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Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a turn based fantasy game in which you take the role of a pretending god. Each pretender is Lord and Master of one of seventeen cultures, each with its own individual strengths and weaknesses. With the aid of soldiers, mages and monsters you will conquer the lands of your neighbors in a struggle to become the one true god. This is an old game and it is now available for those who want some Dominions nostalgia or maybe just want to show their support for Illwinter Game Design. If you haven't played any Dominions game previously you probably want to start with Dominions 3 instead. (Go to Dominions 3 to find a forum where you can discuss this game and get technical support)
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Goodness, I have gadded about this weekend.
On Friday, as you know, if you are one of the .07 people who reads this blog on Saturday, I went to Charlotte to see The Fireman.
I do not know why he is on fire. I guess because there is no way I could draw a fireman's helmet.
Then yesterday I schlepped to Raleigh to see Daniel Boone, aka Sir Walter Raleigh.
I gave him glasses, but you can barely tell. When I saw D. Boone, I realized we now have the same ding-dang glasses.
And it's all your guyses' fault, because you PICKED OUT my glasses. So now Daniel Boone and I are EVEN MORE the same person. "Guyses" is a totally fine word.
Anyway, today my tour of North Carolina continues as I traipse to Winston-Salem to see my little artist friend Charlie, who is 28.
That is Charlie dressed as an infant, wrapped in a blue blanket with a pacifier. Because I am good at the drawing. Note my hair keeps getting worse as this weekend gets chaotic-ker. Chaotic-ker is a totally fine word.
I took the dogs to daycare for the weekend because I felt sorry for them because I was never gonna be around. Let me go look at the webcam right now to see what they're up to…
Ohhh! They're both following the girl around who cleans up the pee. Maybe they miss me. I can't pick them up till 3:00–the place is not officially open till then. Can you imagine? They are open 3:00 till 5:00 on Sundays. There are some reasonable hours.
Anyway, so seeing Daniel Boone was really fun and we are SO MUCH BETTER OFF as friends. Did I mention we are exactly alike? Did I mention the part where we think we're hilarious is the same, and where we each have 949304 stories is the same, and our neurotic parts are the same? We would have been a disastrous couple.
I took this picture of Sir Walter Raleigh while we were walking around, and I made it the picture that pops up should Daniel Boone call me on my cell phone. So now every time I think of him I will picture him in his pantaloons accented by a snazzy belt.
We went to the museum where we liked all the same things and hated all the same things, and then to lunch…
where we ordered the same food. Someone eats faster, though. Have I ever told you I am the world's slowest eater?
We saw three men who were clearly dressed for a wedding, unless they just stroll around on a hot Saturday in tuxes and boutonnieres all the time. I mean, it's our state's capitol. Maybe people are fancier there. Anyway, they were eating at Jimmy John's, which cracked us up.
My theory is the wedding was one of those annoying affairs where the church part was at, say, noon and the reception was at 6:00 or something. If you did this on your wedding day I am sorry to offend but that is annoying. You have to hang out in your dress-up clothes, or decide if you want to take OFF the dress-up clothes and put them back on again. You can KIND of do something else but you have no REAL time because in a few hours you have to go to the reception. It messes up the whole day. Have the entire thing in one chunk.
Wedding planning by June. Because her own marriage was a rousing success.
At any rate, D. Boone and I had a wonderful time and I didn't even feel like kissing him at the end of the afternoon or anything. We really have segued to the friends part. So, yay.
Oh, and my Uncle Leo is back in my home town and my mother saw him yesterday. I should have just driven over there. Anyway, he is weak and his color is still off but he was in good spirits because he is always in good spirits. I was thinking maybe I would interview him about the whole thing for this blog, because I want to hear about India and vomiting 86 times post-India and what a hospital in New York is like. I mean, are the nurses more fashionable? Were the bagels good at breakfast? Is the hospital bill gonna be extra-super-expensive because it's New York?
These and other important Qs burn in my brain.
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For the last several years, the single-day box office king in Hong Kong has been Avatar. People love giant blue cat-people! But not, apparently, as much as they love full frontal nudity. Because after grossing $340,000 US on 73 screens, 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy has taken Hong Kong's single-day box office crown.
So just who is your new undisputed champion? Much in the way that Avatar is a
ripoff loose remake of Fern Gully, 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is an adaption of an eponymous 1991 film. The plot, according to SlashFilm:
[It's] about a sexually frustrated teacher in ancient China who gets wrapped up in the harem of a new friend. Featuring full nudity and "camouflaged lovemaking" but no actual penetration.
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Hear that Cameron? The bar has been set. I don't care how many fps you film Avatar 2 in; you're gonna need to get some third dimensional spooning in there. [SlashFilm via The Daily What]


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This week's top Apple news was all about software. OS X received an update, as did iOS and Safari for the desktop. We covered all that, plus a discussion sparked by our forums about the future of the Mac, Foxconn's intent to improve factory conditions, the new Google+ app for iOS, iPad cases that don't suck, and more. Here's the top 10 from the week!
- Apple improves AirPlay playback, iPad network switching, HDR with iOS 5.1.1
iOS 5.1.1 is relatively minor, but contains fixes for some obnoxious bugs.
- OS X plain text password flaw has been around for 3 months and counting
An errant debug switch in 10.7.3 could expose encrypted data for some Mac users.
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The update also includes a Safari update with "stability improvements."
- Has the Mac crested? The OpenForum's haikus tackle the issue
This week's best Forum threads wax poetic in discussing the future of Apple.
- iOS 5.1.1 patches URL spoofing flaw, two other security vulnerabilities
iOS 5.1.1 closes security vulnerabilities in addition to the usual bug fixes.
- Safari 5.1.7 disables older Flash plugins for increased security
Will this help to reduce attacks on users who rarely update their plugins?
- Foxconn and Apple to split costs to improve factory conditions
Foxconn CEO says Apple agrees it will be a "competitive strength."
- Hands-on: Google+ iPhone app gets complete visual makeover
There's not much new functionality, but boy does it look pretty.
- iPod owners being notified of class-action antitrust suit against Apple
The lawsuit has been winding its way through the legal system since 2004.
- Not-Horrible iPad Cases: a round-up of the best
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COLOSSAL-TCA - Tuesday 04/12/2012, 18:09
Novice - Time Conquers All
In the hectic run up to Christmas and the unexpected voyage of two infamous Clint City members, Copper has had his work cut out for him, down at the Clint City Police Department.
In his haste to be as proactive as possible through this busy season, Dayton has accidentally shred a very important document. This document is an Ancient Crime Statement, describing in detail, one of Clint City's first and most horrific murders. Copper, furious, throws Dayton out of his office and tells him to "Go bust a Montana or something'. For should this document not be remade, or redrawn, the Killer will be released of all charges against them. "And they were guilty as sin." Copper mused.
Horrified, he retrieves the poor strips of ancient parchment from the waste paper basket and glues them back together as best he can. But alas, its no good, the document is far from complete, whole words are either
illegible or entirely missing.
Copper, who was the officer who handled the report at the time, thought back to the interrogation he'd had with the Killer, how the killer had confessed to everything. He believed, even though it was a long long time ago, that he'd be able to fill in the blanks from his memory and remake this very important crime report. He stared at the few salvaged words:
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:06
Novice - Time Conquers All
'At precisely **1** on the **2**, **3** brutally murdered **4** in the middle of **5**. According to **6**, the accused had used a **7** to end the life of the victim, though this was never recovered from the scene of the crime. It will need to be **8** A.S.A.P. Allegedly, **9**, overheard the victim saying **10**, after the Killer sold **11** **12** to the victim for **13**. The Killer has confessed to the crime and will be banished from Clint City, after a fair trial.'
Signed, Copper
(Junior Detective, CCPD)
Copper's memory isn't what it used to be, YOU'LL have to help him as best you can. To do so, you'll need to solve several questions/riddles, which become the answers to the numbered blanks in the crime report. You'll need to complete the ENTIRE report, even one word out of place and the Killer walks free. You can thank Clint City justice system for that!
Complete the report in its entirety and Copper will reward you with A Award Cr to thank you for your help in forcing an old man to remember. And, of course, for keeping a dangerous criminal away from Clint City.
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:06
Novice - Time Conquers All
1) To answer, copy/paste the report with all blanks filled in correctly, to COLOSSAL-TCA 's PM. Do NOT answer HERE, for if you are wrong in any place, others will learn from your potentially correct answers and 'steal' your hard work. If you are 100% correct, you will receive an A Award Cr in your private sales from COLOSSAL-TCA
2) You have three chances to send me your completed report by PM. If you are wrong three times, you are out of the running. Each time, I will let you know if you are right or wrong, but I will not tell you where. Additionally, you may also check your individual answers (for the numbered questions) up to a maximum of three times per question. I shall either tell you if you are RIGHT or WRONG, but offer NO hints or suggestions as to how to correct your mistake(s). YOU AGAIN MUST POST ANSWERS TO ME, BY PRIVATE MESSAGE, answers posed on this topic will NOT be validated. Any obvious guess work, will not even be responded to.
3) The Mystery and the Reward itself, is made available to everyone of all walks of Urban Rivals and is not limited to the EN forum (though this is the only place its posted) In short, everyone and anyone can play and win. Additionally, IF competition is fierce/close, I have two Chiaras (when she becomes Cr) to allocate as separate runner-up prizes.
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:06
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4) You may work alone or in groups of friends and/or guilds. However, I have only ONE A Award Cr and that will be allocated ONLY to the first player that correctly posts the FULL solution to my private messages.
5) Posting 'red herrings' and/or lies or hints to the actual answers (or even the actual answers themselves to the various questions) is not JUST allowed, but encouraged. However they MUST be posted HERE, on this topic, for all to see AND must NOT be the complete or partly completed crime report (main answer) THAT, must be sent via PM, as previously stated.
6) I will NOT disclose hints/clues privately to ANYONE. However, should you be struggling with a particular question, then ask HERE on this topic, stating which question you require hints/clues about, so all can see. Please note that my hints/clues may be more of a hindrance, than a help and I will be very frugal as to how many and how often I give them. I will always help the more active players FIRST, if I can see you've been working hard already on this 'Mystery', you will get the most help from me.
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:07
Novice - Time Conquers All
1) This is a very challenging 'Mystery' and I don't anticipate many will solve it 100% In-fact, I wager most will give up. I only hope that the reward(s) for completing it, are more than satisfactory. It will take you time and energy and a good deal of intelligence in order to succeed. To complete it, is far from impossible, but it WILL pose a mental strain to ALL that DARE to enter.
2) It took me one, long, bored, rainy weekend to devise this 'Riddle' and a little time after, to 'perfect' it. Please note, that even though I spent a good deal of time on it, I'm only human, and there may be a misplaced error somewhere. However, these error(s), if any, will be minor, of that I can guarantee.
3) ALL answers to the questions, and indeed, the full solution can be found on the Urban Rival's website (with the exception of question 7) You will only EVER need to be logged into Urban Rivals in order to complete this 'Mystery'.
4) Beware of 'Red Herrings', I'm very fond of them.
5) When you send me an answer(s), I will allow for some small error(s), whether its spelling or otherwise. For example, if one of your answers is 'Andy' when it should be 'Andy Ld', I will accept both/either answers. However, for example, if one of your answers is '99' when it should be '100', then I will STILL tell you you're wrong, even though, you are, indeed, very close. And I will NOT deign to lead you any closer.
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:07
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6) Most of the question's individual answers are the names of cards. But not all!
7) Its possible to complete the report without ALL of the answers... if you're smart enough. But you will still need ALMOST all of them. Remember, you only get three possible chances to send me the fully completed report, so there's no point leaving any blanks. Remember also, obvious guess work will NOT warrant a response. So make sure you are RIGHT, before sending me a completed report. The same applies when checking your individual answers with me.
You will mainly need THREE things to complete this 'Riddle', if you possess all three, you stand a very good chance. You will need Intelligence, a strong knowledge of the Urban Rival's website and above all else, careful, calculated patience.
I hope you enjoy this 'Riddle'/'Mystery', as much as I enjoyed making it. I'm sure I will love watching all your brains explode in an attempt to solve it. I once created something very similar (though not as good as this one, in my opinion) under another name and another time. Those that played that particular event, will remember me well. And to those that DO remember me, perhaps for my events or for my friendship, my grateful thanks and warm regards go out to you. And to everyone else, I wish you well on your hunt to find the Killer. This above all else... have fun!
And Merry Christmas!
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:07
Novice - Time Conquers All
1) I've been playing in ELO:
Elo you won by forfeit against Player 1 (10-: 1277 ELO
Elo you lost by default against Player 2 (5-14): ???? ELO
Elo you almost won against Player 3 (4-5): ???? ELO
Elo you won by forfeit against Player 4 (10-14): ???? ELO
Elo you narrowly escaped from Player 5 (7-6): ???? ELO
Elo you drew with Player 6 (4-4): ???? ELO
Elo you almost won against Player 7 (10-12): ???? ELO
Elo you narrowly escaped from Player 8 (4-1): ???? ELO
Elo you annihilated Player 9 (12-1): ???? ELO
Considering the other player's scores were:
Player 1: 1274 ELO
Player 2: 1299 ELO
Player 3: 1249 ELO
Player 4: 1272 ELO
Player 5: 1298 ELO
Player 6: 1258 ELO
Player 7: 1303 ELO
Player 8: 1318 ELO
Player 9: 1266 ELO
And I received no penalties or anything that may effect my score in any other way. What is my current ELO score after beating player 9?
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:08
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2) Acid Dc has decided to finally find a cure to the sleeping sickness, that's been coursing through his veins for years. Actually, he's been meaning to get something done about if for a while now, but... laziness... you know?
At the Rescue Center in Clint City, Kerry looks him up and down and says, to Acid Dc's shock, that this was no tsetse fly bite, as originally diagnosed, but more likely a particularly nasty poisoning, by, most likely, one of the Junkz's many enemies.
"Not to worry, there's a cure". Kerry smiled. "But its important we know the date on which you were poisoned, or sometime close to it, as the dosage in which I will prescribe pertains to exactly how long you've been poisoned for. An overdose or.... 'underdose', will probably result in either death, or increased symptoms of the sickness".
Acid Dc considered this, worriedly. It was a long long time ago, after all.
"Well we know it can't be anytime before the day you came to Clint City right?" Acid Dc nodded.
"And we know it can't be before **/**/** right?" Acid Dc agreed, they were narrowing it down, perhaps there WAS hope for a cure, after all.
What is the date '**/**/**' that Kerry mentions?
3) Who appears as if my magic,
In between Aktara and Crassus?
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:08
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4) Four Piranas discovered a chest of plunder, on a small island somewhere off Clint City's coastline.
Inside the chest were four objects of various wealth. A Spyglass made of solid gold, a necklace of exotic jewels, an expertly carved wooden flute and a bag of gold with exactly 33,400 Clintz inside.
Bloodh, being the captain, seized what he believed to be the item of the greatest value, the necklace. Dahlia, drew second and picked the spyglass. Despite the fact that Raeth really wanted the flute, he was no fool, and chose the bag of gold, for he knew it to be worth more. So, in the end, Gran Vista was left with the flute.
At first they were happy with their spoils, but not for long, for each pirate desired someone else's part of the treasure. They decided to exchange each other's items, but 'fairly'.
Dahlia really wanted the necklace, for she loved jewelery and Bloodh offered it in exchange for the spyglass + 42,800 Clintz. She agreed and handed both parts of the trade to Bloodh, who happily gave up the necklace.
Gran Vista desired the spyglass, who thought he'd see for miles with it up in the crow's nest. He only had 10,600
Clintz in the world and Bloodh (ever the greedy captain) decided that this was not enough and wanted 11,140
Clintz instead.
COLOSSAL-TCA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 00:08
Novice - Time Conquers All
Raeth who was still staring at the spyglass with a hungry look, offered to buy it from Gran Vista. Gran Vista sold it to Raeth for 720 Clintz, who was now able to pay Bloodh for the spyglass with 180 Clintz leftover.
Now everyone had what they wanted, but ONE was not content, Bloodh seethed with jealousy at Raeth 's small fortune and decided to steal it from him. That very night he crept into the crew's chambers and stole the bag of gold from where Raeth was sleeping.
The next day, Bloodh sat in the captain's cabin counting his total coin. He was furious to discover that his total only came to 83,863 Clintz. At first he thought he'd added incorrectly, so he added it again, then again, then again. Every time it came to the same figure of 83,863 Clintz. In a rage he summoned Raeth, who came at once.
Raeth wasn't shocked to learn that it was Bloodh who had stolen his bag of gold, but was flabbergasted when together they counted the total Clintz from yesterday's fiasco. Raeth quickly admitted he had spent 60 of the clintz from the bag of gold, the previous evening on rum, but 60 clintz was nowhere close to the actual figure which was clearly missing from the total amount.
"Surely that figure should be 86,560 Clintz?" Raeth thought.
Taking into account that Raeth IS telling the truth AND they counted correctly AND no-one else other than Bloodh stole from the bag of gold: Who has the missing Clintz?


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... helped the family regain a sense of having a normal life.
Nothing about Ateika's life is like it should be. She hasn't seen her sister or her mother in more than a year. And she is diagnosed with cancer.
Living with her father, Aref, in the United States gives her the best chance of overcoming her cancer. It's a lonely time for them both, though.
Then, Make-A-Wish® volunteers offer Ateika the chance to take charge of something in her life. Name your truest wish, they say, and we'll make it happen.
Ateika wishes to reunite her family. She waits for the day she boards a flight to Egypt with her father. The day of their flight, every minute and every mile brings the family closer. You can imagine how she feels as her airplane taxies to the jetway …
Today, the memories still buoy Aref's spirits. The days at the beach and the time spent playing games helped the family regain a sense of having a normal life.
"It's like a dream," he says. "It's something that made us happy."
Ateika's wish experience is also an uplifting memory for Michelle, her hospital social worker. Michelle knows the behind-the-scenes work required for the wish to come true: There were challenges with the family traveling to the United States, so Make-A-Wish volunteers found the solution. They flew Ateika and Aref to Egypt, while arranging for her mother and sister to travel from Yemen to meet them.
Ateika was not the first patient Michelle had referred to Make-A-Wish. She knows the hope and excitement of a Make-A-Wish experience can spark a transformation for children fighting for their lives.
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"Hear Me Now, Believe Me Later," was the title of two separate and prescient pieces penned by Pomboy, an economist and founder of the MacroMavens research boutique. One, published in March 2006, foretold the disastrous costs of the housing bubble. The second, somewhat later, laid out the consequences of the bubble's "financial echo." Today, Pomboy predicts something more draconian: the demise of fiat money—currencies that aren't backed by anything other than government decrees that they have value.
We checked in with her last week, as central banks around the globe weighed more easing and as Fed chief Ben Bernanke described to Congress the headwinds facing the U.S. economy, including the automatic tax increases and spending cuts set for year end, called the "fiscal cliff." With the Fed being the biggest buyer of Treasuries, Pomboy thinks the 40-year-old fiat system will crack within five years.
Barron's: What don't investors anticipate today?
Pomboy: That the Fed will be a presence in the Treasury market for a long, long, long time. Some believe that, with another round of quantitative easing, we move forward, emerge from the morass, and the need for further intervention will dissipate. But the Fed is really the only natural buyer of Treasuries anymore. It will have to continue to monetize Treasury issuance at the same time all the other major developed economies—from the Bank of Japan to the Bank of England to the European Central Bank—are doing the same. Pursue that to its natural conclusion, and you see the inevitable demise of fiat money. To look at our policies and not be concerned about the risks to our currency would be dangerously naive.
One step at a time. When is the next round of QE?
Bernanke left the door wide open to moving when the data mandate. I believe it will happen before the next election. The one success the Fed has achieved with its postbubble, postcrisis stimulus is reinflating financial assets. To watch the S&P 500 go down every day is to watch it be undone. The Fed is trying to engineer a wealth effect, so high-end consumers spend, so companies catering to them will hire and increase capex, [capital expenditures] and—lo and behold!—the seeds of a sustainable recovery will be sown. It hasn't played out like that. They have financial-asset inflation and high-end consumer spending. The logjam is that corporations are disinclined to increase hiring and expand.
Which accounts for the fat margins investors love.
Cost-cutting has been a huge driver of those margins, but what is still underappreciated is that, if you look at the recovery in GDP since before the crisis, 83% of the increase is explained by higher prices. Only 17% is from an increase in demand. That explains the profit margin story. Companies have been able to pass on higher prices, even in the most discretionary forms of consumer spending. If you look at retail sales, actual units sold are lower than they were before the crisis. It's entirely an inflation story on the retail sales side. Consumers aren't buying more because they feel great. They are spending more because the prices have gone up. But now consumers are reaching their limits. Since June 2010, households have drawn down savings. But in the past three months, they've put $65 billion back into the cookie jar, which suggests that they've reached their threshold. Middle-income consumers are also adjusting to the new realities of living within a budget. Wal-Mart [ticker: WMT] is attracting a broader audience. And you have a troubling slowdown at the high end, since financial assets are starting to teeter. As you see the fraying fortunes of these high-end retailers, and low- and middle-income consumers tighten their budgets, there's urgency for the Fed to act.
That sounds bad.
Well, consumers won't shut their wallets overnight. It's just that the rules of prior recoveries don't apply anymore. We've got secular deleveraging and a slower pace of consumer spending, a broad deceleration in nominal spending growth, for as long as it takes households to feel more comfortable with their balance sheets. It's a muddle-through scenario. On the corporate side, if they can no longer pass on higher prices, the margin squeeze intensifies. If the Fed at the same time introduces quantitative easing again, commodity price pressures might reaccelerate, squeezing margins further. Right now, the estimates for growth, even as they come down, are probably too high. Ditto for profit growth.
What happens if we go over the fiscal cliff?
If tax rates move back to prior levels, I definitely think the economy goes back into a recession—and likely a severe one. If there's a permanent deal, it's bullish, although in no way repealing the secular deleveraging and deflationary forces in the economy. A temporary deal would yield an economy in paralysis, much like what we've seen over the past year. On the other hand, if fiscal policy makers actually enacted some favorable policy, it could be the thing that staves off the demise of fiat money. If the data get really bad, there will be some sense of urgency to enact stimulative measures, rather than have corporations and high-end consumers staring down the barrel of a gun next year. That's a very low-odds prospect.
What happens if Mitt Romney wins?
In theory, it provides a more favorable backdrop for the U.S. economy and financial markets, but it remains to be seen what he can really do and how aggressive he is. Companies aren't sitting on $2 trillion in cash because they can't think of anything better to do; they are getting negative returns after inflation. Were they to open their wallets, albeit slowly, the seeds of a sustainable recovery would be sown. Perversely, the worse the data gets, the higher the odds of a positive outcome.
There will be a backlash against the current administration and policy mix. But obviously, despite how negative the data has been recently, it doesn't look like we'll see a change in Washington. Companies in the entire postwar period have never increased hiring when profit growth is decelerating. A Romney victory with bold incentives might change that, but the more profit growth slows, the lower the odds that incentivizing companies with tax measures actually bears fruit.
You clearly need to reduce taxes across the board and have a friendly regulatory environment. The key is to do something permanent: Companies need to feel this is a fundamental shift. Given the economic backdrop right now, here and in Europe, it's not the time to be tightening fiscal policy. I have a weakness for the Laffer Curve, that ultimately a tax cut to corporations, and sustaining the present tax system for consumers, would be a long-run positive and a step in reducing the government's role in the economy, which has been enormous over the past four years.
You recently wrote an entire piece about the importance of the Bank of Kazakhstan. Why?
Economics is so dull! You have to inject a little levity when you can. We know that the Bank of China, India, and major emerging-market economies have been slowly diversifying out of their dollar reserves into hard assets. When you get to the point that the Bank of Kazakhstan is thinking: "We really need to figure out a way to diversify out of dollars," it is a pretty profound statement about the quality of the dollar. Here in the U.S., it doesn't seem like any investor is concerned about the risk of the demise of fiat money. I'm sure most people think I should be fitted for a straitjacket.
The real urgency for QE is not the economic outlook, but that the Fed has made itself the only natural buyer of Treasuries; during QE2 they were 61% of the market. At the peak of the housing bubble and globalization nirvana, foreigners absorbed 82% of Treasury issuance; today, it's 26%. While we are enjoying a short flight-to-safety bid, courtesy of Germany's Angela Merkel and the euro-zone crisis, that's not a sustainable financing strategy. Now people are paying for the privilege, after inflation, of owning that paper. We have over $1 trillion annually in Treasury issuance, and our foreign creditors are buying $300 billion. That's being absorbed by the flight-to-safety bid, as hedge funds cover short positions and bond managers extend duration.
Our creditors have limited diversification choices, too.
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Foreigners once were the prime buyers of U.S. Treasury securities, accounting for 82% of purchases. Now, they account for just 26%, and the Federal Reserve is the No. 1 customer.
Well, they're now recycling dollars into hard assets. Conveniently, commodities trade in dollars. The thing that makes hard assets so alluring is their finite supply. All these central banks are going to discover they can't amass commodities as rapidly as the Fed, ECB, and BOE can debase their currencies. That's why we are speeding toward hard money.
What triggers it, and when does it happen?
It could happen in a couple of ways. One, the inflation rate in the U.S. picks up and the Fed finds itself forced to continue quantitative easing, because it must absorb the Treasury funding slack, despite rising headline inflation. At which point it's obvious to everyone that the Fed is buying Treasuries because it is slavishly monetizing the expansion of the government. That would be such a naked dollar-debasing tactic it might impel the Bank of China to say: "Look, we demand a capital-preservation guarantee." They made that threat almost two years ago. Instead of enforcing it, they've accelerated their diversification out of our paper. And in conjunction with Russia, they are working on trading in non-dollar transactions.
I don't see it in the next 12 months. I think a five-year time horizon is very, very realistic. I envision a gold-backed currency system. We are going back to hard money, rather than a fiat system where debtors can silently default by inflating their debts away.
How does the demise of fiat money affect investors?
There would be a knee-jerk negative reaction, but when the dust settled, it would be clear we were actually moving into a responsible policy. The realization that we are going down this road will be very bearish for stocks and bonds with the exception of Treasuries, which the Fed will continue to cap. You will have immediate and dramatic increases in commodity prices and inflation expectations.
I would own gold versus developed-market currencies. You want to be long emerging-market creditor currencies, versus developed-market debtors. Oil would be an absolute-return asset: Central banks are amassing strategic resources like oil. Companies tied to mining and commodity production are absolute-return areas.
One relative-return play is to overweight large-cap multinationals that benefit from having consumers outside the U.S. and underweight small-cap U.S.-centric companies. Another play on the budget-conscious U.S. consumer versus fraying high-end activity is overweighting Wal-Mart versus Nordstrom (JWN). On the credit side, maybe underweighting a junk composite versus a triple-A-rated corporate composite, or even underweighting junk versus an emerging-markets bond composite.
Until then, what happens to our markets?
Since 2002, I've been bullish on gold and on Treasuries and generally negative about stocks. Over that stretch stocks have gone exactly nowhere, gold has gone up a ton, and Treasury yields have gone from 5% to 1.5%. In general, we have diminishing marginal returns on each round of QE. I would see a high of 1400 on the S&P 500 and, should we go over the fiscal cliff, a low of 500. [The S&P was recently 1377.]
On the bond side, there's not a lot more money to be made. I wouldn't be short, because the Fed will really work to maintain rates at those levels. The highest-quality corporate yields may compress further. I'm concerned about junk, where spreads are hovering at 2005 lows. Is it reasonable for junk companies to borrow at the same rate when unemployment is higher and GDP and consumer spending growth are lower?
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"I'm no mathematician, but there are very few of you in the pool," Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall told the crowd on the Soho House rooftop on Thursday night. "I thought this was supposed to be a party. Get your kit off, everyone. Get in the pool."
Marshall was encouraging guests to join a handful of people inexplicably lolling in the swimming pool at the private club's 10th-anniversary party.
Mumford & Sons, the Grammy-winning British folk rockers, performed on a stage directly in front of the water, and Marshall made it his personal mission to turn the event into a pool party, instructing guests to jump in between songs during the band's 90-minute set.
"Is everyone having a lovely time? Is it a free bar?" Marshall asked. "It is a free bar? Great! I'll have a tequila. Great, drink more, then get in the pool."
Marshall acted as M.C. and head jokester, but Marcus Mumford followed his band mate's directions, jumping in after a few songs' warm-up. "If you're going to do the pool thing, could some fat people get in the pool, please?" Mumford said. "You're so skinny! What the fuck? All right, if you're going to do it, then fucking commit. Don't do this half-assed New York thing where only the fucking buff dickhead New Yorkers get in the pool."
Mumford even threatened to strip. "All right, if everyone who's fat, including myself, if we all take our tops off together, we'll be united. If you love someone else, you will take your top off immediately! Prove it! Prove it! Tops off! Do it for them!" he joked.
During the show, they recruited a brave volunteer from the audience to sing AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long," karaoke style, while Mumford & Sons accompanied her. Later, John Legend joined the band onstage and took to the keyboards for a rendition of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Another volunteer guest singer, reportedly a friend of Mumford's wife, Carey Mulligan, joined in on that one. (Mulligan sat near the stage, next to a speaker, during the set.)
Meanwhile, the band's persistent urging began to work; more and more people jumped into the pool, some fully clothed. Waiters delivered drink orders to people as they floated around. At one point, we spotted J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons drifting around on a giant swan-shaped floatie toy, her skirt immersed in water.
We snapped a photo (below) and showed it to Lyons.
"If you post that, can you hide my boob?" she asked.
After she dried off from her dip, Lyons told us about her first Soho House experience. "The very first time I came here, when I was getting on the elevator, I walked head on, like, literally head on, into Blondie," she said. "And I was, like, so star struck, I couldn't believe it. I walked right into her."
Lyons laughed when we asked if she and Debbie Harry are now buddies. "No! I'm sure she doesn't know who I am."
Of course, many people at the party stayed out of the water, including Thakoon, Richard Chai, Gina Gershon, Alan Cumming, Erin Heatherton, Will Forte, Jennifer Connelly, and her husband, Paul Bettany. Soho House started in London in 1995, and Bettany was a founding member, although he wasn't aware of that fact for many years.
"I didn't know I was a founding member," the Iron Man actor told us. "I used to sneak in here when I had meetings. In London, too, for years and years and years. Then one time there was a meeting that I had, and I was early. I said, 'Listen, I'm meeting a guy later here. Can I sneak in and wait for him?' And they said, 'Paul, you're a founding member. You've been a member for the last 15 years.' I didn't know."
What's John Legend's most memorable Soho House experience? After his impromptu performance, the singer told VF Daily that on his most recent visit, he had dinner with chef Eric Ripert. "It intimidated the whole kitchen staff," he said, laughing.


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I've been going through my iPhone's greatest gaming hits recently, rediscovering the old classics I used to play and checking out some new ones.
I just have to say, the theme music from Halfbrick's Jetpack Joyride just kills. I could clean my entire apartment to this music, and in fact, I would do so with a grin on my face. Clearly whoever it was at Halfbrick who wrote this music sat down and thought "Okay, what kind of tune screams "Machine-gun jetpack?" And lo, this song was born.
From Canabalt to Rayman Jungle Run a good "runner" game needs a good soundtrack to push you forward. Jeptack Joyride certainly has that. Let's take a moment to listen. Oh, yeah.


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Swedish furniture giant IKEA had a minor PR disaster on its hands when Swedish media reported that the company had photoshopped women out of its product catalogues in repressive Saudi Arabia. The company promptly apologized for the move, saying that it did not reflect the company's values.
IKEA's mistake isn't without one positive side-effect. The blog, I(KEA) got 99 problems but a b**** ain't one! takes the company's clumsy removal of women from its Saudi catalogue photos to the next level by replacing women in pop culture, history and everyday images with IKEA products.
Some of our favourites are below and get more on Tumblr. And a hat-tip to Buzzfeed for finding this little gem.
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Cedar Falls, Iowa: August 12th 2014, Driving Loyalty will be introducing their newly announced B2C and B2B Social Marketing Initiative at Autocon 2014 as an enhancement to their Database Marketing Platform. Autocon 2014 will be held at The Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas September 03rd through September 5th 2014.
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Oh - and no offense taken! Yes, you'll be seeing more of me. In a good way :)
See? We can all have some fun at work! It's makes the day go faster!
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Thank you Philip! Your insight is welcome and appreciated. CarDoll has been in the works for over 2 years now. As the average age of US retail salespeople grows younger, they tend to "tune-out" some of the talking heads that have dominated the training industry for years. My message is consistent with the need for strong process and empathy for the customer. My blog articles are clear and concise.
I do happen to flaunt my sexuality, and I apologize I offend some. The first step in the selling process is to get someone's attention. Apparently that has worked. My message is getting through. And the market of new retail professionals are hungry to hear it delivered.
I also strongly support women entering the industry and will make that a strong element as we continue to grow.
Lastly, I admire your work and long-standing reputation within the industry. Keep up the good work, Philip! You're right, that's what friends are for!
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Hi Phil, I'm "out in the digital world" looking for ways to validate the value proposition for Liquid Autos. To do this, I'm trying to connect with thought leaders in the automotive dealer space. Of course, you're one! I have product mock-ups you haven't seen, and am requesting utterly frank feedback. Can we schedule a Skype call?
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The Instapundit linked to this Chicago Tribune article:
"Seated this many years later at Arlington Parkracetrack in Illinois, Dick Duchossois struggles to explain the lingering mix of pride and horror from his service in World War II."
Cassy Fiano has this at HotAir:
"It was the largest amphibious assault landing of all time. Over 160,000 men stormed the beaches. Many of them were killed before they even reached the shore. We'll never know the exact number of brave souls lost that day."
The Other McCain tells us about the boys of Bedford, Va.:
"Bedford's population in 1944 was about 3,200. Proportionally this community suffered the nation's severest D-Day losses."
A lot to see on the Army's D-Day page.
The Ol' Broad posts this and quotes:
"It was cold, miserably cold, even though it was June. The water temperature was probably forty-five or fifty degrees. It was up to my shoulders when I went in, and I saw men sinking all about me. I tried to grab a couple, but my job was to get on in and get to the guns."
Michelle Malkin suggests Google is forgetting something. She has a small round-up of her own.
My friend at Spring City Chronicle has the front page of the Wisconsin State Journal covering the invasion.
Badger Blogger remembers the day also:
66 years ago today, more than 160,000 Allied solders stormed the beaches of Normandy. D-Day, the liberation of Europe had begun. This also included 24,000 men dropped by parachute and gliders. These troops were supported by more than 195,000 sailors on more than 5,000 ships.
One of those 195,000 was a 19 year old from Anderson, IN, who had enlisted the previous September. On LST-374, he no doubt made countless trips with his mates on those first days and weeks. He served as a Seaman first class as part of assault force O-1.
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Animals were deeply sacred in ancient Egypt, particularly from the 26th dynasty around 700 BC until the end of Egyptian civilization and the advent of Christianity by 400 AD. They were believed to be the living embodiment of gods, so preserving their corpses after death became a matter of the utmost importance. As Dr Ikram explains, Egyptian embalmers would go to painstaking and expensive lengths to mummify everything, from ibis to cows, mice and fish. Cats had particularly high status in Egyptian society, while mummified dogs have been found by the thousands. Even lowly scarab beetles were carefully preserved.
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The "Sword of Damocles" hangs over humanity. A potential outcome is described in the "Third Secret of Fatima" ...
"After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."
The Fatima events in Fatima Portugal in 1917 are intimately connected to Russia. Of course, the propaganda slanders Russia's role ... a genuine look at the events of 1917 (global events included) will reveal the integral role Russia plays in the future of humanity.
The abundance of oil and gas has always been where it is today ... Middle East and Russia. Oil was a nuisance until the nineteenth century. Humanity had to wait until the 'nuisance' morphed into "gold" for the wars to begin. No mystery ... no miracles.
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I've been busy "pimping" my existing 3 late war forces (German, British & US) with an eye to getting back into WW2 gaming. I haven't had a game in this period for over 4 years.
At any rate, I want to add various figures (especially the excellent HaT tank riders) to existing vehicles etc.
and the horrible enamel paints, used back then, have dried solidly.
So, could I get a recommendation for Vallejo colours to paint German uniforms? I remember(?) the base tunic colour should be a greenish-grey? I'm not going to do anything with camo, for a number of reasons.


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It's the battle of the ladies cosplaying as iconic fighting game character Mai Shiranui. Earlier this year, Taiwanese model Yoyo appeared dressed as the jiggly ninja to promote her new picture book. This time?
This time it's Chinese model Li Mengtian, who also goes by the moniker Shan Shan Maity. Earlier this spring, she released a set of photos in which she cosplayed as Mai. Some (many?) of the pictures were heavily Photoshopped. (However, the above gallery also contains images with slightly less photo manipulation.)
Currently a student, Maity has also appeared at game events in her native China. Like Yoyo, she is also an online game spokesmodel. Maity is the official face of online game Shen Xian Dao. And like Yoyo, she's a real-life Mai Shiranui. Nippon ichi? More like China.
Check out Maity's official blog in the link below.
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Chris Matthews gets it wrong again
Paul Joseph Watson
October 23, 2012
Not content with making violent death threats and promising riots if Obama loses, Obama voters have flooded Twitter with racist slurs targeting Mitt Romney and his supporters, an irony given the fact that those who have drawn attention to the death threats being made against Romney have been accused of "race-baiting".
Chris Matthews followed up last night's debate by claiming that Romney supporters were fueled by "racial hatred,"yet even a cursory scan of Twitter shows the opposite to be true – Obama supporters are driven by racial hatred, and they're not afraid of showing it.
When Infowars first highlighted the deluge of violent comments being made by Obama supporters last week, Obama front group Think Progress responded by accusing Infowars and the Drudge Report of "race-baiting" merely for reposting the comments because the majority of Twitter users who made them were black.
Think Progress has been noticeably silent on the issue since the Secret Service confirmed that it was aware of the threats. As we highlighted in two separate articles earlier today, the calls for violence and rioting by Obama supporters continue to pour in.
While Infowars has attempted to steer clear of the race issue, a cursory search of Twitter shows that Obama supporters have been less restrained. Both black and white Obama supporters are spewing racial hatred targeting Mitt Romney and his supporters.
In the aftermath of last night's foreign policy debate, Twitter users flooded the social network with derogatory ethnic slurs against Romney labeling him a "cracker" or "cracka," which is a pejorative term to describe a white person, as well as a "honky."
A black Twitter user actually tried to discourage other users from making racist slurs against Romney when he wrote, "How y'all call Romney a racist, but y'all call him a white cracker all day? Another black Twitter user echoed the sentiment when he tweeted, "Romney is getting called "white" this & "cracker" that left & right by black twitter but let a white person say "black" anything about Obama." Another user remarked, "The same ppl that are upset the President is referred to as a "n" are the same ppl that are the first in line to call Romney a cracker."
However, that did little to stop the deluge of racist and often violent taunts aimed at Romney and his supporters.
These tweets clearly illustrate that the likes of Chris Matthews and Think Progress are siding with the real racists – Obama supporters who are openly spouting racial slurs to express their disdain for Mitt Romney and his supporters.
We are non-partisan and support neither candidate, but when Matthews is allowed to go on air and demonize virtually half the population of the country as being racists simply because they don't support Obama, we will not hesitate to call him out on it.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Your New Secretary: An Algorithm
Can an algorithm improve your work life? Evelyn Rusli explains why the next frontier for data is improving your work relationships.
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I did cabaret my way, says Soha Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan has not just worn a bikini in her upcoming film "Mr. Joe B Carvalho", but has also grooved to a cabaret number. She says she has added her own touch to it.
Soha's mother, veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, also featured in a cabaret years back in "An Evening In Paris", the same film in which she even flaunted a bikini.
But Soha says she didn't take any cues from her.
"My mother did a cabaret some 40 years back. So she is a trendsetter. I did not talk to her about mine but I am sure she will like it. It is very elegant and I did it my way," she said here.
At the first look launch of the film Saturday, Soha also said that in the entire film she has not worn a normal outfit even once.
"It's not just a bikini, I have not worn even one normal costume in the film. There is a police costume, apsara outfit, cabaret costume, a towel. But I did not get to wear a jeans or t-shirt," Soha said.
Directed by Samir Tewari, the film also stars Javed Jaffrey, Arshad Warsi and Geeta Basra. It hits theatres Jan 3, 2014.
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Here's the official, anted up sequel to First Kiss, called Undress Me, which means "strangers" are taking off each other's clothes now in a video to promote the new season of Masters of Sex. It doesn't quite have the well acted charm of the original and you feel more like a voyeur this time around but watching beautiful people act clumsy around each other kind of soothes your inner awkward teenage soul in a "Hey, they're just like us!" kind of way.
As with the last video, the strangers in the video don't know each other but are also probably humans who were paid to look good next to each other.
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Zero Dark Thirty
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Running time: 157 minutes
Parental guidance: Extreme violence, adult themes
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
"Zero dark thirty" is military jargon for the darkest time of night: 12:30 a.m. when, on May 2, 2011, U.S. forces stormed the Pakistan compound of Osama bin Laden and assassinated him. "Geronimo," one of them reported from the raid. "For God and country. Geronimo."
Darkness likewise envelops Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's amazing motion picture — part movie, part investigative journalism — about the 10-year manhunt for bin Laden. Detainees are tortured (or rather subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques," if that's what you can call being stripped and forced to walk around on all fours on a leash), CIA agents are murdered, political will is tested, tiny clues are obsessively pursued. It takes the better part of three hours to tell this story, and not a minute of it seems wasted.
It stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, a young CIA agent (based on a real woman) who spends her entire career on the case at the expense of a life. It's an extraordinary performance, all grit and self-control, and while the movie leans ever so slightly towards hagiography — Maya is the voice of relentless focus in a harried bureaucracy of spycraft — it serves the dramatic purpose of giving us someone to follow with the same dedication. As she did in fictionalized bomb-disposal drama The Hurt Locker (both films were written by journalist-screenwriter Mark Boal), Bigelow pulls us into the twilight world of terrorism, betrayal and the sudden shock of violence and it's a tribute to her art that we're on the edge of our seats even though we know how it all turns out.
The centrepiece of Zero Dark Thirty is the final hour or so, a re-creation of the Navy SEAL raid on bin Ladin's walled home in Abbottabad, situated just around the corner from a Pakistani military base. Top-secret Stealth Black Hawk helicopters — their design an apparent good guess by the filmmakers — drop teams of troops who we watch through a night-vision haze as they blow open doors, set their laser sights on screaming women and scurrying men, and climb the stairs toward their final target. The documentary feeling is all the more amazing when you realize that it happened only 18 months ago: By comparison Argo, another ripped-from-the-headlines political drama, took more than 30 years to get to the screen.
Zero Dark Thirty begins with a black screen and the voices of confusion and fear from 9/11. It then jumps ahead two years to a U.S. "black site" where a hulking CIA agent named Dan (Jason Clarke) is holding Ammar (Reda Kateb, from A Prophet), a captured al-Qaida money man. He's kept in a shed where he's tied to the ceiling, beaten, forced to wear a dog collar, stuffed into a tiny airless box and "waterboarded," a technique that replicates drowning.
Eventually he breaks, and there is a controversy around what some see as an endorsement of torture as a technique for getting valuable information.
It has been established that it does not work, but Zero Dark Thirty is somewhat ambiguous about it: Ammar talks only after the torture ends. A more frightening aspect of the film's darkness is the way in which Maya — present at the interrogations — and Dan seem to emerge with their souls undamaged. If they're circumspect, it's for political reasons. "You don't want to be the last one holding the dog collar when the insight committee comes," Dan warns Maya, but by then she is battle-hardened.
She spends years trying to track a key bin Laden messenger who might lead them to the terrorist mastermind: As in many movies, it is the cellphone that leads to his lair, and you suspect that if the world's bad guys could learn to live with pay phones, they would never be caught.
Maya pounces on tiny clues, follows dead ends and withstands the pressure of a CIA boss (Mark Strong) who screams, "Bring me people to kill." She clashes with her bosses and threatens them with exposure if they don't let her pursue her obsession.
She's a modern heroine, vanquishing skepticism. When the compound is finally located, she goes to Washington to challenge the political caution of people who have been burned previously — by the "weapons of mass destruction" that were supposed to be in Iraq — and don't want to move too quickly.
When the CIA director (James Gandolfini) asks who she is, she responds: "I'm the m-f- that found the place. Sir."
It's a murky trail, however, muddied with side trips into other interrogations, false leads, and the general confusion of half-glimpsed truths. It's a dirty war, and most of it takes place during the darkest time of night.
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vegetacron wrote:I don't care if they get Weird Al Yankovic to play Sam/Spike.
Cyber_Tek wrote:The only role that makes sense for Statham to play is as the Military guy (Duhammel's character or something similar). Statham isn't a "hapless kid". They could eliminate the "hapless kid" character, but Statham easily fills a military guy role. What would make the whole thing screwy and make almost everyone cringe is if they make his "Car/transformer" an Audi A8 or BMW 7 series. EVERYONE would be howling "OH NO" at that.
Originally Posted by michaelbay
No completely false. No 4 th Transformers movie even exists right now. Thus no one is being considered at this time. How bout, just enjoy the movie out right now.
michealbay wrote:How bout, just enjoy the movie out right now.
zodconvoy wrote:michealbay wrote:How bout, just enjoy the movie out right now.
I have to agree with Bay right now (and possibly for the first time ever) that we need to see and appreciate the movie that came out a week ago before looking 2 years into the future.
User897 wrote:what i don't get is, why would bay be disspelling this rumor if he's no longer involved with transformers?
Originally Posted by michaelbay
How bout, just enjoy the movie out right now.
User897 wrote:what i don't get is, why would bay be disspelling this rumor if he's no longer involved with transformers?
Counterpunch wrote:FP sure does provide some F'd up head.
Gemini220 wrote:I can see a 4th coming because of the way it ended. The never showed Dempsey's character after he was shocked and you know they always show the bad guy dead.
Also you still have Deceptagons around the world, the ones that were staging the piliers.
Gemini220 wrote:I can't see why Shia would walk away from all that money?!
Megatron Wolf wrote:wait i thought bay was done with transformers so why was he asked about it and how would he know?
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