I think I want to see this movie. I’ll give it an open mind and expect that the portrayal won’t be a negative one. The President may be taking a beating these last couple or so years, but I don’t think he’s a bad guy, although to be honest I can’t say the same for the people around him. Here’s a Wiki on the film.
Very interesting post from the Lew Rockwell blog. It suggests that government intervention during the Great Depression might not have helped that economy back then. It alleges that recovery only began in 1946! Via Newsalert!
Interesting from Rocky Mountain News:
A group of self-described anarchists threatening to disrupt the Democratic National Convention is promising to go away if the $50 million federal grant that Denver received to pay for convention security is invested in the community instead.
“As anarchists, we feel the greatest problem with government is how its primary interest is to protect the profits of those in power, even when it comes at the expense of the general public,” Clayton Dewey, an organizer with Unconventional Denver, said in a statement.
“Spending $50 million on weaponry to attack people voicing their opinion and flooding the streets with riot police while schools close down, children go without health care and people lose their homes is exactly the problem with the corrupt two-party system we’re opposing this August,” he said.
Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, a senior adviser to Mayor John Hickenlooper, said the grant is needed to protect the public, including protesters.
“Congress appropriated these security-designated funds to both convention host cities because, in a post- 9/11 world, planning for major national events like this requires heightened security preparations,” she said. “It is in the interest of local residents, businesses and visitors, including those participating in demonstrations, to have a safe and secure event.”
You know I would have had no idea that anarchists have a vested interesting what a private group does with government money. For some reason when I think of anarchy I just think general chaos.
I just want to say that Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Hamill have nothing, and I mean nothing, on the late Heath Ledger.
You can read my formal review of the latest Batman movie here!
