Big Mechanical Things

Transformers 3, directed by Michael Bay, cost $195 million. (Or twice that, depending on which rumor you read.) It would have cost more, if they hadn’t economized by lifting footage from 2005’s The Island. Directed by, um, Michael Bay.

nojo
2:40 pm • Monday • July 4, 2011
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Sometimes the Metaphors Just Write Themselves

Your National Security State at Work:

Congress officially passed an extension of the Patriot Act [Thursday night], just hours before key provisions of the national security law were due to lapse at midnight.

President Obama, currently on an overseas trip, is not at the White House to sign the bill, a requirement for the measure to become law.

So the White House will use an autopen — a machine that replicates Obama’s signature — to sign the extension, according to White House spokesman Nick Shapiro.

WorldNetDaily will be happy to know that Obama really is capable of forging documents.

Oh, but a Deputy Attorney General has, um, signed off on the process:

nojo
1:00 pm • Friday • May 27, 2011
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Big Mechanical Things

Alternate Reality

Remember Sen. Jon “Not Intended to be a Factual Statement” Kyl (R-AZ) and his speech on the Senate floor that 90% of Planned Parenthood’s business is abortions? Last week Sen. Kyl had that redacted from the official transcript of his speech in the Congressional Record.

Apparently the Party of Buggy Whips has not heard of this newfangled thing called the teevee and video recorders that preserve such idiotic statements for the ages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAryQP_Iz9A

SanFranLefty
12:20 pm • Thursday • April 21, 2011
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Big Mechanical Things

Rock and Roll Will Never— Oops.…

“The three-alarm blaze that caused $1.1 million in damage to a warehouse filled with rock legend Neil Young’s music equipment and memorabilia appears to have started in a one-of-a-kind hybrid car stored at the site, a fire official said Monday. Flames began in a 1959 Lincoln Continental dubbed LincVolt, which runs on electric batteries and a biodiesel-powered generator.” [San Jose Mercury News]