I think the Buckaroo Banzai guys oughtta sue, and don't miss the best movie review ever [for Crank 2] by Paul Constant at The Stranger. One of the more mild passages:
"It's like if Michael Bay and John Waters had breakup sex and made a little ADD baby who hated humanity. Awesome!"
h/t Sparkle Pony. Open thread below...
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Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
VERY AFRAID
LOL
thanks for putting up with my shenanigans on the "open thread" this mornin'.
my last zinger was gonna be:
"tyree"? what race is that? sleestack, from "the land of the lost"? "morlock", from the tunnels beneath?
but what's in a name, anyhow?
no problem baur but i thought the morlocks were from the time machine !
Arlen Specter, the newly minted Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania, let his hair down in a freewheeling press conference at the U.S. Senate today, making this comment about his former Republican colleagues: "Now I can say it: what a bunch of fucking assholes!"
Mr. Specter had a bounce in his step and lilt in his voice as he tore into members of his former party in a press appearance that appeared to set records with its body count.
"This is something I've wanted to say for years: is there a bigger dick on this planet than Mitch McConnell?" he said. "I know he thinks he's doing his job, but please, what a fucking turd."
Observers who are accustomed to the much-ballyhooed collegiality of the Senate were taken aback by the jaw-dropping profanity of Sen. Specter's parting shots, many of which were breathtaking in their anatomical crudeness.
"He must've had a lot of rage bottled up over the years," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). "Suddenly he was talking like a Somali pirate."
While Mr. Specter's tirade had many high points - or low points, depending on one's party affiliation - he reserved some of his harshest words for House Minority whip Eric Cantor: "Eric fucking Cantor? Please. That douche can kiss my goddamn stimulus package."
(OK. I stole it from 23/6, over at HuffPo, but thought you might enjoy the read.)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
there's no good to come from this.
Some stuff you can't make up!
fritz bauer
haven't seen any crank flicks, but mrs. skippy and i never miss opening weekend for a transporter movie.
A little over the top, but slick and funny.
What a stupid movie. He has to charge a battery pack so his new artificial heart will keep pumping while he looks for the bad guys who have his heart. Along the way he finds all these "EXTREME !!" ways to get powered up: touching high voltage lines (which would kill you), getting shocked with defibrilators, Stun guns, etc. Then he gets a charge by rubbing against an old woman for static electricity. Yes, static electricity. OK if that works, then why connect a car battery to your nads? Just get some footed pajamas and hunt the bad guys at your leisure! If the stun gun works, buy one and use it as needed and stop looking for EXTREME powerups. It insults the viewers intelligence so much that I almost get angry every time I see the commercial. "OMG I gotta juice up, let's see, I could stick my tongue in this light socket, or I could rub a balloon against my hair....lets try the light socket!!"
if ya look at it logically...GEEEEZ!
Like I said...a BIT over the top.
a BIT over the top I can handle. Granted you have to give up some degree of logic and just enjoy the ride, but STATIC ELECTRICITY? When you go there the movie is over, give the guy some cordoroy (sp?) slacks or wire him to one of those flashlights that you shake to charge. There is no effing point to licking a high voltage tower if STATIC ELECTRICY will keep him alive. I think I have to watch it now, I am having too much fun making fun of it. 8-)
Sometimes ya just gotta go with it, and just enjoy the ride.
It helps if you have a few (insert poison of choice here) before watching such movies.
And yeah...I'm gonna wait for the DVD, I wouldn't spend money at a theater on a movie like this, lol!
are whipping the Spurs butts.
made a spectacle of himself at the spectacular news conference he had about his specter of switching.
A YouTuber says: "Obama is doing so badly that the entire country really hate him more than any president before ...... "
Could it be a 19%-er???
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Michael Savage program.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
That-a-boy Bernanke, were so looking forward to double digit inflation. Hey borrowing got us here, if we borrow enough, we'll bust on through to the other side!
FLMAO! Good luck with that.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Planet 10
WHEN?
real soon!!!
Good luck indeed.
dear lord,
if ever you've perused these threads, and wondered who this annoying, ugly little bullfrog was, poking fun at your honourable family name at every opportunity, tonight the mystery shall be revealed.
the proverbial "bewitching hour" is upon us, at least according to my cuckoo clock.
tonight, i shall reveal to you my name is:
karl oliver bauer
(a.k.a. "the mad baron of the internets' tubes")
that's correct, mein freund.
MY BLOOD IS THINE OWN.
may you have a wonderful may day.
If you run a blog then post these on your blog.
http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_c...
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http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_t...
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NO.
The audio levels on C&L's flash player are not high enough, I can't hardly hear the videos at all on my laptop while driving my giant v8 cargo van around.
For real, the recording needs bumped up about a 1/3.
Ohio study finds conservatives believe that Stephen Colbert dislikes liberalism
By John Amato Tuesday Apr 28, 2009 4:30pm
The audio level on that one is just fine, but the bit rate...lol
..is my mantra
What're ya? A moran?
;)
Hillary lied about Iraq. Scum-Mart nearly refused to pay a kid who got rocks in his DS box. Another Bush "success" story. A U.S. marshal leaks info to the mob. Think they'll hold it against him the way they held the revealed torture documents against Obama? Iran lies about the condition of our journalist hostage. Credit card company abuses the feds want to curtail. SCOTUS hates freedom of speech. Sixteen brave Dems ask Obama for an independent investigation of torture. Barry's pick for teacher of the year. He also wants to get banks out of the college loan business. Businesses see savings in global warming regulations. Employers use a potentially improved market to lay off more people. Safety lapses led to the Bayer plant expplosion.
The Army's finally going after recruit suicides. Anyone up for salmonella-flavored alfalfa sprouts? The IRS wants to go after other illegal overseas tax shelters. The GOP only wants the CIA to release torture documents to pin the blame on the Dems. Sebelius gets confirmed. Five Americans are hospitalized by swine flu, while the CDC acting director expects deaths to emerge from the virus. The production of the Fallujah game gets halted.
I just got home from work and heard that Specter has switched parties! When did this happen?
Just before you went to work.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
..and you missed Specter saying the "Single Bullet Theory" was a lie. ;)
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
"Laugh-a while-a you can, monkey boy!!"
...that my friend Ed Smith and I were the only two people in the theater the night Buckaroo Banzai opened back in '83. What a great film!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Ran across this comment on threedonia looking for whether or not Penn. had an open primary.
I think he may yet reverse course on card check given enough face saving opportunity i.e. "changes" in the bill.
From what I understand Penn. is not an open primary state.
From The A.V. Club:
Note the comment from a gentleman you could consider The Arbiter of All That Owns, a certain ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER:
I really need to see this flick. Really.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
It's pretty darn good.
But, Stewart had on Cliff May tonight on TDS to discuss torture. They edited the interview on air, but here is the unedited version:
http://blog.indecisionforever.com/2009/04/29/...
"Home is for where you wear your hat . . . I feel a so broke up, I wanna go home!"
One of Lithgow's best roles ever - Whorfin rules.
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http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&...
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Something to think about:
About 30,000 to 40,000 deaths occur due to the flu each year in the United States. That number could equate to 300,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. The majority of flu-related deaths occur in people over the age of 65.
Fast Facts:
About five to twenty percent of the US population gets the flu each year.
About 92 childrendie each year from the flu.
Influenza was listed as the seventh biggest cause of death during the years 1999 and 2000.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Can we join Olberman in taunting Hannity to get water boarded? I can't do any way close to $1,000 a second, but I'd sure do $5.00. Enough pledges and maybe we could move this from MSNBC and on to the rest of the media. Maybe Hannity would do something he's never done before...think before he opens his yap.
now we're having fun. teh closeted boys are going to cry now there, Georgie Porgie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgESXQccWi8
New York City-sized ice collapses off Antarctica - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090428/sc_nm/us_...
Based on European Space Agency satellite images, a German glaciologist reports that 270.3 square miles of the northern ice front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf broke into a mass of icebergs. This event is linked to global warming. Countries with territory in the Arctic are scheduled to meet in Norway to discuss the impact of melting ice in the north.
Climate change hitting entire Arctic ecosystem - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/ap...
In the past four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined sharply, surface waters in the Arctic ocean have warmed and permafrost is in some areas rapidly thawing. In addition, says the report released today at a Norwegian government seminar, plants and trees are growing more vigorously, snow cover is decreasing 1-2% a year and glaciers are shrinking.
I suggest that we have all Deniers/Extinctionists/'Skeptics'/right wingnut con-servatives proceed to have their mouths taped to their car's running tailpipes for 5 minutes per day...then they can tell us if C02 is 'not harmful'....
How Building “Green” Is Creating New Jobs, Cutting Costs and Increasing Students’ Scores - http://texasviking.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-b...
Clinton Says U.S. Is Ready to Lead on Climate - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/ear...
Specter switches to Democratic Party: Supermajority One Franken Away - http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Norm Coleman's lack of shame only thing between Democrats and filibuster-proof Senate
The U.S. Senate voted 65 to 31 Tuesday to confirm former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as the health and human services secretary. She's fantastic -- and even a few Repubs came to their senses
- http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/28/Senate...
Bob Herbert: Workers Walk the Plank -- "I'm sure everyone is thrilled to know that the high rollers on Wall Street are bouncing back... The growing legions of the unemployed can be forgiven for not shouting hallelujah."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/opinion/28h...
Democracy under Attack in Florida - http://www.opednews.com/articles/Democracy-un...
We haven't had democracy in Georgia since Diebold began 'counting' the votes....2002....
A Tapestry of Lies: The U.S. Has Supported Every Right Wing Military Dictatorship in the World Since World War II
- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?contex...
Happy Equal Pay Day! Government Study Finds Discrimination Persists - http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/655
Andy Ostroy: What Obama's Done for America's Confidence - http://ostroyreport.blogspot.com/2009/04/what...
Looking at the first 100 days: Obama's critics can bark as loudly as they wish and continue playing the partisan rhetoric game, but the simple truth is that his first 100 days have achieved major progress in turning around the economy, restoring consumer confidence, and curbing the hemorrhaging in both the banking and housing crises. Not bad for 100 days..
Howard Zinn on Investigating 9/11- http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
Rep. Jan Schakowsky May Seek Obama's Senate Seat. Jan's a Progresive's Progressive. - http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stoneciphe...
Recent polling suggests that the popular and liberal Congresswoman from Illinois' 9th District may have fewer hurdles in a statewide run for Senate than previously thought. She recently sent a letter to supporters explaining that it is "gut check" time for her and that she'll announce whether or not she'll run on June 8th.
FURTHER PROOF (they are STILL idiots): Study finds conservative viewers of Stephen Colbert's comedy show think he's on their side - http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/column...
They're not capable of understanding the human condition, hence humor & satire are lost on them...
Sen. Patrick Leahy continues to push for an investigation of the Bush administration's interrogation policy.
- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/217...
Senior FBI agents stationed in Iraq in 2004 alleged in an e-mail that President George W. Bush signed an executive order approving the use of dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees.
- http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/868.html?tas...
The Green Report from the BradBlog - http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7103
Foreclosure Prevention Plan Expanded to 2nd Mortgages - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Any Teabaggers...need not apply...you don't need no stinking government...eh?
In George W. Bush's own words, we should investigate and prosecute all acts of torture -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/734
What Arlen Specter's move yesterday means for the GOP of tomorrow - http://blog.buzzflash.com/carpenter/375
Nissan to bring EV network to Seattle - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-28-04-nissa...
What Scientists Have to Say About 'Global Cooling' - http://www.desmogblog.com/what-science-has-sa...
They conclude by stating the obvious: though the natural variability of the climate will likely produce several more periods of slight cooling or no change, the overall trend is one of significant, and sustained, warming.
“Claims that a global warming is not occurring that are derived from a cooling observed over such short time periods ignore this natural variability and are misleading.”
Exposing ExxonMobil's Climate Change Doublespeak [video] - http://www.desmogblog.com/exposing-exxonmobil...
Ford Fusion Hybrid Gets 81.5 MPG in Hypermiling Challenge - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/ford-...
1,445.7 Miles on One Tank of Gas..... The results were pretty impressive, though not quite the 124 MPG that the Honda Insight got in a different hypermiling challenge, but the Fusion hybrid is much bigger and heavier, and I'm not sure if the Insight did city driving.
Article also has tips on improving mileage in your current vehicle...
Cool Interactive US Wind, Solar & Biomass Power Potential Map Released by NRDC - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/cool-...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
A Victim of War Crimes Perpetrated by His Fellow Americans
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04242009....
to bring it up again, just more than an honorable mention tho
http://crooksandliars.com/2006/10/18/countdow...
http://www.esquire.com/features/the-state-of-...
KBR Sued In Over Waste Disposal In Iraq, Afghanistan
By Braden Reddall, Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO -- KBR Inc was sued on Tuesday in three states on accusations that the company exposed U.S. soldiers and contractors at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan to toxic smoke, court documents showed.
KBR, an engineering and construction company that also manages military logistics, was paid by the U.S. government to dispose of waste on the bases, according to the complaints filed on behalf of soldiers who had been deployed in the two countries.
Oilfield services company Halliburton Co, which spun off KBR two years ago, was also named as a defendant in the lawsuits, being brought by law firm Burke O'Neil LLC.
The lawsuits, filed in Georgia, Alabama and Illinois, accused KBR of failing to properly dispose of waste which led to prolonged exposure to hazardous smoke, fumes and ash.
"These exposures are causing a host of serious diseases, increased risk of serious diseases in the future, death and increased risk of death," the complaints in all three states said.
Burke O'Neil said in a statement that similar actions were being filed in California, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, and Wyoming.
The law firm said in the statement that the actions were on behalf of at least 20 current and former military personnel, private contractors, and families of two men who allegedly died due to exposure to the smoke.
KBR said it had not reviewed the complaints and therefore could not comment on the specific allegations.
"The general assertion, however, that KBR knowingly harmed soldiers or contractors is unfounded," the company said in an emailed statement. "The safety and security of all employees and those the company serves remains KBR's top priority."
Story here.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I work with this guy who loves to boast that the fall of the wall was because of Reagan. He always says," Hey, it happened on his watch. So he gets credit for it."
Now, I give credit to all of the presidents who were in office from the beginning of all that. I won't give it to any one president. I also give credit to the Beatles. But that's just me.
I've heard that remark so often that it happened on Reagans watch so many times, that I stopped questioning it and just assumed it was correct. Nope.
It came down on GHWB's watch.
2 things.
I feel stupid for believing this and for not questioning it.And for not doing some research to find out the facts. And for not remembering.
2nd.
I gonna love telling them this. I'm gonna have a great day doing this to them today. :)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
From reddit...I wonder why...
It's a 1976 Swine Flu propaganda...I mean PSA...
Check it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASibLqwVbsk
I dreamed I was hangin out with Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, her husband, and her sister (I guess) and her hubby...we were at some tiki bar, and talkin about nothin in particular, next thing I know...they're getting on their fancy boat, that's built all kindsa wrong, and it capsizes, and they swim back to bar, seemingly unfazed by their misfortune...then and here comes the weird part, I went to the crapper, and Wasserman-Shultz is waitin outside...and this bathroom is NASTY too...like the one in Trainspotting, and as I'm finishing up, these two GIANT rats bust outta the wall right next to where I'm doin my bidness...and then I wake up....
What in the hell kinda stupid dream is that?
OK...let the ribbing begin.
No. But I have dreams every night. If I come here before bed they're usually bad ones. Like about the US Empire/killing machine.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/28/hot-s...
Yeah yeah...it's a poll from Andrew Sullivan...so what...just doit!
thought of C & L while it was happening! :)
I was in the middle of stringing a Swarovski pearl bracelet, and my two troublemaking little dogs were rambunctious and wanting attention, so my tray of loose pearls was endangered. I immediately thought this would be fun to mention in Open Thread. ;)
I think for my own little corner of the blogosphere it would be fun to write an essay about defending pearls from the ilk of Barbara Bush, and all those Repub women who give pearls a bad reputation. There was one lipstick feminist blog I read who had a great piece during the election about reclaiming lipstick from Sarah Palin's clutches.
Anyway, good morning all, I'll be here and there today! :)
I've never seen change without a fire
On the Queen Mother they were charming and graceful.
On Babs they're a cheesy front for a ruthless moll. (She's just awful and so phony.)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
my guess would be that they are out selling thier blood so as to obtain moneys for the next election , as has been stated by the more them easily led goobers who still believe obamas anything more the a repig lite tool of the corporations , the money will be spent buying specters votes and going for his re election in the next farse called democracy, as obama gets most of his election funds from the lobbiests he wont need these goobers moneys, war is this nations product now, it is under obama the largest employer in america , and as fewer real jobs are produced the militarys ranks will continue to swell, it will be the finest military that the country that realy owns america , the isralies has ever fielded for its subjugation of the mid east, our arsenals of cluster bombs , white phosperous . and bioligical weapons are openly shipped to the most vicious bunch of warmongers anywhere besides the united states, thier is no difference between the repigs and the dummycrats except encriments of change and glimmers of hope!
Corporate Media is trying to whitewash torture with this pig flu nonsense. What other explanation for the total change of subject in trash tv? Mainstream media for growing numbers of Americans is the internet, thank goodness.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I found this long gem of a movie review last year, a true howler dealing with a typical idiocy-inducing effort from the always execrable Steven Seagal
Half Past Dead
I was also lucky enough to have a friend in Germany when the Berlin wall came tumbling down, he brought me back a piece which is now framed.
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