Imagine if all the Star Wars flicks were instead titled “Luke Skywalker and the . . .”
Franchise titles matter, people.
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At 181 minutes, Oppenheimer better be superior to Citizen Kane and Treasure of the Sierra Madre rolled into one. Can moviegoers’ patience (and bladders) last three hours?
Seriously, there’s a lot of bloat and padding in movies these days, presumably to give the audience the feeling that their exorbitantly expensive ticket was worth it.
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I think that they already have.
The makers of Barbie are trying to kiss up to the Chinese Communist Party because they want to make money selling the movie in China.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 20, 2023
We've seen this pattern with many Hollywood movie studios, allowing China to censor American movies. pic.twitter.com/f97BLcy96z
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No s***. I got three graphs in and went hunh? Well sure, if we’d known these batshit lunatic Republicans were going this far down the rabbit hole in 1990, yeah we could have done that!
Jeebus.
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Morons
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PosTEr is Missing Sinema.
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Mint the trillion dollar coin now.
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Being a ‘realist’ and not a ‘unicorn-duster’ means that Dems must not even attempt to do anything to alter the fundamental flaws and inequities of the current U.S. political system that give inordinate power to minority conservatives. ‘We don’t have the votes’, so real players should just accept it and move on…
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Temper tantrum…We got nothing
In rare move, senator releases unverified FBI source report alleging Biden bribe (msn.com)
Sen. Chuck Grassley on Thursday released a confidential FBI informant’s unverified claim that, years ago, the Biden family “pushed” a Ukrainian oligarch to pay them $10 million.
The exceedingly rare step by Grassley, R-Iowa, further promulgates an allegation that Democratic critics warned against accepting at face value and which the White House continues to deny, saying it was investigated under the Trump administration and “debunked.”
Details of the unclassified document, known as an FD-1023, have emerged in recent months as Republicans search for any evidence that President Joe Biden engaged in the controversial overseas business dealings of his son Hunter Biden, which the president and his aides have repeatedly said he didn’t do.
In a statement on Thursday, Grassley said he was motivated by transparency: “The American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats.”
Grassley’s office said he obtained his version of the FD-1023, which is only lightly redacted, “via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers,” though the bureau said in a statement that such a release “at a minimum - unnecessarily risks the safety of a confidential source.”
Grassley has in the past criticized the release of raw intelligence. He was one of Congress’ most vocal critics of Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier. Steele, like the confidential source cited in the FD-1023, was also known to the FBI and trusted by the FBI when he provided his unverified reports about Trump’s activities Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election. (Trump has long denied any allegations of wrongdoing.)
EDIT At least good reporting
Grassley releases full FBI memo with unverified claims about Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine | AP News
In rare move, senator releases unverified FBI source report alleging Biden bribe - ABC News (go.com)
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Kinda like going to a Bruce Springsteen concert.
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GOP can put their head in the sand, Companies that have to make money cannot
Climate Disasters Are Pushing Insurance Markets to the Breaking Point (msn.com)
Insurers are responding rationally to more severe and frequent climate-change-driven losses. They are raising prices, declining to write new or renew existing insurance policies, and excluding coverage for climate-driven risks because the risk of loss is too great. For example, even though rates in Florida are three times the national average and Florida created a reinsurance program for home insurers and limited lawsuits against them, Farmers Insurance recently announced that it will not write new home, auto, or umbrella policies in Florida under the Farmer’s brand. The growing risk of losses from climate-change-driven hurricanes is simply too high.
And another one
Catastrophe losses double at Travelers as insurance industry and more regions absorb severe weather - ABC News (go.com)
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Well, if Canadian culture maven Rafael Cruz dislikes “Barbie” then that seals it for me – I’ll be sure to see it.
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DeSantis will have to pass a law making it illegal for an insurer to travel to another state for procuring more profitable business.
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So I finally listened and watched Aldean’s song. Someone didn’t watch the finished product before it was released. Aldean didn’t show what he was for, only what he’s against. And guess Aldean is to young, or was never taught about segregation and sundown towns/communities.
I think I’ll stick with this oldie but goodie.
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Judge cannon releases
Trial date May2024
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Bruce takes a break or two. I remember looking up the best time to take a piss break for The Two Towers, and the internet said it was when Arwen shows up for fantasy time while Aragorn’s inexplicably still alive after falling from the cliff. Good call.
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I heard predictions decades ago that this is what would force Americans to take climate change seriously. Instead I’m guessing the insurance companies slanted their risk analysis to discount the probable losses (every risk assessor knows what their bosses want them to say), and now insurance companies are failing left and right, and it’s too late to stop runaway global warming, they’re waking up to their exposure.
The US is sitting on a real estate bubble worse than the 2008 crash, because the risk to coastal areas is still not priced in. That’s just a f’rinstance of how much we are fucked.
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Why not? Good to have options.
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