UAW Sues themselves.....

Hi folks...

I'm in a light and peppy mood today.... maybe it's Spring... I don't know...

Anyhow, read the article linked to the title of this piece and ask yourself the following question:

Didn't president hussein give control of GM over to the UAW?

Coupled with the last post I had, this is a sign that the end of the world will come with stultifying irony, and not with a bang.

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Amusing world-threatening irony in Currency Debate...

Noted tax cheat and financial head of the united states of america Tim Geithner has delayed releasing a report criticizing the Chinese Government for its practice of undervaluing their currency, the yuan.

The yuan should have followed free-market levels, according to Geithner, and appreciated at a rate consistent with the market. Since the Chinese Government has interfered with the value of the yuan against the marketplace the cost of Chinese-made goods is much lower than free-market competition can compete with, which would have the net effect of killing American jobs and hampering the restoration of our economy.

This information is all laid out in the news article the header links to.

In a related news story:

The united states of america has interfered with the health care industry, and prevented the Health Care providers from growing their businesses and using free-market economy to determine the best values for the buying public. By undervaluing the health care market by imposing restrictive and arbitrary limitations on the industry's back, and threatening a government-supplied option the health care industry can not compete with, which would have the net effect of killing American jobs and hampering the restoration of our economy.

This would be called delicious irony if it weren't so hideously real-world.

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US News snakes around the truth....

Take your time and read the article that is linked to the header of this piece... don't worry... I'll wait.

Done? Not yet? That's okay....

How about now?

You are? Great!!!!

So don't you feel re-assured?

Let me look on this article thru reality-colored glasses and translate:

1) Public Option - Far from a certainty that there will be no public option, it's something that liberals are anxious to insert it, and it's VERY likely a major push will be done to do just that.

Right now, in the absence of a corporation-killing addition like that business will have to go up for the insurance companies, even as employees are looking around for whatever industry that ISN'T health care will hire them.

2) The Federal Budget - It's rather comforting to know that one of the many provisions for how the deficit can go down is in new taxes. Spending nearly a trillion dollars and keeping the budget deficit low by increasing everyone's taxes is a real interesting idea. In fact it's such a good idea it makes you wonder why president hussein's campaign wasn't run on "I will spend Trillions of Dollars and you will pay for it for me". It's kind of catchy and it's a change I believe is real.

3) Doctors will revolt - I'm really liking this one. Did you catch the tone of the article? If you DON'T go along with us you're screwed. You wasted your education and several thousands of dollars to get that education and you now have to decide to play ball or take a menial job.

Our government is so in love with our Doctors that they should not feel at all at risk of being thrown in gulags. No... really... in fact you can even keep working if you play ball with them.

4) Business will suffer - Another fun one to re-examine. The tone on this is positively gladiatorial. If you're strong enough you can fight in our arena and maybe survive. If not, along with those pesky Christians (and let's not forget hussein's pals the Jews...) you could find yourself thrown to the lions. All very bread and circuses... who wouldn't feel their patriotism swell with pride after that.

5) Socialized medicine - Individuals will have no say in their health care coverage as a rule. But they usually don't when it's employer-provided. So the employer will look at his skyrocketing costs for private insurance and start looking at the cheaper (and I mean CHEAP...) government-supplied coverage. This is a tired argument and not even worthy of being put in place here.

Let's face it. This is pure hatred for Americans. You get to be gladiators for hussein's pleasure. You have choice - fight for him or perish. Your doctor has a choice - do his bidding or run a fast-food joint.

America smells more like ancient Rome... doesn't it?

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Fascist president hussein...

Today, March 22, 2010 is the birth date of the Fascist Regime in America.

Don't believe me?

1) The Health care bill is soooo popular that despite a final week of bribes, arm-twisting, threatening, cajoling, pleading and begging the bill only passed by like three votes.... Hardly a mandate that proves it could make it on merit.

2) 17,000 new IRS workers (read "Brownshirts") are being hired specifically to enforce the new mandate.

3) The new mandate is that it doesn't matter what you as a private citizen WANT to do, you are now required by Dictatorial mandate that you MUST buy insurance.

4) Oh yeah, since now that you HAVE to buy insurance it's better, right? No... who ever promised you better? In fact, it's more intrusive and less private. Y'see, president hussein never took a Hippocratic Oath* so that's not a problem for him. In fact, thanks to this sweeping "reform" you now have less choice.

5) Work in the Insurance industry? Pack your bags, because you're not going to be in business much longer. You see, the president feels that only he should be making a profit. He picks and chooses what americans he likes and he deems then worthwhile or not. You guys are the "Jews" in this case, and Der Fuhrer has pointed his decrepit finger at you.

6) Bottom line this for me, will ya, Doc? Sure. president hussein has said "You lowly people who are a drain on my government now must live the way I tell you to. If you don't you will be in violation of my laws.".

Government against the people, against the people and in contempt of the people.

Go ahead, you can use it... just credit Doctor Calamity (the "Doctorate" by the way is honorary... something I now really appreciate having done...).

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* Please note that president hussein also took an oath to honor and protect the Constitution of the United State of America and to defend it with his life. So oaths mean shit to him. Unless there's an oath out there to kill babies... that's one he can get behind... ("hmm..." thinks hussein... "That sounds like fun... where'd I'd leave that pitchfork again"...)

Oh CRIPES! Now we KNOW he wants us to pay for the illegal aliens too!

president hussein, growing ever more frustrated with the rebuffs he is getting from virtually every corner he turns to for support, has finally confirmed one of the greatest conspiracy-theory elements to the Health care debacle...

He said no illegal aliens will be covered.

And he meant it.

Because after he's done there won't be any ILLEGAL immigrants... there will be 20 million new citizens!!!!!

And guess who gets to pay for their health care!

That's right, the asshole president expects us to pony up our hard earned bucks and spend them on people who have violated laws to be here.

Frakkin Socialist Commie anti-American president!

Mad? Hell yeah I'm mad!

This isn't a diatribe of how scared I am. There's no being scared when you know you're going over the cliff. You just grab hold and try to make some quality sounding last words.

If there was ever any doubt that hussein is anti-American and out-and-out hates the country whom he swore an oath to protect and defend, that has been erased in this news story.

Barack Hussein OBama... you bastard! You're supposed to be protecting Americans, not harming them! You have brought every worst nightmare of the free world to life and now you're nakedly cramming unwanted "reforms" down our throats!

Your policies are designed to ruin this country, they follow established Commie rules, and even though you know that WE know, you are still in charge!

Right now the only thing an American President would be doing is finding ways to revitalize stock-market investment in order to re-start the economy, and put our people back to work. But you don't care about our people! You stole a trillion dollars and promised to fix unemployment and all we have to show for it are some lame-ass roadside signs saying we were f**ked over by you to pay for work that was gonna happen anyway!

The United States Government is supposed to be run according to rules and procedures, and you ignore those rules, and you play games with the public to keep us off guard!

Grow up and be a man and not a freak who likes uncle Alinsky and wants the candy-ass land of Karl Marx to rule all. Senator McCarthy was a frakkin hero and you sir are no hero. You are a villain and a charlatan... and soon you will watch your lapdogs get run over in the elections, and then you'll be scratching your presidential ass trying to figure out who wants to bail you out after that!

Think Oprah will continue to latch onto a loser like you? Think you'll have anyone other than the increasingly bitter Michelle and Rahm to be your friends?

Face it pal, everyone knows you'd throw your own grandmother under the bus... oh wait, that's right... you already DID that...

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It's not News, but I know what ELSE you can call it...

I travel for work a lot, so sometimes I disappear from the interweb and just observe. Yesterday I was driving most of the day and around 5:30 PM I wound up in a Red Roof Inn in Grove City, Ohio and I was beat so I just laid down and turned on Glenn Beck. Yes, the guy so Right-Wing that Rush told him to throttle down a little, but in short doses I find him amusing and interesting. Longer than that and I usually end up looking for the cutlery to end my life.

Beck DOES play up the "Evil Forces Aligning" angle quite bit, and for that I have found that he can be very depressing to watch. By contrast, Rush doles out the bad news with a healthy dose of cynicism, and a laugh-track worthy dissertation on HOW the bad guys' plans can blow up on them.

So Glenn Beck can be considered to be... a bit more polarizing than Rush.

But let's ignore that for now and take a look at this "News" piece by Michael Sherer of Time Magazine, helpfully posted by Yahoo! News. Go on... read it.. in fact... I'll wait for you to get to the point where you find the Journalism...

Done yet? No? Still searching?

Here's a hint. There ain't any.

Call GB a paranoid right wing nutcase all you want. Just try not to make yourself look like a paranoid left wing nut case in the process.

This is not about Beck, it's about the hatred from the Mainstream Media, president hussein's loyal civil servants, over Fox News and its daring to be critical of the petulant boy-president. This is just a paid-advert for how Fox News is part of the Republican Attack Machine. Of special note is their disdain for Beck's status of Victim. His derailing the Dem tactic of being the biggest Victim in the room is crossing a line, apparently, that they can not forgive.

I might be a bit kinder about this piece had it been labelled an opinion piece, but it's not. And its lack of journalistic prowess, vastly Left-wing slant and seething hatred make it a load of (to use a VERY obscure British phrase...) Whippet sh*t. Long, thin, and very obscene.

The current state of the country is this... president hussein is bullying everyone... his own party most of all, trying to get something... well... anything at all... accomplished. The Democrat party is busy buying party favors for their "Going Out of Business" office parties because they know that November will be the end of a great many careers. The liberal journalism scene is frankly in worse shape, with alternate methods of information gathering undercutting the main news sources nearly daily.

Is it any wonder that this is such a ham-fisted attack?

I urge anyone who can do so to find a Hulu, a Youtube, or any other method to stream or download Tuesday's Glenn Beck show. Not because it was great TV, but because this sphincter is lying through his bottom hole about the context of the events. Not the actual events themselves, but the reasons behind the actions.

Beck DID apologize to the audience for wasting our time. Massa tried to defend himself, but Beck corrected him and pointed out that Massa, who had flip-flopped badly on his decision to stand down from his Congress job, had just used Beck's pulpit to prove how utterly unreliable he was. Just the day before his story was very different. He back-pedaled and did so with roughly the same level of sincerity as the first day. When one does something like that you either ask them to show some proof about what they are saying so you can know for certain this time it's not a lie, or you can write the guy off as bat shit nutty man who had been leaned on (probably the second they heard he was gonna be on Beck's program!!!) to change his story and take the fall for the party.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out Rahm Emmanuel had something to do with THAT either. Because the butt was out of the bag on that portion of the story, and it was the one thing he kept intact. So even if Rahm had jabbed some portion of his naked appendage into the chest of this naked congressman in the shower (which clearly CAN'T be construed as sexually harassing an employee, by the way... for reasons that only president hussein could think are legitimate...) there was no need to retract that, even if Rahm had followed that up with a threat to visit him in his home shower if he did anything to not make himself look like a loser weanous baby-man on the highest rated news channel out there.

Let's bottom line this. Glenn Beck got scammed, and Rahm "whippet-dick" Emmanuel managed to apply his old adage, "Never let a good crisis go to waste" to exceptional effect.

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Sandbox Politics (or It's My Football and I'm Going Home!)

As global warming feels the icy cold fingers of February on it's throat the nation's capital is beset by more than just snow and ice, but also the rather amusing efforts of stand-up comedian president hussein, who has become positively riotous in his sophomore year as he does Jerry Lewis-level pratfalls all over the place insisting that everyone play nice.

As with all great comedy, it's a matter of just how much truth there is in the joke, and in this case it's rife with reality. The Republicans, only a year ago getting sound advice on how they can stay relevant from the beneficent likes of the Associated Press have crafted a strategy that is reaping tremendous benefits in re-stabilizing the nation.

First they became the "Party of No". Sending a clear and loud signal that if there WERE going to be a Health-Care agenda rammed down an unwilling America's throat it was only going to have the DNA of Democrats on it.

Second they kept their yaps largely shut. Oh sure, the occasional "You Lie" creeps out from time to time, but the real howlers, the kind that rank hussein up there with his peers, Leno and O'Brien (but not, it seems, Jon Stewart.... who is still ahead of the game...), keep coming from the Dem big wigs. The Republicans have been making statements, but they are largely intelligent and prepared statements expressing their concerns.

Third they have found a comfortable way to start utilizing Sarah Palin. Via the Tea Party platform Mrs. Palin has found a rich and welcoming audience to counter the horrific attacks the elite left have thrown at her. In fact the most impressive charge levelled against her so far from the Tea Party event was her use of some buzzwords penned onto her palm... a far cry form having to have every word uttered be displayed on a teleprompter. By attacking her for this they are only reasserting her down-home folksy image with the rest of us.

And for his part, president hussein is happily playing the fool the way we really want him to... he's vigorously defending his Healthcare agenda even as his distaff troops are shuffling away from him in slow yet unmistakable moves. His insistence that not only Healthcare... which is bad enough... but only HIS healthcare.... be kept alive is a little like Jim Jones kicking back and pointing out he's parched, and asking for a tall cool one of Grape Kool Aid. A bit twistedly sick, with truly dark consequences, but surprisingly mind-numbingly funny in its way.

So now hussein is kicking and huffing and puffing that no one is nice and no one wants to play football under HIS rules, and he's just plain irritated about it.

That's life in the city, mr. president. Being handed a title and having hundred dollar a pound steak dinners doesn't get you respect. And insisting that others play by your rules when you can't be bothered to follow them is a bit disingenuous, don't you think?

I've never been a big fan of snow, although I used to play in it when I was a kid, and you learn to turn the frustrating parts of it into a game. Slogging through two-foot deep snow only becomes fun when you get to ride a sled down the hill afterward.

That's something you learn growing up. The hard times aren't worth a dime if they don't lead to better times. And all we are asking is for a president who envisions and works toward better times.

And since "That One" isn't filling the bill it's time to find one of our own.

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Following the spanking Petulant US President flees to safer ground...

With the mainstream media tripping over themselves trying to paint a picture of president hussein as in control and unfazed by by the spanking the Conservatives have given the Democrats in Massachusetts this week, it's small wonder that the petulant US President has fled to the safer pastures of class warfare.

Of course president hussein could not have been bothered for several months on the issue of jobs and the economy. But now he wants to find some respite from the humiliation of the week's events and that means he has to rush to get approval from his adoring populace.

This means he has to demonize again.

So bloodthirsty for class-warfare is this idiot that he either oblivious or worse, fully cognizant that he is sending mixed signals to the private sector. If he is oblivious to his own actions' repercussions he is missing that he is chastising the banks for doing the one thing the rest of us only wish we could do... which is have a good business year. The banks are trying to get back to doing regular business. a natural thing for them to want to do... and they are starting to have some success.

If he is fully aware of what he is doing then his actions can only be deemed as an attempt to prevent the economy from correcting itself.

Either option is typically scary.

Let's face it... if president hussein were... I dunno... a loyal American then he would be holding up financial success as an example of how the economy is coming back. He would be supporting these people in their effort to make money, or best of all he could stand back, smile and say "That's one less thing on my plate to have to worry about".

But no... he's worried about them.

We aren't....

But then we want the economy to turn back around.

And it doesn't matter how much money he spends, how many dinner-dates with Michelle he flies to in other cities, or any other consideration... the only thing... the ONLY THING that will fix the economy.... is for a natural and organic urge to re-hire people on the part of the private sector.

If hussein truly believed the government was the solution for all then he would open up branches of the government which could be there for the sole purpose of hiring the populace and putting them to work.

Any mathematical take on THAT scenario shows the sheer folly of that idea....

So the private sector, not the public sector, is the key to revitalizing this country and by turns the rest of the world.

So naturally hussein wants to target anyone who actually makes money under his thumb... err... administration.

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Embarrasing AP Story shows how confused Dems have become...

Of course Conservatives are feeling the glow just now with the long hoped for taking back of a nearly permanent Democratic Senate Seat. Senator Scott Brown has run a well-thought out and executed campaign and Martha Coakley did not.

So naturally I wanted to read this particular AP piece about how the Dems are "soul-searching" (AP speak for "placing blame") and frustrated over the loss of the Massachusetts seat. It's been a sh*tty year thanks to the efforts of the "on our knees for president hussein" gang. People who love this country have seen it eroded from within like never before. A willful assault on the livelihoods and the reputations of fully half the populace by the people who were supposed to represent us.

I deserved the opportunity to gloat just a little bit. Maybe Fox news was professional and cool, and according to Buffalo radio host Sandy Beach even CNN was reasonably cool about things, apparently the real fun to be had was on MSNBC where, per Mr. Beach, Chris Matthews was nearly incoherent, Keith Olbermann's head was likely to explode, and breeding-cow turned news anchor Rachel Maddow had a "...deer in the headlights" daze about her.

Damn, I wished I'd DVRd that...

Interestingly, however, this AP story is telling a weird rendition of the events.... the message that the Dems pulled out of all this is that they need to define their differences from Republicans even further? Huh? Really? While I still run into people who will tell me that all politicians are alike, more and more people are coming to the conclusion that most Republicans are not here to harm them. At least not on the National level, anyhow.

I'm really liking president hussein's assessment, wherein he states that voter frustration and anger over the last eight years swept Brown into office. It's a sign the man has cracked and he has no clue to whom he is talking... and any question placed to him can now solidly be deflected in his eyes with "I inherited this problem form George Bush".

What a f*cking whiner!!!! And yes, I'm referring to president hussein!

This "inheritance" defense is getting old, tiresome and is eroding his credibility. He he has yet to take personal responsibility for any situation that has come up. Oh, he's SAID he's responsible, but he has a history of throwing other people under trains that would make him a dream adversary in any superhero movie.... Think of the work Superman would have lined up for him trying to save private citizens from the evil villain hussein!

But wait... that won't happen... that would be actually creating a job... something he's not very practiced at.

Being a bit more serious, and getting back on track... hussein has made lip-service to how his administration might be at fault from time to time, but entirely without recrimination. Yet he has failed to get involved in high-level matters of serious state business, and in fact made boneheaded maneuvers while doing what little he did do.

Take the historically tragic earthquake in Haiti. This tiny little country has seen so much tragedy it seems that there can never be anything worse to happen to them... and yet it has. And rather than send the military in to pave the way, restore order, create landing fields, evacuate the wounded and set up rush triage units like he should have, he has assigned civilians with little if any knowledge of how to handle these events.

Remember the embarrassing notion hussein had to make Bill Clinton, the thorn in his side, special ambassador to Haiti? That move forced hussein to elect him and his other arch-nemesis, George Bush, to oversee the relief program. It is a sign of the class of the man that George joined in without hesitation, supporting Clinton and speaking positively, even rebuking Rush Limbaugh for his politicizing of the handling of the crisis.

Bush is not a traitor to the party for working with Clinton. I dislike Clinton's politics and I find him a relentlessly smarmy man, but I have said numerous times I never felt he hated America. He always perceived it as the land of opportunity. It's just that the opportunity he craved was illicit sex with the wrong women in the oval office. ... if you have to dream, dream big....

So to add gravitas to an attempt to shun his two biggest irritants, Bush and Bill are in there working hard to make hussein look good even though he doesn't deserve their respect. And more to the point, hussein is letting Bush be the point man in the relief effort in Haiti which should automatically tell you that he has not thought this through...

By giving Bush this opportunity to serve victims of a national tragedy and coordinate and make things work better he is negating all the cat-calls and bullsh*t of the "Katrina" incident. If Bush had really been the responsible party to Eff that operation up it would be the height of irresponsibility on hussein's part to put him in the Haiti effort on a high level position. And yet there goes George Bush, a better man than I.

And to say that Bill won't benefit from this... He's been given the golden opportunity to counter a few years of goofy mistakes and shine up his image... something he might consider worth doing assuming he wants to support Hillary's bid to retake the Whitehouse.

And what exactly WAS hussein up to when news of the earthquake hit? Why he was doing what he does best... strong-arming his Dems to beat the clock so he could have an awesome State of the Union announcement of Healthcare destruction being passed.

It's true.. he did not leave the closed-door meetings, he just occasionally conferred on the phone and put other people in charge. Apparently the imminent death of thousands and thousands of poor destitute people a few hundred miles away from the US shores was less important to him than the health care that no Haitians would be receiving.

Remember Bush staying with the children when the attack on the WTC happened? He made a decision to not upset the children which in fact may not have been the right call. But it was hardly a cowardly decision, and Bush took ownership of the situation and in fact rallied the American people just a few days later in a speech in NYC when someone yelled out that they could not hear him... he grabbed a bull horn and replied "That's okay. Because I can hear you. And soon the rest of the nation will hear you. And after that, the world will hear you!".

No writers on site.... that was George W. Bush. An improbably classy man. Even if we occasionally don't agree with him, he has earned our respect.

All of this however returns us to the goofy president hussein continuing to berate Bush and claiming Americans are angry from the last eight years....

If we're so angry, why are we longing for those glorious days?

By the way, and this is just an observation since Al Qaeda has been feeling their oats lately.... one of their stated goals has been to wage a war wherein they grind America down to the point where it can no longer afford to fight against them. Isn't it rather un-American then to go spending all the money we have when we are still in a state of war against an enemy emboldened by the pussy we elected president? Wouldn't that be giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Didn't that used to be illegal?

The Democrats have a hard year ahead of them. I hope they stay the course and keep striving to define the differences between them and Republicans, because it is exactly that divisive nature that has brought them to their nightmare scenario... the realization that they had total dominance of the country's three governing branches and they f*cked it all up. And now it's time to pay the piper....

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You put one foot in front of the other...

By now I'm probably the last person to announce the election of Scott Brown as the first Republican Senator in Massachusetts in decades.

The historical element to this election is inescapable. First, it is clear signpost that everything every American did to shout down Democrat politicians who were trying to shove Universal Health Care down our throats, Every American who went to a Tea Party to show our anger at Government waste and failure to represent the people of this country, and Every American who blogged, wrote, spoke, and raised their fists in the air and shouted "We are the Party of NO" were NOT ineffective or pointless. It was proof that we did this as Americans fighting for our homeland.

Second, it is a matter of incredible irony that Senator Ted Kennedy, who embodied the most unholy aspects of this large government land-grab of power would ultimately be the cause of it's likely defeat. His seat going to a Republican (an independent?) upsets EVERYTHING that Obama wants to achieve... and it's all due to Ted's inability to hang on just a little longer....

It is a sweet victory at a time when we desperately needed a victory. Today is the one year anniversary of president hussein's inauguration, and it was his goal to have Health care as his toast to America that he could boast about... No matter what happens now, we have the momentum on our side, and we have a string of failures on hussein's watch that demonstrates the real greatness of the American People.

The fight is far from over, it is going to get harder before it gets better, but make no mistake, Conservatism is back on track and on the march, and we WILL take back the country and reward the Americans out in the streets who stood up and said "No" to the celebrity God Obama.

American pitted against American, the Private Sector put on trial, large corporations stolen away from the people who built them and given to the Unions, the spectre of targeted, punitive taxation, the wholesale waste of untold Billions and well into the multiple trillion mark of our money into the ether with the thinnest of oversight and control, the gall of leadership not only ignoring the will of the people but also in contempt of those same people, all of these things are the legacy of the hussein presidency... a great stain on a greater nation.... and I skipped about forty other issues just to keep this paragraph readable.

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Director of the Smurf movie speaks out about Haitian relief...

World famous movie director James Cameron, also a noted peacenik and anti-war apologist said Friday on CNN that he felt it was a shame that Americans could not put relief workers on the ground in Haiti as fast as we could deploy Special Forces troops when we plan to invade another country.

Clearly James, who has made millions working in the greatest country on the planet being allowed to showcase tremendous cutting edge technology and storytelling ability (I callz em as I seez em...) is so eager to create a Susan Sarandon Avatar for himself that he has found a way to make the horrendous suffering of an as yet uncounted number of thousands of the most poor and destitute people on the planet a mere apple-crate for him to stand on to espouse his crackpot philosophy. Very humanitarian of him.

Yes, the man is insanely talented. Still, (and I am not at all politically motivated in saying this) I have zero interest in seeing Avatar. Again.. not for his loopy anti-American hysteria, but because there is a fatal flaw in the movie. A BIG WHOPPING fatal flaw in the movie....

Lessee here... gung ho camouflage-wearing military types in bulky weapons of destruction wander across an idyllic jungle planet rich with natural resources and go to war with the natives... freakishly over-sized smurfs in loincloths who then use Ewok-tactics to try to save their world from destruction. Who's gonna win? Anybody out there wanna tell me? No really... there's no way to forecast THAT one....

Yes, I know there's a little more to it than that... but in a nutshell that's the plot. Big, colorful, and stupid... but not as much fun as GI Joe... because GI Joe knew it was stupid and didn't care... James thinks he has created high art that should rank him up there with Robert Maplethorpe. Yes.. the film is raking in more bucks than "An Inconvenient Truth" but money does not sway from the crackpot philosophy and the idea that I've already seen this picture in the mercifully much shorter George Lucas version.

And this is the point... All of this is completely irrelevant to the Haitian disaster. Cameron is actually using a moment of intense personal tragedy for all of us to get more bang for his theatrical buck. Bet the Haitians are grateful for that. Perhaps he can donate a few truckload of spare Academy Award screener DVDs to the beleaguered nation to help them heal their wounds.

I had considered that someday I might have watched Avatar on .. I dunno.. TBS... but now I think it would just make me sick to do that. But for those of you who want to see the movie in all it's glory, here's an animatic from the film....

"James Cameron's AVATAR: IN A NUTSHELL




Apologies of course to the original UNICEF Smurfs Anti-war video... itself an exercise in scaring the s**t out of children...

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Some days you just wish Al Gore would be right....

It's the top of the calendar, January 3rd, and I flew out of Buffalo this morning in a blinding snowstorm in what can charitably be called bone-cold arctic wind. I ended up three hours later in Florida, which is suffering a particularly cold 45 - 50 degree snap... about 20 degrees lower than normal for this time of year.

CNN reported today that Beijing is facing such bitter and heavy snowfall that they may shut down due to it, even while millions are still returning from holiday travels. They say it's he worst winter weather they've faced in 40 years. Two years ago my boss, a Chinese man, sent images of cars covered in six inches of ice and pointed out that this is far from normal weather... as a way of explaining that some of our custom overseas shipments were likely to see delays.

The December summit in Copenhagen to formalize a world-wide treaty against Global Warming was itself uncharacteristically walloped with a heavy snowstorm unlike that seen in years.

Even as the United State's most esteemed Liberal Democrats pressed forward their doomsday agenda of Socialized taxation... ummm... 'scuze me... I meant to say Socialized Healthcare, Washington DC got... you guessed it... snowed under.

Gotta love God... he's got a great sense of humor.

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(Supplemental: I'm reporting from Orlando, FL on this.... the local news down here says that the state is experiencing the coldest temperatures in over a decade.... it's going down to freezing overnight tonight. Global Warming my ass!!!!)