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I was in a restaurant over the weekend that had copies of newspaper front pages from the past. Never mind the headline in this photo from the 1967 edition of The Los Angeles Times. Look at the column on the left. A $5.154 a billion record budget?

I sat through 8 years of co-workers bashing President Bush all day long over things like spending, yet in 50 days alone this new administration as doubled his spending and is working on tripling and quadrupling it.

When last calculated, that's over $23,000 of new tax per tax payer! Are you OK with this? When will you say enough is enough?

According to the Small Business Administration, 99.7 of all jobs being created are done by small businesses. Yet, less than 1 percent of this spending bill   (aka "The Stimulus Bill") is earmarked for small business.

We're all going about our business as if everything will be OK. We're planning making movies, planning families, planning weddings, planning on buying houses, planning on buying cars, all based on false assumptions that everything will be OK. It won't be unless we all kick everyone out of congress and start over with people that respect our right to keep what we earn and quit bailing out everyone that's been irresponsible.

President Obama just said in his news conference today, Feb. 9, 2009:
Republicans argue that giving more money to education has never solved the problems so
"let's blow up the public school system."

I'll pay $100 to the first person that can produce evidence that a republican in congress ever said this.

Don't you deserve more from your President than lies and distortions?

From Rep. John Carter, a Texas Republican.

"Rangel Rule"

All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if a bill introduced today by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) becomes law.

Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.

It took a little tiny itsy bitsy country like Israel to tell the media they were no longer worthy of being taken seriously and then cut them off. They went directly to You Tube with their news releases. Boo hoo newspapers, we hope you die a painful death. No, you don’t deserve our tax dollars to bail out your sad excuse for journalism.

Meanwhile it seems America for the most part still wants to gobble up whatever the news media says.  We only see what the demi-gods of the news media want us to see, which is apparently only innocent Palestinian children that have supposedly been killed by Israeli’s and then, completely intentionally targeted. Have you ever seen a dead or maimed Israeli child paraded around by the news media? Just like editing a movie to heighten emotional reactions, the media chooses to only show depictions  that will contribute to making the Israeli's look like villains.

We are told that the Israeli military action is over-reacting and should be equal in response to what the Palestinians do.  Ok lets.  Let them start indiscriminately firing 6,000+ rockets packet with 80,000 ball bearings each into whatever area of Gaza they feel like INSTEAD of the surgical operations they are carrying out with precision now.  Did you ever hear the media tell you that the first rocket fired was the first day after the Israeli military forced Israeli civilians out of their own homes in Gaza, giving the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians after Israeli's lived there for 38 years?  So goes the saying: “No good deed goes unpunished.”  Ever hear about the 5 million hacked to death and shot one-by-one in the Congo these last few years?  No, you’re only hearing about the respectively few Palestinians killed that somehow shouldn't be responsible for electing terrorists to run things.

No, evil knows that the media is on it’s side and knows that this propaganda tool can be used to the fullest extent. Who would have thought that a free country like America was capable of producing a news media that produces propaganda equal to that of the former Soviet Union’s Pravda?

I’ve personally written off hope for America. Don’t tell me how Republicans have got to regroup and have a chance. Really? What choir do they expect to be preaching to that has enough numbers to make a difference in voting? This next generation is largely subject to at least 4 years of Leftist college brainwashing and  then have all of their news filtered to them by Leftist controlled media. You as a conservative are an evil moron in their eyes and so dangerous that you will need to be subdued by the government.  Don’t make a mistake of thinking your neighbor or co-worker is automatically your friend.

Years ago I worked during the night as a visual effects compositor on The Drew Carrey Green Screen show.  It was located a shoddy side street in Hollywood… not the kind of place you wander around at especially at night. Well, to be truthful, all of the Hollywood area is crappy. At midnight it started raining so hard, that many of the streets in Hollywood were flooding. The sewers couldn’t handle that amount of rain. I had just gotten back in from taking a dinner break. Twenty minutes later a co-worker wanders in and tells the guy next to him, that there’s a car with their lights on in the parking light. He tells the other guy he was going to announce it over the P.A. until he saw that the car had a Bush bumpe rsticker on it.  It was my car.  I kept quiet, got up and shut them off.  Too late. But guess what. The Art Director arrived back in his car, sporting a libertarians bumper sticker and gave me a jump.  The next night I confront the Bush hater, baiting him by first asking if he believes in tolerance and diversity. He replies “of course.”  I point out to him what he did the night before. He genuinely feels bad.  Believe it or not, this is the only time I have EVER gotten a liberal to repent.

But the other part of the blame goes to those of us that are just too comfortable to make a difference. We can react leftists or we can be pro-active. But I doubt this is worth the trouble either, self loathing as most are towards America.

In my own church of 7,000, I hear the senior pastor say how much he’s behind supporting conservatives in Hollywood and has a special heart for helping movie producers get better messages out there. Yet when approached to pro-actively get the congregation involved just like the little tiny church in Georgia that got behind Fireproof and Facing the Giants, the response was “we have no way of doing that.”  Huh?  Talk IS cheap. Put up or shut up America. I’m sick of battling those in my industry while everyone else invites Brian Gumble into their living room and collectively spend millions for movie tickets to glorify failed Communist revolutionaries like Che Guevara. But hey, don’t worry. Easter is around the corner again and they’ll be rolling out another movie designed to show you what a fool you really are for clinging to archaic beliefs of right and wrong, good and evil.

Keywords: SAG screen actors guild socialism hollywood elite

Have you ever noticed how many award shows dentists give themselves?  What about those mechanics? No, just the Hollywood crowd, which I'm not proud to be called a part of.  Seriously how many movie and TV awards are there?  The Academys, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Critic's Choice, MTV Movie awards for starters. There's also shows disguised as though they were given by outsiders - the Peoples Choice Awards, but really this is just still Hollywood throwing themselves another party.

 What does it say about these people that have everything... money, sports cars, multi-million dollar mansion?  Apparently they feel like what they are doing is not worth anything. They are typified by Al Franken's Saturday Night Live character Stuart Smalley. Yes, actors do stand looking into the mirror for hours on end, day after day giving themselves the pep talk on how fabulous they are. In all fairness though I do have a lot of actor friends, famous and not that are not out to be worshiped.

 This morning I'm watching Alan Rosenberg, head of the Screen Actors Guild being interviewed on the morning news show complaining about how SAG actors are only going to get "$23 for 7 months of internet downloads when a SAG actor gets $2,300 an episode on television."  Never mind the FACT that we Producers still haven't found a way to generate more than 2 or 3 digits a month at most of web streamed programs. Meanwhile, cut to network television. It is quickly dying because audiences are Tivo'ing through commercials that pay for the production. Advertisers are not happy about this and are taking their money and putting it more towards print and radio.  So we Producers can't help but look at SAG's leadership as whiny little victims - hey sounds like democrats huh? It's no wonder as Hollywood is almost entirely responsible for producing the new messiah, our President elect. But that's a different blog.  

We producers on the other hand often reach into our own pockets and fund our visions on Mastercharge, hoping that we'll find a way to make money off it. So many do not. EVER.  In fact there are sometimes thousands of indie pictures that get produced a year.  Did you see thousands of new titles show up your video store shelves this last year?

The Internet is quickly becoming the next distribution model as hi-def video is now downloadable and the audience can be reached without much advertising cost via blogging, forums, Myspace etc. This is great for filmmakers that don't have the blessing of major studios and beg, barrow and steal to get their visions made.  

As a Producer I'm constantly told I have to hire SAG  actors for the features, TV shows and web series I produce.  Why do HAVE TO hire SAG actors?  Is it written somewhere in a penal code or Federal law?  No.  Here's the answer. You're gonna love this.  We as producers are suppose to voluntarily give control to the intermediary SAG, allowing them to place a legal lien on the film which means you can never release it until they feel your literal 4 inch stack of paperwork is filled out correctly.  Then, depending on which agreement you've voluntarily signed, you are limited to how you can show the picture. You might only have the rights to show it on the internet or a limited amount of film festivals. You'd think that with the 500+ films that are signatory every year, they'd have to have at least 2 or 3 hundred agents handling all the legalese. Not so. There's a handful of administrators.  In return, SAG gives you an actor that has had to pass zero qualifications besides paying the dues. I don't know what the exact number is, but I've heard there is over 100,000 members and most of them can't act their way out of a paper bag. The actors that are great or at least good, can make 6 to 8 FIGURES a year having negotiated the fee apart from SAG.  I wonder if the nobody actors realize that by limiting their exposure, they're actually hurting their chances of being seen by a larger audience who might otherwise help propel them to stardom status. People come to Hollywood to dig for gold. Most of them need ego stroking and lots of therapy and becoming a celebrity fills this prescription like nothing else can.

I was on one sound stage a few months ago wrapping on a TV pilot as another production company started to shoot.  I loaned them one of my Production Assistants who was brand new to working in the industry.  He tells me that celebrity actress Rena Sofer has thrown about 5 hissy fits in the few days that she's been there.  Yeah, I don't know her by name either, but you'd recognize her if you saw her.  Apparently she had 4 different makeup artists fired and insisted that another production assistant be fired because he or she had the audacity to let her know the crew was ready to shoot her scene.  Typical day in Hollywood.

SAG is a microcosm example of liberal leftist of America. The notion of "I'm entitled to" is a dangerous one and commands no respect. But those that vote Democrat see that they can force their religion of secularism upon you through the government.   And let me say ahead of time, if SAG votes to strike, they are screwing themselves and screwing EVERYBODY that is helping them live their dreams of being loved.  If you want to learn about where the country is headed and who is causing that, just keep watch the behavior of the "talent" in Hollywood and you'll have your answer multiplied by the millions that voted for transforming America.

keywords: Mumbai India terrorist attacks

NBC Today Show starts their Thanksgiving day broadcast with the lower thirds graphic “100 killed in…”  Let me take a dramatic text pause here for a moment…………………. Killed?  Was this an accident like a plane crash or train derailing?  No wonder 50 percent of Americans are so morally confused. The correct word here is MURDERED.  Four years of majoring in Journalism really paid of for those of you at the alphabet news shows. If you in the TV audience didn’t realize it, the puppets in front of the cameras just read what is given to them.  The Executive Producers, Line Producers, Story Editors and Managing Editors all decide what they are going to say. Dan Rather even blamed them when he pushed the fake story of President Bush being AWOL during his National Guard service days.  Hey Dan, how’s that lawsuit going over having the right to slander someone and retain your job? But I’ll give NBC some credit. At least they can call a terrorist a terrorist instead of the kinder more sympathetic term of “militant” like most of the other media elite.

But what about those individuals not pulling down 6 figures spewing stupidly?  What about those underground prophets that always seem to rise up in the midst of world conflict? It use to be pirated radio or ham radio operators.  But today, other means are being used to wake people up.  Some might just pass it off as entertainment, but the makers of web serials like the one below feel they have a mission, producing out of their own pockets.  Crescent Moon Street started hitting the web with it’s bi-weekly episodes last month.  The parallels to what has happened in Mumbai are eerie.

At what point do the people of any given country decide it’s time to take up arms and fight the tyranny of their own government? I’m sure the mere question being posed will be flagged by the Fed’s so let me just give this disclaimer up front. At this present time, I am not in any way shape or form advocating overthrowing the Federal, state or local government.  But gosh, do I really even need to be concerned enough to have to state this up front?  After all, you can be Bill Ayers and say you didn’t commit enough acts of terrorism and even find a place of honor among the elite of the educational system.

Here in California the people voted for the second time to maintain the legal definition of marriage to one man, one woman.  The first time the people’s votes were overturned by 4 activist judges.  This second vote, Prop. 8, is already being challenged by militant gay activists taking it to court. Maybe you have a law or proposition of some kind being overturned where you live.

What if the people’s will is overturned again? What are you going to do about it? Are you going to even bother to vote anymore?  Not me. What’s the point?  My vote is then meaningless.   Are you going to form a blockade and defend your pastor or rabbi by force when the police show up to jail them for so-called hate speech when they quote Leviticus 18:22?  What exactly is going to wake you up? What is going to be the final freedom lost where you snap and say enough is enough?  Will you even have the freedom to organize against the tyranny of your government at that point?

Our founding forefathers rebelled against England when religion forced the people to respect its ideals and jailed those that didn’t.  Tell me how Liberal Leftism is not a religion. They’re even having parents jailed for objecting to having their kids brainwashed with ideas of marrying the same sex in elementary school.  But where are you going to flee to now? Going to start a new country somewhere else?

And for God’s sake don’t tell me how the Republican Party has to reform.  How in the hell is that going to change anything when your child is now being programmed from kindergarten through college on how to create equality by force and hate freedom? There will be no audience left to listen to a Republican by then. You are so asleep-at-the-wheel America, you are paying upwards of $80,000 a year in college tuition to undo all the values you have taught your kids.  America is a horrible place, full of homophobes and unrepentant descendents of slave owners, who are single-handedly destroying the planet clinging to their guns and religion. You are a victim and the government will take care of you by spreading the wealth around. That's the promise of who they proclaimed messiah and savior.

Here’s the plan of action you ought to be taking.

1)       Remove your kids from government run school systems and liberal universities

2)       Discontinue that paper subscription that craps on America (you can download your coupons off the internet)

3)       Send the NRA a letter and point out that it was a huge faux pas for confusing the 2^nd Amendment with deer hunting.

Let’s hear from you readers. How are you going to get out of your steady-as-she-goes approach to patriotism and turn this ship around? Or will you just keep playing along telling yourself history never repeats?

Goodnight from the Hollywood underground. Viva America. The Resistance is alive.

POST NOTE: Terrorist lawyers need to be among the first to surrender. See LIBERTY WATCH'S article
"eHarmony Forced To Sell Out To Homosexuals"

Apparently this articulate individual was banned from Youtube. Decide for yourself how hate-filled Christians and conservatives are.