obviously, it’s not for the squeamish. Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo and Toby Huss are excellent as the criminals, as is Alexis Louder as the soft-spoken tough as nails cop. Grillo, born in NYC, grew up upstate. There are 94 titles beneath the goombah’s name at IMDb, including an astounding twelve in post-production. The ubiquitous Huss has 153 titles below his name, and if all the multiple appearances he has made on TV were added, the total would be in the neighborhood of 300. I was unfamiliar with Louder, who has compiled 37 credits since 2015, and also has written and directed four shorts. Butler keeps plugging along despite his movies being hammered by critics. Carnahan collaborated with Kurt McLeod on the screenplay, story from Mark Williams. 24,000+ users at IMDb have rated Copshop, forging to a consensus of 6.2 on a scale of ten. I doubt action fans would be disappointed. Here’s Huss in character:
Would we say these people are uber-woke? Headline from foxnews.com: “Radical feminists protesting Lia Thomas: ‘Democrats don’t care about women’.” I beg to differ. Dems care as much about women as they do about the poor, offering tons of lip service.
It was so nice not having to hear Fauci anymore. I wonder if he’s rooting for a reemergence of the virus similar to what China is suffering.
It felt like a bonus round today at the floating book shop, as the forecast had been for rain. My thanks to the gentleman who did a swap and buy of Russian books, and to the other who bought two of said; and to the young man who purchased a romance novel and Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope by Ed Smart and Lois Smart.
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