Well I finally saw shoot em up, and have to say it was totally under whelming, in fact it was upsetting. I wanted to see it because there were a lot of guns in the movie but it ended up being a slam against the 2 amendment and all gun owners.
The movie starts with the hero saving a pregnant woman from the gun-toting thugs. He does a good job fending the off with the 380. And even delivers the baby. Now I will not go into the fact that you will be hard pressed to get a one shot kill with a 380, not that it isn’t possible but very difficult and he shot about 4 time the number of bullets that gun will hold regardless of the three reloads he does but I digress, anyway the women doesn’t make it, they kill her off with a head shot but the way she was bleeding she wouldn’t have lived anyway. This just kind of shows the level of realism about guns in this movie.
The hero take the baby and tries to give it up but the killers don’t give him the chance, he has to rush in and save the baby.
As the story goes on it comes out that the guys trying to kill the baby are from a gun manufacturer and are trying to kill the baby that would be the marrow donor for the congressman they is ding and is stanch anti-gun guy.
The hero figures this out and goes toe the congressman only to find he’s in bed with the gun company, and will be changing his mind about gun control. This leads the hero to kill the congressman to give the anti-sun movement a poster child or martyr.
As the story progresses the guy leading the thugs is looking in to find out who the hero is, because no matter how many people he throws at him they can’t kill him. He digs up somewhere that the hero is some kind of special ops solder and was the son of a British gunsmith chased to the US by the Uks gun bans. He also uncovers that his wife and child were killed by the lunatic that shot up a McDonalds, also that the hero owned the gun store that sold the lunatic the shotguns used in the shooting. I thought it funny that is wasn’t until the last few scenes that you find out the hero was sloppy in the background check when he sold the gun and was prosecuted for it and is a fugitive because of that.
So we have a fugitive from justice that couldn’t even follow the laws that are already in place proving the point that the gun companies are evil.
What a load of crap.
The laws are in place to help prevent the lunatic from getting a gun legal and the hero didn’t follow them. Not saying that he desired to lose his wife and child, but then he runs and becomes a fugitive. This is your anti-gun poster boy. Not to mention that he very willing execute the congressman and many guards at the gun warehouse, who were doing their job and we legal where he was trespassing.
So this is the man so show that if guns were illegal that the violence would go a way.
I guess I shouldn’t have expected straight thinking from a movie where the hero is able to kill anyone he looks at by just sweeping the gun in that direction, while no one else could even shot sort of strait.If you get a chance to watch this movie, skip it and watch something else more interesting, like paint drying. Your intelligence would be less insulted.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Science Friday
I was listening to Science Friday on NPR tonight. The had an author on that wrote the book "Plan B” Ok I forgot the authors name, but it was basically the plan we should have to curb global warming and what we should do to accomplish that. The plan is the typical push for alternative energy, now I have to say here I am all for renewable recourses. I have a real difficult time with the US being dependant on foreign oil. This has caused us all sorts of problem and will continue to do so considering the oil comes from the unstable regions of the Middle East.
Most of his ideas were fairly typical global warming rant, you know we need to stop using our cars and we should use solar and wind power (at least he wasn’t advocating population control, at least not in this interview). What surprised me was the author was talking about how the market needed to drive this push towards using alternative energy. However his suggestion was to lower the income tax and make up the difference with a carbon tax. I don’t know about you but that is not having the market drive us towards alternative energy. It is more government program.
However this is what he is calling market driven. This is still government control, or the government knows best attitude.
I love how the global warming group is all for government clamping down. It fallows the liberal view that the government will save us all.
Now I believe there is a reason to control our emissions, and find a better way to fill our energy needs, but it shouldn't be done with a tax or government control.
He was right in one aspect; the market is the force that will ultimately make the country go green. It has more power than any government program to shape how people live.Just another global warming alarmist expecting the government to save him. I wonder what he is willing to give up to have the government to fix it for him. He probably thinks he doesn’t pay enough in taxes now.
Most of his ideas were fairly typical global warming rant, you know we need to stop using our cars and we should use solar and wind power (at least he wasn’t advocating population control, at least not in this interview). What surprised me was the author was talking about how the market needed to drive this push towards using alternative energy. However his suggestion was to lower the income tax and make up the difference with a carbon tax. I don’t know about you but that is not having the market drive us towards alternative energy. It is more government program.
However this is what he is calling market driven. This is still government control, or the government knows best attitude.
I love how the global warming group is all for government clamping down. It fallows the liberal view that the government will save us all.
Now I believe there is a reason to control our emissions, and find a better way to fill our energy needs, but it shouldn't be done with a tax or government control.
He was right in one aspect; the market is the force that will ultimately make the country go green. It has more power than any government program to shape how people live.Just another global warming alarmist expecting the government to save him. I wonder what he is willing to give up to have the government to fix it for him. He probably thinks he doesn’t pay enough in taxes now.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Fair Game
So I was listening to NPR some time. There is a show called Fair Game. The promo states they blow up the news of the day and put it back together. They just left out that when they put the stories back together they only use the liberal talking points for their template.
Anyway, the host had John Bolton on tonight. After tonight I really like John. John has gone on record that the recent intelligence report about Iran giving up their nuclear program and has been a critical of Bush and his administration. That last point is I think why he was on the show. The host (I can remember her name o well) was trying to pin john down by saying this report doesn't fit your view you are just going to ignore the facts. I love John’s response; He asked her if she had read the report. Of course she hadn't, she just knew what had been said. John ripped into her about no knowing what Iran had really stopped doing, and that it really was only a small part of the program to create weapons. He then when a little more in to how this report was to effect policy and well we don't really know all the info as the majority is still classified. So in true liberal style because she wasn't getting the answer she wanted, she went to her bush bashing and how John had stated in an article about something he had said against Bush. I'd admit I wasn't listing has hard because I was getting out of the car but John wouldn't rise to the bait and the interview ended really abruptly after that. Not surprising, I'm just supposed that she aired it, probably to fill the quota of conservative time on the radio.
O well I just thought it was funny that she wanted to talk and force a point but because she had not read the report and was trying to use the headlines to prove a political point, or really just a point against Bush and his administration.O well she went on to her music section, which is really a better place for her to talk on.
Anyway, the host had John Bolton on tonight. After tonight I really like John. John has gone on record that the recent intelligence report about Iran giving up their nuclear program and has been a critical of Bush and his administration. That last point is I think why he was on the show. The host (I can remember her name o well) was trying to pin john down by saying this report doesn't fit your view you are just going to ignore the facts. I love John’s response; He asked her if she had read the report. Of course she hadn't, she just knew what had been said. John ripped into her about no knowing what Iran had really stopped doing, and that it really was only a small part of the program to create weapons. He then when a little more in to how this report was to effect policy and well we don't really know all the info as the majority is still classified. So in true liberal style because she wasn't getting the answer she wanted, she went to her bush bashing and how John had stated in an article about something he had said against Bush. I'd admit I wasn't listing has hard because I was getting out of the car but John wouldn't rise to the bait and the interview ended really abruptly after that. Not surprising, I'm just supposed that she aired it, probably to fill the quota of conservative time on the radio.
O well I just thought it was funny that she wanted to talk and force a point but because she had not read the report and was trying to use the headlines to prove a political point, or really just a point against Bush and his administration.O well she went on to her music section, which is really a better place for her to talk on.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Highway Patrol Memorials
Ok have to talk about this. There are memorials on the side of the road here for highway Patrolmen that have fallen in the line of duty. Normally this is a cross, although I have seen a Star of David on one. I have always thought these are according to the troopers’ religion. I feel this is right. The memorial should be to honor them and their family.
Well there is a group call Atheist of America that is suing the Highway Patrol to remove the cross from the memorials. They claim that the highway Patrol is promotion Christianity with the crosses.
This makes me so mad, and I feel this is a load of crap.
If seeing a cross is going to convert you to Christianity you are not strong in your belief anyway, and if a cross can convert someone then pulling the cross will convert someone to atheism. So why is it ok for you to force your religion on me (Yes I feel that atheism is religion, it is a way of belief. I will talk about this later)?
I am sick of people that look for things to be offend about, but really get put out if you get offend by them. Grow a backbone.
I feel that the memorials are for the families of the fallen Patrolman, their families and the other Officers. The rest can go to hell if they are offended.
Just my two cents.
Well there is a group call Atheist of America that is suing the Highway Patrol to remove the cross from the memorials. They claim that the highway Patrol is promotion Christianity with the crosses.
This makes me so mad, and I feel this is a load of crap.
If seeing a cross is going to convert you to Christianity you are not strong in your belief anyway, and if a cross can convert someone then pulling the cross will convert someone to atheism. So why is it ok for you to force your religion on me (Yes I feel that atheism is religion, it is a way of belief. I will talk about this later)?
I am sick of people that look for things to be offend about, but really get put out if you get offend by them. Grow a backbone.
I feel that the memorials are for the families of the fallen Patrolman, their families and the other Officers. The rest can go to hell if they are offended.
Just my two cents.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Hollywood Writers Strike
Ok I just have a comment about the writers strike. They are saying on the news that this strike is going to affect everyone right down to the waiters in the dinners around Hollywood.
OK so they are saying that the people that make money will in Hollywood will spend and help all the little people.
That’s a good concept, but it needs to be applied to rich businesspeople as well. They will spend their money on the waiters and the workmen. They are the ones employ, but somehow this is never considered. It seams that if you’re a businessperson you are hoarding your money (of course given the situation in Washington it might be good to hoard and hide your money).
So why is there a different standard applied to Hollywood than there is applied to Wall Street?Just wondering?
OK so they are saying that the people that make money will in Hollywood will spend and help all the little people.
That’s a good concept, but it needs to be applied to rich businesspeople as well. They will spend their money on the waiters and the workmen. They are the ones employ, but somehow this is never considered. It seams that if you’re a businessperson you are hoarding your money (of course given the situation in Washington it might be good to hoard and hide your money).
So why is there a different standard applied to Hollywood than there is applied to Wall Street?Just wondering?
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Rocky is in the news again
Ok I was listening to the radio this morning, because I just can’t pass up a talk show. The big news is the strife between Rocky and a veteran group that is going on right now.
Apparently there was a part of the cemetery that was restored or repaired. There was a ceremony that was to take place tomorrow to rededicate it. This is how it has been reported in the paper. The thing is the veteran group is saying that if Rocky is giving a speech they will not come.
I was listening to Rocky give his side, and according to Rocky he was invited and in no way was trying to stir things up. As usually he is totally faultless and it is the other entire guys fault. He even when as far as to say that these people will just write a letter to an editor instead of talking to him,( funny because this is exactly what the leader of the Democratic party did when Ende Green didn’t heap praises on Berock Obama when he visited a select group in Park City) because of course then they would just see things his way and we could all sing kumbyya together. So he says because the problem the whole thing will be scraped. Just bail. Typical Rocky.
OK First I’m tired of hearing how every tine there is a problem that involves Rocky it the right-wingers or those guys fault. I guess those guys include every one that doesn’t fall in line and sing the praise of Rocky. I guess if we all just fallowed blindly behind Rocky we would all be OK, because blind following of the bush administration is bad.
Of course Rocky then went into his bash of the war, and I have to give to Rocky that he is learning and include the Clintons in his rant, after Doug brought the Clintons into it, but every thing that is going on in Iraq is Bushes fault and we should just bail, and they would figure it out after we left. He went off on the Clintons but I still think he would have left them out and the congress that voted for the war out if he could have.
We once he was on his Iraq rant there is no going back.
I can understand some of his points he believes passion about the war, I have a problem hat he has used his position as mayor to further this agents, he would not have gotten the platforms that he has if it weren’t for him being mayor, and it took being beating in a debate to even give the points like that congress that voted for the war should be held accountable as well.
I can see why the veterans would not want him at an event that was set up to honor them. He says that he supports the troops, but doesn’t explain how he does that; all he does is rip down the commander and say that they are an occupying force and should be there. They are doing their job. You can’t tell someone that they are doing an illegal job and say but I support you.Just a few more months and Rocky is gone. I’m counting the days to when he doesn’t have this platform to aduse.
Apparently there was a part of the cemetery that was restored or repaired. There was a ceremony that was to take place tomorrow to rededicate it. This is how it has been reported in the paper. The thing is the veteran group is saying that if Rocky is giving a speech they will not come.
I was listening to Rocky give his side, and according to Rocky he was invited and in no way was trying to stir things up. As usually he is totally faultless and it is the other entire guys fault. He even when as far as to say that these people will just write a letter to an editor instead of talking to him,( funny because this is exactly what the leader of the Democratic party did when Ende Green didn’t heap praises on Berock Obama when he visited a select group in Park City) because of course then they would just see things his way and we could all sing kumbyya together. So he says because the problem the whole thing will be scraped. Just bail. Typical Rocky.
OK First I’m tired of hearing how every tine there is a problem that involves Rocky it the right-wingers or those guys fault. I guess those guys include every one that doesn’t fall in line and sing the praise of Rocky. I guess if we all just fallowed blindly behind Rocky we would all be OK, because blind following of the bush administration is bad.
Of course Rocky then went into his bash of the war, and I have to give to Rocky that he is learning and include the Clintons in his rant, after Doug brought the Clintons into it, but every thing that is going on in Iraq is Bushes fault and we should just bail, and they would figure it out after we left. He went off on the Clintons but I still think he would have left them out and the congress that voted for the war out if he could have.
We once he was on his Iraq rant there is no going back.
I can understand some of his points he believes passion about the war, I have a problem hat he has used his position as mayor to further this agents, he would not have gotten the platforms that he has if it weren’t for him being mayor, and it took being beating in a debate to even give the points like that congress that voted for the war should be held accountable as well.
I can see why the veterans would not want him at an event that was set up to honor them. He says that he supports the troops, but doesn’t explain how he does that; all he does is rip down the commander and say that they are an occupying force and should be there. They are doing their job. You can’t tell someone that they are doing an illegal job and say but I support you.Just a few more months and Rocky is gone. I’m counting the days to when he doesn’t have this platform to aduse.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Talk Radio
Ok I guess I will start with this. I am a talk radio junkie. I will listen to it more than any other radio. We have a talk show at night here that is for the next generation.
After tonight I don’t know how much I’m going to listen to them.
The host Michael was going on about Rush getting in trouble for his comments. Hannity was defending Rush, but Michael was upset about how someone could bad talk military. Funny I didn’t hear him bashing moveon.org for they ad against General Petraeus.
The show is starting to show it’s liberal side.
I stopped listing to them after the tazzing of the college. Michael was so upset that the student was taxed. He feels the taser should be used against a gun, but not against a student. He feels the student’s first amendment rights were stomped on.
The student was trying to make a scene and was given the chance to comply in a peaceful manner. I understand that the taser is to be used in this situation, but I’m not a cop a cop should be asked.
I only bring this up because he was so upset that people questioned the officer in the Mark Foley case, so much that he brought a cop in to verify that an arrest should have been made.
Ok I can respect this, but now that here is another situation that a cops action is being question he is not getting the cop back to get the cops side of a situation.
So he is picking and choosing what he gets upset about.
Of course I’m still listening. Michael is attacking Pres Bush vetoing the CHIP bill. Pres Bush. He tries so hard to not do the talking points but he eventually gets back to that. He calls for the Republicans to put carp to the side, but call doesn’t go to the Democrats.
To be fair Michael does do a good job of being in the middle, but he is still harder on the Republicans than he is on Democrats.
I missed the segment, I will have to log on and listen tomorrow to see how he handles it, but as he went off early I don’t expect him to be nice to Rush.
I’m Ok with him being rough on Rush, but then he needs to be rough on Moveon.org as well for doing the same thing. I’m not sure if this makes sense, but he is doing the same thing he complains about. I’m fair and balanced, so trust me.
This is going to be hard to express. It's good no one will be reading this
After tonight I don’t know how much I’m going to listen to them.
The host Michael was going on about Rush getting in trouble for his comments. Hannity was defending Rush, but Michael was upset about how someone could bad talk military. Funny I didn’t hear him bashing moveon.org for they ad against General Petraeus.
The show is starting to show it’s liberal side.
I stopped listing to them after the tazzing of the college. Michael was so upset that the student was taxed. He feels the taser should be used against a gun, but not against a student. He feels the student’s first amendment rights were stomped on.
The student was trying to make a scene and was given the chance to comply in a peaceful manner. I understand that the taser is to be used in this situation, but I’m not a cop a cop should be asked.
I only bring this up because he was so upset that people questioned the officer in the Mark Foley case, so much that he brought a cop in to verify that an arrest should have been made.
Ok I can respect this, but now that here is another situation that a cops action is being question he is not getting the cop back to get the cops side of a situation.
So he is picking and choosing what he gets upset about.
Of course I’m still listening. Michael is attacking Pres Bush vetoing the CHIP bill. Pres Bush. He tries so hard to not do the talking points but he eventually gets back to that. He calls for the Republicans to put carp to the side, but call doesn’t go to the Democrats.
To be fair Michael does do a good job of being in the middle, but he is still harder on the Republicans than he is on Democrats.
I missed the segment, I will have to log on and listen tomorrow to see how he handles it, but as he went off early I don’t expect him to be nice to Rush.
I’m Ok with him being rough on Rush, but then he needs to be rough on Moveon.org as well for doing the same thing. I’m not sure if this makes sense, but he is doing the same thing he complains about. I’m fair and balanced, so trust me.
This is going to be hard to express. It's good no one will be reading this
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