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  1. 2 hours ago, ztejas said:

    I feel like a lot of you think that LOTR follows the books much more closely than it does.

    It's probably the greatest adaptation of all time but there are pretty major differences between the book and the movies. 

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    I don't think you could have done a better job of fitting the books into  3-3.5 hour movies, and sacrifices had to be made. And I'm cool with additions like the aforementioned scene with Aragorn.

  2. 6 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    The more that goes on, the more that we see of this insanity, the more I think Sartre stared into the abyss of occupied France and saw the ultimate base reality. 

    Our whole lives we were just shielded from it with lies and exceptionalism. The age of social media has just blown that shield completely apart and exposed it all. 

    Yep.

    But thankfully, social media makes it easy for these people to go to war on each other. We need more Nick Fuentes coming out bitching about Jewish people and how horrible women are and we need Candace and Tucker to go scorched earth on the GOP alongside Fuentes.

  3. Speaking of Clancy, I was so pissed off that the Jack Ryan (which really, we know it was his son) series on Amazon couldn't use John Clark because of licensing reasons. I thought Matice was a great stand-in

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    That was a cluster-fuck with all of the licensing bullshit.  Way to go Clancy/Clancy family.

    I really had a lot of hopes 20+ years ago when there was talk of doing Without Remorse with Keanu Reeves as a young John Clark.

  4. My wife was asking why they were shutting down Moscow-area airports

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    And the reality is they are probably trying to shoot down anything and everything and at this point, they have no good way of identifying friendly airliners from Ukrainian drones. I mean, in theory they should be able to figure it out with radars and transponders since airliners would have a far bigger signature, but it's Russia, and dudes working the SAM batteries are probably not being too picky. They are probably firing at the first contact they have pop up on their radars.

  5. 4 hours ago, Al Czervik said:

    I can’t wait for the day both of these cocksucking attention whores asks the internet for privacy during their soon to be divorce.  

    Followed by a GoFundMe.

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  6. 7 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    I like drugs too; stop hogging them all.

    If Miami can boot out the Republicans after 28 years, and with a woman no less, I have some hope that things next year will be a lot better than we hope.

     

  7. 3 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Trump announced this, and was then unable to answer any questions about how or why it happened. When asked what happens to all the oil on the tanker, he sort of shrugged and said "I guess we'll keep it." 

    79 million people. 

    The past few days he's been on some kind of bender. I'm wondering if the Ghislaine Maxwell/Epstein files that are being released on top of the DOJ files has anything to do with it.

    Are we going to get $2,000 checks next week to distract us?

  8. We are apparently planing on going after more tankers.
     

    Earlier story from the WSJ 

    The move came just hours after Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado left the country on a boat, an escape that potentially gave the Trump administration an opening to take more aggressive action against the Maduro regime.

    “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela—a large tanker, very large. The largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump said during an event at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.

    Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Coast Guard executed a seizure warrant for the tanker with support from the Defense Department. In a video she posted on social media, uniformed men can be seen fast-roping onto the ship from helicopters and entering the bridge with guns raised.

    “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi wrote on social media. The vessel had been used to transport “sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” she said.

    A Pentagon official said the move was a warning to other tankers waiting to dock and load up Venezuelan crude. 

    Maritime tracking data shows around a dozen off the Venezuelan coast, but the official said others have their Automatic Identification System turned off to avoid detection.

    The U.S. has sanctions in place that prohibit companies from trading Venezuelan oil, though it has given exemptions to some companies, including Chevron, which this summer received a narrowed license to operate in the country. Trump has warned that he will level hefty tariffs on countries that buy oil from Caracas.

    Asked about the seizure at the White House, Trump joked that journalists should follow the tanker with a helicopter and said he assumed the U.S. would keep the oil. He also said that information about the ship’s owner would be forthcoming.

    Brokers in Singapore told The Wall Street Journal that a tanker called the Skipper was the vessel seized off Venezuela. The tanker, formerly called the Adisa, had been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for carrying Iranian crude

  9. 45 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    I know a guy that enjoyed their show in Bandera a while back.  Unless that was a different central Texas midget wrestling outfit.  

    Were they nude?

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