Wishing You Peace In 2009

By Righty

Green Man – XTC
 

Fashion, Swimsuits and Politicians

By Righty

We’ve seen Bill and Hillary in their swimsuits.  We’ve seen Barack and part of Michelle in their swimsuits.  I really don’t care to see Joe Biden in his beach attire, do you?

I propose that we stop this nonsense once and for all.  We don’t need to be comparing six-packs and breasts or biceps and thighs of politicians.  Should we open their mouths too and check their teeth?

Men and women pose in swimming suits. One of the swimming suits has fur; a woman wears a party hat with fringe, and another women has a peacock motif on her suit.  Photo:  Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library 1920-1930

Did You Know There Was A National Film Registry?

By Righty

Do you know what it is?

Basically, the NFR chooses diverse films and preserves original copies of them against deterioration.  Every year new titles are added. 

This year 25 films were added:

National Film Registry 2008

1)  The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
2)  Deliverance (1972)
3)  Disneyland Dream (1956)
4)  A Face in the Crowd (1957)
5)  Flower Drum Song (1961)
6)  Foolish Wives (1922)
7)  Free Radicals (1979)
8)  Hallelujah (1929)
9)  In Cold Blood (1967)
10)  The Invisible Man (1933)
11)  Johnny Guitar (1954)
12)  The Killers (1946)
13)  The March (1964)�
14)  No Lies (1973)
15)  On the Bowery (1957)
16)  One Week (1920)
17)  The Pawnbroker (1965)
18)  The Perils of Pauline (1914)
19)  Sergeant York (1941)
20)  The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
21)  So’s Your Old Man (1926)
22)  George Stevens WW2 Footage (1943-46)
23)  The Terminator (1984)
24)  Water and Power (1989) �
25)  White Fawn’s Devotion (1910)

You can see the films selected to The National Film Registry, Library of Congress from 1989-2007

HERE

What I found interesting is that not all films are professional films.  Some are home made films.   The idea is to be “diverse.”  I’ve got to wonder though, about adding the film Deliverance to the group this year.  That is one movie that bothered me when it first came out, and bothered me when I saw it again soon after, and still bothers me now that I saw it again recently.  I just think it’s a disturbing movie.  Perhaps that’s why they think it’s “diverse?”  I don’t know, but I’ think I’ve seen enough of that film.

WASHINGTON – One of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most famous one-liners will be back for generations to come, now that 1984′s “The Terminator” has been selected for preservation in the nation’s film archive.

The low-budget film directed by James Cameron set a new standard for science-fiction and made Schwarzenegger, now California’s governor, a star. The Library of Congress announced Tuesday morning that it’s one of 25 films being added to the National Film Registry. The formal unveiling was scheduled for 8 a.m.

The move will guard Schwarzenegger’s deadpan, “I’ll be back,” against deterioration, along with the sounds and images of the other culturally significant picks. Other titles being added to the registry include the groundbreaking all-black-cast film “Hallelujah” from 1929; Richard Brooks’ 1967 film adaptation of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”; and the 1972 film “Deliverance,” based on James Dickey’s novel about four businessmen on a nightmarish canoe trip in the remote Georgia wildnerness.

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There Will Be No Roasting Marshmallows At This Campsite

By Righty

South Phoenix, Arizona already has one of the toughest prisons in the U.S. as far as living conditions go.  It’s called, ” Tent City” and is run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  You would think would-be criminals would be high-tailing it out of Arizona rather than taking a chance ending up in that prison.  That looks like hell.

With the cost of  running prisons sky rocketing and an increase of prison population, more states may be  considering using tent-like facilities to house prisoners.  Of course, those would be in warm-weathered states.  I know that as a resident of one of those states my concern would be for the safety of my family.  How well are these inmates in these “tent cities” contained?  Otherwise, except for the aesthetics, I don’t think there would be a problem.  In the long run, it might deter crime.

Miami – Florida’s balmy winter temperatures have long been a draw for visitors eager to spend some time under canvas, sleeping on cots and enjoying the great outdoors. But a new plan to expose some of the state’s inmates to the delights of year-round ‘camping’ has failed to evoke the same enthusiasm.

Faced with a budget deficit of $2.3 billion, Florida is saving money by buying giant tents to house prisoners at nine of its 137 facilities. With its prison population having passed 100,000 for the first time this month, corrections officials say that the hundreds of extra beds will also help address potential overcrowding problems.

The state isn’t the first to try the idea. Michigan, Colorado, Arizona, and Hawaii are among those that have considered or used tents to better manage prison populations.

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Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk and Cravings

By Righty

With the holidays almost over (I said almost) have you satisfied your food cravings yet?  Hmm?

I have to admit I really only had one craving this entire holiday season.  Not like I normally do.  Not for turkey, chocolate, ribbon candy, chocolate covered cherries, pumpkin pie, the zillions of Christmas cookies made with real butter that are sitting in the kitchen pantry, the homemade popcorn balls that I haven’t even really given a chance.  And everything is truly wonderful!

What’s wrong with me?  I’ve only had one, one I tell you!  Kopp’s Pistachio Custard, available on Christmas Eve.  Ah, yes.  I just have to have that.  But otherwise, I think I’ve lost weight this season.  That’s just not right, now is it?

So how have your holiday cravings been going?

"Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk"
         Rufus Wainwright

Cigarettes and chocolate milk
These are just a couple of my cravings
Everything it seems I likes a little bit stronger
A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me

If I should buy jellybeans
Have to eat them all in just one sitting
Everything it seems I likes a little bit sweeter
A little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me

And then theres those other things
Which for several reasons we wont mention
Everything about em is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder
A little bit deadly

Its not very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Sitting here remembering me
Always been a shoe made for the city
Go ahead accuse me of just singing about places
With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town

Playing with prodigal sons
Take a lot of sentimental valiums
Cant expect the world to be your raggedy andy
While running on empty you little old doll with a frown

You got to keep in the game
Retaining mystique while facing forward
I suggest a reading of lesson in tightropes
Or surfing your high hopes or adios kansas

Its not very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Still theres not a show on my back
Holes or a friendly intervention
Im just a little bit heiress, a little bit irish
A little bit tower of pisa
Whenever I see ya
So please be kind if Im a mess

Cigarettes and chocolate milk
Cigarettes and chocolate milk

Check The Expiration Date

By Righty

“Beginning in February, employers in the United States will not be allowed to use expired documents to verify workers’ employment eligibility.”

“Expired”

Let’s get this straight here.  All along we haven’t been able to drive with an expired license; or with expired license plate, either.

When you shop, you check the date stamped on food items for expiration dates.  You aren’t supposed to buy any food with expired dates. 

The point is, expiration dates are there for a reason.  And with important documents, they are often used in order for retesting purposes, or for updating your identity, as in with a new photograph.  So, it’s quite puzzling to me as to why currently, employers in the United States are allowed to accept expired documents to verify workers’ employment eligibility.  How ignorant is that?

The interim rule, published on Wednesday in the Federal Register by the Homeland Security Department, aims to streamline the employment eligibility verification process and crack down on fraud. As of Feb. 2, 2009, expired U.S. passports or state-issued driver’s licenses and other outdated identification cards will no longer qualify as valid documentation for Form I-9. Social Security cards will not be affected by the change because they do not expire.

“Expired documents are prone to fraudulent use in the Form I-9 process by aliens seeking unauthorized employment,” the Federal Register notice stated.

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By Righty

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A Fresh-Cut Christmas Tree

By Righty

What?  Christmas is over.  Why is she talking about Christmas trees?

You may be asking that of me.  I still have my Christmas tree up and decorated.  It is a fresh tree.  It still has almost all of its needles.  It was a good year for a fresh tree.  I usually take my tree down on New Year’s Day or the closest weekend after that.

When the new year begins, something else will begin for a certain group of farmers.  Christmas tree farmers will begin planting a new crop of Christmas trees.

“Christmas is over, but for Christmas tree farmers the work is just beginning so next year’s boughs can be even brighter.

Tree farms across the South – whose operators feared the economic downturn would trim their tree sales – are already beginning to lay the groundwork for the next holiday season.

“The work starts now,” said Perry DeWeese, who began the tedious task of cutting down stumps and planting new seedlings Friday at his Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm, a 7-acre plot in west Georgia. “Essentially, the day after Christmas is the day we start all over again.”

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Looking For A Safe Investment? Try Prisons

By Righty

This caught my eye.  You can invest in the stock of prison firms.  Or, you can buy public bonds.

For those of you who are concerned about the growth of the prison-industrial complex, a recent article in Forbes titled “Hiding Out In Prison Bonds” points to the private prison industry as a growth sector. One way to benefit is to invest in the stock of prison firms like Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group (Wackenhut). But another investment option is through public bonds.

Since the early 1980s most of the new prisons in the United States have been designed, built, and operated by private firms. It’s a highly profitable business.

But where do they get most of their money to build new prisons? Not from their own stockholders, but from bonds issued by states and counties. Not general obligation bonds that are approved by voters, but rather from revenue bonds that are issued often with little public notice or input.

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The Brits Have Their Heads In The Sand

By Righty

It’s always been obvious that the Brits were skewed in their thinking, but after allowing the tyrant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to have free run of their air waves, they are just a very sad, pathetic joke.  Anyone who knows anything about the history of Ahmadinejad knows he’s in panic mode, especially regarding the election of Obama, and he is grasping at straws in order to cause turmoil.

LONDON – Iran’s president is offering season’s greetings to Christians in a British TV address and suggests that if Jesus were alive, he would oppose “bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers” — an apparent reference to the U.S. and its allies.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Christmas Day broadcast will be delivered on Britain’s Channel 4 television, occupying a slot that provides an often controversial counterpoint to Queen Elizabeth II‘s traditional annual message, the station said Wednesday. A leading British Jewish body said it was appalled.

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The Israeli ambassador to London condemned the speech as a “bogus message of good will.”

“That (Channel 4) should give an unchallenged platform to the president of a regime which denies the Holocaust, advocates the destruction of the sovereign state of Israel, funds and encourages terrorism, executes children and hangs gay people is a disgrace,” Ron Prosor said. “Outrage doesn’t begin to explain it.”

British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell echoed the comments, saying the broadcaster was “aiding and abetting a tyrant.”

“This is the equivalent of giving (Zimbabwean ruler) Robert Mugabe a prime-time television slot to promote his propaganda,” he said

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