Oh, when he hits a lull, he can just smile and let the charisma fill the vacuum.
Yay Obama! &smile&

No, the drug was released in the US, and it was used to treat anxiety disorders. You can google to find out more information about the drug, but during pre-production and the development phase of the film, the scripts were called LIBRIUM. I still have a copy of the original somewhere around.\

I've heard of that book, though I'm not sure if it's a good read or not.

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Thanks for the info on Equilibrium. I knew nothing about a drug called librium. Where might this drug have been released? Assuming not the US, or if so perhaps knowledge of it has simply not made it's way to me before now.

Kinda sorta on this note I've got a friend who insists I read Aldous Huxleys A Brave New World, which from what I understand operates under the same premise. A world lulled into submission by drugs and propaganda. One of the prominent Dystopian books, much like 1984.

Thanks for the info on Equilibrium. I knew nothing about a drug called librium. Where might this drug have been released? Assuming not the US, or if so perhaps knowledge of it has simply not made it's way to me before now.

Kinda sorta on this note I've got a friend who insists I read Aldous Huxleys A Brave New World, which from what I understand operates under the same premise. A world lulled into submission by drugs and propaganda. One of the prominent Dystopian books, much like 1984.

Like saying one pile of vomit is more appealing than the other...

yeah drattus, agreed, but the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of eyes wide shut everyone....not any one administration, on a methodical lulling, dumbing, orchestrated apathy....Now here the meatbots all are in 2008, ready to be fooled again....turns out Bush 2, was more dangerous than Clinton, Carter, Johnson...but, that is to be expected, as we approach the singularity....

Sort of saw that coming but it lulled me into a false sense of "maybe it really is him". Tee hee.

I think that moving this film to early December and out of the way of the Christmas crush was pretty wise. $14 million is quite a good opening for the post-Thanksgiving lull period. And it crushed the crap out of Blood Diamond which looked/looks to be a better film.

Hollywood likes to pretend that Leonardo is a draw even though it is painfully clear now that he was the interchangeable "boy role" for Titanic.

Damned Clinton! He obviously lulled the GOP into a sense of complacency on this Foley issue, the terrorist issue, the North Korean issue, the trade deficit issue, the global warming issue, the gay marriage issue, ad infinitum ad nauseum.

I ask all GOP trolls, lurkers, and posters only one question. What would the Party like to take responsibility for over the last 6 years?

Oh, Canadians don't hate America. Otherwise, they'd have more than 10% of their population living farther than 100 miles from the southern border. And whenever someone in their entertainment industry hit it big (like the "I am Canadian!" Molson guy), they wouldn't all move to the US.

But what you have to realize is that this *isn't* a dig at Americans. It's a dig at Canadians themselves. The whole thing is a send-up of the peculiar sort of jingoism some (*some*) Canadians indulge in - that po-faced, quietly smug distaste for anything associated with America, with the implicit subtext that Canada is superior in every "important" way. The bit is done straight-facedly enough to lull in people sympathetic to the impulse - and then quietly sticks them with the last "apology".