i am soo sad...

Sharel and I were watching videos on youtube last night, and we came across movie trailers.  I watched two incredibly awesome trailers, but they left me with a lonely, hurt and wounded feeling in my heart.  They are rated R.  I won’t be able to see them, in all their splendid splendidness.  Anyway, the two movies in question:  “Moon” with Sam Rockwell, and “District 9”.  I don’t know who is in “District 9”, but youtube both of these trailers. 

 

Sharel made an astute observation- have you ever noticed that for the last couple of years, Hollywood has been making some great action movies that are not rated R?  Now it seems that all these trailers we watched were R rated. 

 

Some other notable mentions of movies coming out-

“the Surrogates” with Bruce Willis- R rated, but as Sharel said an interesting concept.

 

“The Book of Eli” with Denzel- it is not rated as of yet, but it looks awesome- but only to me, Sharel thought it looked dumb.  Think Mad Max meets I Am Legend with Denzel carrying a sawed off shotgun and some weird machete/sword.

 

Patton Oswalt- of King of Queens- is breaking out in a dramatic role.  It looks very dark, and I think he will do good in it, because even his funny characters are pathetic.  The movie is “Big Fan”.  It too is R.

 

And, one I am actually looking forward to seeing, “Where the Wild Things Are”.  Looks like it will be a great movie, although I think the monsters will give our kids nightmares.  (if you watch this on youtube, make sure to look for a video response called “Everyone Poops”, you won’t be disappointed, I promise.  Well, if you are an Olsen with an inbred sense of potty humor, you won’t be disappointed.)

 

And if you like the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton super duo of weirdness, then wait no further- “Alice in Wonderland” with Captain Jack playing the Mad Hatter.  What a surprise.  Really. (Honestly, it looks like Willy Wonka just in a different movie).

 

And a plug for the movie Sharel wants to see- “Julia/Julia”.  I must admit that it doesn’t look too bad as far as chick flicks go, at least she isn’t gonna make me watch “Twilight”.

 

Hope you enjoyed this break from politics.

 

One more thing- Glenn Beck is totally awesome- he made liberals all over squirm when he said he took a gun to a movie theater last week and didn’t shoot anyone.  I wonder what kind of gun he carries…

There is a discussion on a board  asking this question- so far half think it is some sort of Sig, the other half some sort of 1911.  I don’t know where I lean, probably towards a 1911 commander model.

 

Peace- I’m out

 

Grant has begun to call Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Poop. 

 

It had no prompting from me whatsoever.  He just one day said he wanted to watch Winnie the Poop.

 

Carry on.

Peace- I’m out.

Here's some hope and change for ya...

It seems the American people are just not buying the socialized healthcare routine.  Finally, people are starting to wake up and are not afraid anymore to tell pollsters they disagree with the One.  And this is having some frustrating results for the President.

 

First, though, I would like to give some shout outs to some republicans that have finally grown some hair on their chest and are willing to fight back-

Jim Demint- Matt Lauer interviewed him the other day, and said "People are saying that you are playing pure politics with this issue," and pressed "Are you rallying conservatives to the cause of health care reform? Or are you rallying conservatives to the cause of breaking a President?" obviously trying to paint this fight as some sort of personal vendetta against Obama. 

Kudos to Demint for responding- “we need to put the brakes on this President. He's been on a spending spree since he took office. And we need health care reform. Unfortunately, when the President was in the Senate, I've probably offered more health care reform proposals than anyone in the Senate. And the President voted against every proposal that would have made health insurance more available and more affordable to people. His goal seems to be a government takeover, not making insurance more available. So I do think we need to stop the President on this. We need to stop his policy, because if we allow him to continue to ram things through Congress before we even get a chance to read them.”   Can you imagine two months ago if this had been asked to a normal republican- his response would have been conilliatory and apologetic to the president, followed with a vow to stand with the president no matter what.

Second shout out goes to Michael Steele, who came out and called the plan “socialist”.  Finally calling a rose a rose and a turd a turd.

 

Now, politicians have an incredible sense of self preservation, to the point of pushing women and children out of the way to get to the life boat.  The Democrats are starting to feel this, and it is evident in their reactions.  Charlie Rangel was overheard to say that no one has the guts to tell Pelosi to slow down, and certainly no one will tell the president that.  Seems to me that some democrats are not too happy with the way Pelosi and Obama are playing with their political futures.  Obama had a private meeting (so much for transparency in govt.) with the Democrats that are pushing back against him, and one congressman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he heard that Obama told these democrats they were going to “destroy” his presidency.

 

Finally, as communist as we think the Networks are, money still speaks- Obama wanted to have a press conference (and I use the term press conference very loosely) on Tuesday.  But, NBC said no, because they were going to air a Susan Boyle interview that night and are expecting massive ratings.  Obama is probably crying in his cheerios, or should I say Obamaeeos (after all, they are little letter O’s, so Rahm Emanual told Obama they were named after him.)

 

Peace- I’m out

 

 

Some Random Thoughts

It sucks being sick- especially stomach related sickness, as I have had all week.

 

Why do we put up with this, I am not talking liberals or conservatives, but on a whole- why do we tolerate this type of behavior from our elected officials-  apparently the Dems in the House are not allowing debate and forced votes on amendments to occur on this massive budget proposal.  Their reasoning- they don’t want to be forced to vote on one item in the budget- such as handing blow out to junior high school kids- so their vote cannot be used against them in their upcoming elections.  Now to be fair- when the republicans were in charge they tried to do the same thing.  But why do we just let this pass, them basically telling us they don’t want us to know where they stand.  So when they are criticized for voting in the 2009 Coke Distribution Act of 2009, they can lie and tell us that although they didn’t agree with the amendment, the pros of the rest of the bill necessitated a yes vote. (No, there is not an amendment to hand out cocaine to teenagers, but there is an amendment advocating and sanctioning the financial rape of anyone making over $350,000 a year.)(and rape is not too strong of a word to describe what they want to do.)

 

New GI Joe movie?  Looks awful.  And a tell tell sign it will be awful- the only ads I have seen for it are on Nickelodeon, usually the commando hamster trailers follow the GI Joe trailer.  If it was meant for anyone old enough to have actually seen the cartoon and owned the action figures, they would not be advertising it at the beginning of iCarly.  You think they promoted the Dark Knight between bouts of the Penguins of Madagascar and Spongebob?

 

Kurt Russell in “Soldier”- Awesome sci-fi movie.  I know some will disagree.  But I have placed it in my top 5 sci-fi movies.  Intellectual and artsy fartsy alert (Maybe Merilee will be the only one to appreciate this)- Kurt Russell did an awesome job in his character- especially since his character had less than a dozen lines.  Very deep.

 

Reign of Fire- Matthew McCougnahysfyyheyyyysf (too lazy to look the spelling up) in by far his best, pot addled, character ever.  HIS LEATHER BOMBER JACKET GOTS NO SLEEVES!!!!! Truly magnificent- especially in the portrayal of Americans once again having to save the world from imminent destruction.

 

Sons of Provo still makes me laugh like it is the first time I’ve ever seen it.

 

100 round of .45 ammo- $32.00

1,100 rounds of .22lr- $34.00

Shotgun trade for a Sig Mosquito- priceless.

 

I can now shoot way more often.

 

Tendonitis/carpal tunnel sucks big time- now I don’t get to shoot as often.

 

One final thing- and this is a broad statement- not meant to single anyone out, no one take offense please- but you guys who have Facebook accounts- and you know who you are- are in serious jeopardy of losing your man card.  Just sayin. 

 

Peace- I’m out!