The New Year, a Movie Filmed Locally

UPDATE IV: Mark like the movie. Read the Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola part of an excellent movie.


UPDATE III: And don't forget the WEBY date night meet-up for the Saturday 7 p.m. show. See ya there.


UPDATE II: Read the Pensacola News Journal, Local haunts hit big screen in indie flick.


UPDATE: The New York Times gave the movie a favorable review: "[o]ut of raw materials — convincing 20-something dialogue; deft montages of night life, bowling, parties, the beachside setting — the director-screenwriter Brett Haley (with another screenwriter, Elizabeth Kennedy) has built an encouraging feature debut. " Read Serious Adulthood Waiting to Happen.

"Budding writer Sunny takes time off from college to tend to her ailing dad in suburban Florida, and after two years, a temp job at a bowling alley has turned into a comfortable rut -- but then high school rival Isaac returns to disrupt the routine. Friendly fire replaces competitive spirit as the pair pick up where they left off, and Sunny realizes the future holds more than a well-stocked shoe counter."

You might recognize that suburban Florida town and bowling alley, it was filmed in in Gulf Breeze and Pensacola, including "Cordova Lanes, the Village Inn on Ninth Avenue, and Pensacola Beach."

Watch the trailer and see if you recognize anyone:

The New Year Trailer from The New Year on Vimeo.

The film will premiere locally starting Friday, January 7, at the Gulf Breeze Cinema 4.

Marriage 101

"Opponents of same-sex marriage worry that allowing two men or two women to wed would radically transform a time-honored institution. But they're way too late on that front. Marriage has already been radically transformed - in a way that makes gay marriage not only inevitable, as Vice President Biden described it in an interview late last year, but also quite logical." Read the Washington Post, Gay marriage isn't revolutionary. It's just the next step in marriage's evolution.

In the Navy, It's Not Like Not Used To Be

"Never in its history has the military been quite so squeamish about sex." Read the Washington Post, No dirty videos, please - we're in the Navy, which notes that:

"Most military experts believe that it will make the integration of openly gay troops into the ranks much easier. 'The military will have no problem with homosexuals because it is a sexless environment,' [a British civilian who spent several years working as an adviser to top American commanders in Iraq] said. 'It just won't be an issue.'"

Republi-CON Health Care Hypocrisy, Cont.

UPDATE II: Where is that death-panel outrage? Read the Washington Post, 2nd person denied Ariz. transplant coverage dies.


UPDATE: So many Republi-con lies. Read PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'A government takeover of health care'.

What state is "'leading the way with health insurance for everyone, without a government takeover and without raising taxes.' . . More than 98 percent - 98 percent! - of the state's residents now have health insurance, as do more than 99 percent of the state's children. . . According to data from America's Health Insurance Plans, the largest health insurer trade group, premiums [in the state] have fallen by 40 percent since the reforms were put in place. Nationally, those premiums have risen by 14 percent."? Read the Washington Post, Health-care overhaul's individual mandate makes all the difference.

Next Year Return Misfit Gifts Before Receiving Them

UPDATE: "Next year, why not spare loved ones the trouble of returning gifts, and give cash instead?" Read The New York Times, The Best Present Money Can Buy.

Don't want that 'Thread and Bobbin Sewing Kit' from Aunt Mildred. In the future you may never receive it if she bought it at Amazon. Read the Washington Post, Amazon patents procedure to let recipients avoid undesirable gifts.

Is it rude, tacky but necessary, or a great idea for the gift giver and receiver. Vote in the Washington Post poll: What do you think of Amazon's plan?

No More Blamin Obama

UPDATE II: "[B]e wary of politicians bearing promises of a perfect world where average Americans can get the mortgages to which we now all feel entitled and the government is nowhere to be seen. It’s a mirage." Read The New York Times, Who Wants a 30-Year Mortgage.


UPDATE: Republi-con "rhetoric is nearly devoid of talk about solving practical problems. . . It may be easier to report windy speeches about 'liberty' and 'entrepreneurship' than to do the grubby work of examining budgets, regulations, programs and economic consequences. " Read the Washington Post, Conservative advice for a Congress of professors.

What Republi-con rhetoric you ask? You ain't been listening. Read the Washington Post, 'Job-killing' regulation? 'Job-killing' spending? Let's kill this GOP canard.

The Republi-con Congress starts soon, which reminds me of this old joke:

I met a fairy today that would grant me one wish: "I want to live forever," I said.

"Sorry" said the fairy, "I'm not allowed to grant wishes like that!"

"Fine," I said, "I want to die after the politicians get their heads out of their asses and start telling the truth!"

One of the first broken promises, balancing the budget. Read ABC News, Debt Ceiling Debate Will Test New Congressional Leadership and Slate, Faking Right, How the Republican Congress will abandon Tea Party ideas and legislate toward the center.

The Republi-CON's 'Aristocracy of Monied Corporations' Exposed

UPDATE: Republi-con corporatism , AKA the unholy alliance, is destroying the country. Read the Washington Post, Corporate America, paving a downward economic slide.

Tom Delay's conviction "showed what is 'common practice here in D.C. looks an awful lot like plain old corruption everywhere else in the country.'" Read the Washington Post, DeLay trial offers a window into Washington fundraising and influence-peddling, and see how the trial showed "in part that when some of the routines in Washington - including 'giving campaign contributions to a political candidate with the expectation that that candidate would vote a certain way' - are put before a jury by a prosecutor with either good or bad motives, they can convincingly look like bribery, or worse.'"

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Topics:

The NoBullU New Year's Resolution


Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - don't be duped by the Birthers;


Local and regional: local premiere of a movie filmed locally by a local guy, and an interview with that local -- director-screenwriter Brett Haley, how many holidays do you get at work, local Taj Mahal, or poisoned well politics?: now its the ECUA admin building and Perdido Key fire station and community center, first the delay. now the lawsuit, will the darn park be built?, build it and make' em pay $3.75, but will driver's pay?, and 150 years ago yesterday [January 5, 1861] armed secessionist insurgents from Mobile overtook Fort Gaines on the outer reaches of Mobile Bay;


National and international: no more blamin Obama, I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget; it's déjà Republi-CON all over again, the agenda: more riches for the rich, more misery for the rest and speaking of Republi-CONS -- Republi-CONs con the Tea Party and first day, first broken promise -- no $100 billion budget cut -- then broken promises two three and four -- the Republi-con healthcare repeal bill does conform to the pledge to include the statutory basis, identify spending cuts to pay for the $230 billion cost, and Republi-cons say no amendments, and update, Republi-CON deficit hypocrisy continues, even more state Republi-Con fiscal conservative hypocrisy, and the Republi-CON I'd Be a Millionaire If It Wasn't For Social Security myth, supply and consumption, read your spouse's email, go to jail, and Inside Job, will it be the best documentary of 2010, and life's imponderables: if one wife causes you to drink, then why would two wives not?;


Fun stuff: 100 Great Movie Lines;

and

Donate to a good cause: it's not too late to help the poor or less fortunate, read the New York Times, The Gifts of Hope.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Life's Imponderables: If One Wife Causes You to Drink, Then Why Would Two Wives Not?

Does your husband drink too much? Maybe he needs another wife. Read The New York Times, Do We Drink Because We’re Monogamous, or Are We Monogamous Because We Drink?, "about an interesting working paper the AAWE has just posted: "Women or Wine? Monogamy and Alcohol."

And if you are looking for a group to join, you could do worse than AAWE, that is the American Association of Wine Economists.

It's Déjà Republi-CON All Over Again

"The Republican agenda: more riches for the rich, more misery for the rest." Read The New York Times, Get Ready for a G.O.P. Rerun.

America the Police State?

"During the past few decades, America has engaged in a massive experiment in routine imprisonment. From 1975 to 1999, by one estimate, the criminal justice system grew five times more punitive. A nation with 5 percent of the world's population now has about a quarter of the world's prison population - well over 2 million people." But is America a nation of the second chance? Read the Washington Post, Michael Vick: Symbol of the second chance.

Supply and Consumption

UPDATE II: Expect higher gas prices in 2011. Read the Washington Post, Oil’s Most Accurate See Second-Highest Price in 2011.


UPDATE: Complicating the situation as Americans try to adjust to the new world supply and consumption order, "The Age of American Predominance is over.

Our leading bankers looted the state, plunged the world into deep recession and cost the United States eight million jobs. Now many of them stand by with sharpened knives and enhanced bonuses – willing to suggest how the salaries and jobs of others can be further cut." Read The New York Times, Fresh Crises Loom in Europe and the U.S.

As a follow-up to the last caller last week: "World commodity prices have risen by a quarter in the past six months. What’s the meaning of this surge?" Read The New York Times, The Finite World, then What’s Your Consumption Factor?

Republi-CON Deficit Hypocrisy, Cont.

UPDATE III: "Hypocrisy never goes out of style, but, even so, 2010 was something special. For it was the year of budget doubletalk — the year of arsonists posing as firemen, of people railing against deficits while doing everything they could to make those deficits bigger." Read The New York Times, The New Voodoo.


UPDATE II: "The budget rules House Republicans intend to adopt will codify their fantasy that tax cuts do not deepen the deficit." Read the New York Times, Deficit Hypocrisy.


UPDATE: The Senate Republi-con minoroty leader was responsible for $458 million in earmarks between 2008 and 2010. That was him flip-flopping last week when he finally agreed to support a two-year ban on earmarks. Read the Washington Post, Sen. Mitch McConnell's earmark power credited for revitalizing Louisville.

"For whatever the reason, the hypocrisy at the heart of the party - and at the heart of American politics - is at its starkest in Alaska. For decades, Alaskans have lived off federal welfare. Taxpayers' money subsidizes everything from Alaska's roads and bridges to its myriad programs for Native Americans. Federal funding accounts for one-third of Alaskan jobs." Read the Washington Post, In Alaska, a preview of the GOP's future.

Then read The New York Times, The Impossible Dream, which begins:

"One of the most frustrating tendencies of mainstream leaders in the United States is their willingness, year after debilitating year, to embrace policies that have no hope of succeeding.

From Lyndon Johnson’s mad pursuit of victory in Vietnam to George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq to today’s delusionary deficit zealots, the tragic lure of the impossible dream seems never to subside.

Ronald Reagan told us he could cut taxes, jack up defense spending and balance the budget — all at the same time. How’d he do? As his biographer Garry Wills tells us, the Gipper 'nearly tripled the deficit in his eight years, and never made a realistic proposal for cutting it.'"

Time to call the Republi-con bluff!

And Even More State Republi-Con Fiscal Conservative Hypocrisy

UPDATE II: The Republi-cons continue their old ways. Read The New York Times, Tricky Call for New Governors: Price of Inaugurals.


UPDATE: More state Republi-con fiscal conservative hypocrisy. Read the Washington Post, Haley Barbour takes heat for jet trips.

"After talking about trimming the state budget, top Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature have hired [more than 60] staffers with six-figure salaries." Read the Miami Herald, State GOP staffers raking in six-figure salaries.

What is Your New Year's Resolution

A reminder of the important things in life:

NoBullU New Year's Resolution

There were probably many, many times this year when I may have.....

Disturbed You,

Troubled You,

Pestered You,

Irritated You,

Bugged You,

Or got on your Nerves!!

So today, I just wanted to tell you....




Suck it up Cupcake!! Cause there AIN'T NO CHANGES planned for 2011!!

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - don't be duped by the Birthers;


Local and regional: congratulations Mobile, Austal USA, a unit of an Australian company, was awarded a contract for $3.52 billion to build 10 new littoral combat ships (aluminum trimaran, a three-hulled vessel unlike any previous Navy design)


Nation and international: supply and consumption, ShakesPalin, back in the news, earmarks by any other name, just more Republi-CON hypocrisy, and speaking of Republi-CON hypocrisy, Republi-CON deficit hypocrisy continues, even more state Republi-Con fiscal conservative hypocrisy, Uncle Sam's naughty list, speaking of naughty, read your spouse's email, go to jail, Inside Job, will it be the best documentary of 2010, Happy Capitalism!, and speaking of gifts, next year return misfit gifts before receiving them;


Fun stuff: why Santa didn't answer your letter and 100 Great Movie Lines;

and

Donate to a good cause: it's not too late to help the poor or less fortunate, read the New York Times, The Gifts of Hope.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Uncle Sam's Naughty List

UPDATE: Surprised that Uncle Sam keeps a list, actually there are a dozen lists.

Read the Washington Post, Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say.

"Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators."

Read the Washington Post, Monitoring America.

ShakesPalin

UPDATE II: Mis-spelled, mis-remembered inventing a new word, or typical Republi-con revisionist history? Palin tries to explain. Read the New York Daily News, 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' explains 'refudiate' on TLC show as simple mis-typed Twitter message.


UPDATE: Watch:

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Read the Washington Post, Palin invents word 'refudiate,' compares herself to Shakespeare.

And if an occasional new word or scripted appearance on Hedgehog News is not enough, there is always the Sarah Palin Quote Generator.

Republi-CON Earmark Hypocrisy

"'Lettermarking' and 'phonemarking' by legislators take place outside of the usual appropriations process." Is it still earmarking? Read The New York Times, Lawmakers Finance Pet Projects Without Earmarks.