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Thu 06/04/20 04:55 PM
Edited by Zion on Thu 06/04/20 04:56 PM
Crime Wave (1954)



Before your shocked eyes -- the city blasted SIN-SIDE OUT!

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.

7 out of 10

The Houston Story (1956)



In Houston, a man working as an oil driller comes up with a scheme for stealing millions of dollars worth of oil from the fields. He insinuates himself with a local mobster in order to get financing for his scheme.

7 out of 10

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Thu 06/04/20 03:59 PM
Long Distance Relationship is code for just send me money.

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Thu 06/04/20 07:12 AM
Here come the storms...

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Thu 06/04/20 06:08 AM
Well, the Vulcans from Enterprise were quite controlling and VERY restrictive compared to their TOS or TNG counterparts. I know the common wanted belief is that any species capable of space travel must be intelligent enough to be a peaceful one...I disagree.

Personally I believe that it would be more likely that they would be a group looking to colonize or searching for resources and be more like the aliens from the series "V", Independence Day or Battlefield Earth. Our only hope for survival is that our bacterial friends can play a part in our defense and make our planet too toxic for them.

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Thu 06/04/20 05:53 AM
The day Palestinian militants attacked Zurich Airport.

Fifty years ago, an airplane about to take off from Zurich for Tel Aviv was attacked by four armed Palestinian militants. The dramatic events shocked the public and had a major impact on Swiss foreign policy.

February 18, 1969: Zurich woke under a blanket of snow. That afternoon a white VW Beetle parked near the runway at Zurich’s Kloten Airport. Inside the vehicle were three men and a woman.

At 5.30pm, a Boeing plane belonging to the Israeli company El Al taxied into position as it prepared to take off for Tel Aviv. Suddenly, two people jumped out of the VW car and fired an automatic weapon at the cockpit. The pilot, Yeram Perez, was shot in the stomach and died from his injuries five weeks later in a Zurich hospital. Six passengers were injured.

Mordechai Rachamim, an armed Israeli security officer, ran out of the plane and climbed over the fence separating the runway from the attackers. He shot and killed one of the militants, Abdel Mohsen Hassan. Minutes later, the emergency services and police arrived; the Israeli security officer and attackers were all arrested.

The next morning, Willy Spühler, head of the Swiss Federal Political Department (former Federal Department of Foreign Affairs), informed his colleagues in the Federal Council external link(executive body). In a press release, the government noted: “The particular gravity of the attack lies in the fact that our neutral country has been transformed into a theatre of armed conflict.”

“This terrorist act on Swiss soil was a shock," said Sacha Zala, director of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis). “Up to then, Switzerland felt protected from conflict situations due to its policy of neutrality. But the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on its soil was traumatic. The public discovered that Switzerland no longer resembles the image of a peaceful island built up after the Second World War.”

The attack also forced the government to deal with a complex diplomatic crisis.

Ten days after the airport shooting, the Swiss authorities sent diplomatic letters of protest to the embassies of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Israel. The tone, particularly those addressed to the Arab countries, was harsh. All three were accused of tolerating the activities of terrorist organizations on their soil. “The move, unusual in diplomatic relations, was undoubtedly dictated by domestic political motives,” said Zala. But the reply from Arab diplomats was just as tough.

The investigation into the Kloten attack and the subsequent trial at Winterthur District Court led to major tensions with the Arab world.

In December 1969, the three Palestinian attackers were handed 12-year prison sentences, accused of murder and “illegal acts carried out for a foreign state”. The Israeli, Mordechai Rachamim. was acquitted. The announcement sparked demonstrations outside Swiss diplomatic missions in various Arab countries. Accused of siding with Israel, the Swiss authorities feared reprisals.

The next few months seemed to prove them right. On February 21, 1970, a Swissair plane heading for Tel Aviv exploded mid-air and crashed near Würenlingen in northern Switzerland. All 47 people on board were killed. But it turned out that this was not a deliberate terror act against Switzerland; the explosive device was originally meant for an Israeli El Al plane.

In September 1970, another Swissair aircraft was hijacked and diverted to Zerqa in Jordan along with two other planes belonging to other airlines. The hijackers eventually managed to negotiate the release of the three Kloten attackers. On October 1, 1970, Amena Dahbor, Ibrahim Tawfik Yousef and Mohamed Abu el Heiga left Switzerland on board a British military plane for Cairo, Egypt.

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Thu 06/04/20 04:29 AM
“Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past.”
― Sandra Dallas, The Last Midwife


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Thu 06/04/20 03:19 AM
I'd guess it would depend on the bride...


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Thu 06/04/20 03:17 AM

And, still...

Nobody batted an eye, or expressed outrage,
when Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor
shot and murdered Justine Damond.


Testimony continued Thursday in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, who is charged with the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. Much of Thursday's court action focused on the response by police. Here are the day's noteworthy developments:

• The Minneapolis Police Department head of homicide, Lt. Richard Zimmerman, said he was baffled when he arrived to the scene and didn’t see a weapon near Justine Ruszczyk Damond’s body.

• He testified that Sgt. Shannon Barnette, Mohamed Noor’s supervisor, told him that Damond was “probably a drunk or a drug addict.” Tests revealed there were no drugs or alcohol in Damond’s system.

• Jurors saw body camera videos recorded by Minneapolis police officers Scott Aikins and his partner, Jesse Lopez. Throughout Aikins’ video, officers were still unclear on what had happened.

• Three officers testified that there was enough light at the scene to see people and objects.


https://www.startribune.com/what-we-learned-about-mohamed-noor-and-justine-damond-in-court-on-thursday/508464612/

For those outraged... It only happened a year ago...I'm sure you remember seeing this on every newscast, every day for weeks on end...


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Thu 06/04/20 02:47 AM
Edited by Zion on Thu 06/04/20 02:49 AM

Falling Skies
Series on aliens landing and taking over, what remains of mankind fighting back.
I believe it's 5 seasons. It's a good series.


I've enjoyed Noah Wyle's work ever since I saw him in E.R. Also like the 3 Librarian movies he did. I'd really like to see the TV series based on those movies. If I come across the complete collection box sets of either Falling Skies or The Librarians I'm going to pick them up.

Noah even played a Mob heavy in a rather good under the radar movie with Jeff Bridges called Scenes of the Crime. I gave it a 7 out of 10 rating.

https://trakt.tv/movies/scenes-of-the-crime-2002

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Thu 06/04/20 02:33 AM

I think trump should be locked in his bunker permanently .. with all forms of communication removed :wink: :angel:


Thanks for the opinion...

I would comment on your country's leadership but nobody knows who they are...

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Thu 06/04/20 01:24 AM
Hollow Triumph (AKA The Scar) (1948)



Love couldn't hide the secret of his past...or shield them for the end of their future!

A film noir drama in which a sophisticated con man, who has just stolen from the mob, is forced to impersonate a psychiatrist who looks just like him, going so far as to cut himself on the cheek to duplicate a similar scar on the doctor. When he takes matters even further, karma arrives, forcing him to pay the debts of his double.

7 out of 10

A Lawless Street (1955)



They were all running out at the same time ... his luck ... his bullets ... his woman!

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

7 out of 10

Cat Ballou (1965)



It's That Way-Out Whopper Of A Funny Western...A She-Bang To End All She-Bangs!

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

5 out of 10

Doctor Dolittle (1998)



He doesn't just talk to the animals!

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

6 out of 10

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Thu 06/04/20 01:01 AM
*yawn*

Just another page in the three+ year slow-motion coup d'etat orchestrated by the establishment. Nothing but biased opinion...

Bought and paid for by the Committee to Elect Joe Biden...and he approves of this message.




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Thu 06/04/20 12:40 AM
Edited by Zion on Thu 06/04/20 12:42 AM
The severe weather predicted to hit around 2pm finally showed up...

It's only 12 hours late...current radar picture looks completely different than the computer models shown yesterday morning...


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Thu 06/04/20 12:16 AM
Just about everything you wrote was incorrect...

I hear ABC is looking for another fake news foreign correspondent. Make sure to put in an application.

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Thu 06/04/20 12:01 AM
Edited by Zion on Thu 06/04/20 12:01 AM
David Dorn, a retired St. Louis police captain, was shot and killed last night while trying to protect a local store from looters. Horrific video footage showed that he died in front of Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry on Martin Luther King Drive.



Just waiting for the #BLM outrage...


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Wed 06/03/20 01:54 PM
https://www.insideedition.com/george-floyd-had-fentanyl-in-his-system-but-it-has-no-bearing-on-the-way-he-died-medical-expert

https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/george-floyd-familys-lawyer-slams-local-autopsy/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-floyd-death-axphyxiation-two-autopsies-homicide-details/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/george-floyd-family-release-results-autopsy-70994420

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Wed 06/03/20 01:22 PM
Rum...

Vodka...

Ice...

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Wed 06/03/20 12:09 PM
You can probably include every Jackie Chan movie he made up to 1990...

That dude was constantly getting seriously hurt every time he made a movie.

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Wed 06/03/20 11:54 AM
I'm on a computer so it may be different...

When you click on their name and their profile page comes up, under their name will be a line of info...their age, where they are from, what they are looking for and when they were last online... like so...

34 year old woman from Nebr City, Nebraska Looking for dating Last seen within the last day

if it says last seen a month ago, it probably isn't an active account.




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Wed 06/03/20 11:44 AM


I haven't gotten the sausage attachment, but it might be something I'd consider in the future. I've done up full turkeys, when the price drops below $1 a pound. My walmarts don't do the exotic meats like bison...hell, I can't even get Veal out here in the middle of nowhere...but if they do offer it, I'd jump on it.