We are only one day removed from April Fool’s Day and some of the movie news seems a little too on the nose.

Case in point, Peter and Bobby Farrelly made the announcement that the sequel toDUMB AND DUMBER will begin production this fall with both Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their original roles.

According to Peter Farrelly, We did not do DUMB AND DUMBERER, that was a studio thing. So we’ve always wanted to do a sequel and finally Jim called up. Jeff always wanted to do it. We always wanted to do it. Jim was busy, but he called and said, ‘We’ve got to do this thing again.’ He had just watched ‘Dumb and Dumber’ and he said, ‘This is the perfect sequel. Let’s do it.’

DUMB AND DUMBER is still one of the funniest movies in the last 20 years. I can pop in the DVD or catch it on cable at any point and it will suck thirty minutes of my life. I love it. I do not think the Farrelly’s have truly replicated it, mainly because of the chemistry between Carrey and Daniels.

Source: JoBlo.

A mock movie poster warns al-Qaida wants to return to New York City, but authorities say there’s no evidence of an actual threat.

Investigators learned about the online amateur graphic on Monday. The graphic shows the Manhattan skyline at sunset with “Al Qaeda” in bold type followed by “Coming Soon Again in New York.”

Al-Qaida has been blamed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the World Trade Center and killed thousands of people.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says an overseas, Arab-language Internet site posted the graphic on its “artwork and design” page. He says the NYPD has been monitoring the site.

FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald says the agency takes all threats seriously and “there is no specific orcredible threat to New York.”

Source: Yahoo News.

Protesters are back in New York’s Zuccotti Park – the symbolic birthplace of the Anti-Wall street movement where it all started almost four months ago. Barricades have been in place since mid-November when the occupiers were evicted in a night raid by police. But now that the barriers are gone the protesters are determined to stay – as RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports.

*Taken from Tampa Bay. Video at link.

Behind a kid with blue hair, in front of an old guy in tie-dye and overalls, walked a man named Dale Smrekar. He wore a button-down shirt, tie and name tag specifying his profession: estate liquidator.

This wasn’t his usual crowd.

But Smrekar said he’s fed up — by big corporate profits, by a shrinking middle class, by college graduates with huge debts and few job prospects. So he decided to join a Thursday afternoon protest march of nearly 600 people through downtown.

“The banks got bailed out, and the people got screwed,” said Smrekar, 61, of Tampa. “It seems like the American dream is fading away very quickly.”

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*Taken from the Sun Herald.

Here we go again.

Reports began to fly Wednesday that Brett Favre could return to the NFL this year. If that were to happen, it would be the Kiln native’s 21st season.

Those reports began when former Dallas Cowboys vice-president of player personnel Gil Brandt was quoted by NFL.com.

Of course, it’s all based on the impending NFL lockout.

“I do think Favre would be interested in talking to a team about returning,” Brandt told NFL.com. “But I don’t see a team out there right now that would bring him back as a starter.”

Brandt added that he didn’t expect Minnesota, which used its first-round pick on Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder, to be one of the teams interested in bringing Favre back.

Instead of working out and preparing for the season, Favre has been enjoying his time with the family, including vacations to Disney World and the Smoky Mountains.

Favre didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, and his brother, Scott Favre, said he hasn’t heard any such news concerning his brother.

*Taken from the Huffington Post.

After six months off the air, Keith Olbermannreturned to television Monday night with a new edition of “Countdown” on Current TV.

The hotly anticipated premiere featured appearances from some of Olbermann’s contributors, including Michael Moore, John Dean and Markos Moulitsas, as well as a so-called “mini Special Comment” about Olbermann’s vision for the show (at the link below).

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*Taken from Human Events.

A return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because that move would help the nation solve a variety of economic, fiscal, and monetary ills, Steve Forbes predicted during an exclusive interview this week with HUMAN EVENTS.

“What seems astonishing today could become conventional wisdom in a short period of time,” Forbes said.

Such a move would help to stabilize the value of the dollar, restore confidence among foreign investors in U.S. government bonds, and discourage reckless federal spending, the media mogul and former presidential candidate said.  The United States used gold as the basis for valuing the U.S. dollar successfully for roughly 180 years before President Richard Nixon embarked upon an experiment to end the practice in the 1970s that has contributed to a number of woes that the country is suffering from now, Forbes added.

If the gold standard had been in place in recent years, the value of the U.S. dollar would not have weakened as it has and excessive federal spending would have been curbed, Forbes told HUMAN EVENTS.  The constantly changing value of the U.S. dollar leads to marketplace uncertainty and consequently spurs speculation in commodity investing as a hedge against inflation.

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*Taken from Deadline.

He’s baaack! Arnold Schwarzenegger is attached to star in a rights package that CAA is shopping today that will revive The Terminator, one of Hollywood’s most iconic scifi franchises. The agency is dropping the package on studios this afternoon. I’m told that already, Universal, Sony and Lionsgate, and CBS Films are looking hard at the package. There is no screenwriter attached at this point, and Robert Cort is producing. This is the first real activity on The Terminator project since February 2010, when the property emerged from a bankruptcy auction and into the possession of Pacificor. The Santa Barbara-based hedge fund posted a bid of $29.5 million, with the promise that additional multimillion-dollar payments for each film would go to Halcyon, the company that made the 2009 McG-directed Terminator Salvation. That film starred Sam Worthington as the cyborg and Christian Bale as John Connor, and the storyline  launched the battle between Skynet and the human survivors of the apocalypse, the war foreshadowed in James Cameron’s visionary 1984 original film. Halcyon wanted to make several films but ran out of money. At the time of the auction, Pacificor beat out a combined bid by Lionsgate and Sony planning to make back-to-back sequels to bring the franchise to a natural creative conclusion.

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*Taken from CNBC.

General Electric called an earlier media report Wednesday that it would repay a $3.2 billion tax refund to the Treasury Department a “hoax.”

Members of an activist group calling themselves the “Yes Men” claimed responsibility for the hoax, according to a report from Reuters.

Earlier Wednesday morning, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. conglomerate—using “a series of foreign tax havens”—would repay the “enormous” refund it received for the 2010 tax year.

Shares of GE, which is a minority shareholder in NBC Universal, the parent company of CNBC.com, [GE  19.935   -0.075  (-0.37%)   ] slipped on the AP report. The company has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks following a New York Times report that it would pay no taxes for the 2010 tax year.

“It’s a hoax and GE did not receive a refund,” said Deirdre Latour, a GE spokeswoman.

Chief Executive Jeff Immelt in a March speech in Washington acknowledged that the company tries to keep its tax bill as low as it can but said it does so legally.

“Our tax rate will be higher in 2011,” Immelt told the Washington Economic Club. “We do it in a compliant way. There are no exceptions.”

The “Yes Men” sent the release to draw attention to GE’s approach to taxes, according to Andrew Boyd who described himself in a phone interview with Reuters as a member of the group.

“This is unpatriotic, it’s undemocratic, it’s unfair,” Boyd said. “It might be legal but it’s immoral.”

My Two Cents: Oh please Jesus can we get a real ‘Terminator’ sequel or an expanded role for the Governator in ‘Expendables 2′? Or maybe have him team up with Brody in the next ‘Predator’ film? Maybe his presence in the next two ‘Avatar’ films could save them from being three hour berry blue anti-capitalist hippie shitfests. Ooh, maybe we’ll get that Mr. Freeze spinoff we’ve all been wishing for! End Two Cents.

*Taken from Extra.

Is the former “Governator” returning to the world of the “Terminator”? Maybe!

Former Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has tweeted an exciting message about his future plans that’s sending electric shocks of excitement through Hollywood.

Arnold’s first acting role was in the 1970 film “Hercules in New York,” with his breakout role in 1982′s “Conan the Barbarian.” His three most memorable performances were as The Terminator in James Cameron‘s science fiction thriller films of the same name. Schwarzenegger left Hollywood in 2003 when he announced his candidacy for Governor of California.

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His film appearances while in office included a cameo in “The Rundown,” “Around the World in 80 Days,” “The Kid & I,” and Sylvester Stallone‘s “The Expendables.” He also voiced Baron von Steuben in an episode of “Liberty’s Kids.”

He famously said “I’ll be back” in 1984′s “Terminator,” and it appears that Arnold is going to keep his word!