Chronicle: Review

I went and saw this film out of curiosity this weekend and was glad I did. It’s the story of three teens from a high school in Washington state who discover something strange buried in the ground that gives them telekinetic superpowers. Then it shows what happens to them. It’s done in the “found footage” style of so many films lately, pretending to be cobbled together from home videos and surveillance cameras. It’s really well written and directed. The effects are solid and believable as are the actors who are all unknowns. It’s also a great take on what would happen if people got superpowers in the real world.

If you like comics, then you would likely enjoy this. I did.

John Carter

I used to really love those John Carter of Mars books when I was in high school. Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan, write a bunch of fun series and this is arguably his second most famous work. This seems pretty jokey, so I’m not sure how good it will be but visually it looks like they are sticking to the right look for the story.

Game of Thrones

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Season two should be better than season one, because the books get better, and I love how they’ve been adapting the series. Because a lot of people into Martin seem to like Joe Ambercrombie books I started reading the Blade Itself and am loving it. It’s in a similar vein to the Song of Ice and Fire Books. “Realistic” Fantasy, where the main characters are very flawed, complicated people. What I really love about the book so far is how on target his stuff is about how dysfunctional societies are and it’s somewhat libertarian in its view of the state. Very good stuff. I will be reading all his books I think. It’s right up my alley.

Avengers Teaser

Google and Kindle

I’ve been using Chrome almost from the start as my browser. It’s been great, But when they started making it like a tablet OS for Chrome Books, they began adding apps like Apple has on its devices. They’ve added a ton of great free apps to Chrome that you can check out from the Chrome store.

This includes lots of games like Angry Birds and Bejeweled 3. Tons of great free tools as well. And Google Books and Kindle cloud reader. Both are places you can get a lot of free books to read on any device.

I’ve really been enjoying Kindle. I’m trying to decide if I want a Kindle Fire or a iPad. I am waiting for the iPad 3 to come out before I decide. I’ve been playing with the Fire in the store, like Staples, and enjoying it but I think I want a larger screen like a iPad has.

What I really like about ebooks is you can carry a whole set of books around on one light device, and pick up where you left off from any other device. I can read a book from home, and go to some other computer elsewhere and carry on reading where I stopped. I’ve been a big proponent of ereaders for many years but I’m finally getting around to really using them.

If you sign up for Amazon Prime which is free the first month, there are tons of free books for you to read including best sellers. Its great. And I downloaded a bunch of collections for $2 like the Robert E Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs collections which has a whole slew of their work.

Bob Clampett: John Carter of Mars

Hard to believe the animation genius of the 40s and 50s first did a John Carter of Mars test animation in the late 1930s. Now Disney is finally coming out with their Barsoom movie this year.

The Public Transportation Scam

Publicly funded mass transit wastes money. Gov. Jerry Brown of California wants a high speed rail connection northern California and with the Southern part even though there isn’t a great demand, will cost insane amounts of money and the state is broke. This is what statists do to look like they are doing their job. Wasting the public funds. Privatized rail is the only way to go.

More here at Reason.

Why???

Abortion and Human Rights

The Judge makes some very good points about Roe vs Wade. I’ve been pro choice for many years, but the more I studiedly the matter the more I’ve come to believe it should be more restricted than it us now. Not made illegal but not as easy as it has become. I also find it an interesting comment on the left that they want abortion totally legal but are against the death penalty and wanted Terri Sachaivo killed right away.

News?

The Emperor’s Caravan

Obama is a parody of stupid politicians.

[ht: Gateway Pundit]

Dr. Evil: Romney = Obama

The man who has done significant harm to the U.S. and helped engineer Obama’s election in 2008, also admits to being a Useful Idiot.

Is Capitalism Outdated?

No, eurocrats and statists are.

Obama’s Many Lies

Well, he gave his state of the union address which was full of lies and false promises, not to mention class warfare arguments that are a huge part of the Democrats message this year. Glenn Beck gave a run down on some of Obama’s many lies here and its worth watching even if you don’t like Beck. He lists the many lies and false promises Obama has made since taking office. And its an ugly list.

The fact is this president is damaging our economy on purpose. Damaging our liberties on purpose. Doing serious harm and his administration is easily the most blatantly corrupt since Harding. This is going to be an ugly year, watch and learn. Obama is beatable but we have to wonder what criminal acts will be performed by these people to stay in power. That are very blatant about what they’re doing and no one is seriously challenging them on it.

Today my Mom told me about a guy she knows who made 60 cupcakes for his kid’s school only to learn that they were sent back because Mrs. Obama isn’t allowing sweets from home to come into the classrooms. Parents are no longer able to put cookies in their child’s lunchbox, they will be taken away. I don’t know if this is a local school policy from the guidelines given by the first nightmare or not, but iof this is going on across the country i suspect there will be a lot of angry voters in November not happy with the president. Let’s hope.

State of the Disunion

Tonight the glorious leader president will give what will hopefully be his last State of the Union address. The state of the union is horrible. But he wont tell you that. He will try to tell you what a great job hes been doing. He will kick off his reelection campaign a series of lies and deceptions which he will use throughout the year.

So let’s look at the facts as Joe Curl has provided them.

The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent — at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial Times writes, “if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.”

In addition, there are now fewer payroll jobs in America than there were in 2000 — 12 years ago — and now, 40 percent of those jobs are considered “low paying,” up 10 percent from when President Reagan took office. The number of self-employed has dropped 2 million to 14.5 million in just six years.

Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years. (By the way, if you’re keeping score at home, gas was $1.40 a gallon when George W. Bush took office in 2001, $1.68 when he left office — a 20 percent increase.)

Electricity bills have also skyrocketed, with households now paying a record $1,420 annually on average, up some $300.

Some 48 percent of all Americans — 146.4 million — are considered by the Census Bureau either as “low-income” or living in poverty, up 4 million from when Mr. Obama took office; 57 percent of all children in America now live in such homes.

Since December 2008, a month before Mr. Obama took office, food-stamp use has increased 46 percent. Total spending has more than doubled in just four years to a record high of $75 billion. In 2011, more than 46 million people — about one in seven Americans — got food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when Mr. Obama took office.

Median household income has dropped nearly 7 percent in the last six years, taking inflation into account. What’s more, nearly 20 percent of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents.

Low- and middle-income Americans 65 and older now hold more than $10,000 in credit card debt, up 26 percent since 2005. The average age of the American car is 10 years; in 1990, it was 6.5 years old (by the way, in 1985, Americans bought 11 million cars; in 2009, less than half that, 5.4 million).

On the macro side, America’s annual budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion — and yet the United States brings in only about $2.1 trillion in revenue. The U.S. trade deficit for 2011 was $558 billion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.23 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion. Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term — more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day — $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute.

Remember that part about electricity bills skyrocketing? That was no accident. Here’s Obama promising that is what his policies will achieve if he got elected. He believes that coal plants are evil. They provide 60 percent of the power to the US and he’s forcing many of them to close. And others are being made to make unnecessary changes that are costing billions of dollars.

Mind you, he’s closing down many power plants by using the EPA illegally to do so when congress said no to his Cap and Trade bill. It’s shutting down a large chunk of this countries power plants when there aren’t any coming online to replace them. Not for years. Which will cause power shortages and a lot of other problems, just like in a third world country. Which is kind of the point apparently. That’s what he’s been turning us into. An openly corrupt police state. That’s the real state of the union.

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