Who doesn’t love pretty girls?
Merry Christmas, True Believers! I’m taking the next few days off. Back on Friday. Have a wonderful holiday.
Some people just shouldn’t be out wandering around loose.
Case in point: A worker at a California Target store, who was wearing a red Charlie Kirk t-shirt, was berated by an unhinged lunatic calling her a racist. She handled it with grace and self-control, which is more than one can say for the unhinged lunatic.
A medical center caught in the crosshairs of an internet meltdown caused by one of its employees who cussed out a Target worker for wearing a Charlie Kirk T-shirt said that it was overwhelmed by thousands of “profanity-laced” messages.
Mike Wiltermood, president and CEO of California-based Enloe Health, said at a press conference Wednesday that the medical center had 
received more than 6,000 “profanity-laced” messages since the video went viral earlier in the day.
Wiltermood pleaded with the public to stop calling the center’s primary phone number, as the repeated calls “impeded our ability to serve patients and their families.”
Enloe Health, who apparently employs the unhinged lunatic, released a statement:
Enloe Health acknowledges that the off-hours behavior of a medical assistant employed in one of our outpatient clinics, as depicted in a recent social media post, was abhorrent and deeply concerning to our 
caregivers, our organization, and our community. The Target employee who was verbally accosted in this post deserves significant credit for handling the situation in a calm and collected manner.
We appreciate the many individuals who have seen this post and exercise restraint as they voice their personal views regarding this situation. Unfortunately, thousands of others have chosen to use profane language to express their disapproval to Enloe caregivers. These comments have overwhelmed our phone systems, impeding our ability to serve patients 
and their families.
The behavior depicted in this video does not mirror Enloe Health’s core values, and we are committed to doing what is right by taking the actions necessary to protect our patients and community. At this time, we ask for patience, grace and civility as we do so.
Maybe they should ask for some patience, grace and civility from their employee.
In a just world, that employee, who has not been named, would have been summarily dismissed, and indeed, that may well be what happened, although Enloe Heath isn’t saying.
The good news is that the Target employee is now the beneficiary of a GiveSendGo fundraiser that is, as of this writing, approaching $200,000. Let’s hope she takes a nice vacation, or perhaps retires; in either case, hopefully she will be far away from any more unhinged lunatics.
If you’re a movie buff, like me, there’s a good reason to buy physical media – DVDs and Blu-Ray disks. Yes, this is the age of streaming, and yes, streaming is easy and convenient. But if you, again like me, like old movies and prefer to see them un-fucked-with – well, buy a Blu-Ray. My colleague and occasional drinking buddy Stephen Green has some thoughts on this, and some precautionary examples.
In one of the ugliest scenes in movie history, tough-guy cop Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) roughly confront and interrogate a black drug dealer on his no-BS way to 
finding The French Connection delivering heroin to the streets of New York.
Doyle is angry, impatient, violent, and in a hurry to get “Pusher” (played with genuine terror by veteran stage actor Alan Weeks) to flip on his supplier. Doyle uses all that aggression — plus a nonsense accusation — to unsettle Pusher and force the truth out of him.
“All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? G**dammit! All winter long, I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I’m gonna bust your a** for those three bags and I’m gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.”
Here’s why that matters:
Doyle is bad news, indeed, and audiences see that before and after he chases down and drags a suspect into a back-alley interrogation/beating. The “after” is what sells it, because that six-second exchange forces viewers to revisit Pusher’s alley beating with a better perspective…
…but modern audiences aren’t supposed to see it.
Somebody — nobody seems to know exactly who — cut six pivotal seconds from Hackman’s Oscar-winning performance. The cut was discovered in 2023 by viewers watching the movie on the Criterion Channel. That’s shocking because Criterion has a reputation for restoring classic movies as close to the original as digital video can present.
Hackman, by the way, hated the n-word and balked at doing the scene. 
Friedkin had to remind him that this movie was a quasi-documentary-style look at the ’70s drug war and the cops who waged it.
And Another Thing: That scene finishes with Russo protesting, “He could have been white.” To which Doyle says, “Never trust anyone.” The whole exchange is key to Doyle’s character, but it had to go because somebody didn’t want to trigger some precious snowflake born decades after the film’s 1971 release.
Vodkapundit has a lot more at the link above, and some of it is just unexplainable – like blurring Daryl Hannah’s shapely buttocks in Disney’s 1984 film Splash, the appearance of which was momentary and perfectly innocent. Splash, which not many people seem to realize was a live-action, much more optimistic telling of Hans 
Christian Andersen’s 1837 story of The Little Mermaid. (Forget Disney. The original story is actually pretty dark.)
But, I digress.
It seems so many people have grown so weak, so hyper-sensitive, that even Mel Brooks’ masterpiece, Blazing Saddles, probably the most side-splitting comedy movie ever made, now comes pre-loaded with a trigger warning. What utter horseshit.
Steve’s right. If there are any great old movies you enjoy, buy the originals, while you still can.
The J6 pipe bomber has been caught. Read:
Big news is breaking this Thursday morning, as multiple sources are reporting that a Virginia man has been arrested for placing pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee on January 5, 2021.
Details are sketchy as of this writing, but this would be the first time federal law enforcement has made an arrest in the high-profile case that has seemed to baffle investigators for nearly five years. According to one report, the suspect is a man from Virginia and the arrest by the FBI took place Thursday morning. There is no word as of yet on the charges this suspect might be facing.
A news conference is expected to take place at the U.S. Department of Justice sometime on Thursday.
BREAKING: Colleague @davidspunt reports the FBI has arrested the suspect believed to be behind the planting of pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC headquarters in DC on January 5th, 2021. Suspect is a male living in Virginia. Arrested early this morning in VA.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 4, 2025
This is great news. It’s an interesting note that the pipe bomber set explosives outside both Republican and Democratic headquarters, and his motivations aren’t yet known as of this writing.
The bomber has, however, been identified, as one Brian Cole.
The suspect who allegedly planted pipe bombs blocks from the U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2021, has been identified as Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Va., according to two sources briefed on the arrest.
The sources say Cole, 30, is in FBI custody as of Thursday following roughly five years of investigation.
The FBI arrested Cole in northern Virginia.
Authorities have not released further details about the man, but one federal law enforcement source told Fox that the FBI is carrying out “court-enforced activity” at Cole’s residence.
By “court-enforced activity,” it’s a near-certainty they mean “executing a search warrant.” In non-legal language, the FBI is turning this guy’s living quarters upside-down.
Look, we don’t know much about this goblin yet. We know he tried to place explosives at both Republican and Democratic headquarters. We know, according to the FBI, that these pipe bombs were “viable,” meaning “they could go boom.”
What we do know is that all of the violent political rhetoric and, yes, acts of violence, here in the United States, has come from the left. Not the right; the left.
Why does that matter?
Because the left, both elected officials, appointees, and just the raging shouters, will keep calling for violence. They’ll keep crying out, calling the right fascists, Nazis, anything but fellow Americans. They’ll keep pushing, and pushing, and pushing, until they find out, to their lasting and final regret, that the right will only be pushed so far. And, when it comes to violence, we’re better at it than they are.
I’m busy being Dad and Grandpa today, so here is a placeholder from the archives. Happy Black Friday!
