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Stay 'Woke (2019)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, John Farley
Director: Dennis Dugan
Music: Dave Matthews
Adam Sandler stars as an otherwise ordinary schmoe living an otherwise ordinary life until one day he notices that every time he falls asleep, he starts to dream that someone disappears, being erased from reality as though they never existed. He thinks nothing unusual of this...until he starts to dream about people he knows...first distant relations, then friends, then immediate family...and they actually disappear. He meets the descendant of an Australian aborigine (guest star Christopher Walken) who explains that Sandler must be accidentally shifting them into the Dreamtime while he sleeps. Now with the mystic's help, Sandler must learn the art of lucid dreaming in order to enter the Dreamtime and rescue his friends. Will Sandler be able to rescue them? Will he be able to ... Stay 'Woke?
--Patrick
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...I call shenanigans. There is way too much plot there and not enough Rob Schneider to be an Adam Sandler movie.
Oh, he's in the movie, but as Sandler's wheelchair-bound grandmother, and only in flashbacks.
It's also later revealed that grandma was actually Sandler's first "victim," when the wheelchair is the last to roll down the ramp of rescued people. "I always thought you were dead!" and all that.
--Patrick
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...I'll allow it
Trump Team Accidentally Starts Border Wall At South Of The Border Resort
DILLON, S.C. — Last week, border wall construction officials mistakenly began building around the South of the Border resort in South Carolina, instead of along the intended U.S.-Mexican border.
(ThePeedmont)
DILLON, S.C. — Last week, border wall construction officials mistakenly began building around the South of the Border resort in South Carolina, instead of along the intended U.S.-Mexican border.
(ThePeedmont)
I really wish folks would quit saying the United Flight was OVERBOOKED. It was FULLY BOOKED. All seats were filled, passengers loaded and I believe seated and ready to go. THEN United decided they needed to ship 4 United folks, and starting asking for volunteers.
They should have upped the ante until folks took it or rented a car for the employees for a 5ish hour drive. The cops should have de-escalated instead of slamming a smallish 69? year old's face into an armrest and dragging him out like a sack of potatoes.
I wish I had been able to pay more attention *curse you employment* but Thom Hartmann *and admits he's NAL* said a lot of the legalese on United's stuff about overbooking *WHICH THIS WASN'T* involves handling most of this at the boarding gate, not seated passengers.
UNITED and their CEO farked this up 6 ways to Sunday. The CPD aviation division didn't do anybetter.
They should have upped the ante until folks took it or rented a car for the employees for a 5ish hour drive. The cops should have de-escalated instead of slamming a smallish 69? year old's face into an armrest and dragging him out like a sack of potatoes.
I wish I had been able to pay more attention *curse you employment* but Thom Hartmann *and admits he's NAL* said a lot of the legalese on United's stuff about overbooking *WHICH THIS WASN'T* involves handling most of this at the boarding gate, not seated passengers.
UNITED and their CEO farked this up 6 ways to Sunday. The CPD aviation division didn't do anybetter.
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The really weird thing is that South of the Border is a real place. It's not a resort, but just a large, themed rest stop.
figmentPez
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Headline from the future:
Trump added to Hall of Presidents; Animatronic breaks free, builds wall around Mexico section of EPCOT.
Trump added to Hall of Presidents; Animatronic breaks free, builds wall around Mexico section of EPCOT.
The captioning guy didn't want anyone confused.
Looks like Steve Bannon has taken to his new position well.
figmentPez
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We were always f'n close to Nuclear War with North Korea, Russia, and China. Now it's just more obvious. The material difference from a military perspective is IMO minuscule. It's just become harder to ignore by the general populace. The Bread and Circuses quality may have gone down.
Sure we are, we're just more used to the North Korean, Chinese, and Russian leaders being the hot-heads filled with dangerous rhetoric, not the US leadership. We haven't had a president seem this mentally unstable since (by some accounts) Reagan started suffering from Alzheimer's while in office. Combine that with the fact that Lord Dampnut has already acted militarily twice without congressional approval, and a SecDef who already wanted to board Iranian vessels and look for weapons (an act of war), and you have fear even in those of us who should know better. I consider myself to be fairly sane, even tempered - one of those still waters run deep kind of people - and even I'm on edge about it. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that we're currently living between the outer defense border (military bases) and inner defense border (short-range missiles designed a really long time ago to kill ICBMs) in a region heavy with nuclear armaments and the ships, submarines, and aircraft sometimes used to carry/launch them.
Not that I support the way that they use their clock (Cuban Missile Crisis isn't 11:59pm for example), but the Doomsday Clock being at 11:50 vs 11:55 isn't a reason to think there's a big difference of how close to screwed we are. We're just as screwed at both settings. So I don't see the difference as dramatically as you. But you disagree, that's OK, I just think it's exaggerating differences which don't affect much IMO.
No, I do agree with you. We aren't really any more in danger of going to nuclear war with anyone now than we have been since the end of the Cold War - it just feels like we are, and there are a lot of us who were too young to be scared during the Cold War, who are of an age to be concerned now - which is why I've been watching and reading as much about the Cold War era as I can, it's reassuring. The world has been here before, just not me. It worked out last time, and I think calmer heads will probably be able to prevail, even over Trump, this time. I'm just going to let the little nervous monster in the back of my brain hang out there for a while, as long as he doesn't get too greedy, because I have no idea what insane action Trump may take as a lashing-out action as he continues to be pressed on the Russian election interference, all of his conflicts of interest, and his complete inability to keep a promise (though I am glad he's failed to keep most of them).
I cut off your reply, but wanted to reply to this.
Ah, I see now. Fair enough, I can see the difference, and how it's feelings about it, rather than the situation itself. No problem.
Regarding your comments about the events DURING the Cold War... I'll link again The Destroyer of Worlds. 5+ hours, but damned worth the listen. If anything else, it emphasized that there were many who would do just short of anything to not go to war, and that was a good thing, as there were many who wanted to.
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For those not in SC, but who are in TX, South of the Border is kind of like SC's Buckee's. They own like every other billboard on I-95 for a hundred miles in each direction, and there are stupid puns on all of them.Trump Team Accidentally Starts Border Wall At South Of The Border Resort
DILLON, S.C. — Last week, border wall construction officials mistakenly began building around the South of the Border resort in South Carolina, instead of along the intended U.S.-Mexican border.
(ThePeedmont)