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American:The Bill Hicks Story, Bill Hicks, comedians, Comedy, documentaries, documentary, Living, movie, movie reviews, movies, Politics, Satire, satirists, social satire
In 2011, Arts, Corporatocracy, Living, Movie Reviews, Movie Reviews, Political Punditry, Politics on May 30, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Dustin Hoffman doesn’t play him in the movie. I’m not sure who could play comedian Bill Hicks and get all of his complexity. The eighties’ Lenny Bruce, he lived the requisite life of Hollywood pictures, but he didn’t have the drug-additcted burn of a Bruce, or the spectacular flame-out of an Andy Kaufman. Cancer was his mortal enemy, which is always a seat-squirmer as it can strike anyone at any time, making the audience a tad uneasy. Hicks was not your Jay Leno yock-it-up kind of comic. He was a searing satirist, a social philosopher preaching and railing at the masses in an agora with a two-drink minimum.
“American: The Bill Hicks Story” is a documentary, but a very non-traditional one.
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Aig, American Insurance Group, Barack Obama, CBO, Citicorp, Congressional Budget Office, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, General Motors, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Gm, Gop, Republican, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Savings & Loan Bailout, TARP, taxpayers, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department, Treasury Secretary
In 2011, Auto Bailout, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Insurance, Big Three Auto Makers, Bureaucracy, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Federal Government, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GOP, Legislation, Media, New York Times, Newspapers, Politics, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, TARP, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Senate, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department, Wall Street Journal, Years on May 29, 2011 at 12:47 am
If you turned on a TV, or picked up a newspaper, or logged in to the Internet in 2008, it was everywhere: The Bailout.
It was evil.
It was immoral.
It was the end of days.
It worked.
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Barack Obama, Charles Koch, commodities, contango, contango strategy, crude oil, David Koch, High Gas Prices, Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, oil, oil price manipulation, speculation, speculators
In 2011, American Values, Barack Obama, Bureaucracy, Campaign 2012, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Dodd-Frank Act, Elections, Federal Government, GOP, Ideologies, Koch Brothers, Legislation, Neo Conservatives, Politics, Republicans, Tea Party, The White House, Years on May 25, 2011 at 12:57 am
UPDATED 5/25/11: Ancient tribes blamed angry deities for their troubles. Drought? The goddess of rain is angry. Four dollar gasoline? There is always that push to blame the Arab oil producers, but, right now, production is peak and supply is good. So why, in a supply and demand marketplace, are you paying $4.00/gallon for gas? Don’t pray to St. Clampett, patron saint of oil production, but lay the blame at the feet of the same people who are socially re-engineering the United States in their image: The Koch Brothers.
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Adolph Coors Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Carthage Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation, Chuck Todd, For America, John M. Olin Foundation, L. Brent Bozell III, L. Brent Bozell III, Media Research Center, NBC News, Political Extremism, Radical Right, Right, Right Wing, Sarah Scaife Foundation
In 2011, American Values, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Constitution, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, First Amendment, Fox News, George W. Bush, GOP, Health Care Reform, Ideologies, Legislation, Media Research Center, Neo Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Republicans, Richard Mellon Scaife, States, Television News, The Congress, Years on May 22, 2011 at 1:15 pm
OPINION – Democrats stink at branding and messaging. They still live in the wonkish intellectual nirvana that somehow if we explain the societal benefits of policy to the American people, it will quell their fears and they will rise enlightened into a new age. Republicans embrace fear. They package and brand it in flavors and variations, like Oreos or spaghetti sauce. Fear sells their Sham-WOW politics. Back us and we can make America shiny and white again. Just follow us, folks. We’ll keep the bogeymen at bay. We’re the patriots. The morally correct. The true Americans. It is not dissimilar from the kind of advertising that the cigarette industry used to sell cancer to kids for generations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Christian, Christianity, faith, Pedophile Priests, Pedophilia, Priests, Religion, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, sexual abuse, Woodstock
In Christianity, Faiths, Roman Catholicism on May 19, 2011 at 2:58 am
Lost in the Arnold Schwarzenegger scandal and the Newt Gingrich political incorrectness implosion earlier this week was the bombshell release of a $1.8M study by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Their conclusion as to why there was a wave of priest pedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church? Blame it on Woodstock.
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Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Fox News, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh
In 2011, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, Fox News, GOP, Huffington Post, Ideologies, Mitt Romney, Neo Conservatives, Partisan News, Political Punditry, Politics, Racism, Religious Right, Republicans, Right Wing Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party, The White House, Years on May 17, 2011 at 6:13 pm
When Newt Gingrich is too moderate for the Republican Party, the Tea Party has turned the political landscape to quicksand for GOP presidential aspirants.
Gingrich, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, was asked whether Republicans should buck polls that show their Medicare voucher system is D.O.A. His reply put the GOP spin-o-sphere into complete apoplexy:
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Book Deals, campaign, Campaign 2012, Gary Johnson, Gop, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, primary, Republican, Republican Party, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, TV deals
In 2011, Birthers, Campaign 2012, Elections, Fox News, Ideologies, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Partisan News, Politics, Religious Right, Republicans, Roger Ailes, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Television News, Years on May 14, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Most of the “GOP hopefuls” know that they do not have a hope in hell of winning. So why do it? The label “Republican Candidate” is a rhetorical gold mine where the chosen few can spend years making millions in hollow speeches, book deals, radio talk shows, and at the Conservative’s Cabal and choice cash cow, Fox News.
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Campaign 2012, Citizen Cane, Citizen Kane, Gop, Herman Cain, Politics, Republican Presidential Candidate, Republican Presidential Race 2012, Republicans
In 2011, Barack Obama, Birthers, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Elections, Fox News, Ideologies, Media, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Tea Party, The White House, Years on May 11, 2011 at 7:06 pm
OPINION – As it comes to all men, 15 minutes of fame have befallen Herman Cain…
“Rosebud…“
NEWS ON THE MARCH!!
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In Arts, Jazz, Music on May 8, 2011 at 4:24 am
Yes, I speak jazz heresy: Maybe it is time that the promoters of the annual April/May music festival in New Orleans fess up: Jazz may get top billing on the signage and the posters at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but it rides the back of the bus on the fairgrounds.
There’s a reason for this too… (Shhhh…) Jazz doesn’t make the festival much money.
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anti-abortion, Big Agriculture, Big Oil, Congress, Democrats, House, House Of Representatives, Oil Prices, Politics, Republicans, Senate, windfall profits tax
In 2011, Al Qaeda, Antiabortionists, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Federal Government, Halliburton, Ideologies, International, John Boehner, Osama Bin Laden, Religious Right, Republicans, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on May 6, 2011 at 3:00 pm
It is always on the days that the news flow is so obsessed with one big story that both parties in the House of Representatives are out to try and set up the next news cycle. This week two purely political bills, one on Big Oil’s windfall profits tax break, and one on abortion, both were lobbed by politicians into motion. The GOP means to keep Big Oil’s tax breaks, and make sure that they have some foot soldiers in their dwindling grass roots base by keeping anti-abortion groups happy. Read the rest of this entry »
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