Take that, F-22

Senate Beats Back Military-Industrial Complex In Historic Vote

The Senate, by a vote of 58-40, approved an amendment proposed by Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to strip $1.75 billion in funding for the F-22 fighter. Levin worked hand in hand to kill the F-22 money with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

"There was an extensive effort by the White House," said Levin. "The president really needed to win this vote, not just in terms of the merits of the F-22 issue itself, but in terms of the reform agenda."

Tragically this makes all of Michael Bay's "in the not too distant future" multi-film spanning F-22/military hardware wankery futuristically inaccurate. Starscream will have to transform into something different for Transformers 3: Revenge of the Rise of the Risen.

For those of you keeping score at home that's

Military Industrial Complex 37,673,987
Government Crusaders: 2

Hopefully no one gets assassinated in Dallas as payback this time.

You've got the touch

We all remember Stan Bush's "the Touch" from the seminal 1980's film masterpiece The Transformers: The Movie. That movie had everything: Orson Wells slumming it for cash, the childhood crushing deaths of Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Prowl, Ratchet, Brawn, Windcharger and Wheeljack, Judd Nelson's career defining role as Rodimus Prime, and Bush's song about having the touch.

Now with the advent of a second Transformers movie from Michael Bay and the official death of God, Stan has decided he needs to hook up "the Touch" to Bay's money wagon. Not only did he update the song to give it a more 2009 feel, he decided to just say "fuck it" and make the song sound completely like the Linkin Park song from the last movie. Is there hilarious video of it? Of course there is.



Well done Mr. Bush. You've still got "it". "It" being "the touch". But if Bay's got his head on straight, we all know he'll choose to use the superior version of "the Touch": The Diggler version.