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so… big business is going to be saved…

with all kinds of caveats to “satisfy” the voter…

wouldn’t “pacify” be a better word…?

In 1993 the US, after months of wrangling, defeated the Clinton Health Care Plan (pseudo universal health care) that would have cost the American’s MAYBE 400 billion dollars over 10 years.

In one week in 2008 the American government will hand 700 billion dollars over to big business.

700 billion dollars to keep CEOs in their yachts and investors in their Lambourginis…

Are American dirt farmers going to be bailed out when they can’t pay their loans?

Will Mom & Pop stores be bailed out when Wal-Mart opens next to them?

When little Johnny, 4 year old son of an inner city single black woman, needs immediate and expensive health care to live, will he be saved? Will his mother be “bailed-out”?

If no one as yet has seen why or how the US is completely fucked up, then they have now… or they will never see because they don’t want to.

like any book that I grew to enjoy and then was made into a movie I was disappointed.

the attempts by Vincent Price (”The Last Man on Earth“) and Charlton Heston (”The Omega Man“) were bad, but never used the title of the book for the title of the movie, so I had hoped that by using the same title there would be an attempt to be faithful to the book…

No such luck.

I can always excuse some changes, things done to expedite the storyline to be compacted into a 1.5 hour visual experience, but I can never get over changes that fundamentally change the nature and intent of the original work.

I’ll give just one example, and that will be enough.

“I am Legend”

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Movie

Neville in the movie never uses that phrase for himself, but the character of Anna describes him as such. She is a refugee, guided by god, from the virus and after meeting with Neville escapes to a safe refuge in New England thanks to the final sacrifice of Neville; which was, of course, inspired by a message from god. He’s a legend because he stuck it out in New York and eventually came up with the cure that saved humanity.

Book

Neville is captured by infectees that have retained some of their humanity and have started to create a new society. Neville’s humanity and continued attacks on the infected, including the more “human” ones, brings him to their attention and enmity. Anna in the book is one of the “societal” infected and meets with Neville to spy on him. The new society eventually captures Neville to execute him. While imprisoned Neville realizes that he is now the last human on earth and is a dinosaur. Once he’s killed he and humanity will only be something talked about in the new world as a myth, as a legend. Hence he himself realizes, “I am Legend”.

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So… I am sure the people who made the new movie had something to say…

I don’t like reading too many messages into movies… no pun intended, but I read for that… movies are for stupid entertainment… though that being said, I do tend to like movies with a message… kinda counter reasoning, eh? oh well…

but, that being said, it pisses me off that anyone will take the message from someone else’s work, throw it aside and use the framework to act as a vehicle for their own message.

It does an amazing disservice to the original creator.

If they wanted to get a message across, that’s awesome… but come up with something semi-original…

It’s not like the idea of a massive viral infection leading to vampirism, zombies or rabid mutants hasn’t been done a million times… from Stephen King’s “The Stand” to the “Resident Evil” video game and movie series…

I’m sure no copyright lawyers would have jumped on these guys if they did something similar to get their message across… whatever it was… if there actually was one besides having faith in god to fix everything… :-(

it was a visually ok movie… but the mutants/infectees were too CGI’d and retained none of the humanity that was in the book… like the attempts by infected females to hyper-sexually seduce Neville or of his neighbour constantly calling for him to come out… in the movie they were just animals…

though that was likely an attempt to minimize the impact on sensitive American viewers of Neville killing hundreds in cruel painful half-assed experiments.. if they aren’t human anymore, why feel any moral outrage…

I mean… no American could be a Mengele could they… especially not Will Smith…  ;-)

bah

Source: Orcinus

A lot of wacko Canadians back this loon!!

quite funny really

One hopeful US Republican pres. candidate signed this ad in a 1998 USA Today paper… Mike Huckabee…  :-D

“god bless America!” Where shit and pond scum is free to walk and talk!  :-D

The SBC family stance was adopted at the June SBC annual meeting in Salt Lake City as a new article to the convention’s 1963 Baptist Faith and Message confessional statement.

The SBC article describes marriage as “the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime.” It also notes, “The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. … A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. … A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.”

The evangelical leaders’ USA Today ad states to the Southern Baptist Convention:

“You are right because you recognized that the family was God’s idea, not man’s, and that marriage is a covenant between one man and one woman for a lifetime.

“You are right because you called husbands to sacrificially love and lead their wives.

“You are right because you called wives to graciously submit to their husband’s sacrificial leadership.

“You are right because you affirmed that the husband and wife are of equal worth before God.

“You are right because you reminded us that children are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.

“More importantly, you are right because your statement is based on biblical truth.”

Source: Baptist Press

fucking honkies!  ;-)

(I may be white, what else can I call them?)

Gold shit

I hate fucking Americans and the people of the world that pander to this kind of obscenity…

fucking sick, sick, sick mother-fuckers!

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

- George Washington (1796 Farewell Address)

Source: Yale University Law School

apparently the US was responsible for the Hindenburg airship disaster, albeit indirectly…

The Hindenburg was originally intended to be filled with helium. Most of the world’s supply of helium comes from underground fields in the United States, but the United States had imposed a military embargo on helium. Eckener expected this ban to be lifted and modified the design to have double gas cells (an inner hydrogen cell protected by an outer helium cell).

Source: Wikipedia

UN Urges US to End Cuba Embargo
By EDITH M. LEDERER

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted for the 16th straight year Tuesday to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its “brutal economic war” to new heights.

The 192-member world body approved a resolution calling for the 46-year-old U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba to be repealed as soon as possible.

“The blockade had never been enforced with such viciousness as over the last year,” Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told the assembly, accusing President Bush’s administration of adopting “new measures bordering on madness and fanaticism” that have hurt Cuba and interfered in its relations with at least 30 countries.

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Source: Associated Press via Google

Adam Sandler votes fucking Republican

well… at least funds them…

Source:Huffington Post

Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 9, 2007; Page A03

Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. “I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects.”

Source: Washington Post

scary shit!

especially when you tack in this little blurb:

That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at political events in Washington and New York.