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What Does G.I. Joe Stand For? More details surface on the live-action film. by Stax August 24, 2007 - Who needs A Real American Hero? Not Paramount or Hasbro it seems. The studio's live-action feature film version of G.I. Joe will no longer revolve around a top-secret U.S. special forces team but rather an international operation. In a follow-up to their confirmation that Stephen Sommers will direct G.I. Joe, Variety offers this new description of the team: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use...

For the last several months, G.I. Joe fans have been voicing their concerns and outrage online over rumors that Paramount may make drastic changes to the franchise when they bring it to the silver screen as a live-action tentpole release. A new report recounting the political and marketing challenges facing a G.I. Joe movie will likely do little to quell their fears. AdAge.com spoke with Hasbro and Paramount execs about the challenges of marketing a film about the U.S. military at a time when the current U.S. administration and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are at a low-point in...

On this day in 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted to "adopt" the colonial troops then beseiging Boston as the Army of the United Colonies, and also voted in George Washington as its Commanding General. He left immediately for Cambridge to form what would become the US Army after the Declaration of Independence was accepted.

Hillary Clinton wouldn't let Chelsea have one (no, not a mirror). And hundreds of thousands of feminists constantly speak out against Barbie. (I had several as a kid--"Superstar Barbie" was my favorite.) It's no big deal to them that there are far worse dolls, like Bratz. And that one toy company recently scrapped plans to make stripper dolls aimed at six-year-olds. They're dead set against Barbie, mostly because Barbie is thin (and also because she's feminine). It's not like Barbie (full name: Barbara Millicent Roberts) made anyone anorexic. Has the thin Barbie has made a dent in the ever-increasing obese...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (AP) - The questions were unusual for Sgt. 1st Class Jerry Wolford: Did you play with GI Joe action figures when you were a child? What if you could be one? "Usually, it is not something good when the sergeant major calls a platoon sergeant into his office," said Wolford, 29, of Oakland, Oregon. This time, it was good. Wolford, who used to own about 200 action figures, will now become one. He will model for a new line of figures based on the sequel to "America's Army," an online video game released by the Army in...

(CNSNews.com) - It's no surprise that in the aftermath of Sept. 11, America's young boys are turning to a decorated war veteran to help them combat evil. Yet, G.I. Joe, the world's first action figure for boys, is taking heavy artillery from groups that claim the toy promotes violent behavior.Toy maker Hasbro first debuted G.I. Joe in 1964 and named the action figure after the movie, "The Story Of G.I. JOE." Dubbed the "Real American Hero," he is representative of the brave soldiers that defend our nation's freedom at home and abroad. Most recently, Hasbro introduced into the G.I. Joe ...

Today was just like the battles that I watched on G.I. Joe cartoons, when I was a kid. I still remember the introduction to the show, as the narrator voiced over the music:"G.I. Joe is the code name for America's daring, highly-trained, special mission force. It's purpose: to defend human freedom against Cobra; the ruthless, terrorist organization, determined to rule the world." Replace "Cobra" with "Islamofascism" and you get a somewhat accurate description of our situation. Then, if you consider what happened today, the similarities make the show seem downright prophetic. Today's fight lived up to all of the foolish...

As boys, many of us played with dolls - or what we, in our masculine self-interest, referred to as "action figures." But let's face it: They were dolls. We also entertained ourselves with fake guns, plastic swords and other phony instruments of war - only rarely drawing real blood. Perhaps it was a harbinger of my chicken-hawk warmongering, but I also was the proud owner of hundreds of those rigid green plastic army guys. This army waged epic battles against the Russkies and assorted armies of the Soviet axis. Guess what? I'm no Gen. Patton. And the majority of my...

19 January 2005: The Slinky betrayed us. I should have known. I never trusted him. He was an unstable character, always going back and forth, back and forth, never showing a shred of backbone. "Come, senor, I know the way to the insurgents' headquarters," he rasped. The fact that he was an Arab toy speaking with a stereotypical Spanish accent should have tipped me off. But hindsight is always 20/20. Literally. I can turn my head 360 degrees I only knew my men by their code names, but even in that short space of time we shared a bond...

MIDI - RAG DOLL We'll kill all your dolls...we'll kidnap them from your gay boys We'll kill all your dolls...we'll show no mercy for your toys We'll start with G.I. Joe and show it on TV Then we'll get Ken and come back for his slut Barbie We'll kill all your dolls...we'll kill all your dolls You might think it's odd, but it's our new jihad We'll kill all your dolls...we'll show no mercy for your toys We'll do it like SNL did it with Mr. Bill You infidels will watch until you're getting ill We'll kill all your...

Rumor has it that the Senior Bloviating Moonbat from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Teddy Jo Kennedy, issued a statement *hic* condemning the capture of "Joe". He also promised to use every available means to convince the president to withdraw US troops from Iraq, within the next 30 days, in order to secure Joe's release...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A Web site posted a photograph of what it claimed was a kidnapped U.S. soldier, but doubts were quickly raised about its authenticity and the U.S. military said no soldiers were missing. An American toy manufacturer said the figure in the photo resembled one of its military action figures, originally produced for sale at U.S. bases in Kuwait. The statement appeared on a Web site where militants' statements are often posted and was in the name of a group that has claimed previous kidnappings, the Mujahedeen Brigades. The Arabic text, however, contained several misspellings and repetitions....

Fort Leonard Wood, MO - Famed six-inch tall war hero G.I. Joe, convicted last week by a military tribunal for insubordination, was executed here this morning. The execution was widely seen as another sign of the Defense Department's growing intolerance of political criticism by military personnel. Joe, 34, a veteran of over 700 campaigns, was well known for his bravery under fire. He received over 250 purple hearts, including 53 for daring parachute-less jumps from the tree-house and two dozen plummets down the laundry chute. He also held the prestigious American Standard Medal of Honor for Navy SEAL missions in...

February 01, 2005 US GI hostage story and photo faked; MSM falls for it--again Looks like this was a fake, now that we've seen the photo, and kudos are due to A Small Victory, Wizbang and Free Republic for calling it. It looks like this was a GI Joe-type doll on sale on the internet. Note the face, plus the gun and the fact that you don't see anyone's hands in the photo. In addition, the Pentagon has verified that no soldiers are missing presently. Score another one for the new media, as the MSM gets scammed again. Posted by...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners. The posting, on a Web site that frequently carried militants' statements, included a photo of what appeared to be an American soldier in desert fatigues seated with his hands tied behind his back. A gun barrel was pointed at his head, and he is seated in front of a black banner emblazoned with the Islamic profession of faith, "There is no god but God and Muhammad is...

Dan Rather was lucky he wasn't on the air when it occured because surely he would have breathlesly relayed the details. Many mainstream media outlets were duped by a picture of a toy soldier that was purported to be an American troop held hostage by terrorists in Iraq. Media outlets such as MSNBC and the Associated Press relayed the claims of the terrorists for two hours before they were shown to be false. As with Memogate, it was online message boards that found the evidence: At 2:20pm EST, a poster on Militaryphotos.net posted an image of the GI Joe action...

Over the 4th of July weekend, antiwar protesters demanded that the Minnesota Twins baseball team cancel a promotional giveway of "G.I. Joe" action figures. The Twins provided figures of the character "Duke" (the lead character in the G.I. Joe series, who shares his nickname with John Wayne) to 5,000 children who attended the July 5 game against the Kansas City Royals. The promotion was an attempt to honor American service men and women and was done after consultation with local veterans groups. Real veterans groups that is. John Varone, president of the Twin Cities chapter of Veterans for Peace, told...

The Twins gave out 5,000 G.I. Joe toys the other night, and so far there have been no reported cases of 8-year-olds showing up at any Army recruiting offices. That was one of the concerns among the various activists who opposed the toy giveaway. They thought the G.I. Joe figure was specifically a recruiting device that might inure a child to a life on the battlefield. No, I don't understand either how you make yourself think that — especially when kids make toy guns out of everything, even the chicken fingers in the school lunch room. In any event, the...

G.I. Joe didn't start a war. In fact, he hardly caused a peep. Most of the 16,191 fans who showed up at the Metrodome on Monday seemed to favor the Twins' G.I. Joe action figure giveaway before a game against the Kansas City Royals, and the fictional battlefield commander "Duke" was met with little resistance from those who thought the promotion promoted war. "A few people rejected them," said Shelby Rhodes, who was part of a volunteer group from St. Paul Central High School handing out some of the action figures that were distributed to the first 5,000 children age...

Peace groups protest Twins' plan to give away G.I. Joe dolls July 1, 2004 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Several peace groups are demanding the Minnesota Twins abandon plans to give G.I. Joe action figures to 5,000 children as part of a team promotion honoring local military personnel. The Minnesota Twins will present Duke, ``the calm and determined battlefield commander of the G.I. Joe team,'' at Monday night's game against the Kansas City Royals in the first patriotic giveaway in the major leagues this season. ``I think the Twins are way off base with this idea,'' said John Varone, a Vietnam veteran...