Daily Gut: Cash for Clunkers

So last week I was reading up on the “Cash for Clunkers” program – which just got approved by the Senate – hoping to talk about it on the show. I gave up, however, because it didn’t make any sense to me.

Then it dawned on me. It didn’t have to make sense! It’s a government program. As long as it’s paved with good intentions, it doesn’t matter if it’s a road to nowhere.

So let me try to make sense of this for you (believe me, it’s not easy).

The goal here is to get gas-guzzlers off the roads. So the government is offering a voucher worth anywhere between $3500 to $4500 for your guzzler, which must then be used to buy a new car. How do you qualify? (more…)

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Tags: big government, cars, Cash for Clunkers, climate change, Global warming
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 1:38 pm in Daily Gut, News, Political Humor, Politics | 1651062 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/19/daily-gut-cash-for-clunkers/Daily+Gut%3A+Cash+for+Clunkers2009-06-19+20%3A38%3A23Greg+Gutfeld

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS with almost $12K per 3-D screen! The future of 3-D is looking UP!

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Dreamworks Animation have definitively proven that Digital 3-D is a blockbuster format. Not only has Monsters vs. Aliens seized a monstrous $58.2M in opening weekend ticket sales, Real-D (the technology provider) and Dreamworks have revealed that $25M or so of that gross was generated specifically from 3-D and IMAX 3-D. Fox is reporting that fully 43% of the total take was from the estimated 2,218 Digital 3-D screens.

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS tore up the box office this weekend - especially in 3-D

That means that the Per Screen Average for the movie in 3-D was about $11,700, while the 4,800 or so traditional 35MM 2-D engagements had a Per Theatre of just an estimated $4,780. Exhibitors who figured out a way to overcome the credit crunch and pay the estimated $100,000 to convert a traditional theatre into one that can show Digital 3-D made a killing this weekend.

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Tags: 2-d, 3-d, amanda peet, amy poehler, arch oboler
Posted Mar 29th 2009 at 9:04 pm in Entertainment, Steve Mason's Box Office | 920863 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smason/2009/03/29/monsters-vs-aliens-with-almost-12k-per-3-d-screen-the-future-of-3-d-is-looking-up/MONSTERS+VS.+ALIENS+with+almost+%2412K+per+3-D+screen%21+The+future+of+3-D+is+looking+UP%212009-03-30+04%3A04%3A22Steve+Mason

First Name in News You Can Use

This CNN video shows us that in these tough economic times, there is only one place to turn for tips on how to live well–Communism.

Watching this report from Havana, it almost seems fun living under totalitarian rule–Cubans are certainly “free” to work long hours on their cars. Communism also teaches you to make do with less, helping you to be more creative and resourceful, and affording you the opportunity to tool around in a classic Chevy or Caddy. Just look at that grill–living in Cuba is like being in the movie “Grease!”

CNN forgot to mention the other way that Cubans love to tinker with their vehicles.

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Tags: cars, CNN, communism, Cuba, humor
Posted Jan 5th 2009 at 9:20 pm in Media Criticism | 632521 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tshillue/2009/01/05/first-name-in-news-you-can-use/First+Name+in+News+You+Can+Use2009-01-06+04%3A20%3A43Tom+Shillue