tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2618647614442523451..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:" Fight the (Imaginary) PowerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76620764816878141352012-02-09T04:05:03.266-08:002012-02-09T04:05:03.266-08:00Well apparently Cameron Diaz is going to PRETEND t...Well apparently Cameron Diaz is going to PRETEND to be pregnant in her next movie:<br /><br /><br /><b>The joys of pregnancy! Cameron Diaz flaunts her growing baby bump in cheeky new poster for What To Expect When You're Expecting</b> <br />By Mike Larkin<br />Last updated at 11:49 AM on 27th January 2012<br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2092512/Cameron-Diaz-flaunts-baby-bump-What-To-Expect-When-Youre-Expecting-poster.html" rel="nofollow">dailymail.co.uk</a> <br /><br /><i>...If I knew I'd have a rack like this, I would've gotten knocked up years ago...</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87837255386752087182012-01-02T14:30:30.548-08:002012-01-02T14:30:30.548-08:00And people wonder why the civilized world is going...<i>And people wonder why the civilized world is going extinct...</i><br /><br />Going? These people here think they're civilized and they think buttrape jokes are the height of hilarity. Civilization is gone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64531970550957729932012-01-01T05:33:53.820-08:002012-01-01T05:33:53.820-08:00...Drew Barrymore's character...
I started t...<i>...Drew Barrymore's character...</i> <br /><br />I started to type up a comment about how I wished the real-life DB would settle down [once and for all] and have some children.<br /><br />But then I did a little digging, and I came up with these numbers:<br /> <br /> <br /><b>CHARLIE'S ANGELS, REMAKE</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000106/bio" rel="nofollow">Drew Barrymore, 36</a>: 0 children<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000139/bio" rel="nofollow">Cameron Diaz, 39</a>: 0 children<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005154/bio" rel="nofollow">Lucy Liu, 43</a>: 0 children<br /><br /><b>CHARLIE'S ANGELS, THE ORIGINAL</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000396/bio" rel="nofollow">Farrah Fawcett, deceased</a>: 1 child<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000646/bio" rel="nofollow">Jaclyn Smith, 66</a>: 2 children<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000462/bio" rel="nofollow">Kate Jackson, 63</a>: 0 children<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001440/bio" rel="nofollow">Cheryl Ladd, 60</a>: 1 child<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352379/bio" rel="nofollow">Shelley Hack, 64</a>: 1 child<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000617/bio" rel="nofollow">Tanya Roberts, 56</a>: 0 children<br /> <br /> <br />So for 9 actresses, across two generations, that gives a Total Fertility Rate of<br /> <br /> <br />[0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 0] / 9<br />= 5 / 9<br />= 0.555<br /> <br /> <br />Heck, even the original series only had a Total Fertility Rate of<br /> <br /> <br />[1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 0] / 6<br />= 5 / 6<br />= 0.833<br /> <br /> <br />Yikes!<br /><br />And people wonder why the civilized world is going extinct...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56674904091570631532011-12-31T13:05:57.830-08:002011-12-31T13:05:57.830-08:00Movies are about suspending real life for entertai...Movies are about suspending real life for entertainment.<br /><br />The beginning of Charlie's Angels sees Drew Barrymore's character pick up and bad guy and carry him out of the plane despite the fact that she would not have been able to open the door and even if she did jump out she would have been unable to avoid being carried into the engine.<br /><br />Then her colleague is able to hold onto the bad guy despite the sudden slowing down to 18 miles per hour when opening the parachute which would have seen the bad guy weigh four times more due to incurring 4Gs when the chute is opened.<br /><br />Unless you are a CNN anchor in which case the above is real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43261869898654141622011-12-31T10:40:55.550-08:002011-12-31T10:40:55.550-08:00Chiral
I have read everything Connelly has writte...Chiral<br /><br />I have read everything Connelly has written but for the most recent Bosch. I tend to agree with Anon, not you. I will grant you that like most all media nowadays, Connelly is careful to be generally politically correct--good to have black or lesbian partners, avoid having the black guy do bad racial things, etc. But the idea that the string of Bosch books is chock full of racial set ups, and are essentially morality tales for the PC crowd as with Larrson does not compute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29890665370399564982011-12-30T17:56:56.810-08:002011-12-30T17:56:56.810-08:00"So if the Russkies could not conquer Afghani...<b>"So if the Russkies could not conquer Afghanistan despite sharing a border with it, why were we supposed to believe that they could defeat the US military and occupy large swathes of the continental US? The premise of the movie was dumb, you have to admit."</b><br /><br />No, the premise of "Red Dawn" was perfectly within the bounds of acceptable premises (premii?). The real-life Soviets certainly had the materiale to invade the US, vastly outnumbering us in conventional armaments. In the movie their allies include the Warsaw Pact, Cuba, and - key here - a communist-controlled Mexico. So they had materiale and a bordering nation to invade from.<br /><br />The complaints I've heard over the years from Lefties mostly center on the ridiculousness of a group of American teens and 20-somethings leading a successful insurgency, and against the notion that the Soviets wanted to conquer the US at all.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50224523891414656262011-12-30T14:56:14.160-08:002011-12-30T14:56:14.160-08:00That's a funny meaning you've given to &qu...<i>That's a funny meaning you've given to "inconsequential" there.</i> <br /> <br /><br />Bosch is white. In each book Bosch ends up falling for some woman - it's always a white woman. Those two characters are the key ones in every book. Jerry Edgar is an inconsequential character. He is nominally Harry's partner, but spends most of his time working at his real estate gig which allows Bosch to play the lone wolf. <br /><br />In <i>The Black Ice</i> Bosch kills a Hispanic lead character called Calexico Moore and busts a Mexican drug operation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78790259252873505602011-12-30T09:49:12.791-08:002011-12-30T09:49:12.791-08:00"Have not read any translated Stig Larson boo...<i>"Have not read any translated Stig Larson books myself, but aside from camp value they must be fairly crappy."</i><br /><br />Presumably you mean Stieg Larsson and not the other author, Stig Larsson.<br /><br />I like the Millennium trilogy for the same reason I like Sue Grafton's alphabet series with her detective, Kinsey Milhone. They both go into (what must be for more normal people) excruciating detail about their protagonist's lives. Grafton has Kinsey tracking down suspects and solving murder mysteries but does not neglect to tell us how and when Kinsey does her laundry and housekeeping or what she orders at McDonald's. Similarly, Larsson gives us lots of the minutiae of daily life in Sweden, which apparently consists largely of drinking coffee and having sex.<br /><br />Even in translation, though, you get the sense that Larsson's books are very badly written. I've read one of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels in translation and the sentence structure is not nearly so horrible.<br /><br />But Larsson did know how to spin out a convoluted plot and how to create a fun, eccentric character. He's not to be confused with Henry James but who is?Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-411117452298397762011-12-30T09:14:45.539-08:002011-12-30T09:14:45.539-08:00"It was unrealistic to think that the same So..."It was unrealistic to think that the same Soviet Union which could not subdue those 82 IQ Afghan sheepherders could somehow take over the US."<br /><br /><br />You are awake, right?<br /><br />We can't subdue those 82 IQ sheepherders either.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43425727332304377752011-12-30T07:07:02.236-08:002011-12-30T07:07:02.236-08:00Not to pile on, but ex-smoker/breather Pope Hitche...<i>Not to pile on, but ex-smoker/breather Pope Hitchens praised this series almost effusively in Vanity Fair</i> <br /><br /><br />Hitchens was a self-described Marxist - a frequently self-described Marxist - so it's no great surprise that he praised the ideas of his fellow traveler.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82900330597042308622011-12-30T06:40:31.054-08:002011-12-30T06:40:31.054-08:00Anal rape: easier said than done!
Limp.. uh..-wr...Anal rape: easier said than done! <br /><br />Limp.. uh..-wristed rapists usually perform the unnatural act with a prop. Females too, like this Salander wench. My personal guards were experts. The times! <br /><br />Well, back to my, admitedly tamer, 72 houri who take care of me in afterlife! Goodnight and happy new year for you infidels! May Allah curse the dollar!Muammar Qadhdhafinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89557802062118290832011-12-30T05:57:24.450-08:002011-12-30T05:57:24.450-08:00Uhm, the plausibility of Red Dawn's scenario i...Uhm, the plausibility of <i>Red Dawn's</i> scenario is about as important as the plausibility of any given Bond movie. Or <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>. We're talking about Hollywood here. Home of the army of black scientists and geniuses? The inverted world? Where all the stupid people are white? All the mild-mannered, self-effacing kids are Ashkenazi?<br /><br /><i>Now</i> you want plausible, all of a sudden?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2437116507471138002011-12-30T03:15:44.280-08:002011-12-30T03:15:44.280-08:00Anon claimed:
I've read a number of his books...Anon claimed:<br /><br /><i>I've read a number of his books and this [saying white males are evil and NAMs oppressed] is a wildly inaccurate description of them. Many (not all by any means) of the wrong-doers are white males, but there are no saintly NAMS. In fact NAM's play an inconsequential role in his books.</i><br /><br />That's a funny meaning you've given to "inconsequential" there. Bosch works extensively with partners Jerry Edgar (black), Kizmin 'Kiz' Rider (black lesbian) and Ignacio 'Iggy' Ferras (guess). In <i>Angels Flight</i>, he investigates the murder of "black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris [black]: a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl." Guess whether Harris is really guilty. In other books, an ex-detective is married to a Hispanic woman, whose sister's heart he received in a transplant, and Micky Haller manages to free a Hispanic gangbanger unjustly jailed for a rape-murder. I could go on much longer. When you say you've read "a number" of Connelly's books, does n=0?Chiral Architectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92134100248453307212011-12-29T20:45:19.280-08:002011-12-29T20:45:19.280-08:00How was "Red Dawn" all that unrealistic?...<i>How was "Red Dawn" all that unrealistic? If 82 IQ Afghan sheepherders could give the Soviets trouble, why not 100 IQ American high school & college students, led by a trained professional in the form of Powers Boothe's character?</i> <br /><br /><br /><br />It was unrealistic to think that the same Soviet Union which could not subdue those 82 IQ Afghan sheepherders could somehow take over the US.<br /><br /><br /><i>This is what I love about critics of "Red Dwan." They thought the premise was a joke even at the same time that it was all playing out in Afghanistan, which the USSR couldn't conquer despite it being right next door.</i> <br /><br /><br />So if the Russkies could not conquer Afghanistan despite sharing a border with it, why were we supposed to believe that they could defeat the US military and occupy large swathes of the continental US? The premise of the movie was dumb, you have to admit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75730112713598966752011-12-29T20:41:12.803-08:002011-12-29T20:41:12.803-08:00Not to pile on, but ex-smoker/breather Pope Hitche...Not to pile on, but ex-smoker/breather Pope Hitchens praised this series almost effusively in Vanity Fair-- along w/ the John Edwards tribute I imagine that one hasn't aged well! Have not read any translated Stig Larson books myself, but aside from camp value they must be fairly crappyarmchair l'homme-engagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44409013427677068092011-12-29T20:25:24.445-08:002011-12-29T20:25:24.445-08:00Very enjoyable knee-capper, right up with the &quo...Very enjoyable knee-capper, right up with the "Contagion" review and all the Wachowski demolitions. Saw the 1st Swedish movie and as you confirm this looks like a slavish but expensive & pointless remake.<br /><br />I thought the original was anemic, full of scenes of the guy zooming in with a Photoshop window--apparently that is entrancing to older baby boomers. Partway in they revealed that a (non-billionaire) evil male is sexually degrading the cyberpunk savant, followed by her washing out her mouth. Kind of a minor plot point, and reminiscent of a typical day at a movie producer's office anyway but evidently it was <b>so central to the premise</b> to be showcased in the new preview trailer. Who knew the class of Woodstock was so puritanical/naive...Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49350933905548856682011-12-29T20:13:06.297-08:002011-12-29T20:13:06.297-08:00The heroine is an ace hacker who for some unknown ...The heroine is an ace hacker who for some unknown reason cannot hack the account that she knows where her money is.<br /><br />Who wrote this? Dan Browne?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91367201703374947732011-12-29T20:10:29.316-08:002011-12-29T20:10:29.316-08:00In Soviet Russia
imaginery power fight The Girl wi...In Soviet Russia<br />imaginery power fight The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41346987652173137102011-12-29T17:00:15.813-08:002011-12-29T17:00:15.813-08:00I can't remember one bad character who wasn...<i>I can't remember one bad character who wasn't either an ex white-power skinhead,some sort of misogynist, a sexual sadist or a rapist, </i> <br />how else could it get any traction with the intellgenisia in the west? <br />I mean gosh, something about..oh i don't know.. the scots irish who run the banking systems.. and curiously enough, many of sweden's newspapers and TV stattions..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86404499060636724202011-12-29T16:51:58.440-08:002011-12-29T16:51:58.440-08:00meanwhile back in reality:
Norway: ALL Sexual Assa...meanwhile back in reality:<br />Norway: ALL Sexual Assaults ending in Rape commited by Non-Westerners<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h1DiIhg3kwcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67813030584580154982011-12-29T15:57:30.288-08:002011-12-29T15:57:30.288-08:00and the thing (outside of Naziism) that women disl...<i>and the thing (outside of Naziism) that women dislike most is anal sex when they aren't in the mood for it.</i><br /><br />Those crazy broads, not wanting things shoved up their ass on a man's whim. Who can understand the ladies? I ask you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86459696667781759452011-12-29T15:29:07.094-08:002011-12-29T15:29:07.094-08:00The film left me in a very Whiskey frame of mind
...<i>The film left me in a very Whiskey frame of mind</i> <br /><br /><br />That's not a very healthy place to be.<br /><br /><i>reflecting that something that gets many women hot is a rumpled, reluctant, leftist crusader-male</i> <br /><br /><br />Only if you think that leftist movies provide an accurate insight into reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71402541993176987552011-12-29T14:12:49.905-08:002011-12-29T14:12:49.905-08:00"Daniel Craig. More confirmation, by the soun...<i>"Daniel Craig. More confirmation, by the sound of things, that the man cannot do accents."</i><br /><br />Or anything else, by my reckoning. <br /><br /><i>In fact he's not really much of an *actor* - more of a *performer*."</i><br /><br />I wish he'd perform a disappearing act. He's neither attractive nor talented.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29357375454076624842011-12-29T14:06:26.029-08:002011-12-29T14:06:26.029-08:00the Irish in America are as much responsible for p...<i>the Irish in America are as much responsible for pushing population replacement as anyone, citing derogatory comments/policies as support for Mass Mexicanization (plus more Catholics!)</i> <br /><br /><br /><br />Citing derogatory comments/policies as support for Mass Mexicanization? What does that even <i>mean</i>? You're not only stupid, you're incoherent.<br /><br />I've never seen a scintilla of evidence to suggest that Irish-Americans are any more supportive of mass Mexicanization than any other group, very much including the actual Scotch-Irish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50398034048922087062011-12-29T13:45:59.525-08:002011-12-29T13:45:59.525-08:00Funny and smart review.
As for the Swedish versio...Funny and smart review.<br /><br />As for the Swedish version ... I was so flabbergasted by how turgid, slow, witless and un-irreverent it was that I sat thru the whole thing. Was the bad guy REALLY going to turn out to be a rich white Nazi? Omigod, yes! Pretty decor and photography, though. <br /><br />The film left me in a very Whiskey frame of mind, reflecting that something that gets many women hot is a rumpled, reluctant, leftist crusader-male (preferably in a leather jacket), and the thing (outside of Naziism) that women dislike most is anal sex when they aren't in the mood for it.Ray Sawhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434181069400646328noreply@blogger.com