just passing through

Here

I notified the munchkins downstairs..

Good morning, Jane…

We’re a proud SEIU family!

{{{Jane!}}}

(also just passing through)

greedy bastards.

Salut, punaise, ca va bien? Tes affaires, ce sont bien passes?

And remember, these guys think they deserve this – that it is somehow their right to profit off the work of others and to abuse the relationship.
This is how they get rich; this is how they stay rich.

I have to admit the headline grabbed my attention…..

Thanks for posting this. I’m gonna put that YouTube clip on my (predominantly non-political) Vegas entertainment blog.

I support the writers on this issue, just as I support the undercompensated efforts of artists generally.

I thought is was a Jenna Jameson video..

Biodun @ 8

Salut, punaise, ca va bien? Tes affaires, ce sont bien passes?

salut! no complaints other than tres occupe avec le travail

Woohoo!

If, as they keep telling the writers, they’re not making money on digital, where is the money coming from to pay these execs 8-figures-left-of-the-decimal-point salaries?

Digital is probably more profitable than theatrical release these days. Even if they paid the writers everything the writers ask for, they’d still be making money.

(’24′ is working overtime filming. Last weekend, both days. I think they’re trying to get at least half a season in the can before they run out of what passes for scripts.)

Bustednuckles @ 10

I have to admit the headline grabbed my attention…..

Never crossed my mind.

Breaking news: Reid to halt recess appointments over Thanksgiving!

And Charlie Rose can simply stuff it!

OT:
What the hell was with that debate last night?

OT..well I looks like is going to poke a stick at Bush.

BREAKING: Reid shut downs Bush recess appointments during Thanksgiving

link

Good on Edwards!

It’s gonna be hard for them to make any money on no product, isn’t it? If the writers strike spreads beyond Hollywood, for instance should the CWA refused to say, work on telecom lines at the media companies that carry work that pays the writers nothing it would get ugly real fast, because it would essentially cripple their commerce in short order. Would the other unions honor those lines outside the Media Telco facilities?

If the Teamsters refuse to deliver DVDs to stores for the Christmas season, gosh that would be a shame.

It’s all interconnected to Sumner Redstone and his “peers” wallets, the goal should be to empty their wallets in the most legally painful way possible.

Support the WGA! It’s what’s right for America.

Ooops — sorry gang. In case anyone got stuck in the draft post, I hit publish instead of save. It’s not done yet — my bad!

Jane @ 16:

You’re sure it never crossed your mind? *g*

By 2001, Jameson earned $60,000 for a day and a half of filming a single DVD,

(from wiki)

That’s a very effective video

bellesouth @ 17

Breaking news: Reid to halt recess appointments over Thanksgiving!

Well, now. Has Reid begun to grow a spine at last, or is this just a coincidence?

I got word from my stupid union (IATSE) yesterday that they’re not only *not* supporting the WGA, but essentially calling the executive director of WGA a dirty fucking hippie in the bargain.

I am SO embarrassed to belong to IATSE today, and have written to tell them so, and written to WGA to voice my support.

“where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?”

annagranfors @ 27

[snip]

“where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?”

that’s becoming a universal query

Elliott @ 28

annagranfors @ 27

[snip]

“where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?”

that’s becoming a universal query

I always picture the Statue of Liberty gal saying it. she’s got an expressive face that could express shocked disgust real well…

Elliott @ 25

That’s a very effective video

Yes it is. I put it up on my blog, too. Scroll down, current post.

Some of my peeps don’t like the intrusion of political stuff. Too bad, on this one. It’s relevant.

There are some industries that are enormously profitable to those who own them: pro-football, baseball, the entertainment industry, network television, even surprisingly many newspapers. But these same owners always act as if they are poverty-stricken. For them it is not about sharing some of the wealth. It is not about making money hand over fist but making more and more money hand over fist. So pro sports put in salary caps. The entertainment industry shortchanges those who actually create the content they sell. Networks put on cheap reality and game shows. Newspapers engage in never ending cycles of cutting staff.

It all reminds me of the story of the goose who laid the golden eggs. Except in today’s version, the owner begrudges every seed it takes to keep the goose alive because it cuts into his profits.

More on the Jenna Jameson connection:

On June 22, 2006, Playboy Enterprises Inc. announced the acquisition of ClubJenna Inc., in conjunction with personal service agreements by both Jameson and Grdina. Playboy CEO Christie Hefner said that she expected to rapidly ramp up film production, producing about 30 features in the first year, and will expand the way they are sold, not only as DVDs but through TV channels, video-on-demand services and mobile phones.

Digital media galore!

OT..from the Reid statement:

(snip)
In an effort to solve it, I worked hard to confirm over 40 administration nominees in exchange for a commitment by the President to make progress on a number of important commissions.

When we reconvened after August break, I also worked to quickly move on the President’s new Attorney General.

I did this despite my own opposition to that nominee.

Even with all this hard work on our side, the commitments the administration made to me before August break were not met.
(snip)

And after this little show of defiance, he will go back to his old behavior and get another beating. It would be sad, except for the fact that our country is going into the shitter.

annagranfors @ 27

I got word from my stupid union (IATSE) yesterday that they’re not only *not* supporting the WGA, but essentially calling the executive director of WGA a dirty fucking hippie in the bargain.

I am SO embarrassed to belong to IATSE today, and have written to tell them so, and written to WGA to voice my support.

“where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?”

What reasons do they give for their position?

Steve-AR @ 33

OT..from the Reid statement:

(snip)
In an effort to solve it, I worked hard to confirm over 40 administration nominees in exchange for a commitment by the President to make progress on a number of important commissions.

When we reconvened after August break, I also worked to quickly move on the President’s new Attorney General.

I did this despite my own opposition to that nominee.

Even with all this hard work on our side, the commitments the administration made to me before August break were not met.
(snip)

And after this little show of defiance, he will go back to his old behavior and get another beating. It would be sad, except for the fact that our country is going into the shitter.

Reid should have figured out by now that BushCo does not bargain in good faith. Ever.

here is one from Videologblog: Writers Strike (Colbert Report writers)

Fern @ 34

annagranfors @ 27

I got word from my stupid union (IATSE) yesterday that they’re not only *not* supporting the WGA, but essentially calling the executive director of WGA a dirty fucking hippie in the bargain.

I am SO embarrassed to belong to IATSE today, and have written to tell them so, and written to WGA to voice my support.

“where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?”

What reasons do they give for their position?

essentially that the time spent in preparation for this strike would have been better used in negotiation, and that IATSE members are losing work. the money graph, though, is the second, which is the DFH hitjob. it quotes the ExecDirector making obviously ironic statements about the progress of the strike, and tries to paint him as “unserious”.

the letter can be seen at:
http://www.editorsguild.com

Steve-AR @ 33

OT..from the Reid statement:

(snip)
In an effort to solve it, I worked hard to confirm over 40 administration nominees in exchange for a commitment by the President to make progress on a number of important commissions.

When we reconvened after August break, I also worked to quickly move on the President’s new Attorney General.

I did this despite my own opposition to that nominee.

Even with all this hard work on our side, the commitments the administration made to me before August break were not met.(snip)

And after this little show of defiance, he will go back to his old behavior and get another beating. It would be sad, except for the fact that our country is going into the shitter.

What is the highlighted referring to?

brain game, check it out

http://www.imgag.com/product/f…..aphic1.swf

(involves teh bush)

Okay, I’m clueless. Who is Jenna Jameson?

BC

perris @ 39

brain game, check it out

http://www.imgag.com/product/f…..aphic1.swf

(involves teh bush)

I have to say I scored a zero though I wish the game was of cheney who is just as brainless as bush

Bargain Countertenor @ 40

Okay, I’m clueless. Who is Jenna Jameson?

BC

Turn off the adult filter for google

Bargain Countertenor @ 40

Okay, I’m clueless. Who is Jenna Jameson?

BC

Jenna Jameson

OT..

Turkish tanks were seen Friday moving towards the northern Iraqi borders to hunt down the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels, the independent Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported quoting border guards and witnesses.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

OT: Sunlight Foundation Facebook fan page.

Biodun @ 43

Bargain Countertenor @ 40

Okay, I’m clueless. Who is Jenna Jameson?

BC

Jenna Jameson

Pretty dress…what there is of it :)

this is good news, it has the lead at think progress right now;

Reid moves to block recess appointments over break. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) put out a statement today saying that he will hold pro forma sessions over Thanksgiving break in order to prevent President Bush from using the congressional vacation to recess appoint controversial nominees. For pro forma sessions, Reid would “call the chamber into nonvoting sessions every three days — thus doing away with an extended recess

Judith Regan was Jenna Jameson’s publisher. Small world, huh?

And that most simple of brains…

“In other words, he was given an option: Are you with us or are you not with us? And he made a clear decision to be with us, and he’s acted on that advice.”—[Bush] on President Pervez Musharraf, Crawford, Texas, Nov. 10, 2007

Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 23:04.

Yep. Small world, and more lawsuits:

But all did not go smoothly for their further relations, as in April 2005, ReganBooks and Jameson filed lawsuits against each other.

(from wiki)

mighty mouse @ 48

Judith Regan was Jenna Jameson’s publisher. Small world, huh?

An immensely profitable one, too, the lame whining beg-offs by the Suits notwithstanding.

Biodun @ 50

Yep. Small world, and more lawsuits:

But all did not go smoothly for their further relations, as in April 2005, ReganBooks and Jameson filed lawsuits against each other.

(from wiki)

Jenna wanted to do her.

;)

The writers have the networks by the balls.
Congress has the unitary executive by the balls.
The bears have the bulls by the balls.
The Dirty Fucking Hippies have the blogosphere by the balls.

Sounds like a happy ending coming up…

Who’da thunkit?

OT–

Filed under what comes around…

Filed at 11:47 a.m. ET

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican John McCain is asking the New Hampshire attorney general to investigate phone calls to voters that pretend to be polls but raise questions about rival candidate Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith — and make favorable statements about McCain.

McCain’s campaign says it had nothing to do with the calls but fears voters will think it did.

The telephone effort ”was made to appear to be friendly to Senator McCain, but we had nothing to do with the poll at the state or national level,” campaign vice chairman Chuck Douglas wrote in a letter asking the attorney general’s office to investigate and tell the callers to stop.

Very Interesting…..

Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls” at last night’s debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

“Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN,” Luisa writes. “I was asked to submit questions including “lighthearted/fun” questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance.”

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

Steve-AR,

What is the difference between planted and pre-approved questions? I forget.

OT–

Salon’s Tim Grieve smacks Edwards, and seems to heart Hillary:

Searching for something to salvage out of last night’s debate, the Edwards campaign says in its email: “Last night, when asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer if NAFTA was a mistake, Senator Clinton dismissively laughed off the fact that roughly one million American workers have lost their jobs as a result of NAFTA, saying: ‘All I can remember from that is a bunch of charts.’”

What actually happened: Debate moderator Wolf Blitzer reminded Clinton of “the big NAFTA debate when your husband was president of the United States,” and he specifically cited the 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot on Larry King’s show. “A lot of us remember the debate between Al Gore, who was then vice president, and Ross Perot,” Blitzer said. “Ross Perot was fiercely against NAFTA. Knowing what we know now, was Ross Perot right?”

Clinton laughed and said, “All I can remember from that is a bunch of charts.” It was a joking reference to all the pie charts Perot trotted out during the 1993 debate, and last night’s audience laughed along. “That sort of is a vague memory,” Clinton said, and then she turned to the substance of the issue.

“Look,” she said, “NAFTA did not do what many had hoped. And so we do need to take a look at it and we do need to figure out how we’re going to have trade relations that are smart, that give the American worker and the American consumer rights around the world.”

Biodun @ 43

Bargain Countertenor @ 40

Okay, I’m clueless. Who is Jenna Jameson?

BC

Jenna Jameson

That explains that. I couldn’t place the name. And it is a nice dress she’s almost wearing…

BC

annagranfors @ 27

I am SO embarrassed to belong to IATSE today, and have written to tell them so, and written to WGA to voice my support.

MY opinion of IA has been on an ever more slippery slope for almost a decade…That’s what happens when you put bucks before ‘brotherhood’.

Hugh @ 56

Steve-AR,

What is the difference between planted and pre-approved questions? I forget.

I’ve been wondering if the audience was pre-screened for ‘pro-Hillaryness’.

Steve-AR @ 55

Very Interesting…..

Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls” at last night’s debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

“Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN,” Luisa writes. “I was asked to submit questions including “lighthearted/fun” questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance.”

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

holy cow. worse than i thought.

must listen to prof foland when he tells me to release my inner cynic.

Jo Fish @ 22

It’s gonna be hard for them to make any money on no product, isn’t it? If the writers strike spreads beyond Hollywood, for instance should the CWA refused to say, work on telecom lines at the media companies that carry work that pays the writers nothing it would get ugly real fast, because it would essentially cripple their commerce in short order. Would the other unions honor those lines outside the Media Telco facilities?

If the Teamsters refuse to deliver DVDs to stores for the Christmas season, gosh that would be a shame.

It’s all interconnected to Sumner Redstone and his “peers” wallets, the goal should be to empty their wallets in the most legally painful way possible.

Support the WGA! It’s what’s right for America.

Brilliant comment.
Absolutely brilliant.

Things are so out of balance economically these days, that something like this is EXACTLY what should happen.

Digital is the future, and the writers need to insist on fair payment.

Fern @ 34

annagranfors @ 27

I got word from my stupid union (IATSE) yesterday that they’re not only *not* supporting the WGA, but essentially calling the executive director of WGA a dirty fucking hippie in the bargain.

I am SO embarrassed to belong to IATSE today, and have written to tell them so, and written to WGA to voice my support.

“where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?”

What reasons do they give for their position?

i found this illuminating:
IATSE chief bashes WGA, strike

“Over 50 shows have been shut down, (and) more will come,” Short said. “Thousands are losing their jobs every day. The IATSE alone has over 50,000 members working in motion pictures, television and broadcasting, and tens of thousands more are losing jobs in related fields. It’s time to put egos aside and recognize how crucial it is to get everyone back to work before there is irreversible damage from which this industry can never recover.”

Verrone responded with his own publicly circulated reply.

“To put it simply, our fight should be your fight,” the WGAW president wrote to Short. “We’ve received support from the Teamsters, the actors, many IATSE members and unions throughout the world.

“As we’ve state clearly, we are willing to negotiate; we have wanted to negotiate; we are here to negotiate,” he added.

a shameful failure of solidarity.

It is horrible to hear IATSE scream like a plucked rooster. They should know better.

The quicker other unions join and stand beside writers on the picket lines, the quicker everybody will get back to work, with fair deals in their pockets.

What better thread for this…

Fannie Slapped; Stock Falls to Decade Low-

“This just smacks too much of the accounting games the company was playing a couple years ago,” said Armando Falcon, who headed the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, the federal agency regulating Fannie at the time its accounting crisis erupted.

“They have very little room to play with here when it comes to trust and credibility,” Falcon said in a telephone interview. He said the executives failed to explain why the change was made at this particular time.

Let’s see… the check’s in the mail…that’s one…

That damned near says it all, Jane.

Bush gives it to Fox with strength…

“If people would look at the strength of our economy, they’d realize why, you know, I believe that the dollar will be stronger,” Bush told the Fox Business Network.

Phew…time for a smoke!

With the Recession Becoming Inevitable the Consensus Shifts Towards the Hard Landing View. And the Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown

So at this point the debate is less and less on whether we are going to have a recession that looks inevitable; but it is rather moving towards a debate on how deep, protracted and severe such a recession will be. But the financial and real risks are much more severe than those of a mild recession.

Aw, love is blind…

As Bank Profits Grew, Warning Signs Went Unheeded

When the history of the financial excesses of this decade is written, that will be a verdict of financial historians. There were signs that banks were either lying about their results or were taking large risks that were not fully disclosed, but investors were oblivious.

Oh yeah…ReBushLickens!