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Remember When (Halloween Edition)

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Remember when Halloween movies were scary; when Werewolves and Vampires were arch enemies and very, very evil. It seems as though Werewolves and Vampires today have been made out to be some metro-sexual experience. It started with "Interview with a Vampire" where Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise turned blood sucking savages into some type of artsy, makeup wearing and emotional mess. I think it was better when you had Bram Stockers masterpiece turned film in 1992 - evil vampire kills people - that was it. Onto Werewolves and their cover of Teen Magazine failure in the "Twilight" series. Remember the Wolves in 'The Howling', 'An American Werewolf in London' and 'Wolf' - those were serious beasts; vicious frightening and not to be hugged, kissed, dated, longed for, etc.. Vampires and Werewolves have seen some recent films portray them in the original bad ass light: The Underworld series comes to mind. At least in those semi-recent films the beasties w...

No matter who wins the election, America has changed.

America has changed. Today both parties admitted that the race for the Presidency was razor thin and this means that the country is greatly divided. America has a problem, it has two very different types of thinkers and a common set of problems. Should Obama retain office he will find even stronger objection than he has seen in the past, this is because like most things, blood in the water draws attention. It is obvious now to America that the King is not beloved by all. If Romney wins he will undoubtedly face an absurd obstructionist Democratic regime hell bent on convincing America that Obama was right for the Country. In the end, little will change immediately for America though one must think a change of crowns at least warrants a reshuffling of the economic deck across the World. Whether that is beneficial or not will remain to be seen. This is a cross-roads for America, much like cross-roads in the past where two lines of thinking have come wholeheartedly against one another. On...

Pakistani teen shot for blogging.

Here is something I'd like to know, where were all these people before she was shot by the Taliban? Were they some how confused that the Taliban was medieval in their tendencies? Were they confused about fanatical Muslims? It is unbelievable to me that all the sudden this is an issue - and while I feel for this child - this world is pathetic and totally full of sheeple..... Sheep Unite

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action (AA), a legislative manipulation of statistical analysis since the 1960's is now under scrutiny in America. When AA was created, it was established to level a completely uneven field between whites and blacks in America - and it helped establish civil rights, which was an exceptionally good move by Government. However, today, AA has run its course and is now used to divide and discriminate whites vs blacks, and more so, used as a football for organizations such as NAACP which would be defunct if AA was gone - and that is a lot of money to walk away from. AA was essential and necessary for decades to make up for horrible discriminations of the past and to enforce equal opportunity for all Americans. Today however this has been bastardized from opportunity to success. Now Americans are told that everyone should receive the same results for unequal work. You see it initially in schools as children are manipulated statistically instead of looking towards communal fa...

Sick Cyclical China Syndrome.

Americans cry about a few things such as the cost of products and the pay in jobs, or lack of jobs all together. I hear people cry about the lack of manufacturing in America, however, these are the same people that want to buy a cheap 50" flat-panel TV from WalMart, or a cheap car for Japan. This is the cycle. We want to buy cheap and get paid high, much like the stock market - yet we rail against that. The problem ultimately occurred in the late 1980's and early 1990's - when programs like NAFTA and others encouraged manufacturing companies to move their development and support out of the United States via tax break and regulations demanding business give American workers certain salaries/benefits. Essentially, this is entirely Governments fault. Government carves the regulations that make American industry non-competitive such as some of the strictest environmental laws in the World and insane support of ridiculous labor agreements. It is this regulation and governmenta...