With Friends Like These
Hilarious: Alex Jones does The View.
I have to say he makes a couple good points about Sheen, on the other hand, Sheen is making himself look like a world class fool and 1/2.
The Madness of Charlie Sheen
I don’t normally comment on celebrity scandals, since many of them are absurd, blown out of proportion or ultimately not worth the time. But Charlie Sheen, aka Carlos Estavez, is worth a couple minutes. Here we have a case of someone with real mental issues that may or may not be drug related. Drugs only drop people’s inhibitions. So whatever Sheen is capable of, drugs may have only helped him along.
He has a history of violence towards his girlfriends going back to when he was engaged to Kelly Preston whom he shot in the arm. He said it was an accident, but she dumped him right after that and married John Travolta. Not exactly an endorsement of his excuse. The years have been full of stories of him roughing up and threatening women in his life right up to his last wife, Brook Mueller, who accused him of violence as well.
Couple that with these deranged, egotistical interviews from this morning and you can see there’s someone with a very tenuous grip on reality. Here’s a guy who thinks he’s some kind of god, with magic powers, who is above mortals because he’s been successful in life. Yet, when you look at his list of bombs and lame TV shows on IMDB it hardly speaks of a deity among thespians. Two and a Half men is the most lame, lowest common dominator show since Baywatch, which was also hugely popular in its day. Popularity does not mean greatness. It means someone found success wasting people’s time appealing to the crassness of the masses. History is littered with best selling crap that few people care about a decade or two later. The so called stars of those efforts are not in high demand except on nostalgia circuits.
At the rate Charlie Sheen is going he’ll be doing z grade SyFy channel movies about mutant raccoons before long. Right now he looks like the after picture in a meth scare ad.
But he sure is a big distraction from real problems that our media and government are not dealing with honestly. Maybe he should be getting a pay check from the Obama administration for “his efforts.”
A Real King’s Speech
The King’s Speech won 4 academy awards last night including the Best Picture Oscar. It was a great movie indeed. And it shows you don’t need to spend 200 million dollars to make a good film. This film was made for $15 million dollars.
Here is a real speech with the real king where you can see him struggling with his stammer.
Obama’s Disastrous Foreign Policy
Obama’s took credit for Mubarak stepping down yet all that happened is a military Junta with the same policies took over. And now radicals are tying to displace pro-American leaders all over the middle east.
Jimmy Carter only lost Iran, even though that lead to the war on terror we’re in now. Obama’s pathetic leadership and lack of skills could get us in a third world war. If the governments willing to do business with the west are supplanted by radicals, get ready for one.
Cartoon Viewers
It’s not perfect, because larger cartoons are harder to read, but I created an easier way for people to look through our old cartoons. Just click on the of images to the right for Obama Nation or Useful Idiots to read them. Just click on the images.
I will try to find a better viewer. But this is easier than it was before, at least.
The Awesome Nicholas Brothers
They show up half way in, but first we see Cab Calloway. A great singer and band leader who almost stole the show in the 1980s Blues Brothers movie. After I saw that film as a young man, I went looking for his earlier work and that got me interested in 30s jazz. The Nicholas Brothers were an amazing dance duo as you can see here. They show up here and there in old Hollywood films. I recommend searching YouTube for their clips.
Skyrim
This is another game that looks awesome. Bethesda makes quality entertainment. The Elder Scroll games are always worth the money, and this is using a new engine.
REVIEW: The Infidel
Comics creator Bosch Fawstin was born into an Albanian-Muslim family and for a good chunk of his youth, didn’t question his faith. Until one day he had an awakening which made him question it all. In his self published “The Infidel”, Fawstin works out his feelings about Islam and Jihad in a powerful narrative that pits two brothers with deeply opposing views on the faith and religious fanaticism.
It’s bound to upset some people because, like the fictional hero in the story, it doesn’t pull any punches.
It starts out with two men, Frank and Mohammad, on a rooftop in lower Manhattan, having an argument. In the middle of their debate, a plane flies over and hits the World Trade Center. From that moment on, Frank is awakened and Mohammed sees it as a religious sign. The two men become profoundly changed by the experience, in opposite ways.
We soon discover this is a fictional narrative told in a comic book called Pigman by comics artist Killian Duke. Killian as an athiest and objectivist with a real cause. He wants to speak out against radical Islam through his comic. He wants to expose the dangerous fanaticism that the Islamic faith inspires. His avatar, Pigman, acts out his frustrations with his fists, taking his battle all the way to Osama Bin Laden himself.
Killian has a devout Muslim brother named Salaam. The characters in his comic are a reflection of Killian’s own relationship with his brother. Just as the comic The Infidel is a reflection of Bosch Fawstin’s own world view. The Infidel is drawn in an art style that reminds one in turns of Frank Miller and Alex Toth, with some David Mazzuchelli thrown in. Fawstin shows very strong storytelling and graphic design skills. It’s no wonder that he was nominated for an Eisner award and a “Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer” award for his first graphic novel, Table for One. Fawstin shows a lot of progress in his sophomore effort. It’s well worth the $2.50 it costs to download it.
Highly recommended. Not for the politically correct.
This first issue is available for download on the author’s site.
RIP: Dwayne McDuffie
I was really surprised to read the news that comics turned anime writer died today of complications from an operation. He was an excellent writer. I really loved his work on Justice League Unlimited and movies like Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and the new All Star Superman movie.
McDuffie got his start in comics as a member of Marvel’s editorial staff in the 1980s. While an editor at Marvel, McDuffie began writing the Damage Control miniseries and helped to revamp the Deathlok character. Eventually, McDuffie began writing full-time and would help create the Milestone comics universe at DC. Milestone was a separate line that featured minority heroes such as Static, Hardware, and Icon. In recent years, McDuffie began writing for cartoons as well, including a cartoon adaptation of his Static character, Static Shock. He also served as the story editor on the immensely popular Justice League Unlimited cartoon and a writer on Ben 10: Alien Force. McDuffie also wrote the DC Comics straight-to-DVD animated feature Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, as well as an adaptation of All-Star Superman that was released on DVD and Blu-ray today.
I didn’t know him that well but we traded friendly e-mails over the years. This is sad news.
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