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The iconic scene from one of my favorite movies of all-time. A fitting epithet and soliloquy for Rutger Hauer (1944–2019) :

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

"I'd give it a '4', Dick.   It's the same old song and verse and I simply cannot dance to her tune."

Not Mike Tyson and not boxing, but the acclaimed scientist and star of many documentaries,  Neil deGrasse Tyson with his Tweet that the moon landing wasn't an American achievement, but that of the world - after all, the mission patch "proves" it.

Considering the backlash he got, he should have chosen some other subject to be "woke" over.  Some mental midget in a reply said the eagle with an olive branch was a universal symbol of peace.  Uh, no...that would be the DOVE, idjit.

The Apollo 11 mission patch:
No American flag.
No space hardware.
No Astronaut names.
In that regard, unique among space emblems.

Affirmation that walking on the Moon was an achievement of the human species, to be shared by all. pic.twitter.com/Fw7Y7EWR1m

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 20, 2019

ICE IS COMING!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/TWVgwRdZ6P

— The Infamous El Guapo 🇺🇲 (@elguapo64) July 20, 2019

This is Jessica Yaniv, a transgender "woman", currently male, who is suing a small establishment in British Columbia because they refused to give "her" a Brazillian wax.

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Accusations fly at human rights hearing into transgender woman's Brazilian wax complaint

First it was "progressive" sex education showing kids how to use a condom by putting it on a banana, then it was apples w/ the apple pie scene in American Pie, now it's watermelon. 

“Thank you for watching our abortion.”

A panel moderated by @lizzwinstead at Netroots Nation demonstrates terminating an early pregnancy with a watermelon. pic.twitter.com/bI3I3itUG7

— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) July 13, 2019

I hate to think what they'll do with peaches.

Georgia couple married for 71 years die exactly 12 hours apart

Herbert and Marilyn DeLaigle were famous in their town for always holding hands.

When Herbert DeLaigle’s health started to decline in 2017, he scheduled a meeting with the preacher at his church in Waynesboro, Georgia.

During the sit-down, Herbert revealed that he wasn’t afraid of dying, but he was scared to leave his beloved wife, Marilyn, behind.

In the end, Marilyn was only without Herbert for 12 hours. Herbert, 94, died from heart failure at 2:20 a.m. on July 12. Marilyn, 88, took her final breath at 2:20 p.m the same day.

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...Jerry Springer called;  he wants his show back.

Here's something I think would be a fun game;  every time you hear Crazy Uncle Joe in an interview and he says "Come on, man." take a drink.   You might not get to put down the glass or beer before you have to pick it up again.

I'm not much of a drinker, so I could not do this, but it sounds like fun.  Who knows?  You might be able to understand him if you're sloshin'.

I'm sure that's the only way to understand Pelosi.  Drunk birds of a feather...right?

WARNING: Spoilers. You might be glad I did spoil it for you.

I used to do TV and movie reviews in my Blogger blog, but gave it up. They take some effort to do and there are literally thousands of other sites and blogs who do reviews and most of 'em did it better than me. This isn't a review, but a gripe.

Anyone watched the new Twilight Zone? I just finished up the fifth episode of this season, all of which have already aired. I barely made it through the first one "The Comedian", a boring treatment about an totally unfunny comic who wants to preach to his audience instead of telling jokes. Most of his routine was about the horrors of guns and how they should be confiscated. OK, I thought...if any more are like this, I'm done.

The second one was a remake of a remake of the original "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet"; the original one had William Shatner as the man who freaks out and thinks he sees gremlins on the wing, remember? The remake in the TZ movie had John Lithgow as the man, but a great performance. I zipped through that one or fell asleep b/c seeing it twice before was plenty and after the first episode in this new reboot, figured there wouldn't be any twists or surprise ending the original was famous for.

It was the third one that pissed me off - "Replay" about a black woman taking her son off to college. They get stopped, the kid is shot by a trigger happy racist white cop and thanks to an old magical videotape camera, she's able to rewind time. Of course, that premise has been done to death many times before - although without the social diatribe - and the rest of the episode was like the movie "Groundhog Day", with her rewinding time and trying multiple ways to keep her son from dying at the hands of the white cop. She finally gets him to college and it's one like Grambling, black kids everywhere and they have a stand off against a multitude of white cops and after they back down, time can move forward. Progress, of course.... And, of course, it was almost like a commercial for "Black Lives Matter" but putting aside the stilted plot, the message was clear; white people bad.

I thought I'd give it another chance; after all, I already had d/l the shows. The fourth was the best so far, a story about an alien visiting a small Alaskan town police station on Christmas. It dawned on me just now it was a riff on the original TZ episode about the diner in the middle of nowhere w/ the stranded passengers and the fry cook happens to be an alien. Still, they just HAD to put in some more "white people are racists" with an Inuit side plot, the opressed "real Americans"...and a deception that the Russians were behind the upcoming invasion...only it was going to be the aliens. (they didn't CALL it collusion, but....)

This last one though, took the cake; it was about a young boy, a YouTube star probably ten or so who decides to run for President. He wins and just as I was wondering how they got past the 35 yr. old min. requirement to be President, they "explained" it away as having his parents on the ticket. Huh? I can suspend my disbelief in many things, the laws of physics or a time paradox, but NOT the Constitution! The kid is a brat, promises all kinds of things (free video games!) and then does nothing but eat pizza and ride his big trike through the White House, plus he was having trouble on the putting green and throws a tantrum and dumps the bucket of balls out and one rolls in the hole "It's a hole in one!" Oh, and I should mention the kid has long, "comb over" type haircut, blonde. Of COURSE it was a dig at Trump.

What's "funny" is that even the websites who adore the leftist messages in the episodes, esp. that one, hate the show. Most of the written user reviews in IMDb were pretty much the same "I'm a liberal and this program sucks." said one. "I'm a liberal but don't like these messages being shoved in my face." said another. There were a handful or two of "10" ratings, but they spent more time whining about the "Trumptards" down-voting the program than actually criticizing it. I believe the show has a "5.9" rating; I gave it a "1" star review, not just to balance out the totally unreasonable "10-star" ratings, but because I couldn't rate it any lower.

I don't give two S-words about obscenities these days, you gotta get used to them if you wanna watch much of anything, but I remember watching the original TZ with my pop, sometimes mom too and the show's social commentary was apt for the time, a statement which was hard to argue with, but it was usually subtle, disguised in shows like how we treated visitors from outer space (Like the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" did). This new TZ has a bunch of cursing in it, and even that young President (Trump) was dropping F bombs. Good grief. It's certainly not family fare, no matter what the social message intended is.

I may give it one more chance; according to Wiki, the next one sounds interesting, about a crew headed towards Mars when they find out there's been a nuclear war back on Earth . The captain of the mission is a woman and I'm sure the show will be about how she's ignored and disrespected by the men on the crew and there will finally be a twist that the original was famous for but this one has been lacking...namely that the female commander makes less than her male second-in-charge. That, or one of the crew is an alien. No, not a space monster, but a real alien, the illegal kind.

Sorry, I meant "Undocumented Astronaut".

This is a video from one of my favorite YouTube channels, The Fish Whisperer.   The channel owner is a young man who lives down near Houston in what appears to be a nice housing development and just behind his house is a pond that has bass, catfish and turtles and he takes videos of him feeding them. 

As you probably noticed, the turtles would take a bite or two and would then slide back into the water.  That is because they do not have salivary glands and must take in water when they swallow their food.  I just love the shot @ 3:32 as if the turtle is saying "Ready?  Is the camera rolling?"

I'm not as fond of his actual fishing videos and those of him cast netting for shad (extremely difficult to master) to feed the fish in his pond, but I do enjoy the feeding videos and esp. the ones featuring the turtles or the old blind catfish he feeds by hand.  He also has a few videos of his baby gar fish he is raising in a large aquarium tank, although one recently died of unknown causes.   He plans to put the survivor into a larger outdoor pond, then release him when he's large enough to fend for himself.

I'd say there are a few "trophy sized" bass in the pond, probably ten lbs. or even more.  He puts the shad on what he calls his "feeding rod", rigged up with a hook that he's cut off the barb, leaving just enough of the curve of the shank to hold the bait and not harm the fish.  This is another favorite video he's done:

Bass Are Insanely Fast!  What amazes me is how he can cast out the bait and even before it hits the water, you can see a torpedo-like wake on the surface as the fish swims to it.  I just had never realized they could see what was ABOVE the surface of the water.

What also amazes me is how much money someone can make off of something like this.  I've gone online and tried to calculate just how much he does make off his channel, but he also has a few sponsors so it has to be more than what is based solely upon views.  I would very conservatively guess he's making at least a grand/week and probably more.  I do know that he's upgraded his video equipment a few times (even putting a waterproof GoPro on a turtle) and drives a nice big truck (although his folks might have bought that for him, along with his pricey fishing gear) and thought nothing of feeding an entire sack full of crawfish in one video.  He paid at least $35 ea. for those two baby gar.

After visiting several detention camps. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the detained illegals are being forced to drink toilet water.  Before reading a word about this latest manufactured controversy, I immediately knew to what she was referring.  This is the type of toilet that is found in prisons, jails and detention centers:

As you can see, there is a sink with tap on the top and the toilet is attached at the base of the unit.  Yes, the water supplied for both comes from the same inlet pipe, but all building codes require there be a check valve where water enters the unit and none can "wash back" or get back into the main supply line and I'm sure there's a similar, internal valve inside that provides the same function, where water from the toilet bowl cannot flow back into the sink line .

"Toilet water" was what my grandmother used to call dime store perfume.  I always thought that a strange name, but as is the case of many words that derived from other languages, it was called that because of the French term "Eau de toilette".   Even though Ocasio-Cortez lamented she could not pay her rent after moving to Washington, D.C., whaddya wanna bet she doesn't use toilet water, but instead something like Chanel No. 5 or the like?

If Zippy the Pinhead, AOC and a box of rocks were on Jeopardy, who do you think would win?

My money is on the box of rocks....although I would probably hedge my bets with one on Zippy, too.

"You're scaring the children with these ICE raids!" says N. Pelosi to President Trump.

(not the best video, someone recording this off the TV)



Is that right, Nancy? Where were you when THIS happened during the Clinton administration ? Did you say anything then?



Maybe you were under Bill's desk, trying to elbow Monica out of the way?

Did you say anything when Obama was separating children from their families after being detained?  What about those children who were accompanied by adults who were NOT related to them?  You know, the criminals who were using those children in order to be able to stay in this country?

You probably weren't under his desk, but you sure were slobbering all over him with your praise and adoration.

Trust me, when the leftists get angry for being called hypocrites, it's because the truth hurts when it hits them in their butt.