Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything about Zellweger. But, of course, it seems to be mainly about guys...

Anyway, I can hardly wait to see it!

It's a Western Noir (which works a lot better for me that Robert Parker's contemporary private eye cowboys).

So Zellweger functions as the frontier femme fatale. But honestly, in the novel she's not much more than a buckaroo bimbo.

(Make up your own cowpoke jokes. I'm not gonna go there.)

the article should be edited to include the name of the book's author, more well known for his Spenser books (now there's some casting, Ed Harris as Spenser. i like it.). both Appaloosa and its sequel, Resolution, are good reads. highly recommended and looking forward to the movie.

my bad, cursory skim of the article shows writer did mention Parker's name. So go read Parker's books already. I'm looking forward to his westerns now more than his mysteries.

We need more stuff like this in Salon.

One of mt favorite movies stars Ed Harris in "Riders of the Purple Sage." Loved it so much I had to read the book. Both had the same quiet dignity about them. And it sent me on a western novel reading frenzy.

Seven of the Obama campaign’s top 14 donors consist of officers and employees of

the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly

implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages … These seven

Wall Street firms are (in order of money given): Goldman Sachs, UBS AG, Lehman Brothers,

JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.

Please read more here: http://www.mickeyz.net

FACT: * Barack Hussein Obama WAS A DEVOTED MUSLIM FOR 27YRS, THEN HE JOINED

A ‘BLACK CHRISTIAN CHURCH en USA IN ORDER TO START HIS EDUCATION LEADING TO

A POLITICAL CARREER IN AMERICA, AS ‘CHRISTIAN’ (required in America)

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The below was taken from this LINK below-section Dec/2007:

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

On December 22nd/1007, in a small-town café in Pleasantville, Omaha, Obama was asked

a question that typically only circulates on the Internet.

As he sat down to have a slice of pie with a small group of potential voters and

an elderly woman asked him about being Muslim.

“I’ve always been a Christian,” the Illinois Democrat responded. “I

have never practiced [Islam].”

In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying

the Quran. His teacher Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he had studied

“menjaji” (recitation of the Quran).” Classmate Rony Amiris described

Obama as being a very devout Muslim, saying, “Barry was previously quite religious

in Islam.” Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar, now the CEO of Garuda Indonesia,

was quoted as saying, “He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a ’sarong’.

(See 1971 and 1972, above.)

Yet, on his official campaign website, Obama has posted this statement, “Barack

has never been a Muslim or practiced any other faith besides Christianity.”

Obama’s grandfather was a Muslim. Obama’s father was a Muslim. Obama’s

stepfather was a Muslim. His African relatives are Muslims. What was he for the

27 years before his alleged conversion if he wasn’t a Muslim?

Saying, “I’ve always been a Christian,” is a bold-faced lie.

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Obama IS A PHONY indeed

Barack Hussein Obama II brings blatant, traceable, and verifiable bold-face-lying to a new art form. Apparently, the presumptive nominee has developed a false sense of untouchability, as he has yet to face enough retribution for his lies to-date, and so he is becoming increasingly BOLDER in his fabrications. Patterns of his dishonesty continue to emerge, and to become strengthened, and though Obama seems to think that he will not be held accountable for his "just words", the GOP is simply gathering the long list of lies to use as easy ammunition against him for the General Election.

Even the die-hard loyalists among his base, including his number-one, "Annie Wilkes"-like fan Keith Olbermann, are starting to get disgusted!

Arianna Huffington, liberal elite bloggist extraordinaire (www.huffingtonpost.com), and yet another of his Kool-aid-drinking clingers-on, is hand-wringing with concerns that Obama is watering down his “brand”. For those of us who are not from a business background, a “brand” is a promise that an entity (usually a company or corporation) makes to its consumers. In the case of Barack Obama, the promise was that he would be a stark anti-war agent of change, and would usher in a new breed of politician. This is a promise broken, no matter how you look at it, as Obama unapologetically changes the channel to Bush TV to invite people of a different political stripe to cast their views onto his blank screen. (Recall from his Audacity of Hope book, Obama writes "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views").

Why do the Obama-phites fail to take him at his word? He will host others' views just as easily as he hosts the views that his early supporters have eagerly cast upon him earlier in the primary season.

We, his sweeties, know what it’s like to be slimed by Obama. Hillary supporters in general know what it’s like to have to listen to a fraud who you know is lying simply because his lips are moving. But *this* is sit-back-with-a-bowl-of-popcorn kind of stuff – the Obama die-hards are starting to freak out over the blatant lies and betrayals that their unquestioned hero Barack Obama that he has been dropping on them lately. Obama is now similar or more far to the right than McCain on many of the Democratic marquee issues.

http://hillarysupportersformccainblog.com/