The First Guy To Make $20M For A Movie Hates Capitalism November 11, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Celebritards, Liberal Idiots.comments closed
From Jim Treacher on Twitter via Mark Steyn at The Corner:
Jim Carrey was the first actor to make $20 million for a movie. The fact that his new version of A Christmas Carol is pretty much a box office bomb has left him bitter.
Guess what he blames? Capitalism.
Carrey is following in [Robin] Williams’s footsteps in one way, however: the making of idiotic political pronouncements. Talking with the Chicago Tribune to promote A Christmas Carol a few days before the film’s release, Carrey released the following burst of political flatulence:
“I was thinking about it this morning, how this story ties into everything we’re going through,” says Carrey, who, thanks to the technology, plays Scrooge as well as the three ghosts haunting him. “Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition. Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed.. . .
What a freaking moron. How else did Jim Carrey make his gazillions? Capitalism. The ability to sell whatever skills he has to anyone willing to meet his asking price.
Steyn notes:
Jim Carrey is the beneficiary of one of the most unregulated capitalist endeavors on the planet. Yet he grew up in Ontario. Had he wanted to be “protected against personal greed,” he could have remained up north where his own particular industry is one of the most regulated in a highly regulated land. He could have made publicly funded movies subsidized by Cinedole Canada and Telewelfare Quebec and all the other government agencies for a nice four- or (if he’s lucky) five-figure sum.
This, of course, from the guy who gave us such cinematic masterpieces as Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Dumb and Dumber.
Reminiscent of that idiotic commercial in favor of government-run health care that did nothing bash insurance company executives for being greedy that starred Will Ferrell.
You know him. The guy who got $20 million apiece for such stink bombs as Bewitched and Land of the Lost.
Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot. In both cases.
Lindsey Grahamnesty Censured November 11, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Lindsey Graham, RINOs, Republican Party, Republicans, South Carolina.comments closed
Good.
It’s about freaking time.
The Republican Party of Charleston County took the unusual step of passing a resolution of censureship against Sen. Lindsey Grahamnesty, the RINO Senator from South Carolina.
County Chairwoman Lin Bennett said the unanimous vote “is an effort to get his attention. They (party leaders) are just fed up, and they want him to know they’re fed up.”
The resolution mentions Graham’s cooperation with U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on a bipartisan energy bill, and his support for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program and the time he called some opponents of immigration reform “bigots.”
South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
“U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham — in the name of bipartisanship — continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom, rule of law, and fiscal conservatism,” the resolution reads.
By the way, the state-run media still doesn’t get it. The Charleston Post & Courier includes this line in its story (boldface mine):
The Charleston County Republican Party’s executive committee took the unusual step Monday night of censuring U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for stepping across the GOP party line.
This has nothing to do with Sen. Grahamnesty finding common ground with Democrats. No one has any problem with that. When the process involves caving on principles, that’s something else.
The censure has everything to do with:
- Sen. Grahamnesty selling out conservative principles and essentially taking the Democrats’ position on issues. His sellout on cap-and-tax and TARP are prime examples.
- Sen. Grahamnesty accusing conservatives of purging anyone who disagrees with them.
- Sen. Grahamnesty working with Democrats to undermine President Bush’s judicial appointments.
- Sen. Grahamnesty accusing opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens of being bigots.
Says the Left Coast Rebel (who also had the Photoshop of Sen. Grahamnesty below):
Hopefully this represents a turning point in the vetting process within the GOP for conservatives to take hold of the party. More to come? I hope Grahamnesty finds the exit door. You?
Yes. Sen. Grahamnesty, don’t let the door hit you in the rear end on the way out.
Evaluating Terrorists November 11, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Humor, Political Cartoons, Terrorism.comments closed
From Glenn McCoy via Townhall.com.
How the Obama administration evaluates potential terrorists:
In Remembrance November 11, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Veterans, Veterans Day.comments closed
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent. The end of World War I, or the War to End All Wars.
Formerly known as Armistice Day, November 11 is now known as Veterans Day. We remember all who served and are serving today.
Steele’s Foot In Mouth Disease November 11, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Michael Steele, Republican National Committee.comments closed
Geez, can’t the Republican National Committee find someone as a chairman that isn’t an embarrassment?
Michael Steele did it again, this time playing the Democrats’ race card for them by claiming his own party is a bunch of racists that are even afraid of him as a black man.
The Republican chairman appeared on TVOne’s “Washington Watch” this weekend, a new Sunday political talk show aimed at a black audience. The host, Roland Martin, asked Steele how Republicans could reach out to black voters. Steele responded by talking about issues such as education, small business, jobs and the economy, The rest is in a partial transcript:
MARTIN: But your candidates got to talk to them. One of the criticisms I’ve always had is Republicans — white Republicans — have been scared of black folks.
STEELE: You’re absolutely right. I mean I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me. I’m like, “I’m on your side” and so I can imagine going out there and talking to someone like you, you know, [say] “I’ll listen.” And they’re like “Well.” Let me tell you. You saw in Christie and you saw in McDonnell a door open because they went in and engaged. McDonnell was very deliberate about spending…
MARTIN: Right.
STEELE: I mean, Sheila Johnson was on his team. I mean, that was a big deal. That’s because he engaged her and she helped navigate him through that relationship.
Sister Toldjah reminds us of the last time Steele opened his mouth and inserted his foot, by bashing Rush Limbaugh and didn’t object when an al-CNN host said the Republican National Convention looked like “Nazi Germany.”
You’d think there would be someone that could be chairman of the RNC without pandering to the worst stereotypes of Republicans put forth by Democrats and the state-run media and looking for opportunities to bash conservatism.
DC Jihadist Executed November 10, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Islam, Jihad, Religion of Piece (of Arm, of Leg, of Torso), Terrorism.comments closed
One of the two Muslim terrorists who conducted a jihad attack on the Washington, D.C., area in 2002 has assumed room temperature courtesy of the state of Virginia.
John Allen Muhammed, unrepentant jihadist, took the Eternal Celestial Dirt Nap via lethal injection.
JARRATT, Va. (al-AP) – John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002.
He looked calm and stoic, but was twitching and blinking as the injections began, defiant to the end, refusing to utter any final words. Victims’ families sat behind glass while watching the execution, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.
“He died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims,” said Prince William County prosecutor Paul Ebert, who witnessed Muhammad die by injection at 9:11 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center, south of Richmond.
We captured live exclusive audio of the jihadist going off to meet his 72 virgins … or is that a 72-year-old virgin?
And in proper commemoration of Muhammed becoming worm food, we dedicate this:
8/6/2001 Vs. Hasan Warning Signs November 10, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in Hypocrisy, Jihad, Liberals.comments closed
Let’s see. When it came to Nidal Malik Hasan, all the warning signs were there.
- Pro-jihadi rants on the Internet, including support of homicide bombers and labeling of the U.S. military as aggressors and occupiers? Check.
- Association with the same radical mosque and imam that produced several of the Sept. 11th jihadists, including personal contact with those jihadists? Check.
- Making anti-American, pro-jihadist statements in front of witnesses? Check.
- Attempting to contact Al Qaeda? Check.
Seems all the warning signs were there to see for anyone who wanted to see them. The CIA apparently knew but either was bullied and intimidated into silence by the jihad conducted against them by DOJ thug Eric Holder and the street thugs in the White House or passed the info on to the Army, who declined to act for reasons of political correctness. The FBI knew of his posted threats on the Internet yet did nothing, perhaps for the same reasons.
If this had happened under President Bush … yada yada yada.
Where are the Bush Derangement Sufferers who wanted the President impeached and declared he allowed 9/11 to happen because of supposed failure to act on a certain Presidential Daily Briefing?
That would be the PDB of August 6, 2006 which Bush’s detractors claimed was the “smoking gun” that showed the President knew of an impending attack yet failed to act. The text of that PDB:
Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.
Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the U.S. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and “bring the fighting to America.” :
After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladentold followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a [deleted text] service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told [deleted text] service at the same time that Bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative’s access to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Laden’s first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that BinLaden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate theoperation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own U.S. attack.
Ressam says Bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he preparesoperations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Laden associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.
AI Qaeda members — including same who are U.S. citizens — have resided in and traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains asupport structure that could aid attacks.
Two Al Qaeda members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [deleted text] service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of “Blind Shaykh” ‘Umar’ Abd aI-Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.
Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers Bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or Bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.
Never mind that nowhere in that text is any information that would have led U.S. authorities, civilian or military, to a specific target in a specific time frame.
In fact, the information this PDB was at least three years old. As far back as 1998, the U.S. knew that Al Qaeda and bin Laden were determined to launch an attack on U.S. soil.
But the rank hypocrisy of the Blame Bush crowd — the parrots who squawked “Bush knew!” — is on display … because not one has come forth and condemned the Obama administration for failing to remove a committed jihadist from the ranks of the U.S. military despite overwhelming evidence known across the spectrum of civilian, military and intelligence officials.
