"Ninety-eight percent?" Where'd she get that figure? Out of her hat? How on earth would that kind of statistic be arrived at? I'd like to have seen the wording of that questionnaire!

Pelosi is just like most of the folks you see out here in cloud cuckoo-land, otherwise known as San Francisco. Everyone here freely defines him or her or itself as anything they want to. Here, the statement, "I'm a Buddhist," or "I'm a Catholic" or "I'm a spiritual person but not religious" means precisely nothing. Here, it means, gee, that sounds cool, I'll be that.

Generally, it's a mistake to take anything people say out here seriously. The real religion here amongst the lotus eaters is hedonism. San Francisco is full of people who live for nothing but their own pleasure and comfort, period. Anything that interferes with that isn't worth having. Here, as much as anywhere in liberal la-la land, the idea is that sex with anyone you want, anytime you want, with absolutely no negative consequences, is a constitutional right as inalienable as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And the government should pay for it, or they just hate women. Man.

Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah. You'll struggle to find the ten requisite righteous here, but they'll all claim to be something really cool, at least. And Pelosi is our most popular representative. Deo gratias, indeed.

Well, I guess being part of the one percent isn't all it's cracked up to be.

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." The White Queen.

I've often found this to be true of Democrats: it's why I can't be one. I have a real problem with believing impossible things, and can't even see the reason behind it.

To believe that a man and a man are exactly the same as a man and a woman.

To believe that slicing up a living, unborn child and flushing them down the toilet is exercising a woman's right to privacy.

To believe that the oceans are rising when a quick trip to the beach proves they aren't.

To believe that stealing money from one group of citizens will somehow improve the lot of another group of citizens.

Gad. Sometimes it's frightening to watch them, because it's so much like watching insane people conversing with their invisible friends. Gad. They rejoice when some official confirms their impossible worldview: behold, the 9th Circuit has ruled that the Emperor's new clothes are as brilliant and dazzling as the sun. Huzzah.

Gad.

"then Senator John F. Kennedy Jr.?" I don't think John John was even born in 1959, was he?

Surprising how many people don't like silent movies. I've never understood it, but there it is.

Don't you like John Ford? Many of his best movies were silents: The Iron Horse, 3 Bad Men, Hangman's House, which featured an extra named Marion Morrison. What about King Vidor's amazing movies: The Crowd, The Big Parade (a better war movie than Wings, much!). What's funnier than Buster Keaton's movies: One Week, Our Hospitality, and speaking of war movies, what Civil War movie ever made matches The General for authenticity of detail? Heck, even WC Fields was funny in silents: So's Your Old Man was much funnier than the sound version, You're Telling Me.

What about Sunrise, or anything else by FW Murnau? Heck, The Passion of Joan of Arc, a French silent, was the best movie EVER made about the subject. How about Lulu? Broken Blossoms? Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? Not to mention Intolerance, Birth of a Nation, Ben Hur (starring Ramon Navarra), and, of course, Charles Chaplin and his little gems.

What about Lon Chaney: The Unknown, The Unholy Three, Phantom of the Opera, The Penalty. How about Greed, or Foolish Wives, even?

I haven't even scratched the surface of the silents that are available on DVD. It's rich ground. Seriously. You're missing a lot. Back then they didn't need dialogue. They had faces.

Same thing happens here in San Francisco. Every year the March for Life is the largest protest of the year, attracting thousands. I've seen exactly one article in the mainstream media here, and it was completely distorted, claiming that the 20 or so pro-abortion protestors somehow equaled the thousands of pro-life marchers. Yet every year, local bloggers post incredible photos of the huge crowds marching for the rights of the unborn here in San Francisco, allegedly the liberal center of America.

Ah, well, what can you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Hmm. I don't get it. I recently watched it again, and felt the same bored, impatient, oh, why-don't-they-just-shut-up feelings about the characters and the movie that I felt when I first saw it in the theater years ago.

I felt the same about his Lord of the Rings movies. I tried once to watch one of them, and got so completely bored that I returned the video unwatched. Back in the '70s when everyone was reading Tolkein, I felt the same way: the characters are all totally made up and have nothing to do with any discernable or recognizable reality -- what's the point?

Then again, when I was a kid I didn't like fairy tales either, and I've always hated science fiction. Pehaps it's a genetic deficiency, who knows? Put me in front of a Star Wars movie and my eyes just glaze over. Putting a couple of adolescent, and therefore boring, girls in a fantasy movie is just as soporific to me. If this was Jackson's best, he's got little to brag about.

Fascinating: "obligation to her donors." So, I guess she's talking about her real employers. Obviously not the voters. Heck, what does a Congress-person make? $150K a year or so? To someone worth $400 million like Nancy Pelosi, it's chicken feed, not even noticeable.

These people are truly swine. I recall working (as a temp) in a law firm a year or so ago, and we regularly received calls from Ms. Pelosi, at least on a weekly basis but more often twice or three times a week, ALWAYS asking for money. I assume we weren't the only law firm she called, or indeed the only business. After a while, it dawned on me that asking people for money was what she probably does more than anything else. She must spend hours a day calling people trying to wheedle money out of them.

Those mean old donors...

Oh, these young people...

Elf? Muppets? Ah-nold? Those are your ideas of Christmas movies?

How about Stalag 17? Or the Lemon Drop Kid? Or We're No Angels (the one with Humphrey Bogart)? Holiday Inn? Scrooge? Remember the Night? White Christmas?

Seems to me the new movies listed in this post all just look like Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. Yuck.

"Moral outrage" card? Isn't that what liberals use? So why are you expecting Nolte to use it? I guess next you'll be expecting him to use the race card.

Ah, well, that's what leftists are there for: to spew moral outrage over us wicked Republicans. Feel free; I'm sure it'll have the same effect it usually does.