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bendejo

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  1. Like a policeman at the scene of an accident, he remains neutral regarding both sides, meaning he will be receptive to gratuities from either. he said he believed there were more pressing issues, such as the economy, trade and investment Now we're talkin'! U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Hey, give some credit to the guy who edited the speech, it originally said Harry Truman.
  2. Cue Neil Young: there is a town in north Ontario . . . If the pilot was not one of the bad guys, or a trusted associate, it is a fair question to consider what they were planning to do with him. If they had him fooled that they were going hunting, and in the course of the trip he realized what they were about (people can talk indiscriminately when things get boring enough) and they planned to kill him he may have decided he wasn't going to die alone. Just did a search, no shortage of fly-in operations like this one: https://www.thunderhook.com/ontario-moose-hunts/
  3. Look up the location on map. Gotta wonder where they were going, was it supposed to be a drop-off where they would live like Grizzly Adams for a year before starting a new life with new IDs? And someone altered that plan for them. Or maybe not. Sounds like they had quite a few enemies.
  4. I wasn't aware of all this. Yes, he should not have claimed he was personally involved, better to keep all things that could be verified anonymous, as all it takes is one thin thread to unravel it all. On the other hand the "Father Bobby" character and the local capo (played by Gassman) could have influenced the records. But overall I think this is a film every kid should see, as it shows how just one stupid prank could go wrong and affect the rest of your life. For a good double bill add it to the Brit film Let Him Have It Carcaterra did a Law & Order based on true incident at an Italian supper club in upper Manhattan, but the episode takes place in another such neighborhood, one that I spent part of my formative years in, which has had me wondering.
  5. Saw this one a few times. I think parts of the story were too cynical for people to accept: the NY judicial system, the priest, and the prison guards in particular. Having grown up in that environment in the same era (in a different but similar part of town) the story makes sense to me. The press couldn't verify it because they weren't supposed to, the author was clever enough; "Hell's Kitchen" is the notorious rough neighborhood of NYC because it's near to midtown and the theatre district, and has been mentioned in movies going back to the 1930s. But there are other areas just as rough, and I suspect the real story took place in one of those. My contention was DeNiro's priest character. Yeah, nearly every parish has a younger priest who plays softball with the local lads, but I've never seen, or heard of, a Catholic priest as cool as that. BTW, Carcaterra sometimes writes and directs Law & Order episodes. Or at least did back in the Orbach days.
  6. In the US it's the senior citizens paying by check. When queuing up at the cashier lines at the supermarket you have to keep an eye out for the white-hairs clutching their checkbooks, it will take a few minutes just to settle up. Also for past so-many years gasoline is cheaper if you pay cash, and some supermarkets are keeping prices down by not accepting credit cards. They do accept debit cards, though. El Salvador has made crypto its currency, but plenty of shops have signs saying "NO BITCOIN" according to news reports.
  7. Waiting for an apologist to make mention of the healthy properties of the stuff, like being a protein concentrate. I have met certain chaps in the US who will not engage in, errr, oral contact with women because if she had been in the company of other men that day it is possible he would ingest that other guy's effluent, and it would immediately turn him gay. This sounds hilarious, but the guys who told me this believe it to be so.
  8. He's lucky they didn't wheel him into traffic. Or the sea.
  9. If there is a crime here, let them decide whether or not it is a victimless crime. If not, who is the victim and who is the perpetrator? Punishment for the victim only?
  10. My guess is it may have something to do with people not wanting to wake up to find the severed head of one of their pets in their bed.
  11. Many men of his age wake up at night to pee-pee. If he is smart he will retire outside the country; as they say, "payback is a b*tch."
  12. It's called manslaughter, isn't it? 200k baht each, you pay now! Once the check clears, it will be determined the victim was not a man so no crime, there is no law regarding womanslaughter.
  13. Thought he was great in "The Trial of the Chicago 7." Never noticed him before.
  14. In USA some states allow legal recreational weed, some only medicinal. Anything being imported from abroad has to go through Uncle Sam, it's not a state thing. Weed is still illegal federally. IMO that will not change soon, in fact app. 4 years ago the US Attorney General at the time was working to reverse the legalization at state level. Fortunately he was fired. This fellow has high hopes.
  15. bendejo

    Good tv series

    Enjoyed the movie and book back when, also Funeral in Berlin. Liked LeCarre's Cold War stuff. When Brit TV put out their "Tinker Tailor . . ." series I was blown away by how Alec Guinness's depiction of Smiley was so much like the image of him I had while reading the book. And then a few years ago they remade it into a movie, which I really disliked. A bisexual Peter Guillam? Played by Cumberbatch? When he was roughing up some guy I thought he'd hit him with his purse. Didn't like the Smiley actor either. Keeping away from remakes these days. They never did Honorable Schoolboy, did they? Pity, Joss Ackland was a great Jerry Westerby.
  16. No papers for the bike? Flashing the badge, that's all the papers he needs right there. Insurance? Had a pal of Chinese descent in the US (what he'd call an ABC) who told me his old-country parents didn't believe in insurance because you invest in harming yourself: in other words, investing is about getting more money in return, and by purchasing insurance the only way to get the payoff is your own misfortune, and who wants to hope for that? He told me this is a common way of seeing it by Chinese people. I would guess it would carry over into the rest of East Asian cultures. I wonder what kind of inmate justice he'll experience in lockup.
  17. They are talking about chicken and pork here. There is no option for any degree of rare for either of these meats. Undercooking is not an option. Overcooked chicken can be like chewing shoe leather but lacks the fatality risk (providing your teeth can handle it). It's just as potentially lethal in the Arctic. Childish and very very stupid for the restaurant to put up a challenge here, by not taking a 700b hit they smear their own name, and by playing it this way, well, just consulting a lawyer about it costs more than the check bin. My guess is the person doing the cooking that day doesn't really know his/her stuff.
  18. He certainly wishes that. In about a year from now the fangs are going to be bared and we're going to see the likes former FL governor Tim Scott, Pompeo (who just lost around 400 pounds), and just about every GOP pol you've heard make screwball claims in recent years. It's going to be a fun spectator sport, it always is when the fakers attack the other fakers. What I'm waiting for is assessments of incompetence based on the testimonies they give, e.g. "you cannot recall whether or not you discussed an insurrection of the U.S. Gov't with the president? That sounds like a disqualifying case of mental incapacity!"
  19. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2022/04/20/austin-tx-judge-delays-alex-jones-sandy-hook-trial/7382689001/ As if these people haven't suffered enough from the incident itself, vermin like this have to move in on them. Absolutely no sense of compassion or shame.
  20. When China starts getting more aggressive in the South China Sea and LOS is on the other side lotsa luck getting spare parts for whatever it is they supplied.
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