1. Slumdog Millionaire - Question: what do you call a film about a illiterate teen from Mumbai going on India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and coming close to winning 20 million rupees and possibly his death? Answer: the best movie of 2008. No other film this year matches the vibrant energy or the blistering, in-your-face reality of third-world living than Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches tale of Jamal Malik's (the amazing Dev Patel) quest to win the heart of his childhood love, Latika (Freida Pinto) by going on a popular Indian quiz show in hopes that she watching. So is his older brother, Salim (the excellent Madhur Mittal), caught in an ethical trap - continue to serve a local mob boss who will kill Jamal for trying to steal Latika from him, or help his estranged brother and risk his own life in the process. Cinematographer Anthony Dod and editor Chris Dickens give a poet's eye to the harshness of the third-world, yet but allows life to breath in from almost every frame. Composer A.R. Rahman's score is full of pop and heartbreak to create a work of aching beauty. But it's Boyle who works wonders in this movie miracle. Shot using compact digital cameras, he paints a no-bull honest look at hard living in Mumbai that shocks and inspires you all at once. The end result is a masterpiece film where love, life, tragedy, and despair cross paths seamlessly.
3. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan's sequel to 2005's Batman Begins does what no summer movie since Spider-Man 2 did in 2004: not only live up to the hype, but do so by leaps and bounds. Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter ego now take on the sociopath criminal mastermind known only as the Joker as he leaves a trail of death and chaos along Gotham City, leading everyone - from Gotham's new D.A. Harvey Dent, to Wayne's butler/father figure, Alfred - to confront ethical traps they can't escape from. Everyone from Christian Bale to Aaron Eckhart give sold performances but it's the late Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker that pulls you in. Ledger's Joker is nothing short of a tour de force and is right up there with Daniel-Day Lewis's Daniel Plainview (There will Be Blood) and Forest Whittaker's Idi Amen (The Last King of Scotland) as one of the great performances this decade.
5. Milk - What an amazing man. What a tragic end to his quest for gay rights. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office, and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were both assassinated in 1978 by troubled politician Dan White. This stirring and compassionate biopic, directed by Gus Van Saint and staring Sean Penn as the title character, isn't about that fateful day. Its about the man, his crusade for equality and justice for the gay and lesbian community, and his personal triumphs and losses. Penn doesn't so much play the slain gay activist as he does bare his soul for all to witness. Josh Brolin plays White not as a monster, but as a man at war with his own emotions and isolation. Watching him naked and cut off from everyone, in a small room, is devastating. If you think Van Saint's Milk isn't a call to arms to carry on in Harvey's work, then let me point to California's shameful vote on Proposition 8 on Election Day. Where's Harvey Milk when we need him the most?
10. Iron-Man - Sure, this was the year of the Joker and The Dark Knight, but there's little denying that Robert Downey Jr. is the comeback kid of 2008. And what a way to signal your return by playing a snarky, self-serving playboy/mercenary who gets a change of heart after one of his own weapons nearly kills him during an ambush in the Middle East. For three months in captivity, Tony Stark builds his escape: an iron suit of armor, the prototype of his greatest invention: an advanced suit of armor with the look of a insanely sexy hot red hot rod, built to destroy the weapons he had built. Iron-Man was the kick-off to an amazing summer at the movies this year, but it also had something few other movies offered this summer: heart and soul.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The office of Jack Kemp said the former housing secretary, congressman and Buffalo Bills quarterback has been diagnosed with cancer.
A statement issued Wednesday in Buffalo says Kemp is undergoing tests to assess the origin of the disease and the best treatment.
The statement did not address the type of cancer.
The 73-year-old Kemp says he will continue to serve as chairman of his Washington-based Kemp Partners consulting firm and will remain involved in charitable and political work.
After his football career, Kemp represented western New York for nine terms in Congress.
He ran unsuccessfully for president in 1988, then later was President George H.W. Bush's housing secretary, and ran for vice president as Bob Dole's running mate.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press
Dear Readers,
We are going to try an experiment of moderating comments. This should cut down on troll posts considerably but it will likely cause a delay in when your posts appear. I'll open a thread in the forum for feedback.
That's great since you have made sure that anybody who might have something to say against it is banned from posting on the forum.
Like I said for the time being I'll give her he benefit of the doubt and believe this is an attempt to curve the idiots and not yet one more instance of the Newshounds version of Lenin and the Russian revolution.Whatever the intention I think it's a terrible idea.
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Now On to Something Entirely More Important And Pleasant.
This paragraph is for those with Children or younger relatives.I have a 7 year old nephew "I call him my Nephew but his Mother and my brother aren't married yet" ( it's scheduled for June) God I love this little guy. We had him over on Saturday about a week and a half ago to spend the night and so he could play my PS 3. He's like a little Count only with more potential than I ever dreamed of having. He loves football, all sports really and he's so smart, I buy him programs from sporting events and he reads them cover to cover. When he sees me he sits with me and he's always asking me questions then agreeing with me. He asked me who I voted for President and when I told him Obama he said "me too" He was a Lakers fan and when he saw I was a Celtics fan he became a Celtics fan. He saw my "Losers" shirt and he said that's right the Lakers are losers.
That's the problem though He seems to actually look at me as someone to aspire to be. I know this is not the best time to quote Charles Barkley BUT I am not a role model. I cuss too much, I have a bad temper, I can be rude, The list goes on. Seriously If I wanted to be a role model I'd go and find some kid I couldn't stand and say hey kid...be like me. Not this boy that I have grown so fond of. I am trying to find that delicate balance of being an adult that he can trust and admire with out selling myself as somebody he should aspire to be. Maybe I am selling myself short on this thing maybe I am a better influence on him than I think I am or just maybe I am no worse than most anybody else. Last year my Brother took him to his first Nebraska game which was that 41-40 disaster against Ball State. Afterwords he says to me "Hey Uncle Steve guess what" "Nebraska's defense is called the blackshirts and you know what?" "They suck" Once I got done laughing I just said that's my boy. He was going through my PS 3 games and he found my Quantum Of Solace game and he said "My Mom probably wouldn't let me play this" Hell I was hoping he would teach me how to play. Instead he played NCAA 09 and Maddens all night. Maybe I can teach him lessons from being a Nebraska basketball fan. About loyalty, support and commitment to those people and things you love no matter what. IF I have any good qualities. I believe that these are it.
So you subtly admit that Savage is right, huh? Autism, like homosexuality and poverty, is a lifestyle choice. Relying on idiosyncratic words to make you appear smart only makes you sound like an elitist to the Heartland.
In summary, I don’t want any of MY tax dollars going to ‘help’ spoiled brats who say that they have a medical condition. It’s complete rot, and hopefully, President Bush or President McCain will put an end to this nonsense by signing a law that mandates that autistic children should be shipped off to boarding school, and be paddled every day until they admit they aren’t autistic. So-called experts simply want to bilk tax dollars out of hard-working Americans. I, for one, will not tolerate an America that does this, and neither will my fellow Christians.
Look here, RINO. Interrogation techniques have been used by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI for as long as they have existed. Torture is one such interrogation technique, and typically the most effective. After all, when you place a firebrand on their chests, terrorists will be desperate to stop the technique. With proper analysis from psychologists at the interrogation scenario, we will be able to tell when the terrorists are telling the truth, and when they are lying; Islamists aren’t trained to act. On the other hand, when you do not torture Islamofascists, you withhold information from yourself. Anyone that works in secret agencies or the special forces can tell you that torture does work, and that to dispose of the practice entirely would mean that they have no credible alternative to extract information from the terrorists......
Wiretapping Muslim phones in America will also be quite useful in finding the threat before it commences. There is overwhelming evidence that the Muslims that carried out the 9/11 attacks were living in America, and we can be sure that Muslims, being a people disposed towards violence, had at least some information on these tragedies. If we had just rounded up these Muslims and tortured them, 9/11 may not have happened. In order to guarantee another 9/11 does not happen, we need to round up and torture all Islamofascists in America, as well as the world. Furthermore, we can intern all Muslims attempting to immigrate to America quite easily; we should not pass up the chance.
Such actions may not be pleasing to Americans. But such actions are the only way to keep Americans from being killed by terrorist attacks. After all, we only started torturing after 9/11, and no terrorist attacks have occured since. The only other option is nuking their countries, and I don’t think we should commit ourselves to that, at least not yet.
Thankfully, our program to eliminate the Islamists is, at the moment, intact, while we can address the homosexuals much easier. After all, I think that every country would rather fight a nation of homosexuals than they would a nation of jihadists. As such, I would propose a program from our government that would secretly eliminate these two groups from our society. I think that, ultimately, we will have to use the battlefield in order to eliminate these groups. Homosexuals can serve as a diversion from our troops, and we all know that homosexuals can put on a show anywhere. (As such, I would advise President Obama to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” much earlier than his proposed deadline, as long as he requires that homosexuals be kept separate from the rest of our troops, and also quarantined.) In the meantime, we can use Islamists as the people that are required to attempt negotiations with the enemy; right-thinking people will know that these negotiations will fail, while Leftists will be fooled.
While our public at large does not recognize the dangers homosexuals and Islamists pose our country, Pat Boone does. Pat Boone has unparalleled credentials for discussing these issues; homosexual Islamists such as Fats Domino and Nat King Cole had their lyrics tamed by the man that lives the quintessential American lifestyle. So if you are foolish enough to criticize Pat Boone, you are foolish enough to criticize America.
Obama says trillion-dollar deficits may last years
Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 6, 1:09 pm ET
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama says the nation probably faces huge deficits for years to come, but heavy spending is needed now to spur the economy.
Obama said Tuesday the deficit appears on track to hit $1 trillion soon. Speaking to reporters after meeting with top economic aides, Obama said: "Potentially we've got trillion-dollar deficits for years to come, even with the economic recovery that we are working on."
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Heckuva job, Lil' Barry Bailout. You're not even in office yet and you're already promising to borrow a trillion dollars a year from the Chinese.
What a failure.
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Ann Coulter Holds Herself Up As Champion Of Family Values Despite A Record Indicating Otherwise
Ann Coulter got two segments to promote her latest book on Hannity & Colmes last night (1/5/09). Predictably, Coulter spent the segment attacking liberals, this time for being anti-marriage and for supporting sex before marriage. But that did not stop the never-married, fifty-ish Coulter from flirting blatantly with the very-married Alan Colmes. In the past, Coulter has spoken enthusiastically about pre-marital sex, and she was reputed to have lived with a man without benefit of marriage. “Family values” Coulter also has a history of showing up on television inebriated. In addition, Coulter complained bitterly about having her appearance cancelled on NBC's Today, alleging that they had engaged in a plot to prevent her from making other appearances. With video.
OK so Ann Coulter is not the model of conservative family values...tell us something we don't know. While I certainly agree with The Newshounds Mod 200% with her conclussion that Coulter talks one game and plays another It seems to me that this thread has more to do with the fact that Coulter flirted with Colmes (Alan Colmes is on record as being a fan of The Newshounds Mod) than it does with the fact that Coulter is worthless bitch and Fox news is just as worthless as she is. Come on The Newshounds Mod. Fox and Coulter give you enough material (like thread one today) to go after both sufficiently don't let your personal feelings for Colmes cloud your judgment which isn't the best when it's clear.
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