Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn!! I have seen it a couple of times. Watching it again. Wonder if it would have been better if Hitchcock had made it.
- Bindu Reddy
from Likaholix
Tiger Woods almost had Bin Laden? That's why he crashed? An amazing story. And his wife trying to catch a terrorist with a golf club. Incredible.
- Todd Hoff
The Senate wants to use this to help justify troop increases in Afghanistan. But Bin Laden isn't in Afghanistan anymore. They're shutting the barn door 8 years after the cow got out.
- Bruce Lewis
We need the extra troops to make sure the poppy harvest is handled properly. It has nothing to do with bin Laden.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
"At the time, Rumsfeld expressed concern that a large U.S. troop presence might fuel a backlash" Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, they were concerned about a backlash! And if you believe that, you should never ever vote again.
- Andrew C
I'd have to read the Senate report, but nothing in this article is really new information. It can not be helped if the previous administration wanted to go to war no matter what.
- Anika
I thought it was clear a few years ago that the Bush administration had let bin Laden escape because of Rumsfeld's crazy ideas about manpower vs. technology. In any case, bin Laden's escape then is not sufficient justification for a troop increase now because the damage has already been done.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Exactly. If catching this guy is still a goal ('cause I remember a certain POTUS saying, "I'm not that concerned about him."), then it only makes sense to talk to Pakistan, our supposed ally harboring this dude. Building up troops in Afghanistan only seems to agitate Pakistan into shutting down communications. Then again, I lack all the details and I'm an nowhere near being a military commander.
- Anika
If you catch Bin laden, then what there to fear and without all of america reduced to cowards huddling in fear what do Faux News and the GOP have to sell? No Bin Laden No need for TSA, so another vote for the GOP ad at every airport goes away... Nope catching Bin laden would reduce the GOP to a regional party a motley collection of rascist homophobic yahoos stuck forever in the Nascar red zone.. ummm never mind
- WarLord
WarLord, I'm sure they'd think of something to replace him. Besides, al Qaeda isn't the only organization that might want to blow up or hijack an airliner.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Actually Mumbia shows us that the bad guys have moved beyond airplanes to more umm direct action so the TSA is a pointless exercise in consenssus building for perhaps that attack on Iran Nigeria shows us that the bad guys are going to target our MONEY which given recent history makes good sense...
- WarLord
Every now and then, I wish the military would just go rogue and do what they know needs to be done to get the job done. Stories like this piss me off to no end. We have the power to blast the living poop out anyone in the world, and when we finally have a most worthy target, we wait.
- Josh Haley
Josh the problem with the blunt force of military as an instrument of dipolmacy and power, the USA has never been good at wielding that great big hammer to good effect...
- WarLord
I wouldn't say "never". Plus, I am talking about the actual troops not the dumbass politicians.
- Josh Haley
Josh any war whose ultimate diplomatic goals could be encapsulated on a bumper sticker (in big print) is within the grasp of the American power structure. Anything more complicated requiring nuance or perhaps cultural understanding is a total cluster fuck that mostly ends with the last wave of helicopters leaving from roof of US embassy
- WarLord
It could be seen as sour grapes from Kerry in terms of this being one of his major talking points in 2004, but it's also something that the majority of Americans have in their gut known for a long time. Without choosing sides, though it's obvious where I stand, all of us are tired of incompetence, no matter how it is measured. And proving it eight years later won't exactly solve today's problems.
- Louis Gray
Reviewing the mistakes from 2001 won't solve today's problems, but it will indicate people that we shouldn't look to for solutions.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Well WTF America!? He's was right there casually walking and you let him go and hide. Bravo. Now we'll never capture him. Here's your sign.
- Danny Minick
i am a queen of exchanges! http://thevixy.blogspot.com/2008... i'ma do it again.... i'm willing to do it for friendfeed to granted this year is a $10 limit or 20$ even with my friends I'm keeping a limit . it's important
- Caroline
I say the same thing, but apparently I'm wrong for thinking that way. I told someone here to skip watching them and some dolt told me I was wrong for giving my opinion. LOL When you get an answer pass it on. I'd like to know too. BTW, if you get a chance to read The Godfather do it. It's not a work of art, but it's way better than the movie.
- Anika
I haven't watched Part 2 yet, so I can't comment on it, but I don't really get the love for The Godfather either. I recently rewatched it and I get that it's extremely well-crafted, and I can appreciate the filmmaking skill that went into it, but it just doesn't seem to deserve the kind of praise that gets lavished on it. It's good, yes. But it's not the greatest movie of all time (neither is <em>Citizen Kane</em>, for that matter, but it's better than <em>The Godfather</em>).
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Same. I was rather bored most of the time :|
- Michael W. May
Gasp. I loved 'em both. The craft is evident in all aspects. Further, I found Michael's arc in the first movie quite compelling. In the second, well, it's more about the sweep of the story than any particular part being compelling.
- Andrew C
I liked them, but Titanic is the highest grossing film of all time and I hated that. New Moon made eleventy million dollars last week, and you couldn't pay me to see that. People LOVE Fight Club. I think it's merely ok. So, see what you want based on your ranking, not that of others.
- Derrick
As long as we're being contrarian, I have never understood the love for the LOTR movies.
- Andrew C
from Android
Do you clean your child's nose out with q-tips? Do they scream about it? I don't see the point in doing so, but his mother condones it. Sounds like child abuse to me. The excuse is always "He can't breathe", but it seems like he's getting enough air with the power behind the screams.
I do use cotton swabs still on my boogery boy because...damn...he needs it. He got over screaming about it when he was 2. Actually, the screaming from both kids was more about the saline solution than the swabs. Once I started putting the saline solution on the swabs both calmed down enough to get their nostrils cleaned.
- Anika
He is 2 now. He doesn't really cry about anything. When he does, it's just for show and/or only lasts a few seconds. He doesn't whine (unless sleepy) and he doesn't throw real tantrums. The only time I have ever heard him really scream in distress (and what sounds like pain) is when he is getting his nose cleaned. He sounds like he is being abused and it really bothers me because I don't see the point in causing him that much distress for a couple of boogers.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I know for my kids, it wasn't so much the actual act as it was how I positioned them. I used to lay them down which just frightened them at that age. Then I started sitting on the vanity and that calmed them. Maybe she should try a different position.
- Anika
Yeah, they pin him on his back and and go at him like it's a damn alien autopsy.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
No McRib isn't new. They bring it back every once in a while and Adrian loses his mind gorging himself on it. Then he gets sad when they go away again.
- Anika
I've wondered that myself Bryce. It's probably best not to know.
- Sarah June
Anything that is pressed into the shape of something vaguely resembling something real in nature and then given a McName I steer clear of.
- Michael W. May
McRib's stench is unbearable. *gags*
- Danny Minick
Danny, relax, no one is going to force-feed you a McRib, and no one is under the delusion that it's good for you, but if you grew up poor, with McDonald's as your once-a-week-eat-out-treat, like I did, then it holds quite a bit of sentimental value.
- Adrian
When I first saw it in the parking lot, I hightailed it back to the car. Then we drove around and saw it again and I snapped this photo.
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
There was this idiot there telling his family that it's pointless to try to get a photo of the city without flash because nothing is going to show up. Um...this was taken without flash. If I had a tripod with me, it would look even better. Why do people rely on flash for night time/indoor shots and never bother to learn how to use their cameras?
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
Oh, btw, I took a photo from this same point using flash. It looks like crap. It's all dark and can barely make out the lights. Note, this did not stop most people around using digital cameras from using flash to take a photo of this spread.
- Anika
I'm no expert photographer, but I wouldn't even think of using flash to take pictures of a city at night. That's ridiculous.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Flashes aren't for taking pictures of the city at night; you use flashes at football games.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Can you see your house from there? *smile*
- Michael W. May
LOL Glen, I love the pretty lights of flashes snapping away at games. I don't know what they're getting, but it's pretty on TV. Michael, my house on is behind one of the hills far on the left. I can see my old place. =) <--I take that back. I cropped out both my current place and my former place (far right).
- Anika
The guide number on most consumer cameras today is 6 meters—about 19 feet. Using it for anything beyond that ain't gonna do anything. My rule of thumb is that you only use a flash in bright sunlight.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Oh my GOD I remember that show! I loved it. I was going to say Alice then I saw you had it. Thinking...
- Sarah Levels Up
Come to think of it, I don't think my parents let me watch Alice either, too much smack talking most likely, but there was a period during which it was on in the middle of the day during the summer, and we watched the shit outta it.
- Andy Bakun
Yeah I mean. Really? It wasn't that racy. There wasn't much my parents didn't let me watch.
- Sarah Levels Up
It's a tossup between Flo from Alice and Carla from Cheers
- Rodfather
We weren't allowed to watch Three's Company or Woody Woodpecker either. The former, I'm not sure why, although I realized during my adult life that it's a terrible terrible show. The latter because Woody Woodpecker was an instigator -- but so was Bugs Bunny, so this logic fails me.
- Andy Bakun
Heh, follow up question: favorite sitcom bar. What was the one on Bosom Buddies called?
- Andy Bakun
not a lot of drinking happens on sitcoms when you think about it. they go to diners and cafes. most of the tv bars I can think of are on dramas.
- Sarah Levels Up
of course, I love the waitress in Five Easy Pieces. I mean I hate her, but I love her. That's a classic scene right there.
- Sarah Levels Up
Marsha Owens from that one episode of Mr. Belvedere where her and George get stranded in that stranded restaurant and accidentally open it up.
- Joe Pierce
Ursula, the waitress from Mad About You (Lisa Kudrow, who played Ursula's "twin sister" in Friends)
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Guh, what's the legal pun that is the name of the bar where Micheal Bluth picks up Maggie Lizer in Arrested Development?
- Andy Bakun
1. Bob Dylan 2. Lou Reed 3. Tom Waits 4. Johnny Cash 5. John Lydon 6. Ian Dury 7. Leonard Cohen 8. Nick Cave 9. Siouxsie Sioux 10. Jarvis Cocker
- RAPatton
I think Tom Waits can sing really well. He chooses to sing with that style but still a good singer.
- Rodfather
I think he /used/ to be able to sing well, but that was many years ago.
- Michael W. May
I think Siouxsie Sioux can sing, too. She has a nice warble.
- Anika
Yes, they can sing. What the tele is complaining about here is that they don't like their instruments. And in some cases that they don't like the style in which they choose to sing. But I've heard most of the artists on this list and they're all capable of holding a tune. I actually went off on some of this recently http://friendfeed.com/music-b...
- Spidra Webster
Yes, this list is like any others, subjective. Link bait. Comment bait. (at the source, not you RAP hehe)
- Michael W. May
Hard to argue about Bob Dylan though :)
- Eric Logan
Nope. This really happened. I looked up thinking, "Wow that helicopter is low in the canyon." But then realized it was also silent. Then all of a sudden a bright red tail appeared and is disappeared over the mountaintop. Neat!
- Anika
Not to steal your thunder, but we saw something in the sky tonight, too, in Indiana... could it have been related? It's not time for something like the Leonids or something, is it?
- Kamilah Gill
I know the Leonids just finished and the Geminids are coming up. This was just random & exciting for me since we were just leaving the Observatory. What are the chances!?
- Anika
I would love to see one in real life. Must be way cooler than a video.
- Eric Logan
We go to Griffith Park a lot. We know there's coyotes there, it's just rare that we see them. The last time I saw one there was in Spring '03, so imagine my surprise when we saw TWO of them today.
The first we saw near the merry-go-round during the day. There's a blurry pic of that one. The 2nd when we were leaving, *sings* coming down the mountain *done* IN THE DARK and it ran across the road.
- Anika
And my kids are totally boring because they has zero interest in being eaten by a coyote.
- Anika
How can I take Tom Colicchio seriously after seeing him hawk Diet Coke? It's not that I begrudge him doing an ad, but Diet Coke tastes awful. (The poster says "Good taste is knowing that sensible can be delectable.")
That is torture! Why do you do it to yourself? (actually, cooking the bird early is a great idea!)
- Jess
I had no choice. I had thawed the bird yesterday and everything I read said that I had to cook it NOW. I had planned on smoking it on Wednesday!
- Anika
This looks so good I kind of want to kill myself.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Then you won't get to eat it fool!! :D
- Mo Kargas
"Our exclusive MP3 Tooth replaces your natural tooth, functioning just like a regular molar, but playing your favorite tunes anytime you want. You'll never be caught without your music again! Holds 1 GB of music, or about 250 songs. After pressing the On button, use clenching, grinding, or rapid clicking to easily select play, rewind, fast-forward, and stop functions. Sound is channeled directly through the bones of your head, avoiding the need for earphones. Note: Extraction of your existing molar, as well as product installation, should be performed by a licensed dental professional."
- April Russo (app103)
from Bookmarklet
"LOS ANGELES -- Transsexual sportswriter Mike Penner has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. The journalist made international news in 2007 when he announced he was transsexual and then began penning his articles for the Los Angeles Times under the name Christine Daniels. Colleagues at the Times say the suspected cause of death was suicide."
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
Do you have Apartment Locators in your area? In Austin this is the best way to find an apartment. You can tell the locator what you are looking for and your budget and they know all the big and small complexes and can help you find the best apartment. They are paid by the complexes (generally 1 months rent on 1 year lease).
I guess this is a local thing I'm not even sure if it's in other parts of tx
- Andrizzle Gizzle
We have them here in LA, but it's really only good if you're looking for an apt. complex. There's one company that has listings for duplexes or courtyard apts. but they tend to do a bait & switch on you with their ads.
- Anika
but who will feed them, clean out the liter box, etc? I think they're smarter than just outright murder (thats why i don't have any, i dont want to be a cat-servant, ;)
- chaz2b