The saying goes that fear makes you human.

But most people I’ve talked to has one irrational fear.  Something pretty obscure.

Cartman: Well You Know You will just be there minding your own business and they’ll come and march in, crawl up your leg And start biting the inside of your ass and you’ll be all like HEY get out of my ass you stupid rainbows.

My irrational fear?  I walk outside and wonder… what if Gravity decides today is the day it fails.  Would I merely float off the planet or would you go shooting off at high speed.  Kind of a reverse fear of heights.  You see, it’s something like the uncertainty principle.  As soon as a scientist actually observes a graviton, there is a non-zero probability that they’ll cease to exist.

See, now that you read this, next time you go outside you’ll think the same thing.

I’m sure you’ve also have some crazy fear that, by putting it to words here in the comments section, you’ll spread that fear to everyone else who reads it.

One Month. 31 Movies.

Gone in 60 Seconds.

The Original not the crappy remake.
40 minute car chase scene. Still the record.

Warner Bros to remake Clash of the Titans

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Philadelphia Story.

It’s Yar.
I was in New Orleans years ago. Getting ready to leave the hotel but this show was on. I stayed watching the TV until it was over before leaving. It’s that good.

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Excalibur.

Great movie. Why? Meh, swords and sorcery, unknown cast pulls it off.

After the shootings at New Life Church here in Colorado Springs, many news sites predicted there would be a gun measure brought before the City Council within days.

They were right.

But it’s not what most people think.

It’s a measure to remove restrictions put on security guards for what kind of guns they can carry.  In light of this tragedy, the Council is doing the right thing, and loosening up gun laws so that more law abiding people can protect themselves and other people.

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Red Dawn.

Wolverines!

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The Heroic Trio.

Three heroic hotties are all working for different agendas… but a common link from their pasts will bring them together for a supernatural martial arts showdown with the forces of evil!

I’m thinking I had you at hotties.

From The Morning News

OnStar: Hello, OnStar.
Customer: Hi, I have a problem.
OnStar: How can I help, sir?
Customer: I’m¦umm¦27, and still a virgin.
OnStar: How old are you really, sir?
Customer: Twenty-nine?
OnStar: Sir?
Customer: Thirty-six.
OnStar: [partially off mike] Holy shit!
Customer: [muffled crying]
OnStar: OK, sir, I need you to stay with me and listen very closely. I’m going to ask you some diagnostic questions to pinpoint the problem. Do you own action figures?
Customer: Yes.
OnStar: And if your Grakthorian Troll with +12 charisma and 170 hit points were to be attacked by a gelatinous cube, what would you do?
Customer: I would don my cloak of invisibility and bypass the cube to enter the dungeons of Dalagdon.
OnStar: I think I know the answer to the next one, but they make me run down the whole list. Do you live with your mother, or a spinster aunt?
Customer: Both. [weeping]
OnStar: And how often do you masturbate?
Customer: What? Never!
OnStar: Sir.
Customer: Three times a day.
OnStar: And do you look at anime comics while you engage in self-pleasure?
Customer: How did you know?
OnStar: Thank you for your patience, sir, I think we’re just about at a solution. What I’m seeing here is that you are going to have to pay for sex. Is this Visa you have on file with us good to use?
Customer: Yeah, uh, it should be¦
OnStar: Sounds good. We’ll forward your payment info on to the dispatching office. Now, what I want you to do is drive 6.2 miles north to the corner of Laurel Avenue, and wait there for a Miss Star. She’ll be wearing a leopard-skin skirt and an OnStar jacket. She’ll take care of you from there. All right, I just sent the detailed directions to your on-board navigation system.
Customer: Wow, thank you, OnStar! Maybe I can come thank you in person some time!
OnStar: We’d rather you didn’t.

Omaha Mall:  So-called "Gun free zone."

Arvada Missionary Center:  No one was armed except the intruder.

New Life Church:  The gunman was killed.

For the record:

It was not a "Security Guard" in the traditional sense that stopped the killing.  Nope, it was a parishioner with a concealed carry permit who volunteered to stay for extra services.  Not someone paid to protect you, but a fellow citizen who went that extra mile to take her own and her fellow’s safety in her own hands.

She’s a hero.

The Brady Center?  A group of fascists who don’t care if you die as long as you can’t protect yourself.

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Idiocracy.

Why would you drink water? Isn’t that what is in toilets?

2002 Audi S4 Quattro $20,000 (full time AWD)

2002 Audi S4 fully loaded just over 66,000 miles. Runs and looks great. Twin Turbo 2.7 liter V6, 250 HP with Five-speed Tiptronic transmission. All leather black interior, power windows, locks. Heated power seats, 6 disk cd changer, sun roof, Kumho Ecsta SPT high performance all season radial tires have 5000 miles on them. Side curtain air bags. Rated one of the safest cars in its class. All maintenance done by dealer and current to 65000 miles. Car is completely stock from the factory. Great fast car but is good in the snow also.

Yeah, its in Colorado Springs.  But Bill drove out to Chicago to pick up this very rare vehicle.  Twin turbo, bitches!

Jewish people are furious over this insult to their religion.

Well, maybe not.  Hard to believe they’re from the Middle East too.

via Grouchy Old Cripple

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Condor Man.

It’s an action adventure romantic comedy spy story… for kids. :P
An imaginative comic book creator named Woody Wilkins finds himself swept into a world of espionage. When the CIA recruits him to help a beautiful KGB agent to defect to the United States, Woody uses his newfound resources to create the costumes and gadgets necessary to transform himself into his comic book hero… Condorman!
I found this movie terribly exciting when I was a child. As an adult, I realize that it’s very cheesy, but I still have fond memories of it.

Check out Coast Guard motor lifeboat vs. a big wave

As long as there is diversity there will be war.

Discuss.

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Rocky Horror Picture Show.

It is Saturday. Get toast, toilet paper, and a water gun and go to your local third run theater at midnight. Heh, I’m not the only one who posts on this site that met his wife there.

For you nerds view more time warp videos below… (more…)

Another great Apple recipe, while they’re still coming in from the fall.

Buttery Apple Torte

1/2 cup (4 oz or 125 g) plus 1 Tbsp of unsalted butter
3 Renette or Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and cut into slices 1/4 inch (6 mm) thick
2/3 cup (3 1/2 oz or 105 g) all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 whole eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup (8 oz or 250 g) granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest
confectioners’ sugar (optional)

1 Preheat an oven to 375°F (190°C). Generously butter a 9-inch (23 cm) round cake pan with 2 inch (5 cm) sides.
2 In a microwave, melt the butter. Pour 6 Tbsp (3 fl oz or 90 ml) of it into a small bowl or cup and set aside. Add the apple slices and the remaining butter to a large frying pan and cook on low heat, stirring occasionally, until the apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat.
3 In a small bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, beat the whole eggs and egg yolk until blended. Add the 6 Tbsp of melted butter, the vanilla, the granulated sugar, and the lemon zest. Stir in the flour mixture and the apples. Spoon into the prepared pan, smoothing the top.
4 Bake until browned, 30-35 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert the cake onto a plate and lift off the pan, then invert the cake again onto the rack and let cool completely.
5 (Optional) Just before serving, place confectioners’ sugar in a small sieve and dust the top of the cake.

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts…
To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light
Then he sighed and he said "It’s really all right,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night."

"It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at ‘ Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘Nam’,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he’s sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue… an American flag.

I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..

Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right."

"But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

PLEASE, Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S.service men and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities.  Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq .