Big beautiful Actor turned Activist, Ben Affleck has decided to support Mitt Romney as the GOP Candidate to beat in 2008. Watch him here with Bill Maher bash on "crazy Guiliani" and "insane McCain" and opine on how Romney is the GOP to beat for the nominee - despite his Mormonism being suspect. Interestingly enough, the crowd shouts out in the background for Ron Paul. Check it out here:
I cannot believe that millions of housewives watch The View every morning. I pity every man that has to come home from work to face a woman brainwashed by this crap. There's more clucking on this show than at my family reunions on Long Island. I had to press pause half way though this video to take a Zanax. The bottom line: listening to these old coozes discuss Iraq illustrates perfectly why there's never been a female President.
I didn't know what a Vulture Fund is so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Wait, I don't get it. What does this have to do with global warming?
Actor Danny Glover Urges Protection For Poor Countries Against 'Vulture Funds'
AP
WASHINGTON: Actor and activist Danny Glover is urging the world to develop ways to protect poor countries from predatory investors.
President George W. Bush should use the upcoming summit in Germany of the world's major economic powers to seek commitments to deal with the issue, Glover told the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa and Global Health.
Glover and others who testified Tuesday cited the practices of so-called "vulture funds," predatory investors who buy a nation's debt for pennies on the dollar, then sue to win repayment of the full value of the initial debt.
The morally bankrupt actions of these investors "render the commitments to debt relief made by the United States and other wealthy nations meaningless," Glover said.
Glover cited the case of Donegal International Ltd., a private U.S.-owned company registered in the British Virgin Islands. The company's actions were endorsed by a British court, which ordered that Zambia pay Donegal $15.5 million (€11.5 million), a sum that "could have provided free education for over 150,000 children," he said.
Exerpt from The Age. Another great article.
DiCaprio denies eco hypocrisyKeep reading at theage.com.au
Leonardo DiCaprio hit back at charges of hypocrisy as he unveiled, at the Cannes film festival, an eco-documentary he wrote, produced and narrated.
Asked after the premiere of The 11th Hour whether he had taken a fuel-guzzling jet on his way to the French Riviera, the Titanic star spat back sarcastically: "No, I took a train across the Atlantic."
When the British journalist followed up, saying many stars used emission-heavy private jets while touting environmental protection, a testy DiCaprio countered he had taken a commercial flight from New York.
"I try to travel commercial as much as I can," he said.
DiCaprio later came back to the reporter, saying he was irritated with the media for going after prominent environmentalists such as former US vice-president Al Gore (whose own film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, picked up an Oscar this year) for supposed inconsistency in their private lives.
This is a reprint from Australia's The Age. I would normally come up with my own witty title for my post, but the article's title is just too perfect. In the wake of (RED) apparently hemorrhaging marketing cash, Live Earth is sure to be the next blunder. Previously I wrote about the monetary and carbon costs of stadium concerts. While concerts are such an integral part of the economy, using them as a venue to spread "global warming awareness" is totally absurd. You seriously have to be retarded to think that there's a single person on the planet that can afford a $99 concert ticket that is not already "informed" about global warming. We are so far beyond an awareness-spreading phase it's absurd. Money needs to go entirely to change. The reality is, change does not occur at the behest of do-gooders. Only governments in conjunction with multi-national corporations can induce global change. This is not a first. When it was discovered in 1976 that the ozone layer was being depleted by CFC aerosols, it took governments and corporations to make necessary changes and it took ten years. Enough rambling. Here's the article:
Live Earth: useful as a green bracelet
May 20, 2007
First, we rocked to feed the world. Then we rocked to raise money to rebuild after the tsunami. Two years ago, the pop stars massed to rock against debt recovery in the Third World. At least, I think that's what Live 8 aimed to do. Not that it made any difference.
And now we're asked to put our hands in the air like we really care about the environment at Live Earth, a multinational phantasmagoric series of stadium concerts on July 7, with the grand aim of "raising awareness of global warming".
Our $99 concert tickets, which I am sure will be printed on recycled paper, do not go towards any concrete measures to halt global warming, or to repair any damage done to the Earth. The proceeds don't go directly to purchasing solar batteries for anyone or subsidising public transport anywhere. The event just goes to raising awareness. And right now?
That's not only a waste of time but a gross indulgence. It's just a green rubber bracelet to string on your arm next to the white rubber band that will magically make poverty history, and the yellow one that cures cancer.
50 Cent talks about offensive lyrics in rap music. "If I axed you to paint a picture of the American flag and not use the color red, you gonna have a difficult time," says Mr. 50 Cent. He truly is a lyrical gangster. But seriously folks, it is good to hear an artist stick their neck out and say that they won't be caving in to this new era of government and corporate mandated censorship. It just goes to show that fascism is just as soon to come from the left as the right.
Fred Thompson Uses Internet To Raise Interest
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fred Thompson, the not-quite-yet presidential candidate, is getting flattering buzz on the Internet. Now he's returning the favor, and piquing more interest in the process.
In a blog to be posted on Pajamasmedia.com on Friday, the "Law & Order" actor and former Tennessee senator praises the Internet as a way to send a message beyond the Washington beltway.
Thompson has shown himself to be well-schooled in the ways of the Internet. He knows what sites are saying and he knows where to go to push his ideas.
This week he engaged in a spat with producer Michael Moore over Moore's movie "Sicko," which depicts survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seeking medical care in Cuba. Moore is now under investigation for traveling to Cuba in possible violation of the Cuban economic embargo.
No doubt he still hates the gays, but it doesn't mean he can't be their poster child:
'Grey's' Actor In Message For Gay Rights Groups
NEW YORK (AP) -- Isaiah Washington, who came under fire after using an anti-gay slur, will appear in a public service announcement on behalf of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.
Celebrities show their support for ending violence in Darfur by smashing hour glasses filled with fake blood. It's a metaphor, get it?
Glover may leave Berkeley speechlessKeep reading at Inside Bay Area.
Actor and civil rights activist Danny Glover announced Monday he will not speak at next week's University of California, Berkeley, graduation ceremony unless the university resolves a longstanding labor strife with custodians over pay...
