Bush, the longest running JOKE!

Ok please tell me I’m not the only one that sees this. Is it not fucking obvious that this most recent “threat”to the free world’s security is just another blatant sign that GW is a complete lying sack of shit moron president?

Let’s recap shall we. September 11th happens (and was allowed to happen because Bush was too busy on vacation to read the briefings a month earlier). He allows the Saudis to fly away free and clear and the “war on terrorism” is launched. Except that instead of spending the time and money to hunt down Osama Bin Laden Bush sends his troops in a bee-line to Iraq to bomb the shit out of innocent people for their oil. Ohhhh, but he had to liberate them from Hussein, yeah sure and he’s been in custody how many years now while the US helps Iraq “rebuild and restructure”. That’s going so well the Iraqis are driving car bombs into the troops. Good on ya GW.

Now while all this is going on nobody’s bothered to look for the real guy that was responsible for 9/11 because unless he’s carrying around billions of gallons of oil well, we really don’t care too much about him.

Now look what’s happened. All this time Osama’s little evil fucks have been plotting “bigger and better” things for the western world and now the airports are locked down like 5 years ago and we’re in a “code red”. The media is in “fear spewing” mode again and everyone is anxious about flying, boat cruises etc etc.

So while GW was playing war for some tasty oil, blowing money and resources (and lives) in Iraq, Osama’s been playing with his chemistry set and plotting new ways to kill us all. Excellent, perhaps the retarded fucking Americans can vote him in again for another term and he can read “dick and jane” with some more 3rd graders while we get our asses handed to us for a third time.

Revisiting Rocky

When I was a young kid I saw Sylvester Stallone’s film “Rocky” and was mesmerized by the spectacle of it. In the time that has passed since my younger years I have seen bits and pieces of the movie but never sat through the whole thing again. Of course I’ve seen all the sequels over the years and we all know what wonderful hollywoodisms they contain.

In seeing the original again I have to really give credit to the film and the story. Considering that the actual fight sequence is only the last 10 minutes of the film I consider this to be a well written story which was delivered in a very humanistic style. One guy given a shot at something he wants deep down but knows inside that the dream may very well be over. All through the film he hints at thinking he can’t actually win, his only desire is to be the one guy that goes the distance with Apollo Creed.

I think the build of this story through Rocky’s relationships with Mickey his trainer, his dysfunctional pal Pauly and of course the extremely shy Adrian serves to let us into his world and allows us to develop a relationship with this mook who’s only talent is the way he throws his mitts around. The ending to this story is exactly what it should be. He doesn’t win, He doesn’t lose, but he accomplished what he wanted, he went the distance. I can see now why this film was nominated for handful of Oscars and went home with three of them.

Funny how most of the time it’s the actor/writer/ or director’s first films that really show their hunger and integrity. Seems that it’s hard to hold on to that after you’re given you’re own trailer and a big studio budget.