Looking toward the Future

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Larry-Lambert

I wasn’t going to post anything today. Meaning I had work and had no plans to write or blog. But I was too tired to work. And the day is shot. The naps were lovely, and the chicken salad for dinner went well. So blogging. I guess.

 

 

Bullet Points

** Mexico – Most of the migrants coming to the US are not from Mexico. It was true, but the narco-state has made things intolerable for a lot of them, so they’re starting to look to the US, particularly under Pres. Trump. Maybe they should build an app to educate the Mexican government on how it could make the nation a place that so many don’t want/need to flee. You would think that, at some point, such a situation would be an embarrassment to those charged/vested in running their Country, But the reality is that it is a Criminal-Narco state for all practical purposes.

** Worker’s Paradises – For obvious reasons, our legacy media have minimal interest in reporting regularly on economic news from the various socialist/communist paradises around the world. So, if you want to learn the latest, turn to the Manhattan Contrarian. Needless to say, all the economic news from these places is bad. If you think that Bidenomics has been bad for America, you need to look at the destruction that serious socialism can bring to a country when given a chance.

** Mediterranean Diet – “……eating ample protein, such as certain fatty fish, legumes, nuts, and whole grains, can stave off cognitive aging and improve memory. Leafy greens are also chock-full of essential nutrients that also help the brain. [Snip] Experts have also shown that the Mediterranean diet — which relies on greens, fruits, nuts, and fish — can help keep the brain healthy even as it ages.” The problem with this is that it’s expensive food, and the poor eat mac and crappy American cheese that’s more like plastic than cheese. You must also know how to cook those dishes to make them taste good. Many people open a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli, nuke it, and call it supper.

** From China – (NY Post)  “China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again. He ordered local governments to prevent future “extreme cases.” The attacks, where drivers mow down people on foot or knife-wielding assailants stab multiple victims, are not new in China. But the latest surge drew attention. [Snip] While pinpointing the exact motive of such attacks can be difficult, experts say there is an overwhelming feeling of pressure within Chinese society. “On the surface, it seems like there are individual factors, but we see a common link,” Wu Qiang, a former political science professor, said. “This link is, in my personal opinion, every person has a feeling of injustice. They feel deeply that this society is unfair and can’t bear it anymore.”

** Israel’s shift to underground warfare (h/t Claudio) – more here.

** (Zerohedge): “Russian media has picked up on a report in Germany’s Bild newspaper highlighting a German government assessment that the country is defenseless against the Russian Oreshnik missile system. “The Patriot is not right to combat longer-range ballistic missiles, such as the Oreshnik,” Bild quoted a government document about the US-supplied air defense missile system. “Any interception would be more like sheer luck.” The report further underscored that currently, Germany has no effective method of intercepting an inbound ballistic missile, following decades of a ‘neutral’ and degraded post-WWII military.”

 

The Norse

A massive effort to sequence the DNA of Vikings across Europe was recently published — revealing a map of Vikings who set forth — and died — far from home.

A study in Nature sequenced the DNA of 442 individuals from Viking Age burials across Europe, revealing compelling insights into Viking family ties, migration patterns, and cultural identities.

Led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge and the University of Copenhagen, the research offers new perspectives on the Vikings’ vast reach. It shows how their influence extended from Scandinavia to Greenland, Italy, and Ukraine.

Among the findings are four brothers buried together in Estonia, cousins separated by oceans in Denmark and England, and individuals buried as Vikings but with non-Scandinavian ancestry, such as Saami, Irish, and Scottish origins.

The study also challenges popular perceptions of Viking identity.

It suggests that “Viking” was often more of a social role than a genetic or ethnic identity. Non-Scandinavians adopted Viking customs and were buried in Viking-style graves. DNA evidence supports sagas that suggest Vikings from specific regions had preferred destinations. Norwegians headed to Ireland and Greenland, Danes targeted England, and Swedes explored the Baltics and Russia.

Genetic mixing within Scandinavia remained limited despite their extensive travels, with inland populations staying genetically distinct for centuries.

 

The Temple of the Living Elvis

 

Q and A

Q – LL, what is your favorite feature film of all time?

A – It’s very difficult to select a single film or even a dozen that would be “the favorite or favorites.” One of my very favorite films is “The Kingdom of Heaven – Director’s Cut” – a Ridley Scott film. You must watch the director’s cut to ‘get’ the whole film. Another very different film that I relate heavily with is HEAT, a 1995 Michael Mann film. I relate to the topic and the characters because I lived that for a time.

The Tony Scott film Man on Fire is another of my top movies of all time. I flashed back to Mexico throughout the film and related to the characters.

Some films I like are a little campy. Some are more dramatic. I think the new Hollywood is starting to turn out series projects (Landman is one of them) that are both popular and well-developed with solid writing and acting. I liked Sons of Anarchy when it was in production. I’d worked undercover as a police officer in an outlaw motorcycle gang and thought the subject was treated fairly – it’s a show – but it was fair for what it was.

 

Identify the Armor

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Parting Shot

HAPPY BACON DAY!!!

Bacon Day is observed annually on December 30th. In the United States and Canada, bacon is made from the pork belly. Elsewhere in the world, pork’s side and back cuts are used. The meat is cured in either a salt brine or a salt pack. It is then either dried, boiled, or smoked. Bacon is a very popular food in the USA. You can find many items flavored or scented with bacon, including popcorn, soap, candles, air fresheners, etc.

 

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69 thoughts on “Looking toward the Future”

  1. People get around. My great grandfather who came to Australia in 1870 at 15 (by himself) was Scottish Norwegian. My family was in shipbuilding and went to Norway for the masts. Great, great great went there enough to meet and marry local lady who went back to Scotland with him.

    I never met the original settler. My grandfather was a 6’2” blue eyed blonde. Not your average Scottish build.

    Not classic viking travel but an interesting way to end up in Australia.

    1. Neighbor…born in Bergen, Norway, 100% family ties to Norway all in the same area, zero relatives elsewhere, “looks” quintessential Norwegian. Came to university here (Univ. Wyoming), stayed, started a successful business. Decided to “do his DNA”.
      – Tells me, with a totally surprised puzzled look on his face, “I have a tiny bit of Australian in me.”
      – Me: “Well, you do know your Viking ancestors got around, might brought a capture home.”
      He started laughing…hadn’t thought of that aspect.

  2. School lunches. When my brother a year younger then I entered school, our mother went to work as the director of nursing for a brand new 50 bed nursing home 10 miles straight south of our farm, and generally left me and my 5 brothers to our own devices. If it hadn’t been for the wonderful cooks who took special pride in feeding the 6 of us, we would not have grown up as robust as we did. My dad told us; “it’s nice to know who the principal and teachers all are, but make friends with the cooks, secretaries, and custodians. They are the ones who really run the place!”

    1. Absolutely – a skinny small boy showing up to a cafeteria cook mom, displaying an empty bowl of whatever they were serving (Think Oliver Twist) and asking, “Please, may I have some more.” meant that the bowl would be filled again. I have memories.

  3. >“Viking” was often more of a social role than a genetic or ethnic identity.
    —
    Well, yeah. Going a-viking was something you DID. Rough year with a terrible harvest? Off for some trading/raiding. Which of those two being dependent on how tough the people you were “visiting” seemed to be.
    —
    Story from Swedish Girl: So some American tourist girl asked her (in Scandinavia) “What did you do with the Vikings?”
    SG: Uh, nothing? Pretty much we just stopped doing that.
    Tourist: No! I mean, did you put them in reservations or something?
    SG: I don’t understand what you’re asking.
    Tourist: Take away their land! Like we did to the Native Americans. So shameful.
    SG: What? No. We WERE the Vikings. It was something you did.
    Tourist: You’re saying your ancestors were Vikings?
    SG: I don’t know for sure, but probably some of them, yeah.
    Tourist: Don’t lie to me. That’s cultural appropriation!

    1. The “QAnon Shaman” (Chansley) resembles that remark…we can all be ‘vikings’ with the right garb and attitude. But, yeah, your SG anecdote (Ida paid good coin to witness that exchange) is exactly why I stay away from “tourists” and touristy destinations, and why we will NEVER take a cruise (well, maybe a Viking Cruise Line Longboat one along a Norway Fjord like MrsPaulM did moons ago on a local mailboat…which is now apparently “a thing” to gain the local flavor.)

      1. The exchange got weirder. The American girl started accusing the Danes (this happened in Copenhagen) of having “genocided” the poor Vikings. She accused SG of either participating in the cover up or of being an ignorant dupe of those behind the cover up. SG said it was some totally standard looking white American girl in her 20s. No crazy eyes or blue hair or other overt weirdness. And this was before you had idiots “pranking” strangers for their TikTok videos. It’s crazy enough to sound like a prank, but SG thinks it was sincere lunacy.
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        Cruise ships. A mentor told me he once took a cruise (Alaskan inside passage) for the wildlife viewing (wife is a big time birder; he professes to hate it, but he knows his birds). Said the scenery and wildlife were fantastic, but “somehow they found out I’m a cardiologist. People were coming up to me at dinner to ask which statin they should take. Or telling me about some weird chest pain they had 10 years ago and demanding a diagnosis. I ended up doing a lot of reading in our cabin. Never again.”

        1. I wouldn’t even be surprised to think that the American girl probably thought that those that went Viking were black and that since the Swedes are white they were the oppressors of the Vikings. Wokness is a form of insanity.

          2. Yes, that is horrifyingly possible, BillB. I had not thought of that, but now that you mention it, it would not surprise me.

        2. I once confessed to being an amatuer plastic surgeon at a riverside bar on the Sacramento River. The word spread and I had at least two dozen drunk, young, attractive women lining up to show me their breasts and ask my advice. I made no diagnosis, but expressed satisfaction. There were a number of witnesses to the event and I ended up being called “Doctor Larry” for a long time. The legend grew with the telling. It wouldn’t work on a cruise because they’re not nubile nymphs. Medicine is powerful medicine.

          1. You are such a chick magnet with those various personas, altho agree, plastic surgeon is THE leading one these days, certainly for those wishing to maintain their yuteful appearance, which might help on a cruise.

          3. Cardiology is NOT the subspecialty if you want to see a lot of attractive young women. We get mostly middle-aged and older men. I once had this Russian girl show up in my outpatient clinic as a referral from the ER basically because of palpitations. She checked out perfectly normal on ECG and physical exam, but we gave her a Holter monitor (24 or 48h wearable device that monitors and records heart rhythm) just to be sure there was nothing periodically weird that we just weren’t seeing the 15-20 minutes while she was in the office. (I suspect the culprit was cocaine, to be honest, but the ER didn’t do a tox screen.)
            —
            So this girl was like 55 kg, 175cm (much of it leg) and stunningly pretty with huge blue eyes, the sculpted face of a prima ballerina, and a shoulder length mane of pale blonde hair (yes, the Vikings sure got around. Kievan Rus, anyone?). I did not do a complete physical exam. (No, not talking about THAT.) Normally I palpate the pulses in the foot to check on distal circulation, but in addition to the usual horrible hospital gown, she was wearing this pair of tight, thigh-high leather boots. I asked her to take off the boots and she hesitated, “I can do that, but it will take about 5 minutes to get them off. They are very tight. I will probably have to ask you to help pull on them.” She wasn’t flirting (even though I was young and pretty at the time — I say modestly); she looked concerned that she wasn’t being helpful. I decided I could still justify coding it as a level-5 exam even if I didn’t check the pedal pulses. “Uh, it’s okay if you keep your boots on then.” Some things are best left as they are, and not poked or prodded or pulled on. And I do NOT need to start a clinic day by pulling quasi-fetish boots off of a gorgeous Russian girl. Anyhoo, when we were done I pointed her to the checkout desk. Heads of other doctors popped out of exam rooms (prairie dog style) to watch this vision walk past, so rare was such a visitation in the cardiology clinic. I still laugh when thinking of it. (Which tells you how rare this sort of thing is.)

    1. Surly and HogsbreathSS, yes. I think that they pulled the turret off the M-5 Stuart so they could slink around, relying on the M-2 to get them out of trouble. It didn’t look purpose welded. More like they came up with the idea and liked it. The Tortoise was designed to accompany the infantry and creep forward at walking speed. As tested, they were almost impossible to knock out, but neither did they catch on.

      2. As the Stuart was found wanting as a scout tank, and was pulled from that role, the hulls were there. The M5 was preferred over the M3 in this case as the hull was far roomier. Made into a Recce by the addition of some sort of machine gun mount ring or post. Also used as a cargo tractor, prime mover for artillery (when an actual high speed tractor based on, yes, the M3/M5 Light Tank undercarriage wasn’t available.) Useful for moving planes around on forward operating air bases. Great for all sorts of things when a ‘dedicated’ vehicle wasn’t available, like a tractor or a dozer or…
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        Also used to move supplies in areas that were under fire. Added a bit more protection than the halftracks, but harder to unload when under fire due to the access being through where the turret once was.
        –
        Troops customized them, of course. Using hoops from trucks and canvas made for decent all-weather covers.
        –
        A typical can-do type of field modification of ‘surplus’ vehicles that worked rather better than one would think.

  6. Off topic 1-
    A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once considered impossible. Pretty good stuff especially since it was done here by U.S. researchers. Exciting things are coming in the tech world.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-teleportation-achieved-over-internet-for-first-time
    Off topic 2-
    At first glance the bacon chick looked like Speaker Mike Johnson. Almost ruined bacon day for me.

    1. Yeah, what IS it with Speaker Mike? Something is off about that guy. I think the bacon chick is named Melissa. One of Mat Best’s (mbest11x; BRCC) ex wives.
      —
      @MSG Grumpy. Yep, not everything is improved with bacon. I really like Founders Breakfast Stout (a Michigan beer with coffee, chocolate, and oats — an abomination by reinheitsgebot standards). Then I found some Massachusetts-made beer also called with breakfast stout, with all that, plus bacon. It was horrible. ☹️ (Though Harpoon made an oyster stout, with actual dead bivalves in it — not just a clever name — and it was good!)

  7. Speaking of BACON:
    our local Sonic came out with a bacon milkshake…
    My Brother (the carbon copy, yep there be two of me running around) tried it an said it was good.
    As much as I Love Bacon, hard pass from me.
    MSG Grumpy

    1. Agreed, hard pass on the bacon shake. However doughnuts with maple glaze are better with sliced bacon on top. The whole sweet/salty thing kicks in.

  8. The term “legacy media” seemed to have replaced the term “main stream media”. Is there a goal in this beyond changing how we think of the media?
    MSM to me meant the broadcaster on TV, the newspapers and the cable news outlets, all of them owned by the same group of people. Now they are the Legacy Media.
    I looked up the word “legacy, this one looked like it fit the best…. >>legacy, denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use. “integration with legacy systems has been cited as a problem by over half of respondents”<<
    ~~
    I thought "Viking" was a verb, something you do.

  9. My mom put chopped up bacon to include it in our waffles.
    I save bacon grease for frying eggs, hasbrowns, ect… My Father in law ” deep fried” his eggs in 1/4″ just after cooking his daily ration of bacon.

    1. You can also save a dollop of bacon grease for every hollowpoint round you load. Some say it’s cruel to deny Muslim men entry to paradise, where they can rape virgins repeatedly. I am trying to do the women a favor.

      1. I like cooking bacon on a suppressor for the Camel Jockeys. They get there fill of bacon smelling lead and I get to snack.

    2. I’m from The South. Where it is a requirement to save bacon grease for cooking purposes. Of which I use all the time. Grease a pan for hamburgers. Making gravy for sausage gravy and biscuits (if one doesn’t have enough actual sausage grease left over from cooking said sausage for said sausage gravy.) Flavoring for green beans. Just about an all over replacement for vegetable oils.
      –
      I have 4 32oz Mason Jars full of grease.
      –
      And the best use? Put in a pan to make bacon with, of course. Consider it a ‘bacon starter’ and that way your pan is already greased and ready for fresh bacon.

  10. A few years ago, our local grocery store started carrying hog jowl bacon. I’d never heard of it or had it before, but now it’s something we buy every week while we hardly every buy “plain ole pork belly bacon”. At first we had to slice it, but now it comes sliced, although a few cents more per package than a whole jowl.

  11. “Bacon or sausage?” is a question I get on weekend mornings. Usually more applewwood smoked than patties or links, but it’s an either or for me depending on mood…but I did almost grab the “real bag-o-bacon bits” while trolling aisles in Sam’s the other day, but I’m trying to cut back…a little….need to maintain some balance. Same deal when the Vacuous MSM Goofballs went nuts over JFKjr eating a Big Mac on APDJT’s plane, like it’s a death pill as a once in a while meal while carrot sticks, leafy greens, dried seaweed, and tofu “burgers” are the end to beat all…yeah, no…ever see a stereotypical healthy food adherent salivate while you’re having a steak?
    ***
    Many, many moons ago flew into Vegas, Comdex client wanted us there…fly in private and they treat you really well, a new thing for me. Quite the deal, the Holy Spirit was screaming at me to be on high-yellow alert. Walk out of the Terminal and the hawkers start handing you Glitter Gulch (etc) “free” passes. You could tell the harried husbands stocking up on tickets, engineer-types were wide-eyed. I won’t go back there…same sense I got when dad had a development business meeting at Playboy’s Casino in Atlantic City. Walked in and immediately wanted to leave, felt uneasy and what a waste of time gambling appeared to my young eyes…but dad had a meeting.
    ***
    Glad you posted, all work-ee and no play-ee…or [much deserved] naps…catches up to a person. Ask me how I know. If I have no quick response it’s because I fell asleep in the recliner reading my latest book on the stack, “Shopcraft as Soulcraft” (which is excellent btw).

    1. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a sausage paddy, PaulM, and bacon doesn’t close the gap. Not always, but sometimes.

      1. “a sausage paddy”
        Is that some kind of slur against ample-bodied Irishmen? Enough with the anti-Hiberniantism already!
        What’s next in the cavalcade of hate and intolerance? Talking about cold air coming through chinks in the walls of the cabin, or sweeping it out daily because you like things to be spic and span? Huh?

        2. Go man go! If the woman don’t find you handy, they at least should find you humorous (to play off RedGreen).

  12. The availability for DNA testing is available to anyone with a few dollars. The results don’t always create harmony. My youngest had his tested and told me he was 60% Norwegian. Since his mother was first generation and her mother 2nd generation Norwegian that wasn’t a surprise but since, to my knowledge, I had no Norwegian ancestors, suspensions were aroused. Some two years later I did the Ancestry.com test. Turns out I’m 10% Norwegian! Also, my son is my son so I didn’t need to bitch slap his mother. Guess one of those Vikings impregnated one of my Irish ancestors. Also found out I’m 99.9% Caucasian. Must be why I can sunburn under a 200 watt light bulb.

    1. I’m shocked they didn’t find Neanderthal DNA mixed in, WSF. Many Europeans tested have that element.

      1. Note: “According to current research, most Europeans carry around 1-2% of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, meaning that nearly all Europeans have some level of Neanderthal ancestry.”

    2. I was told that the genetic “analysis by country” is based on samples from CURRENT populations and not ancestral, so the results are not straightforward to interpret (my polite way of saying dubious and suspect). I also note with interest how frequently some kind of “sub-Saharan African” turns up. Which makes me wonder if there isn’t some social engineering involved in the crafting of the results. A lot of the Silicon Valley types are, as you know, leftist. And many of the ones that aren’t Left are weird.
      —
      For example, Elon is not Our Guy so far as I’m concerned. He discomfits the establishment Left, which is great, and he’s obviously very smart, but he’s got a lot of dubious ideas. And a Nation is NOT a sports franchise. People and their cultural programming are not fungible. What a terrible analogy. (I’d even argue that sportsball is turning to shit partly BECAUSE there is no local/regional identity or loyalty any more. Partly.) As to Vivek, never trusted that guy.

      1. So, yer not a 23 & Moi believer I take it…but they do have a contract with the DOJ…DNA sampling is bigly bidness.

        1. Not a believer (as in I don’t trust) 23andMe [1] or any of the commercial “genetic” services [2].
          I can’t vouch for this YouTube channel, but this is not a pretty picture of 23andMe. And the ousting of the founder with the actual scientific knowledge by one of the Wojcicki sisters is one of those “a tale as old as time” things.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jea9upi8Cw
          —
          YouTube comments are often a cesspool of ignorance and plain stupidity, but I did like this one:
          @olanderdecastro52
          Wait… Mean I am not 1/3 Cherokee, half Irish, 2/3 Puerto Rican, 20% Nigerian and 45% Lithuanian? I am shocked…
          —
          Otherwise, there’s a disturbing amount of sarcastic Noticing and sarcastic “What could go wrong” in the comments.
          —
          [1] 23andMe. And ME? Cripes but I purely hate the narcissism implicit in the “cutesy” andME part of the name. That infantile nonsense is everywhere. Windows folders default named “MyThis” and “MyThat”. Useless nomenclature. Adds zero information content.
          [2] Back when this stuff was new, girlfriend bought me a kit from one of the companies. I didn’t use it. She was annoyed, “That cost a lot of money you know!” I thanked her but explained why I was suspicious and therefore reluctant to use it. She was not mollified. But I think I was ahead of the curve on that one. (Not the curve of this crowd necessarily, but ahead of a lot of the general population.)

      2. From some articles I read, anything less than 1%, is a guess and the ana;yst will often assign for shits and giggles. One admitted to loving assigning that last little unassignable bit as sub saharan for sourthern white males.

      3. fwiw

        I say you are too kind (publicly)
        re: those 3rd world demons ( muskrat vivian shevamammy)

        Juan

  13. School lunches. Well now, that brings back some grade school memories. I can still picture Angie the head cook, a short, stout bundle of Italian energy and delight, ramrodding the kitchen feeding “her” kids. There was always enough for anyone who wanted to make a second pass.
    —-
    Movie list. I would add “Hellboy” and “Rough Riders”. And no surprise to the crew here, “12 O’clock High”.
    —-
    Business partner and I had a shop in Chico, CA. One day a leather-faced old dirt farmer came in. His name was Fred Rabo. We got to talking and the mentioned he had been shot down on a bombing mission over Germany. He also mentioned that his co-pilot had already been awarded the MOH, but could not at the moment recall his name. I later discovered that the copilots name was John C. Morgan.

  15. Of note, everyone should read some Kipling today as he was born on this day in 1865.
    I didn’t even notice the bacon there…

  16. I was born into and raised in a kosher household so I never experienced bacon until I reached college; 66+years later I find myself still addicted.
    I offered my daughter’s Muslim boyfriend (the evening prior he’d tried convincing me that religion was irrelevant to him and yes! I am tolerant – to a degree) some rashers at (scrambled eggs – if you must know) breakfast the next day: he refused politely saying he’d tried it a few years ago and just didn’t like the taste.
    On that note, I advised her to back out of the relationship: if he wasn’t ever going to challenge me for that last slice of delicious, smoky, crunchy (I’d better stop now…) heaven, he was no man for my daughter.

  17. Thank You Claudio for that particular reference (IDK how I missed it). well worth the read, very detailed, as such accounts go
    my failing memory reminds me that some small, skinny guys went down into VC tunnels while doing their stint in SEA during ’66-’67.
    they’re all gone now, the ones I knew so I can’t quite ask them to tell their stories one more time

  18. Ah yes, ‘good’ food from the school cafeteria… I too remember when they actually cooked good food, and you could get seconds… Re bacon or sausage, why not both?

  19. Fun fact- you get 1 electron volt of energy for every coal molecule burned. You get 200 million electron volts of energy for every atom of fissile U235 used

  20. Agree about Kingdom of Heaven, great movie and yes, the Director’s Cut is the only way to watch it.
    It is only generally historical which is a shame because the actual history in even more interesting.

  21. Thanks to you shucking KOH-DC, I finally splurged and got it coming from the ‘Zon. I enjoyed the ‘cut’ version, looking forward to the DC version.
    –
    As to movies, well…
    “Kelly’s Heroes.”
    Any of Clint Eastwood’s Westerns, though “The Outlaw Josey Wales” is supreme.
    Any of Luke Besson’s works, like “Fifth Element,” or “Leon the Professional” or “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” (yes, I really like this movie.)
    “Scott Pilgrim vs The World.” I can watch this about every month as it is that good.
    “Casablanca.”
    “The Quiet Man.” John Wayne and Ireland. Just the music alone is great, add in all the actors and actresses and a really good script, well… “Here’s a stick to beat the lovely lady with.”
    “Mr. Right.” A hitman with a conscience who dances. It works. It’s fun. It’s a no brainer. Tension releaser.
    Just about any Fred Astaire movie.
    “Brigadoon.” Cyd Charisse was a serious babe.
    Just about any Cary Grant movie.
    And on, and on.
    Including some schmaltzy Hallmark Christmas movies.
    “God’s Not Dead.” And the 3 sequels. Really good, leaves me and wife talking about religion and such every time.

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