Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011

Asshole of the Year

The current front-runner for this year's asshole of the year award is the former CEO of AIG,  Maurice "Hank" Greenberg.

If an asshole had an asshole, that asshole would look at Greenberg and think "Jeez, what an asshole!"



Ex-AIG CEO Suing U.S. for $25 Billion

  • 'Hank Greenberg
    Former AIG chief Maurice “Hank” Greenberg's current company has filed lawsuits accusing the government of taking valuable assets from AIG's shareholders without their consent or fair compensation.
    (Scott Eells, Bloomberg / November 10, 2011)
  • The suits accuse the government of taking valuable assets from AIG's shareholders without their consent or fair compensation, in exchange for the government's 80% stake in the company. The suit says the government's actions violate parts of the 5th Amendment.

Could there be a more perfect representative of the 1%? I drove my company into the ground so fucking hard that it threatened to take down the whole economy. It was so bad that you little tax-paying peons had to bail me out. Now I'm going to sue because I didn't get paid enough for my criminal mismanagement!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Beware of Turkeys!!!



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1. Sacrificed to Allah? Do Muslims even do animal sacrifice?  And if they do, would they really say "this turkey I sacrifice to you, oh great Allah. J/K, LOL! we're going to sell it to an infidel for Thanksgiving!
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldp3jukzHo1qb9a2wo1_500.png
Gotcha, Allah!


2. How do you think that turkeys are normally killed? You don't think their tracheas and aortas are severed? You think they have some sort of humane lethal injection process or something?

3. Do you really think that Butterball employees are taking the time to recite an Islamic prayer every time they slaughter a turkey? You think Butterball turkeys aren't raised on factory farms and slaughtered on an assembly line? Do you have any idea what modern turkey farming looks like?


http://www.clipartreview.com/_images_300/A_pilgrim_man_with_an_axe_and_a_Thanksgiving_turkey_101031-185370-064009.jpg  

(hint: Not like this so much)

4. What if they really were? What if the Butterball people really were following halal butchering practices? How would that affect the eaters of the turkey? Wouldn't the cooking process kill any Muslim cooties that were in the bird?

http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/05/1/1/1/35618813646965125.jpg 

I once ate a bagel, and look at me now!
--Chin Ho Pak



Monday, November 21, 2011

Why?

Welcome back the 'First Family of Fright'
Welcome back the 'First Family of Fright'


America's first family of horror is back! According to announcements made by NBC execs and Deadline Hollywood, The Munsters are coming back to primetime TV.

Dear God, why?
Who wants to see this? Who has been clamoring for a re-make of the Munsters? You know the original series only lasted TWO YEARS!
And the only remotely enjoyable facet of the show died in 2006.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Al_Lewis_01.jpg/220px-Al_Lewis_01.jpg 
Probably still the best part of the new version



45-years later, NBC and writer Bryan Fuller are ready to overhaul the characters and concept by envisioning the half-hour, black and white sitcom as an hour-long drama 

An hour-long drama? An hour-long Drama? if anyone is at all interested in seeing a re-make of the Munsters, wouldn't be because they enjoyed the original half-hour sitcom?

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/aug11/munsters.jpg 
If only this had been darker and edgier!


As is the trend, Fuller’s version is said to be a darker, edgier take on more lighthearted nature of the original series. This new vision for The Munsters will work within the confines of the same premise, despite an apparent shift in tone and with some tweaks to the characters and their origins.
Hey, great idea! Or you could just, I don't know, come up with an original idea? Seeing as how you're in  a business that's supposed to be "creative"?

Is there anything left to be re-made?


Woody Woodpecker Movie in Development at Universal, Illumination


Oh, come on!

Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-based animation house behind Despicable Me and next year’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, is working on a feature project centering on the crimson-coifed cartoon character. John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, who co-wrote the Will Ferrell comedy Blades of Glory, are in talks to develop a story.

So you couldn't make a movie with Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler and Craig T. Nelson funny, and you're going to do the new Woody Woodpecker? Good luck with that!

Illumination and the writers will seek to create a story that modernizes the character, hopefully launching a franchise in the process.

Modernizing the character? What does that mean exactly? Because I have a sneaking suspicion that it's going to look something like this:

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/92/MPW-46319 


Really?

(via the Daily What)
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You really think you can capitalize on this?
I don't know whether to feel disgust or pity.