Barack and Michelle Obama have officially made Amanda Bynes’ ugly list . “Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are ugly!” she tweeted Monday. It’s unclear why the troubled 27-year-old actress added the President and First Lady to a slew of others she’s previously labeled less than attractive. Perhaps it dates back to April 2012, when she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after reportedly sideswiping a police car. Obama, despite Amanda Bynes’ social media pleas, did NOTHING. “I don’t drink … please fire the cop who arrested me,” she requested of the President of the United States on Twitter. “I also don’t hit and run. The end.” In any case, it’s been a rough ride for the actress of late. As the 27-year-old celebrity continues to throw shade on Twitter, people are either tuning her out or dishing it back after each “ugly” tweet she posts. “You’re ugly on the inside AND outside!” one follower wrote in response to Bynes’ post to the Obamas. “But uglier.” “U took it too far,” another wrote. While some Bynes followers agreed with her, others simply felt it was in bad taste. “Wow. You’re a horrible person,” another responded. “Truly horrible.” Wherever you stand on the ugly list or the Obamas’ looks, public concern for Amanda Bynes’ weight loss and plastic surgery obsession is mounting. Seriously. Girl is a little out of control in both areas.
A U.S. Marine Corps unit worker, who had previously been stationed in Afghanistan, rescued and helped rehabilitate four baby rabbits on his base. Joshua Bisnar, a Naval Hospital Corpsman (Combat Medic) stationed with a Marine Corps unit at Camp Pendleton, Calif., found the helpless bunnies. While raking the volleyball court at a military barracks, he noticed them with their dead mother, then took it upon himself to bottle feed them for two months. He gave them a makeshift home consisting of a box with a few of his old shirts, then eventually released them into the wild once they were big enough. To feed James (after Jimi Hendrix), Steven, Raymond and, Vaughan (after Stevie Ray Vaughan), he researched a formula mixed with probiotic he found at Petco. After nourishing them back to health through 3-4 feedings per bunny per day for two months, they began to thrive, and it was time to let them go. Bisnar said: “I’m originally from Newport Beach, California, so the next weekend I brought them to a wildlife conservation place off of PCH in Huntington Beach.” “The lady that worked there was amazed about how a Military member from Camp Pendleton raised four bunnies with 100 percent survival rate. “I could have gotten into a lot of trouble having animals in the barracks, and even more trouble considering Camp Pendleton is very strict on the handling of animals.” “I grew up around animals … my mom is actually a dog groomer and has always taught me to look after and care for the little guys.” “In Afghanistan I was always getting in trouble for playing with kittens and petting the working dogs too much,” he recalled. As for Jimmy, Stevie, Ray and Vaughan, “I was sad to drop them off because I felt like their dad – after all the time I spent raising and nurturing them.”
Contrary to what Amanda Bynes may believe, today is not the day to go off on a Twitter rant and threaten to sue everybody you know. It’s a day to give thanks to the men and women protecting our nation around the world, which is exactly what a number of celebrities have done on Twitter. Scroll down now for their thoughts on Memorial Day and feel free to share your own… Carrie Underwood : Good morning! Today, we remember those who have served our country. Thank you to our military members. I declare today #HugASoldierDay. Blake Shelton : Happy Memorial Day everybody!!!! Steve Carell : Heartfelt thanks to all who have served our country. #MemorialDay Nick Lachey : Happy Memorial Day everyone. Let’s take a moment to remember all of those brave men and women who have given their lives for our freedom. Courteney Cox : Huge and heartfelt THANK YOU to all the servicemen and women who have – and continue – to keep us safe. God bless you all. Carson Daly : Thank you to all who we lost in service in our armed forces- #memorialday is about honoring you and your families. Miranda Lambert : Happy Memorial Day. Thanks to all who serve and have served. We can’t ever say that enough. Minka Kelly : Honoring & remembering my friends & the men and women who have given their lives in service to our great country. JWoww : Happy Memorial Day!!!! Today I celebrate in honor of my grandpa 🙂 rip opa… My hero Eric Stonestreet : Thank you for your service and sacrifice men and women in uniform. Now lets all eat some macaroni salad. John Stamos : God Bless our heroes who lost their lives. Pitbull : To all happy memorial day get off the chain have fun locuraaaa que ricoooo daleee. Bethenny Frankel : Happy memorial day everyone!!!!! How many of us actually think of what today really is about? Enjoy! Katie Couric : Thank you today and every day to the true heroes, the brave servicemen & servicewomen who make the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
This is truly a blessing. A woman survived 17 days under the rubble of a Bangladesh factory building where over 1,000 people were killed . Via NY Daily News reports : A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000. Reshma survived, in remarkably good shape, by eating dried food that was in her area and drinking spare amounts of water with her. She was discovered on the second floor of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, where crews have been focused on recovering bodies, not rescuing survivors, for much of the past two weeks. “I heard voices of the rescue workers for the past several days. I kept hitting the wreckage with sticks and rods just to attract their attention,” she told the private Somoy TV from her hospital bed as doctors and nurses milled about, giving her saline and checking her condition. “No one heard me. It was so bad for me. I never dreamed I’d see the daylight again,” she said. “There was some dried food around me. I ate the dried food for 15 days. The last two days I had nothing but water. I used to drink only a limited quantity of water to save it. I had some bottles of water around me,” she said. Once Reshma finally got their attention, the crews ordered the cranes and bulldozers to immediately stop work and used handsaws and welding and drilling equipment to cut through the iron rod and debris still trapping her. They gave her water, oxygen and saline as they worked to free her. When Reshma was freed after 40 minutes, the crowd erupted in wild cheers. She was rushed to a military hospital in an ambulance, but her rescuers said she was in shockingly good condition, despite her ordeal. Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military’s engineering department who first spotted her in the wreckage, said she could even walk. “She was fine, no injuries. She was just trapped. The space was wide,” said Lt. Col. Moyeen, an army official at the scene. Reshma told her rescuers there were no more survivors in her area. Workers began tearing through the nearby rubble anyway, hoping to find another person alive. “Reshma told me there were three others with her. They died. She did not see anybody else alive there,” said Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the head of the local military units. “We will continue our search until a survivor or a dead body is there.” The woman survived for more than two weeks in temperatures that touched the mid 90s (mid 30s Celsius). She scrounged for whatever food she could find, Suhrawardy said. Then, when the workers with bulldozers and cranes got close to the area where she was trapped, she took a still pipe and began banging it to attract attention, Razzak said. The workers ran into the dark rubble, eventually getting flashlights, to free her, he said. Reshma’s mother and her sister, Asma, rushed to the hospital to meet her. Hundreds of people who had been engaged in the grim job of removing decomposing bodies from the site raised their hands together in prayer for her survival. “Allah, you are the greatest, you can do anything. Please allow us all to rescue the survivor just found,” said a man on a loudspeaker leading the supplicants. “We seek apology for our sins. Please pardon us, pardon the person found alive.” Workers at the site had been clearing the rubble since the collapse April 24. More than 2,500 people were rescued in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. However, no survivors had been found in the wreckage since April 28, when Shahin Akter was found amid the wreckage. As workers tried to free her, a fire broke out and she died of smoke inhalation. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, called Reshma in the hospital, and the rescued woman began crying on the phone, Suhrawardy said. She told Hasina: “I am fine, please pray for me,” he said. It’s truly a miracle Reshma survived, we pray that she is able to overcome the trauma from her experience. The government has been under extreme criticism over the conditions of their garment industry. With two major disasters striking this month, clearly some changes need to be made. Our prayers are with those affected by this terrible disaster. Hit the flip for a pretty disturbing image from the collapse. SkyNews
Offering a more straight-faced brand of idiocy than its cheerfully dumb 2009 predecessor, G.I. Joe: Retaliation might well have been titled G.I. Joe: Regurgitation , advertising big guns, visual effects and that other line of Hasbro toys with the same joyless, chew-everything-up-and-spit-it-out efficiency. Largely devoid of personality, apart from a few nifty action flourishes courtesy of helmer Jon M. Chu , Paramount’s late-March blockbuster, pushed back from a 2012 release (ostensibly to allow for a 3D conversion), may have trouble matching G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ’s $302 million worldwide gross. But with no shortage of merchandising and other cross-promotional opportunities, it should still score significant attention from targeted male viewers. Appreciably rougher and grittier in feel than the Stephen Sommers-directed The Rise of Cobra , Retaliation makes any number of ham-fisted bids for topical relevance, and naturally almost every one of them represents an affront to good taste. Among other things, the film is a sort of accidental comedy about nuclear warfare, as much of the silly plot concerns a global summit where the hope of mass disarmament soon gives way to the threat of mass annihilation. Elsewhere, the script (by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) finds our trusty Joes raiding a North Korean compound shortly before they head to Islamabad, where they wind up framed for the assassination of Pakistan’s president. All this geopolitical mayhem is being orchestrated by the U.S. commander-in-chief (Jonathan Pryce) — or rather, the dastardly doppelganger who’s impersonating him with the aid of super-sophisticated “nanomite” technology (because latex is just a little too Mission: Impossible ). The president’s stand-in is a high-ranking member of Cobra, a secret network of megalomaniacs bent on wiping out the G.I. Joes once and for all, and in the early going, they come perilously close. Tatum Channing’s Screen Time Is Brief Probably aware that no one in the audience could possibly care about any sense of continuity with The Rise of Cobra and its eminently forgettable characters, the filmmakers have opted to retain just a few key players this time around. In what feels like an odd miscalculation given the actor’s recent popularity, Channing Tatum’s Duke is around for only about 10 minutes to pass the baton to a fresh G.I. Joe unit led by the physically imposing Roadblock ( Dwayne Johnson ) and rounded out by Flint (D.J. Cotrona) and Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), both of whom evince far less charisma than the military-grade weapons provided them by Gen. Joe Colton ( Bruce Willis , phoning it in). Actor To Watch: Byung-hyun Lee Providing a bit more interest is the Joes’ ninja faction, chiefly Snake Eyes (Ray Park), whose inexpressive mask stands in marked contrast to the piercing gaze of his longtime nemesis, white-clad swordfighter Storm Shadow ( Korean star Byung-hyun Lee ). Along with newcomer Jinx (Elodie Yung), these returning characters figure prominently into the picture’s finest moment, a fight scene in the Himalayas that employs wirework and stereoscopy to highly vertiginous effect. The visual grace of this sequence is no surprise coming from Chu, who demonstrated a real flair for staging in the two Step Up pics he directed. But as in those movies, sustaining a narrative or transcending a patchy script seem beyond his abilities. One of the least savory aspects of the franchise is the unseemly pleasure it takes in the wholesale destruction of foreign cities, which goes hand-in-hand with its jingoistic portrait of American military might. Audiences who thrilled to the sight of Paris under biochemical attack in Cobra will be pleased to watch London endure an even more horrific fate here, although the sequence is tossed off in quick, almost ho-hum fashion, with no time to dwell on anything so exquisitely crass as the spectacle of the Eiffel Tower collapsing. Meatheaded and derivative as it is, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is hardly the nadir, as hollow corporate products go; certainly it’s nowhere near as aggressively off-putting as the Transformers movies, the other action-figure adaptations in the Hasbro universe. The dialogue has improved markedly since the earlier outing, and the lensing and editing, while hardly models of coherence, just about manage to avoid excessive jumpiness. Andrew Menzies’ production design, with sets standing in for everything from a Tokyo skyscraper to a Nepalese monastery, proves resourceful within the confines of a largely New Orleans-shot production. With the exceptions of the often mesmerizing Lee and the ever-reliable Johnson, the performances are merely serviceable. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
If, like me, you file blog posts from a climate-controlled office in a well-governed, comfort-obsessed city, then the kind of war-zone reporting that Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill does is hard to fathom and more than a little terrifying. So it was fascinating to hear Scahill tell the audience at a private screening room what unsettles him: the rapid-fire prattling that takes place on the 24-hour cable networks. ‘Dirty Wars’ Documentary: Journalism & Media Culture “In the [war] zones themselves, there’s a collegial, non-competitive atmosphere,” Scahill said Monday night at a Q&A session that followed a screening of his and director Richard Rowley’s must-see documentary, Dirty Wars . “People,” he added — and what he meant were war correspondents reporting outside “the bubble” of the embedded press corps — “want to make sure that everyone makes it in and out alive, and they encourage good journalism.” By contrast, he added, “Back in the states, when you go on cable television, it’s like entering the Twilight Zone where you have these pundits, that know everything about nothing” and ask “the most ludicrous, ridiculous questions” when they invite reporters like Scahill on their shows. “In general, the media culture is lazy,” he said. With the exception of a brief heated scene that shows Scahill tangling with NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd, Dirty Wars is not specifically an indictment of the kind of in-the-tank news reporting that is found too frequently on TV and on the web, but, by example, it is. “This is a story about the seen and the unseen,” Scahill says at the beginning of the film, and, more importantly, it’s a story about doing the hard and often dangerous work required to drag the unseen into the light. In this gripping film, which will surely spark debate on those very same cable news outlets as its summer release date approaches, Scahill and Rowley leave “the bubble” of conventional war-reporting in Afghanistan to uncover a much darker and unsettling tale about U.S. military operations overseas. Through Scahill’s dogged reporting in dangerous territory that eventually includes Yemen and Somalia, Dirty Wars show how the conventional war in Afghanistan was eclipsed by a covert and, one could argue, reckless war of targeted killings and attack-and-grab raids quarterbacked by William McRaven, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from June 2008 to August 2011. Osama bin Laden’s Assassination One of JSOC’s success stories is the assassination of Osama bin Laden, and, in the aftermath, McRaven moved from the shadows to the spotlight, when President Obama appointed him Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) which oversees all of the military’s special operations. McRaven’s strategy of targeted kills has since been lauded in the media and in Washington, but Dirty Wars shows that some operations have been far from surgical. The documentary contains footage of dead infants and children killed in the strikes along with the grief-stricken and furious survivors one of whom refers to the attackers as “American Taliban.” Journalists are not safe either. President Obama is going to have some explaining to do when the film is released, and one of the movie’s more chilling sequences indicates that he pressed for the continued imprisonment of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye after Shaye reported that the U.S. was involved in the 2009 airstrike on a Yemeni village. The carnage of that attack is particularly harrowing, as is the film’s recounting of the killing of the 16-year-old son of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the first U.S. citizen to be targeted for assassination without due process. Like his father, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was obliterated by an unmanned drone, “killed not for who he was,” Scahill says in the documentary, “but for who he one day might become.” The Human Cost Of Military Operations One of the strengths of Dirty Wars is that it palpably conveys the human cost of these military operations, and, by the closing credits, the moviegoer is left with the distinct impression that the U.S. is building a reservoir of ill will overseas that could come back to bite us in the ass down the road. It could affect us here in other ways, too. After the screening, I asked Scahill — who’s also the author of the bestselling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army — if there was a chance of JSOC’s strategy influencing U.S. law enforcement techniques. He explained that while he didn’t think that “President Obama is going to authorize a hit against a militia guy in Idaho reading his survivalist ‘zine,” he did have “serious concerns over the use of drones for domestic surveillance.” But rather than play pundit, Scahill brought the discussion full circle: “I’m a firm believer that, above all, we have to have our facts straight,” he said. “The reality we face is bad enough, we don’t need to exaggerate. Let’s confront this on what we can prove.” Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
As mediocre as Identity Thief is, it didn’t cool my appreciation for Jason Bateman . For one thing, his work on Arrested Development was Sofa King good that he’d have to suck for a long time to lose me. For another, I don’t think we’ve seen the full extent of this guy’s talent, and, in GQ’s April-issue Q&A with Bateman, the actor lets drop that, in addition to a fruitful career as a director, he’d like to have a New York-based talk show down the road. Here’s what he tells GQ writer Brendan Vaughan: GQ: Jeffrey Tambor [who plays George Bluth in Arrested Development ] once compared you to Johnny Carson in the way that you play the straight man but with this dark center . When I read that, it occurred to me that you might be a good talk-show host. Have you ever thought about that? Jason Bateman: That’s interesting, I was just talking about that. Without getting too specific about it, because I can’t, I’ve thought seriously about it as recently as last year. Having just come back from doing a week of talk shows last week [to promote Identity Thief ], I was talking to Amanda about, in twenty years—when the girls go to college and we can finally move to New York, which is what I’ve been wanting to do forever—if television will have me, I would love to do that. Regis retired at what, 80? So in twenty years I’ll be 64. To host a talk show then, that would be a fun way to do the last bit. I like that idea. Bateman is quick-witted and outrageous — when Vaughan requests Hazelnut-flavored Coffee-Mate in his cup of joe, the actor tells him, “I think your vagina’s bleeding” — he’s thoughtful and, as an actor, he’s able to easily shift from funny to serious without grinding his gears. He’s also that rare child performer who carved out a successful second act for himself in adulthood, and that tells me he’ll be great at interviewing celebrities because he understands the brutality of show business. If he’s serious, he’d make a fine talk-show host some day, and NBC will probably be looking for one once it burns through all the talent it currently has. In the meantime, Bateman is working on his directorial debut, Bad Words , and when Vaughan asks him how he sees his career evolving as a hyphenate, he replies: “As opposed to Ron Howard’s career, which is exclusively directing and producing, no acting, and like [Jon] Favreau’s career and Pete Berg’s career, where it’s mostly directing—I think, more realistically, I’d like it to be more like George Clooney’s career or Ben Stiller’s career or Ben Affleck’s career as far as splitting the time between acting and directing. I’m so… I just vibrate at how excited I am about the complexity of the process, of making a fake world for an audience. It’s not a God complex, but that’s what directors are doing: They’re creating a fake world, and it is four-walled. It’s 360 degrees. When a movie is great, you don’t notice the effort. It is a real world that you’ve just watched. There’s no better job in the world than directing a film. I’m convinced of it.” Who’s bleeding now, Mr. Bateman? Photo credits: Peggy Sirota/ GQ [ GQ ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
A North Korean terrorist may be responsible for taking the president hostage, but it’s Bulgarian-made CGI that does the most damage in Antoine Fuqua’s intense, ugly, White-House-under-siege actioner Olympus Has Fallen . Cut past the pic’s superficial patriotism, and the message is ironically clear: Never outsource your visual effects when a domestic shop will do. Courageously representing the human element in this mostly digital assault on American soil, Gerard Butler holds his own as a one-man-army. Millennium was wise to push this grim act-of-war movie out three months ahead of Columbia’s like-minded White House Down . In June, auds will see how Roland Emmerich , whose Independence Day gleefully made things go boom at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., handles the task today. For the moment, the post-9/11 memory of real attacks on American targets still hits a bit too close to home. And though Hollywood’s jaunty disaster-movie days may have passed, this lower-budget entry comes with the satisfaction of evening the score before end credits roll. Olympus Has Fallen helmer Fuqua, who’s known for bringing an unflinching toughness to inner cities ( Training Day ) and ancient history ( King Arthur ), sticks to the Die Hard model here, minus most of the tossed-off one-liners. In ex-Special Forces pro Mike Banning, Butler presents a gritty but humorless hero who cusses, bleeds and occasionally pauses to remove shards of glass from his wounds. To raise the personal stakes, Creighton Rothenberger’s script opens with a prologue in which Banning saves the life of President Benjamin Asher ( Aaron Eckhart , who looks the part of a Wall St.-friendly commander in chief), but fails to protect the First Lady ( Ashley Judd ) — a tragedy that leaves the redemption-seeking secret service agent reassigned to desk duty. Banning’s chance to square the books with Asher arrives when heavily armed guerillas swarm the White House, led by the undercover Kang ( Die Another Day ’s Rick Yune). While a massive CG warplane flies low over D.C., gunning down pedestrians and blasting the top off the Washington Monument, turncoat Forbes ( Dylan McDermott ) helps Kang and his men take the president and his top staffers (including Melissa Leo’s unyielding Secretary of Defense) captive in the White House’s underground safe room. Hokey glimpses of tourists attempting to outrun blocks of falling granite make the lo-fi effects of an earlier era look realistic by comparison. As pedestrians run for cover or die in the crossfire, Banning makes his way into the fray, searching for the president’s missing son (Finley Jacobson) before worrying about the kidnapped world leaders. With Asher incapacitated and his veep brutally executed before the eyes of the military’s top brass, the shot-calling role falls to the Speaker of the House, played by Morgan Freeman , an actor with experience at holding the reins of power, having occupied the Oval Office in Deep Impact . Freeman demonstrates due gravitas, steeling his nerves with a strong cup of coffee while the small army of character actors around him hang their heads in desperation. Fuqua’s widescreen approach — which offers ample room for all that vidgame-quality CG — relishes such cornball iconography, featuring shots of the American flag pierced with bullets, or tumbling slowly to the ground against a flame-red sunset, while Trevor Morris’ drum-corps score keeps things sounding duly martial. Banning earns well-deserved cheers for using a heavy bust of Lincoln’s head to bust in a baddie’s noggin. Though not as exciting as the White House-storming seventh season of 24 , the high-concept project alternates between brawny action movie and crudely considered “what if” scenario. Despite the pic’s one-on-many focus, Fuqua approaches it as a full-blown war movie, incorporating the military’s latest toys into large-scale shootouts between squads of anonymous opponents. Sadly, those crude Bulgarian-rendered effects aren’t much more convincing than the recent White-House-in-the-crosshairs propaganda videos pouring out of North Korea. Butler brings things back to a more practical level, as his butt-kicking hero shoots, stabs and punches his way through to the commander-in-distress, only to face off against a foreign-rigged computer program in the final scene. Figures. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Forget whether or not he can ever be a successful starting quarterback in the NFL. Tim Tebow is now stirring up debate of a different kind. The signal caller and devout Christian is scheduled to speak at First Baptist Dallas on April 28, a giant establishment in Texas whose pastor – Robert Jeffress – has received a lot of attention for anti-gay and anti-Semitic comments. In October 2011, Jeffress said Islam and Mormonism are heretical religions “from the pit of hell,” and added that “you can’t be saved being a Jew.” He also warned his 11,000-member Dallas congregation in November that President Barack Obama’s re-election would “lead to the rise of the Antichrist.” The Huffington Post and Think Progess also report that Jeffries doesn’t believe gays should serve in the military because “70% of the gay population” has AIDS, while also connection homosexual sex with pedophilia. Tebow has not made any public comments about the gig, but he is scheduled to speak at Sunday morning worship.
He loves Michelle Obama’s bangs and would eff George Zimmerman up… Does that make this killer likable? As the LAPD continues to search for Christopher Dorner, more excerpts from his rambling manifesto have reached the media. Via The Conservative Treehouse : I’m not an aspiring rapper, I’m not a gang member, I’m not a dope dealer, I don’t have multiple babies momma’s. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn’t need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It’s in my DNA. In addition to his mission to reform the culture of corruption within the LAPD, Dorner is also striving for a ban on assault weapons: Mia Farrow said it best. “Gun control is no longer debatable, it’s not a conversation, its a moral mandate.” Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB. Never again should any public official state that their prayers and thoughts are with the family. That has become cliche’ and meaningless. Its time for action. Let this be your legacy that you bestow to America. Do not be swayed by obstacles, antagaonist, and naysayers. Remember the innocent children at Austin, Kent, Stockton, Fullerton, San Diego, Iowa City, Jonesboro, Columbine, Nickel Mines, Blacksburg, Springfield, Red Lake, Chardon, Aurora, and Newtown. Make sure this never happens again!!! In my cache you will find several small arms. In the cache, Bushmaster firearms, Remington precision rifles, and AAC Suppressors (silencers). All of these small arms are manufactured by Cerberus/Freedom Group. The same company responsible for the Portland mall shooting, Webster , NY, and Sandy Hook massacre. And conservative publications are already clamoring to accuse the press of failure to cover Dorner because of so-called leftist leanings, which they feel are made apparent towards the end of the manifesto where he rips into critics of the President: You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief. You call him Kenyan, mongroid, halfrican, muslim, and FBHO when in essence you are to address him as simply, President. The same as you did to President George W. Bush and all those in the highest ranking position of our land before him. Just as I always have. You question his birth certificate, his educational and professional accomplishments, and his judeo-christian beliefs. You make disparaging remarks about his dead parents. You never questioned the fact that his former opponent, the honorable Senator John McCain, was not born in the CONUS or that Bush had a C average in his undergrad. Electoral Candidates children (Romney) state they want to punch the president in the face during debates with no formal repercussions. No one even questioned the fact that the son just made a criminal threat toward the President. You call his wife a Wookie. Off the record, I love your new bangs, Mrs. Obama. A woman whose professional and educational accomplishments are second to none when compared to recent First wives. You call his supporters, whether black, brown, yellow, or white, leeches, FSA, welfare recipients, and ni$&er lovers. You say this openly without any discretion. Before you start with your argument that you believe I would vote for Obama because he has the same skin color as me, f**k you. I didn’t vote in this last election as my choice of candidate, John Huntsman, didn’t win the primary candidacy for his party. Mr. President, I haven’t agreed with all of your decisions but of course I haven’t agreed with all of your predecessors decisions. I think you’ve done a hell of a job with what you have been dealt and how you have managed it. I shed a tear the night you were initially elected President in 2008. I never thought that day would occur. A black man elected president in the U.S. in my lifetime. I cracked a smiled when you were re-elected in 2012 because I really didn’t think you were going to pull that one off. Romney, stop being a sore loser. You could’ve exited graciously and still contributed significantly to public service, not now. Mr. President, get back to work. Many want to see you fail as they have stated so many times previously. Unfortunately, if you fail, the U.S. fails but your opponents do not concern themselves about the big picture. Do not forget your commitment to transparency in your administration. Sometimes I believe your administration forgets that. America, you will realize today and tomorrow that this world is made up of all human beings who have the same general needs and wants in life for themselves, their kin, community, and state. That is the freedom to LIVE and LOVE. They may eat different foods, enjoy different music, have different dialects, or speak a second language, but in essence are no different from you and I. This is America. We are not a perfect sovereign country as we have our own flaws but we are the closest that will ever exist. Dorner also delves into his personal tastes in film and in women: I thank my friends for the awesome shared experiences. I thank the unnamed women I dated over my lifetime for the great and sometimes not so great sex. It’s kind of sad I won’t be around to view and enjoy The Hangover III. What an awesome trilogy. Todd Phillips, don’t make anymore Hangovers after the third, takes away the originality of its foundation. World War Z looks good and The Walking Dead season 3 (second half) looked intriguing. Damn, gonna miss shark week. Mr. Vice President, do your due diligence when formulating a concise and permanent national AWB plan. Future generations of Americans depend on your plan and advisement to the president. I’ve always been a fan of yours and consider you one of the few genuine and charismatic politicians. Damn, sounds like an oxymoron calling you an honest politician. It’s the truth. Hillary Clinton. You’ll make one hell of a president in 2016. Much like your husband, Bill, you will be one of the greatest. Look at Castro in San Antonio as a running mate or possible secretary of state. He’s (good people) and I have faith and confidence in him. Look after Bill. He was always my favorite President. Chelsea grew up to be one hell of an attractive woman. No disrespect to her husband. Gov. Chris Christie. What can I say? You’re the only person I would like to see in the White House in 2016 other than Hillary. You’re America’s no sh*t taking uncle. Do one thing for your wife, kids, and supporters. Start walking at night and eat a little less, not a lot less, just a little. We want to see you around for a long time. Your leadership is greatly needed. Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, you’re a vile and inhumane piece of sh*t. You never even showed 30 seconds of empathy for the children, teachers, and families of Sandy Hook. You deflected any type of blame/responsibility and directed it toward the influence of movies and the media. You are a failure of a human being. May all of your immediate and distant family die horrific deaths in front of you. Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite’s lead. I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings. Cooper, stop nagging and berating your guest, they’re your (guest). Mr. Scarborough, we met at McGuire’s pub in P-cola in 2002 when I was stationed there. It was an honor conversing with you about politics, family, and life. Willie Geist, you’re a talented and charismatic journalist. Stop with all the talk show shenanigans and get back to your core of reporting. Your future is brighter than most. Revoke the citizenship of Fareed Zakaria and deport him. I’ve never heard a positive word about America or its interest from his mouth, ever. On the same day, give Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card. Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws but you must understand that your critics will always have in the back of their mind that you are native to a country that we won our sovereignty from while using firearms as a last resort in defense and you come from a country that has no legal private ownership of firearms. That is disheartening to American gun owners and rightfully so. The honorable President George H.W. Bush, they never give you enough credit for your successful Presidency. You were always one of my favorite Presidents (2nd favorite). I hope your health improves greatly. You are the epitome of an American and service to country. General Petraeus, you made a mistake that the majority of men make once, twice, or unfortunately many times in a lifetime. You are human. You thought with your p***s. It’s okay.I personally believe you should have never resigned and told your critics to shove it. You only answer to two people regarding the affair, your wife and children, period. I hope you return to government service to your country as it is visibly in your DNA. General Colin Powell, your book “My American Journey” solidified my decision to join the military after college. I had always intended to serve, but your book and journey motivated me. You are an inspiration to all Americans and influenced me greatly. To all SEA’s (senior enlisted advisers), you are just as important if not a greater viability to large and small commands. It’s time you take a more active role in leading your enlisted and advising officers. These are not your twilight years or time to relax. You can either strengthen the tip of the spear, or make it brittle. You decide. Pat Harvey, I’ve always thought you carried yourself professionally and personally the way a strong black woman should. Your articulation and speech is second to none. You are the epitome of a journalist/anchor. You are America. Ellen Degeneres, continue your excellent contribution to entertaining America and bringing the human factor to entertainment. You changed the perception of your gay community and how we as Americans view the LGBT community. I congratulate you on your success and opening my eyes as a young adult, and my generation to the fact that you are know different from us other than who you choose to love. Oh, and you Prop 8 supporters, why the f**k do you care who your neighbor marries. Hypocritical pieces of shit. Westboro Baptist Church, may you all burn slowly in a fire, not from smoke inhalation, but from the flames and only the flames. Tebow, I really wanted to see you take charge of an offense again and the game. You are not a good QB by todays standards, but you are a great football player who knows how to lead a team and WIN. You will be “Tebowing” when you reach your next team. I have faith in you. Get out of that circus they call the Jets and away from the reality TV star, Rex Ryan, and Mark Rapist Sanchez. Christopher Walz, you impressed me in Inglorious Basterds. After viewing Django Unchained, I was sold. I have come to the conclusion that you are well on your way to becoming one of the greats if not already and show glimpses of Daniel Day Lewis and Morgan Freeman-esque type qualities of greatness. Trust me when I say that you will be one of the greatest ever. Jennifer Beals, Serena Williams, Grae Drake, Lisa Nicole-Carson, Diana Taurasi, N’bushe Wright, Brenda Villa, Kate Winslet, Ashley Graham, Erika Christensen, Gabrielle Union, Isabella Soprano, Zain Verjee, Tamron Hall, Gina Carano, America Ferrara, Giana Michaels, Nene, Natalie Portman, Queen Latifah, Michelle Rodriguez, Anjelah Johnson, Kelly Clarkson, Nora Jones, Laura Prepon, Margaret Cho, and Rutina Wesley, you are THE MOST beautiful women on this planet, period. Never settle, professionally or personally. Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” is the greatest piece of music ever, period. Hanz Zimmer, William Bell, Eric Clapton, BB King, Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Nora Jones, Marvin Gaye, Jay-Z, and the King (Louis Armstrong) are musical prodigies. Jeffrey Toobin and David Gergen, you are political geniuses and modern scholars. Hopefully Toobin is nominated for the Supreme Court and implements some damn common sense and reasoning instead of partisan bickering. But in true Toobin fashion, we all know he would not accept the nomination. , John and Ken from KFI, never mute your facts and personal opinions. You are one of the few media personalities who speak the truth, even when the truth is not popular. I will miss listening to your discussions. Bill Handel, your effin awesome. For years I enjoyed your show. Anthony Bourdain, you’re a modern renaissance man who epitomizes the saying “too cool for school”. Larry David, Kevin Hart, the late Patrice Oneal, Lisa Lampanelli, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, Dave Chapelle, Jon Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Dennis Miller, and Jeff Ross are pure geniuses. I’m a big fan of all of your work. As a child my mom caught me watching Def Jam comedy at midnight when I should have been asleep. Instead of scolding me, the next night she let me stay up late and watch George Carlin, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor comedy specials with her for hours. My sides were sore for days. Larry David, I agree. 72-82 degrees is way to hot in a residence. 68 , degrees is perfect. Cyclist, I have no problem sharing the road with you. But, at least go the f**king speed limit posted or get off the road!!! That is a feasible request. Livestrong you fraudulent a$$holes. Cardinal Mahoney, you are in essence a predator yourself as you enabled your subordinates to molest multiple children in the church over many decades. May you die a long and slow painful death. If you continuously followed me while I was walking at dusk/night I would confront you as well. Too bad Trayvon didn’t smash your skull completely open, Zim. While Trayvon’s body erodes to bones 6 feet under, Zimmerman has put on no less than 40 pounds while out on bail. Zimmerman was arrested for battery on a Peace officer and avoided jail/prison because he completed a diversion program. Thats a history of being an a$$hole. Zimmerman couldn’t get hired by a LE agency because of poor credit/and a history of violence/restraining orders with women. So what does he do? Designate himself, neighborhood watch captain and make complaints to his city council about the horrible work ethic and laziness of the officers patrolling his neighborhood. Good one Zim. How classy that your father attempts to use his veterans status “disabled veteran” during your bail hearing but doesn’t state what his disability percentage is. Prior service personnel know it can be 5% disability to 100%. You and your attorneys always avoid mentioning your fathers occupation as a magistrate/judge because I’m sure he’s utilized his position to get you out of way more jams then the public has discovered and that your family is not indigent. Oh, tell your wife to stop perjuring herself in court. KCCO Anonymous, you are hated, vilified, and considered an enemy to the state. I personally view you as a culture and a necessity that brings truth to a cloaked world. Forge ahead! Charlie Sheen, you’re effin awesome. My opinion on women in combat MOS’, Designators, Rates, and AFSC’s. I wish all of you who attempt to pursue combat occupational roles the greatest success in completing, graduating, and qualifying in their respective schools/courses. Many want to see you fail. Remember, everyone of you is a pioneer. There was a time when they didn’t allow blacks to fight the good fight. This is your civil rights. Don’t quit!!! It’s time to allow gay service member’s spouses to utilize the same benefits that all heterosexual dependents are eligible for. Medical, Dental, Tricare, Deers, SGLI, BX, Commissary, Milstar, MWR, etc. Flag officers, lets be honest. You can’t really give a valid argument to as why gays shouldn’t be eligible as every month a new state enacts laws that allow same sex marriage. L GBT community and supporters, the same way you have the right to voice your opinion on acceptance of gay marriage, Chick Fil-A has a right to voice their beliefs as well. That’s what makes America so great. Freedom of expression. Don’t be assholes and boycott/degrade their business and customers who patronize the locations. They make some damn good chicken! Vandalizing (graffiti) their locations does not help any cause. Mr. Bill Cosby, you are a reasonable and talented man who has spoken the truth of the cultural anomalies within the black communities that need to change now. The black communities’ resentment toward you is because they don’t like hearing the truth or having their clear and evident dirty laundry aired to the nation. The problem is, the country is not blind nor dumb. They believe we are animals. Do not mute your unvarnished truthful speech or moral compass. Blacks must strive for more in life than bling, hoes, and cars. The current culture is an epidemic that leaves them with no discernible future. They’re suffocating and don’t even know it. MLK Jr. Would be mortified at what he worked so hard for in our acceptance as equal beings and how unfortunately we stopped progressing and began digressing. Chicago’s youth violence is a prime example of how our black communities values have declined. We can not address this nation’s intolerant issues until we address our own communities morality issues first. Accountability.” We know that’s a lot to digest — but do these parts of Dorner’s manifesto make him “likeable”? Do you think the American public are more sympathetic toward him because he shares many of the “common folk” tastes? Killing people is wrong period — but does Dorner have redeemable qualities that are protecting him from full persecution by the media? What do you think? Please Discuss!!! There’s also a petition up asking the White House investigate the LAPD corruption Dorner refers to and actually do something about it.
