I expect Obama to commemorate the occasion by tweeting a picture of himself.

I never really gave a spit about the Oscars; just a hyperexpensive orgy of self-congratulation by a bunch of celebrities I can’t stand. Could. Not. Care. Less.

But this story is kind of neat; the actor who played the kid version of Forrest Gump could not attend the Academy Awards ceremony in 1995 because his family was too poor to afford the tickets and apparently multi-zillionaire Tom Hanks couldn’t find his wallet to help the kid out. Kid went on to join the Army and serve in Iraq.

Child star Michael Conner Humphreys – who played a young Forrest in leg braces – missed out on his big chance to attend the biggest showbiz event on the planet.

His parents were offered the chance to buy tickets for the most important night of their son’s life but, unable to find the cash, eight-year-old Michael and his family watched the show at home on TV.

Michael served four years in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier, which included an 18 month tour of duty in Iraq.

On the whole, a way better outcome than say, Lindsay Lohan or Brad Renfro.

Arguably, they’re a little late to the party. Lucas already ruined Star Wars back in 1998.  But, give the gals credit, ‘The Force Awakens’ isn’t even released yet, but radical feminists are already kvetching about it.

Because Star Wars movies must support power-feminism.

After all, these are action films, not princess films. These are the characters that kids will dress up as for Halloween and role-play in invented adventures. Let these kids emulate strength, not passivity.

Because Star Wars movies, like everything else must become propaganda vehicles to promote LGBTQIAWXYZ:-P

Following an era of an unprecedented expansion of queer rights since the release of the very first film in 1977, it’s time straight relationships finally share the stage with queer ones.

Because Star Wars must atone for ‘promoting racism.’

Is it possible our internalized racism allows us to better cope with the killing of hundreds and hundreds of Stormtoopers over the course of multiple movies? Could this country’s long history of dehumanizing Black and Brown people play a role here?

Because all movies must glorify Kim Jong-Un.

In case they don’t, get your hashtags and online petitions ready. Or, for a more direct approach, send your comments straight to Disney Movies.

(Well, not really, but kinda, y’know.)

It’s this whole leftist idea that ‘Star Wars’ somehow belongs to the culture, and like the internet, must be treated like a utility; regulated and forced to conform to and support the goals of Social Justice.

As a punchline, the feminist who wrote the article is a leftist gamma-male. Meanwhile, women are flocking to a soft-core porn movie that features a man stalking, seducing, and objectifying a woman through BDSM.

A steakhouse in my hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan has announced that it will not serve Michael “Snipers are cowards” Moore and Seth “American Sniper is a Nazi propaganda film” Rogen even if they were to come in, which they probably would not have anyway. As reported by WOOD TV (which is not a porn channel).

A sign outside of Brann’s in Wyoming is getting reaction from passersby and customers.

It reads, “Michael Moore and Seth Rogen are NOT allowed in my place.”

“For 43 years I’ve been a small business man because of the Chris Kyles of the world and I have a right to not serve the Michael Moores and the Seth Rogens,” Brann said. “That guy (Chris Kyles) is an American hero.”

Presumably the ban also extends to Bill “Chris Kyle was a psychopath” Maher as well. I don’t think Michael Moore would have ever gone there anyway; he strikes me much more as the “$9.95 all-you-can-eat buffet” type.

The Hollywood Left really, really hates ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle, a man who saved countless innocent lives in Iraq by killing very bad people with his sniper rifle. In other words, someone any sane, rational person would regard as a hero.

But not so among degenerate Hollywood leftists.

Michael Moore – the man who puts the ‘fat’ in ‘fatuous left-wing hypocrite’ – took a pause from dividing up his nine luxury homes between he and his divorced wife and said that snipers are cowards.

Bill Maher called Chris Kyle a ‘psychopath.’ And former Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean agreed.

Seth Rogan notoriously compared ‘American Sniper’ to a Nazi propaganda film, and Chris Kyle to a Nazi soldier, and foul-mouthed, homophobic, walking anger management issue Alec Baldwin leaped to his defense.

And yet, juvenile thugs like Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown, and men who rape children like Roman Polanski are heroes to them.

Really. Seriously. What the hell?

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! – Isaiah 5:20

My basic reaction to both the Oscars and the SOTU

Y’know, the State of the Union Address and the Oscars have a lot in common. They are annual ceremonies held by coastal elites without the first clue about how normal Americans live. They are full of politics, full of pomp, insanely hyped by the media, and they will each be completely forgotten within a week of the broadcast. And in both cases, the point is to celebrate their ability to get the public to buy into elaborate fantasy worlds painstakingly created by people who have no grounding in real life.

In Hollywood, people who can’t stand each other pretend to like each other. In Washington, people who like each other pretend they can’t stand each other. In both cases, the goal is to keep the public in the dark about what’s really going on.

Amy Pascal, the soon-to-be-ex Sony executive is currently kissing the hinders of Al Sharpton in a desperate desire to save her career after it was revealed by hacked emails that she made the horrifically racist observation that the extremely race-conscious Emperor of the United States probably likes movies with members of his own race in them.

ILC hates Twitter-centric posts, but I thought this was… IDK… maybe worth a look. It kind of demonstrates that Ms Pascal has quite a lot of deep-seated prejudices, but some are more politically correct than others.

true story: Amy Pascal started a one on one meeting with me by saying “before we start, I have to ask, how can you be gay AND Republican?”

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 18, 2014

It’s a constant source of bafflement to liberals that not every minority wants to be a token on the Democrat Plantation. See also, Harry Reid, who found the existence of Hispanic Republicans inconceivable even as a Hispanic Republican was kicking his son’s butt in the race for Nevada Governor (and may well kick Harry’s withered butt out of the senate in 2016).

A group calling itself “Guardians of Peace” has been releasing the hacked emails of Hollywood producers and film executives. Among the items they have leaked was this exchange between Sony executives speculating about Emperor Barack’s favorite movies.

“Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?” said Pascal, with Rudin replying “12 YEARS.”

“Or the butler. Or think like a man?” continued Pascal, who is a major donor for the Democratic party and President Obama.

“Ride-along. I bet he likes Kevin Hart,” said Rudin.

So the joke is, I guess, that the African-American emperor prefers to see movies featuring African-Americans. That seems to a pretty innocuous observation; a bit like speculating that Joe Biden likes movies like “Forrest Gump” and “I Am Sam” that feature mentally challenged white dudes. Further, it is borne out that black audiences are drawn to movies with black characters and black themes. This is pretty much the entire basis of Spike Lee’s career.

But I am wondering what if, instead of liberal Hollywood Democrats, that same email exchange had taken place between employees of FoxNews or Glenn Beck? Fair to say the MFM would be getting pretty lathered up, n’est-ce pas?

Celebrity person Russell Brand wishes he were attracted to men, because that would make him a gay idiotic git instead of just an idiotic git.

“I’m tedious with my heterosexuality.”

No, just tedious.

Perhaps locking tedious heterosexual Russell Brand in a room with tedious homosexual Morrissey… would prove nothing, but it still sounds like a pretty good idea.

[Was that uncivil?]

The actress who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies dropped in on the world’s premier wretched hive of scum and villainy… the United Nations… to deliver a lecture on feminism and to pester men to become feminists.

It was the kind of speech that the Hollywood left usually describes as “courageous,” meaning it reinforces the prejudices of the Hollywood left and will benefit positively the career of the person giving it. To the Hollywood Left, courage is Tina Fey putting on her Sarah Palin wig and delivering a speech about how gay marriage combats Global Warming.

The text of the speech contains not a word about clitorectomies, honor killings, or Islamic Law and its requirements that a woman produce four witnesses before accusing a man of rape. It was all about First World problems, which is why an actress who has made millions of dollars can complain about income inequality and hurt feelings.

Because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

I started questioning gender-based assumptions when at eight I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not.
When at 14 I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press.
When at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.”
When at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings.

But given the size of that pile of manure, there had to be a pony under it somewhere and here it is.

The more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.

No kidding. as the Feminist Movement is led by women who totally believe stuff like this:

“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.”

X-Men Director Bryan Singer has been accused of raping an underage boy at Paul Mitchell’s resort in Hawaii. Drug-fueled orgies in which Hollywood heavyweights including other producers like Roland Emmerich indulge themselves with underage boys are pretty common; alleges the victim’s attorney.

Some are dismissing the allegations; noting that the man is now 31 years old and is only now alleging abuse that took place when he was fifteen. But wasn’t that the same case with most of the the accusations made against Roman Catholic clergy? Weren’t most of the victims adults alleging that abuse occurred decades earlier?  Singer’s defenders claim the man is just looking for a payout; but the Roman Catholic church was writing a lot of checks at the height of their scandal, too.

I can’t possibly know if the allegations are true in this specific case. But what I do know is that Hollywood has shown an incredible degree of tolerance for child rapists and creepy pedophiles; Woody Allen, Roman Polansky, and Victor Salva, among others, were all forgiven for their sexual abuses of minors. There really doesn’t seem to be much shock or outrage when minors are abused by Hollywood people. Is it because media folk help cover for other media folk? Do people just not care as much when the perpetrator is a celebrity as opposed to a clergyman or a football coach? Or is it because those who control the media only care about the sexual abuse of minors when it can be used as a cudgel against those they don’t like?

Why the double standard? I’m asking honestly, because I don’t get it.

The federal debt, Glenn Reynolds quips, “Increased More Under Geithner Than Under Any Treasury Secretary in U.S. History.” Interesting that given what Democrats still want to remind us about the immediate past president’s failure to hold the line on federal spending (bad a job as he did on that score, he still did a better one than his successor.

And if the debt did increase more under Geithner than any previous Treasury Secretary, that means that it increased more under his watch than it did under the watch of each of Ronald Reagan’s and each of George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretaries.

One of W’s Treasury Secretary’s, Geithner’s immediate predecessor, Henry Paulson, even served longer than Geithner has so far (by about a month).  Indeed, for the better part of Paulson’s tenure, Democrats had a majority in Congress, increasing federal spending at a rate far faster than than had the previous Republican Congresse

All three of Ronald Reagan’s Treasury Secretaries served in that capacity for longer than has Geithner, with the Gipper’s third, Nicholas F. Brady, continuing his service until the end of the George H.W. Bush’s term in office.

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