I love Jimmy Stewart and I love seafood!
You have a very nice blog here. It's original and eye catching. It's the first time I've visited, but I saw you on the Texas Connection Blogroll! Good job! 
Anybody that likes a Whataburger is OK in my book. LOL
Good sets of 4 amigo!
I will comment on 'Rear Window' afterall I saw it when it first came out. Also of note in that movie were Raymond Burr before he became Perry Mason, and Wendell Corey who was in alot of the older movies. Not to mention Alfred Hitchcock himself, which he did often in his movies, he made a cameo appearence. James Stewart is without peer, then and now, especially now, he flew 25 combat missions in a B-17 over Germany, and never lost his sense of self respect. The standard he set, will never ever be equalled by the scum that call themselves actors today. In fact comparing say, George Clooney to James Stewart is like trying to compare BJ Clinton to Abraham Lincoln.
Today, Hollywood should stay away from Military movies, there bias is telling and clearly one sided i.e., their side. Jame Fonda gets told off ? She should have been strangled.
Here is mine:
4 Jobs I have held in my life --
1) Sailor, er … actually poor sucker who had to wear an exaggerated polyester sailor outfit while sweeping up after guests at Six Flags Great America.
2) Assistant to maintenance engineer for high school
3) materials tester
4) Professional weasel (attorney).
4 places I have lived -- All Illinois all the time.
1) Libertyville, IL.
2) Dekalb, IL (flying corncob).
3) Champaign, IL (Good times).
4) Naperville, IL (damn good city).
4 TV shows I love to watch --
1) Special Report w/ Brit Hume. I would like to watch this everyday, but I am rarely home from work in time to see it. Instead, the irritating Shepard Smith creature seems to be on whenever I want to watch Foxnews.
2) LOST. On HD it is the most beautiful show on television, and not just because of the location it is filmed. It is also ominous and intriguing as well, though I am beginning to feel led along lately.
3) The Colbert Report (or Colber Repor). I have been watching this show recently. Colbert has an extraordinary sense of humor for me because the jokes never go the way I expect them to.
4) formerly – Arrested Development. In my opinion the first season of the show was the funniest television since the Simpsons early seasons. Trying to make a point of watching “the Office” – US and British Versions.
4 places I have been on vacation --
1) Yellowstone National Park. Spent a week backpacking and will never forget it.
2) Sequoia National Park. They are bigger than you can imagine and older than the hills.
3) Virgin Islands. Honeymoon (14 yrs ago). I need to get back there.
4) Northern Wisconsin. One of the only places where really I feel relaxed. Gods county – fishing – nuff said.
4 Favorite movies --
I am a sucker for movies with meaning, so ...
1) Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Love the Bomb). Periodically, I just need to watch this movie. Peter Sellers in 3 different roles. Precious (bodily fluids).
2) The Graduate. First movie to effectively integrate music.
3) Predator; Scarface – watched one or other of these movies after the bars every weekend in my senior year of college (I think they were the only two movies my roommates and I had – back then it was a big deal to have a VCR in college). Scarface is full of memorable lines and predator’s main character (the minigun – not Ahnold) never failed to please.
4) The lord of the Rings Trilogy. The last movie failed to deliver somewhat – but the trilogy is a remarkable achievement. You got to love movies that completely undercut the wussy antiwar bleating of the actors who played the main characters.
5) I have to add another to agree with DC. Rear Window... Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly at the apex of her beauty.
4 Websites I visit daily --
Do I visit 4 sites daily? Not every day, but ...
1) Belmont Club...Always insightful - sometim
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The rest. Sorry to hog the comments.
4 Websites I visit daily --
1) Belmont Club...Always insightful - sometimes stunningly brilliant – in those instances “like being shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through the forehead. Genius. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.” To steal some great lines from one of my other favorite movies.
2) Fox News ... Not much for content but to keep tabs on big events. Agreed
3) Drudge ... Gives a sense of the impact of various news stories. Agreed
4) Jawa Report/LGF – lidless sentinels watching over the Muslim hordes.
5) DC – A like-minded observer complete with loyal commentors.
4 favorite foods --
1) Breakfast skittle – large (after 10:00 am) eggs, sausage, onions bacon and swiss cheese - so full of fat that you can almost feel the bits of cholesterol attaching to your heart arteries.
2) Filet Mignon. Either with mushrooms or caked in cracked pepper. Avec Cabernet Sauvignon (US only).
3) Culvers Butterburger with swiss.
4) Coffee. Dunkin Donuts, Eight O’Clock (brand). No starbucks – bitter crap.
Oh, and breaded walleye fish sandwich made and eaten shortly after being caught in Canada.
4 places I would rather be right now --
1) Northern Wisconsin fishing – well… not right now but in about 4 months.
2) Comment stricken for lewd reference to marital bed.
3) Somewhere helping the troops.
4) Virgin Islands
Cruiser,
I am going to resist the urge to strike your comments for putting down Starbucks and promoting DUNKIN' DONUTS COFFEE?!! But seriously ... A Culvers just opened up near us. That is a pretty good burger. I have hit all the burger joints. Still ... Whataburger reigns supreme, as GM noted.
Strangelove ... Great pick. Who is the general who is Wesley Clark incarnate? Yeah, Ashley Wilkes. Guy is psycho. Rush nailed him. And when Sellers says "Reich", the laughs start rolling. Great movie, for sure.
Belmont Club and Jawa are great, too. I get over there regularly. To Belmont, in particular during major combat operations. Jawa and LGF are kinda the Jihadi News Networks.
Northern Wisconsin. Sounds like a great stop.
Thanks for a great comment.
Mark,
Absolutely dead on re: Rear Window and Jimmy Stewart. Great stuff.
I used to watch him on Carson's show. There will never be another one like him.
A true American hero and icon.
I know I risk being banned from the site but...
Re Dunkin Donuts v. Starbucks:
Aside from the fact the DD coffee tastes much better - DD gives the vast majority of its political donations to Republicans; Starbucks gives the vast majority to Demos - I read it somewhere - and I believe everything I read.
Cruiser,
You make a great point. I am certain, just looking around a typical Starbucks, that there are guilt-leftists all over the organization.
Plus, their hiring policies seemed to be geared toward unshaven, unkempt leftist kids.
Still ... the Joe is good.
BTW DC, I think you should use the Col Kurtz quote (Apocalypse Now):
"like being shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through the forehead...Genius...Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.”
on your "what they're saying about DC" sideboard. I think it applies here as much as it does to Belmont Club.
You can attribute it to "Col. Kurtz, somewhere in Cambodia" or to me.
I go away for a few days and come back to a hen party. My favorite color is digital now...just came back from Fort Bragg, and my favorite place to eat is Cracker Barrel. Unbelievable. Big chairs at big tables for big meals for big people.
The new National Marine Corp Museum is a great sight from the highway, BTW. Crazy building, like the point of a spear...of course.
Used to vacation a lot around Bar Harbor and Atlantic side of Nova Scotia until I realized my relatives were Canadians. In horror, stop going; haven't been back in years. It's like discovering your children are cannibals.
Tried the UK and found too many English people there. Prefer St. John, USVI, now. Only the occasional Canadian and Brit found cluttering up the place, and none related unless you go to Tortola. Leaving Tortola requires a $5.00 US departure fee, which is well worth it.
Myrna Loy has made every movie she was in my favorite. Too bad she never made a war film. The cup would run over.
Worst jobs...house tenter/ exterminator in Tampa and clown in St. Pete, foundry laborer in Connecticut and a dozen more.
Best blogs...DC and Roger Simon and Six Meat Buffet.
Great comment, Rhod. Hope you got to spend some good time with at least one of your soldier sons.
Yeah, Julie kinda dragged me into it. But hey ...
Thanks for the kind words. High praise indeed to be mentioned with Six Meat Buffet and Simon.
My secret? Recruit commenters wiser ... and older (ha) ... than me.
DC:
I know you have to give a little with the ladies. When you get into a Carnival of the Recipes, though, or start exchanging decorating ideas with Julie, I'll have some questions.
As for Bragg, most of them are already gone. The place has that forlorn look, like a child's room after he moves away. The Delta Force (if it exists) and SF areas are very dark and sinister. Fences, concertina, barrier trees and lots of "STOP" and "Go Away" kind of warnings. Interesting.
A guy needs to get out of the moribund Northeast, though, to see what is going in this country. Maybe Texas is the same. Growth and change everywhere, while the Leftylands of the snow belt wither away.
Rhod,
If I am in the Carnival of the Recipes ... put me out of my misery.
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