Comment Re:I actually liked TPM (Score 1) 629
Whew, I guess beer goggles really can affect one's sense of perspective . . .
Your grasp of the facts might be improved if you actually had opposable thumbs.
In terms of putting us in a financial hole, GWB takes the cake -- the one awarded by the Marie Antoinette Society for Smugly Stupid Ruling Class Twits. He and his cronies looted the US treasury like uncommon criminals, turning a surplus of billions of dollars into a deficit of trillions of dollars. Yes, President Obama has increased the deficit, but his actions were forced by the catastrophic destabilization of our national and world economies engineered by the Bush/Cheney cabal. And the healthcare fixes are driven by common decency.
It seems to me that if the Nobel committee wants to honor him for changing directions to prevent a global meltdown, rational people (and even so called Real Americans) would actually applaud rather than ridicule the award and its recipient.
Are you saying that this movie is as good/groundbreaking as Star Wars orThe Matrix? I am somewhat dubious. Don't get me wrong, it looks a whole lot better than most sci-fi movies. I especially like how the first commercials I saw for it were public service announcements about District 9. Then commercials with non-human sympathizers being arrested. Then later you see a commercial with "glick gluck mcglorlock" (translation: "We just want to go home.") and you kinda realize that there's going to be more depth to the story than Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book). Looks interesting, I'll definitely Netflix it. It might be the best sci-fi movie of '09 but you've still got
While a lot don't have release dates yet and could be pushed back and most will probably suck, that's a lot of competition to dismiss at this point. And lastly, I have great hope for Franklyn (to be released here in the states).
You can probably scratch "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "2012" from your list. The first is being laughed out of theaters as we speak. The trailers for the second look like Michael Bay conceived of the "science."
He is also extremely popular with his constituents, who fully support the way he operates his office. The US Justice Department now has him as a target (since the Obama Administration came to power) due to his enforcement of Immigration laws. In Arizona he polls 11 points higher than Obama so he is popular statewide.
Bear-baiting and slavery also were 'popular with constituents' in their times . . . that doesn't seem to have been a very good argument for keeping them around.
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards
