Serious Question

9 Comments

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   lamh31 on July 29, 2011 at 5:21 pm

   I expect the bare mininumb 23.

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   Jinchi on July 29, 2011 at 5:39 pm

   91 Republicans voted for Bush’s TARP bill in 2008. How many of them are still in the House?

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     Luam on July 29, 2011 at 5:59 pm

     Sounds about right, I was thinking of ballparking it at 100.

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   lamh31 on July 29, 2011 at 5:48 pm

   BTW, why was boner just live on my tv right??? I continued to watch “Despicable Me” instead.

   Anyone hear anything about “Cowboys and Aliens”. I might go see it this weekend. Even though I can glean from the title that it involves…I still kinda confused what the plot actually is about?

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     budr on July 29, 2011 at 8:04 pm

     ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ review: Saddle up

     The reason for “Cowboys & Aliens” – the justification for it, the appeal of it, the whole point of it – is contained in the title. Take a cowboy movie, add space aliens. That’s a gimmick that could easily have exhausted itself after 20 minutes, but director Favreau, a team of screenwriters and some well-cast actors keep it alive, and the result is a crowd-pleasing summer movie with more wit than most.

     The more you know Westerns, the more you’ll enjoy “Cowboys & Aliens.” Every Western cliche is pumped up and blown out, not only the cliches of story but of character, costume and set design. Sam Rockwell, as a merchant, shows up with the little round spectacles and plastered-down hair that you’ve seen in a hundred movies. Paul Dano as a spoiled, sniveling drunken brat on a rampage starts shooting up the town, like every obnoxious skinny kid with a gun from a thousand Westerns. And the shots of the rickety old town, a few structures in a vast nothingness, are a little more forlorn than usual.

     But “Cowboys & Aliens” gets better as it goes along and benefits from a director with a solid command of tone. The actors may know they’re in a comedy, but the characters certainly don’t. That’s an important difference that allows us, once the premise’s novelty has worn off, to care whether Daniel Craig can rescue a very somber Olivia Wilde from the clutches of an alien spaceship, for example. Or to maintain a reasonable interest in the fate of a humanity threatened by gigantic, green, snorting monsters.

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   shan on July 29, 2011 at 5:59 pm

   First vote before default….none.  First vote after default…22 and they they will want more for the one more vote.  Hostage all the way.

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   joe from Lowell on July 29, 2011 at 7:49 pm

   About 23.

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   TarheelDem on July 29, 2011 at 9:08 pm

   Maybe 103 Republicans.  That would let the Blue Dogs vote No and the Tea Party folks vote No because it’s an increase in the debt ceiling.  And it would let the progressive Democrats vote against the cuts.

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   JeffL on July 29, 2011 at 9:26 pm

   I don’t care.  There are other things happening in the world and the farce that this debt ceiling issue has become has lost its hold on me.  It’s the helicopter shot of OJ in the SUV again.

   Every little detail about the current legislation shouldn’t be dominating the discussion.