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By bluegal Sunday Apr 05, 2009 7:30pm
Woody Allen riffs on lobsters and Bernie Madoff. Open thread below...
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This lefty is leading the attack against us.
On April 5th, 2009 astronautzipper says:
Snip - "Anyhow... this article on Post-Gazette does nothing to harm the Alex Jones or Ron Paul followers... it just shows how messed up this guy was.
What you say... a crazy person who can't deal with the real world... because when you get in to the Alex Jones stuff that is what you are facing... the real world."
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Rand Paul Knob Creek Kentucky 2009(HQ)
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The unemployed resort to video ads on community access tv. A NY County bans a controversial baby bottle component. Why do we get over gun nuts so easily? Petey Madoff is forced to "subsist" on 10k a month as a result of a suit aganst him. Rockefeller thinks HMOs should charge the same fees for services, regardless of whether the doctors are in the company networks. Barry's high-speed rail plan. Napolitano lies about our progress on the Mexican Drug War. Obama won't stand for Karzai legalizing rape. AT&T plays bulldog to the RIAA. Barry saves some trees. A former KKK thug recants for his hate crimes. Another idiot driver produced by California. Walgreens promises free health care services for the uninsured.
Obama wants to make it easier for Cubans to visit and get money from their families abroad. Kraft knew about the tainted pistachios months ago. Rocket fuel's been discovered in baby formula. Another species threatened by global warming. McCain wants to something helpful for black people, for once. The AP reminds us that Reagan was for less nukes, too. If we're fighting the war there so we don't have to do it here, then why did we lose one of the worst terrorists after Bin Laden? Geithner lies about kissing AIG's ass.
orginates from the same place as yours truly (Tulare County, California...I was born there).
As a child, I was taught to love Tulare County pistachios. Every Februaryish, when our local Tulare and Kern County schools have their mini farm shows to coincide with the World Ag Expo, children are given these pistachios along with many other treats from the farms. This worries me. It's bad enough that the pistachios are making other people sick, but our local children (God I hope not) would take the cake of disgusting disregard for human life.
(FYI, most of the farmers in the area are Rethugs)
"The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice it to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic. A bit of literary history may clarify matters. Unlike Charles Dickens' other novels, Little Dorrit was in fact written by The Faerie Queene. It is fortunate that Jane Austen's reputation does not rest on Northanger Abbey, for the author of that admirable satire was Paradise Regained in a frivolous mood. The twentieth century offers abundant examples, from The Pilgrim's Progress cranking out Atlas Shrugged, to Les Miserables composing The Jungle, to The Memoirs of Casanova penning Portnoy's Complaint.
"Occasionally, of course, the alchemy proves so potent that the appropriated author never produces a single original word. Some compelling facts have accrued to this phenomenon. Every desert romance novel bearing the name E.M. Hull was actually written by Madame Bovary on a lark. Mein Kampf can claim credit for most of the Hallmark greeting cards printed between 1958 and 1967; Richard Nixon's entire oeuvre traces to a collective effort by the science-fiction slush pile at Ace Books. Now, as you might imagine, upon finding a large readership through one particular work, the average book aspires to repeat its success. Once The Wasteland and Other Poems generated its first Republican Party platform, it couldn't resist creating all the others. After Waiting for Godot acquired a taste for writing Windows software documentation, there was no stopping it..."
-- James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
How can anyone possibly not love a mind that comes up with things like that?
This obviously explains Stephen King's work.
want to have a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/040509a.html
will he ACTUALLY do something about it this time, instead of just trying to paint himself the hero, then disappearing AGAIN when push comes to shove?
Saw that Madoff piece last week...hilarious!
As I wrote in a previous comment, that Fauxnation site really has some hateful comments in it about Obama. There is obviously intense hatred of our President.
I think C&L ought to, in Michelle Bachmann's words, do an "expose" on the comments written in Fauxnation.com. The American people deserve to know just who in our media is "un-American" and allows hate to be spread on their web site and who in our media is totally biased in favor of repuglicans.
Here's another comment I just saw on that Fauxnation site, referring to Michelle Obama putting her arm around the Queen:
"That tranny he calls a wife man handled the Queen with her gorilla paws"
By the way, the guy who wrote this comment on April 2 goes by the name of "Dennis." Wonder if he's "our" Dennis?
The more I think about it, the more I really think this "expose" needs to be done because the likes of BillO the Clown always rally against the "left wing smear machine", chastising name callers and haters. Fauxnation is no doubt a right wing smear machine, full of name callers and haters.
he's not our Dennis, he's their Dennis. It could be the same Dennis though.
We don't want to own someone like Dennis.
Please!
Whatever else, 'our' dennis has certainly made his mark on C&L! Hasn't been around for awhile, though, and you lot might miss him, but I loved the sparring.
We've got room enough for 'our' dennis. But they can keep 'their' Dennis.
ex-evangelical...
sixandseveneights asked me last night if I used a 12 step program to recover from evangelicism. I didn't, but I did have a detox period before completely leaving evangelicism due to its slavery to a (cruel) conception and idolatry of politics in general, and my church due to bad theology more specifically.
I told 6 & 7 8ths that I quit cold turkey and have never felt better. When I entered the church and evangelicism, I was at a critical stage of struggling with depression and PTSD. I had been on several different kinds of medications that never truly helped with the symptoms, and I had just come out of a suicide attempt. Unfortunately, the church I attended is among those that hold illness, specifically mental illness, as being lies of the devil, and that you need to basically deny to yourself that illness is there. I was even corrected countless times midspeech to not say that I was ill or that something was wrong with me. I was told to "believe" and have faith that I would be healed, I was prayed over many times (btw, I never threw out my meds, and they don't tell you to do that), but the depressions, and the acute experiences of traumatic stress continued.
I went through many long stretches of time where my symptoms made attending impossible. When I would return, I would feel guilty the first weekend back or so, even felt like the pastor was scolding me, especially since my mental health was not really an "excuse" to avoid church. Anyway, I continued to get worse, and it got to the point that everytime I went to church I felt guilty and bad, after a series of little coincidences that had nothing to do with that, I stopped going altogther.
During those lengthy absences, and in the 18 months or so since I quit the church, I've had the room to examine the vicious politics that evangelicals have embraced (I was a liberal when I went in, I sort of became a moderate, I am back to my old self), the theology that was prolonging my suffering, and other things, I had to suppress my bisexuality, I had to hide the fact that I had been and still am, a goth if you will, something they would not understand at all, having a higher education was being looked down upon, etc.
Ok, to cut this short, I detoxed from evangelicism, we finally found the right medications and treatment for me and I finally enjoy my life. I'm in love with life right now, and I can be who and what I am. And when I move to Bakersfield, I'll be attending the UU church! :)
Whoops, I apologize, Site Monitor, if that comment was too long! :)
I leaped from the Mormonism I was raised in to Witchcraft.
Ex-Catholic, here.
and raise you an ex Southern Baptist!
Oh yeah...I got outta that BS when I was 10.
and raise you an ex-tongue babbling Charismatic! :P
Just kidding! ;)
I'm glad to know I'm in such good company! :)
I'm SO glad you survived! May you enjoy a long life full of exploration and discovery, true friends and good health!
When I was about 8, I told my parents church (United) was a crock of shit and I wasn't going back. I never was a believer. (OK, I didn't say "crock of shit," but made it clear, "I was not impressed!!!!") That's the last time I entered a church, except for someone else's wedding. Even then, I find it slightly intolerable.
It's understandable that some people just don't like churches, and don't like religion, no matter their reason. I am pretty comfortable with it, but I can understand why some wouldn't like it all.
I do have to say that I don't dislike the people of my former church, a lot of them are wonderful people, but I believe the ones that are genuinely loving are misguided. But I can't wait to have a new spiritual environment with the Universalist church. :)
this to ya, but my maternal grandparents were married in the Mormon church. Back in the 50's, when my grandparents, mother, etc. traveled to Utah to pick crops, the missionaries were working to convert the migrant workers. My grandmother was pretty religious (Catholic) and liked being around the Mormons and such, but my grandparents as I said were Catholic, and my grandmother was a divorcee and couldn't remarry in the RCC, which meant she and my grandfather had three of their four kids together before getting married. When they arrived in Utah, the Mormons decided to fix that, lol. :)
"This clip shows Congressman John Shimkus’s (R-Ill) introductory remarks at a House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing last week."
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*facepalm*
"...so all y'all sick people flush your meds down the shitter, and lay down and die!"
"The truth shall set you free" no matter whom may claim rights too its origin.
PS. Please take Med's as directed, you know w/water or w/meal :-P Because you our responsible for you and it seems your doing very well I might add. :)
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You know, the teaching that Christians should be good stewards of what God has given them, including this planet. Some evangelicals, to their credit, are starting to get that, but there's still evangelicals who never will because why work with progressives toward a shared goal when you can use other aspects of your religion to beat them over the head with?
S-C-A-R-Y !!
professor william k. black of economics and law at the university of missouri alleged that American banks
and credit agencies CONSPIRED to create a system in which a so-called "liar loans" could receive AAA
ratings and Zero oversight, amounting to a massive "fraud" at the epicenter of US finance. Black was interviewed on PBS Bill Moyers Journal friday.
I'll have to watch it when I get a chance.
This a brilliant, revealing and scary interview.
He explains how our whole financial system has become a ponzi scheme.
The interview with Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman is also worth watching.
is to own one.
Surely great and disturbing interview, weird I got the tip from ******** (banned word, hah...sigh) and not here first.
Here it is for those of you lacking access to the pbs channel, like myself.
Iirc Obama during the campaign often spoke about sending a message to Wall Street, and with Geithner in charge I figure that message is 'don't worry, change will not reach you.'
heh!he!
Shouldn't that be either "Heh heh" or "Heehee!"? (Depending on the sound you made?)
From the NYPigDepartment on why they didn't act sooner on that INS shooting. Funny that they're willing to shoot first when it's a bum or a guy showing his wallet, but they pause when real lives are on the line.
...or if you're unarmed doing and alleged non-violent drug crime they may even beat and sodomized you. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man_Clai...
For first time in 18 years ban on mediea showing war dead coming home lifted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/medi...
Troops being supported and honored as fellow Americans can finally see their ultimate sacrifice. (get ready for Dick Cheney and the Combat Dodging Chickenhawk Conservatives to say we are emboldening the enemy) I always wondered with the constitutional "freedom of the press" how there could have ever been a ban in the first place. Seems the only constitutional freedom conservatives don't want to tamper with is the right of folks who shoot up other folks to keep their guns.
Bush and Cheney (probably just Cheney) instituted the ban in order to encourage the disconnection of the American people from the war(s). Out of sight, out of mind, y'know.
About one year ago, on December 13, 2007, two pillars of investment journalism, Barron's and the Wall Street Journal, fell prey to Rupert Murdoch's media monopoly when News Corporation purchased these two jewels and ended the Bancroft family's 105 years of ownership.
Why were not anti-trust laws enforced? Now, the Fox Newsification of these two publications is in full execution. What a shame.
One example: Karl Rove, a man who, in any society of justice, would be in jail, regularly bashes Obama in his weekly Wall Street Journal column.
As an investor, it saddens me that I cannot and will never subscribe to either Barron's or the Wall Street Journal. I refuse to have a single penny of my money going anywhere near the pockets of pigs like Murdoch and Rove.
Does anyone care about Woody Allen anymore?
Unfortunately I think his movies are no longer consistently good.
And his fascination with younger and younger ingenues has become downright creepy.
Still, I could, and have seen Hannah and Her Sisters, Annie Hall, Lies and Misdemeanors or Radio Days over and over again.
I did like Vicky Cristina Barcelona...quite entertaining.
I agree with Myra Flection's comment. But did you ever see "Broadway Danny Rose"? It was sensitive, poignant, hilariously funny in places, and his acting was so brilliant that it was almost invisible. Remember how tenderly Charlie Chaplin's camera treated his characters in, say, "City Lights," with that incredibly delicate touch? Allen does the same in "BDR." A treasure of filmmaking, IMHO.
Kim Newman
His, Anno Dracula, is the best vampire book since Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Funny thing is I think the best vampire movie I've ever seen technically wasn't a vampire movie, and that was Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Vampires were known, particularly in China, for eating human organs, specifically the heart and lungs. The Arabic ghul did the same to corpses, but also the unwary traveller.
"Let the right one in"
A Swedish vampire movie...pretty damn good actually...and would probably have been better with subtitles, instead of being dubbed in English...still worth watching though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7v6Dct6xu0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtR5ul7g4rk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2vt07XteDY
Rare stuff here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCuhR_SyH8k
Film noir style is the best.
But I gotta be in the mood...gimme a low budget zombie movie any day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gUKvmOEGCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGPkqiwnEI
And my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv_KZDl5CLw&fe...
Really, wasn't there a nearby shroud to quickly throw on? Shameless monsters!
Not a care in the world.
Here's something for both of y'all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_JnFXC6UA
What a shitty weekend.
How is everyone?
On the toilet.
as needed...
http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/archybo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxFtVk5hGA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRIypcaIX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI9tVXwT9eQ
Off the top of my head, remember Trilogy of Terror, three shorts staring Karen Black, by far my fav was the story about the voodoo doll terrorizing Ms Black in her apartment.
That was one of the first killer dolly stories. The ending stuck with me where she goes nuts.
Yeppers, She invites her nag of a mother over and waits for her with knife in hand and an evil grin on her face.
I seem to remember her sitting on the floor repeatedly stabbing it.
Have you ever seen the original Night Gallery? It was directed by Jacques Tournier who directed some of the classic Val Lewton movies like Cat People, The Leopard Man, I Walked With A Zombie, and without Lewton directed one of my favorites Night of the Demon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8GsnXxLh8&fe...
I've seen a few, One I remember was about a brooch a lady wore which was actually a monster that grew and eventually consumed her.
Another was about a painting of a house with grave yard in front. The lead (Roddy McDowell?) murdered a man and the painting changed to show the dead man's grave in the cemetary. The painting kept changing in steps to show that the corpse of the murdered man had risen from the grave to take revenge against his killer.
Stephen King wrote a short story called "The Road Virus Heads North" with a similar theme.
The one you described with Roddy McDowell was one of the vignettes in the Nigh Gallery premiere I was referring to.
... is available on Hulu.
http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=night...
(That URL should be all one line.)
Now that I think about it, she threw the doll into the oven to kill it. When she open the oven door the spirit of the doll possessed her. I seem to remember that her teeth became fanglike just like those of the doll.
Wow, I remember that. That doll scared the crap out of me; I think I had nightmares for weeks afterwards.
so !it seems even the companys who are involved in GREEN JOBS dont believe in barack obamas empty promisses of green jobs as cnn reports one company who makes solar pannels has closed and another company produceing electric produceing wind mills is laying off many of its workforce ! and thoes shovel ready jobs? will be delayed untill the next shipment of shovels from red china gets here and barack get thru jaw jacking in europe for more war in iraq afganistan and packistan, it seems giveing money to banks that dont need your money is more inportent !its good to be you!
Maybe woody allen ought to star in a vampire movie.
He already wrote a short story called Count Dracula where he thinks it's safe to come out after nightfall, but it turns out to be an eclipse.
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