Sunday SciFi: The Middleman
I’ve only caught a few episodes so far from this one season wonder, but so far I really like The Middleman and his Sidekick Wendy Watson. It’s delightfully low budget, in an old school Doctor Who way, funny, a tribute to the pulp era, and the cast is clearly having fun.
The Middleman himself is a clean cut, all American, milk drinking former Special Forces veteran with authority issues and what appears to be a id case with Doctor Who’s psychic paper in it. Hmmmm….a Doctor Who/Middleman crossover. I’m sure there is some fan fic out there that covers it.
It’s good low budget fun entertainment. It’s got robots, gadgets, blasters, intelligent apes, the supernatural and a spunky sidekick that steals the show.
It didn’t run in a drive-in, so I don’t know what Joe-Bob Briggs would say, but my advice is to check it out.
Obama is channeling Nixon again
Filed under: Culture of Corruption, Our Dear Leader, Politics, RKBA
“This Obama Justice Department reminds me of nothing so much as the Nixon Justice Department. You have the scent of high-level knowledge of serious wrongdoing and you have the smell of cover-up and I think the stench of cover-up on this gun-running operation is very strong indeed.”
What did President Obama know and when did he know it?
Friday B-Movie Pick: Marked for Death
Classic Steven Seagal from 1990. Yup, this flick is now old enought to buy booze. Great martial arts scenes though. Solid ‘don’t piss off the wrong DEA agent by making it personal’ plot line and plenty of gun-fu, but like the other three word title Seagal flicks from that era, it’s watching Seagal’s rough and tumble, definately not “hearts and flowers”, Aikido that makes the flick.
Morning Round Up Post
ATF Head Melson Secretly Testifies, Without Notice to ATF or Department of Justice
Accused Fort Hood Shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, to Have Military Trial, Face Death Penalty
Three things you can do for liberty
1.Attack the funding.
2. Stop supporting the enemies of freedom and start supporting your friends.
3. Join Together
Ann Coulter Explains How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
Center for American Progress Leftists Have Accidental Encounter with the Laffer Curve, Learn Nothing
Liberal Minds: A Walking Contradiction
A liberal….
worships President Franklin D Roosevelt, who carpet bombed German cities and executed an American-born spy captured on US soil after a secret military trial—but screams that Bush was guilty of war crimes;
is crazy about Michael Moore—but against childhood obesity;
tapes over a sign that said “Too Many Jews At Harvard” with a sign that said “Ethnic Quotas This Way”;
is enraged with Karl Rove for releasing the name of a CIA paper-pusher (which he didn’t do)—-but are excited with WikiLeaks putting thousands of classified national security documents on the Internet;
categorically opposes the death penalty for convicted murderers—but screams it’s a ‘constitutional right’ to kill innocent, unborn babies;
hysterically opposed taking out Saddam Hussein, a mass murderer who gassed his own people and presided over ‘rape rooms’—but weepily demands we intervene in Rwanda and Lybia for humantarian reasons;
claims to be pro-children—but supports public schools and refuses to support charter schools;
champions women and gay rights—but ignores the brutal treatment of women and gays by Muslims;
claims it was a vicious slander to be called a communist in the fifties—-but didn’t see anything wrong with actually being a communist in the fifties;
advocates unfettered scientific research and debate—but then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about global warming closed;
yelps for clean alternative energy—bit violently opposes nuclear power;
supports sustainable energy sources like offshore wind farms—-unless the offshore wind farm obscures their view from Cape Cod;
decries stereotyping—but when a black conservative comes along, denounces that person as ‘unqualified’, ‘stupid’, a ‘house nigga’, an ‘Uncle Tom’ or ‘window dressing’;
believes Tea Partiers are terrorists—but Islamic Jihadists are victims.
MetroWest Martial Arts & Wellness Reopening!
MetroWest Martial Arts and Wellness has been closed down for several months as it moves to a much better location.
That move is almost complete! There was a delay while the local building inspectors did their work, but construction is now underway and the school will be reopening soon!
The new location is 74 Otis Street, Westborough, MA 01581.
I, for one, am looking forward to getting back to teaching and studying with the other instructors at MetroWest Martial Arts.
For more details, check out the MetroWest Martial Arts Facebook page.
Originally posted at my Shaolin Kempo blog.
Statue of George Washington
A statue of George Washington in the National Museum of American History. Done in the classic Greek style, it’s tending toward the ‘deification’ that Washington was never comfortable with.
Originally posted at Slices of Life blog.
Independence Day Quote of the Day
“Races didn’t bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.”
Happy Independence Day!
I’ll be watching 1776 today, it’s a annual tradition.
Also on the watch list for today is An American Carol. Funny, educational and a bit dangerous to make with the current blacklisting going on in Hollywood.
Friday B-Movie Pick: 1776
This close to July 4th, I gotta go with the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical 1776. William Daniels is quite good as John Adams, but it is Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin who steals the show.