Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Sony caves: 'No further release plans' for 'The Interview'

After being attacked by hackers who are now suspected of working for North Korea, and after receiving threats of pending attacks against movie theaters and movie-goers, Sony Pictures has decided to cave to the threats and has cancelled the release of Seth Rogen's 'The Interview' which is a comedy about an assassination attempt against North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un:
Sony Pictures Entertainment has walked out on “The Interview,” deciding against releasing the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy in any form — including VOD or DVD. 
“Sony Pictures has no further release plans for the film,” a spokesman said Wednesday. 
The studio issued the statement a few hours after pulling the planned Christmas Day release of “The Interview” in response to the hackers who threatened movie theaters and moviegoers if the comedy were released.  
The move could open the door for Sony to sell the rights to a rival distributor — though Hollywood is still reeling from Tuesday’s invocation of a possible 9/11-type terrorist attack on exhibitors who screened “The Interview.” 
On Wednesday, several published reports said that federal authorities had determined that hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government were behind the hack attack. CNN’s Evan Perez said that an announcement is expected on Thursday that would “assign attribution” to the country. 
It’s also unclear if Sony’s declaration of “no further release plans” applies to international distribution. “The Interview” has been scheduled for release in foreign markets starting in late January.
In other words, the hackers win. Too bad Team America.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

London restaurant reminds lesbian couple that this here is a 'family restaurant'

In the latest pro... I mean regressive news coming out of merry ole' progressive England, like how fag basing hate crimes are skyrocketing, we have a London restaurant telling a lesbian couple to stop being so gay in front of other customers because it might make them uncomfortable. They were also reminded that the fine establishment is a family restaurant (code word for no fags or dykes allowed) and that their public display of affection, unlike that of heteros, is contrary to that of a family environment. Because we all know that breeders are the only ones that can have family members right?
Lydia Cawson today told London Live of her shock after being asked by a member of staff at Canteen at the Royal Festival Hall to move away from her partner. 
The 29-year-old was comforting her partner after a stressful week in which she had moved house. Ms Cawson told Headline London she consoled her partner by putting her arm around her shoulder and a “peck on the lips”. 
The pair were then approached by a member of staff who asked them to move away from one another during the incident on Thursday evening, Ms Cawson said. 
She told London Live: "I didn't notice any adverse reaction in the restaurant, myself. Then the lady came over to us and said 'can you stop what you're doing please, this is a family restaurant'."
To save face the restaurant in question sent out a statement that they are pro-gay and that half of their staff is of a homosexual nature. Hopefully half the staff know that too. And one has to wonder, how does the restaurant know that half of their staff is gay? Is it less or more than half? Did they take a survey of all the employees, or maybe employees took a special kind of interview when they applied for a job there? Weird. The proper way of saying something like that would be: "and we even have gay people on our staff." Proclaiming that half of their staff is gay is just fucking pathetic and more like an exaggerated response to a very specific concern (the lesbian couple being treated like crap).

The restaurant also reportedly investigated the incident and said that they would have asked all other couples to do the same (as in don't show very mild forms of affection) regardless of sexual orientation. Valentines Day dinner must be very interesting at this place if couples are not allowed to even touch each other while enjoying their sweet pea soup or the traditional English favorite plate of faggots.
In a statement the restaurant said: ‘Everyone is welcome at Canteen, whether gay/straight/old/young regardless of sexuality. 
‘We are horrified at the thought of being labelled anti-gay – half of our team are gay. 
‘We take any such claims incredibly seriously and we have investigated this incident in depth. In this case members of the team made a reluctant decision because they considered that the behaviour of the two people (rather than who the people were) might make others in the restaurant feel uncomfortable. 
‘This would have been the same whether it was two women, two men or a man and a woman. At Canteen, we pride ourselves on being a modern, equal opportunities, open and accessible business; we want everyone to feel welcome in our restaurants and we are sad and very sorry if Ms Cawson and her partner felt otherwise.’

Four Denver cops hit by speeding car during Ferguson protest...

Denver police officer hit by automobileA group of local high school students in Denver decided to hold a protest rally over the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO.

Expecting only a few people to show up, the protest rally immediately swelled to hundreds of marchers and students walked out of school during the march.

The march then turned awry when a speeding vehicle rammed four police officers on bikes leaving one of them in serious condition needing surgery at a local hospital.

The driver of the car reportedly had a medical crisis while operating the vehicle.
The officers were struck as they monitored the students, in plain view of dozens of students and bystanders who watched in horror as the officers were ran down by the black Mercedes, one who was dragged under the black sedan for dozens of yards. 
"He was just lying there," Taylor Ellison, a sophomore at the high school, said of one injured officers. "His pants were ripped. He wasn't moving." 
Witnesses say the Mercedes — driven by a man in his late 40s — accelerated west through the intersection of Colfax Avenue and High Street into the officers and a group of pedestrians before slamming into an SUV in a Taco Bell parking lot nearby where it came to rest.
Already we have seen calls for violence and death threats against officer Darren Wilson.

Not a good day for these protesters. This whole Ferguson thing is beginning to look like less about justice and more about a vicious vendetta against all uniformed police officers.

LOOK: Michael Brown supporters love calling officer Darren Wilson a "faggot..."

So much for "justice."

I been trying to recollect my thoughts on the Ferguson problem and have been weighing both sides of the issue. But I am getting the feeling that though it is fine to criticize and demonize the police and law enforcement the other side is demanding to be immune from being put under the same microscope. I had a few things to say about officer Darren Wilson supporters and their hypocrisy and pseudo racism. But that doesn't mean I fell for the Michael Brown bandwagon. Far from it. I think the behavior of both sides merit proper criticism and rejection.

We can and should condemn Michael Brown's own irrational psychopathic behavior that lead to his own demise. We can and should condemn the looting, the rioting, the attacks on law enforcement, and the burning of buildings. But most of all, we should condemn hypocrisy.

When Ferguson hit the national news circle jerking coverage, Ferguson became a word for "justice" and for the protection of, and the respect for, minority rights. Such a call is very titillating that even gay groups were duped into the "Hands Up! Don't Shoot" meme, because after all it is a rewarding and just cause right? I mean, we are lead to believe that Michael Brown supporters genuinely care for minority rights and sensibilities.

I'm not the PC police here, and I for one am not interested in it either way. I don't care much for minority sensibilities instead I care much more about reality and my comedic approach to the fall of man. I also believe that people should be free to say whatever garbage they want to spew in the open for all to see, much like what I do, without fear or holding back. But I do not sit here pretending that we must respect minority sensibilities (i.e. demanding law enforcement be trained on how to interact with the black community) and try to make minority sensibilities a thing while at the same time violating the sensibilities of others. That is hypocrisy. Fuck that.

So let me show you an example of this hypocrisy. Here we have Michael Brown supporters, the minority sensibilities brigade, calling Ferguson (now former) Police officer Darren Wilson a faggot. The word faggot for me has its own exotic meaning, but it is still technically for the sensibilities brigade, an anti-gay slur. As a homo myself I think it depends on context. But for the sensibilities brigade it is never appropriate to use it, ever. Unless, of course, you are Michael Brown supporters.