Seen at a NASCAR race...

Wonder if he voted for Obama?

It's a simple answer after all...

The Hurt Locker (Voltage Pictures 2008)

Been away from the ol' blog recently. Still trying to catch up with other parts of my life. But I'm back and have a pretty good movie for you all to check out this weekend! This week's movie is Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker which smoked Avatar (and its director and her ex-husband James Cameron) at the 2009 Oscars. Bigelow even gave a shout out to the troops at the Oscars which I'm sure made a lot of the Hollyweird elite just want to puke in the aisles.

I have to admit as I sat down in the theater to watch this movie, I braced myself for a 2 hour liberal lecture about how war was the worst thing in the world (which it's not not my dear friends...living without freedom... THAT would be the worst thing.) and why our troops are a bunch of sadistic blood thirsty bunch of a--holes.

However, that was not the case. Not at all.

Nile Gardiner from the Telegraph.co.uk wrote an excellent article about the best conservative movies from the last decade. You all might want to make a note that most of the movies he mentions have already been reviewed by yours truly!

Below is what he wrote about The Hurt Locker...

Kathryn Bigelow’s critically acclaimed tribute to the heroism of US Army bomb disposal experts in Iraq has already been nominated for three Golden Globes. It is a searing and tense war film that has been the surprise hit of the year in the United States. What is refreshing about the film is its willingness to portray the US military presence in Iraq in an overwhelmingly sympathetic light, and the al-Qaeda-backed enemy as barbaric and fundamentally evil. There are no shades of gray in The Hurt Locker, and this is a strikingly patriotic motion picture that has been embraced by an American public weary of the anti-Americanism churned out by Hollywood in its portrayal of the War on Terror – from Rendition and Lions for Lambs to Redacted and In the Valley of Elah. The Hurt Locker is by far the best conservative film of 2009, and one of the greatest of the decade.

Here is the trailer...

Terrorist training camps on US soil

You know...I hear it's a religion of peace...

"Just as sure as the turning of the Earth..."

I remember that day very well.

I was at the beach with my parents and my sister's family for the week. I woke up that morning hearing my Mother turn on the small TV in my room. "Time to get up," she said. "Look! Some dummy crashed a plane into the World Trade Center! Can you believe that?"

The first plane had already hit the North Tower, and none of us really gave it too much thought I guess. Just another crazy ass day in New York.

Walking into the kitchen I sat down with my niece, who had just turned four, and I poured a bowl of Lucky Charms. My nephew was sound asleep in his crib not quite a year old. My Dad was reading the paper and my sister and brother-in-law were watching The Today Show. Interestingly, even the news treated the burning North Tower as a gee whiz kind of story going back and forth to it with weather and politics.

And then the second plane hit the South Tower.

"This is terrorism!" my sister screamed.

Then reports of the Pentagon being hit came on the screen. A bomb the media first reported was detonated inside our military chief headquarters, but then it was revealed not a bomb but Flight 77...a third plane.

"John," my Mother said tearfully, "what's going on?" My dad glared at the TV. "I don't know," he said.

Then there were reports of another plane. Another plane? How many planes did these guy's hijack? Who are these people? But this plane crashed in a large field in Pennsylvania. Why? What happened? Where was it going? The White House? The Capitol? And probably the most important question Are there anymore?

The rest of the story is just like yours. I watched people burn to death. I watched a man and a woman hold hands and jump out of a window hundreds and hundreds of feet up. I watched the Towers fall. I watched brave men perish. I watched my Mother and Sister cry. I watched my Dad go out on the deck and stare at the beach...

...but that's not all I remember. I remember this on TV too.



I remember seeing people celebrate, laugh, dance, smile and burn my flag on TV. 3000 of my own people were dead and this is what I'm seeing. The media quickly went into gear calling this a knee-jerk reaction.



Lost that whole day was my niece. She didn't understand what was going on...hell who did? She knew something bad had happened and that's why we couldn't go to Jungleland to go play minature golf today.

My sister tried to explain what happened.

"A lot of people were hurt and killed today, do you understand?"

She shook her head yes. "Did all the people who died today are they all going to heaven," my niece said.

"Yes, yes they are."

"Then everything is OK Mommy."

The Last Camp Fire

Almost makes me feel sorry for the poor bastards...almost.

And...here...we......

...GO!

A 1000 Words

Quite honestly one of the best political cartoons I've seen in a long time. Don't know where it came from, but it's a good one!

"They came in peace."

Folks, you need to plan a special trip to see the Beirut Memorial in Jacksonville, North Carolina (near Camp Lejeune) this fall.

The memorial honors the 220 Marines and 21 servicemen killed when their barracks in Beirut were destroyed by a suicide bomber driving a truck full of explosives. It has been estimated the vehicle was carrying enough power equal to 12,000 pounds of TNT.

Thursday October 23rd will mark the 25th anniversary of that horrible day.

I will be very interested to see how (or if) our media remembers.

Question: What have we learned about radical Islam in the last 25 years?

Question #2. Think that Marine at the end of the video is voting for Obama?

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West

"Obsession is without exaggeration one of the most important films of our time. " –Glenn Beck, CNN Headline News

"Obsession is required viewing for everyone."–Howard Gordon, Executive Producer, 24

Just watched my free DVD insert in this week's National Review of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. I believe some of you have already posted about this documentary, but I'm sure you'll all agree it's worth a repost.

Here is the trailer.

Hey Mohammed ... what's this little wire do?

This video of thermal (IR) footage was recorded from an AC-130 gunship from a mile or more away. No rounds were fired by the aircraft; this was just natural selection at work.

Some jihadists were trying to conjure up an IED made from a 155mm artillery shell. Evidently, they lost the instruction manual.

Problem resolved with no US intervention required. This video had me saying one word...

Dude.

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Found this on Elmer's Brother. FREAKIN' HILARIOUS!

Allah Calls One Home

All I can say is, "Meep...Meep!!"

World Trade Center (Paramount 2006)

When I first heard that Oliver Stone was making a film about 9/11 my first reaction, like so many other conservative movie goers, was Great, that should be a George Bush Bash Fest! A friend of mine assured me that Stone was not making the film to attack Bush but to tell a true story from that horrible day.

World Trade Center is the third film about 9/11 on ECM (United 93, Path to 9/11 being the other two) . I highly recommend anyone to watch all three! You won't regret it, I promise you! Below is a summary from the film I found on Internet Movie Database. I think this guy summed up the movie better than I could!

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster, hope is still alive. Refusing to bow down to terrorism, rescuers and family of the victims press forward. Their mission of rescue and recovery is driven by the faith that under each piece of rubble, a co-worker, a friend a family member may be found. This is the true story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, two of the last survivors extracted from Ground Zero and the rescuers who never gave up. It's a story of the true heroes of that fateful time in the history of the United States when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally from the ashes to inspire the entire human race.

Rent it folks! Again, you won't be sorry you did!



Nicholas Cage does a great job in this film...he even speaks Spanish!

United 93 (Universal 2006)

I'm 32 years old and I can say quite frankly that United 93 is the greatest American story ever told to my generation. It belongs with the classics we all learned in our history books...Valley Forge, The Alamo, Gettysburg, D-Day, Iwo Jima, United 93...period.

What makes this story more remarkable than any other story in our country's history is that these were common citizens that rose up together to fight evil. They weren't at war with anyone, they didn't train together, hell they didn't even know each other...but they recorded a significant first victory against terror that day.

I remember when this film was released and some people said it will just make people mad all over again. If this you, do your country a favor...

Get mad all over again.

Path to 9/11 (ABC 2006)

We conservatives have an old saying.

If you want to piss us off, lie to us.

If you want to piss off a
liberal, tell him the truth.

That's exactly what the Path to 9/11 did in 2006...it told the truth and pissed off a lot of Dems. In my own personal opinion, it didn't paint a great picture of either the Bush or Clinton administrations. What this motion picture did have to say is we basically failed to act, and over 3000 of our own died because of it.

I'm not sure if this movie is available yet on DVD, but if it is I strongly advise for you to rent it.

This scene takes place at the Northern Alliance Base Camp where US ally Ahmad Shāh Mas'ūd is requesting more help from the Americans to attack Osama Bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda training camp.

Ahmad Shāh Mas'ūd was assassinated by Al-Qaeda 2 days before 9/11.




The 9/11 hijackers arrive at the Al-Qaeda camp.