Bad news for DC fans: Warner Bros. is canceling all future DC animated films because, apparently, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern: First Flight didn't do as well as they hoped (or as well as Justice League: The New Frontier). I am INCREDIBLY disappointed in them for this one. What will we be missing? Well, for starters, there's Wonder Woman II, Batgirl: Year One, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, and Aquaman. So there go a lot of projects I was looking forward to seeing the results of. With one move, Warner Bros. has just swept away a legacy of animation that began in the 1990s and was consistently excellent.
Thanks for nothing, WB.
:: Joe Liebermann and Scott Brown are pushing a law where US citizens can be stripped of their citizenship if they're deemed to associate with terrorists. No need for a trial or due process or anything: all you have to do is be accused and away goes your citizenship. I wonder if this is being supported in the Arizona state legislature... Heh, they're racists.
Does that mean I can accuse George W. Bush based on his family's connections with Saudi terrorist organizations, or will we be ignoring that?
American politicians proposing un-American, unconstitutional laws. Wondrous. How much further back can we set the progress clock, guys? Let's outlaw witches next, or something really stupid, so that the whole world know what superstitious little idiots we are.
:: BTW: the guy who spotted the bomb in Times Square and alerted the police? Aliou Niasse, street vendor and a Muslim immigrant from Senegal. The media is ignoring this fact. Why can't we monster them into telling us why. I just want to hear it from their dirty, corporate executive shit-infested mouths.
:: The economy went to hell because SEC staffers were too busy masturbating at work to pay attention? Good as any other explanation, I guess. Well, not as good as blaming banks, corporations, and deregulation, but whatever.
:: Speaking of the economy... why is there even a question about auditing the Fed? I mean, I expected resistance from the banking/corporate quarters, but the White House? It just makes me laugh now to remember Obama's empty promises of transparency. Just like Bush, just like Clinton, Obama is a hero of non-accountability. This shit almost makes me miss Reagan.
:: Do you ever wonder how much Big Oil is paying Sarah Palin to shill for them? Her response to the ecological nightmare inflicted on the Gulf of Mexico by BP: "I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry." Um... no.
Here's a list of 7 animals brought closer to extinction by the oil spill.
:: Also, this is not a good time for your opportunistic "clean coal" science fiction commercials. Let's be grownups here: there is no way to harvest energy that is not going to hurt the environment in some way. Let's stop acting like there is, or find something that actually works.
:: So history doesn't forget: BP spent money in court against having to install a $500,000 blowout prevention valve system on their oil rigs. The Bush administration let them off on that Randian "corporations will protect their reputations" bullshit. Hope their victory was worth it.
Just... just don't let this be forgotten, okay?
(And don't ever forget that it was BP who was in charge of being prepared for oil spills in Alaska when the Exxon-Valdez spill happened 20 years ago. Check out their track record of safety violations and cutting corners; typical business in America.)
:: Speaking of something history shouldn't forget: medical interests spent $876 billion lobbying Congress between January 2009 and March 2010 in order to fight against health reform. And for their money, the drug companies got drug re-importation, direct Medicare drug price negotiation, and shorter periods of exclusivity before generics can be made available knocked out of the reform bill. Any ONE of those changes would've saved the government and consumers $100 billion over the next 10 years.
Corporate money is destroying politics, and it's destroying America.
Friday, May 07, 2010
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I blame Dick Cheney.
Pretty much for everything, but specifically greasing the wheels that allowed BP to forgo the $500K fix.
Lieberman's bill is such a Constitutional slippery slope that I can't imagine it getting out of committee; hope I'm right about that.
The only positive thing I can see with all this piling on of disasters happening all over the world is that FINALLY the silent majority may become outraged enough to make signigant changes to the way we do 'business' on this planet. It may take another generation but we need to have SOME accountibility for decisions that people make.
From the media to masterbating regulators I want to see some jail time in hard prisons for these so called 'white collar' criminals.
Lieberman can be put to the head of the line for his introduction to sodomy class in prison. That might wipe that shiteating grin off his face.
OH and WB can also lick my bag. Nothing like a little corporate douchbaggery to brighten my day. It's not like there animation was the best stuff that DC put out in a long while. It's the one creative end of the company that I never had any beef with and now they flush it all away. Don't they realize that it is through the animation that they draw in new fans and younger fans? If these movies made even ONE penny above the cost to make them then that is a success. What short sighted assholes corporate executives are. UGH! I hate them more than white bankers now.
Considering it was the same American investors that destroyed the American economy who recently blew up Greece when it was so close to getting solvent, I would indeed agree with white collar criminals getting hardcore prison terms.
AND them getting sodomized too, MC? I mean while there are there why not give them the whole prison experience? They paid for 'full service' with their crimes and I would hate for them to leave prison thinking that somehow the experience wasn't as life-altering as they thought it would be.
Cal: The main problem is with the "silent majority" getting up and taking action is that they are finally doing something. It's the formerly quiet wing-nuts that populate the tea parties that are finally getting their day-passes en masse and finding a forum.
Amen on the anti corporate rant. They are killing our country. But maybe after they kill it we'll build it back without them.
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