After having a wonderful lunch with Farley, the main character in the movie, and Sokoloff, the story writer, I became convinced that the folks behind An American Carol are top notch, free-market minded, and extremely deserving of the help of center-right activists and online professionals throughout social media realms.

It was made clear that An American Carol is of a center-right angle, and would not be distributed via normal, far left minded Hollywood outlets. David Zucker, well known director for films such as Airplane, Police Academy, Scary Movie, Naked Gun and various others, pulled off the political guns in this one. He certainly won’t be mistaken for a liberal after the film hits theaters next week anyway.

In An American Carol, a cynical, Anti-American “Hollywood” filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.

The filmmaker is a satire take on Micheal Moore, played by Kevin Farley. I’ve seen quite a few clips of the film, and I’ve even been offered a chance to see a private screening this weekend. I’ll be turning down the private screening simply because I want the full experience when I PAY to see the movie on opening night next week.

So why am I posting about An American Carol?

In short, I want to help the folks behind the movie as much as possible. Unlike most liberal-directed movies coming out of Hollywood, An American Carol is sort of the first of its kind. Sure, there have been other center-right films hit the market, but most did not have quite the opportunity this one has.

What I mean is, if An American Carol does well on opening weekend, it’s safe to say that other films with a center-right flavor will follow. This movie, with an all star cast and powerful set of directors/producers/writers, can score HUGE box office points and send a message to the Hollywood elites.

The problem is that it can’t do this without our help. While the film isn’t really a low budget film, it certainly needs the help of the grassroots movement to give it a kick start next week. The movie will open in more than 2,000 theaters on October 3rd, and we need to get anyone and everyone we know to go see it.

What can I do to get involved?

Message, message, message. Word of mouth is our finest tool in this information war, and we need to put it to work like never before.

1) Word of Mouth
PLEASE make sure you tell everyone you know about An American Carol. All of your friends, all of your family, co-workers, online connections, etc… everyone.

2) Social Networks
I’ve set up a Facebook group that I plan to use over the next eight days to promote and coordinate grassroots efforts to market the movie. Click here to join the Facebook group.

BE SURE TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS

Once you’ve joined the group, please check the news section to see if there is an event planned to see the movie in your area. If there is not, create an event and let me know so that I can add it to the news section.

There is also an official Twitter profile that I am told will be used by the PR folks behind An American Carol. Follow An American Carol here.

3) An American Carol Action Network
Join the social network set up by An American Carol by clicking here.

This is our chance to help a conservative movie succeed and show Hollywood what Americans want more of. We MUST work together as a grassroots movement to help get the word out.

-Eric Odom
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We did the interview over skype, where the audio was recorded, and Jed moved it to text format for NetSquared.

You can read the full interview here.

These are the questions I addressed.

-Jed Sundwall: What is the stated mission of the Sam Adams Alliance?
-When did you get started with the Sam Adams Alliance?
-So Sam Adams did not begin as a tech centric initiative.
-What are your largest initiatives?
-Any notable successes?
-So it was fully open?
-Which social media tools have you found to be the most useful?
-What is your rationale for embracing open source software?
-I assume that your philosophy on what makes good software transfers over to your philosophy on what makes good laws as well.
-How do you propose to get people involved with these projects?
-Tell us more about Judgepedia.
-I’m looking forward to something like Fire-chief-pedia. I’m amazed at how many people we’re expected to vote for without having any idea who they are.

Go check it out. It’s a pretty good read.

H/T: Josh Shultz

(AP) An attorney who watched a police officer park illegally in front of a restaurant, then wait around while his meal was prepared, issued the officer a series of citizen-initiated violations.

Eric Bryant said he was sitting at the restaurant March 7 when Officer Chad Stensgaard parked his patrol car next to a no-parking sign and walked inside to wait for his food, the Portland Mercury reported Thursday.

Bryant told the weekly paper that when he asked Stensgaard about his car, the officer asked Bryant, “If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?”

Bryant filed a complaint as a private citizen alleging several violations, including illegal parking and illegal operation of an emergency vehicle.

Stensgaard was issued a summons to appear in traffic court in May. The fines could total $540.

“Citizens should be concerned that he used his status as an officer of the law as justification for breaking the law,” Bryant said.

Cathe Kent, a spokeswoman for the Portland Police Bureau, said Stensgaard would fight the complaint in court, “as he rightfully should.”

Parking is limited on city streets, especially with many construction projects downtown, she said, and officers remain on duty even when they are picking up food.

“We are emergency responders and need to be ready to take an emergency call,” Kent said Saturday.

H/T: Jayme Siemer (Great find!!!)

Liberty Live has a very clean, very lively look and feel, and represents what a freedom movement blog should run like. The blog covers local issues revolving around labor, education, election reform, economic policy, public records and constitutional law.

I highly recommend you keep an eye on the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. They’re doing a great job online and I for one applaud their efforts.

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Of course, most of these guys are using terrible form, but it still shows the raw power of such a firearm. This video shows the proper way to fire a 577.

Although Internet Explorer 3.0 could run Java applets and inline media, Netscape Navigator could not, and in any case nobody felt comfortable doing anything more complicated than making a few animated GIFs. Additionally, very few web designers had even the most rudimentary of aesthetic sensibilities, and nearly half of them were clinically retarded. The internet in 1996 looks like it had been created in its entirety by a panel of 13-year-olds with Geocities accounts who had about half an hour to spare each night before bedtime.

Here is the official Lego website, for example.

They include McDonald’s, Pepsi, Best Buy, and many others. Well worth the click.

By the way, you can add me here.

The gamers are going to eat this bad boy up without question, but this super screen will likely reach out to a wider audience simply because of its sheer coolness.

I mean, I dig my 1280 wide screen on my laptop, but it’s NOTHING compared to a whopping 2880!!!

Gizmodo has the full scoop on this chunk of super monitor goodness from Alienware.

We can’t have one of these Alienware curved monitors until the second half of this year, but until then, we’ve been abducted by its four nearly seamless and sharp screens of DLP goodness. Lit by LEDs, this 2880×900 monster is well over three feet wide and is said to have an other-worldly .02ms response time, great for gaming.

Can’t wait to see what the price tag will look like. My guess is the cost will be just as jaw dropping as the monitor itself.

Time will tell…