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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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At least, of the "Nightmare" series.
If I may digress, overall, I & II were the best. III was ... ok.
The "New Nightmare" was strange.
But, the opening dream sequence in II, with Freddy driving the school bus, is really terrifying.
After that scene, Freddy is a only a subtle presence until almost a third of the way through the movie - probably the least campy performance by Robert Englund of all of his "Freddy" portrayals.
And, you can tell this series started in the eighties - FK was originally a child molester, who became a child murderer after #1 (he was never called a molester again).
Guess it's hard to sell posters and t-shirts and whatnot to kids when there's a molester on the front, but a murderer, that's ok...
you don't elect a president based on fiction, you do it based on fact.
like we did with Bush?
Oscar's real name was Emilio?
Not to explain a joke, but it's as if HOLLYWOOD had invented the WPA, capische?
PS: I like it when Carol stars in her own cartoons!
or that online news sites continually exploit these types of sensationalist stories for page views and ad revenue?
so, hopefully I can pick up a Kuro on the cheap in about a year.
one man's flop is another man's treasure..
actually, if we recalled our military forces worldwide and reduced spending to only what would be required to police our borders, we'd be the richest nation in the world and all of our financial problems would be solved.
keep in mind that the USA spends more on military support than the rest of the planet combined.
so, it is as Eisenhower warned (way back around the time when I was first born), that the biggest threat to America's freedom is the military-industrial-scientific complex.
turns out he was right after all... and he was a republican, go figure. don't expect much from Obama on this, he's falling into the same Afghanistan trap as the soviet union, and look what happened to them as a result.
bring all troops home. close all overseas bases. beef up border security. redeploy troops for border control. balance the budget. problem solved.
US military expenditures exceed that of all other nations of the world combined. this is insane.
Given the CIA's long history in interfering in Iran's governmental affairs, it's kind of unfair to pin the ultimate blame of our poor relations with that country on Carter.
Yes, the hostage rescue was a big mess, but we were screwing around with Iran since 1952:
Britain, resentful of the nationalization of Iran's oil industry, came up with the idea for a coup in 1952 and pressed the U.S. to mount a joint operation to remove the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and install the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to rule Iran autocratically.
Partially due to fear of a Communist overthrow due to increasing influence of the Communist Tudeh party, and partly to gain control of a larger share of Iranian oil supplies, the US agreed.
Brigadier General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. and CIA guru Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. were ordered to begin a covert operation to overthrow Mossadegh.
A complex plot, codenamed Operation Ajax, was conceived and executed from the US Embassy in Tehran.
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran
that "undisclosed location" was a coffin with native soil from Wyoming...
There was no revolution after eight years of abuse and destruction by a Republican administration and their Democratic acquiesceors.
Therefore, I think it's pretty certain that everyone will behave like the proverbial frog in the slowly boiling pot: no one will make a move before being boiled alive, metaphorically speaking.
assign it to a commission for study. look at all of the monuments to commissions around the world! oh, wait, there aren't any...
i mean, he looks and sounds like a squealing hillbilly pig...
calling George Romero...
for things like kitchen towels and toilet paper, but someone explain why the recycled forms cost so much more for so much less product?
I mean, you go to Whale Foods and the tiny recycled toilet paper and kitchen towels are high priced and low quantity.
I want to do all I can to preserve old growth, but I also need to preserve my "whole paycheck", and green TP doesn't cut it.
Same goes for the "recycled" aluminum foil - it's outrageously expensive and it's f**king RECYCLED! It should cost LESS.
environmentalism + marketing = ripoff
I wanted a "Pius", but the Corolla was a better deal for the money, and I get about 38MPG in it.
Electric cars will be practical soon, but this whole TP issue was a red herring raised by Greenpiece to drive donation $$$s.
...when their owners decide to distribute them digitally.
Why cant I receive a PDF version of my local paper? - Not that awful DRMed "Newsroom.com" thing, but a real PDF file.
Newspapers are so ephemeral that by the time someone pirates them, they're out of date.
It is the shortsightedness of the big publishers that is killing newspapers. The Rocky Mountain News just went belly up here in Denver, and if they had at least tried a digital-only distribution model before shutting down completely, they would have eliminated 70% of their cost structure.
The much ballyhooed "digital paper", which works like a Amazon Kindle with the same wireless distribution but as thin as a sheet of paper and is dynamically updated, is indeed just around the corner, and the publications which survive until this is viable will thrive in the future.
_____________________ (fill in the blank).
How about "asshole"...?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
