And The Joker? Kinda like Bin Laden.
Note: This will not spoil the movie for you if you have not yet seen it.
Went to see the flick the other night and it just struck me how similar Batman is to our illegitemate Prez. Just like the Bush Administration has done with the U.S., the Dark Knight has taken it upon himself to surveil the entire city illegally. He justifies this because of the Joker-threat and his personal war on organized crime in Gotham city. Sound familiar? He too engages in kidnapping suspects, in whatever country they might be in. The Dark Knight then renditions them to his own private torture-room where he beats his prisoners until he gets the information he is looking for. Rumsfeld would certainly want this guy on his team, don’t you think?
Batman’s solution to the crime problem is to become a criminal himself. “All these by-the-book goody-two-shoes will never get anywhere,” he reasons. “It’s time to take the gloves off.” The ‘torture memos” written by Bush-lawyers come to mind here. Just as the law doesn’t apply to Bush and his crew (as long as he commits felonies to protect America), neither does it apply to the Batman (as long as his criminal activity is intended to protect Gotham).
Lastly, it is pretty clear that Batman causes WAY more problems for Gotham city than he solves. In his efforts to clean the streets of organized crime, he paves the way for the Joker — the most disorganized criminal ever. It didn’t occur to Batboy that the very gangsters he put out of business might have been serving as a check on terrorists like the Joker. Once Batman effectively shut the kingpins down, a psycho-nut in a clown suit steps right into in the power vacuum. In the same way, the Bush administration’s pointless toppling of the head gangster in Iraq (Saddam) created a huge power vacuum into which Bin Laden (our version of ‘Joker’) can now send extremist fighters to cause all kinds of mischief — many more dead Americans and Iraqis, I might add, then Saddam would have EVER caused. Perhaps it never occurred to the Bush strategists that Saddam might have taken Al Qaeda out for us on his own. After all, Saddam knew that he himself was one of Al Qaeda’s main targets.
When you step back a little further and look at our history, a real pattern in American foreign policy emerges. Indeed, for all of America’s efforts since WWII (a large part of them illegal) to bring down the Soviet Union what did we get out of them? We are now faced with an even greater threat than the Soviets EVER posed. Thanks to the collapse of the Soviet gangster enterprise, Afganistan fell to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and there are likely a few lunatics running around toting suitcase nuclear bombs looted from the old, unguarded, Soviet stockpile.
So what are Bush and Batman to do? Just give up!? Let the terrorists win??
Let me tell you something. When the likes of Bush manages to use 9/11 to steal a second term as president of this country, after already stealing the first. If Bush is not impeached and prosecuted very soon, though he openly broke nearly every law in the book, the terrorists have won something big, very big — a country in fact — a country called the United States. How is that? Because it would mean that today, a gang of some of the most ruthless terrorists in history now occupy the White House. Do you really think they are going to leave quietly? Think again.
Don’t get me wrong the movie was good fun. The similarity, you have to admit however, is hating it.
Christian Bale was arrested in London on allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister. Though the Batman star was arrested, he was allowed to attend the Lodon premier of Dark Knight…or at least watch from the sidelines.
Wrestler Jim “The Sandman” Fullington was not acting when he found himself in the middle of a brawl with a restaurant owner while celebrating the 75th birthday of wrestling icon Capt. Lou Albano. Details are a bit sparse but it appears Fullington exchanged words with eatery owner T.J. Tarone - who responded by shattering a beer bottle in the face of the 6-foot-6, 300-pound wrestler. It took 5 cops AND a SWAT team to break up the fight! And who says pro wrestling isn’t real?
NPR reports that last year, Hillary Clinton “rented” her donor lists for a total fof $8,000. The renter was InfoUSA, a company headed by a man with very close connections to the Clintons, Vinod Gupta. How close are Gupta’s connections? Well…Gupta gave $1 million for the 2000 Millennium Celebration, a New Year’s Party thrown by the Clintons, gave another million to the Clinton Presidential Library, hired Bill Clinton as a consultant after Bill left the White House…and the connection continues. Bottomline: If you gave money to the Clinton campaign, odds are that your name was sent given away for purposes unknown…but don’t worry…Hillary made a few bucks off of you.
Look at it this way…you gave money to hillary and hillary made money off of you…so you did a good deed twice..i guess
After calling us a ‘nation of whiners’ for complaining about clearly evident, abysmal result of 25 years of Reaganomics, this super rich A-hole basically got booed out of the campaign. This is the guy who WROTE McCain’s economic plan and has already done A LOT to make things worse for all of us whiners.
Rosci and Terrance exposed a not so private beef. Terrance keeps joking around with Rosci and as she gets noticeably pissed…he just keeps going with it. Sometimes some guys just don’t know when to stop. I mean seriously…make your joke or two and then move on…no worries…i’m not speaking from experience
Man hid the fact he was HIV-positive from his young sex partners and has been convicted of six counts of aggravated sexual assault. When I say young, I mean young…we’re talking about sex partners a little over 12 yrs old that were given booze and drugs prior to their sexual assualt. This dude’s defense..his HIV viral load is so low he was incapable of passing on the HIV virus. Ok…but you still have HIV…new motto: Don’t Ask About It…You’ll Get HIV; Don’t Tell…You Get Arrested
…Police were called to the Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrieta at about 1:13 a.m. to investigate a report of “an intoxicated male” urinating outside the bar and causing a disturbance, according to a police statement.
When they arrived, a 17-year-old girl told police that she was outside when Dick left the bar, walked up, “grabbed her tank top and bra and pulled them down and exposed her breasts,” the statement said.
Friends escorted Dick to a truck, which officers stopped at a nearby Sam’s Club, police said.
Dick was identified by the teenager and a witness, police said.
Marijuana and the drug Xanax were found his pants pockets during a search and he appeared “extremely intoxicated,” police said. …
Sanford fell apart; see the problem with not being honest about your beliefs is that eventually you will be caught out of character. Sanford knows that McCain = Bush, but knows this is politically dangerous, hence he ends up looking insincere. Why doesn’t he just proudly say Bush and McCain are both neoconservatives and he is proud of it!! Because the NeoCons are going down!
