After Rachel Maddow praised Gary Rizzo's Oscar winning speech for Inception's sound-mixing because he gave a nod to his "union" crew in tribute to the Wisconsin union protests, I started to think about all of the great non union Roger Corman flicks. Why? Not because they're great or Oscar worthy, or even good for that matter. No I thought about all of the young directors and actors cutting their teeth on film for the first time on one of Corman's no-budget, non-union, exploitation films.

Maybe you've heard of some of these young talented folks given the opportunity to take risks and work for practically free. They include Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Jon Sayles, etc.

And actors? How about Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, Talia Shire, and Peter Fonda just to name a few.

Oscar nominated director John Sayles said of Corman and his company, New World "I wrote three screenplays for Roger and all three got made into movies. That's why he is really so incredible. You get the learning, the writing, the story conferencing, and all that. But you also see the whole thing translated into a movie."

Now imagine if you will the liberal wet dream of equality. Equal pay, workers rights, and righteous power in the hands of the exploited worker against the profit hungry vampires that are out to make their duckets on the back of the little man. Would we have a Godfather, Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now, Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, or even a Gremlins? You don't have to answer that as the directors of each have stated that "No", without Corman and the experience on his films it would be likely that they would not have had the chance to be noticed.

Now the taxman is out to get you......

Add Barbara Streisand to the list of annoying liberal activists who demonize people who support lower taxes/less government, yet in their private lives shelter millions from Uncle Sam. You see being conservative is evil, thoughtless, greedy, and stupid. Not to mention racist too! Paying taxes is patriotic don't you know?

But they're different than the rest of us because they provide us with countless hours of entertainment. Let's rally round this enlightened Little Focker, and cut her a break:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/02/barbra-streisand-transfers-millions-dollars-vegas-property-hubby-james-brolin

She joins a couple of her other liberal crusaders accused of evading taxes like Alec Baldwin:
http://nation.foxnews.com/alec-baldwin/2011/01/24/alec-baldwin-chased-tax-collectors

John Kerry:
http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1269698

R.I.P. Gary Moore!

My favorite version of this song.



Rock legend Gary Moore was found dead Sunday in a hotel room in Spain, where he had been vacationing. The Thin Lizzy guitarist was 58.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2011/02/07/2011-02-07_gary_moore_thin_lizzys_legendary_guitarist_found_dead_in_spanish_hotel_room.html#ixzz1DL5rlRim

Badaases that make you proud to be conservative

Clint Eastwood. American Original, Badass, Conservative/Libertarian.

"Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself."

1997 Playboy interview- "How would you characterize yourself politically?" Eastwood replied: "Libertarian... Everyone leaves everyone else alone."

2004 USA Today - when asked about same-sex marriages. Eastwood replied: "From a libertarian point of view, you would say, 'Yeah? So what?' You have to believe in total equality. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want -- as long as they're not harming people."

I don't know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life.

I'm not one of those guys who's been terribly active in organized religion. But I don't disrespect it. I'd never try to impose any doubts that I might have on anyone else.

We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody's become used to saying, "Well, how do we handle it psychologically?" In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you'd be left alone from then on.

You wonder sometimes. What will we do if something really big happens? Look how fast -- seven years -- people have been able to forget 9/11. Maybe you remember if you lost a relative or a loved one. But the public can get pretty blasé about stuff like that. Nobody got blasé about Pearl Harbor.

"It makes me mad when people try to use politics or charity for publicity."

Says AC/DC's singer Brian Johnson to Melbourne's Herald Sun. "When I was a working man I didn't want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa. I'm sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry."

Johnson said that his own band prefers to make their charitable contributions in private.

"Do a charity gig, fair enough, but not on worldwide television," he said.

AC/DC turned down a slot at Live Aid in 1985.

"I do it myself, I don't tell everybody I'm doing it," Johnson said. "I don't tell everybody they should give money - they can't afford it."

Good for him. He was referring to celebrities We are all getting sick of. One of the worst is U2's Bono. Recently it was revealed that his charity ONE, named after that shitty song, had given around ONE percent of it's donations to actual charity.

The nonprofit took in $14,993,873 in public donations in 2008, the latest year for which tax records are available.

Of that, $184,732 was distributed to three charities, according to the IRS filing. That's about ONE percent.

8 Million was spent on salaries. The rest was spent on things like filling gift bags for celebrities with expensive crud at events filled with famous do-gooders showing the rest of the world what great people they are. Celebrities favorite method of proving their worth is the liberal's classic "raising awareness."

Of course there is also the other charity with his name attached to it, Global Fund:

The Associated Press reported today that the $21.7 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a fraud where at least two-thirds of the funds were “pocketed,” and donated medicines were sold on the black market for profit.

The prestigious development fund is backed by celebrities like Bono, politicians like French president Sarkozy, and a cool $150 million from Bill and Melinda Gates. The AP wrote, “The fund has been a darling of the power set that will hold the World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain village of Davos this week.”

I don't mean to pick on Bono, there are plenty of other jackasses who like to tell us how we should live. Al Gore is another favorite of mine. His electric bill is a perfect example of what one should expect from an asshole not only telling people how to live, but trying to legislate how we live.


In 2006 Gore's gas and electric bill for his 20 room mansion was more than 20 times the national average. In one month his house burns twice as much as the average family burns a year. His heated pool alone is $500.

Same with Sting and his multiple mansions. The Eco warrior and Human Rights campaigner also played for Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov. Enemies of the brutal Dictator have been shot in the street and one political opponent boiled alive, Yes, boiled alive.

So thank you Brian Johnson. I hope you enjoy your well earned millions. And as a paying concert goer once heckled Barbara Streisand after a long anti-Bush diatribe...

Please, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SING!

Bad Ass People Who Make You Proud To Be Conservative

Frank Zappa - American Original, Conservative.

"The '60s was really stupid ... It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time. "

Atlas Shrugged part1

FreedomWorks will host the premiere of the Atlas Shrugged trailer at the CPAC(Conservative Political Action Conference) on Feb 15. That's interesting. I wonder if they're going to go for a grass roots marketing deal, knowing the target audience.

It is a small film with a reported budget of 15mil and a cast of relative unknowns.

According to Variety, The Godfather (1972) producer Albert S. Ruddy spent years trying to bring the novel to the big screen, attracting the interest of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway along the way.

I couldn't imagine if Robert Redford had been in the film that it would resemble the book at all. I'd imagine it would somehow turn it into a film AGAINST big business.

IMDB notes that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were also involved at a certain point. Again, strange.

The release date is set for April 15(Tax Day) and the movie is rated pg-13. Will the critics be kind, or will it be written off as movie catering to tea party folks?

Oh No, There Goes Tokyo!

Ex husband of PMRC co-founder, Al Gore recently explained our harsh winter on what else of course? Global Warming, of course! Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post columnist and Fox news contributor responded on the Friday broadcast of "Inside Washington."

“Look, if Godzilla were on the Mall this afternoon, Al Gore would say it’s global warming because the spores in the south Atlantic Ocean were – you know, look everything is, it’s a religion,” Krauthammer said. “In a religion everything is explicable. In science, you can actually deny or falsify a proposition with evidence. You find me a single piece of evidence that Al Gore would ever admit that would contradict global warming and I’ll be surprised.”



from The Daily Caller:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/04/krauthammer-thomas-spar-global-warming-years-extreme-winter-weather/