I actually had a studio head read that script and say: "Wow, that's the best and smartest script that I've read since running this studio but I can't possibly greenlight it." I asked why and he says "How am I going to get 13-year-olds to show up at the theater?"I'd have an snarky retort at this point, were it not for the weekend receipts for 'Transformers 2' staring me in the face.
With more from the UK...Right-leaning governments came out ahead in Germany, France, Italy and Belgium, while conservative opposition parties won in Britain, Spain, and Bulgaria. Far-right groups also made gains in Britain, Austria, the Netherlands and Hungary.
Many Socialists ran campaigns that slammed center-right leaders for failing to regulate financial markets and spend enough to stimulate faltering economies. But voters did not embrace their cause.
Best of all, despised Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders' party made big gains, becoming the country's second most powerful party.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's center-left Labour party finished third behind the anti-European U.K. Independence Party — a crushing defeat that cast more doubt on Brown's future. The Conservatives are expected to win Britain's next national elections.
Wilders, who has become popular in the Netherlands running on an anti-Islam and anti-political establishment platform, promised voters he would be tough on immigration and criticised Turkey's bid to join the EU. "Should Turkey as an Islamic country be able to join the European Union? We are the only party in Holland that says, it is an Islamic country, so no, not in 10 years, not in a million years," Wilders said.Like I said, baby steps. Now if we can only Geert our Wilders on here.
"...The Conservatives have taken Staffordshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire from Labour - which had run all three since 1981 - as well as Devon and Somerset from the Lib Dems.According to the BBC's estimated projected national vote share - the Conservatives are on 38%, Labour on 23% - a historic low - the Lib Dems on 28% and other parties on 11%.
...."We have won almost every council we could possibly have won ... We have won councils we really didn't think we were going to win ... so I don't accept that these aren't extremely good results for the Conservative Party," [said Conservative leader David Cameron].
He said the results showed people wanted a "strong, positive and united alternative" to the government and were seeing the Conservatives as that alternative.
"Across the country what's remarkable about these figures and what shines out is it's the Conservative Party winning in every part of the country," he said.
So as another nation in Europe does a spectacular about face, we here in the States stumble merrily on down the road to socialism.
So much for any Obama bounce!
There was “nothing as crude as a vote” but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.“This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,” said the guest. “They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.”
Hey, it's all fun and games until someone loses a few billion lives.
Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.The U.S. military, however, strongly denied that it overstepped its bounds and said it notified Iraqi authorities in advance — in accordance with the rules that took effect this year governing U.S. battlefield conduct.
We give them freedom, they want to lynch us.
This was a legitimate mission. These six detainees were Shiite thugs with ties to Iran. But at a word from (holy Shiite!) al-Maliki and hundreds of protesters, we dutifully turned them loose and retreated behind the wire with tail between our legs.
The end of a rogue leader like Saddam was necessary post-9/11, so taking him out was legitimate But wasting lives and money on so-called "nation building" appears to have been a total waste.
Meanwhile, in other "nothing's changed" news...
Elsewhere in Iraq, gunmen stormed two Christian homes in separate attacks in the ethnically diverse city of Kirkuk, killing at least two Chaldean Christians and one Assyrian, said police Brig. Burham Taib.
Justice won't be done in this case any more than it was in Afghanistan when the new and improved government we propped up with blood and American tax dollars proceeded to slap a Christian convert with the death penalty (reduced via insanity plea at the intervention of Condi Rice).
If this is the way it's going to be from now on, let's get out now. Ron Paul was right. America needs to look to her own interests, period. The rest of the world be damned.
