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RomaVicta

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  1. I'd not heard or read that quote, but it fits his actions. He was the 20th Century promoter of colonization conquest in Ireland and Palestine. He employed an army of brutal thugs in both places to act against the indigenous people. The more you know about him (I still don't know a lot) the more he seems kind of like a Reagan for the Brits except he was smart and served his country in the field. His main service to the UK seems to have been his use as a poster boy for British resistance and perseverance which did help his country. His problem seems to have been that he didn't give a shit about helping or tolerating anyone else.
  2. Oh! Oh! Oh! Maybe they're not....SEC ready. We're in the SEC. Tougher competition. It's a grind all that iron sharpening iron and the week in week out erosive processes and such. They're all terrified and neither brave nor manly enough to put on the ol' big boy pants and compete in a line-of-scrimmage league. They'd likely be killed or maimed after a quarter of tough SEC football.
  3. Rushmore is among the best films of the last fifty years as far as I'm concerned. A remarkable thing about Anderson in my experience is that I like the movies more and more as I see them. I'd place Bottle Rocket among his elite group of films for this reason. I can't even say I liked it much when I saw it in the theater in LA. Maybe the problem was that the review was over the top. I only watched BR again when a friend and I were thinking of doing a low budget short. The second viewing completely captivated me. The interplay between adults and children that he is so great with appears in this film. The characters are rich and unique and feel true. I still love checking in with Bottle Rocket every five years or so. The Royal Ts and Steven Zissou also got better with subsequent viewings although I liked both on first viewing. I think he'd do well to do something totally out of his style sort of like Stephen Soderburgh does. The disappointing films of late suggest that he's becoming hidebound by the style he's most comfortable with. Opening a window might do him good. Even if he never made another film that appealed to me, he ranks among the best filmmakers of his time.
  4. More from Texags Yes, that's why we're the ones looking under our beds and telling everyone that A&M is the Great Satan, Destroyer of Conference, King of Media, and Very Homosexual! Dildos, man! Dildos! And it shows on the field and in the amount of national respect you generate. Truly remarkable all that A&M has achieved in this century that's nearly a quarter over. tu launched their own network at huge cost to themselves and to the detriment of everybody; Disney is bailing the sips out and keeping them afloat. Why is this so hard to understand? Exactly how it happened. We should never have unilaterally launched our own network hoping it would make any money. How much did we lose on that deal again?
  5. Not for us, dumbass. And you passed on the opportunity, dumbass.
  6. It's the 2025 college football season. Do you know where your children are?
  7. I only browsed the article and responses. It seems the author is applying the usual lack of depth to his analysis typical of sportswriters. Only highly rated players can be busts. Does his simple percentage analysis allow for the notion that your chances of having a bust with two top 75 players are less than than having 10? Does it account for the fact that a highly ranked player will be more likely to at least start on a team with less overall talent thus making becoming a bust less likely? Players that might bust at Bama won't as likely bust at Ole Miss or Florida because their backups won't be as good. Three stars can't, by definition, be busts. If their development to NFL players is used only as a positive, how does that impact a team that has a relatively much lower proportion of 3 stars? As many have said or alluded to, imprecise ratings by sportswriting hacks, incomplete understanding by sportswriting hacks, and simplistic analysis by sportswriting hacks rarely produce a clear picture of anything.
  8. I used to refer to Nixon as the great villain in my memory of American politics. He's quaint by comparison to this new scourge. I don't think Nixon would have dreamed of interfering with election outcomes once the votes were in. Were he alive, he'd be as astonished as the rest of us that the country is being destroyed by a fucking clown. I take it he is destroying Trump in the cartoon above, but I'm not Star Wars savvy. If he is, the cartoon is very clever. Nixon would have slapped around this orange cunt with the same vigor and joy that Washington or Lincoln would have done.
  9. I need to know that. I hate knowing it. I had no idea.
  10. I recall that he offered one attorney to whom he owed more than a million dollars a racehorse. Trump said it was a great racehorse, so I'm sure it was.
  11. There is apparently only one other adjective in American usage, incredible. My favorite use of that one is by newsmedia: incredibly believable, incredible accuracy, incredibly reliable source. It's amazing how incredible it all is.
  12. Is my opinion forbidden? To me they were poor. I didn't give a shit about anything in them. Maybe it's an age thing. I don't go for much animated stuff.
  13. @BevoAbyss No no no. The problem is that we're politically polarized on both sides. And they're all the same. I hear it all the time on TV.
  14. I didn't get all the way through French Dispatch either. Anderson is best when making the real look like artifice or adding artifice. Full on artifice sucks. His animated films are poor. His totally unrealistic films are poor. He is a great filmmaker otherwise.
  15. Why don't we go ahead and test that theory?
  16. Regarding his trial: Poor Donald. Wop-wawp. Regarding everything outside the trial: Donald ascendant! The crooked Biden-loving, Never-Trumper, slutty negress leads the witch hunt! Money pours in. Undecided dumbasses think, "maybe there is something to this being a witch hunt. We're so polarized now. Both parties are so bad. At least Trump had a great economy and worldwide respect." Captain Obvious sighs, "I guess I'm invisible."
  17. And it's still not criminal court. What's the new standard for officials elected to serve in D.C.? Decorum, decency, political philosophy, no criminal activity, solid hater
  18. From Atlantic Magazine written by a former federal judge and a Harvard constitutional scholar. I'm leaving out the legal arguments which I assume are formidable. I'm drawn to this because of the way the writers do not move the idea of a self-evident oath-breaking insurrectionist to an abstraction. They, for me, lift the clutter of details and definitions (they do address those, too) and obfuscations that seem to blind people to the reality of what the fuck is going on. This and the instances that @WhatTheBuck has mentioned where some frank language about the obvious are popping up, give me some hope that the paradigm shift from old politics to the current and huge story of the threat to the republic will be more widely seen and adopted. Anyways, I got something out of this.
  19. We watched the first four tonight. I was going to pass on this until somebody around here mentioned it was Ritchie. Loving it. Just loving it. I don't know how he does it, but he mixes Fargo and Breaking Bad with English crime fiction. Brilliant.
  20. I think it's mostly posturing. Makes a guy feel like a badass to say brutality leaves him unmoved.
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