You all are just jealous.

I think my left cerebrum melted down reading this thread. How 'bout a Ricochet quicky video to illustrate the features? Just an idea.

Nice smackdown.
But Perry's going to be known more for 'oops', IMO. I checked out on him with his immigration comment in the early debates.

Now, better than ever, with English subtitles!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2adV6PkgFNA&feature=colike

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Why every American isn't freaking out right about now I don't understand. To me, this is as bad as the suspension of Habeas corpus or the internment camps.

This is every wingnuts' big government nightmare scenario, but it's ACTUALLY HAPPENING.

But you watched the entire video. SUCKED IN. ;)

I've lived here too long to be impartial. But the regs are that all signs have to be in Estonian, and then whatever language after that you want.
You should should get someone like Claire Berslinki, who did a fly-by early last summer.

Two guilty pleasures:

Big Trouble in Little China. My favorite Kurt Russell movie (well, there is The Thing ..., and ever quotable. (and if I'm mistaken, Kim Cattrall's first real movie role).

Jack Burton: What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?
Egg Shen: Yeah.
Jack Burton: Thought so, good. What do we do, drink it?
Egg Shen: Yeah!
Jack Burton: Good! Thought so.

Another vote for Better Off Dead, which is ironic, considering John Cusack hates being associated with it. But chock full of quotes:

"I want my two dollars!"

"Such a shame. Throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

Lane Myer: Uh, hello?
Monique Junot: Ah, bonjour.
Lane Myer: Monique, hi.
Monique Junot: Comment allez-vous?
Lane Myer: No thanks, I already had breakfast.

Since I'm an American abroad, I'll put in some votes for world films that you may have not seen/heard of.

Melancholia (Denmark) is in the theatres now, but mostly in art houses. It's almost a painful movie to watch but beautifully shot. I hung around for a second screening to watch the first 8 minutes over again so I could put it into context. Kristin Dunst should be nominated at the Oscars.

Der Untergang (The Downfall) German - The best war movie I've seen? The last days of Hitler are so well done, it's almost seems like a documentary.

The Lives of Others (German) - About E. Germany and the peoples' relationship with the STASI. I actually cried at the end of this one. Best portrayal of the soul-crushing environment communism created for people.

13 Assassins (Japan) - Only did about a million box office in the States. But of all the action movies I've seen in the last few years, it takes the cake. Kind of a samurai mash of The Dirty Dozen and the Wild Bunch. Several times during the final hour I thought to myself, "Well, I've never seen THAT."

I saw that film. It cost me 2 dollars.

That's a feature, not a bug.

Scott's director's cut of Blade Runner is so far superior to the "suits" release that they don't belong in the same conversation. And if it goes PG-13, is as rumored, I want to see an R version some day.

In Ridley I trust.

Wow, that airline would probably have connecting flights to the 7th Circle. If there's a major airline with a worse reputation in Europe than Alitalia, I would like to know what it is. 

I teach at a university in Estonia, and when it came up in lecture this week that I was born in Denver, one of my students Tebowed me.
What's going on here is starting to bleed beyond sports fans, nationalities, and even continents. Many of the locals I know CAN'T understand the game, find it too bizarre. But they know bottled lightning when they see it on television. I can't imagine what would happen if Denver is actually able to beat the Brady bunch this weekend.
One thing is certain; the expat bars should be filled Sunday night to find out.

Well, that's just SUCH a shame.

Is it the Katrina jitters or the fact that the east coast had an earthquake last week? Nerves on edge from Mother Nature?

Death and killing are horrible, and there is no really a good way to die in a war. I'm sure the city fathers of Hiroshima, Nagaski, Nanking, Dresden, would agree, as would the catholic priest who ended in the ovens of Dachau (there's a plaque next to his crematorium).

I met a Russian grandmother who said people resorted to cannibalism - CANNIBALISM - to survive the siege of St. Petersburg. Once you've gone to a certain point, I think these kinds of distinctions are meaningless. Japanese women were training their kids to attack American troops with bamboos spears as they invaded the beaches. Sometime the laws of NATURE don't even apply in total war.

7,000 American causalities a week, in a war that was 'over'. The alternative was to bomb their rail lines, and starve them out of rice, with a projected 2 million dead. I'm not sure I would have the moxy to order it, but I will never have any doubt that Truman did exactly the right thing.