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No fucking way! But it could very easily happen. From USATODAY.com

Your tax burden is bigger than Tax Day by John Stossel
by 1999, government cost every man, woman and child an average of more than $10,000 per year — more than housing and health care combined. The price went down a little after that, but then it started climbing again.

Could this possibly work? Would it work everywhere?
Health care for everyone?

“I believe that we have. Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced. And we will need no new taxes, no employer mandate and no government takeover to make this happen.”

Mr. Mitt Romney
Governor of Massachusetts.

Investor’s Business Daily: Delta’s Dark Skies
I understand not wanting to take a pay cut. But when they strike and Delta shuts down, where will they fly then? Aprox 6,000 pilots can directly put 60,000 (if the article’s numbers are right) people out of a job. That doesn’t include thousands more from other companies such as parts suppliers, retail at the airport, shipping companies that use Delta, etc… At least the pilots still do their jobs, unlike UAW.

Look at that, Paul’s a “movie director” AND a “political, social and religious analyst”. This article in the UK Guardian is supposedly about this weekend’s US box office standings. And it starts out that way. But get a load of this little quote:

The poor performance of the sequel predictably led to widespread declarations of a death knell for the subgenre in light of the current conservative American political climate.

“Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States,” Paul Verhoeven, director of the first Basic Instinct, told the Hollywood Reporter. “Look at the people at the top. We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends.”

WHAT?? Opening weekend of Basic Instinct 2 sucked ass because of Christian politics?? Anything erotic has been banned? What the fuck is up with that? It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with no one wanting to see Sharon’s beaver 10 years later, could it? Or, god forbid, the movie just plain sucking? BI2 was never even on my horizon as something to see. I prefer my erotica in story form. Or more explicit in film. Like Bound or Wild Things. I saw Slither (awesomely cool flick!) and will probably take the boys to see Ice Age. Still have to see V For Vendetta, too. Quite the Christian, Conservative collection there.

The top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. are:

1. “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” Fox, $68,033,544, 3,964 locations, $17,163 average, $68,033,544, one week.

2. “Inside Man,” Universal, $15,437,760, 2,830 locations, $5,455 average, $52,508,055, two weeks.

3. “ATL,” Warner Bros., $11,554,404, 1,602 locations, $7,212 average, $11,554,404, one week.

4. “Failure to Launch,” Paramount, $6,463,434, 3,074 locations, $2,103 average, $73,088,790, four weeks.

5. “V For Vendetta,” Warner Bros., $6,295,358, 2,910 locations, $2,163 average, $56,659,439, three weeks.

6. “Stay Alive,” Disney, $4,506,719, 2,009 locations, $2,243 average, $17,280,614, two weeks.

7. “She’s the Man,” DreamWorks, $4,429,426, 2,552 locations, $1,736 average, $26,622,732, three weeks.

8. “Slither,” Universal, $3,880,270, 1,945 locations, $1,995 average, $3,880,270, one week.

9. “The Shaggy Dog,” Disney, $3,242,414, 2,929 locations, $1,107 average, $53,554,291, four weeks.

10. “Basic Instinct 2,” Sony, $3,201,420, 1,453 locations, $2,203 average, $3,201,420, one week.

On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be

01:02:03 04/05/06

Also…June 6 will be

06/06/06 … AKA 666
(I’m waiting for the churchy people to have a fit over this one!)