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New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
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Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
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Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
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I hope this post doesn’t cause something bad to happen.Report
Drink!Report
Part of me is jealous that someone has either the time, or the
minions graduate studentsassistants to collect all of these datasets.ReportWe have automated trolls in the world, why wouldn’t we have automated data collection and creation of websites? Granted, the automated trolls speak all languages equally horribly…Report
Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margarine. I saw through the bullsh*t.
– Mitch HedbergReport
It’s quite plausible that people drowned themselves because the alternative was watching a film starring Nicolas Cage,Report
I’d certainly seriously considering doing so.Report
Raising Arizona, Wild At Heart, Red Rock West, The Rock, Matchstick Men, & Adaptation would like a word.Report
Also, hate watching Con Air.Report
Con Air is like The Rock, except Con Air is terrible and The Rock is amazing.Report
Not gonna admit how many times I’ve seen The Rock.Report
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!Report
NEVAH!Report
Con Air starts with a scene captioned State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Vacaville, California:. That got a huge laugh where my son and I saw it, in Vacaville.Report
You forgot Leaving Los Vegas and Vampires Kiss…Report
I’ve actually never seen either. I’d like to see the latter, based on its rep, but not the former, for the same reason.Report
Vampire’s Kiss is weird. Which you’d expect from its rep… What gets me is that it’s listed as a black comedy, but it isn’t. It’s dark, sure enough, but it isn’t a comedy in either sense – it’s not funny, and it doesn’t end happily. It’s just trippy, and that’s not enough for me.
IMO, Innocent Blood is a much better sexy black comedy vampire movie from the 90s.Report
Then there is National TreasureReport
And Peggy Sue Got Married. And Gone in 60 Seconds. And The Wicker Man. And Left Behind, And …Report
It’s tough when you’ve made some Elvis-level bad financial decisions, and Vegas isn’t an option.Report
This seems to be the career path of Kilmer and Cusack, as well as Cage. All 3 of them have at some point in the last 5 or so years done a string of straight-to-video stuff. I watch anything they do that shows up in Redbox. For a while, Kilmer seemed to have a new movie there every month.Report
Not sure about Kilmer and Cusack, but with Cage we have some idea where the money went:
http://www.avclub.com/article/overview-all-crazy-shit-nic-cage-blew-his-money-218518
Also, Nic Cage is an Elvis superfan (having even wedded Lisa Marie), and Kilmer played Elvis’ ghost in True Romance. COINCIDENCE?! Probably.Report
Script idea: facing insurmountable financial and tax difficulties, a desperate Val Kilmer, John Cusack, Nic Cage, and Wesley Snipes agree to star in one last film in hopes of a big score. Soundtrack by Willie Nelson and MC Hammer.
Last Ditch, coming Summer 2016.Report
I will invest in that film!Report
The twist: the “film” is just a scam to bilk investors and abscond with the funds!Report
No, if you’re going to do something like that, the title has to be:
A fool and his moneyReport
They sold 10,000% of the film, since it was sure to fail miserably, but it became a hit by mistake! Hilarity ensues.Report
…a shark, an octopus, a crocodile, and two albino king cobras
What the hell? First, who knew there were albino king cobras (that you could buy!)? Second, what the hell?Report
The real question, of course, is what kind of sex do albino King Cobras have.Report
OK, now I really, really love Nick Cage.Report
Vanilla.Report
Kilmer never really did well after the glory days of Willow.Report
He was great as Gay Perry.Report
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is one of my three favorite Christmas movies (the other two being A Christmas Story and Die Hard, of course).Report
I presume that Gremlins just missed the cut.Report
Um… Heat?Report
Large number of celebrities aren’t really good at managing their money. It seems almost contractional.Report
It used to be honestly hard to become a celebrity.
The 1930’s to 1950’s celebrities had a brain, and were decently capable of keeping money together. (Shirley Temple excluded, but she was a kid. her parents ruined her).Report
I’ve heard so many good things about Raising Arizona from people whose opinion I respect to think I gotta get over my Nicolas Cage aversion and give it a shot.
(((Not a fan of Andy Garcia, either. To me, he and Nicolas Cage are basically the same person.)))Report