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By bluegal Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 7:30pmThe opening to the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide, not as good as the BBC version, imo, but then this movie version had a bigger budget. It turns out** that's not always a good thing in entertainment.
**Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt: “Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression ‘it turns out’ to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It’s great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors ‘I read somewhere that...’ or the craven ‘they say that...’ because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it’s research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight.”
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Paulson the Plunderer and his secret meeting in Moscow.
and the people who got the maddof money.
Maddof is a pip squeak compared to these guys.
Paulson was setting up a heist of TRILLIONS.
Paulson the Plunderer and his June 2008 secret Goldman Sachs Board meeting in Moscow.
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a new book out today: Too Big To Fail
I wish he would have called it Too Big To Jail, but who knows maybe yet…
Felix Salmon here
Zero Masters here
Nick Baumann @ Mother Jones here
John Carney @ Business Insider here
almost every day, I am more proud to be called a 'conspiracy theorist', because every day, it seems, another little factoid gets uncovered that reveals all of the stinkin' LIES.
Paulson always has a look in his eyes like a scared rabbit. So, I'm thinking maybe if he gets called upon to 'testify' about these, shall we say, irregularities, he may just tell a little too much. Or, maybe he'll have a sudden myocardial infarction....
wow i hope there's more uncovering regarding this meeting in moscow. there's people who speak of a new world government and new currency........sometimes i wonder what's going on.
Talk of a world government is not based in any facts.
We have Trans National Corporations, the only government they want is one they can control.
Lots of people would like to replace the dollar, but no one will just do it alone.
As for Paulson this meeting violated his agreement not to have contact with his former employer, Goldman Sachs during his term. He got a waiver in September and that was bad enough.
Having the meeting in a Hotel Room in Moscow which was probably bugged is yet another matter.
Health reform opposition loses wind
Oct. 19: Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, joins Rachel Maddow to talk about the way Republican opposition to health reform has fallen apart and what that means for the final bill being assembled in Congress.
...and the book was better than the BBC television series. But, yes, bluegal, the BBC television series was better than the film...but the film wasn't bad.
Thus the law of diminishing returns....
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC tv series)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC radio series)
Thank You,Thank You,Thank You.
There are an infinite number of Chimpanzees with an infinite number of typewriters about to knock on your door to discuss alternative methods of expressing thanks to you for your kindness.
My suggestion would be to step out onto the porch rather than invite them in as it is late and some of the more distractible members of the group are a little slap happy and thus inclined to fling poo rather than engage in the discussion. However you can send them all away by suggesting an alternative ending to Hamlet..........uh.......I'm not sure if I made it clear enough for you..............
..................................................THANK YOU!!!
You're welcome? :D
Too funny!
*rimshot*
...probably should've been stretched to 2 hours. As it was, it may have been a little too breezy. The jokes about the 'Beware of the leopard' sign and Arthur's "We've met" to Zaphod were missed opportunities. The tour Slartibartfast gave was quite beautiful, though.
My opinion is probably fanboy-incorrect, but I liked it. And the story behind Life the Universe and Everything would make a decent movie.
I liked it, too. My son, 17(?) when the film came out, loved it, but he hadn't been exposed to the books or radio/tv series before hand. Now that he's read the books, he's a bit more critical of the film, but not to the point where he dislikes it. Like you, I and a whole bunch of people with whom I've discussed the film, the kid sees the missed opportunities in the film.
It really was like the first book, which was a lot of set pieces strung together and held together by the characters who were done well. Especially Marvin.
And again, the third book almost begs for a film treatment, being an actual story instead of a series of skits. Hint to a would be writer - Wowbagger as a running gag would be hilarious.
i'm a big mos def fan, i thought he was great. plenty of great gags; stephen fry as the voice of the book was inspired. especially great was the cameo by the 80's marvin the robot (from the bbc series) in the unemployment line on the alien planet.
After seeing the giant Nokia floating in space, I have no interest in seeing the movie.
No matter what version you know (except for the movie which blew chunks)this was one of the funniest, most cutting social commentaries of all time...........get over it man-kind!
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regarding the failed attempt to regulate the "over the counter derivatives" during the Clinton Administration?
The scary part about the show is that Obama has two of the big Wall Street player boyz who were in on the fight to STOP THE REGULATION OF THE DERIVATIVES on his team now...Lawrence Summers is now his chief economic adviser and Timothy Geithner is the head of Treasury.
And of course, to this moment, the banking lobby in D.C. (said to be the biggest of all) is making sure that the markets stay unregulated.
Will we let them rob the Treasury again and again and again?
What gives???
Chess game!
First come the pawns and their sacrifices can look ugly, but they have a reason.
To imply that the pope of hope would install crooked people in such high places. Sheesh. I mean, these geniuses bought the market near the bottom and have made Americans 17% ROI on their involuntary investment. Some may call that a disingenuous lie, but others may call it mission accomplished.
The new rating agency regulation bill is full of loop holes.
Reuters here
Felix Salmon here
McClatchy here
And the previous McClatchy piece on the previous fraudulent doings of the Rating Shamsters here
And see above revelations on Paulson the Plunderer. Also his call logs from September here where he is talking to Obama and Geithner more than Bush and McCain.
Government Sachs through and through.
whatever bill (regulations) finally get passed, it will still just be the foxes changing the combination to the locks on the hen house.
The corruption runs so deep through every facet of the financial and governmental systems - which are all so amazingly huge and complicated - there's no way a little 'tweaking' is gonna' change much. The fraudsters will just invent a new way to eat us chickens alive..!!
We the chickens!
What do any of your comments have to do with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The movie version sucked!! Bigjobs!!!
means Open thread. Comments don't have to have anything to do with the topic of the thread
You owe me a Coke!
andy K)
:D
Clint Eastwood sat next to the writer of Fatal Attraction at the movies premiere, and supposedly at one point turned and said, "Hey, this is Play Misty For Me. You owe me a Coke."
Means you needn't address the blogger's post.
I like the TV version better too, especially the blonde.
However, I thought Alan Rickman was great as the voice of the robot.
read the New Hitchhiker's Book?
It was just released last week.
And Another Thing....by Eoin Colfer
The strongest argument against big movie budgets is Michael Bay. Someone needs to take his toys away until he grows up.
Posted Oct 20, 2009 09:00am EDT by Peter Gorenstein in Investing, Newsmakers, Recession, Banking
Related: TLT, TBT, UDN, UUP, DIA, SPY, EEM
The weakening dollar is dying a slow death.
"It's clear where we're headed," says Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money. "Ten years from now there will be more than one international reserve currency," he tells Tech Ticker.
Ferguson dismisses the dollar loyalists, citing the British pound – the last international reserve currency - as his example. "These things don't last forever" but don't expect it to happen overnight. "It's a long multi-decade process," he states. Even with the dollar near a 14-month low against the Euro, he claims it's not without historical precedence for the greenback to lose "another 20%" this year.
For international investors the loss is enough to offset this year's stock market gains. Not exactly great motivation for foreigners to keep buying the almighty dollar.
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/...
I have a friend who is a good liberal, although she doesn't keep up with political news daily. Today she sends me an email directing me to Congressman John Fleming's (R-LA) website to sign a petition to support H.R. 3400. The email also stated that Tom Coburn (R-OK) was also a supporter of this bill. I know that my friend doesn't know the first thing about Tom Coburn, so that didn't raise any alarm's with her, but I know that anything with his support could not in any way be progressive. But I wanted to go out on the web and find some real information about this bill, so that I could educate myself and my friend. After searching Google, and then several progressive blogs that I trust - I came to realize that progressive writers have ignored this bill. I have no doubt, that whatever might be in this bill is probably garbage, but I have to say that I'm disappointed that this hasn't been covered in the media I trust. Just looking for more info.
Houses are expected to lose even more value soon. FedEx might be sued for violating labor laws. Geithner is suddenly asking the rest of us to live within our means. Gates says to hell with democracy in Afghanistan, and that he doesn't care what the Japanese think about us continuing to occupy Okinawa. One of the last Republicans who genuinely cared passed away. A watchdog thinks the bail-out created public distrust, for some reason. Colleges continue to shake down students for tuition, thus continuing to fuel the higher education bubble. Barry swears we'll leave Iraq-honest. The Senate finally lets detainees have their day in court. Congress thinks an insurance age discrimination tax is fine and dandy. Will Barry water down your right to sue for malpractice?
The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. By Michael Lind
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcA-ChaGdYw
Funny, comparing the chyrons on the networks, CNN, MSNBC run "Terror suspect arrested..." Fux runs "Mehanna arrested...",
as if we all know who he isbecause he sounds like a ferriner...ITOT
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http://intershame.com/on/Pat_Buchanan/
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