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[davemerrill]

Forgot to mention Sunday's ZERO FIGHTER.

After two episodes of STOP! HIBARI-KUN I've determined that Hibari-kun dresses as a girl because he knows it's the best way to totally disrupt the lives of everyone around him (of course in anime these days Hibari would be the "normal" character surrounded by REAL deviants). Also the animation and background work is surprisingly good, it's a level Toei generally didn't maintain for their TV stuff.

MAD MEN wrapped season 4 without the big shocker moment people usually expect from a finale; unless you count Peggy and Joan bonding over smokes. I enjoyed this season a lot more than I did 3; more ad work, more Sterling, more of why we keep coming back. Now we play the waiting game until next summer.

What if you cut taxes and nobody noticed? Funny how there's an entire movement dedicated to lowering taxes that never mentions this, because it contradicts their bizarro-world opposite day narrative. It's as if they have some kind of ulterior motive or something. Well, to give them credit, they are too busy studying the Constitution to really pay attention to all that complicated stuff about taxes. These are clearly people that should be running the country. And by "the country" I mean "not even a lemonade stand."

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[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that Obama deliberately chose to keep quiet about the most important tax cut in the stimulus package- the tax credit to counteract payroll withholding taxes for lower-income filers.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter if he was shouting it from the rooftops, if it's not part of the "Democrats raise taxes" narrative, it's like it doesn't exist. It vanishes into night and fog

[sixstop.livejournal.com]

You're right in one sense that it doesn't matter if he was shouting from the rooftops about it.

but in your rush to castigate, you're removing all the things he -is- actually shouting from the rooftops that render any such witholding releases (which I checked 2 years of comparisons, I didn't get. I guess I'm not part of the mystic 95%) essentially moot, regardless of how dumb you feel the electorate is.

[gyopi.livejournal.com]

Stop! Hibari-kun is one of those shows I keep meaning to track down and watch. Maybe I'll go ahead and do that since I have more time open in the evenings to watch things lately.

As far as the bizarro-world of politics are concerned, what bothers me most lately is that we have managed to go way beyond just spinning the facts as people have done in the past. It has now become acceptable to just completely throw out the facts and replace them with whatever fits your narrative, even if its completely made up. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of this, but the Republicans seem to be frighteningly efficient at it. You can actually watch these made up "facts" appear on blogs, migrate to Fox, get picked up by other news organizations and end up being claimed as "irrefutable truth" by locals over the course of a week or so.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

We've watched the first five episodes of Stop! and they're pretty entertaining. In parts the animation gets a lot "cartoonier" in the way that FLCL does. The main character joins the boxing club and there are a lot of Tomorrow's Joe gags. It's not until episode 5 that things start to settle down to 'normalcy' in terms of the animation being standard TV stuff.

The fact spinning has become an embarrassment. Every single issue has a well funded opposition lobby churning out "facts" to confuse and obfuscate, and the news barely bothers to do even elementary checking on anything anybody says, ever. That's why the Daily Show is so popular, it's just about the only program that actually examines what politicans say.

[gyopi.livejournal.com]

There is something about what I have seen of "Stop! Hibari-kun" that reminds me of the "Tokimeki Tonight" anime for some reason. Maybe its the basic style coming out of Toei animation around the early '80s. Maybe its the yakuza characters. Maybe its the boxing thing. I am not really sure.
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