You mean, Hollywood got it wrong about 2012?
The end-of-the-world saga “2012″ was Hollywood’s biggest moneymaker of the week, drawing $65 million in U.S. ticket sales and $225 million worldwide. Apparently, there’s a real market out there for inflated, exaggerated, over-the-top fear-mongering. Those of us who pay more attention to politics than to movie-making never would have guessed that.
Right, Glenn Beck?
The good news is, we’ve got real-life rocket scientists to calm people down.
The Truth about 2012 from NASA Lunar Science Institute on Vimeo.
I wonder if this guy could do a “birther” video next.
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getalife
November 17th, 2009
12:24 pm
Shall we call them “earthers”?
stands for decibels
November 17th, 2009
12:29 pm
It’s a bit painful, watching this guy holding himself back from adding all the “you frigging idiots” and “get a damn life” and “really, were you home-schooled by a yard dog?” asides he surely must be thinking as he attempts to dumb it down for his audience.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
12:31 pm
There is a market for it indeed. Republicans just suck that stuff up, like a black hole. Now watch NIF and Faux JC call that a racist comment. I just loves me more displays of their ignorance.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 17th, 2009
12:32 pm
The “global warmers” sneer, now that’s funny.
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
HoyaLawya
November 17th, 2009
12:32 pm
Maybe he can do one on vaccines next, entitled “Just because an ex-playboy bunny and un-funny comedian say it, does not make it true.”
Jefferson
November 17th, 2009
12:33 pm
Awe main, Dawg fans aint’ that bad.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 17th, 2009
12:33 pm
Well, the same people that make fun of the ones that say 2012 will be a big year are the same ones that make fun of the Rapture. My advise is you stop paying your mortgage in October 2011. No use wasting a bunch of money.
Have a good p.m. everybody.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
12:34 pm
getalife,
I think they’re called “flat earthers” but I can see the need to try and reduce the word count and preferably the syllable count down to one. After all, we’re dealing with the GOP ‘minds’.
N-GA
November 17th, 2009
12:34 pm
It’s a lot like the people who slobber over professional wrestling. They know it’s fake, but they get excited and salivate nontheless….You know who they are!
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
12:35 pm
Whiner,
How’s that back yard temperature doing today.
Hard Right Hook
November 17th, 2009
12:35 pm
Right, Glenn Beck?
More libtard obsession over one mans opinion.
Ever watched Keith Olberman?
getalife
November 17th, 2009
12:36 pm
Taxpayer,
Keep it simple ……..
Could use RC’s ” raptures”.
stands for decibels
November 17th, 2009
12:40 pm
Could use RC’s ” raptures”.
getalife, for hours of high-larious entertainment, might I recommend…
http://raptureready.com/
getalife
November 17th, 2009
12:41 pm
HRH,
Yeah, he is setting up free health clinics.
Just did one in NO.
They need volunteers if you have the time.
Joan
November 17th, 2009
12:41 pm
Golly, I thought it was just a movie, made for entertainment, kind of a crash and bang extravaganza on the order of the other blockbuster films. I planned to see it for that reason–because I get a kick out of being entertained. Now, what was it about some message being conveyed in it??? Give me a break. And to use this to then analogize this to conservatives trying to induce reason into this society as being related–well, that is just idiotic.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
12:41 pm
Well they were wrong about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius too….they were about 100 years early.
getalife
November 17th, 2009
12:43 pm
sfd,
Yikes.
That is scary stuff!
Joan
November 17th, 2009
12:44 pm
By the way..didn’t I just hear on the news that we were narrowly missed by an asteroid that no one saw until it was quite close??
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
12:44 pm
The rapture…..
I was at a wake last week…..sister of deceased told me she wasn’t too sad about the loss as the rapture was coming in 2012 and they would be together again.
Freaky-deaky
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
12:47 pm
Taxpayer
Would you like to offer a different point of view, or are you just wanting to do as you are told? There is nothing ignorant about the hard core truth.
If you could just offer any example of why I am wrong, it would be different, but just saying that I am ignorant just proves that you have nothing to say.
The brilliant response I got from db was fyt. I don’t even know what that means, but I’m pretty sure that he doesn’t want to address the problem either.
The biggest plantation in the world is the Democratic Party. And if you think that they want Black People to succeed, then you are not paying attention.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
12:47 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
So you believe CBS and CNN over the most trusted polling company in the world.
I think I see your problem.
Normal
November 17th, 2009
12:50 pm
Well that certainly is a load off of my mind. I retire in 2013 to get my Social Security. Thought I was working for nothing for a while there.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
12:50 pm
db
If you really want to see some real mindless zealots and have hours and hours of hilarity:
http://www.democrats.org/
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
12:51 pm
NIF
Think? Perhaps.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
12:51 pm
NIF is an earther! Although, the name “earther” does not do the little tyke justice. Go hide under your bed. We’ll let you know when it is safe to come out.
Normal
November 17th, 2009
12:51 pm
I think it get it. Redneck Convert is really a banker…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
12:53 pm
The only wild and crazy thing to happen late December of 2012….
my 55th b-day…..
That’s gonna be a parrrrrteeeeee.
@@
November 17th, 2009
12:53 pm
Coincidentally, our minister’s Sunday sermon was on the same topic….THE FOREBODING 2012.
Uproarious laughter from the pews.
Since there’s “a politician” involved, we’ve never discussed the inconvenient truth of Al Gore’s AD-venture into CAP-italist-TRADE.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
12:53 pm
getalife
Bush set up free clinics all over Africa, but Obama is insisting that they become abortion related which is causing those clinics to being closed.
Maybe that will free up some volunteers for NO.
Normal
November 17th, 2009
12:54 pm
SFD, put that one in my favs for later…
getalife
November 17th, 2009
12:54 pm
I think Joan might be an earther but nif is just another RW kook.
booger
November 17th, 2009
12:56 pm
We are all tired of fear mongering.
-Our entire economy will collapse into a full blown depression if you don’t sign the stimulus package this week.
-Health care reform must be implemented to prevent our economy from spiraling out of control.
-The world will burst into flames soon if we don’t pass a cap-and-trade bill. Correction, the world will experience climate change if we don’t.
-From Pelosi. Health care is in crisis, while insurance companies make obscene and immoral profits. [ave. profit margin of 2.2%
Life has become an emergency under the Democrats.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
12:56 pm
NIF
Perhaps you could encouage the Africans to reduce their excess population…..
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
12:57 pm
Dang, guess I retired to soon! I might have to go back to work.
Normal
November 17th, 2009
12:58 pm
MRS. G, you don’t look a day over 18…
Normal
November 17th, 2009
1:00 pm
Scooter, if you can fish all over the continent, you have no worries, old son…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
1:04 pm
Oh and NIF
I know that clinics in Kenya closed in 2002 because of Bush’s abortion
policy can you provide a link to your statement?
I looked and I did find this:
http://cbs2chicago.com/health/Barack.Obama.abortion.2.923751.html
“Aid workers and experts say President Barack Obama’s decision to allow aid money to flow again to international groups that offer abortion counseling will help restart programs desperately needed in Africa, the continent hardest hit by a so-called “gag rule.”
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
1:05 pm
booger,
put your bed up on legs if you cannot fit underneath.
AF
November 17th, 2009
1:06 pm
I think the movie sounds like it will have great special effects. It’s just fun to watch chasm’s open, waves crash, and airplanes swoosh between falling buildings. Wow. Fun, not serious. Good grief, someone really takes this stuff seriously?
Doggone/GA
November 17th, 2009
1:08 pm
“Good grief, someone really takes this stuff seriously?”
Yes, indeed they do. Subject to correction: it’s got something to do with the Mayan “long calendar” and some prediction of Nostradamus (I think) working out to the same day – Dec 21, 2012
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
1:09 pm
There is nothing ignorant about the hard core truth.
Does it contain graphic images. What is the “hard core truth”, NIF. Inquiring minds need to know. I might be able to get you on the front cover of MUFON Daily. Just think of the exposure.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
1:10 pm
Wait a minute! I thought it was December 23. Oh crap!
Common Sense
November 17th, 2009
1:10 pm
Wouldn’t take a whole movie. Just the original document and what’s in Block #23 (Evidence for Delay or Alteration).
Mrs. Godzilla
November 17th, 2009
1:11 pm
Doggone GA
Just imagine…..
All I got for Christmas was this lousy rapture!
Common Sense
November 17th, 2009
1:13 pm
P.S.
Regarding the “fearmongering”, you have been lulled by the “frog in the kettle” analogy.
Just turn up that heat one degree at a time and instead of jumping out of scalding water you will just sit there and slowly cook until it’s too late …………… it’s happening in our Republic right before our eyes.
@@
November 17th, 2009
1:14 pm
I’m so embarrassed.
The Chinese people said Obama was “very humble” and “bland”.
Doggone/GA
November 17th, 2009
1:15 pm
“All I got for Christmas was this lousy rapture!”
My first thought was: have we been celebrating Christmas on the wrong day all this time?
mm
November 17th, 2009
1:17 pm
Booger,
“-From Pelosi. Health care is in crisis, while insurance companies make obscene and immoral profits. [ave. profit margin of 2.2%”
You wingnuts really should stop listening to Rush and stop watching Fox. The insurance companies have a profit margin of 30%.
Notice when you drive through large cities, the big shiny skyscrapers have insurance company names on them. Those signs aren’t given away.
AmVet
November 17th, 2009
1:18 pm
AIDS clinics in Africa was the ONE good thing George of the Bungle accomplished during his reign of terror. (Or was it the war on terror?)
I do applaud him for that and humbly admit that he did do one thing right.
As for the rapture, you’ve got to be sh*tting me, right?
What century do these people still live in?
booger
November 17th, 2009
1:19 pm
On cap-and-trade fearmongering.
Today two more of EPA’s top scientist have come out and stated they have been threatened with termination because of a personal website which says global warming science is faulty, and cap-and-trade is a total fraud. They have been under the gag order about publishing their thoughts through work, but now they feel threatening their jobs over a private website has gone too far.
This entire “crisis” has been set into motion by research funded by the government with the full understanding that continued funding depended on getting the right answers. If you guys play “Nice” you’ll keep getting a paycheck.
Oh, and by the way, those of you who play nice will get a nice raise. Then we can count you as a job saved under the stimulus program. It’s a win/win.