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it's not nearly as salacious as it's been built to be for 20 years


Meh. I mean the prurient aspects of the story has kept it alive. I depends on what your definition of "as salacious" is, I suppose.

On the other hand, ignoring the obvious connections Ghislane had...to...have with Israeli intelligence is so consistent in mainstream and other stories as it belies description.

Folks rarely mention her father in these stories, other than to, perhaps, mention he was a "British publisher".

Boggles the imagination that folks cannot put 2 and 2 together.
I've been on the Westbank, before.

Could have been me.
We only go to the corporate stores when travelling. Locally, if we don't use the "local" coffee shop, we go to grocery store owned "Starbucks" which are better run and deliver a better product than our corporate Starbucks.

Bottom line: No impact to #TeamMidnight

re: Empire of The Sun

Posted by Ace Midnight on 5/20/25 at 11:08 am
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Liz


I've thought about it some more - Liz was the biggest female star of her day, perhaps split with Marilyn by the late 1950s.

I don't think Foster, Bale, Leo or Portman hold a candle.

re: Empire of The Sun

Posted by Ace Midnight on 5/20/25 at 10:33 am
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Has anyone made the transition from child actor to legit movie star better than Christian Bale?



The only ones in the conversation would be:

Jodie Foster
Natalie Portman
Leo
Kurt Russell
Drew Barrymore
JGL
Liz
Elijah Wood

(ETA: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland should be be on this list, too, Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Ricci, Kirsten Dunst and Emma Watson could be, too.)

And Leo probably has a bigger adult career, but that might be subjective.
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Do you really think he killed himself?


Look, anything is possible. A guy who lived the lifestyle he did and faced the rest of his days in prison, might choose to check out.

But, they are asking us to believe:

1. He killed himself,

2. On suicide watch,

3. The guard fell asleep, AND

4. The camera was broken



Occam's Razor doesn't help their cause. We can believe that the highly unlikely combination of 1 - 4 happened, or the far more likely/reasonable that powerful people decided:


At the grocery store - today - two people in a row (and I do not believe they were together) passed by with masks. First time I've seen that in a long time.
I mean, it was easy to dismiss him as a nepo-baby (Tex Ritter and Dorothy Fay's kid) and his first big exposure was in the silly role in Three's Company, but he was a very, very effective comedic actor. While not a true "joke teller", his comedic timing and sensibilities were superb and he could be either the funny guy or the straight man (probably as good in the modern era of that as anyone except, say Kelsey Grammar or Phil Hartman), plus he was great at heavy physical comedy (which is rare for all three).

A real triple threat who also had the range for more dramatic roles (although he wasn't asked to do much of that after he got big).

re: Tiger Legend Geert Hammink!

Posted by Ace Midnight on 5/18/25 at 9:23 pm
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He used to come to the apartment pool on Brightside View with another basketball player (Russian player at the time, can't remember name).


The chances we were briefly neighbors is now greater than 0%. I don't remember interacting with him, but we weren't at the pool very often.
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she is pretty meh. Just like Brady and Gisele. Not they’re unattractive, but you’d think those guys could find better.


Gisele? She was one of the top fashion models of all time and one of the very few women on the planet to amass hundreds of millions of dollars on her own.

Define "better".
Hire 2000 immigration judges for a 3-year term. 16 hearings per judge, per day, roughly 200 days of hearings per judge, ~3200 hearings per judge, per year - that ought to do it. It would take about 90 days to hire and another 60 to prime the system, but that could still handle over 6 million hearings per year.

These aren't supreme court cases. There is either evidence the person is legally allowed to be here or there isn't. If they lose in front of the IJ, then they can appeal, but they can wait in their country of origin.

Due process isn't rocket science.

re: POS Springsteen pulling a Biden

Posted by Ace Midnight on 5/16/25 at 3:17 pm
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wearing tight jeans


:pimp:


....I mean, "No!"
So, at least he is not above fighting another man. Probably had security, though, so things couldn't have gone against him.

The UK will likely do nothing.
I would try sets of 5 to 10 every hour and see how it goes.

(ETA: We did hundreds of pushups every day for many weeks in the military.)
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Aren't these mudshits terrorist supposed to be covering their hair? What gives? I still don’t trust them. Burka Burka Hijab? A drone strike should be in order.


You told me you didn't read the article you linked without telling me you didn't read the article you linked.

:thup: