They are remaking Total Recall.
And they are remaking The NeverEnding Story, too.
And as if that were not enough, they are also remaking Arthur.
I can kinda see how a re-do of Arthur (a movie that I haven’t seen in ages) might work. But Total Recall and The NeverEnding Story? I have Total Recall on DVD: nineteen years after it first came out and it still holds its own against just about anything contemporary.
But regardless, I guess we are going to “Ged yor ahss to Mahs” all over again....
As I do every year, at the moment I am watching the Presidential State of the Union Address. And by “watching” I mean that, per my usual custom, I have my back turned to the television so that I’m not tuned in to the imagery at all. Stripped of the visual component, my brain is more keenly listening to what Barack Obama is really saying.
So what do I think? He is definitely far more articulate and presidential-sounding than George W. Bush. Unfortunately he’s talking about wasting money just as bad as Bush ever did.
(And as an aside, I miss tuning in to this without the live and uncommonly wise commentary of young master Kyle Williams. Hey Kyle, I know you’re reading this: it’s way past time for you to start a blog or something ‘cuz I still get lots of e-mail from people asking how you’re doing and ...
The $787 BILLION package is now enacted legislation, as President Barack Obama signed the bill at a ceremony in Denver.
There might be another “stimulus” coming soon, believe it or not.
And on the day of this esteemed occasion, the Dow dropped 297.81 points, -3.79%, to close at 7,552.60.
And on a somewhat related note, I’ve been hearing some curious rumblings about stuff going down in the Eastern Europe markets, that might bear watching for the time being....
Elton John’s Rocket Pictures has begun production on Pride and Predator: a cinematic adaptation of a Jane Austen novel that deviates wildly “from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.”
This is, apparently, not a joke.
One of the producers has also said that “It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect.”
Jane Austen books must be a hot sci-fi genre these days. Cinema Blend is also reporting that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in the works, with involvement from Natalie Portman.
Words fail…...
Jerome Corsi has published a wallopin’ eye-opener of an essay. According to his figures, the United States federal government’s runaway spending (like the “stimulus”) combined with its already existing financial obligations, is more than the gross domestic product of the entire world.
There is no way we are going to be able to pay for all of this in our lifetime, the lifetime of our children, and quite possibly the lifetime of their grandchildren. Not if our politicians keep adhering to this insanity....
According to a story at The New York Times, the United States military is about to offer American citizenship to legal immigrants if they enlist in the armed forces. Some might be eligible for citizenship in as little as six months.
The reason for this, is that the American military is admittedly “stretched thin” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So let’s go review what happened a little over a millenia and a half ago, when the cost of maintaining its vast empire utterly taxed Rome’s martial capability. With not nearly enough proper imperial denizens to draw upon, the Roman government eventually acquiesced to enlisting barbarians from Germania and Gaul to bolster its forces. In many cases, the foreign soldiers were offered Roman citizenship as part of a package of incentives (which could also include some lucrative latifundia).
Fifteen hundred years later, and another great world-spanning power… is now doing much ...
Betsy Ramsdale of Wisconsin apparently likes guns. Nothing wrong with that. And she likes them so much that she posted a picture of herself aiming a rifle on her Facebook page. Nothing wrong with that either: it’s her own account, she gets to do with it on her own time whatever she likes and if Facebook doesn’t think it violates the terms of service, nobody else should hassle her about it.
Except that Betsy Ramsdale is also a teacher employed by what is all too often the modern monstrosity of public education. And when officials at Beaver Dam Middle School were “alerted” to the photo, they immediately placed Ramsdale on administrative leave.
So what it all comes down to is that Betsy Ramsdale is being punished for practicing her freedom of speech and right to privacy, by her implied advocacy of the Second Amendment. That’s a heckuva civics lesson ...
From Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis…
The person who submitted the photo writes…
“Got the photo from a friend. The white sign that has been blacked out used to be the Toy Center. The biggest & best toy store in New Orleans in the late 50’s early 60’s. The Coca Cola bottling plant & Tulane Shirt Company were just to the left on S. Jefferson Davis Parkway. Times have changed.”
I remember back in the early Nineties when Haiti was being torn apart following the military coup that overthrew Aristide. People there became so hard-up for money, that they had resorted to looting cemeteries: digging up graves to steal jewelry, gold teeth and even silk casket linings to sell. That’s the kind of desperation that whenever I see a picture like this or hear somesuch else so similar, I have to wonder how far we really are from the ...
Awright, I’m prepared to go ahead and say it: the Obama Presidency is already a disaster. And this legislation is gonna be about as successful as the Smoot-Hawley Act.
Word out of D.C. tonight is that a tentative agreement on the “stimulus” package has been reached in the Senate. It’s probably going to be enacted law over the weekend or soon afterward.
Said “stimulus” is going to cost me and you, Fellow Taxpayer…
According to one senator, James Inhofe out of Oklahoma, the bill is only 7% stimulating and the rest of it is just more spending.
I remember the big budget battle in 1993. It’s what really started opening my eyes on all the waste that goes on in the federal government. And I never thought that I would see anything that outrageous again.
If the phone lines to Washington D.C. don’t burn up with ...
A few months ago George W. Bush proposed wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of our money and it was called “bailout” and some politicians approved it. Today Barack Obama is proposing wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of our money and it’s being called “stimulus” and those same politicians deride it as unacceptable.
I would like to quote “Oceania is at war with Eurasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia” to the Powers That Be, but sad to say, they most likely wouldn’t get it.
And now that he’s President, doesn’t Obama have better things to do than to get into the proverbial “pissing contest” with a radio commentator who is nothing more than a shameless shill for the “other side”?
Don’t we have better things to do than to even care about such a non-story involving two men with apparently arrested development?
Pat Buchanan is right: ...