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OH YEAH! Thanks Bob!

thedailywhat:

Movie Trailer of the Day: God Bless America, the latest uproariously twisted comedy from weirdo-actor-turned-weirdo-director Bobcat Goldthwait, gets its first official trailer.

The film, which stars Joel Murray as a 45-year-old unemployed divorcee with a brain tumor who teams up with a nutty teen named Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr) to cleanse American culture of its false and foolish idols, is due in theaters May 11th.

It will also be available On Demand starting April 6th.

[hulu.]

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MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought

wilwheaton:

Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what’s happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they’d better pass Hollywood’s favorite legislation… or else:

“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,”

This certainly follows what many people assumed was happening, and fits with the anonymous comments from studio execs that they will stop contributing to Obama, but to be so blatant about this kind of corruption and money-for-laws politics in the face of an extremely angry public is a really, really, really tone deaf response from Dodd. 

Wow. Chris Dodd is not only an asshole, he’s a stupid, tone deaf asshole. And so are all the asshole Democrats who are on the wrong side of this issue because they want money from Hollywood. Guess what, Democrats? You’re finally starting to reclaim the populist mantle that could help you win back congress and keep the White House. You may want to, you know, get on the right side of public opinion you idiots.

It shows, yet again, that he just doesn’t get it. People were protesting not just because of the content of these bills, but because of the corrupt process of big industries like Dodd’s “buying” politicians and “buying” laws. To then come out and make that threat explicit isn’t a way to fix things or win back the public. It’s just going to get them more upset, and to recognize just how corrupt this process is. If Dodd, as he said in yesterday’s NY Times, really wanted to turn things around and come to a more reasonable result, this is exactly how not to do it

Not that it matters, and not that I’m some kind of rich mogul, but I’ll say this again: I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost more jobs to runaway production, than anything associated with what the MPAA calls piracy. Chris Dodd is lying about piracy costing us jobs. Hollywood’s refusal to adapt to changing times is what’s costing the studios money. That’s it.

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'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts | Techdirt

Chris Dodd supports this.

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What? NO! This sucks

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LAW dcu: Fact.

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Fact.

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If he and his Tea Party coterie put half as much effort into shutting down the TSA as it has into shutting down Planned Parenthood and PBS, they’d garner a lot more respect from me as a politician intent on “changing the system”.
http://www.metafilter.com/111985/Ron-Paul-Soothsayerinchief#4147330
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Being British is about… - Imgur

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Posted 6 days ago
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This is a good idea

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he High Court in London heard new details of settlements amounting to more than 645,000 pounds ($960,000), including 130,000 pounds for Alfie star Law, for hacking by the News of the World tabloid
I bet the made more than 1 Million on the day they published each leaked detail
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Awwww Just like Eee TEEEE OH MY GOD!

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Hurtin’ Zoom

Hurtin’

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This recent round seems to be not much better than a Facebook worm. The safest thing now would be to avoid clicking anything to do with operation megaupload or Anonymous—especially if it’s a mysterious Pastehtml link.
Don’t click that LINK!
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Oh, how you’ll laugh

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I reject and oppose this monopoly that was never for the creators, but always for the distributors: a guild whose time is up and obsolete, and which has no business trampling on our civil liberties.
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However, frontrunner Mr. Romney was not having a clear field. His numbers have tumbled in recent days as the focus has shifted to his fortune and his tax returns.

Mr. Romney, with an estimated fortune of US$250-million, revealed during a debate Monday that he pays 15% tax — because he is taxed on his investments.

Republicans and Democrats have also demanded that he release his tax returns as his usual for candidates running for president. Mr. Romney has promised to release them in April when, he said, he becomes the official nominee.

However, ABC News reported that Mr. Romney has US$8-million invested in 12 funds listed on a Cayman Islands registry. Another investment, said to be worth between US$5-million and $25-million, was “domiciled” in the Cayman Islands.

The revelations will add to his image — as put forward by his opponents — as an out-of-touch multi-millionaire and corporate raider.

Doesn’t that make him one of the fabled Job creators?