43% of Democrats (and 26% of likely voters overall) believe 0bama should just ignore the courts if they rule against his schemes:
Should Obama Ignore the Federal Courts?
That the Democrats would be in favor of such lawlessness isn’t much of a surprise, especially with their history in such matters. Andrew Jackson paid no price for ignoring the Supreme Court and putting a bunch of Indians on the Trail of Tears; to the contrary, he’s been on the $20 bill for decades.
An early script had Wally and the Beaver bringing the plane down. In the end, of course, the only link between Airplane! and Leave It to Beaver is the scene shown to the right. That’s just one of the bits you’ll pick up from this:
Surely you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane!
In 1980, a trio of gentlemen from Wisconsin – Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker – took a cast of predominantly non-comedic actors, put a parodic spin on the disaster-film genre, and created a film which not only made moviegoers howl with laughter but also earned critical acclaim. Airplane! celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, and if you happen to be in Nashville this weekend, you’ll have a chance to catch the film flying high on the big screen once again: The Wild West Comedy Festival will be holding a screening at The Belcourt on Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., after which special guests David and Jerry Zucker will participate in a Q&A.
In an effort to increase awareness of the screening as well as apply salve to the wound of those who aren’t able to attend, we spoke with as many people involved in Airplane! as we possibly could—including the Zuckers, Jim Abrahams, and cast members Robert Hays, Frank Ashmore, Al White, Lee Bryant, Ross Harris, Jill Whelan, Maureen McGovern, David Leisure, Gregory Itzin, Marcy Goldman, and Jimmie Walker—and asked them to reflect on their experiences while making the film as well as their astonishment that audiences still love Airplane! Sadly, Otto declined to go on the record with his reminiscences, but those who were willing to open up had quite a story to tell, which you can read straight through or use the section guide on the right to flip around.
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT
Leonardo DiCaprio the ‘eco warrior’ flew on a private jet from NY to LA SIX times in SIX weeks, Sony hack documents reveal. I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.
Adrift at Sea in a Lifeboat, Muslims Throw Christians Overboard to Drown
At least they were “punching up,” as Garry Trudeau believes.
The group was fleeing Libya in a rubber boat — a huge one, apparently, as there were 105 passengers aboard it.
At some point, the Muslims, who outnumbered the Christians, began “punching up,” as Garry Trudeau calls it, and murdering members of the religious minority for praying to Jesus.
Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.
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The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants — Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal — threw the 12 overboard, police said.
Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared “because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain,” Palermo police said.
(For the explanation of the Garry Trudeau snark, see Mark Steyn’s recent article.)
Not missing the cable TV I ditched a year and a half ago. The extra $100 per month in my pocket that I’m not spending on it is a nice bonus.
Big names in the business are starting to get wise to the pending demise of TV as we’ve known it:
Jerry Seinfeld: Network TV Is Dead
He says that if he were just starting his show now, he would go with an internet-centered exhibitor rather than a network.
The 55-year-old comedian also explained why the man behind NBC’s iconic Seinfeld would choose the internet over the small screen. “TV is over,” is his answer.
“When you get to a certain point in the business, what a man is looking for in a network is the same as in his underwear. A little bit of support and a little bit of freedom,” he said according to a transcript via Tubefilter. “That’s exactly what Crackle offered. There’s nothing different about what we’re doing than what anyone else is doing on any media anywhere. TV networks are worried that you’ll figure out TV is over, and there’s nothing special about it.“
Bringing light to a subject that has seen more heat than light…the Grünsturmabteilung won’t like this one little bit. In fact, they’re already busy in the comments:
Climate Change Mythology Questioned By American Physical Society
Junk Science: Climate change “deniers,” as global warm-mongers call those who think empirical evidence is more reliable than computer models, may soon count among their number a 50,000-strong body of physicists.
At the risk of being accused of embracing what alarmists call the flat-earth view of climate change, the American Physical Society has appointed a balanced, six-person committee to review its stance on so-called climate change that includes three distinguished skeptics: Judith Curry, John Christy and Richard Lindzen. Their credentials are impressive.
Christy is director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and was a lead author of the 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Curry is a professor and chairwoman of the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Lindzen, an Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT from 1983 to 2013, is currently a distinguished senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute.
A question the American Physical Society panel will address is one we ask repeatedly: Why wasn’t the current global temperature stasis, with no discernible change in the past 15 years, not predicted by any of the climate models used by the IPCC, part of the United Nations?
The APS announcement lists among its questions to be answered: “How long must the stasis persist before there would be a firm declaration of a problem with the models?”
In a nod to the likelihood that nature, not man, calls the shots, another APS audit question asks the panel: “What do you see as the likelihood of solar influences beyond TSI (total solar irradiance)? Is it coincidence that the stasis has occurred during the weakest solar cycle (i.e., sunspot activity) in about a century?“
Just what we need…force out the people who make the military work, leaving only the PC jackwagons who are trying to destroy it:
U.S. military ‘hostile’ to Christians under Obama; morale, retention devastated
Soon there may only be atheists in the foxholes.
Christians are leaving the U.S. military or are discouraged from joining in the first place because of a “hostile work environment” that doesn’t let them express their beliefs openly, religious freedom advocates say.
Michael Berry, senior counsel at the Liberty Institute, a Texas-based legal organization dedicated to defending religious liberty in America, said recent high-profile cases of military chaplains facing punishment for private counseling sessions that reflected the teachings of their religion could cause devout Americans who are qualified for military service to think twice about joining the military.
In December, a chaplain for a Ranger training battalion received an administrative letter of concern after a soldier complained that he advocated Christianity and used the Bible during a mandatory unit suicide-prevention training session. The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers said the chaplain “used his official position to force his personal religious beliefs on a captive military audience” in an article the group posted on its website.
And, last month, a Navy chaplain was removed from his post and may lose his career after some sailors complained about his private counseling, in which he reportedly advocated against homosexuality and sex outside of marriage.
No wonder she pushes for nonsense like minimum-wage hikes…it’s to make up for her skinflint ways: