Here's a great story that'll make you feel all-good.
Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” has been earning raves — and racking up nominations — for portraying the housing bubble collapse ... Much attention has been paid to the film’s starry cast ...
But it’s not just the impressive marquee names that stand out in the film ... there are the unknown actors who make a big impact in a minimum amount of screen time ...
[S]uch [an] actor is Jeffry Griffin, who landed the plum assignment of playing Chris, the struggling assistant to Gosling’s arrogant, fast-talking investor Jared Vennett ...
The last two days' blogposts have focused on soldier-boy cowardice and sadomasochism our rulers' media portrays as heroism
in order to sustain the soldier/cop-worship required for
maintenance of their corporate-empire. This bullshit is constantly
delivered right to your paw on smartphones that
"make pancakes & rub your balls" as Carlin used to say. But
instead of the usual, sadistic soldier-boy or cop painted in
hero-colors, here's a genuine hero, Martha McClure, protecting the children in her care for, probably - 8-bucks-per-hour?
Martha McClure was caring for the children — all under the age of four — when their father, 31-year-old Francis Joseph Jackson, showed up at the daycare facility with an “unidentified woman” ...
McClure was reportedly aware Jackson’s parental rights had been suspended and that Child Protective Services had legal custody ...
McClure reported she could smell alcohol on Jackson, that he was angry she wouldn’t let him pick up his children, and that he threatened to assault her in front of the kids ...
Back in April, 2004, most Americans were shocked by, although a sizeable
minority were just fine with, the S&M torture/abuse photos from the
Pentagon's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Li'l Bushie & his boyz,
along with our rulers' media, went into critical damage-control mode
and clamped down hard, blocking most info on the scandal - promising
"investigations!" that would surfaced much more quietly 2-years-later when
Amerikans had forgotten all about it. The ultimate result of these
tough 'investigations'? The Military Commissions Act of 2006, which granted blanket amnesty for crimes our brave soldiers committed in the War on Terror by retroactively rewriting the War Crimes Act, abolishing the right of habeas corpus
for foreign detainees - making it impossible for them to assert cause
for any crimes committed against them. There ya' go. We don't call it
the United Snakes for nothin'.
But
about a month after the first pictures from Abu Ghraib were leaked,
there was a SECOND group, of much, MUCH worse pictures and videos, that
only members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees were
allowed to see. Here's how our representatives described these horrors
at the time:
ReePub Rep. Trent Franks: "There were some pictures where it looked like a prisoner was sodomizing himself" with an object ... blood was visible in the photograph.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges ...
The next time the pretty bleached-blonde lady on the FoxyNews warns you
that those mean, colored Palestinian-boyz "stabbing!" the poor, little,
innocent white-people-in-Israel will be coming through your bedroom
window next, have a look at the above video. It will never play on the
FoxyNews. It played on Al Jazeera so it can't be right. According to
the FoxyNews, NY Times and the rest of our rulers' bullshit media, those 6 Israeli soldiers rushing & beating up that ONE innocent kid are protecting freedom. And democracy & stuff.
An
Israeli human rights group has released security camera footage showing
the beating and violent, wrongfularrest of a Palestinian onlooker by
Israeli soldiers during clashes earlier in October.
Lots of gun fairies end up shooting themselves rather than the evil-doers they fantasize saving the wimmens from. Then they strap-it-on and go to church.
A Houma man is facing a terrorizing charge after authorities said he entered a church Sunday (Dec. 20) wearing camouflage and displayed a handgun during Mass ... Kevin Ledet, 38, entered St. Anthony Catholic Church in Bayou Black and sat in a pew, prompting several families to leave the church.
Ledet did not threaten anyone in the church but Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputies were summoned to the scene ... When deputies arrived, Ledet ran to his car and drove off. He was found a few blocks from the church and transported to a local hospital for a wound he sustained when he shot himself in the leg the night before at his home.
Kevin's public defender will point out to the court that Louisiana actually ALLOWS guns-in-church and has done so since 2010 when Gov. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal signed House Bill 1272, the "Handguns in Places of Worship Bill", into law. Kevin's next move is asserting a cause of action for false arrest in Louisiana's Superior Court and this blog would be happy to finance counsel and court costs for doing just that.
The new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, is busting those blocks wherever it roams.
“The Force Awakens” smashed the Christmas Day record with $49.3 million in the U.S. on Friday. That was double the earlier record of $24.6 million from “Sherlock Holmes,” which opened on Dec. 25, 2009.
The second weekend of Disney’s space saga is projected to wind up the three-day holiday weekend with as much as $140 million at 4,134 U.S. theaters, lifting its 10-day total to as high as $530 million.
So it's time to re-visit the roots of this franchise that defined the celebration of market tie-ins. Play the above-video for a tasty morsel of 1978's Star Wars Holiday Special: The Force Re-Schlockens!
On the eve of the 2016 election year, it's apparent who our rulers have decided will be the Presidential nominees from their two political parties: Marco Rubio and Hillary! Contrast this year with the December eve of election-year 2008. The Dems were down to President Barry and Hillary. Our rulers were still worried about President Barry's middle-name. But he won the Iowa primary and Hillary! took New Hampshire. Except Hillary!s vote for the by-then wildly unpopular Iraq War-4-Israel doomed her. Our rulers had decided they had to suspend the more wars-4-Israel foreign policy paradigm and let the economy recover a little bit.
The big ReePub donors were down to Mittens and McCain, with Johnnie getting the nod, because: 1. Mittens didn't eat his pizza right:
I heard the other day that Mitt Romney is so careful with his weight that he will pick the cheese off his pizza. Then I heard from another source that he eats pizza with a knife and fork. That's two sources, two angles: That's practically confirmation.
This is 4-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha, the only survivor of a fire-bomb attack on his family's home in the occupied West Bank. Last July, Israeli settler-terrorist cowards from the notorious, Judaeo "Price Tag" gang
threw a fire-bomb into the Dawabsha family home in the middle of the
night, burning little Ahmed's mother, father and 18-month-old brother, Ali, to
death. The Israeli occupation 'government' has dragged its heels on the
investigation of this heinous crime because they generally don't even
bother with them. The only reason this one's been investigated is
because it somehow garnered enough publicity in our rulers' media,
possibly because it happened soon after another "Price Tag" fire-bombing
of the historic Catholic Church of the Multiplication near the Sea of
Galilee. Rather than condemning these escalating hate-crimes toward
gentiles in Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu uses this bigotry & hate to get out the vote for his right-wing Likud Party. And then acts 'surprised' when video of young Israeli Judaeo-racists, gruesomely celebrating the deaths of the Dawabsha family at a wedding, leaks out.
Senior Israeli politicians and religious figures have condemned an incendiary video showing a hall packed full of Jewish extremist teenagers cheering the death of a Palestinian toddler murdered in an anti-Palestinian hate crime earlier this year.
With U.S. foreign policy firmly in the clutches of the neocon/Likuds in the State Dept. and the prospects of another 6-Trillion-Dollar war-4-Israel 'mistake' under president Hillary! a distinct possibility, we all need some good news. Here ya' go:
More than 6 billion gallons of water have poured into Lake Tahoe in less than two days, helping the lake begin to recover from four years of crushing drought.
Our rulers' media has the scare-level pegged at '11' now that the "Assad must go!" frenzy has been reduced to negotiating with religious fruitcakes in Riyadh. But the neocon/Likuds still have their "See something; say something" campaign plastered all over advertising space that otherwise wouldn't sell (the "public service" spots). Coupled with the media hysteria over a workplace argument gone bad in San Bernardino, we get stuff like this:
Woman calls police to report overheard sexually ecstatic cries of "ISIS is good! ISIS is great!"
The Gospel Music Channel (GMC) was just another Christian Grifter Tee-vee network, with a musical hook, when Charles Humbard started it in 2004. Charles knew the business well, having learned it from his dad, Rex, one of the pioneer Tee-vee shyster-preachers. The Humbard grift had always been music-based which is why Rex Humbard was chosen to lead Elvis Presley's funeral services. But that sort of musical hook just couldn't grift enough donations from the chumps these days so Charles re-branded GMC in 2010 as "Uplifting Entertainment", and UP TV was born-again. Charley's new network airs a lot of old 'spiritual' Tee-vee shows like Touched By An Angel and 7th Heaven but with the Hallmark Channel and ABC Family networks sucking on the same pile of schmaltz, UP TV had to start making its own programs - resulting in psycho, child-molestation, Tee-vee, ratings-bait like this that Christians just LOVE.
A few dozen low-income children in Atlanta were asked recently to make a difficult choice: They could have the Christmas present of their dreams. Or they could give a gift of their choosing to a parent.
These kids, who ranged from 6 to 11 years old, belong to the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta, where 83 percent are from poor families ...
The NY Times has been caught in more lies for its neocon/Likud bosses, again. Two Times' 'reporters', Matt Appuzo and Michael S. Schmidt, were busted for the second time. They'd already been caught bullshitting before - 'reporting', from the usual "anonymous government official" (i.e. necon/Likuds in the State Department?), that Hillary! was the target of a major Justice Dept. investigation. Except, she wasn't. At all. And off course the New York Times had front-paged this phony story with a 3-column headline. But Mattie, Schmitty and their editors double-extra promised, back in July, last summer, that they'd never, ever do it again. And 4-months-later? Here we go again. Total Islamophobic neocon/Likud bullshit, FRONT-paged, big headline, same "anonymous government official", same 'reporters', Mattie & Schmitty, same 'editor', same Serious! excuse/explanation from the Times' Public Editor:
Mistakes are bound to happen in the news business, but some are worse than others.
What I’ll lay out here was a bad one. It involved a failure of sufficient skepticism at every level of the reporting and editing process — especially since the story in question relied on anonymousgovernmentsources, as too many Times articles do ...
Beginning to look like the fix is in with the leadership of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Sure seems like they want Hillary! to win the nomination and for everyone else to get on board, forget about that Bernie Sanders character, and start cheering for the neocon/Likud candidate:
The long-simmering tension between Bernie Sanders and the Democratic establishment, embodied by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton, reached a boiling point on Friday after the committee abruptly cut off his campaign’s access to a critical voter database ...
This is Turkish government MP (Congressman) Eren Erdem. He and his political party have been accused of treason by Turkish President and all-around lying scumbag Tayyip Erdogan because Erdem has blown the whistle on the cover-up of the investigation revealing EXACTLY who supplied the Sarin Gas used in Ghouta, Syria on Aug. 21, 2013. Remember, this gas attack was the reason our rulers' neocon/Likud media used to pummel President Barry for being "weak" and not starting another, useless, $6-Trillion war-4-Israel in Syria. Lucky-4-us, Barry was strong. And didn't.
Turkish MP Eren Erdem has claimed materials to produce deadly sarin gas came from Turkey and arrived in Isis camps in Syria.
Sarin gas ... was used in a notorious attack on Ghouta and other neighbourhoods near Damascus in 2013.
Erdem showed parliament a copy of the criminal case (number 2013/120) that was opened by the General Prosecutor's Office in the city of Adana in southern Turkey.
Pictured above is 30-year-old Prince Mohammed bin Salman, son of Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and probable cousin? of yesterday's blog-focus - accidental, and thus acquitted, rapist Ehsan Abdulaziz. Prince Mohammed also doubles as the Defense Minister for the most wealthy, malevolent and religious-wacko country on Earth. He declared yesterday that Saudi Arabia has been 'persuaded' to take an active roll in stopping the ISIS terrorists that some of its own ruling family members, like him and his dad, actually support with piles of money and weapons.
Saudi Arabia has announced the formation of an “Islamic military alliance” to combat global terrorism, an effort to respond to Western assertions that it could do more in the fight against the Islamic State and to solidify its claim to leadership of the Sunni world against Shiite Iran.
Pictured above is Ehsan Abdulaziz, a typical 46-year-old Saudi Arabian rich punk whose wealthy family most certainly adheres to the strict tenets of Wahhabism - while they are all in Saudi Arabia. After all, his Dad? Cousin? Brother? is KING Salman bin Abdulaziz? But when Ehsan and his bros hit the nightclubs like Cirque le Soir in London’s West End, where he books a £1,000-a-night private table ($1,500 American), there are religious violations and rapings galore! Expensive private tables are how London's young lasses identify the lads who want to par-TEE! - and can pay anything to do so.
A London court has cleared ... Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46, of raping an 18-year-old girl after just 30 minutes of deliberation. The London-based Saudi millionaire claimed he may have accidentally penetrated the teenager after he fell on her ...
The neocon/Likud media just loves making its audience hysterical with fake threats from phony terrorists, like the LAUSD fiasco today, then blaming the whole thing, always, on ... Democrats! If the ReePub daddies were in there - like they WERE on 9-11 when 2,997 Americans were actually murdered by guys financed by the Bush family's friends, the Saudi Arabian monarchy - these terrorists wouldn't DARE attack the United Snakes, because? Reasons! This invariably leads to pundits on the Tee-vee shaking their heads and tut-tutting that Democrats are kind'a silly and just don't have their "priorities straight". The first priority for U.S. leadership must always be dropping Freedom Bombs™ on little brown people in the Middle East and regime-changing their governments. This will supposedly scare-shit out of them and their new government will be all peaceful and Democratic, because? Freedum! Also, too ... "greeted as liberators!" The United Snakes has been implementing this strategy since 1997 when the Project for the New American Century ultimatum was delivered to President Clinton declaring that the enemies of Israel were America's enemies and it was up to Americans to spend trillions-of-dollars balkanizing these Muslim countries so Israel could expand so much that 'the Arabs' wouldn't matter any more.
Our rulers' media is just ga-ga over the most awesome Freedum! and Democracy ever in Saudi Arabia. For the first time in its history of despotic oppression, the Saud family has allowed some of its subjects, its 'citizens' if you will, the right to vote. Five-percent, about 1.5 million people out of a total of the 28-million inmates penned-up in that shithole by King Salman and his gangsters, got to vote in some very local, low-down, municipal elections. And our rulers just LUVs that. Of 1.5-million allowed to vote, 130-thousand, about 9%, were women. Putting that on a national scale, that's FOUR-TENTHS-of-one-percent of Saudi women participated in the election. But the New York Times still calls this "staggering":
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi voters elected 20 women for local government seats ... a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country's history ...
The 20 female candidates represent just one percent of the roughly 2,100 municipal council seats up for grabs, but even limited gains are seen as a step forward ... Women are still not allowed to drive and are governed by guardianship laws that give men final say over aspects of their lives like marriage, travel and higher education ...
Once the neocon/Likuds realized that President Barry was not going to give them the wars-4-Israel they craved in Syria and Iran, their media beganpummeling him unmercifully as being "weak" and "indecisive" when, of course, the opposite was true - he was being very strong and resolutely decisive. NO wars-4-ANYONE. No more 6-trillion-dollar mistakes. The majority of Americans who elected him were satisfied with this policy. But for some reason - which very well could be aquid-pro-quoover theIran Dealwith AIPAC? President Barry has insisted on the absolutely wrong-minded, and frankly stupid, policy of regime-changing Bashar al-Assad out of the presidency of Syria to placate the neocon/Likuds and their media, who would NEVER stop abusing him no matter what he did. And that very policy is preventing a political solution for the ISIS problem that is now within reach between Syria and the Saudi Israelian cabal supporting ISIS and the fake civil war there.
The long-cherished neocon dream of “regime change” in Syria is blocking a possible route out of the crisis – a ceasefire followed by elections in which President Assad could compete. The problem is there’s no guarantee that Assad would lose ...
This is oil/gas executive Robert Bensh standing in a Ukrainian riot. He steers a LOT of venture capital for private equity firms mostly targeting the Ukrainian Oil Industry so he's right-in-the-middle of that shit. An ex-Infantryman who served in Iraq and is now, officially, Senior Advisor to the Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister, Yuriy Boyko, Bensh self-describes thusly: "First, let me just stress that I am not a military man, nor am I a politician or a diplomat. I’m a businessman." He sat for an interview with OilPrice.com's (THE tout-sheet for the oil/gas industry) Senior Editor James Stafford and talked some of the very straightest shit you will ever hear about ISIS or ISIL or Daesh or whatever-the-fuck the NY Times focus groups decided to call the thugs Saudi Israelia & the United Snakes are paying to overthrow Assad in Syria this week - and also using to scare-shit out of Amerikan mouth-breathers.
James Stafford: So what does Turkey want?
Robert Bensh: The better question is: “What does Erdogan want?” You know, Putin’s probably not too far off in his statement referring to Erdogan’s loss of “mind and reason”. Erdogan has been going down this path little by little for some time and it’s no secret that he has some megalomaniacal tendencies that grow more and more out of control every year.
The ReePub daddies are freaked out because Trumpkins has figured out a way to win their presidential nomination. Turns out that ever since Nixon and his gangsters used their "Southern Strategy" to peel off the Southern "Dixiecrat" bigots from the Democratic Party, that mechanism has been like a computer virus, just waiting for a hacker like Trumpkins to come along, open-it-up, mainline racism into the beast and take the bigoted voting base away from the ReePub daddies, like Karl Rove, who thought they had total control over those Tea-Poopers. Trumpkins will probably win the first 3 primaries and go into the March 2016 Super Tuesday primary gang-bang on a roll. But he's eventually going to need a boost for steamrolling the rest of wary ReePub primary voters over to his side, like leaking the name of a radical, FEMALE, Vice-Presidential running mate. John McCain used Sarah Palin to corral the rest of the mouth-breathers back in 2008 and Trumpkins could probably do the same with - Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez?
Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez — who is running for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2016—has a history of racially insensitive remarks.
When it comes to greedy Christian shysters, Jerry Falwell had no equal. Even after a solemn event like the death of 2,997 Americans on 9-11, Falwell couldn't resist the urge to grift the chumps, hard, on the Tee-vee and declared:
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."
"The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked ... I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen!'"
Falwell used 9-11, just like the shysters in the Bush Administration, for mad PROFITZ! He poured that money into his fake, diploma-mill 'college' called Liberty University, the largest "non-profit" college in the country. Falwell's son, Jerry Junior, runs the school now and just decreed that it would, from now on, be a fully-armed campus.
The above video is from convicted-felon and religious-shyster Jim Bakker's new Tee-vee show which focuses its grift on the millennial/survivalist chumps who like believing that the world is in end-times mode and only the good Christians will be raptured-up to the Sky Bellagio. That's all gonna happen in just a few more years. Or so. But until then, you gotta eat, so Jim Bakker's got "Peace of Mind Final Countdown" buckets of food that not only last 20-years but also praise Jesus, too. Back in 1989, Bakker (pronounced 'Baker') was caught banging a Playboy Centerfold instead of his wife, Tammy Faye, and the wheels came off his religious empire resulting in convictions on 24 counts of mail/wire fraud & conspiracy, a 45-year prison sentence and half-million-dollar fine. It took him five years to wriggle out of all that and Bakker left prison in Dec. 1994 with a 6-million-dollar tax-bill he'll never pay off and was back in the evangelical grift by 2003.
Our rulers at Exxon just HATE Venezuela more than anything. Back in 1999, the poor people there rallied behind an ex-paratrooper named Hugo Chavez and elected him president and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to the majority. Our rulers' CIA sprang into action, financing an opposition army of thugs to overthrow the Chavenistas in 2002. There was another election - this time closely monitored by Wall St. and its IMF bank "inspectors". But the Chavenistas overwhelmingly won again anyway. So the economic hit-job and propaganda campaign against "those socialists!" in Venezuela began - calling Hugo Chavez a "brutal dictator!" over & over again on the Tee-vee even though he had won, and lost, elections (apparently asking our rulers' Tee-vee foofs how a "brutal dictator!" actually LOSES elections is not allowed on our rulers' Tee-vee). Hugo Chavez died in 2013 and Vice-President Nicholas Maduro took over. The CIA brought in its paid-thugs again and caused riots large enough to force another election which Maduro and the Chavistas still won. This really pissed Exxon off. It had its heart set on stealing back the Venezuelan oil that had made its executive climate-change-deniers like Lee Raymond fat. So the United Snakes put the squeeze on Venezuela through its World Bank and Exxon drove down world oil prices at the expense of PROFITZ! - anything to make the people of Venezuela economically miserable. This eventually forced another election last Sunday.
One thing about Freedom Bombs™: once you drop 'em, they, and everything and everybody beneath them, is GONE - free from breathing, existing, etc. The concept here is: you replace people and environment that were plagued by the tyranny of self-determination with the benevolent hand of our rulers' Free Markets!™ and PROFITZ! The United Snakes and its allies are now doing this in Syria with such vigor that we're running OUT of Freedom Bombs™.
The U.S. Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the U.S. bombing campaign against ISIS began 15 months ago, according to the Air Force, leading to depleted munitions stockpiles and calls to ramp up funding and weapons production ...
[T]he Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we can replenish them," Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh said ...
"B-1s have dropped bombs in record numbers ... We need the funding in place to ensure we're prepared for the long fight," Welsh said in the statement. "This is a critical need."
The bombing campaign has left the U.S. Air Force with ... munitions depot stocks "below our desired objective."
