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Monday morning Starbuck scene-steals

by | Mar 1, 2021 | Mondays | 1 comment

Ah, Monday, we meet again. It was inevitable, yet we are depressed nonetheless.

Even so, there is plenty to enjoy and be happy about, starting with, of course, the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster.

This week’s theme comes courtesy of our good friend The Male Brain, once again, and centres around a great, and quite accidental, actor who goes by the name of Dirk Benedict. If that name sounds familiar – that’s because, for people over a certain age, he was and remains an icon of television and film.

Here is a short bio of him – and it actually doesn’t fully do his epic life justice:

Dirk was born Dirk Niewoehner on March 1st, 1945 in Helena, Montana. He grew up in the small town of White Sulphur Springs and enjoyed all the trappings of youth only a small town can offer, learning to hunt, fish, and enjoy sports, especially football. While in his freshman year at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Dirk was first exposed to acting on a “dare” by his college buddies and fell in love with the stage. Broadway and Hollywood were on his horizon.

Dirk’s stage, film and television career has spanned more than 40 years and he’s enjoyed such successes as “Battlestar Galactica” and “The A-Team” as well as playing “Hamlet” on Broadway. Dirk is also a cancer survivor and his book “Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy” chronicles his rise in Hollywood and his battle with the disease using a Macrobiotic approach, a philosophy he adheres to to this day.

Today Dirk is not only a well known actor, but also the author of two books, “Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy” and “And Then We Went Fishing”. Dirk has also directed his own original screenplay (“Cahoots”) which has played at various film festivals around the world. He has also appeared on the London stage as “Lt. Columbo,” and as “King Rat” in a Christmas “panto,” and participated in a UK Celebrity Big Brother event (he almost won). Dirk still resides in Montana with his two sons George and Roland (as often as they can be there, anyway), and above all he enjoys playing the role of “Dad” the most.

The guy said in 2010 in an interview:

“I want to run as the conservative governor of Montana. I grew up there – as a cowboy and on ranches. The only business I know anything about, except for show business, is ranching. My childhood was riding horses, branding and herding cattle and stacking hay and stuff. I want to keep government out of people’s lives. I don’t vote Democrat. They want you to get a free house, free car, free college education, free healthcare – oh no, you don’t need to pay for any of that. Ridiculous!“

I remember watching The A-Team – which was a GREAT show – growing up. I loved it – that was a show by manly men doing manly things and goofing off. It really was one of the last truly masculine shows on TV. The show was great for the same reasons that TOP GEAR was so great, and why THE GRAND TOUR is so great today. It basically consisted of men being men – falling over, catching fire, and mercilessly ribbing each other for their stupidity.

Here’s a short biographical documentary of the man – which strikes a rather more maudlin tone than Dirk himself does about his own life:

Given his looks, sense of humour, and obvious acting abilities, it’s surprising that he didn’t go further than he did – until you remember that he was also hugely politically incorrect even in the 1970s:

Mr. Benedict is also an outspoken paleoconservative/libertarian type, and he has no problem with making his views clear on a wide range of subjects – which, of course, is why Hollyweird shuns him:

He even worked with Fred Astaire on Battlestar Galactica:

He also had some strong words for the God-Emperor back on 2016 – to which Trump probably should have listened sooner:

One last video on Dirk Benedict watching Dirk Benedict being Dirk Benedict:

That was maybe too meta even for us to handle…

And here’s one that I found of Mr Benedict, well after his salad years, speaking at Phoenix Comicon:

He obviously enjoys going on those long mental woolgathering trips of his. But he really is a great storyteller.

His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, gave a rip-roaring speech at CPAC yesterday:

Let’s be honest: CPAC is irrelevant at this point. Yes, Gov. DeSantis and a few others made some great points, and yes, the God-Emperor’s appearance definitely put a bit of lead in the pencil of the conservative movement.

But that doesn’t mean much of anything. Conservatism is DEAD. Let it stay that way. Trumpism will have to move forward without Trump – because he failed to cross the Potomac and do his duty to hang traitors and whorenalists off the bridges.

I don’t personally have much of anything against Trump, of course. I still consider him to be the greatest President of my generation, and quite possibly the greatest since Andrew Jackson. But there is no getting past the fact that he FAILED to do his duty to preserve the integrity of the electoral system.

It wasn’t really his fault. The level of treason involved during that fake election ran so deep that the military itself was compromised. But, in hindsight, it is clear that he should have acted MUCH earlier to declare martial law, suspend habeas corpus, and use the National Guard to secure and safeguard the electoral process.

Would he have succeeded? It is very hard to say. The level of corruption in the military, and the level of infiltration particularly of the Fruit Salad Brigade that occupies the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel, is so great that I doubt any non-Leftist President could successfully deploy either the National Guard or regular military forces domestically anymore.

Even so, he should have cracked down a lot faster and harder when he had the chance.

And now America’s breakup is absolutely assured. There is no going back when 30% or so of the population – and it’s probably less than that, actually, given that the Left is actually a minority even among the Daemoncrats – can wilfully corrupt the outcomes of any and every election to cement an absolute grip on power.

#BasedTucker is based:

Mark Dice has found his new crush, a Republican Representative from Georgia named Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is doing an AMAZING job of triggering the living shit out of the Left:

Obvoiusly, I regard most politicians as inherently suspicious, at minimum, and they have to do A LOT to earn my trust. But Ms Taylor Greene is well on her way. She does and says the right things to piss off the right people.

Dave from Blue Collar Logic looks at the evolution of the conservative movement from St. Reagan of the Right, to Rush Limbaugh, to the God-Emperor:

I have no opinion about Rush. I didn’t listen to him or care much for Boomer civnattery. So I won’t say more about Rush’s influence. But evidently most of the Hard Right doesn’t much care for him.

And Jason looks at the calls from the Daemoncrats to ban FAUX News:

They will succeed, eventually. The Left will find a way to wipe out FAUX. But that doesn’t mean that hope is lost. It’s not. Real truth-tellers – even ones who f**k up occasionally, like #BasedTucker – will find audiences and will do just fine. FAUX itself is bleeding viewers because of the monumental stupidity of so many of its anchors. The sooner it dies off and is replaced by a proper Right-wing network, the better.

Bill Whittle finally has a new Firewall video up:

The Male Brain is back with plenty of cool stuff to keep you occupied on this Monday. We start with a video from George van Gils about the latest revolution in hotel services – robots:

The Neo-Palestinians at Prager U are, at best, misguided, but they do put out some great videos that ask some very valid questions:

Dawn’s question in response: “Is he asking for real, or is he trying to trap them?”

John Stossel is very good at triggering the Left into repeating the same mindless mantra, as he demonstrates so aptly right here:

Ilana Mercer offers up a paleolibertarian’s perspective on the Deep Tech crisis:

I like her writing, though I think that her secular “natural law” approach to things prevents her from seeing the bigger picture. It’s not about Deep Tech economic terrorism vs natural law – it’s about Satan vs God. That’s really what it comes down to, and until and unless people understand that this is a spiritual war, we’ll never get anywhere.

Virtual Reality Oasis looks at the next very cool, and very scary, technological toy to come onto the market:

Screen Junkies have a trailer for The SImpsons Movie, and there’s a money quote in there about working for an evil corporation in there at about the 0:55 mark:

Paul Ramsey also takes a look back at Rush Limbaugh’s legacy:

PJW looks at the Fake President’s latest attempts to get America involved in yet another forever war in Syria:

Lord Razor of the Fist Clan brings the righteous spittle-flecked rage when he talks about Jon Schaffer’s arrest:

(For some reason the YouTube video refuses to embed here. I have no idea why. But I’m guessing that it might have something to do with the YouTube Overlords didn’t like his content.)

If you have no idea who Jon Schaffer is… check out anything that ICED EARTH ever did. I’m not a big fan, but I do have to admit that Night of the Stormrider is an AMAZING album.

And Lord Razor is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to say that you shouldn’t bother listening to anything that ICED EARTH made after they fired Tim “Ripper” Owens.

The Dizzle has some grim news for Moose Limbs coming out of China:

Of course, how outraged do you suppose Moose Limbs are about this problem?

Yeah, exactly. Muslims, particularly in the West, would much rather wage jihad against soft and weak Western Christians than against the Chinese regime, which has shown very clearly and conclusively that it absolutely will not tolerate dissent or religious freedom.

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms drops some serious truth bombs on the entire idea that Mecca as depicted in the canonical Islamic gospels actually existed:

Al-Fadi from CIRA International teams up with Dr. Jay Smith to discuss the Islamic understanding of both Muhammad and the Koran:

Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined looks at some of the major reasons why people hate God:

China Uncensored examines the red lines that China is laying down for the Fake President:

America Uncovered skewers the latest bit of anti-White stupidity coming from Coca-Cola:

Jared Taylor from American Renaissance notes with weary amusement that when Asians are attacked by Blacks, they blame it on “White Supremacy”:

The time WILL come when Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and others will long for the days when White people “oppressed” them, I’m telling you. That will happen at roughly the same time as when indoor plumbing fails and the various diversitopian races slaughter each other in the streets for food.

Terrence Popp and his buddy Blake are very amused by the fact that Halle Berry has turned against the very idea of child support:

Midnight’s Edge reports on a frankly HILARIOUS incident that allegedly took place on the set of The Batman:

So Batman banged Catwoman on the hood of the Batmobile? (ALLEGEDLY.)

Reminds me of that scene from Frank Miller’s All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder:

15 Most WTF Moments In Batman Comics
Remembering The Terribly Brilliant All Star Goddamn Batman ...

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock analyses the latest evidence that tells us, fairly conclusively, that Queen Karen Kennedy was definitely behind Gina Carano’s firing:

Gary from Nerdrotic has some horrid news about the next Stupidman movie:

The Drinker is thoroughly unimpressed by the Devil Mouse’s attempt to reboot yet another beloved franchise:

Yeah, I can’t say I’m interested either.

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is yet another story of boffins doing scary things in the digital realm:

Over the next 10 years, programmers and climate scientists will work together on the wildly detailed Earth twin. The scientists hope the resulting model will help everyone run simulations to make better, more reasoned plans for approaching extreme climate events and new challenges.

This project is a collaboration between the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The actual programming and computing is happening at ETH Zurich and the Swiss national Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). The work follows Europe’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050.This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

Using data about climate as well as human activities, the souped-up and superpowered version of something like Google Earth will help experts trace through the consequences of weather events as well as human structures—like whether a program to buoy sinking parts of Venice will withstand more rapidly rising waters, for example, or whether a levee will hold during a severe storm.

“Crisis on Two Earths“, anyone? It’s going to be a lot of fun watching scientists mess that world up, too.

Your long read of the week is from The Male Brain as well, and it ties in nicely to today’s theme – this is Dirk Benedict’s gloriously politically incorrect rant against the feminisation of the whole Battlestar Galactica reboot back in the 2000s:

Witness the “re-imagined” Battlestar Galactica. It’s bleak, miserable, despairing, angry and confused. Which is to say, it reflects, in microcosm, the complete change in the politics and mores of today’s world as opposed to the world of yesterday. The world of Lorne Greene (Adama) and Fred Astaire (Starbuck’s Poppa), and Dirk Benedict (Starbuck). I would guess Lorne is glad he’s in that Big Bonanza in the sky and well out of it. Starbuck, alas, has not been so lucky. He’s not been left to pass quietly into that trivial world of cancelled TV characters.

“Re-imagining”, they call it. “un-imagining” is more accurate. To take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens (Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy our civilisation. One would assume. Indeed, let us not say who are he guys and who are the bad. That is being “judgemental”. And that kind of (simplistic) thinking went out with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne and, well the original Battlestar Galactica.

In the bleak and miserable, “re-imagined” world of Battlestar Galactica, things are never that simple. Maybe the Cylons are not
evil and alien but in fact enlightened and evolved? Let us not judge them so harshly. Maybe it is they who deserve to live and Adama, and his human ilk who deserves to die? And what a way to go! For the re-imagined terrorists (Cylons) are not mechanical robots void of soul, of sexuality, but rather humanoid six-foot-tall former lingerie models who f**k you to death. (Poor old Starbuck, you were imagined to early. Think of the fun you could have had `fighting’ with these thong-clad aliens! In the spirit of such soft-core sci-fi porn I think a more re-imaginative title would have been F**cked by A Cylon. (Apologies to Touched by An Angel.)

One thing is certain. In the new un-imagined, re-imagined world of Battlestar Galactica everything is female driven. The male characters, from Adama on down, are confused, weak, and wracked with indecision while the female characters are decisive, bold, angry as hell, puffing cigars (gasp) and not about to take it any more.

One can quickly surmise what a problem the original Starbuck created for the re-imaginators. Starbuck was all charm and humour and flirting without an angry bone in his womanising body. Yes, he was definitely `female driven’, but not in the politically correct ways of Re-imagined Television. What to do, wondered the Re-imaginators? Keep him as he was, with a twinkle in his eye, a stogie in his mouth, a girl in every galaxy? This could not be. He would stick out like, well like a jock strap in a drawer of thongs. Starbuck refused to be re-imagined. It became the Great Dilemma. How to have your Starbuck and delete him too?

Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:

The Neo-Tsar braved EXTREMELY cold temperatures to lay a wreath in Red Square at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Могила Неизвестного Солдата) in Red Square on Defender of the Fatherland Day (День Защитника Отетчества), on the 23rd:

That, gentlemen, is why Russia is strong, stable, and free – and the West is going down the shitter at increasingly high speed. Russia is led by a man who appreciates and respects his country’s history and the sacrifices of its soldiers. The West is led by utter pansies and wimps who trip over themselves to denigrate and degrade men.

History lessons of the week:

Your Great Man of the Week is someone that the Jews probably don’t particularly like – Nebuchadnezzar II, the man who destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem, enslaved much of the population of Israel and Judea, and built some of the greatest architectural works in the ancient world:

Let’s relive some truly great memories of dicking around with the hilariously terrible physics engine in the original HALO: Combat Evolved:

Remember how you could kill a Hunter just by bumping into it at very low speed in a Warthog? Ah, happy days))

And while we’re on the subject of HALO,

At the request of LRFotS MrUNIVAC from last week, let’s have some love for one of Bungie’s other classic games – MARATHON, the game that served as the basis and inspiration for much of the awesomeness that we saw in HALO:

I never actually played it, to be honest, but you can see exactly how and why and where Bungie got to be so great.

You can actually play Marathon on Linux these days, though you have to engage in quite a bit of jiggery-pokery to do it. I actually managed to do precisely that on a previous Linux installation of mine, about… oh… 8 years ago, I’m gonna say? Something like that? Anyway – the graphics and gameplay are very obviously horribly dated, but the value of the game lies in the way that you can clearly see the influences that it transferred over to our beloved HALO.

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

Comedy hour:

I really loved that series – this was from that slightly-more-than-decade-long period of about 1999 to 2012 where sitcoms were genuinely funny and interesting. Both Becker and Rules of Engagement were absolutely hilarious.

Pics, guns, girls, starting with some great pics and memes from The Male Brain about Dirk Benedict:

“Poh-tay-toh, Poh-tah-toh” – right?

As Dawn said – everything about Starbuck’s should be banned, except the jokes at their expense.

Here are some HUGELY offensive, and also extremely funny, memes sent to me from Russia:

See, this is why I like Russians so much. They are not easily offended and they are not whiny crybabies either.

Continuing with some advertising fails:

Hilarious advertising fails, collated by BoredPanda, proved businesses don't always get it right while promoting products, including one showing an infant child holding a wine glass (above)

It says something about me that I initially thought the problem with that one was the unnecessary hyphen – rather than the fact that it features a little girl drinking wine.

One T-shirt, which spelled out 'Saturday', appeared to only say part of the word due to the model's unfortunately placed jacket
One hysterical photoshop fail merged two separate photographs together, seeing one woman advertising travel pulling an impossible facial expression and wearing two outfits
One graduation poster got it horribly wrong as their graphic saw one graduate 'looking to the future', but was rather seen walking up train tracks
One Dream Lounger sign had one customer in stitches as their picture of a lounger chair looked like something else entirely with its phallic appearance

Interesting “dream”, it must be said.

One colon cleansing advert had people cracking up due to the unfortunately placed waterfall as it promised 'no more diarrhea'

Well, that’s uncorked it…

One marketing error saw people clearly not take into account the exhaust of the bus while designing their advert, as its unfortunate placement had people in hysterics

Not sure if that’s a fail, to be honest, at least not from a man’s point of view.

This next one might take you a moment to figure out:

One bag of apples used Snow White to promote their product - clearly overlooking the fact that the fairy tale character was poisoned by an apple by the Evil Queen
Another American bus malfunction saw one doctor's face become obscured when the windows on the vehicle were open, leaving her looking almost alien
Yet another photoshopping failure had people in stitches, as the banner saw one woman's head facing the wrong way while she practiced yoga

Clearly that was the Linda Blair School of Exorcism Yoga.

LRFotS and fellow L33T-speaker lynch sent over this great pic of #BasedArbiter being #based:

And on we go:

Yeah – and the Patriots are losing.

Dirk Benedict approves of that message.

Headlines of the week indicate that Vodka Man is giving Floriduh Man a serious run for his money when it comes to messing with the local wildlife:

Your “Smelly Shit” moment of the week:

Your “Whole Hog” moment of the week:

I really cannot come up with a good caption for this one, it’s that brilliant:

Your “Pig Feat” moment of the week:

Your “Pussy Galore” moment of the week:

Time for your “Media InConsistency” moment of the week:

Here is another howler from The Washington Compost:

Let’s not leave out the neoclowns:

This movie looks like it’s gonna be AWESOME:

Get a ham radio. It’s the one thing that the Deep Tech State can’t stop.

This next one will make you shit bricks:

Holy crap. That’s ABSOLUTELY correct. We are F***ED.

I mean… it’s hard to argue with the logic…

Ugh, that’s so depressing…

Your Dog of the Week is the Taigan (Кыргызская Борзая):

Taigan Puppies - Puppy Dog Gallery

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

Gym beast props this week go to Larry Wheels:

Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

Jesus loves knockouts:

Synthwave reminds us of HALO:

#SteelVersusSteel

And finally here is your Instathot to get the week off to the right – or at least, sightly – start. Her name is Sylvija Vasilevskaya – i.e. Sylvia, daughter of Vasiliy, based on Russian etymology – and she is 26, born in Lithuania of mixed Russian and Lithuanian heritage. This is actually not so unusual. Lithuania was a Russian colony, effectively, during the dark days of the Soviet Union. The Russkies sent over quite a few of their men to live within and among the native Lithuanians. Many intermarried and settled there.

In fact, I met the product of one such marriage in London back when I last visited in 2019. She told us that ethnic tensions between the native Lithuanians and the Russian transplants run quite deep. As a general rule, Lithuanians DO NOT like Russians – they consider them to be invaders and colonisers and oppressors, and have been running full-tilt in the opposite direction into the all-encompassing tentacles of the European Union.

That’s not going to end well either. Say what you will about Russia, the fact is that the Russians are more free, and more respectful of individual and national rights, than the Euzis, and by a HUGE margin.

As for this week’s Instathot… well, the extreme whiteness of her teeth is definitely blinding, and definitely artificial. I’m not even going to attempt to defend her choices there. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to her artifices – and speaking of icebergs, I’m pretty sure the two on her chest aren’t entirely normal either.

And if you scroll through her Instathot profile, you’ll quickly realise that she wasn’t always quite as… plastic as she is now, but she has always been… shall we say, generous with her favours. Straight-up ELEVEN on the venerable Thot Quotient, gents – outright radioactive.

But, it IS a Monday, and we all DO need a bit of a pick-me-up, so… here you go.

Happy Monday, gentlemen. Now get off your butts and get back to work. If you’re in PommieBastardLande, grifters everywhere depend on YOU to keep the NHS going so that they can get free breast implants and gender reassignment surgery from your tax dollars.

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1 Comment

  1. MrUNIVAC
    MrUNIVAC on March 1, 2021 at 3:59 pm

    Another point for Marathon, and one brought up in the third video: its story is both one of the most ridiculously deep in video games, and can also be completely ignored if you just want to get on with the shooting. MGS2 and Bioshock get all the credit for being subversive postmodern deconstructions of video games, but Marathon was raising questions about player agency all the way back in 1994 (why exactly do you do everything Leela and Durandal tell you to, anyway?). Also, unlike those other games, it did it subtly and in ways that made you think, and not by whacking the player upside the head with a plot brick.

    http://marathon.bungie.org/story/

    Heh, I did not realize that Dirk Benedict was so opposed to gender-bent Starbuck. I honestly enjoyed the Galactica reboot right up until they did the early-2000s version of “getting woke” and turned the entire show into a platform to preach about how awful George W. Bush was and how much we should all hate him. Until the New Caprica storyline, it did something that almost no other entertainment did or does, which was posit that people on the right side of politics actually had a point, and weren’t just acting out of hatred for all things non-white male. That went out the window once they started glorifying Moslem suicide bombers.

    Jonah Goldberg may be the idiot queen of Cuck Mountain these days, but this old article from before then accurately sums up the phenomenon.

    https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jonah-goldberg/how-politics-destroyed-a-great-tv-show/

    Oh well. At least we’ll always have the Adama Maneuver.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evodPpqb9H4

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