Inspired by all of the groovy Rantburg love vibrations going 'round in this thread, I've thrown together a "preview of coming attractions" for the upcoming film noir classic A Very Rantburg Movie (or maybe it's The Rantburg Falcon, The Big Rant, Rantablanca, or Keyboard Largo, it's hard to say).
I tried to get as many of the "regulars" in as I could, but the site where I made this only allows you to string nine clips together. If you got left out and didn't want to be, don't take it personal. (If you got included, don't take that personal, either.)
Hope you get a chuckle out of it, anyway.
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08/11/2006 00:00 ||
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"Mike as himself"
ROFLMAO!
Very cool, Mike. :-D
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Posted by: j. D. Lux ||
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Steve: The movie is a Flash animation hosted on Grapheme's server. There's probably a method to capture it as a digital movie, but for the life of me I don't know what it would be. If anyone else here at the 'Burg has the right software and knows how to do it, by all means, go for it.
The rest of you: thanks for the kind words, and glad you enjoyed it.
Posted by: Mike ||
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TW, your life is now complete. Top billing, and no supporting role! That's when the big bucks start rolling in.
WATERBURY, Conn. -- U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman seized on the terror arrests in Britain Thursday during his first campaign appearance since launching his independent bid for re-election, accusing his Democratic rival of not fully understanding the danger facing the nation.
'We are at war with a brutal enemy. How the heck can we be in a battle in which we are fighting as Democrats and Republicans against each other when these terrorists certainly don't distinguish based on party affiliation?
Lieberman also reiterated his disgust for political partisanship when it comes to national security, saying it's "un-American" in his opinion.
"We are at war with a brutal enemy," Lieberman said during a campaign stop at a Waterbury pizza joint Thursday. "How the heck can we be in a battle in which we are fighting as Democrats and Republicans against each other when these terrorists certainly don't distinguish based on party affiliation? They want to kill any and all of us. I'm not saying we shouldn't have healthy disagreement and discussions about national security, but to make it into a partisan political football is just unacceptable and in my opinion un-American."
Posted by: Fred ||
08/11/2006 00:00 ||
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Sounds right. I am not a very big Joe fan, but I am MUCH less a Lamont fan. Joe seems to be honest. Lamont? No, he seems to be an opportunist.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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Unless sources are wrong, Lamont is the son of Corliss Lamont, who was the most articulate of all Secular Humanists.
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Lieberman got raped by his party because he supported the WOT. Lieberman is right on this important issue, wrong on some of the other issues. Lamont is wrong on all the issues. The looney left wing islamofacists appeaser demos won this primary. Maybe they will lose the election--hopefully, he said.
DIR: The families of two-honour killing victims were forced by an illegal jirga, comprising of local khans and maliks, to agree to take no action against the killer and to keep the case quiet, sources have revealed. The murderer told the jirga that he would kill another four of five members from each respective family if they refused to strike a deal with him and reported the killings.
Bakht Rawan killed his cousin Badshah Zada on July 16 when he suspected him of having illicit relations with his wife. Rawan then killed his wife, who was also his cousin and mother of their one-month old baby.
Bakht Rawan killed his cousin Badshah Zada on July 16 when he suspected him of having illicit relations with his wife. Rawan then killed his wife, who was also his cousin and mother of their one-month old baby. Salih Rehman, the brother of Zada, had last month charged local khans and maliks with forcing him and his family to accept the deal put forward by Rawan. The jirga then warned the fathers and brothers of both victims that more of their family members would be killed if they rejected the deal. The jirga then used force to secure the thumbprint of each father on a document that declared them willing to accept reconciliation with Rawan. The jirga refused to give either details of the document or its copy to the aggrieved parties. But it did warn them that they would incur a Rs 0.5 million fine if they tried to bring Rawan to justice.
The document declaring the reconciliation is fake; our thumbprints were taken by force...
However, Rawan had himself already surrendered to the police in the hope that he would be released once the jirga secured reconciliation with all parties. We did not agree to any reconciliation which pardons the killer, we were forced to do it as we are weak and powerless. The document declaring the reconciliation is fake; our thumbprints were taken by force and thus we do not accept the document, said Qabil, the father of Zada, and Mubarak Jan, the father of the woman.
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How does Rawan have so much pull with the local Sheiks? Or is it that they just want to establish their authority as seperate and superior to the Pakistani State's by being extra mideaval and Islamic and upholding a husband's right to off his wife in a jealous paranoid rage because she's not 100% obediant to his every command and retains warm relations with her old family?
Savagery.
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"The murderer told the jirga that he would kill another four of five members from each respective family if they refused to strike a deal with him and reported the killings."
Gilberts newest hospital will star in a movie meant to warn and educate the public about the threat of a pandemic mutating from the feared bird flu.
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center was used this week as a set for the British Broadcasting Corp. and Discovery Channels docudrama "Pandemic."
The TV movie, expected to be released in November in the United Kingdom and later here on the Discovery Channel, takes place in Indonesia and the fictitious U.S. town of Fleetwood.
The movie weaves a dramatic fictitious story of how governments would react to an outbreak of the feared flu virus with documentary interviews with experts about how real the threat is.
"The best way to beat it, if it does arrive, is to know what is up," said director Peter Leonard, who also directs the BBC science documentary "Horizon" series.
In the film, experts from the World Health Organization and nations facing the current form of the bird flu are interviewed. Scenarios are acted out as to how governments may need to respond to the bird flu. Scenes filmed in Chandler play out how Fleetwood officials might decide to quarantine an affected community. Scenes filmed in Phoenix depict a man in the film flying home from a conference in Hawaii carrying the virus to the U.S.
Film researcher Sophie Wallace said its important that people not just governments be on the outlook for an outbreak. Theoretically, if it can be contained, she said, experts believe they can quarantine an area, give residents there antiviral drugs and try to stop a major spread.
It could take months to find a vaccine, so holding off the spread will be important, since there is no other cure, experts say.
Eight hospital nurses played key extra roles, as they worked in the hospitals isolation rooms, playing out how a hospital would react if it came across an unusual flu virus.
The nurses said they want viewers to know that hospitals here are prepared to respond and aid victims, as well as contact authorities.
"We have these throughout the hospital," said Cathy Jagos, a nurse and ER educator, as she stood outside an isolation room, which allows health care workers to decontaminate and prevent spread to the hospital.
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Let me know when you get that bioweapon up and working, I plan to rain it down on that pedophile, Mohammed's followers. Words do nothing, and bullets are too slow.
Posted by: Allan ||
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Do not wish for a killer flu. It is horror compounded by terror.
Years ago, I interviewed some survivors of the Spanish flu, then in their eighties. They were still traumatized after all these years.
One man, as a boy, was kept inside for an entire year, but the window of his room looked out over a road where coffins were xported to the cemetery. He saw many coffins of his classmates.
Truthfully, the most important advance we have today that they didn't have then is public awareness of hygiene. Not much if you think about it.
When the killer flu comes, and it will, we will all lose people we know and care about.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WATERBURY, Conn. -- U.S. Sen. 
DIR: The families of two-honour killing victims were forced by an illegal jirga, comprising of local khans and maliks, to agree to take no action against the killer and to keep the case quiet, sources have revealed. The murderer told the jirga that he would kill another four of five members from each respective family if they refused to strike a deal with him and reported the killings. 
