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Hey, I'ma legitimate businessman!

Monday Morning Jazz Brunch

Ells Fitzgerald--Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife

The Stander Gang

Based on a true story movie about a police captain who gets fed up with serving the apartheid system of 1980:s South Africa and starts using his knowledge to rob banks instead.

Nothing innovative about it, but it makes excellent use of tried and trusted themes and ideas, has across-the-boards good acting, and has the advantage of being set in a milieu we don't see that often in my part of the world - and when we do see it, it's usually hagiographies like Invictus or Very Serious Films about the horrors of apartheid.

I enjoyed that one.

I should probably close the loop.

Riot in Cell Block #9

Chilean activist destroys student debt papers worth $500m

Ooh!

[Cracks knuckles]

Sounds like a challenge...

I am a firm believer in property prices dropping due to crime waves. You need any help?

Goodbye, Stop and Frisk. Hello, Arresting All the Panhandlers.

THE U.S and Nato got out maneuvered and this invasion will have no consequences for Russia....Would Putin have tried this with Bush as president?

I don't even wanna speculate on that, but it does appear that Sexy Putin is quite a slick playa.

Psst. Hey, kiddies, you like to fly?

I am.

I keep missing 'em by a day:

Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!

Not far enough, sez I!

Comrade - it isn't hard or too expensive to build your own AR style weapon piecemeal. You can buy the upper and lower receiver as you can afford them and then put the thing together over time. It's actually a fun hobby, without even taking the weapon to the range.

Or if you want to go real cheap you can pick up a surplus Mosin-Nagant (8mm) for a couple of hundred. Good, cheap Russian/Commie weapon - not really for home defense (more for long range shooting) but they are plentiful and and is overall solid weapon.

Ah, I missed this.

Thank you for the advice, but really I was just riffing off of the last gun control thread and my pro-crime avatar.

Musical Link for the Uninitiated

I'd also like to see certain gun-related incidents be automatic bans/loss of license or gun owning/carrying rights: Accidental discharges, forgetting or dropping and leaving your gun in public, any of these kinds of Gun Fail moments prove you're not responsible enough to handle a gun.

Best Gun Fail evah?

[Mafioso accent]Who said everyone? I said "legitimate businessmen."[/]

3-D printers will knock the profits out of the NRA and allow all legitimate businessmen and upstanding American citizens (like myself) to own an AR-15.

Adolph Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar

Helen Suzman

Harry Heinz Schwarz

Joe Slovo

Lionel Bernstein

Helen Zille

Breyten Breytenbach

André Brink

Alan Paton

Albert Geyser

Beyers Naudé

Peter Randall

Denis Hurley

James Kantor: was Nelson Mandela's lawyer in the Rivonia Trial until he too was arrested and was charged with the same crimes as Mandela.

Torch Commando: a South African organisation of World War II veterans,...

Andre Stander

Meanwhile, Obama is seizing your phone records.

Ever notice that anti gun folks tend to sound pro criminal?

Generally speaking, I'm pro-gun and pro-criminal.

Mack the Troll approves of Ned Kelly.

More country.

More words of wisdom from Tracy Marrow

I know I should leave well enough alone, but, I can't.

Matthew Morris wrote:

It wasn't until I was much older that I realized Misters Went and Kidd were more than eccentric assassins in Diamonds Are Forever.

IIRC, in the novel Fleming was unmistakably clear about Wint & Kidd.

P.S. Don't forget Omar in The Wire! The baddest assassin in the entire 5-season series is both African-American and homosexual. And the second-baddest dude looks like Urkel. You gotta love it.

Omar wasn't an assassin. He was a ripper and runner.

What is robbing a bank compared to owning one?

--Bertolt Brecht

(PS., Break with the Democrats, including Capuano!)

Let's start with some tunes.

In the original German.

"Mack" is short for "Merrimack"

Bank robbers are cool.

Psst. Hey, you kids...

Hey, mister, How do you make your money?

Down with gun control!

Let's start with some tunes.