March 16, 2009
— Gabriel Malor Hello, hello.
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— Russ from Winterset For my entire lifetime, if not longer, Conservatives have ceded Hollywood and the entertainment industry to the left. Oh yeah, you'll see an OCCASIONAL movie with a conservative foundation sneak its way through the process and end up on your local multiplex screen; but those movies are always lauded way too much in the conservative press because they're the exceptions that prove the rule. Andrew Breitbart and his "Big Hollywood" site affiliated with Pajamas Media are trying to reverse this trend, and I laud them for their efforts.
What's the AoS Writers Workshop, you ask? Well, I've heard it said time and time again that "Everyone has ONE novel in them, its just a matter of getting it out in a readable form". Since the AoSHQ is considered by many to be a SMART MILITARY BLOG, I thought we could do a little thought experiment and solicit treatments for screenplays. I had a thought pop into my head last night that would qualify, and I'll put it in comments to get things started.
Now obviously we're not talking about movie screenplays. You've got to walk before you can run, so I figure that once we master the 30 or 60 minute TV format, then we can turn our attention to getting "Citizen Ace" made into a movie.
Here's the rules:
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March 15, 2009
— Open Blog Not ours of course Mr. Robbins. Is this something? Maybe coming to a state-owned bank near you? The U.K Spectator would like to know Why are our State-Owned Banks Asking Customers About Their Political Affiliations?
”Some tip-offs are so awful that you almost hope they are untrue. When I was told by Geoff Robbins, a computer consultant, that he had been asked about his political connections before opening an account with the state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland it sounded fantastical. Having the state owning the UK banking system is bad enough, but asking about party membership before you open an account? Not in Britain, I thought. And indeed, the RBS press office denied it outright. "We would not ask that question, nor dream of doing so," said an RBS spokeswoman. So had Robbins concocted his story? I doubted it. So I called RBS Streamline myself and pretend to set up an account for credit card processing facility. I used the details of my mother-in-law's real company and when they started to talk politics, I switched on the tape recorder. Here is the audio, the transcript is below.”
And indeed the transcript is below if youÂ’d like to go read it. Frankly I havenÂ’t read the article fully and digested it. Looks like one of those things that Gabe needs to explain to us in a 5,000 word post. I skimmed the comments following it and it looks like a lot of people with solid knowledge about the U.K. banking system weighed in on the subject. Meanwhile you morons are picking at your navel lint while deciding on which inflatable sex toy you want to order online. ItÂ’d also be nice if, just for once, you could comment in a British accent. Might lend a bit of class to this place. Or not, since youÂ’d be making the same moronic comments, but with a British accent. (And itÂ’d all be in Cockney anyway)
Hat tip to “oLD gUY” who found it at The Belmont Club blog.
There's a lot you could learn from them you know. Cheery-oÂ’ old chaps!
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— Gabriel Malor Dead of cancer. Age 62.
Once a self-identified lifelong Democrat, Silver was a founding member of the liberal-leaning Creative Coalition in 1989. But he made a breathtaking political transformation, going from far left to radical right after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.He spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, enthusiastically backing a second term for President Bush.
And speaking of, does anybody have video of that? It was very short, but one of the best speeches of the convention. All I can find is the text here.
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Update: Nope, a Joke, Says Goldfarb
— Ace Update: Goldfarb clarifies this whole "scoop" was a clumsy attempt at a joke.
I don't get the joke, really. But anyway, ignore this non-scoop. Sorry -- hey, it read straight to me.
Thanks to FrankG for alerting me to this.
The original post is ducked into the extended entry box, because, you know, it's all wrong, and not really worth your reading.
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— Ace It's time to pick on Obama some. That will give them credibility, and plenty of time to refurbish his image for 2012.
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— Ace Headed out to see Watchmen. Or, if that's too packed, Taken.
Either way I'm going to see some bad guys get killed. Will have a review later.
Although, if my review is too nuanced, I have trouble writing it and may put it off. That's why I skipped out on reviewing 300, for example. Liked it? Sure. Loved it? No. Complete raves and complete pans are so much easier to write.
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— Ace Bush was always playing a game apparently too nuanced for Barack Obama, who spoke casually of the Great Overmountain Invasion of Pakistan.
On one hand, we want these Al Qaeda sympathizing terrorist-breeding bastards to straighten their shit out and get right with Jesus.
On the other hand, push them too far and the central, non-insane government may fall and Al Qaeda will have, again, it's own owned-and-operated state. With 170 million people. And nukes.
There's no need for alarmism, but there is cause for some alarm.
President Asif Ali Zardari struggled to maintain his increasingly tenuous grip over Pakistan Sunday as police tear-gassed stone-throwing protesters and authorities tried – and failed – to put the main opposition leader under house arrest.
What began four days ago as a political standoff between Mr. Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is now "beginning to look like an endgame" for the deeply unpopular president with cabinet ministers quitting and popular discontent growing, said Safdar Abbasi, a senior member of Mr. Zardari's Pakistan People's Party. Analysts and politicians cautioned that it could play out over months rather than days, however.Sunday's violence in the eastern city of Lahore, Mr. Sharif's stronghold, renewed speculation that Pakistan's military – which has ruled Pakistan for more than half it's 61-year history – could step in to restore order just over a year after the restoration of democracy in this nuclear-armed nation. There was also growing alarm among officials from the U.S. and other Western allies that the crisis had distracted Islamabad from battling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
The military stepping in wouldn't necessarily be bad -- that's what they do. The worry is on whose side do they intervene, and if they defy the Islamists too much, can they keep control this time?
Thanks to JackStraw.
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— Ace You may remember Evan Sayet's YouTubed speech about liberalism that was the rage in early 2007.
He just did another one at the Heritage Foundation. It's "Hating What's Right...," about the mindset of liberals that causes them to, well, hate what's right. Namely: The cult of sophistry that dominates liberal thinking, in which there can never be any discrimination between right or wrong, or good and evil, because that's some sort of bigoted discrimination. And how that starting premise causes them to challenge all positive, morality- and success-engendering value systems, and ultimately to embrace morality- and success-destroying value systems.
It's long, but worth it. I suggest multitasking until you get hooked.
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President Obama: Say, You Know What Might Be Fun? Taxing Health Care Benefits
— Ace Note too that McCain really wasn't taxing health care benefits at all -- he was providing a $5000 tax credit for every person, which would more than make up for the taxes they might pay for health care. In the net, it was a tax cut for almost everybody.*
But now Obama's on board... at least with the tax part. (At least his administration is considering it.) No word on the tax credit part.
Goldfarb calls this the second-most hypocritical thing Obama's done. I don't know. I want to call it the most hypocritical thing but there sure is a lot of competition at the top. Correction: The second-most hypocritical thing he's done this week, Goldfarb says. Ah. I was looking a broader palette of hypocrisy.
* So why propose it? Well, he didn't articulate this very well -- economics are not his bag -- but I believe he was trying to sever the odd relationship between employment and health care benefits, which just about every economist says is jackass. It freezes workers into a particular job, and freezes them into a particular health care plan rather than letting them choose from among many, etc.
Honestly, given the fact that he didn't seem ready to explain the somewhat complicated economic argument behind the move, I think maybe he should have just said nothing about it.
Still, he was demagogued ruthlessly over what would have been a tax cut for almost everyone. Think you would pay more in mere taxes on your health care plan than $5000? I emphasize "taxes" because even if your health care costs $15,000 per year, you're still only going to pay about $5000 in taxes at the 35% rate.
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