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.

Stolen guns used in fatal Wash. shooting rampage
Zamora’s only comment in court when he was charged last Friday was to twice declare: “I kill for God. I listen to God.”

Keith Tyne, a public defender appointed to represent Zamora, has said little about the case. After Zamora was charged, Tyne said, “Clearly there are significant mental health issues at play.”

Insane

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq – Americas, World – The Independent
President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden’s stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.

Sane

Right?

umm… can someone explain that to me?

If it’s the President of the US killing thousands of people, it’s sane…

but if it is one guy killing half a dozen or more, then it’s insane…

If someone talks to god and god tells them to feed the poor, clothe the homeless and save the orphans… they are sane… also very nice, admittedly…

If someone talks to god and god tells them to build a survival camp in the mountains, kill all heathens, stockpile weapons and food, and fuck their own daughters to keep their gene pool pure… they are insane… despite the fact that all these were commands issued by “god” to various characters in the Bible…

can someone please tell me who decides this shit?

does someone write to the National Divinity Hearing Council to get certification on whether the voices you hear are actually from god or something? Do they get something they can frame or some kind of membership card?

why can people NOT see the irrational dichotomy here…?

psychologists, psychiatrists and psychological institutes and schools are the most cowardly group of human beings on this world… just come out and say that anyone who even thinks of saying they hear god is patently, certifiably fucking off their rockers and should be medicated, restrained and institutionalized long-term.

the average person is a coward as well, because no one with any sense believes that shit but they are too afraid of being chastised and/or shunned by their peers or society. OR, they go along for political or financial opportunism.

god freaks are just that… freaks… and should be treated as such.

“Also … we want to make sure our Russian colleagues understand that the days of overthrowing leaders by military means in Europe … are gone,” he [U.S. Ambassador to the UN - Zalmay Khalizad] said. Source: UPI

(I guess the US gets off the hook in the UN by qualifying/insinuating they mean only in Europe)

This guy is way nutso…

I love the quote:

“…get those spectators in the playing field or out of the Arena.”

now, I’m admittedly assuming, “spectators” means people who are not Scientologists or are Scientologists not going equally wacko as this lemon head.

“playing field” seems to imply the effort or converting everyone to this lunacy, since it IS the only way to be happy…

and then I am assuming, again, that “arena” is the whole fucking earth…

so, let’s translate from Scientology gobbledy-gook…

“…get those non-scientologists in to Scientology or off the earth…”

So… you know… I can sort of see why some German’s are comparing this nut and his video with Goebbels…

“(chuckle)I’m sorry but that how I really feel about it…”

doesn’t it make you non-scientologists feel a little bit Kosher all of a sudden…?

oh yeah… and that final bit… ;-)

“(laugh uproariously)There’s nothing part of the way for me…(laugh uproariously)…(knee slap)… it’s just… swoo!!!… (karate chop)!!”

The guys a fucking lunatic!! :-D

Way to go Joey… what a prize!!

HA!! hee hee

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

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.

The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher.

Source: New York Times

yeah… so…!

let’s say the US population is 350 million

1%, the rich, of that would be 3.5 million
20%, the poorest of the poor, would be 70 million

3.5 million people share $534.8 billion dollars
70 million people share $383.4 billion

I mean, if we average the income of a person in the 1% bracket we ONLY get ~$152800

wow… that doesn’t seem like much, does it…?

yes, a person can be quite comfortable living on $150K a year, couldn’t they… but I mean that’s not excessive or anything…

so, bully for the rich who aren’t really all that rich… and for shame on the detractors… for shame on the socialists and the anti-capitalists…

false-hoods, tilted facts, propaganda, fear mongering, greed and jealousy is rife in ALL their campaigns!!

I mean, even the poor are getting $383 BILLION dollars…

read it again!

BILLION

come on… EVERY American is rich!!

sheesh… that means on average a US citizen in the bottom 20% income demographic makes a whopping…

well, let’s see…

$383.4 billion divided by 70 million people would be…

umm…

errrr…

oh..

$5477

well…

that doesn’t mean anything!

I’m sure if you found out all the money THOSE people make selling drugs, selling their bodies and stealing from us, which DOESN’T go reported, they’d be much higher… probably higher than the 1%!!

and frankly… with people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the Google twins adding to the top 1% of income, I’m sure the total income made is substantially lower… they slew the data!

this doesn’t mean anything!

Statistics can be made to say anything

the New York Times is a liberal news paper with a Communist agenda anyway…

Fox News never covered this!!

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;-D  fucking capitalism!

A lot of wacko Canadians back this loon!!

quite funny really