RANT: “Michael Clayton” is a muddle imho

Sunday, October 14, 2007

http://www.miamiherald.com/tropical_life/story/259803.html

Re: George Clooney’s adult legal drama Michael Clayton.

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Clooney plays the titular character, a ”fixer” for a big-league corporate law firm who is called in to clean up messes that can’t be resolved satisfactorily inside a courtroom. After one of the firm’s star attorneys, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), melts down during a deposition — he strips naked and runs after the plaintiff — Clayton is assigned to nurse Arthur back to fighting shape before the case goes to trial.

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NOT RECOMMENDED!

While watching this I wondered in ADM was going to sue for defamation.

It had imho all the leftist clichés — evil lawyers, evil corporation, evil assassins, the good family farmers, the Irish cop, the Mafia loan shark, … … just to name a few off the top of my head.

Think Brocobitch without the boobs. Well come to think of it there were a lot of boobs in the audience like me who paid two sawbucks to see this muddle.

The fellow who melted down in the movie wasn’t the only one having psychotic breaks. Start at the middle, jump forward, jump back, turn around, jump to a conclusion, and destroy the evil doers.

Think Travolta in Civil Action. Think cookie cutter.

It wasn’t unpleasant to watch — but I didn’t get the connection to the kid’s book.

I don’t understand why he would stop and get out of the car. And, most horses I have known wouldn’t stand dead still side-by-side as something dressed in black approached them.

I don’t understand assassins, who were first portrayed as meticulous in the first murder, just be content to remotely detonate and call it a day. And, why switch modes of killing? I’m sure it’s an area of specialization. Plus don’t tasars leave marks. That’s what the other crime shows claim. (I get all my science from Law’n’Order.)

So it left a lot to be answered and hence a lot to be desired.

Verdict: Wasted $.

p.s., and the ice cream hadn’t been stored right and the bottom was melted. Sigh! Ahh for the movies of the Fifties, where the heroes wore white hats and the popcorn was fresh with real butter.

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NEWJERSEY: Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=8106&z=2

Republican Lawmaker Calls on Corzine to Release Monetization Documents
Thursday, October 04, 2007 – Millennium Radio

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State Senator Tom Kean, Jr. (R) on Wednesday sent a letter to Governor Jon S. Corzine demanding that he authorize the IRS to release documents relating to the governor’s still-in-the-works secret plan to possibly lease or sell New Jersey’s toll roads to generate revenues, the so-called asset monetization plan. Kean accused the Corzine administration and Trenton Democrats of intentionally withholding details of the plan until after the November election.

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This is one of those typical giant Nu Jerzee jokes.

Like why are school bond votes taken in the spring of a year?

To put them as far away from the election as possible.

Why are property tax rebates send out just before the election?

To make the voters think that politicians care!

So here’s the next one.

The Guv has a “secret plan” to take the State’s assets to the proverbial Wall Street pawnshop. It’s so secret that every knows that it’s going to happen right after the election. Then all the politicians, komisars, and bureaucrats can spend till it’s all gone. It’s like taking a second mortgage to go on a seven day drunk. Why would anyone in their right mind think this way?

Normal people don’t.

Politicians are NOT normal!

So, they just want to coast thru this election and the voters will have two years to forget. I bet the vote to hock the Turnpike will be done by year end.

The Guv’s telling everyone the plan isn’t ready for the public. Sure. You figure it out and he may have a Florio style tax revolt on his hands.

The Republicans are not even making a very BIG deal about it. Remember these “two parties” are really just two sides of the same coin. And, they’ll get their share for keeping quiet.

It’s FRAUD. A sham pulled on the sheep of NJ.

How do you stop it?

Easy.

Jim Gearhart http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart.shtm has coined the term — GRIP! Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!

As he says: “Hold your nose and vote against anyone who is in office now.”

Of course, they are no better than the person that you are voting out. But next election, you can do it again. Revolving door? Sure. But the current voting pattern isn’t doing us any good. Time to shake things up.

Turn out the gang in trenton. A new gang could NOT possibly be any worse than what we have. If you don’t, then be prepared for more borrowing, more spending, tool hikes, and tax hikes. It’s a done deal as if it was coming down from the mount on stone tablets. Our only chance is to scare the “barbara streisand” out of them. Voting our every incumbent in the assembly and those up for reelection in the Senate would surly scare them.

Get mad! Get a GRIP!

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