ALLUDING TO HEINLEIN, ANY RELIGION, OR FOR THAT MATTER ANY CULTURE THAT SAYS THIS YOU CANNOT SAY, THIS YOU CANNOT READ, THIS YOU CANNOT THINK IS NOT A FRIEND OF FREEDOM: Hypersensitivity and Race.
Archive for 2018
August 9, 2018
THERE’S MORE PALATABLE WEEK-OLD FISH: Among Democrats, the Clinton name is starting to stink.
YOU KNOW HOW THE LEFT ALWAYS SAYS EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATIC? WELL THIS IS PROBLEMATIC: Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, Son Of NYC Iman Tied To ’93 WTC Bombing, Was Running Terrorist Training Camp.
DON’T GET COCKY: Blue Wave Missing in Action.
August 8, 2018
ACADEMY AWARDS SELL OUT TO STUDIOS, ADD “POPULAR MOVIE” AWARD, WILL CUT ON-AIR AWARDS IN HALF:
This means the big studio films that are ignored at the Oscars– like Disney, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, etc – will now have a People’s Choice type award. Filmmaking will not be the issue. But now “Mission Impossible” will be in a group with “Black Panther.”
Also, the Oscars will move up to February 9th, two weeks earlier than usual. Which means that the nominating period will be short, short, short. The Grammys won’t be happy– that’s their date– but what the hell. The studios have wanted this for a long time, and the Academy has capitulated.
It’s a cowing to crap.
The on air broadcast beginning in 2020 will also halve the number of awards given on air. This means, like the Emmys and the Grammys, “creative” awards will happen at a different time. No more sound editing on Oscar night, kids. It’s just gonna be stars, stars, stars. How was the movie made? Who cares, really? Find out later.
Well, the end was near. The Oscar ratings keep getting lower and lower. The studios are getting no recognition for their tent pole movies. It’s a very Trumpian philosophy.
It’s also the philosophy of the men who built Hollywood. In the 1998 A&E documentary version of Neal Gabler’s excellent 1989 book, An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, the narrator (actor R.H. Thomson) notes that after being unable to break the monopoly that east coast-based Thomas Edison had on moviemaking at the start of the 20th century, the largely Jewish immigrants who created what we now call Hollywood went west, both for the excellent weather that allowed them to film outdoors throughout most of the year, and for the freedom to build, as Gabler dubbed it in his title, “An Empire of their Own,” far from Edison’s (often anti-Semitic) control. Eventually, with 75 percent of the public going to the movies at least once a week between the wars:
Actors became the gods and goddesses of the new American religion. And where there are new gods, there must be new idols. So the studio heads began a movie guild with the lofty title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was [MGM’s Louis B.] Mayer’s brilliant idea [in 1929] to create the Oscars, where the movie moguls could honor themselves by giving each other awards. In this way, they went from being a group of immigrant Jews, to award-winning American producers.
Not to mention, as one biographer quoted Mayer, “I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them. […] If I got them cups and awards they’d kill themselves to produce what I wanted. That’s why the Academy Award was created.”
By the late 1930s, the original Hollywood moguls were producing a far better product than today’s endless retreads of superhero and sci-fi franchises, the vast majority of which print money* for Disney. And what do you know – as Peter Labuza of the Village Voice tweets, “So ABC which is owned by Disney changed the categories for the Oscars by creating a category that creates more Oscars for films by Disney. Cool cool cool.”
Odds-on favorite to win this new popular movie award is of course, Disney’s Black Panther, but Mark Harris, author of Pictures at a Revolution, notes that “It truly is something that in the year Black Panther, a movie made just about entirely by and with black people, grosses $700 million, the Academy’s reaction is, ‘We need to invent something separate…but equal.’”
Unexpectedly. By which I mean, straight of out Michael Graham’s Redneck Nation thesis.
* In seemingly endless forms, from the movies themselves, the Blu-Ray and streaming sales, the soundtracks, the toys, the Disney rides, etc., etc.
OPEN THREAD: Just because.
TEXT: AG Jeff Sessions’ Remarks at the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Summit on Religious Liberty. On Twitter, Mark Hemingway calls this speech a “barn-burner.”
TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Is it really a thing? Yes and no.
My column for The Daily Caller this week…
KASICH REALLY SEEMS TO GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO BE A DICK: Ohio drops CCW fees for vets without Kasich signature on bill. “Ohio Gov. John Kasich refused to sign a bill waiving fees for active duty military and veterans who apply for a concealed handgun license in protest over a gun control impasse.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Space Rock in the Crosshairs! Japanese Spacecraft Takes Close-Up Images of Target Asteroid.
BECAUSE THEY KNOW CHINA WON’T CARE, AND WILL PUNISH THEM FOR ANY CRITICISM: Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims.
WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, WHO WOULD PROTECT US FROM . . . OH, NEVER MIND. Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Needed Help. Bureaucratic Errors Deprived Him of It. A friend on Facebook comments: “Bureaucratic errors? That’s a charitable way of saying ‘A system whose federal funding was so important they downplayed crimes to keep getting funding by showing improvement.'”
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY. Prosecutors: Son Of Prominent Imam Was Training Children To Commit School Shootings.
The son of a prominent Brooklyn-based imam was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit schools shootings, prosecutors said in court documents released Wednesday.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was training 11 children at a compound north of Taos, New Mexico, according to The Associated Press. Authorities raided the compound Friday and arrested Wahhaj, two of his siblings and two other men during a search for Wahhaj’s son, who had been abducted from Georgia late in 2017. (RELATED: 11 Children Rescued From New Mexico Compound Run By Armed Muslim ‘Extremists’)
A 3-year-old boy was found buried near the compound, but has not been identified. Wahhaj’s son was not among the children rescued.
Residents in Amalia, New Mexico, near the Colorado border, had complained for months about the squalid conditions of the makeshift compound before Friday’s raid, according to news reports. Authorities recovered multiple firearms as well as an AR-15.
“Unexpectedly,” AP left out many of those details when they tweeted the story out.
BUT WHAT’S PUZZLING YOU IS THE NATURE OF MY GAME:
What is the Green Party’s game? The question emerges from Ohio’s 12th congressional district, where last night’s special election for an open House seat produced one of Matt Drudge’s classic headlines, “Green Party Space Alien Thwarts Dems.” It links to a Daily Mail dispatch that says the Green Party “spoiler candidate” whose votes “could tilt the outcome says his ancestors were from another planet.”
Save for the physics, it wouldn’t be surprising.
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™
WATCH DEM CANDIDATE BEN JEALOUS SNAP, ‘ARE YOU F—ING KIDDING ME?’ WHEN ASKED IF HE’S A SOCIALIST:
Erin Cox, a reporter from the Washington Post, asked him about that during a press conference on Wednesday.
Jealous dismissed the labels.
“Him calling me a far-left socialist — that’s what the Tea Party called President Obama. It’s what Barry Goldwater called Martin Luther King,” he said. “And when you see conservatives like Hogan name-calling, you realize that they’re scared.”
Jealous described himself as a “venture capitalist,” who just happens to want to “push everyone we can into ObamaCare.”
Cox decided to press him further: “Not to put too fine a point on it, do you identify with the term socialist?” she asked. The impertinent question prompted Jealous to curse at her.
“Are you f—ing kidding me?” he replied sharply. “Is that a finer point?”
How odd, when in 2009 the Post, through its then-subsidiary Newsweek assured its leftist core readership that they were all socialists now.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Stealth Tanks Are Coming.
SCRAPPLEFACE: 5 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Special Elections.
What I learned from watching the news is that Democrats win even when they lose and Republicans lose even when they win.