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Quote of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 01:08 PM PDT

- Quote of the Day


Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is aghast — and rightly so — over news that Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were given access to Seal Team Six and information about the death of Osama bin Laden for their upcoming movie Zero Dark Thirty.

If this facility is so secret that the name cannot even be seen by the public, then why in the world would the Obama administration allow filmmakers to tour it?

The administration has shared with the filmmakers information defended from Freedom of Information Act inquiries, Congressional committees, and anyone else not involved in making movies about war zones.

[shortformblog]


Tagged: Obama, Quote, zero dark thirty

Another Supercut of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT

The only thing missing is at least one gratuitous sex scene from Game of Thrones.

(Not Safe For Work — naughty and naked TV characters.)

[flavorwire]

Kickass Mom of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:15 PM PDT


Indiana mom Stephanie Decker was hailed as a hero by no less than President Obama after she sacrificed her legs to save her kids from tornadoes that leveled her town two months ago. Her doctors predicted it would take a year for her to walk again on prosthetic legs.

This is her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today.

[vvv]


Tagged: ellen, kickass mom, Stephanie Decker

Afternoon Snack

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT


Don’t mess with piglets in Texas.

[superpunch]


Tagged: Afternoon Snack

Lunchtime Links

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:13 AM PDT

- Lunchtime Links


Today on The Daily What Geek: New trailers for The Dark Knight Rises

Elsewhere on the Internets:

  • Smart: Need a kidney? Turn to Facebook
  • Voting: Egyptians, in their first free presidential election
  • Tweeted: An 8,500-word story, by the New Yorker, starting tonight
  • Ordered: Federal agencies, to optimize their sites for mobile, by Obama
  • Declared: Donald Trump, the best candidate for Romney’s VP, by… Trump
  • Sued: New York City, by Occupy Wall Street

Lunchtime Leisure: Super Strict Farmer
Lunchtime List: 6 Fires That Changed The Course Of History

[image: criggo]


Tagged: Lunchtime Links

OMG! Adorbz of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:44 AM PDT


And now, a pair of toddlers auditions for Mean Girls: The Prequel.

[bitsandpieces]


Tagged: OMG! Adorbz, toddler catfight

Obama Ad of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:29 AM PDT


Glee Best In Show star Jane Lynch narrates President Obama’s latest spot, in which he speaks to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” his support of marriage equality, and what’s at stake for the LGBT community in November: “You’re going to need a strong advocate in the White House. I am that strong advocate. I am that strong advocate.”

[barackobama]


Tagged: gay marriage, Jane Lynch, obama ad

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:05 AM PDT

- This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day


Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made history earlier this year when she won Pakistan’s first Oscar. Her documentary, Saving Face, told the stories of several women fighting to rebuild their lives after their husbands threw acid in their faces.

Now the director faces a contentious legal fight — she is attempting to release the film in Pakistan, where survivors fear ostracism and reprisals if the film is shown.

Naila Farhat, who features fleetingly in the documentary:

We had no idea it would be a hit and win an Oscar. It’s completely wrong. We never allowed them to show this film in Pakistan. This is disrespect to my family, to my relatives and they’ll make an issue of it. You know what it’s like in Pakistan. They gossip all the time if they see a woman in a film.

Naveed Muzaffar Khan, a lawyer who represents the victims, said legal notices were sent to Obaid-Chinoy and fellow producer Daniel Junge last week. The survivors, he said, “have not consented for it to be publicly released in Pakistan,” adding that such agreement was required for all the women who appeared in the film. He plans to seek a formal injunction Friday unless they agree not to release the film publicly in the country.

For her part, Obaid-Chinoy insisted the women signed legal documents allowing the film to be shown anywhere in the world, including Pakistan. She said she was “unclear about the allegations” and would respond to the legal complaints “when a court orders us.”

[yahoo]


Tagged: pakistan, saving face, This Is All Kinds Of Wron

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:20 AM PDT

- Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day


Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.

“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”

Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”

Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.

DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.

[death+taxes / robot6]


Tagged: deaf boy, Heartwarming Tearjerker, marvel

Supercut of the Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:02 AM PDT


It really was inevitable:

You weren’t asking for this, but now it’s in your way: Our “Call Me Maybe” supercut video, featuring 75 of the most viral covers, lip dubs, dance numbers and artistic reinterpretations of the Carly Rae Jepsen jam that [Popdust] just dubbed the best song of 2012′s first half. If you thought the song was intoxicating before, just wait till you see it performed on accordian, lip synched by three shirtless dudes in a river, and danced to by an overzealous girl alone in a closed Burger King.

[crushable]


Tagged: call me maybe, Supercut