Tuesday digest
- Well, the Army of One is back online after a week of spotty Internet service. A lot happened while I was unable to blog, like the third terrorist incident in as many summers in Londonistan with the transition from Blair to Brown as backdrop, the lobster summit between Bush and Putin, the killing of the "shamnesty" bill, the commuting of Scooter Libby's sentence, the continuing saga of the Benoit murders and NHL free agency on top of that. So, without further ado, let's get right to it!- Here's some great YouTube footage that is worth checking out. An MSNBC anchor REFUSED to proceed with the Paris Hilton release last week and treat it at newsworthy. Good. The dumbing down of society has got to stop and it's only through civic awareness and responsibility like that demonstrated in the clip above.
- You may ask why I'm giving it any attention at all, but the latest O'Donnell attention grab is even more pathetic than you might have expected. Here, she dressed her four-year old up like a soldier and photographed her for her blog. Is there anything worse than an ideologue exploiting their own kid? Perhaps she's just afraid that without her perch on The View, we'll all forget about her and she'll descend into a state of irrelevance so she's overreaching. She will, make no mistake about it, but not before I take a few more potshots at her for being a far-left nutter.
- Speaking of people who have worn out their welcome, "Sicko" pulled in a pathetic $4.5 million this past weekend, good for 9th place. Perhaps it's because Michael Moore is trailing behind public opinion rather than in being out front of it on this issue.
I also hear that the socialist paradise of Cuba is featured prominently in Moore's latest effort. I wonder if he touches on the issue of food rations. What a mess that is. I suppose it's all America's fault because they won't trade beef and pork for Cohibas.
- Does anyone other than Gordon Brown seriously think that pretending there wasn't a radical Islamic element to the terrorist attacks in the UK this past weekend is going to prevent similar ones from taking place in the future?
Please.
That type of naive, head-in-the-sand thinking just gives comfort to the jihadists, and makes his predecessor's new job more difficult.
Meanwhile, credible observers are drawing parallels between the amount of "chatter" currently in the system, and the summer prior to 9/11. Canada is at particular risk. Is our country's political leadership going to do anything about it, or are they too concerned about the next election to bother paying attention?
posted by Road Hammer @ 7:09 PM
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Just a fun fact about the "pathetic" first weekend revenues for "Sicko" - it's already the 14th highest grossing documentary in history.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm
It depends on one's definition of the word "documentary". I seem to recall hearing somewhere where Moore himself rejects the description of "documentarist", likening himself to an op/ed columnist instead.
More to the point, I'd like to how many of the top 13 had mass-market publicity and distribution the way "Sicko" has. Also, is "Sicko"'s gross measured in overall dollars taken in or number of people through the turnstile? Comparing the amount of dollars based on a $12 admission in 2007 to see Sicko in 2007 with the amount that, say, "Rattle and Hum" brought in twenty years based on an admission fee that is half that would be, well, a work of fiction.
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