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The other day we got about a 3" (7-8 CM) snowfall. I turned on the TV and got an error message saying something like "searching for satellite". After waiting about 5 minutes with nothig happening, I went outside and looked up on the roof and sure enough, the Direct TV dish was covered in snow. I went back inside and flipped a couple of Co-Ax switches and plugged in the little power inserter, took all of about a minute and Bam, I have about 15 channels to watch from the antenna I bought & mounted on my chimney.

Written For The End Of WWII In Europe & The Greatest Radio Broadcast Of All Time.
It Has Elements Of Celebration, Relief & Gratitude.

It ends with a Hope for a future which, 3/4 of a century on & in retrospect, is saddening for what was Hoped for but not attained

I hadn't heard it before tonight on an Old Time Radio Program.

Similar sentiment of the era -- "The White Cliffs Of Dover" ...

Since not much is going on in the world of politics this week other than the raid on Trump, Yes, RAID, I decided to ask some thoughts of the game show "Jeopardy" hosts. I know I know, a big YAWN to some of you, and yes, to a degree, it is, but still, it's been ongoing for a while now on you should be the only host.

In my opinion, I'm going for Mayim Bialik (Blossom). She's a much better fit for the show, not Ken Jennings. Jennings has no personality whatsoever.

Any thoughts?

A film maker documents an inspiring interaction that he had with a deafblind man.

Another Star Trek marathon and I'm obsessing. This time, it's STAR TREK IV - The Voyage Home.

I've blogged about how many statist, taxpayer funded broadcast outlets, with the Beeb and US PBS topping the list of shame. They actually began quite evenhandedly as to politics, initially garnering such support. Still largely enjoy this attachment to the public teat. But the public is hardly all left wing. Yet over the past decades, with newer staffers from journalism schools, holding degrees in hand from the ueber leftie academy,----well, just look and listen these days.
As a life long Extra Class Radio Amateur, as well as an avid listener to short wave broadcasts, I've seen lots of propaganda, both right and left, on the air waves. The charter of VOA includes language about supporting the policies of the USA. Same with their own charters for other international stations.
This Trump appointment was also at the helm of PBS, so be knows a little about bias in the media. He's letting go a few such biased staffers at the VOA---long overdue.
Elections have consequences, in lots of directions.

...now directly into the fire. And the evolution of collusion.
It's one thing for the Main Stream Media to lie in their support of Dems. Only the most severely afflicted Syndromics still deny this as fact. We have a few right here on our beloved CS blogland. An obsessions and compulsions driven lot..
But now things have gone a big, VERY big, step further.
As credible evidence of the Hunter/Joe/Jim family corruption mounts, now with the news that the FBI has an open case on Hunter, simply twisting and spinning the facts no longer suffices for the once honorable, and journalistic, MSM.
Now, under the fake, VERY fake, veil of "unverified info", the MSM simply has joined forces to place it under a total blackout, VERY total, over all related news on this latest of Biden family corruption scandals. And big data are increasingly blocking such info on their social media sites. Use the name Hunter in your blog, and get dropped instantly.
Well, the cracks are starting to show.
The example at "the Intercept", may be a cautionary tale of such.
Apparently, all this blacking out, and blocking, has gotten to one of the higher ups at this left wing site, of ebay creaters, 'First Look Media'. It would seem that one Glenn Greenwald there has resigned over his concerns of trading journalism for cover up.
Nothing made up here, folks. Look and ye shall see.

happy days CS is world famous, we are on SKY news, twitter, youtube even the local news paper lol.............I will drink to that.....

I've seen Once Upon A Time In Hollywood a couple of times now and I'm sure I missed plenty of Easter eggs. It got me thinking about the influence that movies and television had on my childhood and those thoughts eventually brought me back to an old itch.

I thought it had been scratched back in 1988 with the movie They Live. The movie is about a guy who finds a box filled with sunglasses that, when worn, unmask an alternate reality filled with aliens...or something like that.

It was close, but not quite it. I found that They Live was based on a story called 8 o'clock in the morning.

The faint memory I had was a closing scene shot through the lense of special glasses that allowed the wearer to see aliens disguised as humans. At first I thought They Live might have been a remake, but it was not.

I started to question my ability to recall with much accuracy anything from my childhood and was prepared to blame marijuana use as a teen for the dissociation. I'm reminded of why eyewitness testimony is so unreliable...but my mania was renewed after seeing the new Tarantino film.

I went hunting once again--determined to get satisfaction by finding what I was looking for, or burying it altogether under the realization that my mind, since 1970 or so, had been reduced to producing about as meaningful synapse as a bowl of day-old guacamole.

Eureka! Don't open that bag of tortilla chips just yet! I fk'n found it! And the scene is pretty much how I remember it. After something like 40 years this itch has finally been scratched!

It was a TV movie called The Love War. This is the final scene. The "money shot" @ about 10 mins.

Shark movies are always fun. Some are super stupid, like Sharknado, but generally they are extremely entertaining.

Combine a shark movie with the human fighting machine known as Jason Statham, and you have a surprise hit, that aims to chomp (see what I did there?) into the minds and fears of people all over the world.

Statham plays Jonas Taylor, an adventurer and expert sea diver. He experienced, according to him, a 70 foot shark attacking his vessel, forcing him to abandon his mission and half his crew. After being dishonorably discharged, he spent a few years getting over the incident, when he is recruited into rescuing a dive team that has had some sort of problem at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place on Earth. Once Jonas arrives at the vessel, it soon becomes clear, that what attacked this new crew, was the same as the thing that attacked Jonas' crew five years ago - a huge, prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon. The only problem, is that the Megalodon has been extinct for a million years - or has it?

That is the short recap of the story. Of course, lots of things happen, but I will not go into detail, just in case you haven't seen it.

In my first review of the movie, on a blog that I have elsewhere, I wrote that it should have been known as The Meh, but after re-watching it, I have changed my original opinion. It is a fun, no nonsense, adrenaline fueled popcorn movie, whose sole aim is to entertain with some fun shark action. One thing that I miss about the movie: It was rated PG 13 and not R. If it was rated R, I am confident that the movie would have been a LOT more gorier than it was. Of course there is blood in it, but not enough when you consider that it is about the Megalodon.

Acting wise, well there could have been some better performances. But it doesn't take away the fact, that this movie is just plain fun!

Other actors worth mentioning, apart from Jason Statham, is Ruby Rose, Rainn Wilson, Masi Oka, Bingbing Li and Cliff Curtis.

If you haven't seen The Meg yet, and are in the mood for some fun shark action, go see The Meg!

My original The Meg score was 5/10, but after seeing it again, I can safely give this an 8 out of 10!