Might the Saw franchise be the most profitable movies in the modern era? Production Cost Box Office Receipts (worldwide) Saw $1.2 mil $102.9 mil Saw II $4 mil $144 mil Saw III (as of 31-OCT-06) $10 mil $39.6 mil Saw IV (Halloween 2007) TBD TBD Source – Box Office Mojo They could run this out [...]
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In this day and age, political debates are like World Class chess. Chess junkies are excited over the most marginal of advantages, while ordinary people don’t understand all the fuss since the combatants usually run out a string of draws before anything interesting happens. Occasionally, you get something like this, where even the most casual [...]
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If you have a blog or a website, and you find this site even moderately non-offensive, or maybe even feebly amusing, take a moment and give me a link from your site to here. I’m just begging outright now. And I’ll be glad to return the favor.
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There are some fascinating rumblings emanating from the far Left Blogosphere regarding next weeks elections. I’ve already posted my concession that the House and maybe the Senate are about to change hands, and I still think that holds. But the past two months of conventional wisdom regarding a Leftward landslide is starting to wear a [...]
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Yeah, this weekend has been pretty much nothing but Islam. I’ll move on eventually. As I noted in an earlier post, France is ‘observing’ the one-year anniversary of the incident that prompted unprecedented rioting (and it should be noted the rioting never really ceased, with 100 cars per night torched in France by roving gangs [...]
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Filed under: Islam
This one is for Gidman.
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In case you missed it last week, the highest ranking Muslim in Australia gave a charming sermon last week. “Those atheists, people of the book (Christians and Jews), where will they end up? In Surfers Paradise? On the Gold Coast? Where will they end up? In hell and not part-time, for eternity. They are the [...]
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Filed under: Islam
Remember all the criticism leveled at Israel for hitting civilian homes during the summer war? Try this on for size. Long before hostilities erupted on July 12, Hezbollah construction teams had gone out and modified numerous Lebanese homes. Sometimes with, but most the time without, the homeowner’s permission, workers began adding on a large, single-function [...]
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Filed under: The War
Yeah, I’m a big supporter of copyright and all, but after an unprecedented viral marketing campaign manned by the common fan, Universal is taking some heavy-handed tactics against some fans. They might want to run the cost analysis of the bad PR. And for you fans infringing on copyright – shame on you. Universal making [...]
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One year after the last intifada, France boils again. Here. Here. Here. Here. Will France get a handle on this? Any French readers (and there are some) care to offer some first-hand reports? Technorati Tags: french, riots
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Hot Air has a convenient film strip of all eight parts of ‘Obsession’. You can watch in ten minute blocks. Can’t recommend it enough.
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Last week, Gidman and I were sitting in the lunch room on a burned-out Friday, mindlessly chewing our ‘conveniently available work-site cafeteria so you don’t have to leave the site’ food, when I started looking at a plastic fork, manufactured by the Sunshine Corporation. So we started talking forks. Look at the design and variety [...]
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This week, I have been participating in meetings between my employer, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, and an agency of the Federal Government. These meetings are routine, occurring from time to time. In the course of the meeting, our guest wished to print a single page from a PDF file on a CD-ROM in her possession. [...]
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We’ve had two cats since we moved back from California in 1999. We adopted them as kittens from a shelter. More accurately, we set out to adopt one cat we saw on a leaflet at the grocery store, and ended up with his cage-mate as well. Soft-hearted suckers that we are… Emily and Ramses are [...]
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So Dick Cheney agreed with an interview question that ‘dunking in water’ is a reasonable form of interrogation, and the White House Press Corps went nuts. Tony Snow bears the expression of a man who can’t quite believe the spectacle before him. You’d think the Press was on the verge of uncovering American crematoriums packed [...]
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Filed under: The Failing MSM
Cross posted at No Quarter. The latest PowerPoint AAR is up, available here. After I recorded it, I noticed some problems with static. I apologize in advance for that, and I hope it is still worth listening to. Cutting another narration track isn’t something I have time to do right now, so this is better [...]
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A certain governmental agency just walked into my place of employment and launched a surprise audit. I’m afraid I’m going to be spoken for over the next unknown interval of time. Thought I should take a second and at least explain the coming silence on the site. I spend more time posting about not posting….don’t [...]
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The ‘Youths of Asian Origin’ continue to rehearse for Jihad in France. Total number of attacks on police in 2004: 3,842. In 2005: 4,246. Through the first six months of 2006: 2,458. An official from one police union says the “youths” are known to yell “Allah Akbar” while attacking. Plenty of links to evidence at [...]
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Filed under: Islam
Engine Animation – nice video (tags: YouTube video) Origins of the Bible. I’d like to discuss this. (tags: religion)
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Just because I think it could be useful to some. Read here.
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