Shooter is kind of a mixed bag for me. Apparently it takes a giant crap all over the book, which is unfortunate, and there are parts that are so cliche they annoy me, but it is a very entertaining movie.

Anyone who doesn't understand by now that "climate change", and "global warming", and the "carbon" scare are nothing more than a giant scam designed to make a tiny sliver of the population über-rich at the expense of all the rest, is terminally naive. Go back to watching 'General Hospital' if you believe the UN/IPCC and the Obama Administration.

Folks, if you haven't already heard, global warming STOPPED, almost twenty years ago. It's true. But they don't report that very much in the mass Media. Hardly at all, in fact. But it is a fact: global warming stopped around 1997, per satellite data: the most accurate scientific data we have. The planet has not warmed at all since then.

So now they are calling it a "Pause" — as if they know for a fact that global warming stopped only temporarily ["temporary" being 18 years at last count]. They don't know when, or if, global warming will resume. They don't know if we are at a long term plateau. And they don't know if global cooling will commence, instead. But they 'know' this is just a temporary "pause" in global warming; an eighteen-year long "pause".

There is BIG MONEY in any 'carbon' tax. We would all pay for every dollar of the immense revenue that would be raised, in the form of much higher utilities, and gasoline, and everything that is moved by rail or trucks. In other words, EVERYTHING would become much more expensive. That's what a 'carbon tax' would do.

The "carbon" scare is a hoax. Global warming STOPPED, many years ago — but they keep the scare alive with endless false alarms, like dying Polar bears, rapidly rising sea levels, ocean "acidification", and many other false alarms, NONE of which are happening.

They are lying through their teeth, folks. Don't be their chumps. They want your money, that's all. We are sheep to be sheared, and a "carbon" tax is their preferred method.

I liked the movie, as well. However, it is off-putting that the villain is an oil company, when in this real life scenario it is "climate change" proponents doing the killing.

It's a fun movie. Kate Mara did a nice job playing a Kentucky girl. The part that my friends and I usually quote is the scene with Levon Helm -- "...Anna Nicole married for love" and "Still got the shovel."

Any man doesn't learn from age and experience is a fool not worth talking to.

@Arthurstone 2:50 PM

May I ask you where you were, in say, years 1965 through 1970 Sir? Just curious.

Terry, he was sitting in his armchair, keeping his doilies straight. Arthurstone is an expert on tea and scones and the proper method of arching the pinkie when sipping.

And then there is the man who never grew up and never learned, but insists his ideas from youth are still the best.

For some, all they ever needed to know they learned in kindergarden. For the wise, they grew up and learned more as they experienced life.

those that have not seen it

how can anybody NOT have seen this movie??

@Arty — or, was that Wurzel Zwerge?

"As for the period 1965 - 1970 ..." actually on until 1972 for me, I was killing people and blowing things up for Uncle Sam.

"Any man who is willing to send others to do work he himself avoided is a coward ..."
Any person that sits back and criticizes others for defending freedoms that include said person is the coward.

The man who stands up and does the right thing for the right reasons, "does the work" is the hero.

Chas, for those who will never know-"You have never lived until you nearly died."
"The crack of a bullet passing the head certainly enlivens the day."~ Churchill A paraphrase

Heart of Darkness revisited? But with warmist goons?

The incidents in Uganda occurred a couple years ago as I recall. That never really surfaced in the MSM, did it?

And speaking of Stephen Hunter (who as we all know created the Bob Lee Swagger character upon whom this movie is so loosely based,)....

Here's his take on the Ferguson miasma:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/08/stephen-hunter-thoughts-on-ferguson.php

If you're taken by the Swagger character, I urge everyone to read all of Hunter's books, starting with The Master Sniper from 1980. He's created an entire world over his career, with characters resurfacing decades later in unexpected contexts - and he really gets guns and shooters.