Doug Richardson

Known as the guy who wrote Die Hard 2, Bad Boys, Hostage, and the Lucky Dey Thrillers. Occupying the radical middle.

[𝓡𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓽 / 𝓜𝓻.𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓴𝓲 🎃 @MrFreaki]

Por esto los Jedi no tienen perros

[Macrodosing @MacrodosingPod]

The fucking Dodgers.

[Peter Appel @PeterAppel23]

Dodgers celebrate beating the Braves like it’s a Tuesday in July

[Honestly Jake @Honestly_Jake]

MLB Payrolls of the remaining teams, ranked.

Guardians: 29th
Rays: 28th
White Sox: 27th
Brewers: 19th
Dodgers: 1st

So one out of the top 5 teams left spends money, and apparently that means we need a salary cap?

[Olivia Garvey @OliviaNBCLA]

My goodness this is goooood.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

No speaking Italian to the goats.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Just try it, California.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

The only way I’m happy about this is if it’s 500 hours long.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Karen Bass on the governor's race: "We don't need an election on November 3rd."

From the same people who lecture us on "democracy." How about focusing on your own race and the SQUALOR in your city, Karen!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

Karen Bass says she’s not responsible for the streets being in disrepair. She cut Street Services by $61M from 2023-2025. That led to the disrepair.

[Doug Richardson @byDougRich]

@MattGinella @CarrGolfTravel @LahinchGolfClub @watervillelinks @ArdglassGolf @PGC1894 @Rosapenna1893 Agree

[Anthony SanFilippo @AntSanPhilly]

Nothing like a little irony here in Iowa. In a game built, in part, around the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and his second chance after being banned as part of the Black Sox scandal, there are gambling ads in each outfield corner.

[Steve Carlson #17 @steve_carlson17]

Called us names 👊

I don't know who created it

[Doug Richardson @byDougRich]

Wow. No bigger trailer turn off than the star of the movie, addressing the camera as himself, and reading the dullest teleprompter copy citing reasons to watch the picture.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New teaser for David O’Russell’s ‘MADDEN’, starring Nicolas Cage as John Madden.

The film follows the life of American football coach and commentator John Madden

Releasing November 18 on Prime Video.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Hugh Grant’s classic British deadpan completely stole the show during Richard Curtis’ Honorary Oscar speech.

[Paul Bond @WriterPaulBond]

5 years ago, Jon Stewart was right for the 2nd time ever when he told Stephen Colbert that COVID leaked from a Wuhan lab. Leftists said he either turned into a wing-nut conspiracy theorist or he was imitating one. Stewart later called it “a pretty good bit that expressed kind of how I felt.”

So, credit where credit is due. Stewart spoke the truth that was obvious to most conservatives and he didn’t back down from the censors and cancel-culture cultists on his own side of the political aisle.

[Doug Richardson @byDougRich]

Amen, brother.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

“Your God CRIED?”

I used to say it with a little laugh. “If Jesus was God, why did He weep like a weak man?”

I mocked the shortest verse in the Bible. Years later it brought me to my knees.

“Jesus wept.” John 11:35. Two words. It should bring you to your knees.

Then I actually read WHERE He’s standing. At the tomb of His friend Lazarus. And here’s the part that undoes me: He’s about to raise him. In sixty seconds He’ll shout that dead man back to life. The victory is already loaded.

And He weeps ANYWAY.

He didn’t have to. The happy ending was already in His hand. But He looked at the grief around Him, the sisters, the mourners, the sheer wreckage that death makes of everything, and He entered it.

He let it hit Him. God, with tears running down His face, at the graveside of someone He loved.

The God of Islam was too majestic to weep. I was proud of that. Until I met a God who was strong enough to.

“We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.” Hebrews 4:15.

Whatever you’re burying right now. He’s not watching from a safe distance.

He’s the God who weeps at gravesides.

And then empties them. For all eternity.

Praise the King Jesus.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

I'm quite surprised how few people, in and out of church, understand how evil works.
It's very simple. It's methods are repetitive and therefore obvious. It can only work through poeple; it cannot work through animals or nature. It needs to be invited in, usually through insecurity or fear. Then, it puts you on like hand puppet and seeks to emotionally and physically kill everything around it.
There's more to it, but that's the basic functionality.

[Doug Richardson @byDougRich]

My hero.

[Boochie Myers🔪 @stoppfeenin]

32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.