Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are sheer perfection as an amnesiac former assassin and PI who foil a terrorist plot. //
Okay, so The Long Kiss Goodnight didn't exactly light up the box office when it was released, earning $95.4 million globally against its $65 million budget, despite mostly positive reviews. But it remains one of Davis's favorite roles, right up there with Thelma in Thelma and Louise (1991). (It's still Harlin's favorite of all his films.) Even Jackson told GQ in 2018 that of all the films he's been in, The Long Kiss Goodnight remains his favorite re-watch. Are you really gonna argue with Samuel L. Jackson? Just go add it to your holiday queue already!
The Long Kiss Goodnight is currently streaming on Prime Video. //
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Davis: “Were you always this dumb or did you take lessons?”
Jackson: “I took lessons!”
Just needed to add my favorite line too. It’s an excellent movie.
A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager
China’s military buildup and cognitive strategies are clear indications of intent to defeat the U.S. and its allies by any means necessary. //
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is undertaking an unprecedented military buildup aimed at challenging America and its allies, particularly in the Indo-Pacific. And, like Nazi Germany’s buildup in the 1930s, the militarization program ordered by the Chinese Communist Party isn’t simply a great power buildup — it’s a weapon in service of a deadly ideology.
Catherine Pakaluk and Emily Reynolds’ new book, ‘Hannah’s Children,’ studies mothers of large families and concludes they may hold the key for solving many societal ills. //
While there is much to be said about the particular reasons people choose to have large families, Pakaluk writes that there is one beautiful commonality among these women:
I suppose it boils down to some sort of deeply held thing, possibly from childhood — a platinum conviction — that the capacity to conceive children, to receive them into my arms, to take them home, to dwell with them in love, to sacrifice for them as they grow, and to delight in them as the Lord delights in us, that that thing, call it motherhood, call it childbearing, that that thing is the most worthwhile thing in the world — the most perfect thing I am capable of doing.
Hannah
Pakaluk opens with the story of Hannah, a woman from a Reformed Jewish background whose search for meaning led her ultimately to procreation and the proliferation of family through child-bearing, what she called “this key to infinity.” At the time of her interview, Hannah had seven children, and described her choice to have a large family as a “deliberate rejection of an autonomous, customized, self-regarding lifestyle in favor of a way of life intentionally limited by the demands of motherhood.” //
The modern challenge to traditional and cohesive family roles has absolutely impacted family growth patterns, the book argues, and will likely continue to do so. And the declining population will impact future workforces, infrastructure, and entitlement programs far beyond basic demography.
“The political and economic consequences of these trends cannot be overstated,” Pakaluk writes. “Birth rates are falling because of tradeoffs women and households are making — tradeoffs between children and other things that they value.”
‘Home Alone’ isn’t just a funny Christmas movie. It displays a mother’s transformation from selfish, absentee parent to devoted loving mother.
In the unlikely persona of Donald Trump, the American ‘rabble’ have found an unlikely hero who stands up on their behalf to remind the ‘warped, frustrated’ old men inside the Beltway who it is that does most of the living and dying in this country.
As President-elect Trump prepares to take office, so-called public health activists are ginning up a new pandemic. This one is "bird flu." Not the bird flu that's been around for decades, but a new one that infects livestock and could possibly mutate into a killer virus much worse than COVID. //
Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @catsscareme2021
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Farmers need to say NO, get off my property. Do not comply.
Deborah Birx Says We Must Test Every Cow in America (On a Weekly Basis) for "Bird Flu" using PCR.
6:08 PM · Aug 3, 2024
have been killed and disposed of since February 2022, according to USDA data obtained by Reuters showing culling and disposal methods through late June.
Bird flu is fatal in birds and the government requires entire flocks to be culled once the virus is on a farm. The deadliest year was 2022, but nearly as many chickens have been disposed of so far in 2024 as in all of 2023, the data shows.
An intriguing video from Feb. 2018 went viral over the weekend and had a lot of folks on the right talking because of something that actress Claire Danes said to talk show host Stephen Colbert and how he immediately interjected and changed the subject. When you hear it, you'll understand why.
Danes was sharing about how her "Homeland" show went to something of a weeklong "spy camp" because they knew someone in the CIA. There in Georgetown, they met actual "spooks," people in the State Department, and journalists. Colbert asked her, what was the most surprising thing that she learned from that experience? //
Danes said every year it was different, but that year it was "all about the distrust between the [Trump] administration and the intelligence world, and the intelligence community was suddenly kind of allying itself with journalists, which usually they're not..."
It was at that point that Colbert interjected and deflected to another point about when they had started shooting the season's episodes. //
Now, this may have slipped by in 2018. But after everything that has happened in the meantime, it certainly had people talking about how Colbert seemed to cut her off and what exactly she was talking about when she said they were "allying with journalists?" What were they doing? //
This was after New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer's comment in 2017, which even raised the hackles of the ACLU with what it intimated.
Western Lensman @WesternLensman
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Replying to @WesternLensman
Shades of Chuck Schumer:
"You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. Even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this."
9:31 PM · Dec 23, 2024 //
There's another point I think that's interesting about the Danes video. Danes is talking about how the "spy camp" gave them thoughts. Maybe the CIA folks realized they had the opportunity to feed what they wanted to the show, perhaps to get out information that they might have wanted to get out there? Not saying they did, but this could have given them the opportunity.
As Trump comes into office on Jan. 20, is this intel community that was unhappy before going to calm down this time around, especially now that they know Trump will be bringing big changes to their agencies?
I wouldn't bet on it. One can only wonder what might happen next, between now and then.
We launched THE LONG DARK on Steam Early Access on September 22nd, 2014. Since then, we have updated the game over 150 times. Until now, everything but the most current update has been unavailable to our community.
We created the TIME CAPSULE to let you step back in history and play every major update since our launch. Think of it as a playable retrospective of how the game has evolved over the years -- based on developer vision tempered by player feedback.
Multiplayer mod for The Long Dark | Sky Co-op
By REDcat and 2 collaborators
In this guide, I will tell you about the mod itself and how to install it.
Convert, Edit and Prune Minecraft Worlds
From the creator of the first ever world converter and multi-platform NBT editor, the Pryze Software
suite of tools has been the go-to choice for millions of Minecrafters for over a decade.
Welcome to /r/Unturned - your one-stop destination for all things related to Unturned 2.0, 3.0, and Unturned II!
Analyst Chuck DeVore, chief national initiatives officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, penned an essay for The Federalist Friday and also appeared on "Fox & Friends Weekend" to warn that China is conducting a massive military buildup the likes of which we haven’t seen since the days of the Third Reich.
His conclusions are concerning:
"Now the big difference there, is that he really focused on land power, which frankly is pretty easy to build up pretty quickly," he added. "Navies are much more difficult to build up. And we are way behind. And not only do we need to catch up, but we also need to modernize our nuclear weapons, and we need to put a lot of effort into missile defense." //
DeVore also argues that Donald Trump is right to be concerned about the Panama Canal because while we’re busy woke-ifying our military, China is staying occupied with different concerns: //
DeVore continues, arguing that we need budget reform and we need to wake up to the fact that “China’s military buildup and cognitive warfare strategy are clear indications of its intent to defeat the U.S. and its allies by any means necessary.” //
Dr. Dealgood
2 minutes ago
tinfoil hat time: China bought Biden, who then weakened us monetarily and militarily thru useless sh*t like Ukraine.
This strategy also depleted and exposed Russia's weakness.
Two enemies, one big bribe. China gains Russian oil and possibly Siberia. The US gains squat from Ukraine, except hacking and making its corrupt gov't wealthy. //
You may need to occasionally sign out and sign back into Minecraft to reset your connection to Marketplace, downloadable content, or other game services.
- Sign Out Using the Launcher
- Start the Minecraft Launcher.
- Click the dropdown menu in the top left corner with your Gamertag.
- Select Log out.
- Click Microsoft Login and sign back in.
- Select Sign in with a different account if you need to switch accounts, or press Lets Go to continue.
Alternatively, you can also check and try the below and see how it goes.
- Open the MC launcher
- Settings > Profile > Sign out of your Microsoft account or this will bring up the Xbox app/Xbox console companion app and try to sign out from there
here are the steps you'll need to take to log out of Xbox Live in Minecraft for Windows 10. It involves modifying an options text file:
- Press Windows Key+R to open the Run dialog, then copy and paste the below address and press Enter:
%localappdata%\packages\microsoft.minecraftuwp_8WEKYB3D8BBWE\localstate\games\com.mojang\minecraftpe
- Open the options.txt file and change these two variables to the below values:
game_haseverloggedintoxbl: 0
game_haschosennottosignintoxbl: 1
Save the file, then try running Minecraft again. You should be logged out now.
Jonathan Turley
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Dec 28, 2024 @JonathanTurley
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The media is still struggling to ignore the corruption of the Biden scandal by insisting that there is no evidence Joe Biden directly received money: ABBY PHILLIP: “I’m still waiting to see the proof of Joe Biden enriching himself. I take his brother and his son, perhaps.”...
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
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...It is not only factually wrong but legally irrelevant. As I stated in my testimony in the Biden impeachment hearing, enriching your family is treated the same under corruption statutes...
jonathanturley.org. https://t.co/1lCpLXuo6p
The Three Myths of the Biden Impeachment Defense
8:55 AM · Dec 28, 2024. //
."Phillip appears willing to accept that Hunter and his uncle enriched themselves with influence peddling but somehow believes that that does not implicate the subject of the influence peddling, Joe Biden," Turley continued.
"Putting aside the fact that millions flowed to the Biden family, Phillip ignores how Joe Biden repeatedly lied about not meeting these clients or knowing anything about Hunter's dealings," Turley said, finishing her and Joe Biden off. //
justpaul
23 minutes ago
It wasn't Hunter or Jim doing the "influence peddling"; they were just the salesmen. There was only one guy in the equation who could actually provide the product being offered for sale. And that is Joe Biden. Unless he had a reputation for selling access, information, and policy, Jim and Hunter had nothing to offer anyone.
THAT is the truth of the Biden Crime Family. Joe IS known around the world for being for sale. //
GreenLanternMD
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To paraphrase Ben Shapiro, “Their feelings don’t care about your facts.” They agree with Biden on political and policy things, so they simply DON’T CARE care if he breaks the law.
Q: “Are you simply ignorant or just indifferent?”
A: “I don’t know and I don’t care.”
With the vast distances involved, any manned mission to Mars won’t be able to haul substantial solid buildings to another planet. The easiest solution would be to use what’s already there. Researchers from Kharazmi University in Tehran, Iran explored several possible materials. Their findings were published in the journal Acta Astronautica. An excerpt from the report reads:
“Although it is a bit strange, blood can be utilized to create strong concrete or bricks for onsite construction on Mars. After the arrival of the first Martian inhabitants and their placement in primary structures, which can include inflatable structures, the combination of tears, blood, and sweat from the inhabitants, along with Martian regolith, can be used to produce a concrete known as AstroCrete. The production process is simple.”. //
The researchers note that ancient Romans used animal blood to reinforce their mortar. However, AstroCrete has some issues. Living on Mars will be a physical challenge and forcing astronauts to constantly donate blood would hamper progress on all other projects on the Martian surface. Also, the material’s low density would offer lackluster protection against cosmic radiation.
The adhesive in the tape is treated with capsaicin, which is one of the active components in chilies that gives them their spicy kick