Jack, the movies are from the 21st Century. A lot of the ones you listed are from the 20th.

I had that same thought you did until I reread the initial post. I was like, where is “The Maltese Falcon” and Horse Feathers”?

Here’re some guesses:

The OL is much improved and that allows Gurley to rebound; maybe not to his rookie level, but servicable.

I have a bad feeling about Goff. I think he will do OK for the first part of the season, but the wear and tear is going to get to him. I predict he misses about three or four games, I just hope he doesn’t get injured enough to affect the rest of his career. He’s just too friggen skinny. Mannion has the look of someone who can be the QB of a power running team. No idea if he can be the man.

I think this is a learning year on both sides of the ball, and maybe again next year.

I don’t think Witworth will ever play on a playoff bound Rams team, but hopefully he can be the type of player – coach to get this young OL headed in the right direction for 2019.

Joe, I hear you about people building up arsenals… here’s some news on that front:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/03/news/companies/trump-gun-ammo-sales/

How President Trump is bad for the gun industry
by Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN
February 4, 2017: 9:52 AM ET

Will NRA-backed Trump actually hurt the gun industry?
It’s a paradox for the gun industry: Their pick for president, Donald Trump, is no good for gun sales.
President Barack Obama was the greatest gun salesman in America — until Hillary Clinton ran to replace him. Sales soared to records because gun owners feared they would impose tougher gun restrictions.
Now that a Republican endorsed by the National Rifle Association is in the White House, those supposed villains have disappeared. Sales of guns and ammo are falling, right along with the stocks of gun makers.

The gun industry was planning on, and I think the entire country was thinking, that Hillary was going to win,” Brian Skinner, the CEO of Kalashnikov USA, said in a recent interview with CNNMoney.
“And I know there was huge demand, all the manufacturers had huge orders, and then the day after the election, distributors were canceling orders left and right just because they realized Trump’s coming in now.”
Since Election Day, the two publicly traded gun manufacturers — Sturm Ruger (RGR) and the former Smith & Wesson, which rebranded itself as American Outdoor Brand (AOBC) — have suffered declines of more than 20% in their stock prices.
Background checks, which are conducted by the FBI for most gun purchases, dropped by 20% in January compared with a year earlier. And they were down 16% in December. Background checks do not precisely track gun sales, but they serve as the closest nationwide proxy.
Ammunition sales are down, too.
Demand was so strong in recent years that manufacturers couldn’t keep up, helping to boost imports to record levels last year. But Olin (OLN), the conglomerate that owns Winchester Ammunition, reported Wednesday that ammo sales plunged 20% in the fourth quarter last year compared with the quarter before. That reflects a buildup in the months leading up to the election, followed by a drop.
“I think people are going to slow down and the industry as a whole is going to adjust,” Skinner said from Kalashnikov USA’s sleek white booth at the SHOT Show, the annual gun industry conference in Las Vegas. “Some of them are going to die off because the demand is not going to be like they thought it was going to be the next four years.”
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The past eight years will be a hard act to follow for the gun industry.
Gun production more than doubled during Obama’s tenure in the White House, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. And the FBI conducted more than 27 million background checks in 2016, breaking the previous year’s record.
The end of the spike in “political sales” weighs heavily on the industry, said Robert Spitzer, a political science professor at the State University of New York and the author of the book “Guns Across America.”
Because of Trump’s election, “there is no political incentive to buy guns, and, as a consequence, we’ve seen a drop in gun sales,” he said, projecting that “gun sales will be flat” going forward, as the manufacturers and retailers are now “a victim of their success.”
Gun makers Vista Outdoor and Sig Sauer recently branched into ammo production, prompted by the boom in demand the last few years. It’s a way of hedging their production: Ammo sales might be slowing, but at least bullets are products that get used up and replenished.
Guns, of course, last for years or generations. So gun makers and sellers must rely on collectors who buy more than one gun, and newly minted enthusiasts buying guns for the first time. The bad news for manufacturers is that there’s already a stockpile of inventory.
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“The landscape of the gun industry has changed dramatically,” said Louis Frutuoso, owner of Standard Manufacturing, a gun manufacturer in New Britain, Connecticut. “All the gun manufacturers were essentially hedging their bets on Hillary getting in. To that end, all the gun manufacturers produced and produced and produced a lot of guns.”
Frutuoso makes the DP-12, an unusual pump-action double-barrel shotgun that reporters were lining up to shoot at the SHOT Show’s desert range in Boulder City. He also makes AR-15s, military-style rifles whose sales spiked because of fears that Clinton would impose an assault weapon ban, as Obama tried and failed to do. Frutuoso said this resulted in an inventory glut at warehouses and gun shops.
“President Trump won the election, and now people aren’t compelled to purchase firearms because now it’s a pro-gun kind of government,” he said, over the boom of the DP-12 being fired nearby. “There’s going to be a lot of guns in the pipe for a great long period, simply because of the course of events leading to this.”

Thanks for posting.

That was a very interesting read.

We need more Chief Utz’s in this country.

I donno…

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

How would “former US officials” know what was said there, unless they were Russian?

Hard for me to believe even Trump could do this, but his is such a narcissistic braggard that I can’t put anything part him.

At some point, the Earth’s core will solidify. When that happens, the magnetic field will collapse. Charged particles from the sun will cleanse the surface of all multi-cellular organisms.
That should give hope to the rest of the universe, unless, somehow, some way, we find a way to establish a foothold off of this planet. In that case, watch out universe!

He may have 100 years. Me, I’m sure I have less.

100 years. Better than the 5 Bowie said we had left…

“Five Years”

Pushing thru the market
square
so many mothers sighing
News had just come over,
we had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us
earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.’s
My brain hurt like a warehouse
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I’d need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
hit some tiny children
If the black hadn’t a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheel of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
don’t think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk

We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
We’ve got five years, what a surprise
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We’ve got five years, that’s all we’ve got

Fuck Russia.

They need to be put on “Ignore”.

Fuck Exxon. Stick your drills up your ass holes you mother fucking greedy fucks.

That is all.

Prague was my favorite. It must have been so different under the Nazis and then the Communists. Interestingly, more people spoke English there than in Geneva, which was good, because I couldn’t make heads or tails of written Czech. At least when I see signs in German, I can sort of figure out what they mean. Not so much with Czech. We did take a three and a half hour bus / walking tour of the city in English. Prague Castle is amazing. It is HUGE! My one regret was everything in the Jewish quarter was shut down because of Passover. I would have liked to roam through the temples and the the other sights.

Zooey, the B-2 is a stealth bomber that may be able to penetrate N. Korea’s air defenses (or maybe not, since they are so layered). The C-130 is a turboprop transport plane. No way it gets near any N. Korean nuclear site without complete control of the skies first (and complete supression of their antiaircraft grid).

Having just returned from Geneva (and Lake Como and Prague; beautiful time of year to visit all three, IMO), my theory is the only one that makes sense to me. I mean, there would be a mountain of leftover fondue, and that’s not something casual observers could overlook. Wait, maybe they hollowed out one or more of their mountains and are storing it there…
Maybe I need to refine my theory a bit.
I just hope I haven’t already targeted myself for liquidation by the Secret Society of the Hidden Cheese…

Sad, dark period in our modern history.

Not as sad or dark as our “Manifest Destiny” eradication of the native Americans in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but pretty close.

I toyed with the idea of registering as Muslim if they ever had a registry, but the idea of being sent to a camp like the one the Japanese Americans were sent to is too fucking scary.

I dunno.

I don’t even know what I was watching (so the following comments have less credibility than the article I’m commenting on), but it was regarding the latest supposed air strike and when Iraqi security forces got there, there were a lot of bodies, but it looked a lot more like an ISIS IED implosion of the building than a US airstrike. Kind of like they herded all the victims into the building and then detonated it. I guess, to blame us?

Personally, I think Trump has shown restraint from not going on a full out bombing campaign like he stated he would. Maybe too much pressure on the home front?

Believe me, there are lots of reasons why I son’t like the man or what he is doing, but I don’t think he is making a concerted effort to kill as many civilians as he can (at least not outside the US…).

Roger Waters, from “Perfect Sense Part 2”:

Can’t you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents
Pounds shillings and pence
Can’t you see
It all makes perfect sense

Sad…

Maddow going at this hard right now.

If even a quarter of this is true, Mannafort needs to go to jail, maybe even Gitmo…

and his ex-boss, well, time to go.