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Here's a link to the production company - http://www.sacredcow.com/

IMDB link - http://imdb.com/title/tt1033467/

Too bad I can't find in on Netflix yet.

It looks very interesting....

In New York; the "State of New York" is a partner with New York Police Department by using FujiFilm sponsored surveilance blimps, armored New York Police Department covered trucks with roof-mounted acoustical sound cannons, and secret-police photographers capturing photographs behind NYPD man-barracades for (carnal, non-notary) misplaced-protesters.

That would be Bill Hicks. It's a great bit, and it's available on a CD called Relentless.

Consumerism and infantilism went hand in hand; and through their spending, the consuming public were just as culpable for their own infantilization as the corporate "artistes" and their marketing agents: "I mean, who buys that shit? Is there that much babysitting money being passed around right now?... When did we start listening to pre-pubescent white girls? I must have missed that meeting" (D). For their complicity, the buying public set themselves up for the same Swiftian solutions that Hicks offered to the sold-out performers: "'I'm a happy consumer! And you know, I'm concerned about what my children consume! I'd like to consume the barrel of a twelve-gauge shotgun right now -- blam!'"

Oh I didn't realize they were already on the flight path towards those buildings.

I've spend a few minutes at the controls of 747 simulators. It's true what they say: if you're already safely airborne, and you don't care much about your own survival, it's easy to turn a plane.

Both the target buildings were on the coastline, near a very distinctive river pattern. They really just had to follow the waterline, and then turn towards the giant building. If you check out the recorded flight paths, you can see this is what they did.

Teaching the required amount of flying is trivial in comparison to (a) getting a healthy young man willing to kill himself & others and (b) teaching him to function in US society without raising too much fuss.

(Condition B is easy on its own, but not in conjunction with A)

It reminds me of people calling the terrorists cowards right after 9/11.

Bill Maher was completely right.

I said "Uh, sure - I dunno - sure."

Boom! A check falls in my lap and I'm a producer; I never knew it was that easy. All these years I've been trying to write scripts and characters and plots, stories that have meaning... "Will there be tittie?" "Sure" - boom! I'm a producer now.

"Where've you been all our lives, boy? We've been lookin for you in Hollywood. What're these titties gonna do?"

"Um... jiggle?"

"You're a fuckin genius - give him another check! I can't write enough checks for you; you've answered our prayers in Hollywood. Jigglin' titties, who woulda thunk of it?"

Bill Hicks - Rant in E Minor

If you want a comedian with a social bend to his wit, try out some Bill Hicks.

There's scads of free audio/video that you can stream from Sacred Cow.

He's a very mind-opening speaker and very funny as well. Some of his best on stage moments are when he lashes back at an unreceptive audience.

"Can't we use some of this incredible technology to shoot food at hungry people?

Or something like that.

I don't "hate the US". I dislike US foreign policy. I have no problems with the majority of Americans. I have a pen-friend coming over from there in the New Year, and I hope to visit later next year.

You seemed more reasonable in your last post. Previously, when you mentioned Michael Moore, you seemed to let your predjudice (that he as an extremist liberal) blind you to any possible good, or interesting, message that he may have. In his film he does not claim to have "the answer", but he suggests a few possibilities. I don't know, maybe your mind is made up, but I urge you to see it. It might be over 2 hours long, but its not all doom and gloom - some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. I just have this feeling that you, along with many other Americans, and many, many non-Americans, cannot seperate attacks on "Americans" with attacks on "American government/policy". Hardly anyone, anywhere in the world has suggested that civilians in the US deserved to die on 9/11 - rather, that that is what the US has done to others. The hate and killing isn't going to stop until people in the US refuse to condone the killing the US government does in their name, and with their money. And THAT is not going to happen until US citizens open their eyes and see what is actually being done. Hence the links I gave you, and my suggestion you watch the Moore film. I would suggest that your attitude - an ad-hominem attack on the man, instead of his arguments - is blinkered, and dangerous.

"We live in a dangerous world" says George Bush. Yeah, thanks to you, you fucker. "Iraq has incredible weapons" How do you know? "Well, er.....we looked at the receipt"
- Bill Hicks

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