From SL, re the action movie clichés in the July 21 issue:

“Great list, but you forgot this! At the final battle to the death between hero and arch villain, the hero actually saves the villain (after proving that he could have killed him or let him die), only to then have the villain, showing truly poor sportsmanship, try once again to kill the hero with a sneaky move, at which time, the villain somehow causes his own death by accident, thus proving that he was truly on the dark side and hence must face karmic justice.”

My Response: Ah, yes. A classic!

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Did You Ever Notice…

The Myrtle Beach crew (high school friends who spend a week in Myrtle Beach every October golfing – sort of) killed some retirement time recently by composing this list of Action Movie Clichés:

* Whenever the main character suddenly needs a change of clothes, they find a clothesline or break into a house. Somehow, the clothes they have randomly stolen fit perfectly, and are usually rather stylish.

* The main character drives to a courthouse, a police station, or a busy downtown nightclub. Lo and behold, they get a parking spot right in front. Not only is there an open parking spot, they don’t have to parallel park. They just pull right in.

* In an action movie, a handgun holds 40 bullets, an automatic weapon never runs out of ammo, unless a final fistfight is in the script.

* Speaking of fighting, throughout the movie the hero beats up three, four, sometimes six guys at a time. But in the end, when he is fighting the villain, who is usually a small guy, the fight lasts for ten minutes.

* When a woman is on the run and must change her identity quickly, she goes into a drugstore and buys hair dye and a pair of scissors. Next, she goes into a gas station bathroom, cuts and dyes her hair. She comes out looking like a hair model for Vidal Sassoon.

* They never pay for anything! They don’t pay for drinks at a bar. They don’t pay for dinner at a restaurant. And they never pay for a cab.

* Whenever there is a bum in a movie, the bum has beautiful teeth.

* When the detectives on the law-and-order shows interview a person of interest or a witness, the character never stops unloading boxes or answering the phone or supervising other employees. The cops have to follow them around while they’re doing their job.

* In the beginning of the film, the hero is almost always reluctantly coming out of retirement.

* If the car he pops into to make his emergency escape is not brand-new, the engine fails to start until the very last second.

* In the bedroom scenes, he and his companion always yank the bedsheets around their hips as they step off the bed and walk into the bathroom.

* The bad guy almost always has to die twice. The first bullet or stab, however deadly it seems, isn’t enough to finish him.

* The beautiful woman, whoever she is, eventually has to run for her life. And she always does so perfectly in heels.

* When the hero has to fight many opponents at the same time, they never seem to think of charging him at the same time. They stand around like karate students waiting for him to dispose of one attacker before they rush in to be disposed of.

* The injuries are unrealistic. The hero gets shot in the arm. You think he is going to bleed to death without immediate medical attention. But he fights on and triumphs.

* Ever notice that, in a car chase, as chaser and chased careen around corners and jump stairs and drive on sidewalks, no pedestrians are ever injured, let alone killed.

* Similarly, when the hero is chased to the train station, he miraculously jumps through the closing door while his pursuers scream bloody hell.

Can you think of more? Send ‘em in!

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Mike Pence: Like Abbott & Costello in One Person 

Mike Pence has an interesting personality. On the one hand, he comes off as contemplative and serious. On the other hand, he often says things that make my jaw drop.

In this example, he responds to a very direct and reasonable question from Tucker Carlson. Click here.

 

Why Student Debt Forgiveness Is a Bad Idea (in Case It’s Not Obvious) 

Notwithstanding the fact that the action is senseless, unethical, and probably illegal, the Biden administration recently announced that it will “discharge the loans of 804,000 student borrowers who have been enrolled in income-driven repayment plans and have accumulated the equivalent of 20 or 25 years of qualifying monthly payments.”

I grew up being told that when you borrow money, you pay it back. No matter what. That felt as sensible and sacred of a commandment as Thou Shalt Not Steal or Thou Shalt Not Kill.

There is absolutely no way to justify the action. It is an insult to the millions of Americans that worked double shifts to repay their student loans. It sends a terrible message to college students and their younger brothers and sisters. And it’s an obvious pay-for-votes by the most corrupt and immoral administration in my lifetime.

Oh, and one more thing: It’s going to cost taxpayers (who pay their debts) $39 billion!

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Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher 

The Knowledge Project is one of hundreds of blogs where the host interviews minor celebrities in different fields and disciplines, picking their brains to find tricks and techniques that subscribers can use to improve their own lives.

In this interview, done in 2019, host Shane Parrish speaks with Naval Ravikant. Ravikant is the founder and CEO of Angel List, the largest platform for tech startups and an early investor in some of the most successful startups of the past 20 years.

I’d never heard of him. He’s clearly a smart and thoughtful person. That’s all I know at this point. Perhaps he runs a human smuggling operation. I should have checked before introducing him to you, but I didn’t have time. So watch the interview and let me know what you think.

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“Welcome to the MAGA Hamptons!”

“Every summer, the haute bourgeoisie of Middle America descend on Lake of the Ozarks to jet ski, barbecue ribs, and (until 2023) drink a shit-ton of Budweiser,” writes Max Meyer, in The Free Press.

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A Long-Awaited Truth About COVID from a Surprising Source: the NYT! 

I have predicted many times that the mainstream media will eventually have to tell the truth about COVID, which would mean correcting so much of the fake news that they, and the rest of Corporate Media, have been irresponsibly regurgitating for the past four years.

I’ve also said that they would never admit that they were so wrong for so long. They would have to at least start to tell the truth when the impossible statements coming out of the WHO and the CDC were no longer possible to make.

Here they are, doing just that, acknowledging some of the now undisputed facts about COVID that I was writing about almost three years ago, including the biggest fake news of all – the way the CDC told the medical industry to count COVID deaths: If you die with COVID, you die from it, even if the actual cause of death was unrelated.

I can’t applaud them for this, however, because they should have figured it out when I did (which they very well may have). And the only reason they are saying it now is so that years later they can pretend they didn’t purposely promote the fake mortality counts until they were impossible to defend.

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G, a regular reader and sometimes contributor, sent this… 

More Disturbing Vaccine News from Alex Berenson 

“A new treatment to lower harm from a minor respiratory virus in infants instead is associated with MORE baby deaths, clinical trials show. Yet no one seems to care. Two European drug companies, AstraZeneca and Sanofi, want the Food and Drug Administration to approve a costly new treatment called nirsevimab for RSV for kids under age 1.”

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What could possibly go wrong?

“The companies’ own trials show far more deaths in infants who received nirsevimab than those who got either placebo or a competing older treatment. The FDA looks ready to go along.”

I have been following Alex Berenson for three years. He has been right every step of the way in calling out pharma and the CDC for their lies since day one of COVID. He is the only one who has successfully sued Twitter, and won, for censoring his views! He has paid a heavy price for his bravery. Now he is leading the way on the questioning of this (supposed) vaccine.

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Will this little girl be canceled? 

I don’t know where this came from. I’m guessing it was some conservative programming with traditional bits like this. And it’s clear that this kid has been relentlessly practicing the answer she gives here. Still… it’s funny to hear her say the unsayable!

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