Update. Get out of the race right now.

I didn't even expect this kind of thing from Mike Huckabee. Hillary get out of the race now. Today.

John "Douche Bag" McCain. John McCain's career is dependant on two things. First, he was tortured in Vietnam and second, he cheated on his wife and married a multi-millionaire. When he was running for Senate originally he was considered a carpetbagger. He overcame this stigma by claiming that he has only lived in a bamboo cage in Vietnam. Now this douche bag is brow beating Obama because he supports the G.I. education bill and never served in the military. Back in the day the U.S. gov would pay for your college if you served. Many or the older folks in my family owe their educations to the G.I. bill. Today this bill only provides a small supplemental income (a few hundred dollars a month) and Obama (and a sweeping bi-partisan majority of the house and senate) passed a bill that restores the G.I. Bill to it's original promise. McDouche bag is against the G.I. why? Because he says that it's too expensive and that we just don't understand because we haven't served in the military. How's that for supporting the troops?

I am on break. And not a day too late. It feels great to be home. I have internet and phone service and video games and their are hot girls everywhere. I don't know why anyone would prefer to live disconnected in the countryside. The movie is going way better. After those 14+ hour days with only a 7 hour turn around a 12 hour day feels really nice. The first day we stopped at 12 I couldn't believe that it wasn't dark yet, so we couldn't be done shooting. I love all the people I'm working with though. I guess it is like, as cheesy as this sounds, brothers in arms or something. I want to do it all. I want to try more jobs on set. AC looks really cool. I want to pull some bad ass focus. Grip is hard but their control of light is amazing. The AD's have a lot to do and need to be really organized but have so much control over how the film works. And it should go with out saying I love art department and props. I think I want to work in the movie biz I just can't decide what I want to do.

I met another Tad. On the set one of the actors was also called Tad. Turns out he was hella cool. He kicked cancer's ass a year ago and now is training to run a marathon. He does graphic art and has a website you may want to check out. This is the first Tad I have ever meet and it affirms the coolness of the name Tad.

-Tad

I don't know what is going on. It has been pretty ridiculous. I've been working 14+ hours a day. Technically I am a Art Department Production assistant but I've been doing grip assistance, wardrobe, props, errands and whatever else needs to be done. It has been badassed for my resume and everyone working on the flick is great, but I'm not going to lie, it is tough work. The shooting schedule was a little too ambitious and the grips were ready to walk, now we're scaled back to 12hr max days. I don't really have internet or tv or cell phone service so I have no idea what is going on. Though I did read the front of a newspaper stand and Obama looks like he's finally going to end this thing. But it has been really great regardless of everything. Movies kick ass.

Huckabee, what an asshole. Although I am not 100% on this, I heard that Huckabee dropped a bomb this past week. Supposedly someone at a even of his made a loud noise and Huckabee joked that it sounded like an Obama assassination. WTF? That is just about the most uncool thing to say (does anyone remember MLK?). What a dick.

Cheers

-Tad

Hillary is still running. Still attacking Obama. Even though he just tied her in super delegate endorsements. This thing is over. Hillary is finally playing the race card. Bill has been doing it since South Carolina. Blaming it on Obama. Hillary's latest argument is that, although she claims not to be racist, she says that Obama can't get white uneducated blue collar vote because other people are racist. C'mon how is this awful person still in the race? I used to like the Clintons (even though they are corporate panderers) but because of the way that she has run this race I now can not stand her.

Tomorrow I will be heading up to Santa Rosa to work on a movie. I am the art department PA for the independent film The Redwoods. I will be really busy but I hope I will still have time to post here. If the posts get less frequent read some of the archives. Just know that I'm doing well and as soon as I return to SF the posts will return to current frequency.

Hold it down while I'm gone

-Tad

Well Hillary is staying in the race. It may be over though because she is out of money. In fact the Clintons have had to put up 11.4 million of their own money to get this far. The cable news guys say she is going to back out after West Virginia or Kentucky so that she will be leaving on a high note. A few months ago Mitt Romney pulled this same stunt, except he dropped out quicker. I want this thing to end. Superdelagates keep saying this process is exciting so they shouldn't stop it but c'mon russian roulette is probably exciting too.

Experience is bad. I think experienced politicians are some of the worst ones (ex. Dick Cheney). People on the news keep questioning Obama's experience, but I think that experience only makes a politician better at being a politician. Let's take Hillary and McCain as examples because they both are using this argument against Barack.

To begin both John McCain and Hillary Clinton are war mongerers. Hillary was recently talking about obliterating Iran if they invaded a neighbor. Turns out the military are backing down from the Iran meddlers theory. Also Iran hasn't attacked anyone since they were Persia. John McCain was always for the Iraq war, in spite of what the media has said, and he is for the invasion(or at least bombing of) of Iran. Apparently experience makes politicians blood thirsty.

The second thing that experience does to a politician is make them into pandering blowhards. Both Hillary Clinton and John McCain transform into whatever the group of people they are talking to want them to be. For Hillary she has become a whisky drinkin', gun toting', economist hatin', nascar fan. John McCain has become a super neo-con, pro-life sticker over the mouth sportin', let them eat cake bible beater.

Thirdly, experience makes politicians into defenders of the status quo. In one debate, in response to Barack's claim that a CEO pays a smaller percentage of his income to taxes than his secretary, Hillary said that taxing the rich the same way we tax the not so rich would be "the largest rise of taxes in US history". The truth is in the 50's and 60's when the taxes were more fair, wealth and living standards in america rose equally. Now the rich get richer and the poor are getting poorer as wages don't keep up with inflation. Hillary is stepping in line with the republicans when they call fairness, wealth redistribution. McCain used to be against the Bush tax cuts now he is for them.

Experience is bad

-Tad

Obama wins big in North Carolina! It's too close to call in Indiana. Hillary was supposed to win that one and to have closed the gap in North Carolina. Indiana last time I checked was only 16,000 votes apart with Obama leaning areas still uncounted. Hillary came out and delivered a victory speech claiming the win in Indiana and at the same time seemed to be stepping out. Now even if Michigan and Florida are counted (Obama is not on the ballot in Michigan) in delegates or popular vote she will remain behind. It's basically over. I think Barack will start getting on McCain's case. Hillary has cancelled all her TV stops tomorrow. Hopefully she stops her kitchen sink attack method.

-Tad

Why does the media hate educated people? Media analysis and speculation about which way democrats will vote has exposed an underlying message; the educated and african americans don't count. The only people that count are blue collar, uneducated white people. Why are they the ones who are deciding this thing? The know the least, what they know is often false, they often vote against their best interests, and they are the only ones that count. All the cable news stations say the educated are going for Obama. You would think people would be tired of a know nothing idiot running the country. Is this why blatant pandering is so effective?

Hillary is pandering like it's 1999. Her (John McCain's) gas tax, her new interest in racing, her dive bar whisky shooting, her elitist claims (she went to Welsly an all girls college and Yale), her loosely factual local upbringings (where is she from the south, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, where ever she goes next?). Check out last night's The Daily Show Panderer Box segment.

The Media bias is to have "experts" from either side pimp their talking points from separate little boxes on the screen. In reality almost all the time both these people are completely false (In this defination one of the conditions of an expert is that they have to agree with the status quo). Bill Moyers interviews the people that study these hacks. The article is long but very informative. Here are some excerpts.

BILL MOYERS: So how do you decide who is an expert? What makes an expert?

CHRISTOPHER CERF: Well, I think if you are in the government — this is one of the problems we have in the country — you are, by definition, an expert. In fact, you're unpatriotic if you disagree with someone in the government. And your expertise, if you had any before, becomes suspect.

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BILL MOYERS: In other words, the experts said we won the war, so we won the war?

CHRISTOPHER CERF: And they keep saying it. In fact, when the Basra invasion by the Iraqi Army, that was supposed to clean up the Shiites in Basra began. You may recall the president said that day that it was a decisive moment in the history of a free Iraq. And you can tell, since then, we-- it's practically over, right?

VICTOR NAVASKY: And, but to be fair, they don't all say that we won the war. There are a whole school of experts who say that we'll know in six months whether or not we've won the war.

BILL MOYERS: That's a repetitive litany in your book-

VICTOR NAVASKY: Yes.

BILL MOYERS: --all the people who keep saying three more months, six more months-- and it's a bipartisan litany. I mean, John McCain, Hillary Clinton-

VICTOR NAVASKY: John McCain, well, they had a disagreement. Hillary said in 2002, I believe, that it would be three to six months. And then, McCain said in 2003, it would be three months. Or vice-versa. It really doesn't matter, because what matters, that McCain has been mis-portrayed in the media now as saying he was an opponent of the war all along. This is an unfair attack on his patriotism. He was very supportive of this war and predicted it would be over in a matter of a short time.

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CHRISTOPHER CERF: Absolutely. In fact, one of my favorite quotes in The Experts Speak comes from a general in the Civil War. They were doing it even then. General Sedgewick, who surveyed the enemy battle lines. He was a Union general. And he looked out over the Confederate lines, and he said, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis--." Those were his last words, actually.

VICTOR NAVASKY: And it's not just from generation to generation. It happens within weeks. So, Condoleezza Rice said, "We don't want the smoking gun to become a mushroom cloud." Her great image, talking about what's gonna- And then, President Bush, a few weeks later, said, "We don't want the smoking gun to become a mushroom cloud." They borrow each other's language and they reinforce each other's message.

BILL MOYERS: Do experts have to work hard to be so wrong? It's not easy to achieve a grand consensus, right?

VICTOR NAVASKY: Well, I think it comes pretty naturally to them. And it's not only that they're wrong. It's that they are arrogant in their erroneousness. I mean, to take one of your colleagues in the press, Bill O'Reilly. I mean, he not only "it will be over in a matter of weeks." He would say-- he made a bet and said, "I will bet anybody and buy them a dinner" —where was the dinner going to be?

The Empire Strikes Barack

5 Years after "Mission Accomplished" the Bush Administration admits to a mistake... The "Mission Accomplished" banner was meant for the crew of the that particular carrier. In the speech he never mentions that particular crew, only the war in Iraq in general. 100% half assed excuse. These people have no respect for us. Oh wait I knew that already.

Keep your head up!

-Tad

I just worked 13 hours. I was doing sound for the independent film Fish. I am exhausted. So I'm just going to post a link to a really good article from Liberal Eagle from www.IDrewThis.com

If I don't work today I'll will expand on this post.

-Tad

Iraq Violence and 5 years after "Mission Accomplished". McCain; "the surge is working". What about the evidence? The winter lull is receding now will the surge argument hold up? Betrayus' numbers in march where misleading because EVERY winter violence goes down then EVERY summer fighting increases intensity again. 5o american soldiers died last month (and many more Iraqis) why are we talking about Jeremiah Wright?

Hillary in 2012? What? Bill Clinton wants to go more negative. I hate the Faux news non-journalistic term "people are saying" but, "people are saying" that the Clintons want to destroy Obama in whatever way they can, so that he couldn't win even if he was the nominee. That way Hillary can run in 2012. Otherwise Hillary would be too old to run after 8 great years of an Obama administration. Chris Matthews claimed the Clintons believes that the Democratic Party is their party and that they could do whatever they want with it. All I can say is F the Clintons.

Voters grow weary of Democratic war. I'm tired of it, I bet you are tired of it. Hillary get the F out. I am tired of the press using the Clinton spin to get ratings. Does the Rev. Wright guilty by association (fallacy) make Obama unelectable? Is Hillary a fighter? What do these things really mean? Nothing!

Finally the media questions the summer gas tax holiday. Like I said in my April 28th post, when McCain first brought this crap up, the summer gas tax holiday is a bad idea. First, loss of government revenue will cost America 30,000 construction jobs and weaken our already outdated and dilapidated infrastructure (remember the eastern blackout in 2003, or the Minneapolis bridge collapse?). Two, the tax is only 18 cents on the dollar and the net saving will be very small, even if you use a lot of gas. The increased use of gas, because of the perceived savings, will increase demand and commodity speculation so gas prices will actually increase more than the saving the tax holiday will bring. The oil companies and producers will make even high profits. Third, with all the talk about global warming, promoting increases gas usage is a step in the wrong direction (I thought Hillary cared about Global Warming). This is straight up pandering. Especially because this will not even happen till next year (with the approval of congress). Hillary and McCain seem closer than ever.

Turns out that we still tortured people after 2003. Liars. Anytime anyone in the Bush administration opens there mouths lies come out. Yeah the "Mission Accomplished" sign was only for that ship and that crew. Now the "we used torture only in special cases and only before 2003" line turns out to also be a giant lie. These guys shouldn't just be impeached, they should be prosecuted for war crimes and for misleading the nation. Why is this story not on TV? MY HEAD ESPLODES!

No bag please. Plastic muck in the ocean. For-e v-va For-e v-va For-e v-va

Dropping babies in india. Video from youtube

-Tad