Jello Biafra backs down, but he's still stupid

Jello Biafra backed out of performing in Israel. But he insisted it wasn't because of protests or the boycott. And he says he's going to Israel to see things for himself. Like there's just not enough information to go on. It's all a mystery that can only be solved by going there on vacation.

Average fellows turned violent

I haven't seen No Country For Old Men, but isn't it one of these?

Movies where sort of average guys find themselves in a violent armed conflict. And they turn out to be pretty good at it.

What are examples?

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, where a piano player mentions that used to shoot guns a lot, and he finds himself shooting it out all over the place. Sam Peckinpah. Well worth watching (even though Harry Medved, half-brother of effeminate right-wing talk show host Michael Medved, listed it as one of the fifty worse movies of all time.)

A much milder case was Gene Wilder in Silver Streak. A guy traveling by train because he's afraid to fly has to battle violent criminals with a history of attacking public transportation.

Another Sam Peckinpah movie, Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman as a mild-mannered math professor who battles over-charging English workmen.

And another Dustin Hoffman movie, Marathon Man where a middle aged jogger/college student battles Nazism with his father's suicide weapon.

There was Three Days of the Condor where a mild mannered CIA analyst battles the federal government.

In a somewhat similar vein, the James Bond movies that I thought worked were the ones that started with James Bond in the office being treated rather badly by his superiors around the office until he finally gets out in "the field" and can do what he likes. The ones that stand out in my mind in this regard are Dr No which starts with him being forced to trade in his gun, Goldfinger, where Q is rude to him while showing him the new gadgets, Never Say Never Again where M actually seems to hate him.

I'm sitting here now watching Breaking Bad. Walt seems to be developing a capacity for violence, but who knows.

I could do the stuff James Bond did. I really could.

I read the book Casino Royale. I don't know why. It was terrible.

Here's what it was about. A French labor union leader has squandered union funds. He hopes to win the money back in a casino. Casino Royale. And James Bond must go there to undermine the French labor movement!

He goes to Monte Carlo. Some people try to kill him by lobbing a bomb at him, but the bomb goes off prematurely and they are killed.

Later, he plays this game in the casino. The game is purely a game of chance. There's no skill involved. He sits mindlessly betting money and rolling dice.

He wins the money.

Later, he is captured and tortured. But some people come and rescue him.

He didn't do a damn thing!

Norway

The death toll keeps climbing in Norway.

I don't know how easy it is to get guns in Norway. Is it like Sweden where all men 18 to 55 are in the Army reserves and keep military weapons in their homes?

I just looked at an article online from The Telegraph in Britain.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8657141/Norway-attacks-police-investigate-fears-main-suspect-was-part-of-a-larger-terror-group.html

The reader comments are quite disgusting. A segment of the British public seems to more or less approve. There's also a tea bagger on there, presumably an American.

Someone did comment:

The comment section in DT [Daily Telegraph] is very disappointing. I have a feeling that Europe is heading for a very difficult time ahead. Looks like the left and the right both are trying to reconcile to and justify the extremist elements on their sides. So much so that there have been really very little sensitivity shown towards the victims who were basically kids. How inhuman can we really become?

Its all about politics in Guardian and DT comments sections. It really is disgusting.

Amy Winehouse, Kim Kardashian

Amy Winehouse has died, poor girl, at age 27. Cause of death unknown.

Not surprising, but it still comes as a jolt. Her own mother once said that she wouldn't be surprised if she died before her time.

Kim Kardashian sues because someone else looks something like her!
Turns out people who look like Kim Kardashian have no right to work. She and her pimp/mother are suing Old Navy for running an ad featuring model Melissa Molinaro. Sex tape star Kardashian claims that Molinaro has no right to appear on television because she somewhat resembles her.

We know that Kardashian had plastic surgery. Her nose was altered if nothing else. Molinaro looks the way she does naturally and Kardashian had plastic surgery. If anyone had the right to sue, it's Molinaro. Disgusting parasite Kardashian claims she has the right to have herself surgically altered to resemble another person, then sue that person for the crime of looking like her.

Something similar happened long ago. Bing Crosby destroyed a singer's career because he sounded somewhat like the child beating drunk Crosby. The guy was in a radio ad. He stated his name in the ad. But Crosby's company threatened to sue, the ad was pulled and the guy never worked again. Even if elderly drunkard Crosby didn't have a leg to stand on in court, just the threat of a lawsuit was enough to destroy another man's career.

91 killed in Norway

Well. 91 people were murdered in Norway, nearly all of them teenagers at a summer camp. The death toll keeps rising. It's a bit of a relief that the killer was a Norwegian. A right-wing extremist. On the radio, they described him as an "ethnic Norwegian", so we'd know he wasn't a Muslim who had Norwegian citizenship.

Nope. He was Norwegian, all right.

It made me think of the Jewish father of a character in the book Compulsion by Meyer Levin who is (sort of) relieved that Leopold & Loeb picked a Jewish victim. He thought it would have triggered a wave of anti-Semitism if two Jewish killers had murdered a Christian child in 1924.

In the same way, it was a relief when the killer in Norway turned out to be a Christian. And a Christian he was----people quote his manifesto which started out with him denying his Christianity and ended with him quoting the Bible and calling for the Christians to take over.

After the Oklahoma City bombing, before Timothy McVeigh was discovered to be the bomber, commentators were blaming it on Arabs. One scumbag went on the news and announced that trying to kill a large number of people was "a Middle Eastern trait."

It turned out to be an American trait, as many middle easterners can tell you. More specifically, a mid-western trait.

The chick Prince William married

That woman Prince William married has spent over a thousand bucks on candles and air fresheners for some reason.

She doesn't look so good now, does she?