Wonkette
- The auto bailout bill failed because Republicans hate unions, so now the Big Three will just have to lobby Hank Paulson for the pathetically small loans they need to avoid bankruptcy. [Bloomberg]
- The dollar fell below 90 yen for the first time in 13 years, and Asian automakers’ stocks fell also. [Forbes]
- Google Chrome is now available in growned-up, non-beta version, but there is still no version of the browser for Macs. [Los Angeles Times]
- Of course George Bush is monkeying with the Endangered Species Act right before he leaves office, because he hates walruses and frogs. [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Will a “lamentably nothing role” for debonair Jon Hamm be enough to save The Day the Earth Stood Still? The answer is no. [Boston Herald]
- Environmental News Shocker!!!: Population growth seems to contribute to global warming. [AP]
I don’t need no steenkin’ Google Chrome. I’m just waiting for WebTV to make a comeback, THEN I’m back, baby!
Also, George Bush doesn’t care about frog people, etc.
Keanu Reeves : serious dramatic tone of a film :: boiling water : snowman
Given that Keanu Reeves is incapable of acting the part of a human being, playing an alien is a natural fit.
Well on the plus side the GOP just cemented their losses for the next 25 years in Ohio and Michigan.
The Auto Industry Failout at least means that the days of Michigan and Ohio being swing states are over.
Oh, and did anyone notice that Maureen Dowd guest wrote David Brooks column?
I don’t know why the hedder invokes Canuckistani Beatles tribute trio Klaatu, but 33 years ago they advocated calling occupants of interplanetary craft [seconded by the Carpenters.] Had we listened to that advice then, we’d be driving magneto-pulse hovercars about now [patented by Dr. Marvello], oil companies would be a distant memory, and the Big Three would be run by Ewoks. Instead, we failed to heed that call and the Earth stood still.
3:47 EST. Nevah forget!
How bad IS it, Keanu?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1193610-day_the_earth_stood_still/
25%, ouch! You know you’re bad when Four Christmases has the same score. Still, at least it’s not as bad as this movie called “House”, a “Christian thriller” which is apparently in theatres right now and got a fucking 0% average.
Remaking The day the Earth Stood Still is like remaking Gone With the Wind. Most people are not going to be happy with it no matter how good it is. If you have ever been to a Sci Fi convention (not me of course cough, cough) these are people that you don’t want to piss off. If they actually get mad enough they might make eye contact or, worse yet, try to have a conversation with you.
The new “the Day” is some environmental BS- badly acted. The original film premise is still valid- we are violent and aggressive and pretty stupid(just remember the % who voted for Princess Sarah). I liked when the real Klaatu(Michael Rennie) told the president’s secretary(would that be Rahm?) that he wasn’t interested in our petty internal problems.
Klaatu Barada Crapo.
Note to Boston Herald dude: Madonna is box office poison, at least Jennifer can act (maybe not the best at picking movies) and I have still fond (naked) memories of her in the awful movie Hot Spot.
As per the study on Global Warming and Population Growth. For most folks with working logic neurons this is a pretty much a “duh.” However, the number of folks with working logic neurons is a small % of the human populace and studies like this need to be wielded like a bat to be thumped on the heads of the pro kid touching, anti-birth control, anti-abortion and anti-global warming crowd(s).
You bet there are too many people. To correct this I’ve been working on a disease that only kills stupid people. Tests so far show that it only gives Mormons a moderate case of pink eye. I’m working on it.
Formerly Preferred:
Hah! Jinx.
In six months, evil Dick Shelby and the rest of the union-busting coalition will be begging for bailout money for the Toyota and Hyundai plants shutting down because all their parts suppliers BKed.
Stupid fucking retards.
Another acting-impaired actor played an alien and — bango! — meet the governor of Collie-fornya. Roger Moore’s looking for alien roles right now, you betcha.
Monsieur Grumpe’: The world’s doing a pretty good job of weeding out the stupids now. They’re stupid enough to shop at Walmart, they get lead poisoning. They’re stupid enough to eat McDonald’s every day, they have massive heart attacks at 45. The only real thing the stupids have going for them is their no-contraception sex-ed policy, a dastardly invention that assures their children breed more. The ghost of Darwin neither wins nor loses, he just shrugs in frustration.
Will debonair Jon Hamm’s nothing role save the film or the world? No, and no.
He needs to be more threatening in the film and the world. Like the Reaganator saith, “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
You’ve really got to wonder whether the GOP has though this one through.
Keanu Reeves should play a couch in his next movie; he has about the requisite emotional range. At least I hope he introduces himself in the new movie as Klaatu “Klattuodore” Logan.
V572625694: If being a shitty actor and appearing as an alien increases your odds of a political career, Hayden Christensen is gonna be King of Canada or something for Star Wars Ep.3
Google Chrome beta was absolute shit. and
i hope TDTESS isnt as bad as the reviews its been getting. I kinda planned my weekend around it.
4tehlulz: “Stupid fucking retards.”
Watching Mitch McConnell through the impaired vision of my (please, please, please) temporarily paralyzed face has fucked up the Rainbow-striped-unicorn-cotton-candy high I’d been on since Hopey won. (Even as shitty as I feel, I see him on the teevee and just can’t believe Americans actually elected such a gifted individual).
Republicans are indeed stupid, fucking retards which is why they win seats in states where other stupid, fucking, retards vote the way their preacher says Jesus wants them to.
MathewBrooks: You should start de-planning and try to find an art film or a nice hobby instead. Even the 28% of the reviews that the weird Rotten Tomatoes metric considers “fresh” are tepid at best with their praise (and at least half of the “positive” reviews are actively negative).
DustBowlBlues:
Hey, don’t take it out on the preachers just because Jesus was a supply-sider.
Serolf Divad:
My god, you’re right! NASCAR!!! They’re gonna fucking kill NASCAR!!!
What will Bill Bob Jo and Jo Bob Bill gonna do now?
I think if NASCAR goes then the GOP is gonna regret their undying support for 2nd Amendment soon.
MathewBrooks: Slumdog Millionaire is a great film. Of course, some of the negative feelings in the film will be accentuated because of the murders and destruction in Mumbai- I saw it before that happened. And of course, there are the malls- you will see there the real essence of the problems our world faces- dumb people buying dumb crap.
Hahahahahaha suckit macs, walruses, and frogs!
Population growth seems to contribute to global warming.
It’s all the farting. And just wait until the methane-based explosion kills everyone in DC on Jan 20.
ManchuCandidate: Unfortunately for my family, a NASCAR-free Daytona would be no less of a redneck Mecca shithole. How can a beach suck so fucking bad?!? The dumb shit that can be achieved by the collective power of idiots with money is truly mind boggling.
>>What will Bill Bob Jo and Jo Bob Bill gonna do now?
They deserve to lose NASCAR for voting for idiots dedicated to keeping the proles’ standard of living as low as possible.
A One-Step solution. Let old people fuckin’ DIE! Don’t waste another cent to extend a lifespan beyond nature’s design. Over-population? Done. Social Security? Fixed. Health Care Crisis? Solved. Pension Plans? Sustainable. Stupid out-dated thinking? Fuckin’ outta here!
Having used the beta for a couple of months now, I can confirm that Google Chrome is in fact better than sex.
I’ve spent the last 2.5 days of my life editing a promo for TDTESS. I won’t be seeing it.
I just hope that someday the cousin sex industry or whatever it is they do down in Alabama needs a bailout, so that we can laugh in their faces. Who am I kidding, though? By then, there will be no laughter. Only silent anguish. But we can be silently anguished right to their faces.
Why did we fight so hard to keep that region as part of the country? We should have let them secede.
I believe there are fundamental macro economic issues that require government intervention. I’ve been thinking, and reading, a lot about the depression. While I think the big three are horribly run, we cannot let them go down; especially at this moment in the economy. The three million jobs everyone talks about are gone. It’s a matter of how those jobs are unwound. Irving Fisher’s Booms and Depressions, a masterpiece assessment of the depression, drives my belief. Fisher saw a death spiral of a liquidity trap, bankruptcies, and rising unemployment as a cataclysmic series of events that pushed the economy into a position where banks were hoarding money. (We are seeing this play out all over again. Bernanke, said, two weeks ago, that banks are sufficiently capitalized, and in some case over capitalized.) Once “bad news” was introduced into the marketplace, a wave of liquidation took place leading to a contraction in share price, and a contraction of “real” deposits. (Hedge Funds are performing this function now.) This lead to deflation. The consequence was a surge of bankruptcies that drove prices down. As more jobs were lost, prices declined and, as prices declined, the ability to get out of debt increased the overall indebtedness of consumers.
Fisher argued that the United States should have subsidized loans to employers to ensure that employment could be stabilized, until the United States got out of a breakdown in the monetary system. I think that this is the exact prescription that the US requires at this time. If the big three go into receivership, there will be a wave of bankruptcies that will create an extreme deflationary environment. We cannot let this happen.
Is Chrome really all that different from Firefox? I tried on my pc at work, and it seemed to be about the same.
What? Nothing about Bernard Madoff, the Blago of Wall Street? Except that the the guvnor’s measily bribes pale in comparison with Mad Bernie’s 50 billion Ponzi scheme. What the two have in common, however, is the absurd delusion that they could carry it off.
Servo: Soylent Green, anyone?
FMA: Soylent Green is the hot dog of cannibalism. I prefer to eat my people fresh off the grill.
2003: Bana as Banner.
2008: Keanu as Klaatu.
2013?
Naked Bunny with a Whip: It’s true; I’ve heard that they mix beef in there as filler.
Pace Ricardo Montalban for Chrysler:
http://sedulia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c82d353ef0105365409b3970b-pi
loganmo: Chrome doesn’t yet allow the Google toolbar. There’s a difference for ya!
Klaatu Barada… Necktie? Nixon?
Instead of Ted “Theodore” Logan, they should have put Bruce Campbell in the starring role.
p-Sludge ofTheElves: In 2013, Chris Farley’s brother (the one that starred, if I can use that term loosely, in An American Carol) and Shia LaBeouf in a remake of The Producers… not the original, but the shitty musical.
I’m entering an epic hangover at the moment and this fucking shit about the auto bailout is making me regret that last shot of Jamieson’s. Fuck that and fuck you.
That is all.
Servo: we could buy the entire crop of Afghanistani poppies to keep the oldsters comfortable in their old age. Solves global terrorism funding at the same time!
sati demise:
Comfortably Dumb.