April 7, 2016

Will Sanders Go Third Party?

Tonight Senator Bernie Sanders made a path-breaking speech stating that Hillary Clinton is “not qualified” to be President of the United States. This is a major escalation in his attacks on the former Secretary of State in anticipation of the upcoming New York Democratic presidential primary. It is the first time that he has made her personal character a part of his campaign rhetoric — in direct refutation of his promise to make this contest about issues rather than personal matters.This is potential dynamite for the Democratic Party. For it may mean that if Senator Sanders does not get the Democratic presidential nomination next summer — and he continues to argue that Secretary Clinton is disqualified from the presidency — that he will take his large progressive following out of the Democratic Party and run as an independent next Fall, figuring that he can win the presidency on his own by taking advantage of a split vote between a reactionary Republican candidate and a figure like Clinton whom, he believes, most people don’t trust. But in doing so he will risk committing a Ralph Nader-type disruption that could bring about the election of a true reactionary in the person of Ted Cruz or the triumph of a reckless right-wing gambler like Donald Trump. This thus may become a race about Sander’s hurt feelings rather than about the country’s stability and its progressive future and the continuation of the successful policies of President Obama. It is a potential act of folly that could have far-reaching adverse consequences for the nation for decades. We will have to see how this plays out. One still hopes that Sanders, as Clinton has already promised, will hold to his original position that he will agree to support the nominee of the Democratic Party no matter whom that may be. But that is no longer assured.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-schlesinger/will-sanders-gothird-part_b_9630264.html

April 7, 2016

’Wonder Woman’ Gets New Release Date; 2 New Untitled DC Films Scheduled

The DC Extended Universe is just starting to come to life as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is now out in theaters and we are only a few months away from the release of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad film which will be released this fall. We got plenty of exciting films coming out from the world of DC Comics and it looks like we just got a few additional things to look forward to from Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news today that Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot as Diana Prince a.k.a. the iconic Amazon Princess, has been moved up from June 23, 2017 to June 2, 2017 which means that we will be getting Themyscira’s heroine a bit earlier than expected. The film is being directed by Patty Jenkins and will also feature Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui, Elena Anaya and Lucy Davis. But that is not all as Hollywood Reporter also revealed that Warner Bros. Pictures has scheduled two new untitled DC Comics films on October 5, 2018 and November 1, 2019. One of them could be the sequel to Suicide Squad as the film has already been greenlit for a second installment with Ayer and Will Smith (who will be playing Floyd Lawton a.k.a. Deadshot) set to return to.




http://heroichollywood.com/wonder-woman-gets-new-release-date-2-new-untitled-dc-films-scheduled/

April 6, 2016

Country Western star Merle Haggard has passed away.

Just flashed across my phone. The good times really are over for good.

April 6, 2016

'Game Of Thrones' Actress Jessica Henwick Joins Marvel's 'Iron Fist' On Netflix

The upcoming Marvel series for Netflix, Iron Fist, is slowly putting its cast together, and inspiration seems to have come from HBO's Game Of Thrones. After choosing Finn Jones to play Danny Rand, Jessica Henwick has now been announced for the role of Colleen Wing.

While Jones is known for his role as Loras Tyrell in GoT, Henwick plays Nymeria Sand and also had a role last year in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Jess Testor, one of the X-wing pilots of the Resistance.

Henwick's character Colleen Wing is Iron Fist's ally and one of the two "Daughters Of The Dragon," alongside Misty Knight. In the upcoming show, Colleen will own and operate a dojo.

Iron Fist sees Daniel Rand, a.k.a. Iron Fist, return to New York City to fight its criminals, having disappeared for several years prior. Introduced in the Marvel Comics in the 1970s, Iron Fist is a superhero with high-level training in martial arts that allows him to channel the power of a force called the Iron Fist.



http://moviepilot.com/posts/3853687

April 6, 2016

Hilary's putting up respectable numbers

A win is a win and my hat's off to Bernie, but with 32% in, Hillary isn't exactly letting him walk away with it right now. I don't know where the totals are from, but if Milwaukee's still out, it might get a little closer.

April 6, 2016

Any news on State Supreme Court race?

I heard it was hotly contested.

April 5, 2016

7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly)

#7. They Have Too Many Natural Predators
If you're saying, "Sure, but it's not like my city is full of bears that can come eat all the zombies," you need to think smaller. Insects are a major pain in the ass for living humans, and in some cases, being able to swat away flies and having an immune system is the only thing keeping us from having our eyes and tongues eaten out by maggots. Zombies in any part of the world with a fly problem are going to be swarming with maggots in short order, meaning that most of their soft tissues will be infested, and their eyes will be very quickly useless.

#6. They Can't Take the Heat
The first concern is putrefaction. Thanks to the plethora of bacteria we use in our colon for digesting plant matter, called gut flora, our bodies are ripe for decay the second our heart stops. Since heat speeds the growth of bacteria (which are plenty happy to start feasting on you once your immune system is no longer a concern) the zombie's got a looming expiration date the very second it turns.

#5. They Can't Handle the Cold
Now, your first inclination may be to think of cold as dead meat's friend, after all, the surest way to defeat that week-long deadline is to freeze steak, keeping it fresh for months. But don't forget: Unregulated cold does awful shit to formerly living things. If you live far enough north, the zombie apocalypse will probably work itself out the first time it tries to go outside. The first zombie-killer is the simple fact that the human body is mostly water, and water freezes. Once the temperature drops to freezing (or near it with a high wind chill), zombies will become significantly more rigid.

#4. Biting is a Terrible Way to Spread a Disease
Nearly all of the zombie movies agree on one thing: They reproduce like a disease, one that spreads via a bite from the infected (like they have a virus carried by zombie saliva or whatever). But this also means their spread should be subject to the same rules of a normal epidemic, and biting is a shitty way to get an epidemic going.

#3. They Can't Heal from Day to Day Damage
All the dings and bangs zombies will suffer after tripping, walking off of bridges and stumbling around on dark cloudy nights will eventually leave them limbless, toothless and with every bone in their body broken. Seriously, in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse, just stay inside, watch all the episodes of 24 back to back, then walk out on your lawn with your Corpse Rake and tidy up (you will have to buy a Corpse Rake, however, if for some reason you don't already have one).

#2. The Landscape is Full of Zombie-Proof Barriers
But even in nice, flat, paved cities, where it would seem like people would be extra-fucked, the landscape still works in favor of the living. History has shown that in most awful situations, people don't always act like the panicky idiots in a horror movie. In cities, people would likely congregate in the upper levels of high-rise buildings, where the invasion can be held at bay with simple security doors. Also, the streets themselves would keep the undead corralled in straight, easy-to-aim-down lines where they could be picked off by snipers, or just bored office-workers waiting out the quarantine by dropping office supplies onto the undead from the top floors.

#1. Weapons and the People Who Use Them
As we touched on briefly above, if Homo sapiens are good at one thing, it's killing other things. We're so good at it that we've made entire other species cease to exist without even trying. Add to the mix the sheer number of armed rednecks and hunters out there, and the zombies don't even stand a chance. There were over 14 million people hunting with a license in the U.S. in 2004. At a minimum, that's like an armed force the size of the great Los Angeles area.


http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

April 2, 2016

LA/Hollywood DUers: is the El Capitan worth the trip.

In town for few days and we might cataclysm a movie at El Capitan as part of the experience. Is it worth the trip?