Actor Leslie Nielsen of Airplane & Naked Gun Fame Dies at Age 84

Surely you can’t be serious, actor  Leslie Nielsen has passed away at the age of 85.

Sad news from an actor that brought us so many laughs. Actor Leslie Nielsen has passed away at the age of 85 after a long bought with pneumonia. Believe it or not, Nielsen used to do serious acting roles; however, was best known for his dead pan humor in such movies as Airplane, Police Squad and the Naked Gun series.

Rest in Peace Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian-born actor who in middle age tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new, far more successful career as a comic actor in films like “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” series, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.

According to The Associated Press, his agent, John S. Kelly, said Mr. Nielsen died at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale where he was being treated for pneumonia.

 More at Boing Boing with videos of many movie clips. More from The Hollywood Reporter:

“We are sadden by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60-year career in motion pictures and television,” said a statement from Nielsen’s family released through his rep.

Nielsen died surrounded by family including his wife, Barbaree, and friends.

Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He came to Hollywood in the mid-1950s after performing in 150 live TV dramas in New York. His acting career spanned several decades, starting with episodes of series including The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse and Tales of Tomorrow and encompassing several genres.

God bless and rest in peace.

Arson Reported at Islamic Center in Corvallis, OR where Christmas Tree Lighting Bomb Plot Suspect Attended

Arson at Islamic Center sometimes attended by Christmas tree lighting bomber.

It is reported at the The Oregonian that an Islamic Center where the Christmas tree lighting terorist bomber, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, was intentionally set on fire. Is it a coincidence, that arson would occur at this Islamic Center one day after 19 year old Mohamed Osman Mohamudattempted to blow up innocent men, women and children at a Christmas tree lighting? Instead of wishing others Merry Christ, Happy Holidays and Yule time tidings … Mohamud wishes death to Infidels. Hmm, so arson occurs one day later in an office area? Atlas Shruggs says, “color me skeptical.”  Or as Weasel Zippers says, “strange coincidence? Or something else?”

The AP reported that an office was set on fire this morning, none of the religious worshipping areas were damaged.

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Hey America Shoppers … Get a Clue as to The Reason for the Season (Crazed Shoppers, Arrests, Insanity)

What the hell is wrong with people?

During the Christmas holiday season, hopefully American shoppers can remember the “REASON FOR THE SEASON”. Hint, it’s not about waiting foolishly in line for hours awaiting a store to open at 4am on Black Friday. It’s not about acting like a third world country rushing a caravan for food, while you storm into a store trampling over people like you are at a 1979 Who concert in Cincinnati..

It would appear that Black Friday 2010 and consumerism has brought out the worst in many. Just a reminder to many misguided people, learn a Christmas lesson from Linus Van Pelt as to what Christmas is all about:

“And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”

Shoppers waited out in the cold wet weather for hours for the Target doors to open at 4 a.m. the Black Friday when they decided to trample each other.

From WIVB in Buffalo, NY:

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US Senator John Kerry (MA-D) Christmas … “The Season of Giving” to Me

John Kerry not quite understanding that giving is better than to receive …

John Kerry, the senior US Senator from Massachusetts, seems to have misread the meaning of the Christmas and the season of giving. Kerry rented out the Boston Symphony, where tickets range from $75 to $4,800 for his political fund raising extravaganza. 

Tis the season to be giving to Me

Obviously, the high browed, Democrat eleite has not figured out that there is political fatigue or during this Christmas season, a tough economy. BTW, Kerry does not face reelection for four years.

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The Obamamessiah: “I pray every night, read the Bible”

Barack Hussein Obama said in his interview with Barbara Waters that “praying and reading the Bible are part of his everyday life.”  At the same time he thought to himself, if they believe that one, I have a bridge to sell them as well. How amazing that Obama feels the need to make this a talking point. There is something seriously wrong when one must tell people what their perception of them should be.

Obama has been dogged by criticism about his faith since he took office. A poll released in late August showed that a growing number of Americans — one in five, up from one in ten in March — say he is a Muslim.

When asked if he prays himself, the president said: “I do. Every night.”

He also says that he reads the Bible, and, asked to explain why so many Americans deny that he is a Christian, blamed the internet.

Actually President Barack Hussein Obama, maybe it’s you telling ABC news that you are a Muslim that causes people to question what you are.

“Well, you know, the Internet has a powerful effect these days, and so, the way rumors can take on a life of their own ends up being very powerful,” he said.

Wouldn’t a follow up question of what was your favorite Bible passage be the next obvious question? Of course that might show that Obama can not quote one. In a word, what Weasel Zippers says. A message to the president, you need to look no further than yourself to blame for any perceptions as to your Christianity or your spirituality. Twenty years in a Reverend Wright hate-filled church will do that.

NPR: Barack Obama’s Fat Lip Gives Him “Street Cred,” Scar Will Help Him Stare Down Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il or Putin

This is what the Obama foreign policy has come to, “street cred” through a fat lip? Who knew the Obama doctrine was “speak softly and carry a big fat lip.” NPR thinks the President getting punked by an elbow gives his street cred, how out of touch are these libs?

Just three weeks after getting a shellacking in the midterm elections, President Obama got a fat lip.

The president played basketball yesterday with some friends in the gym of the Fort McNair Army Base, and reportedly took an elbow in the mouth from an opposing player who went up for a shot.

It took 12 stitches to close The First Fat Lip, if you please. I’m not sure that Joe Frazier needed 12 stitches after the Thrilla in Manila, though the White House stressed that a smaller filament was used, which increases the number of stitches, but leaves a smaller scar.

As brilliantly stated by Weasel Zippers, “Oh yeah, instead of staring down a sissy, now they’ll be staring down a sissy with a scar…”.How clueless could the LEFT be? It would appear that they know about as much about sports as they do about politics. Trust me having played basketball, getting a fat lip is no badge of honor. I wonder what the doofuses of the LEFT would have said if Obama got his nose broken?

I wonder if having a larger scar wouldn’t actually fortify President Obama’s profile, as he contends with Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Vladimir Putin. Imagine a president with a gnarly, vivid scar telling the rulers of China, “Nice country ya’ got here. I’d hate to see something happen to it if you didn’t stop foolin’ around with the value of your currency. Know what I mean?”

But an elbow in the chops is a battle ribbon in basketball. Mediocre players don’t have to worry about their dental work. An elbow is given to aggressive players who swing their own sharp limbs to grab a ball or push off a defender, although the White House stressed that the president was elbowed inadvertently.

EXIT QUESTION: Would Obamacare have covered the stitches?

FBI Thwarts Terrorist Bombing Attempt by Somali Muslim Teen (Mohamed Osman Mohamud) at Portland, OR Christmas Tree Lighting

Because Islam is a religions of peace … Merry Christmas from Radical Islam.

Once again the FBI have thwarted a bombing attempt in the US and the suspect is not a Baptist, Methodist, Quaker, Catholic, Amish, Presbyterianism, Mennonite, Congregationalist or Mormon. Guess what religious persuasion the suspected terrorist is?

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19 year old, Somali-born US citizen

The FBI has thwarted a terrorist bombing attempt in Portland, Oregon at a Christmas tree lighting. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a 19 year old, Somali-born US citizen, was arrested just 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur. Mohamud was taken away and arrested by the FBI and Portland Police Bureau after he attempted to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van parked near the tree-lighting ceremony.

The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.

A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.

However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The criminal complaint against terrorist Mohamed Osman Mohamud can be read HERE.

More at the Gateway Pundit and the Jawa Report.

So what’s next as a result of this terrorist attempt, will Obama and Napolitano have body scans and pat down for all Christmas tree lighting ceremonies?

Obama Gets Elbowed in the Mouth, 12 Stiches in Upper Lip While Playing Basketball

Obama takes yet another smack in the mouth …

First Barack Obama took one on the chin during the 2010 midterm elections, now The One takes an elbow in the mouth and receives 12 stitches. I guess Obama should have stuck to the golf course instead, rather than trying to play basketball. However, the 12 stitches and crack in the mouth isn’t anything compared to the butt-kicking Obama suffered recently with the loss of 62 House seats, 6 US Senate seats, 6 Governor seats and 680+ state legislature races.

What a photo-op … could an aid have told Obama to get away from the window?

What an image for the leader of the free word

President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.

First word of the injury came in a statement from press secretary Robert Gibbs nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House did not initially name the person who caused the injury, but identified him later Friday as Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Obama received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor of the White House after returning home. Doctors used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.

The president had gone to nearby Fort McNair to indulge in a game of basketball, one of his favorite athletic pursuits. It was a five-on-five contest involving family and friends. Among the players were Obama’s nephew, Avery Robinson, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Reggie Love, Obama’s personal assistant, who played at Duke University.

So was this an inadvertent elbow or a message as questioned by Macsmind? As it turns out the culprit was Rey Decerega, he works for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Maybe this was a message to pass comprehensive illegal immigration?

Barack Obama Poll Trending Point to being a One Term President and Defeat in 2012

Some one might want to tell Barack Obama it is not 2008 anymore.

Those who voted in Obama in 2008 have seem to abandoned him. As Byron York says, the coalition he led to victory in 2008 has frayed in just two years. Obama has downward polling numbers with independents, women, men, old, young and those in between. The One also has lower trending polling data with whites, Hispanics and even black.  If the trends continue, Obama will be a one term President and a One term “One-der”

We’re fast approaching the halfway point in Barack Obama’s term. With Nov. 2 behind him, everything the president does will be calculated to boost, or at least not harm, his chances of re-election in 2012. What’s not clear is whether he fully appreciates how badly the coalition he led to victory in 2008 has frayed in just two years. A look inside his poll numbers suggests that if he cannot turn around some key trends, he’ll be a one-term president.

Just look at the exit polls from 2008, which reveal the demographic contours of Obama’s support. Compare those with Gallup’s weekly analysis of the president’s approval rating, drawn from multiple polls broken down by age, gender, political philosophy, and the like. Throw in some insights from the midterm elections, and the mix shows a dramatic deterioration in Obama’s 2008 support. “His majority coalition is not there,” says Republican pollster David Winston. “What he put together, at least in the way he put it together, just isn’t there.”

Take a look at those that Obama won in 2008, if the trends continue, Obama will lose. What a shock that Obama has lost ground with so many polling demographics, as if the 2010 midterm elections and the political carnage at the hands of the Democrat party was not a noticeable mark.

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BCS Fiasco … What If Auburn & Oregon Lose While Boise St and TCU Win Out?

Could it be BCS Armageddon today?

Today I am the biggest Alabama and Arizona fan, not so much because I dislike Auburn, even though I think they are overrated. Nor do I dislike Oregon, although I can’t stand their video game offense. They both need to lose so that we can have the BCS in complete disarray to have a playoff system finally implemented in Division I college football.

The BCS and the arrogant BCS qualifying conferences are on the verge of having an uninvited guest at the party. Presently the Oregon Ducks out of the PAC10 and the Auburn Tigers from the SEC are numbers 1 and 2 in the BCS rankings. However … this Thanksgiving holiday NCAA college football weekend could be a major headache for the BCS powers that be. Boise St and more importantly Alabama and Arizona might just throw a monkey wrench in the BCS.

My personal opinion is that Alabama will beat Auburn. Handily might I add. The defending National Champions did not win the SEC West this year and will have no better motivation than to defeat Auburn in the “Iron Bowl”. ROLL TIDE!!!

What is both Auburn and Oregon lose and become a one loss team, while Boise St and TCU become #1 and #2 in the BCS rankings? What to do? Imagine the screaming, crying, whining and belly aching that will come from the major conferences.

If #3 Boise St beats #19 Nevada, then there should be no reason why the ”Blue” smurf turf BSU Broncos should not go to #2.  Game on as they would have the inside track to a BCS National Championship game.

UPDATE I: YIKES … The Crimson Tide of Alabama have gone out to a 14-0 lead over the Tigers. I can hear Keith Jackson from his home saying … Whoa Nellie!!! The Auburn defense is as advertised, non-existent.

UPDATE II: Alabama scores again … make it 21-0 Bama … ROLL TIDE!!!

UPDATE III: Alabama 24 – Auburn 0

Half Time: Total Domination. At the half Bama leads 24 – 7 over Auburn, although they should be up 38-7 but for dropped passes and turnovers. Will this come back to bite Bama? Alabama as leads in total yards, 379 to 87. It has been a total mismatch in the first half. One must ask them self who is the Heisman candidate? Cam Newton passing 5-10, 97 yards, 1 TD and 9 carries and -10 yards. Meanwhile Tide QB Greg McElroy is 19-23, 335 yards and 3 TD’s all just in the first half.

Whether Auburn ever gets their offense in gear is one question, but how is the Tiger defense going to stop anyone? Thus the reason why I never wanted to see them in a BCS Championship game against an offense like Oregon.

UPDATE IV:Well Alabama’s screw ups in the first half let Auburn back in the game. They could have finished off Auburn in the first half, instead they let them hang around and now the score is Alabama 24, Auburn 21. The Tide better get their act in gear or Sabin is looking at a 3 loss season in SEC play.

UPDATE V: Let’s call it for what it is … THIS SUCKS! Auburn wins 28-27 as Alabama allows the Tigers to win. UNREAL. This game was lost in the 1st half. Never would I ever think that Bama would let a team roll over them in the second hald on their home field. Bear Bryant just rolled over in his grave.