Señor Jehuda, aka "El Blogo de Conservo", is an attorney and media professional with a background in TV marketing and production, copywriting, independent filmmaking, and spontaneously speaking perfect Spanish. A proud Texan who recently escaped from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, he spends far too much time thinking about movies - especially since his job requires it. Jehuda is also a contributor at YesButHowever.com and PJ Lifestyle.
Morning In America: Glenn Greenwald wakes up.
But isn’t Greenwald guilty of similar hypocrisy? He and many other Obama boosters condemned Obama’s pro-wiretap vote back in 2008; and yet they did not switch their support to another candidate. It was as if the pursuit of political power was more important than principle or something…
UPDATE: “Obama-Firsters”. Couldn’t have said it better…
Everything Should Taste Like Bacon: Learn how to mix a fancy candied bacon Martini.
“I find your lack of new material disturbing”: Second City laments The Phantom Menace in 3D.
Your Moment of Geek: The 14 Best Geeky and Nerdy Beers in Existence.
Endurance: How to go to 14 movies in 48 hours without going insane.
I’ve noticed that since we left L.A., my wife and I go to the movies – to actual theaters – much more often than we used to in Los Angeles. Four times in the last 2 months, to be specific.
Ironic, but it’s just more pleasant to go to the movies in New Mexico. It’s not even the ticket price. I think it’s the fact that parking is easier; crowds are smaller; and theaters are more on the ball about enforcing politeness in their auditoriums.
THR: Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: The Untold Obama Connection.
UPDATE: Related: Nikki Finke points out NBC is shilling for Obama again.
She sounds surprised, but it should be expected. And who can forget the other strong link between the administration and NBCUniversal’s new owner?
MORE: Related thoughts from Smitty at The Other McCain, who links (thanks!).
I thought it was a cool enough ad, as far as commercials go. But it sounded to me like a veiled celebration of the Government Motors bailouts that dismisses – rather deceptively, as the ad was not shot in Detroit – what a dry husk of a city Detroit has become in recent years.
Photographer Rights Update: Here Is The Recovered Video Police Deleted Of My Arrest.
Background here.
Turns out two can’t play the same game. Who knew?
There’s a double standard in there somewhere, but I repeat myself…
Even more Apple iTV rumors.
President Litella: Obama campaign to support super PAC fundraising, Stephen Colbert Hardest Hit.
I guess Citizens United wasn’t that much of a disgrace after all. But is anyone really surprised at Obama not standing on principle on this one, even after making such a big fuzz about Super PAC’s?
And will Stephen Colbert continue with his Super PAC shtick now that it’s not as ironic anymore? (or not as ironic in the way he initially intended?)
How to dispose of mercury…if you happen to break a CFL bulb or mercury thermometer, for example…
Gray Lady In Decline: The NYT needs a lot more than just a paywall: “Although the paywall and related print-subscription deals helped boost circulation revenue by almost 5 percent in the NYT’s media group — which includes the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune — and digital advertising revenue was also up by about 5 percent for the quarter, neither of those things were able to compensate for the continued drop-off in print advertising.”
Mobius Strip of Corruption: California’s High-Speed Rail Authority tapped state funds for unusual lobbying contract: “Even die-hard bullet train backers decried the lobbying as a wasteful and unethical use of taxpayer funds, saying it essentially amounts to the state spending money to lobby itself.”
“Unusual” is not how I would describe it…
Backpedaling: Komen backs down. Will give to Planned Parenthood.
This has to be as bad a P.R. episode as Netflix went through last year. But how many pro-Lifers will stop giving to breast-cancer-fighting Komen now that it’s giving to Planned Parenthood again? Compare and contrast to all the Leftie voices who were calling for anyone who supports Planned Parenthood to shun Komen.
Sounds as if the importance of fighting against breast cancer diminishes when Lefty orthodoxies are challenged. There’s a double standard in there somewhere. But I repeat myself…
UPDATE: Simulated backpedaling? Seems that indeed PP will remain eligible for Komen funding, but that doesn’t mean it will actually get it.
MORE: Related content at Hot Air.
Stewart Baker: Why the GOP Turned on Piracy. (via John Nolte)
Democrats are beholden to Hollywood, while Hollywood isn’t finished trying to make SOPA a reality. And if Nancy Pelosi really means it when she says that they are going to have to “get a compromise” on SOPA, you can be sure that what will be compromised will be Internet Freedom; and not Hollywood’s IP agenda.
For better or worse, if we want Internet Freedom, we must maintain a robust Republican presence on Capitol Hill. The SOPA war isn’t over. It’s just getting started.
The Other McCain: People need to chill out about the Florida redistricting plan.
Separation Double Standard of Church and State: Obama: Jesus Loves My Policies.
We’d be half way to a Civil War if a Republican president even dared to suggest a divine endorsement.
YID With LID needs help. His computer is imploding.
I’ve been there; and just donated. Maybe you can help, too…
Janeane Garofalo Was Not Available For Comment: Dem Congressman Jim Moran: Rep. Allen West “Not Representative Of African-American Community”.
Moran must be very much in touch with the African-American community – given that he’s not African American…
Ed Driscoll: Forty-five years of nihilism in popular culture.
This is probably how people arrive at questions like this one these days – or war movies of this sort…to say the least…
Media Matters Agonistes: Fox News’Winning Streak Hits 10 Years: “Fox News made it 10 years in a row as the top-rated cable news network, a streak that began after Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes’ operation first overtook CNN in total viewership in January 2002.”
Congratulations, FNC. I don’t watch like I used to, but I still catch a little Greta after work – and Red Eye on my DVR every now and then.
As for the Media Matters snark, I can’t help to note – as I have in the past – that if Media Matters thinks Fox News is the reason why the Left can’t get its message out, the problem is probably the message. The fact is Fox News is watched on average by less than 2,000,000 people a month. That’s less than 1% of the U.S. population.
Your Moment of Geek: Would-be Jedi jailed over lightsaber attack.
Sounds more like a Sith Lord to me…
The New Fairness: CBO: Federal Workers Overcompensated: “The Congressional Budget Office has released a new study showing that federal-government employees receive significantly higher compensation than private-sector workers with the same levels of education and experience.”
And then there’s this: Federal Employees Owe $3.4 Billion in Taxes.
Good times…
No Teleprompter Required: Allen West at the Revolution. Terrific speech.
Plus this: “It’s worth bringing forward in light of the redistricting approved by Republican leadership in the Florida legislature which will make it hard for West to get reelected, and the SuperPAC formed to target West and 9 other Tea Party House members.”
The Tea Party doesn’t play nice with the Ruling Class, so the Ruling Class must destroy the Tea Party.
Dems: As in the public sector, so in the private one: Corzine’s MF Global client money feared gone.
Your tax dollars at work: “Travelers at Los Angeles International Airport this morning were held back from boarding after the brain trust at the TSA security checkpoint not only managed to mistake a passenger’s insulin pump for a gun, but also waited until after she’d passed through the checkpoint to think it might be a good idea to check out the mysterious item.”
Solyndra-esque: Obama Administration Gave Electric Car Battery Maker $118 Million Grant, Company Now Bankrupt.
Good times…
Newt Gingrich: A Saul Alinsky Republican?
But would that be necessarily a bad thing? Related item here.
I’m not ready to say I back Newt. But I like he’s fighter streak. That’s for sure…
UPDATE: Related: Mitt Romney’s dad was an Alinsky follower. Interesting.
Open season on the Web? Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited:
Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill requiring the creation of virtual dossiers on state residents. The measure, H.B. 2288, says “Internet destination history information” and “subscriber’s information” such as name and address must be saved for two years.
Note also that Hawaii’s Senate majority whip – Democrat Jill Tokuda – had this to say: “I was asked to introduce the Senate companions on these Internet security related bills by Representative Kymberly Marcos Pine after her own personal experience in this area.”
Might Kymberly Pine’s “experience in this area” have anything to do with speech and political sentiments she’d like to monitor or outright curb?
SOPA, PIPA, and now this. Will other states follow? Never underestimate our elected officials when it comes to curtailing your freedom…
UPDATE: Incidentally, Pine is a Republican. Her ardent accuser and web tormentor is not exactly popular. Sounds like someone wants to perform a little surgery with a machete here.
VDH: The President Is Smiling: “Rather than going over the details of Gingrich’s marriages or Romney’s tax returns, at some point we need to hear which candidate can articulate what exactly is wrong with Obamaism and what he would do instead.”
Word…
STOP MAKING SENSE: SOTU: Did I hear that right?:
Let me get this straight: 1) banks will be punished (do I understand this right, by a committee headed by Eric Holder?) if their lending is too risky, 2) and they will be required (by the same committee) to give more home loans (meaning, it must be, to people who would otherwise not qualify for the loans, or else the government would not have to be involved) at lower rates (which means rates that do not compensate them as much as the market says they need to be compensated for the risks they are taking, all of which sounds like a new edition of the policies that brought on the financial collapse), 3) which must mean that they will have to pull back on risky lending someplace other than homes, 4) the only place that most banks would be able to pull back on riskier customers would be loans to small and new businesses, 5) but these are the businesses that have created just about all the jobs over the last 20 years and he said early in the speech he wants to encourage them, 6) so maybe their growth capital will come from selling stock to the kinds of people who invest in new and small businesses, 7) but through the Buffet Rule he’s going to double the tax rate on investment income for those people, meaning that, like the banks, they can’t be fully compensated for the risk of backing small and new businesses, 8) so they will not invest more in small and new companies but in big established firms, 9) so more of those small and new firms will have to turn to the government for capital, 10) which luckily he said would up its investing in early stage businesses with “the best” ideas, 11) “the best” ideas meaning, I guess, as with Solyndra, ideas that advance his agenda through companies whose owners support his candidacy), 11) or maybe it would be companies that agree to invite unionization.
Read the whole thing™. Sounds like Obama all right.
Gov. Scott Walker looking strong in early recall polling.
Good…
Uh-oh: Lionsgate Offering Groupon Discount For ‘Man On A Ledge’This Opening Weekend: “No word yet on the price but it could be as low as $1. Hmm, Groupon $1 tickets and Redbox $1 rentals: what happens when consumers decide $11 bucks is now too much to pay for any new movie?”
Related (marginally): How Hollywood Lost the SOPA war.
I have the feeling the war is not quite over…
Dispatch from the Mirror Universe: Senator Schumer on the State of the Union: “We’re in great shape”.
Senator Chuck “Baghdad Bob” Schumer…
Human ingenuity does it again: Starbucks to add beer and wine to some Southern California stores.
