The better halve and I went to see The Dark Knight today. It was a good movie; however, it did not live up to the hype. The story is better than most Batman movies and Heath Ledger did a good job, but he is not Jack.
I would recommend the movie but don't by into the hype - On it's on it is a good movie, but will be a disappointment if you believe the hype.
There would be no need to wait till November, the media has already declared the winner! Anyone that doesn't believe this is a fool in my opinion, but if they needed more proof this should do it!
3 Anchors to Follow Obama's Trek Abroad
The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.
If you believe the MSM (main stream media) isn't bias, and hasn't long ago thrown all it's cards in on the liberal/democratic agenda...then you are as stupid as they (MSM) give you credit for!
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Well I look at the news and in the top ten story at the website I visited it said -
The American economy is on it last leg and we (Americans) are a bunch of fat people destroying the planet. Us Americans are living in houses we can no longer afford, driving vehicles that we shouldn't be, and eating to much while doing all this living, driving, and destroying.Because it is all over we should simply give up and depend on a saviour in government to save us from ourselves.
That is the reader's digest version, anyway - But, for me I will continue to drive what I want, eat what I want, work, and be happy...
If you believe what you read you might as well stay in bed or just find a hole, crawl in, and give up.
Don't think I would want to be on that flight...
See what I had to say about the movie
‘Wanted’ Breaks Box Office Records
The Angelina Jolie action thriller Wanted scored the best opening ever for an R-rated film released in June and the 6th best opening of all time for any R-rated pic, according to Variety.
Easier to predict 100 years...wasn't twenty years the magic number twenty years ago? What is it now twenty more years... The global warming saga continues; of course, when I was in my twenties it was an "ice age" a coming. Let's put it this way - They need to get "almost" as accurate as the Farmers Almanac year-to-year if you expect me to even consider their predictions.
Scientists work on short-term climate predictions
ASPEN — Strange as it might seem, it is easier to predict changes in the climate 100 years from now than one decade from now, say scientists gathering this week in Aspen
I went to see what I thought would be a good movie - Wanted. I was wrong! It could have been a good movie - It has all the expected twist, but still it could have been good... Here is a hint, when you introduce something extremely "far fetched" you need to spend a little time making it somewhat believable (i.e. The Force, Krypton, Radioactive Spider Bite, etc.), a loom deciding who dies(?).
The actors/acting made it watchable - If you care what I think I would suggest you wait on the DVD...actually they may have been better served going directly to DVD.
Anyone having luck with cellspin? I tried it and it kept crashing my phone.
When things start turning for the good US News stops reporting - I and many others have always know this. To bad there are so many "suckers" left out there!
Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner
According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)
Maybe they are smarter "across the pond"!
Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate changeThe majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer.
Here we go - The flood is going t be blamed for rising corn prices, which will cause rising beef prices...
AND other commodities such as soybeans will be on the rise for the shortage of corn.
But, they are blaming the flood and eventually I foresee the government and President Bush ultimately being blamed.
What they want tell you - Al Gore and his "fear tactics" are much more to blame then any flood!
Did you know that in 1994 Al Gore was the deciding vote on a bill extending an EPA regulation requiring ethanol to be added to the nations gasoline supply - This bill also raised the amount of ethanol mandated to dilute our gas.
Record corn prices mean more expensive meat, dairyNEW YORK (AP) - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store.
It's a similar story for U.S. beef producers who are spending a whopping 60-70% of their production costs on animal feed. That number will rise as corn prices hover near an unprecedented $8 a bushel.
Corn drops as high prices prompt demand worriesVeraSun Energy Corp., the largest U.S. ethanol producer, said this week it will delay the opening of two new ethanol plants — one in Iowa, the other in Minnesota — because of high corn costs and other market conditions.
Corn can be used to make ethanol, which in turn can be used as a substitute for, or additive to, gasoline.
High corn prices are also hurting livestock owners, who spend more than 50 percent of their production costs on corn to feed their cattle, hogs and chickens. Some livestock owners are now faced with slaughtering parts of their herds or flocks to cope with rising feed costs, a move that will mean higher beef, chicken and pork costs later this year, analysts say.
Other agriculture commodities also fell Thursday. Soybeans for July delivery fell 10.5 cents to settle at $15.455 a bushel on the CBOT, while July wheat dropped 23 cents to settle at $8.81 a bushel.
By the way, according to the National Review, "the venture capital group Gore joined in November, Klein Perkins Caufield & Byers, has investments in Amyis and AltraBiofues. One of the key partners of this firm, John Doerr, is advoctiong legislation that would expand bio fuel usage...an astonding number of dollars invested in agritechnology companies by Gore and fols connected to him..." - Proving fear is as good of a business tool as it is a governing tool.
For those of you that believe biofuels are saving the planet - Don't look at those third world counties who are starving, just remember you are saving the planet with your biofuel, to heck with what it does to food cost and poor countries food supply. Biofuel sure doesn't lower fuel cost; however, drilling and building refineries would, not maybe, it will!
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Miller Apologizes for Comments He Made About Mediate
Ciongoli said that his letter “is not meant to be an attack upon NBC, but rather to be an illumination of a problem that continues to trouble our society.”“The perpetuation of negative stereotypes and demeaning language hurts us all,” he said.But Anthony Baratta, the president of the Order Sons of Italy in America’s commission for social justice, demanded Miller’s suspension. “If Johnny Miller had made a similar remark about Tiger Woods,” he said Thursday in a press release, “he would have been fired.”
Are we really that sensitive or just that sensational? Come on, media types can dog "red necks", "country bumpkins", "Christians" and "farmer types" all the time...well even presidential candidates can, and the claim is "we were not talking about them they just read to much into it; however, when a specific group does read to much into a statement - "Katie bar the door" we want them hung...
These groups are simply looking for publicity through sensationalism - IMOH!
Disclaimer - "hung" is not meant to be derogatory to anyone's ancestry which may or may not involve "horse thievery", "rapists", "murders", "race", "racists", "religion", etc. etc. etc.
Firefox 3 At 14 Million Downloads
Firefox 3, the Web browser from Mozilla, has broken the 14 million download mark. Launched on Download Day this past Tuesday, The company hoped for 5 million downloads in a World Record attempt. The Web browser surpassed that goal, ending up with over 8 million downloads in a 24 hour window.
I have and unlike what I have from others, "knock on wood", it hasn't crashed yet...
Worst seen over for Midwest floods, cleanup starts
EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois (Reuters) - The worst Midwest flooding in 15 years eased on Saturday after the swollen Mississippi River crested in St. Louis, but the toll was still rising as billions of dollars in damage to crops, communities and infrastructure were assessed.
What is different between this tragedy and Katrina.....oh yeh, New Orleans - The politicians, the... Kinda like the difference in Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina - Some knew what had to be done and others wanted it done for them...
I have hope, the media will soon start blaming the President, screaming for FEMA, victimizing the residents - Even if those same residents won't!
Take a look at my work space - Well at least on weekends...
I am trying to get started again - Phone, IM, Twitter, Facebook, three(3) blogs! Heck I am too old to learn all this stuff. Starting to think this is a young man's game, but I will try if for no other reason fun.
We must
Remember!
Cal Thomas has a good column on oil, it's prices, and what we could have done! We can still do some of this, but the impact would be years away... But the dirty little secret - "Big Oil" ain't the major problem, those that want you to believe "Big Oil" is the problem, is the
problem.
In Defense of 'Big Oil' According to government estimates, there is enough oil in areas accessible to America - 112 billion barrels - to power more than 60 million cars for 60 years. The Outer Continental Shelf alone contains an estimated 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Had President Clinton not vetoed exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in 1995, when oil was $19 a barrel, America would currently be receiving more than 1 million barrels a day domestically, all of it taken by better technology than existed more than 30 years ago. That was when the Alaskan pipeline was built despite protests from environmentalists who claimed it would destroy the caribou. It didn't, but the environmentalists are back with the same discredited arguments. Because most of the oil remains "off-limits," we are becoming more dependent on foreign oil.
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Well I got a new smart phone and as you can see I am laying around "learning it". Anyway the post are going to get more frequent because of it, well that is if I learn it.
Charlton Heston passed away last night - Agree with him or not, he had a large impact on all of us...demonstrating joy and sadness through his chosen profession. He will be missed!
