Thursday, August 17, 2006
and the Oscar for "Best Craven Sanctimony" goes to...
Meanwhile in Hollywood... uncommon valor is a common virtue:
Ah..."we must stop terrorism at all costs." All costs? Really?
Let's see...
The per capita income is $4800 in Lebanon. $3700 in Occupied Palestine.
Combined, Saban and Redstone alone are worth roughly $11 billion, half of yearly GDP in Lebanon.
The entire Palestinian GDP is roughly equivalent to Saban's estimated worth, $2.5 billion.
The company Redstone owns, Viacom, clocks in at about $9.9 billion in yearly revenues, almost five times the GDP of Palestine.
That's just two of the 84 signatories to this bit of 2D excrement.
Kidman herself is worth $150 million, forty thousand times what the average Palestinian makes in a year, 553 times the money an average Palestinian will see pass through his hands in his entire lifetime.
So not quite all costs. The cost of a full-page ad in the LA Times should be a sufficient sacrifice to stop terrorism.
Maybe I'm being unfair though by not taking into account the opportunity costs involved. After all, these 84 heroes will surely be blacklisted from the multi-thousand dollar Terrorist Entertainment Empire for the rest of their lives!
Godspeed on your journey through the wilderness, brave ones!
posted by Scats : 8/17/2006 03:31:00 PM
Nicole Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism.
The actress, joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.
It specifically targets "terrorist organisations" such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.
"We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas," the ad reads.
"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.
"We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."
A who's who of Hollywood heavyweights joined Kidman on the ad.
The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt.
Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi also signed their names.
Other Hollywood powerplayers supporting the ad included Sumner Redstone, the chairman and majority owner of Paramount Pictures, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban.
Ah..."we must stop terrorism at all costs." All costs? Really?
Let's see...
The per capita income is $4800 in Lebanon. $3700 in Occupied Palestine.
Combined, Saban and Redstone alone are worth roughly $11 billion, half of yearly GDP in Lebanon.
The entire Palestinian GDP is roughly equivalent to Saban's estimated worth, $2.5 billion.
The company Redstone owns, Viacom, clocks in at about $9.9 billion in yearly revenues, almost five times the GDP of Palestine.
That's just two of the 84 signatories to this bit of 2D excrement.
Kidman herself is worth $150 million, forty thousand times what the average Palestinian makes in a year, 553 times the money an average Palestinian will see pass through his hands in his entire lifetime.
So not quite all costs. The cost of a full-page ad in the LA Times should be a sufficient sacrifice to stop terrorism.
Maybe I'm being unfair though by not taking into account the opportunity costs involved. After all, these 84 heroes will surely be blacklisted from the multi-thousand dollar Terrorist Entertainment Empire for the rest of their lives!
Godspeed on your journey through the wilderness, brave ones!
posted by Scats : 8/17/2006 03:31:00 PM
