Tonight at 8, the TV Land channel is showing the 1983 movie The Day After. Does anyone remember the movie? It was a somewhat cheesy account of the Cold War-turned-WW III. The Soviets may have “started” (by launching a nuclear missile). Can’t remember.
It was freaky. As people near ground zero were incinerated, for a split second they turned into skeletons. Those unfortunate enough to still be alive walked around in constantly falling ash, with radiation poisoning, no hair, and running sores on their faces. Gross.
Then there was the inevitable chaos and disorder. It was Thunderdome! Well, maybe not that bad. What made The Day After all the more eerie was the lack of commercials after the attack. A commercial-free second half. I was paranoid for weeks afterward. I think I’ll watch it again. 
By the way, the post title comes from a line in another cheesy movie (which was a sequel to really good one). Can you name the movie?
Sources: Museum of Broadcast Communications and Wikipedia.
Unrelated Update: If you e-mailed me in the past week and I haven’t responded, I’m sorry. 
I implemented a new e-mail policy several months ago. I don’t have time to answer every e-mail, but I try to answer most.
Update II (7/1): Commenters reminded me of Red Dawn, a classic. I was a mere teen in 1984, so I could relate to the teen characters defending their country from Communists. I didn’t like Reagan at the time, but I didn’t like the idea of foreign invaders, either.
Side note: Some of you may have noticed my present position in the Ecosystem. I thought there was something strange about it, so I did some detective work. Under the Top Posts category I noticed my RSS feeds are being counted as links, so the #4 rank is false. I’ve already e-mailed the Bear about it and asked him to fix the bug. I want to acquire links the old-fashioned way: by earning them. Thanks for linking and reading.
Update III (7/2): I’m supposed to be on vacation. Just wanted to say that N.Z. Bear fixed the problem at TTLB, and my true rank is #14. Now I’m on vacation.
When I first started writing for publication, I wanted to write op-eds and book reviews. Just a few short years ago, it was difficult to get a review copy from a publisher. They wanted only real reviewers, and you had to send a request on company letterhead (from a magazine or newspaper), the name of the publication where you were sending the review (if not the one on the letterhead), and clips of previous reviews.
One day I took a chance, as I often do. I wrote letters to a few publishing houses and said I was a freelance writer with a few op-ed clips requesting a review copy of so-and-so book, and that I planned to send the review to so-and-so publication, which probably wouldn’t publish it anyway. I never expected to receive a book. Despite my pessimism, at least three publishers added me to their reviewers mailing list, and I was getting books every week! Ironically, I asked to be removed from the lists so I could request one book at a time (read my favorite review).
It’s so much easier now to get free books to review. In fact, publishers send unsolicited review copies to bloggers all the time.
That was a long-winded prologue to the real subject of this post. Recently, a local publication picked up a Mind and Media book review. If you already review books or would like to, think about becoming a Mind and Media reviewer. Promotion guru Stacy Harp is gaining quite a reputation in the Christian market, and I predict her company is headed for bigger and better things.
Sheriffs in Georgia can’t seem to hold on to their thug prisoners.
After they let this thug kill three people, escape, and kill another, you’d think they learned from a mistake that caused grief for families burying loved ones struck down by a thug who should never again see the light of day, the same mistake that became a national embarrassment and highlighted Fulton County’s dangerous, politically correct hiring policies and general incompetence.
But they haven’t. Another thug escaped. Fortunately he didn’t kill anyone; he was almost killed. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (use BugMeNot to bypass the annoying registration):
The inmate apparently thought he had found refuge Wednesday at a Norcross apartment a former girlfriend had listed as her address, authorities said.
Instead, Richardson was stabbed and beaten by the apartment’s residents before running into nearby woods, Kelley said….The Sheriff’s Fugitive Unit coordinated the search for Richardson with Corrections Department personnel, she said….After the stabbing, Richardson went to another Norcross residence where he was “chased out of the house. He fled on foot,” Kelley said.
Someone then called 911 to report a “suspicious person” at Jimmy Carter Boulevard and Buford Highway, she said….The Gwinnett Police Department’s Canine Unit apprehended Richardson in that area about 7 p.m., Kelley said.
Richardson, who has been in and out of the Gwinnett jail seven times since 1998, was serving two years for probation violation, according to Sheriff’s Department records….Richardson disappeared about 2 p.m. Tuesday from a 32-man detail working at the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett at 4300 Satellite Blvd. in Duluth. Three officers were guarding the inmates at the time.
The Gwinnett County sheriff better thank his lucky stars that this thug criminal has the IQ of a walnut, as do most. After escaping, what do they do? Go directly to their girlfriend’s apartment, the first place cops know to look. Bunch of idiots, the whole lot of them.
Yesterday a reader sent a link to a story about Mexico’s newly issued postal stamps, which for some inexplicable reason depict black caricatures reminiscent of a bygone era in the United States.
Dark-skinned people of African descent are subjected to this in Mexico? They have a big Negro problem down there, do they?
I wasn’t going to blog about this because it nauseates me, then I changed my mind. Michelle Malkin beat me to the punch anyway. Whenever I see racist caricatures of blacks from back in the day, I cringe. To think there was a time in the U.S. when whites openly mocked and ridiculed blacks with these exaggerated stereotypes, and blackface comedy was all the rage.
Ironically (and sadly), blacks also performed in blackface. To see it in 2005 coming from any country or anyone raises my blood pressure.
I don’t need more reasons to dislike Vicente Fox. The reasons I have are more than enough. His desire to dictate how we enforce our immigration laws, his disregard for the poorer, darker-skinned citizens of his own country (If you’re white, you’re alright!), and the self-interested, unethical, and open encouragement he gives them to invade our country (with George Bush’s complicity) fills me with so much disgust that I hope to meet him one day so I can tell him exactly what I think of him.
I don’t want illegal aliens removed from this land because Mexico is racist; I want them gone because they’re here illegally, have no regard for our laws and culture, seeking only America’s rich blessings and none of the responsibilities, and most of all, because they’re wreaking havoc on our health care and government school infrastructures, costing law-abiding American citizens millions.
But the people in power don’t care. They can afford private schools for their kids and doctors of their choice. Yet, some of these same people want socialized medicine, government doctors, so that we’ll have to wait six months for that life-saving surgery while they can afford the doctors of their choice. And I don’t say this often enough, so listen carefully: if you can’t afford private schools, homeschool your children! But I digress. From CNN:
The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts a child character from a comic book started in the 1940s that is still published in Mexico.The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. His appearance, speech and mannerisms are the subject of kidding by white characters in the comic book….Activists said the stamp was offensive, though officials denied it.
“One would hope the Mexican government would be a little more careful and avoid continually opening wounds,” said Sergio Penalosa, an activist in Mexico’s small black community on the southern Pacific coast.
Hapless but lovable? Who wrote this garbage? Probably some white, American, liberal journalist. Before my whole day is ruined, I need to stop writing.
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Related links: Jim Crow Museum, Wikipedia’s blackface entry…
Related posts: Curious George and the Fox, Vicente Fox, Racist?, Vicente Fox Was Right…
Federal authorities say Samir and Munir Yousif Shana told investigators they were contacted by a person in their hometown of Baghdad, who said he could smuggle them into San Diego.
The two have relatives in San Diego.
Federal agents yesterday arrested the pair, along with two accused Mexican immigrant smugglers and a youngster, in the Paso de Aguila district of Tecate. (Source)
These clowns could be innocent Iraqis looking for a better life or terrorist thugs reuniting with their terrorist thug brothers already hiding out in the U.S. making plans to blow us all to Mars. No need for “I told you so.” This matter concerns us all, regardless of political affiliation or level of intelligence.
Developing…
(Tip from Renee)
Renee: “They are talking about it on Fox now. They are saying they have caught others but they are ‘worried’ about this specific case (because of the initiated contact from overseas). They say what it reveals is that the pipeline is open…”
Filed under: Illegal Aliens, War - Islamofascism
One of the nice things about having an established blog is free publicity for your new blog. Add my business blog to your RSS aggregators and daily reads lists. It’s hard to believe the stats for this site used to be just as low. 
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Did any readers catch my interview last Sunday on Pundit Review Radio? The handful of radio interviews I’ve done have been friendly: conservative or conservative Christian hosts and callers who agreed with me. One day I’ll be faced with a hostile host and a hostile audience. I got a taste of it Sunday night.
One of Jesse Jackson’s sheeple (a black man) called in to complain about my harsh treatment of “Reverends” Jackson and Al Sharpton. It turned into a mini-shouting match, to my chagrin. The caller said that he was glad people like Jackson and Sharpton were out there speaking up for “African Americans” and that I needed to lay off.
I told him the liberal media propped up those clowns (I didn’t use that word on the air) because it’s easier to get quotes and sound bites from so-called black leaders speaking for a group than it is to actually deal with blacks as individuals.
In response, the caller said as a person of African descent, he appreciates what Jackson and Sharpton do. I interrupted him (rude, I know) and said as someone also of African descent, I did not, and I resented the white media’s perception that such men represent me and my interests. I asked:
Are we sheep? Why don’t other racial groups have leaders? Why only blacks? Are we children who can’t think for ourselves and be responsible for our own lives?
I don’t think he answered me, and the questions were rhetorical anyway. I thought the exchange was blogworthy, and since I’m way more interesting to myself than to anyone else, I wondered if you heard it. Unfortunately there’s no audio file of the show to download.
British blogger Adrian Warnock has issued a Bible challenge for bloggers. He lists these verses: Is 66:2, Phil 2:3-10, Mt 23:11-12, 1 Cor 11:3, Col 3:18-24, 1 Tim 2:11-14, Titus 2:3-4, 2 Tim 1:5, Acts 18:26, Gen 1:27, Gen 2:18, 20-21, 23, 3:1, 9, 16, 17.
And writes:
Taken together, these verses together form a convincing picture. Your task is to paint it. I am not after bold statements of doctrine, certainly not throughout the post. But, given this string of verses and tackling them in this order, what does the bible have to say about issues of authority and submission and how that impacts on family church and work life?
Depending on Adrian’s deadline, I plan to participate. I hope Christian readers will participate as well.
A friend of mine volunteers her time at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center here in DC. She also volunteers for a foundation that helps soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, Helping Our Heroes Foundation.
The foundation is trying to raise $40,000 to help soldiers who may lose their homes or cars, or who’re otherwise in a financial bind because of their service and injuries. Unlike other organizations, the foundation has no paid staff, and the money goes directly to the soldiers and their families.
Please consider giving to this foundation. The men and women risking life and limb to protect us need your help.
