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I also love Justified and Southland. Also, Dr. Who starts back up this weekend, I beleive!

There's a lot more to the show than this, but this is a good sampling of the news that goes on somewhat *in the background* of this great show, from the finale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGAvwSp86hY

Finished watching the first season yesterday. Overall, The Newsroom is FUCKING EXCELLENT! It perfectly uses past news events to illustrate current ones and says exactly the kinds of things liberals (and even in some cases true conservatives--instead of sitting back and taking it from the Tea Party) should've been screaming from the rooftops for YEARS! There are some truly great episodes, though I started to get really tired of the fucking love triangle in the season finale, especially because other storylines were pretty high stakes. Also, big fans of West Wing will find themselves pulled out occasionally when they notice a Sorkin-ism they've seen before. "I don't know what that means..." There've been a couple episodes that flirted with copying major structural elements from WW episodes, hopefully they don't get any closer than that... All in all it's a lot like The West Wing--a fairy tale, what we wish the subject was, instead of what it really is. But also entertaining, touching, and informative. Highly recommended! And the world would be a better place if each of us managed to hook one Fox "News" viewer on it!!

I can't help but be jaded on how slow stuff like this moves! There's been chatter about bio-engineered fuels and fuels from stuff like switchgrass for years and years, yet B20 (Diesel with only 20% bio-fuel, like from soybeans) isn't even in widespread use! Talk of graphine batteries and supercacitors for electric cars, yet the average Prius is still using ancient Nickle Metal Hydride batteries! At best, in electric cars, we're finally getting into a two steps forward for one step back (Fisker...) situation--which is better than standing still, but why is progress so slow?! And that's when the OIL INDUSTRY isn't sabotaging progress with bullshit about the Hydrogen RED HERRING!

This all sounds like exactly what 60 minutes covered in-depth a little while ago... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTTGGnw8ak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZnBpoC2jc http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=nRZeh4KEz9s

A certain South Park episode comes to mind!

The 14 Most Important Sex Ads Of The Republican National Convention "Is Tampa America's sketchiest city?" --Yes.

Damn it, forgot where I'd first seen this. Sorry!

And the abject decline in discourse/news... The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn. Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies. Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case. Several, including Voth, are speaking out for the first time. How Fast and Furious reached the headlines is a strange and unsettling saga, one that reveals a lot about politics and media today.

I've decided I can't let reference to "Fast and Furious" go unanswered, but I too think this deserves more notice... Since it's as much a story about news coverage as anything else, as requested, I've created a new thread in the main forum.

HEY EVERYBODY, let's take a couple minutes and read up on what "Fast and Furious" was *actually* about... DarnTop is right that it's really unsettling--turns out that's *all* he's right about: Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn. Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies. Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case. Several, including Voth, are speaking out for the first time. How Fast and Furious reached the headlines is a strange and unsettling saga, one that reveals a lot about politics and media today.

Some of us might have want to start taking the bus!

Along the same lines... and

Life is sacred at conception, to the point many are against funding or even teaching birth control, but when born, not so much. Gut welfare, medicaid, etc... Aggressive, militaristic stance is inherently anti-CHRISTian. But give them an opportunity to "nation build" where a country wants us there and needs help and they run the other way... Nothing matters to them more than protecting our personal liberties... except in our bedrooms! I ask again, how do their heads not explode from the constant hypocrisy?

I still haven't started it either, but the seasons are probably not that long, best to start from the beginning! Sounds like it's worth it...

Also: Movies that Tony Scott left behind The filmmaker was developing projects, including a 'Top Gun' sequel. Their futures are unknown.

Tony Scott didn't have brain cancer, family tells coroner The Los Angeles County coroner's office said it has not determined whether director Tony Scott had any health problems before he jumped off a San Pedro bridge Sunday and said family members have denied media reports that he was suffering from inoperable brain cancer.

There are apparently alternatives... Anybody have any success on them?

I believe the family has denied the early brain cancer rumors... we may never know why somebody with so much decided life wasn't worth living...

You're right, somehow I missed the last sentence I quoted! Sorry.

Also, I should add, having a board of directors that can guide you, advise against or even veto certain purchases or gifts could be very, *very* helpful. I once worked for one of the richer, more powerful men in Hollywood and it was very interesting to me, when he said he wanted something that wasn't the end of it. (His accountant--who'd been with him forever--was the final word!) And that's why he's worth about 700 million. People around him that said no, money *is* an object, how can we get somebody else to pay all the expenses for him to pursue his latest hobby or interest? And by god his employees usually managed it! Turns out when you don't *need* something for free it's a lot easier to get it free!