October 2009
documentary:
When did your addiction to docs start? Michael Moore films? PBS? Or was it when you saw Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth?
For me the fascination began when my history teacher played educational movies in class. While my friends dreaded the boring videos, I was hooked learning about the life and times of Roosevelt and Jefferson, or the Depression Era, or even Roman Emperors. Whatever...
2 tags
If we all weren't reading each others' Tumblrs off...
(via inothernews)
RUMOR: Comcast In Talks To Buy NBC - Mashable.com →
shaneguiter:
According to The Wrap, Comcast is currently in talks to buy the entertainment powerhouse that is NBC-Universal from its current owner, General Electric. There have been rumors that NBC-Universal were on the selling block, but Comcast is still a bit of a shocker.
The Wrap describes a meeting between Comcast and NBC-Universal that its sources say was meant to hammer out a deal that...
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
September 2009
3 tags
White House To Fox News, "YOU LIE"
…the White House blog has published a comparison of Fox News “rhetoric” versus “reality” on the issue of President Obama’s support for Chicago’s Olympic bid.
The statement went so far as to use the expression “Fox lies.”
“Last night Fox News continued its disregard for the facts in an attempt to smear the Administration’s efforts to win the Olympics for the United States,”
…“In the...
Swans of Prospect Park Go From Elegant to Murderous
nytimes
1 tag
Actor Dennis Hopper rushed to hospital
breakingnews
The polls in New Jersey have tightened up. Governor Corzine has pulled to within...
– AMERICAblog
2 tags
…the truth is only so many people can stand on top of a pyramid.
– Michael Moore (via azspot)
I want the public option now →
think4yourself:
alcaniglia:
The premiums for the average health insurance package for government employees will increase 8% in 2010. Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Self-only plan (my plan) will increase 15% next year.
The 8% average increase this year follows a 7% average increase last year. Looks like I will have to wade through the mess of selecting an insurance company again for open...
2 tags
The Occult and Hip Hop
→
continue reading…boing boing
I knew it! The Devil made me like “Baby Got Back”!
Sometimes Fox brings on the criticism itself, they don’t cover rallies and tea...
– Bernie Goldberg Calls Out Fox News Hosts ‘Pretending to Be Journalists’…on Fox News (via soupsoup)
wow, bernie actually came up for air from o’reilly ass to say this? wonder why?
2 tags
We’re a different kind of society. We see things differently. The world...
– Whoopi Goldberg via dailydish
not necessarily!?! huh?
2 tags
Nick of Time Movie Review – Capitalism; a Love...
It’s been about twenty-years since the release of “Roger and Me” Michael Moore finally released the movie he always wanted to make. In the past, he exposed the awful practices within the Capitalist system whether it was the ills corporate downsizing, violence in our culture, the Iraq war, or the issue of healthcare, but in this movie, he finally addresses the system in itself. That’s right… he...
2 tags
3 tags
if people don’t take action after seeing this movie, I’m done making movies. I...
– Michael Moore via David Corn at DC premiere of Capitalism A Love Story
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
Judge weighs whether cows enjoyed ’suckling’ cop’s... →
A Pennsylvania judge pondered a very unusual question during a ruling issued Monday: When a former police officer stuck his male member in the mouths of five baby cows, did they enjoy “suckling” it, or were they merely “puzzled”?…
Weighing the case, Judge James J. Morley reportedly asked: “If the cow had the cognitive ability to form thought and speak, would it say, ‘Where’s the milk? I’m...
1 tag
2 tags
Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks: Obama is an “enemy of humanity,” has “no place” in government
daily kos