Some post-Christmas thoughts, in Comments.
Month: December 2024
It’s Worse Than That
In a good post about the latest filth to emanate from the Biden cabal (wholesale pardon of murderers from facing the federal chop), Hugh Hewitt writes:
We will remember “37 out of 40,” and biographers and presidential historians will long note and long record and elaborate on this abuse of power, along with the pardon of Hunter Biden, and all the other outrageous abuses of power. The people around our apparently incapacitated president don’t care at all what history will declare about Biden. Their indifference is purposeful. It’s a display of shamelessness.
They “don’t care at all what history will declare about Biden” because in times to come, the Marxists and their lickspittle historians will just whitewash events or cause this entire shameful episode to disappear from our history. Remember, Oceania has always been at war with EastAsia, the chocolate ration has always been 5 grams per person, and shame is an unknown emotion to the Left.
Final Show
I see that REO Speedwagon has finally broken up, after gawd knows how many years together.
And a nation mourns…
And That’s Why
“It’s a Wonderful Life” fans have expressed outrage that Amazon Prime cut a crucial scene from the beloved Christmas classic.
An abridged version of the 1946 film has been edited to leave out a scene that many consider the most important in the movie, which follows the character of businessman George Bailey as he considers taking his own life.
The scene in question, known as the ‘Pottersville scene,’ sees George wish that he had never been born before his guardian angel reminds him that he needs to earn ‘his angel wings.’
In the original version of the movie, George tells the angel that he believes he is worth more dead than alive. The angel then tells George that he does not know all he has done in his life, before showing him a version of a grim world where he never existed.
That’s when George realizes he has a wonderful life and has positively impacted his loved ones, who he is desperate to get back to as the film comes to a resolution.
But in the abridged version of the film on Prime, the moment where the angel tells George he has to earn his wings abruptly cuts to George happily running through the streets after he’s reconciled with his own life — without including what led him to his newfound acceptance.
…and harking back to the title of this post: this is why I have bought and continue to acquire the DVDs of all my favorite movies (Casablanca, 1984, It Happened One Night, all the Fred/Ginger movies, etc.) and I have a backup multi-format DVD player in case my new one ever breaks.
That way, nobody (e.g. Amazon) can ever take them away from me or “abridge” them. Just who the fucking hell do they think they are? The Pope who had all Michelangelo’s nude works defaced by painting over the women’s pudenda?
Fuck ’em all, and the nanny horse they rode in on.
Bastards.
Some Post-Christmas Thoughts
Okay, now that that’s all over with, can we fast-forward to Jan 20, please?
Christmas Day
(no, that’s not my Christmas present — I don’t own an AK,
never have, no sir not me, and anyway, there was that
tragedy on the Brazos River…)
And a little Harry, to help your heart find Christmas…
Now go and eat yer dinner. Ours is tomorrow.