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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Strategy: If The Rule You Followed Brought You To This….Of What Use Was The Rule?

Filed under: Quotes,Strategy,Video — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 1:56 PM

Sometimes, the best example of strategy can be found in the simplest and most interesting places. I believe this scene in the movie called No Country For Old Men, is a fantastic example of the importance of picking the right strategy. These two men in the scene were involved in a game of hunting one another, and the character played by Woody Harrelson named Carson Wells lost. The hitman played by Javier Bardem is named Anton Chigurh, and he obviously had a better strategy for this game. Anton also summed up the very essence of winning, be it business or war. He says: ‘If the rule you followed brought you to this…..of what use was the rule?’. Words to live by…-Matt


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Letter Of Marque: Ben Franklin’s ‘Privateer’ Fleet

Filed under: Film,History,Letter Of Marque — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 11:01 AM

This is a great documentary. What I thought was interesting is that Ben Franklin used privateers as a way to get British prisoners, in order to do a prisoner exchange with Britain for American prisoners. But because he did not provide incentive for the privateers to keep prisoners and deliver them or hold them, that the privateers just let them go. So I put the blame on Ben for not posting a bounty for prisoners captured, or at least some payment system that would motivate his privateers to capture and hold these prisoners.

Also, he poorly vetted the privateers he gave commissions too. I mean Ben really stumbled through this first effort of privateering. Although I am glad that the practice was improved upon and later turned into a key element of the Revolutionary War. It was private industry that targeted the logistics and commerce of the British, and basically made the American venture for Britain very costly.  Sun Tzu would refer to this as attacking weakness with strength, and British commerce and logistics was ravaged by American privateers.

What is also interesting is that with this bad experience, Ben made the conclusion that he did not like using privateers. Personally, I just think he didn’t have a clue on how to use them. Because if you look at the history of privateer usage in the War of 1812, congress used a bounty system to secure prisoners that privateers would have captured–all so they could do a prisoner exchange. In other words, America created a better offense industry using better rules and incentive. –Matt

 

Friday, January 21, 2011

Film: ‘Borat’ Star Sacha Cohen To Play Saddam Hussein In Comedy Called The Dictator

Filed under: Film,Funny Stuff,Iraq — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Matt @ 12:12 PM

     The film tells “the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed,” according to the studio. 

     In the words of Borat,’Very nice’! lol This is great and I am looking forward to this one. As soon as the trailer comes out I will put it up on the blog (which will probably be late this year or early next year). I am sure this movie will also increase sales of Saddam’s crazy book called Zabibah and the King. –Matt

Larry Charles and Sacha Cohen (as Borat).

Larry Charles, who also worked on “Borat” and “Bruno,” will direct the Paramount picture.

January 20, 2011

NEW YORK – Paramount Pictures has set a May 11, 2012 release date for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy The Dictator and reunited him with the director of his previous movies.

The studio said Thursday that Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno) will once again direct.

The film tells “the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed,” according to the studio.

It is inspired by the novel Zabibah and The King by Saddam Hussein.

Producing alongside Baron Cohen are Scott Rudin, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel.

Story here.

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‘Borat’ star in Saddam Hussein-inspired comedy

January 21, 2011

LOS ANGELES — British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of the satire “Borat,” will turn heads again with his new project “The Dictator,” inspired by a novel from late Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein, his studio said Friday.

The film, set for release in May 2012, “tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed,” Paramount Pictures said.

The comedy is “inspired by the best selling novel ‘Zabibah and the King,’ written by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,” said the production studio.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Film: Casting Call For The Show Most Lethal, $100,000 To The Winner

Filed under: Bounties,Cool Stuff,Film — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Matt @ 8:42 AM

     Now this is cool. This is the casting notice for an upcoming show on Spike TV called ‘Most Lethal’. I figured that many of my readers are exactly the type of guys that would qualify for such a thing, and if they wanted to take a break from contracting in the war for a bit, this just might be your deal. Good luck out there. –Matt

Here is the Facebook page for the casting here.

Here is the email if you cannot read it on the poster below: sofsearch@grbtv.com

  

Most Lethal

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Cool Stuff: Get Kony, By Ian Urbina

Filed under: Africa,Bounties,Film,Sudan — Tags: , , , , , , , — Matt @ 6:17 PM

     This is an outstanding article and Sam here is quite the guy. I certainly hope he can find and kill Joseph Kony, and save as many children as he can over there.  What is really cool is I guess Hollywood digs his story too and they will be making a movie about him. Thanks to Jason for sending me this. –Matt

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“I found God in 1992,” says Sam Childers. “I found Satan in 1998.” The reference is to Joseph Kony, leader of the outlaw Lord’s Resistance Army. Photograph by Jonathan Becker.

Get Kony

By Ian Urbina

April 27, 2010

The Lord’s Resistance Army—a murderous rebel group made up mostly of Ugandans, and led by a crazed warlord named Joseph Kony—today ranges across the jungles and scrubland of Uganda, Congo, Sudan, and the Central African Republic. Its ranks may be depleted, but the remnant deals death wherever it goes. U.S.-backed military forces are trying to hunt Kony down. So is a Pennsylvania-based evangelical preacher named Sam Childers—a biker and former drug dealer who has found his calling in this quest for a killer. Last year the author joined Childers as he continued his hunt for Kony. It is a story of pursuer and pursued, each believing that God is on his side.

It’s two a.m., and we’re barreling down a deeply pocked dirt road in Southern Sudan. In the cool of night, the temperature is nearly 100 degrees. Sam Childers, 46, is behind the wheel of a chrome-tinted Mitsubishi truck. Christian rock blares on the speakers. He has a Bible on the dash and a shotgun that he calls his “widow-maker” leaning against his left knee. His top sergeant, Santino Deng, 34, a Dinka tribesman with an anthracite complexion and radiant black eyes, sits in the passenger seat, an AK-47 across his lap. I sit in the back. Since leaving the town of Mundri, headed toward the Congolese border, we’ve been driving for two bone-jarring days on roads littered with the charred wrecks of armored vehicles and fuel tankers, remnants of battles past. A truck follows close behind, carrying 15 men from the small militia group under Childers’s personal command. The convoy is on its way to a Sudanese town called Maridi. In the area we’re passing through, just hours ago soldiers from the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.) hacked 15 villagers to death with machetes, then disappeared into the bush. Intelligence sources from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army—the ragtag military wing of the breakaway government of Southern Sudan—have indicated that elements of the L.R.A. are now headed to Maridi. Childers wants to intercept them, and kill their leader.

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