For those of you who may be interested, this photo is a pretty good aerial view of Bronson Canyon (Generally looking SouthWest) you can tell the scale from the small human figures in the Photo…
In our story, Bunz and Katz have entered, walking along the old road, coming around bend at the far right of the photo by the small arrow… This put them in clear view of the outer tunnel entrance (which you can’t see in this photo) I’ve marked roughly with dotted lines how the tunnel cuts through the spur of rock (Center) There is one large entrance on the outside, but as the tunnel nears the inner canyon, it branches into 3 exits, (which you can see, marked 1, 2 & 3) the center is the largest, while those on either side are big enough to crawl through or if you’re limber, go through at a stoop… What purpose this tunnel served, back when this was a quarry, has always stumped me – as you can clearly see that the road hooks around the rock spur for easy access into the Canyon/Quarry…
The Tunnel is one of the factors which makes this still a popular spot for a film location – I was up there one time, when they’d dressed the interior with fake stalactites and stalagmites so that it would more resemble a real cave…
But mostly, when you’re in the inner canyon, any views of Los Angeles are blocked by the surrounding steep hills – except, if you were standing by the inner exits of the tunnel and looking somewhat north (Towards the bottom of this Photo) you could see the HollyWood sign through a gap in the Hills…
Also, Might as well mention, that way back in the February 2001 Calendar, GroundHawg Gus’s “Mine” is located up the slope to the left of the photo (if you were coming from the large inner exit #2 of the tunnel, crossing the narrow canyon and scrambling up the slope) it’s just out of frame… (the “Mine” is really just a tumble of boulders and not an’ actual hole in the hillside)…
Yes, With the camera shooting out from inside that large center exit into the inner canyon (So that you can see the tunnel mouth’s shape) John Wayne chases Natalie Wood down the slope towards the tunnel… It’s somewhat a mystery why John Ford, with all of Monument Valley to choose a location for the shot, would have come back to Bronson Canyon for it… One guess is that perhaps he did film the scene in Monument Valley, but that something happened to the film, it could have been damaged in processing or the focus puller might have been slightly off (these things happen) and with the turn around times, Ford may have wrapped up filming in Monument Valley before he realized that he didn’t have the shot… That’s one theory – unfortunately he’s not around to ask now…
In the Book: “Ambush of Ghosts” by David Rothel, about Western film locations, this odd conundrum is mentioned in a chapter dedicated to Bronson Canyon…
Thought so. I ran across the the info either (a) online at the Internet Movie Database or Wikipedia, or (b) in a book about the making of “The Searchers” whose name escapes me at the moment.
It’s a key emotional and plot-resolving scene; everything had to be just right, and the location frames it just right. (Besides, John Ford tended to camera-edit his films: you couldn’t put the film together any way other than the way he intended it to be.)
Perhaps Katz needs to update his search engine questions. While obviously Bronson Canyon is obviously an ideal location for “a” version of the TV Bat-Cave. It is also obviously not the location of “The” Bat-cave of “The” Bat-guy. The same fellow presumably writing them a check that a certain scary hero keeps the scary re-verb thing in his hero voice going strong.
Well, to give Katz his due, I don’t think even Google can pinpoint the location of the “Real” cave…
This somewhat relates to something that I perhaps should have worked on developing more, in that Bunz & Katz (and their alien culture) don’t really have a concept of “Fiction”, so if it’s on the Internet or TV, as far as they’re concerned, then it must be real…
New calendar out eh? Ok, two turkey days this month. Quite so. Being a veteran of a couple of Arkansas turkey hunts I must admire Taffy’s “moxie” (eh? eh?) in going after one of those speedy little buggers with a blunderbuss. Of course it looks like she’s hunting one of those big, supermarket types that couldn’t run two feet without suffering a massive coronary infarct. But then she’s not using bullets so I guess that evens out.
(Where do you get a licence to hunt turkey with a club?)
Well here it is Sunday night and I just uploaded an update on the November Calendar – so if you want the latest, the greatest, the bestest version, (the not quite as mediocre version?) just click on the Bunny’s bobbling big scarlet “A” to take you to the download page…
Guess I also have to admit that there won’t be a B&K update this week – I still haven’t finished the inks on the next page – just had various things come up that kept me from working on it… should be finished for the Monday after or where-abouts… (Gee, it’s difficult to type while your fingers are crossed…)
By the way, isn’t anyone at all worried that our nominal protagonists seem about to be ripped apart and eaten? (or whatever those horrid stygian creatures from Robert E. Howard stories do to you)…
I’m pretty sure that scarlet A stands for awesome and is a reward not a punishment. The old puritans had a secret system. How didst thou knowest whither to go for ye goode tyme? Look for the grade “A” gals.
Howard’s Stygian eh? Well be sure to chew it slowly, it’s the good stuff.
In their long, long, long space voyage the fleet that Bunz and Katz are a part of may have had to brave rare encounters with rouge white dwarfs and space comets to find fuel for their seemingly endless adventure. Times like those might have seemed scarier than a little hand to hand fight with a cave monster. Particularly those sorts afraid of flashlights or matches. Odd isn’t it that Robert E. Howard’s cave dwellers are bright enough to power up the devices that preserve the surface world (although to use for snacking upon those that dwell there), yet haven’t developed a version of the light bulb (or perhaps LED). And if the time traveling hero burns out all of the night dwellers (which might be a quite strong temptation for him) — then does it then fall to him to keep all the life sustaining machinery functioning? That part of the story wasn’t written.
Hmm … still no comment over the mythic dust up between Mothera and Godzillia. Mothera held the complete and absolute advantage by all the fight’s judges at every point in the fight. Poor Godzillia was forecast to not only loose his fight but even his title as “king of monsters” [his precious brand name]. Then he wins … and not by just a little bit. Before his win, backers of Mothera openly and hurtfully bragged that it would take “no less than a miracle” for Godzillia to make a comeback — he had ran into just too many electrified fences, toxic gas minefields, and nuclear tipped missiles — and entire joined armies from across the planet gunning to leave his form with every lethal wound possible to deliver. Yet rather than become weaker (or simply dead) his strength ever rebounded. His height grew by the hundreds of feet with all his fully absorbed battle damages.
He indeed did go low as he stumbled into landmine pits. False hero Khan held up one book to us all, saying craftily that Trump simply knew not its contents. Reminding all that Godzillia was a womanizer (and of course he was as we all know). But the same Khan wrote papers about another book greater by far in his thinking than the one he was selling. And worse by far than womanizing was its demand on the sacrifice of the woman’s very p-word. It was not PC to note that of the Gold Star father’s business arrangement with a certain oil rich nation. Likewise with Yuma’s mom’s leadership of a sisterhood supporting Khan’s (actual) view of things.
While troubled Godzillia went low into ditches (sometimes even of his own making) the Hildebeast went “high”. Not even the law of the land mattered to her and basically everyone. Her angel like wings allowed her to fly infinitely high over everything. But she neglected that even a lowly monster might be granted a “miracle”, if one far higher (as even the sun itself) deemed it fitting to somewhat soften and melt her gossamer wings.
And the result (partly so at least). Students, true believers in the right of Mothera to be victorious — now game the system to be issued Therapy Dogs, that they might attempt to deal with their Godzillia-fear. But they do not hear Godzillia say, “fear me not”. That he will champion for them as well. Those that write the story for their ears don’t want them to know that deep inside the monster is indeed an actual heart. One that allowed him to suffer boundless abuse — for actually their sake. Godzillia could easily have remained at peace on Monster Island, rather than take up his impossible fight.
It’s simple and free Brucedadude. Liberals, meaning to be mean of course, bragged that it was so impossible for Trump to win, that it would quite literally take an act of God an outright “miracle” for him to do so. Their mean words inspired me. So I simply prayed to God for that miracle. Instantly, the very next day the FBI provided it. Good to his word the FBI director said to Congress if more evidence showed up that he would without fail report it to Congress. 650,000 bits of evidence dropped onto his desk. In a record 10 days he concluded that it changed nothing of significance. But it changed this, both Hillary and Huma neglected under oath to God that they had delivered all that was required of them. Innocent material or not (according to the FBI director) — their word was not kept.
Prayer is free and thus far at least — legal. And in this case at least rather effective. You might say as you implied, that it is “good stuff”. Better even than seemingly than very high quality pot.
Before leaping to conclusions about the efficacy of prayer, let us consider the efficacy of bribery… let us wait to see if good old Comey is either rewarded with a higher office, or booted out as a potential liability…
Let’s check mark the boxes DoubleW. We all know (at least outwardly) that Hillary originally got in trouble for neglecting to paint within the lines over her/(or our) files on her private server. But the FBI director said that “no prosecutor would file charges” the AG taking a holiday from serving as a sort of prosecutor herself. She thinking that the Bill Clinton moment on a jet-plane “visit” compromised her in any potential case. And maybe it would have. All parties just sort of “blowing in the wind” of course over any legal concerns or security protocol matters. Although it is almost universally agreed that if ANY of us treated security so poorly that we would be prison, due to Hillary being Hillary — that different rules applied.
So it was a settled matter to everyone in the Obama Administration, the press, and a planet full of poll takers (except for a truism by Sarah Palin that “polls are for strippers”) that Mrs. Clinton was as good as gold. The slight seeming hold out from the FBI Director if new evidence showed up that Hillary had not testified it. But at the time that just looked like an ass covering statement. For wasn’t everything on the table already? Wouldn’t it clearly have been to Hillary’s total advantage to fess up to all such things to the OA, The OA, the FBI, the press, the poll takers, and in fact the world would have dovetailed total support behind her. As the saying goes, then Hillary would have been in like flint.
Your theory DoubleW is implicitly that the FBI Director either knew or more likely suspected something with his last remarks to Congress — and was potentially subject to a Lynch-like bribe (perhaps over his job). Maybe. But who’s bribe would he have taken at that point? My theory is that Hillary actually swore to what she believed was the truth — but that does not exclude God’s finishing touch in the matter. No not at all.
Hillary’s people have asserted that the Russians messed with this somehow. But if they did so, weren’t they incredibly elegant in their methods? They created not one lie, but exposed truckloads of ours. But nothing of the Secretary of State files has yet to make it to the press until Huma’s estranged hubby showed up on the radar.
The FBI Director knew of a developing case against Huma’s ex. Everything prior to the introduction of a 15 year old was within the boundary of the law. The 15 year old (added in) was not. A possible 5 year prison term and life long sex predator posting was a possible outcome. To avoid that, Huma’s ex would be of course compliant to an FBI investigation.
It would be hard to prove, but Russia could have made a low order move at about this point. We were doing big things in the world that were wrong, to rationalize the need of Hillary using “Bleach-bit” much as an old Mission Impossible TV show’s vaporizing audio tape. “Mr. Huma” claims he was set up with entrapment with the 15 year old. Maybe so. Someone may have wanted him pliable to to FBI probing. But how did that someone know that probing the disgraced Congressman would be of any benefit to a greater cause? Otherwise all that you have is a somewhat low order legal case.
The apparent cover story that Huma presents as to the 650K of files on her hard drive is roughly as follows. Hillary had one of her PC’s develop a problem requiring that it be repaired. Let us assume that a computer fan went out. So Hillary sent it to the designated shop for repair — and mostly simply forgot about it. No one evidently officially tagged it for high end security content. Why bother with that trivial concern if it only needed a new fan? But while in inventory, the repair was delayed by other jobs — Hillary neglecting to put a rush order on the device. In summary the device was ultimately repaired and shipped back to the State Department, but minus a “Hillary only” sticker. As fate would have it, as seemingly the cover story goes Huma needed a computer for her home use, and merely checked this one out of a holding inventory. Her hubby needed a place to story his porn related activity and so did his downloads. The Russian’s merely but peeking at his emails deduced that Huma had 650k of something on her hard drive — not harmless porn — but more likely Mission Impossible stuff of Hillary. They then and there formulated a plan to draw the FBI in like bees to flowers. They didn’t plan the porn collection — but possibly they did plan the introduction of the 15 year old into the mix.
But of course that is just a theory. And it easily opened the door for a God related “miracle” that the Liberals were calling for — if (in their thinking) there might be some version of God that they needed to answer to. Their failure in a political election, taken to heart, might ultimately improve their lot in much greater concerns. They got the “miracle” that they asked for.
Uh… let’s just go with Occam’s Razor, OK? Putin is playing the Long Game, and he has access to one of the more sophisticated hacking networks in the world.
An America ruled by Trump is more likely to be disorganized, divided, run by amateurs easily influenced by misdirection, in short ideal for Russia’s purposes. So… Two weeks before the election, a huge drove of hacked files is dumped on Wikileaks. Good old Comey rushes out a rather vague but alarming letter to Congress… after the damage is done, he backtracks… then just days before the election, he releases another blather about an unrelated case… again he backtracks… after doing yet more damage. So HC wins the popular vote, but the Electoral College negates it. And Putin sends a head-patting message of congratulations to Trump, while chuckling up his sleeve. I tell ya, Ian fleming wouldn’t touch a story like this!
Putin and the most current James Bond actor are almost identical in their appearance. But Putin is an actual martial artist. And when needed he is also as deadly as you might think of 007 as being. Just Russia’s version of course.
Where do you get the idea, that with Trump in charge, that the trains won’t run on time? He is a “time is money” sort of guy.
I just watched Mr. Wallace on Fox News do a sort of 180 on the Clinton Foundation. He now asserts that for Trump to become a “good president” that he must “fire his kids” leaving them without holdings and sell all his 500 businesses converting them to cash. I guess that comes out of him from Hillary not winning, as he much desired. Note: As he points out himself in the last debate, he asks Trump (sort of a second time) if he will support Hillary if she wins rather than him. He never asked Hillary a similar question. Wallace must not have read his history books very well. George Washington, our first, and by some accounts our best president, started out quite wealthy by marriage into a wealthy family. And after his time in office left the presidency as sort of his era’s version of a Bill Gates. Vast land holdings and good breeding stock horses were “gifted” to him by Congress. What Hillary did, was for a few million dollars gifted to her foundation, do things unheard of ever before, like OK the sale of 20% of our uranium mines to Russia. The 20% most in desired to actually buy, as they would have the greater market value. Uh … Trump likes the Russians. That’s true enough. But not so much as to sell uranium mines pennies on the dollar, as Hillary did.
Trump had about 20 more electoral votes than required to win (290 rather than 270), at last count. His manager didn’t bother with measures to win the popular vote count, since according to the Constitution that vote count doesn’t matter. It ALWAYS was Trump’s point that he could win the election without pointlessly wasting a billion dollars. No wall to wall TV spending on any sort of ads. And no thousands of people on a giant ground game. And no bribe taking from power brokers. He had to spend his [allowed] money were the votes could be picked up with the least effort.
A new presidency, delivered on time, against all odds and [under] budget.
The leaker for Wiki-leaks, the computer guru for Team Hillary, was plugged in the back of the head on a Washington D.C. street. The founder of Wiki-leaks did not admit that this was his informant. However he did say that his informants do take great risks. And that he was putting up a 20 thousand dollar reward leading up to the murderer’s arrest. No one saw the “robbery gone bad”. An automatic system noticed the gun-shot and dispatched a police car to the triangulated incident. His watch, money and credit cards were untouched. Some speculate from his location, that he may have intended to walk to a nearby FBI office.
Well, Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time… he was also a blustering blowhard, braggart and bully who got his nation into fatal alliances and an ideological lockstep that led to a police state, a devastating war, crushing defeat, and decades of poverty and instability…
Small wonder that Bunz & Katz are bemused by the gullibility and failure to learn of we Dirtians…
DoubleW, a part of Clinton’s woes were derived from contributions to her Charity that generated favors to foreign powers. Like with the uranium mines having near a 1000 to 1, favor to bribe ratio.
Wallace thinks that Trump should sell his 500 businesses to avoid what Clinton did. Though he never said the same of Clinton that I noticed.
What is your view of the apparent ethics demand? If he sold his 500 businesses would you [then] trust him with even the time of day? It can’t still be the woman thing for three reasons:
(1) he hires and pays women even in his construction empire at good ratios.
(2) the husband of Clinton has a larger woman problem as ALL know.
(3) the women of the nation forgave him. Many more voted for him, than voted for her — meaning even a good number of Democrat women. The big target on his back of this long term issue went away. As with time other targets.
Well, the Clinton charity did at least pay out money to charities, some of it the Clintons’ money… whereas the Trump “charity” was 100 percent donated by various gullible suck– er, trusting souls, and exactly zip was donated by the Rump… and in fact, some of those charity funds were used by guess who?
I imagine the Rump could sign over his 500 businesses to various family members, with a wink-wink nudge-nudge, and thus claim to avoid ethics conflicts. Maybe they could even operate those businesses so as to avoid three bankruptcies, and thus evading paying taxes… again…
Yes, it CAN still be the woman thing, for 9 reasons… or maybe 10 by now, they keep coming forward. And despite his bully-boy threats, he is unlikely to sue all of them… more likely he will try tosettle as quietly as possible, as with the Trump University swindles.
So, Did Hillary ever cheat on Bill? No? Then the Clinton scandals are ancient history… just another bit of adroit “deflection” by the Rump, to avoid talking about serious accusations against HIM.
Now, Since I continue to refer to the president-appointee by the endearing term of The Rump, you might assume I am like those petty Faux News fans who always respond to any mention of President of the United States Barak Obama by whining, “He’s not MY President!”… Well, no… although I wouldn’t have voted for the Rump at gunpoint, the fact remains that I am an American citizen… so, unfortunately, he is going to be my President. Under protest.
Glad that you recognize that Trump is president (as has the stock market).
Cease using the term Rump for Trump (firstly he has has obviously lost weight anyway), and secondly you like everyone else in Liberal World failed to understand what went on with the Trump Charity. These fat cats weren’t dumping money by the wheelbarrow into the Trump Foundation — for no reason. Is that how you really think the world works? No, liberal researchers (showing up on Morning Joe) initially trying to prove to the world that Trump was a complete cheapskate (charity wise) found this army of people for God-knows what motivation dumping money into his charity — but that for the most part that he wasn’t. He was evil for not being generous and for looting them over some pressuring. Well that part you heard. But this is the part that you didn’t hear. Open your ears of wax and pay attention. The very same Morning Joe researchers found out Godzillia’s scam. And it was indeed a beauty.
Trump was dumping money on these people in the form of loans. But he specified (according to what the researchers found out and dutifully reported) that his loans were all to be paid back in the form of money earmarked to his Trump Foundation. Do you get the point DoubleW? Trump was doing good in at least three ways:
(1) Firstly he helped businesses that he thought were worthy get a good start with his loans?
(2) Secondly the same money returned to his charity upon repayment.
(3) People not necessarily involved with giving to a good cause, did so massively with their loan repayments.
(4) Trump did all this in such secrecy that it took liberal researchers to find it out. Otherwise it would have went on forever in secret.
The man is so infinitely cooler than you thought. Any argument with the four points above?
The women? At most it is up to Trump if he wants to settle. And its just a peanuts amount of money. How much to charge for a “good luck kiss” before an office meeting with his secretary? Even Megyn Kelly (who likely had a better case than these — as things were so public for her) has publicly joined with the rest of the American women voters — and totally forgiven him. Now DoubleW, as your ammo has run out, what of your ill formed assertion that Trump should rather be referred to as Rump?
For those of you who may be interested, this photo is a pretty good aerial view of Bronson Canyon (Generally looking SouthWest) you can tell the scale from the small human figures in the Photo…
In our story, Bunz and Katz have entered, walking along the old road, coming around bend at the far right of the photo by the small arrow… This put them in clear view of the outer tunnel entrance (which you can’t see in this photo) I’ve marked roughly with dotted lines how the tunnel cuts through the spur of rock (Center) There is one large entrance on the outside, but as the tunnel nears the inner canyon, it branches into 3 exits, (which you can see, marked 1, 2 & 3) the center is the largest, while those on either side are big enough to crawl through or if you’re limber, go through at a stoop… What purpose this tunnel served, back when this was a quarry, has always stumped me – as you can clearly see that the road hooks around the rock spur for easy access into the Canyon/Quarry…
The Tunnel is one of the factors which makes this still a popular spot for a film location – I was up there one time, when they’d dressed the interior with fake stalactites and stalagmites so that it would more resemble a real cave…
But mostly, when you’re in the inner canyon, any views of Los Angeles are blocked by the surrounding steep hills – except, if you were standing by the inner exits of the tunnel and looking somewhat north (Towards the bottom of this Photo) you could see the HollyWood sign through a gap in the Hills…
Also, Might as well mention, that way back in the February 2001 Calendar, GroundHawg Gus’s “Mine” is located up the slope to the left of the photo (if you were coming from the large inner exit #2 of the tunnel, crossing the narrow canyon and scrambling up the slope) it’s just out of frame… (the “Mine” is really just a tumble of boulders and not an’ actual hole in the hillside)…
Wasn’t that where they shot the next-to-last scene in “The Searchers?”
Yes, With the camera shooting out from inside that large center exit into the inner canyon (So that you can see the tunnel mouth’s shape) John Wayne chases Natalie Wood down the slope towards the tunnel… It’s somewhat a mystery why John Ford, with all of Monument Valley to choose a location for the shot, would have come back to Bronson Canyon for it… One guess is that perhaps he did film the scene in Monument Valley, but that something happened to the film, it could have been damaged in processing or the focus puller might have been slightly off (these things happen) and with the turn around times, Ford may have wrapped up filming in Monument Valley before he realized that he didn’t have the shot… That’s one theory – unfortunately he’s not around to ask now…
In the Book: “Ambush of Ghosts” by David Rothel, about Western film locations, this odd conundrum is mentioned in a chapter dedicated to Bronson Canyon…
Thought so. I ran across the the info either (a) online at the Internet Movie Database or Wikipedia, or (b) in a book about the making of “The Searchers” whose name escapes me at the moment.
It’s a key emotional and plot-resolving scene; everything had to be just right, and the location frames it just right. (Besides, John Ford tended to camera-edit his films: you couldn’t put the film together any way other than the way he intended it to be.)
I guess, with this sudden appearance, now we know where the Bat Guy has spent his vacation…
He musta miss several appointments with the BatzBarber, then…
Perhaps Katz needs to update his search engine questions. While obviously Bronson Canyon is obviously an ideal location for “a” version of the TV Bat-Cave. It is also obviously not the location of “The” Bat-cave of “The” Bat-guy. The same fellow presumably writing them a check that a certain scary hero keeps the scary re-verb thing in his hero voice going strong.
Well, to give Katz his due, I don’t think even Google can pinpoint the location of the “Real” cave…
This somewhat relates to something that I perhaps should have worked on developing more, in that Bunz & Katz (and their alien culture) don’t really have a concept of “Fiction”, so if it’s on the Internet or TV, as far as they’re concerned, then it must be real…
Ah! They’ve been watching the “historical documents”! Never give up. Never surrender!
Just by the way, excellent study of Bunz on panel 3.
Hey, if they see it on TV, (even on Faux), then it’s GOTTA be true!
“…It’s MELVIN!!!”
Dialog from old comix – brilliant! (Not was brilliant as a Velma love doll, though) http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2016/10/14/costume-drama-18/
New calendar out eh? Ok, two turkey days this month. Quite so. Being a veteran of a couple of Arkansas turkey hunts I must admire Taffy’s “moxie” (eh? eh?) in going after one of those speedy little buggers with a blunderbuss. Of course it looks like she’s hunting one of those big, supermarket types that couldn’t run two feet without suffering a massive coronary infarct. But then she’s not using bullets so I guess that evens out.
(Where do you get a licence to hunt turkey with a club?)
Turkey club why not they’re very tasty.
So that would be a Turkey Clubbed Sandwich?
Maybe you guys could form a club of eaters…
Or maybe clubbed turkey. Better tenderization, and VERY healthy for you
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Well here it is Sunday night and I just uploaded an update on the November Calendar – so if you want the latest, the greatest, the bestest version, (the not quite as mediocre version?) just click on the Bunny’s bobbling big scarlet “A” to take you to the download page…
Guess I also have to admit that there won’t be a B&K update this week – I still haven’t finished the inks on the next page – just had various things come up that kept me from working on it… should be finished for the Monday after or where-abouts… (Gee, it’s difficult to type while your fingers are crossed…)
By the way, isn’t anyone at all worried that our nominal protagonists seem about to be ripped apart and eaten? (or whatever those horrid stygian creatures from Robert E. Howard stories do to you)…
Well, usually Conan wound up hacking them to pieces before they got to him. Some time after that, he got his own talk show…
I’m pretty sure that scarlet A stands for awesome and is a reward not a punishment. The old puritans had a secret system. How didst thou knowest whither to go for ye goode tyme? Look for the grade “A” gals.
Howard’s Stygian eh? Well be sure to chew it slowly, it’s the good stuff.
In their long, long, long space voyage the fleet that Bunz and Katz are a part of may have had to brave rare encounters with rouge white dwarfs and space comets to find fuel for their seemingly endless adventure. Times like those might have seemed scarier than a little hand to hand fight with a cave monster. Particularly those sorts afraid of flashlights or matches. Odd isn’t it that Robert E. Howard’s cave dwellers are bright enough to power up the devices that preserve the surface world (although to use for snacking upon those that dwell there), yet haven’t developed a version of the light bulb (or perhaps LED). And if the time traveling hero burns out all of the night dwellers (which might be a quite strong temptation for him) — then does it then fall to him to keep all the life sustaining machinery functioning? That part of the story wasn’t written.
??? Hey there B’OK – you sure you’re not thinking of H. G. Wells?
Most likely so. Yeah the time traveling chair with the odd rotating great disk on the back of it. And the key with a jewel to turn it all on.
Happy belated birthday to Uncle Sugar’s Misguided Children and Semper Fi to whomever wore the threads.
Hmm … still no comment over the mythic dust up between Mothera and Godzillia. Mothera held the complete and absolute advantage by all the fight’s judges at every point in the fight. Poor Godzillia was forecast to not only loose his fight but even his title as “king of monsters” [his precious brand name]. Then he wins … and not by just a little bit. Before his win, backers of Mothera openly and hurtfully bragged that it would take “no less than a miracle” for Godzillia to make a comeback — he had ran into just too many electrified fences, toxic gas minefields, and nuclear tipped missiles — and entire joined armies from across the planet gunning to leave his form with every lethal wound possible to deliver. Yet rather than become weaker (or simply dead) his strength ever rebounded. His height grew by the hundreds of feet with all his fully absorbed battle damages.
He indeed did go low as he stumbled into landmine pits. False hero Khan held up one book to us all, saying craftily that Trump simply knew not its contents. Reminding all that Godzillia was a womanizer (and of course he was as we all know). But the same Khan wrote papers about another book greater by far in his thinking than the one he was selling. And worse by far than womanizing was its demand on the sacrifice of the woman’s very p-word. It was not PC to note that of the Gold Star father’s business arrangement with a certain oil rich nation. Likewise with Yuma’s mom’s leadership of a sisterhood supporting Khan’s (actual) view of things.
While troubled Godzillia went low into ditches (sometimes even of his own making) the Hildebeast went “high”. Not even the law of the land mattered to her and basically everyone. Her angel like wings allowed her to fly infinitely high over everything. But she neglected that even a lowly monster might be granted a “miracle”, if one far higher (as even the sun itself) deemed it fitting to somewhat soften and melt her gossamer wings.
And the result (partly so at least). Students, true believers in the right of Mothera to be victorious — now game the system to be issued Therapy Dogs, that they might attempt to deal with their Godzillia-fear. But they do not hear Godzillia say, “fear me not”. That he will champion for them as well. Those that write the story for their ears don’t want them to know that deep inside the monster is indeed an actual heart. One that allowed him to suffer boundless abuse — for actually their sake. Godzillia could easily have remained at peace on Monster Island, rather than take up his impossible fight.
Huh??? Hey BOK, what are you on? If it’s legal, let us know where we can get some, otherwise forget it!
It’s simple and free Brucedadude. Liberals, meaning to be mean of course, bragged that it was so impossible for Trump to win, that it would quite literally take an act of God an outright “miracle” for him to do so. Their mean words inspired me. So I simply prayed to God for that miracle. Instantly, the very next day the FBI provided it. Good to his word the FBI director said to Congress if more evidence showed up that he would without fail report it to Congress. 650,000 bits of evidence dropped onto his desk. In a record 10 days he concluded that it changed nothing of significance. But it changed this, both Hillary and Huma neglected under oath to God that they had delivered all that was required of them. Innocent material or not (according to the FBI director) — their word was not kept.
Prayer is free and thus far at least — legal. And in this case at least rather effective. You might say as you implied, that it is “good stuff”. Better even than seemingly than very high quality pot.
Before leaping to conclusions about the efficacy of prayer, let us consider the efficacy of bribery… let us wait to see if good old Comey is either rewarded with a higher office, or booted out as a potential liability…
Let’s check mark the boxes DoubleW. We all know (at least outwardly) that Hillary originally got in trouble for neglecting to paint within the lines over her/(or our) files on her private server. But the FBI director said that “no prosecutor would file charges” the AG taking a holiday from serving as a sort of prosecutor herself. She thinking that the Bill Clinton moment on a jet-plane “visit” compromised her in any potential case. And maybe it would have. All parties just sort of “blowing in the wind” of course over any legal concerns or security protocol matters. Although it is almost universally agreed that if ANY of us treated security so poorly that we would be prison, due to Hillary being Hillary — that different rules applied.
So it was a settled matter to everyone in the Obama Administration, the press, and a planet full of poll takers (except for a truism by Sarah Palin that “polls are for strippers”) that Mrs. Clinton was as good as gold. The slight seeming hold out from the FBI Director if new evidence showed up that Hillary had not testified it. But at the time that just looked like an ass covering statement. For wasn’t everything on the table already? Wouldn’t it clearly have been to Hillary’s total advantage to fess up to all such things to the OA, The OA, the FBI, the press, the poll takers, and in fact the world would have dovetailed total support behind her. As the saying goes, then Hillary would have been in like flint.
Your theory DoubleW is implicitly that the FBI Director either knew or more likely suspected something with his last remarks to Congress — and was potentially subject to a Lynch-like bribe (perhaps over his job). Maybe. But who’s bribe would he have taken at that point? My theory is that Hillary actually swore to what she believed was the truth — but that does not exclude God’s finishing touch in the matter. No not at all.
Hillary’s people have asserted that the Russians messed with this somehow. But if they did so, weren’t they incredibly elegant in their methods? They created not one lie, but exposed truckloads of ours. But nothing of the Secretary of State files has yet to make it to the press until Huma’s estranged hubby showed up on the radar.
The FBI Director knew of a developing case against Huma’s ex. Everything prior to the introduction of a 15 year old was within the boundary of the law. The 15 year old (added in) was not. A possible 5 year prison term and life long sex predator posting was a possible outcome. To avoid that, Huma’s ex would be of course compliant to an FBI investigation.
It would be hard to prove, but Russia could have made a low order move at about this point. We were doing big things in the world that were wrong, to rationalize the need of Hillary using “Bleach-bit” much as an old Mission Impossible TV show’s vaporizing audio tape. “Mr. Huma” claims he was set up with entrapment with the 15 year old. Maybe so. Someone may have wanted him pliable to to FBI probing. But how did that someone know that probing the disgraced Congressman would be of any benefit to a greater cause? Otherwise all that you have is a somewhat low order legal case.
The apparent cover story that Huma presents as to the 650K of files on her hard drive is roughly as follows. Hillary had one of her PC’s develop a problem requiring that it be repaired. Let us assume that a computer fan went out. So Hillary sent it to the designated shop for repair — and mostly simply forgot about it. No one evidently officially tagged it for high end security content. Why bother with that trivial concern if it only needed a new fan? But while in inventory, the repair was delayed by other jobs — Hillary neglecting to put a rush order on the device. In summary the device was ultimately repaired and shipped back to the State Department, but minus a “Hillary only” sticker. As fate would have it, as seemingly the cover story goes Huma needed a computer for her home use, and merely checked this one out of a holding inventory. Her hubby needed a place to story his porn related activity and so did his downloads. The Russian’s merely but peeking at his emails deduced that Huma had 650k of something on her hard drive — not harmless porn — but more likely Mission Impossible stuff of Hillary. They then and there formulated a plan to draw the FBI in like bees to flowers. They didn’t plan the porn collection — but possibly they did plan the introduction of the 15 year old into the mix.
But of course that is just a theory. And it easily opened the door for a God related “miracle” that the Liberals were calling for — if (in their thinking) there might be some version of God that they needed to answer to. Their failure in a political election, taken to heart, might ultimately improve their lot in much greater concerns. They got the “miracle” that they asked for.
Uh… let’s just go with Occam’s Razor, OK? Putin is playing the Long Game, and he has access to one of the more sophisticated hacking networks in the world.
An America ruled by Trump is more likely to be disorganized, divided, run by amateurs easily influenced by misdirection, in short ideal for Russia’s purposes. So… Two weeks before the election, a huge drove of hacked files is dumped on Wikileaks. Good old Comey rushes out a rather vague but alarming letter to Congress… after the damage is done, he backtracks… then just days before the election, he releases another blather about an unrelated case… again he backtracks… after doing yet more damage. So HC wins the popular vote, but the Electoral College negates it. And Putin sends a head-patting message of congratulations to Trump, while chuckling up his sleeve. I tell ya, Ian fleming wouldn’t touch a story like this!
Putin and the most current James Bond actor are almost identical in their appearance. But Putin is an actual martial artist. And when needed he is also as deadly as you might think of 007 as being. Just Russia’s version of course.
Where do you get the idea, that with Trump in charge, that the trains won’t run on time? He is a “time is money” sort of guy.
I just watched Mr. Wallace on Fox News do a sort of 180 on the Clinton Foundation. He now asserts that for Trump to become a “good president” that he must “fire his kids” leaving them without holdings and sell all his 500 businesses converting them to cash. I guess that comes out of him from Hillary not winning, as he much desired. Note: As he points out himself in the last debate, he asks Trump (sort of a second time) if he will support Hillary if she wins rather than him. He never asked Hillary a similar question. Wallace must not have read his history books very well. George Washington, our first, and by some accounts our best president, started out quite wealthy by marriage into a wealthy family. And after his time in office left the presidency as sort of his era’s version of a Bill Gates. Vast land holdings and good breeding stock horses were “gifted” to him by Congress. What Hillary did, was for a few million dollars gifted to her foundation, do things unheard of ever before, like OK the sale of 20% of our uranium mines to Russia. The 20% most in desired to actually buy, as they would have the greater market value. Uh … Trump likes the Russians. That’s true enough. But not so much as to sell uranium mines pennies on the dollar, as Hillary did.
Trump had about 20 more electoral votes than required to win (290 rather than 270), at last count. His manager didn’t bother with measures to win the popular vote count, since according to the Constitution that vote count doesn’t matter. It ALWAYS was Trump’s point that he could win the election without pointlessly wasting a billion dollars. No wall to wall TV spending on any sort of ads. And no thousands of people on a giant ground game. And no bribe taking from power brokers. He had to spend his [allowed] money were the votes could be picked up with the least effort.
A new presidency, delivered on time, against all odds and [under] budget.
The leaker for Wiki-leaks, the computer guru for Team Hillary, was plugged in the back of the head on a Washington D.C. street. The founder of Wiki-leaks did not admit that this was his informant. However he did say that his informants do take great risks. And that he was putting up a 20 thousand dollar reward leading up to the murderer’s arrest. No one saw the “robbery gone bad”. An automatic system noticed the gun-shot and dispatched a police car to the triangulated incident. His watch, money and credit cards were untouched. Some speculate from his location, that he may have intended to walk to a nearby FBI office.
Well, Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time… he was also a blustering blowhard, braggart and bully who got his nation into fatal alliances and an ideological lockstep that led to a police state, a devastating war, crushing defeat, and decades of poverty and instability…
Small wonder that Bunz & Katz are bemused by the gullibility and failure to learn of we Dirtians…
HEY HEY HEY! I want a new plate. Can we move on to the next frame please? Where the hell is Quagmire? Gonna put a bee in his bonnet!
DoubleW, a part of Clinton’s woes were derived from contributions to her Charity that generated favors to foreign powers. Like with the uranium mines having near a 1000 to 1, favor to bribe ratio.
Wallace thinks that Trump should sell his 500 businesses to avoid what Clinton did. Though he never said the same of Clinton that I noticed.
What is your view of the apparent ethics demand? If he sold his 500 businesses would you [then] trust him with even the time of day? It can’t still be the woman thing for three reasons:
(1) he hires and pays women even in his construction empire at good ratios.
(2) the husband of Clinton has a larger woman problem as ALL know.
(3) the women of the nation forgave him. Many more voted for him, than voted for her — meaning even a good number of Democrat women. The big target on his back of this long term issue went away. As with time other targets.
Well, the Clinton charity did at least pay out money to charities, some of it the Clintons’ money… whereas the Trump “charity” was 100 percent donated by various gullible suck– er, trusting souls, and exactly zip was donated by the Rump… and in fact, some of those charity funds were used by guess who?
I imagine the Rump could sign over his 500 businesses to various family members, with a wink-wink nudge-nudge, and thus claim to avoid ethics conflicts. Maybe they could even operate those businesses so as to avoid three bankruptcies, and thus evading paying taxes… again…
Yes, it CAN still be the woman thing, for 9 reasons… or maybe 10 by now, they keep coming forward. And despite his bully-boy threats, he is unlikely to sue all of them… more likely he will try tosettle as quietly as possible, as with the Trump University swindles.
So, Did Hillary ever cheat on Bill? No? Then the Clinton scandals are ancient history… just another bit of adroit “deflection” by the Rump, to avoid talking about serious accusations against HIM.
Now, Since I continue to refer to the president-appointee by the endearing term of The Rump, you might assume I am like those petty Faux News fans who always respond to any mention of President of the United States Barak Obama by whining, “He’s not MY President!”… Well, no… although I wouldn’t have voted for the Rump at gunpoint, the fact remains that I am an American citizen… so, unfortunately, he is going to be my President. Under protest.
Glad that you recognize that Trump is president (as has the stock market).
Cease using the term Rump for Trump (firstly he has has obviously lost weight anyway), and secondly you like everyone else in Liberal World failed to understand what went on with the Trump Charity. These fat cats weren’t dumping money by the wheelbarrow into the Trump Foundation — for no reason. Is that how you really think the world works? No, liberal researchers (showing up on Morning Joe) initially trying to prove to the world that Trump was a complete cheapskate (charity wise) found this army of people for God-knows what motivation dumping money into his charity — but that for the most part that he wasn’t. He was evil for not being generous and for looting them over some pressuring. Well that part you heard. But this is the part that you didn’t hear. Open your ears of wax and pay attention. The very same Morning Joe researchers found out Godzillia’s scam. And it was indeed a beauty.
Trump was dumping money on these people in the form of loans. But he specified (according to what the researchers found out and dutifully reported) that his loans were all to be paid back in the form of money earmarked to his Trump Foundation. Do you get the point DoubleW? Trump was doing good in at least three ways:
(1) Firstly he helped businesses that he thought were worthy get a good start with his loans?
(2) Secondly the same money returned to his charity upon repayment.
(3) People not necessarily involved with giving to a good cause, did so massively with their loan repayments.
(4) Trump did all this in such secrecy that it took liberal researchers to find it out. Otherwise it would have went on forever in secret.
The man is so infinitely cooler than you thought. Any argument with the four points above?
The women? At most it is up to Trump if he wants to settle. And its just a peanuts amount of money. How much to charge for a “good luck kiss” before an office meeting with his secretary? Even Megyn Kelly (who likely had a better case than these — as things were so public for her) has publicly joined with the rest of the American women voters — and totally forgiven him. Now DoubleW, as your ammo has run out, what of your ill formed assertion that Trump should rather be referred to as Rump?
Why should I refer to The Rump as such? Mainly because it sounds so much more classy than “Great Gaping A——.”