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I was browsing newsrag and found an article that says canola oil is bad for you. It even backs it up. To beat all it says lard, tallow, and animal fat are really good for you. I have been told for years the exact oppisite!
Has anyone else heard about this?
what does the government have to worry about?
_record deficeits
_2 wars with American dying daily
_energy shortages
_10% unemployment with record industrial capacity loss
_I could probably go on for awhile here...
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what the government is worrying about?
_Mr & Mrs Nobody crashed a state dinner and shook hands with the U.S. President
_yeah, sounds like regular government logic to me...
I think the Fu Mafia game might be addictive. What's the give away to that you ask? Well I got to work Friday to find a co-worker had stolen my parking space. So I backhanded them 12 times. On a positive note, I was stress free inside the building. :)
As for my co-worker, the health will regenerate right? Right?
I love Halloween. I love handing out candy, seeing all the great costumes and talking with parents. I even keep up with trends.
_For a few years there, you never saw smaller children without their parents. I noticed this year less parents as they stayed in the cars. What few adults I did see mostly stayed along the edge of the road. I realize adults are tired but its still a good ideal to stay close to your children. If nothing else, you can grab their hand and hold them back to keep them from darting back out in the road. Not to mention when I was taking my daughter trick or treating, I liked to visually check out the people who were giving out the treats. I could usually remember which house gave out what treat. People nowadays tend to treat at houses they know which is a good ideal but I saw quite a few I did not know so obviously not everyone was following that ideal.
_I noticed this year no flashlights much. A few adults carried them is all. When I was a kid you could buy these orange cones that fit over the end of a flashllight and lit the area in front of you. (Then again, when I was a kid, flashlights were made of all metal, and made in USA.} This was the stuff in my book because as well as looking Halloweeny when you dropped your candy you had a way of finding it in the dark. Not to mention approaching traffic could see you. I did see glow sticks. They help you to be seen but not see where you are going.
_Reflective tape has dissappeared. God I hate that, because as well as flashlights, reflective tape helps children be seen. Only one costume had reflective tape this year. He was dressed as a fireman. His partner was a policeman. I didn't realize he had a partner in the dark until the dark blue police uniform stepped on the porch. All I could see was the reflective tape from the fireman. In every town I have passed thru, police have vests with reflective tape just like firemen so where was this guy's tape?
_Stores and the news said Micheal Jackson costumes were popular this year but I only saw one MJ costume. Speaking of costumes, the best costume I saw was a 1 year old wearing a blue cow costume. Her older brother, 2 years old was wearing pooh bear, which is a timeless favorite in my book. I thought they were home made costumes but the mom said they were from Wal-Mart. The best adult costume was a dad dressed in drag. The hooker dress, army boots, and real looking wig. {Army boots?!??} I didn't know he was a dad until I got a good look at his face. The beard was a dead give away.
_This year our local hospital did not X-ray treats. They used to do that around here looking for hidden objects. There was a big scare around here a few years back with someone saying there were broken razorblades found in children's apples, and tainted candy. It was a Halloween hoax and a scare story but a terrible one to be sure. A good many shook up parents wanted their children's treats checked out. This is why our hospital did that.
_There was a time was when my mom was the only one I knew of that was fixing treat bags. She would put 4 or 5 little treats in each bag and we put a little sticker on the outside of the bag. We still do that. This year I noticed 2 or 3 other treat bags. One very fancy type bag indeed that kept showing up. One upmanship I suppose. Mom always used brown paper bags. Mom did it to be sure she was giving out the same amount of treats to each person.
_I guess this year's highlights besides the drag queen dad was 2 clown cars. I call them that because so many people come climbing out. One Volvo station wagon had 8 kids and 2 adults. Not to be outdone, a Jeep Liberty had 9 kids and 2 adults. It was quite a chore getting the kids out and back in. Then of all the oversized vans that came thru, I saw one or 2 kids get out of each of those. One of mom's neighbors came thru in a golf cart. It was raining most of the night so I bet that was some ride. One neighbor had a chainsaw and started it up every time he had a trick or treater. That got really annoying as the night wore on. I am glad he didn't get many. A couple years I saw big trucks with hay piled on the bed and kids riding on back. I have seen tractors pulling trailers with hay and kids as well. The rain stopped that this year I am sure. It would seem to me those behemoth vans would be the ticket for carrying kids out to trick or treat but of all the ones I saw, none had more than 2 kids.
_The weather had everyone turning out their lights by 8:30 and mom followed suit so I went back over to my house and noticed the fire department handing out treats and giving information about "learning not to burn" which they do every year. The fire department usually keeps up shop until 9PM.
_It was still a good year with 113 trick or treaters. Sometimes we get more, sometimes less. I am always sad to see it end. But I learned a trick or two myself so next year might be a little more interesting. You can bet I won't have a chain saw however. :P
So I went to see Star Trek on opening day. I have never done that for a movie ever. I did it partly because the previews promised a different sort of Star Trek with true action for a change. I went partly because it was Star Trek "rebooted",and really it needed rebotting or just let die out. I also did it out of spite of a lot of old school trekkies saying bad things about the movie when they had not even seen it.
I was a kid in the 60's when Star Trek first aired. I was a fan of science fiction then as now but alot was going on in the real world 1960's. I watched the "Bay of Pigs' invasion. I watched the Cuban missile crisis unfold and I lived the cold war each and every day of my life. I honestly thought the world was going to destroy itself. I saw the civil rights movement happen. I saw the civil rights marches and riots, Dr. King being murdered, and Mississippi burn crosses. I witnessed first hand women's suffarage and their march from the kitchen to the work place and their fight for equal pay for equal work. I watched the women burn their bras in protest while young men burnt their draft cards in protest of the Vietnam war. I saw my own countrymen; soilders in an army made to protect us; shoot down its own citizens. College kids that were unarmed but for rocks at Kent State U. in Ohio..
And I saw Star Trek on TV. For some strange reason it gave me hope that our planet might settle it's differences and learn to work together. Even at the age of 8 years old, I knew this show was different. Spock attacked the devil stero type and made it something not to be feared but begged to be understood. I saw an interricial cast on the same TV show. An afro-American woman with rank and prestigewas working among men. I saw a Russian on the same TV show. A Russian working with USA people, Scottish people and Asian people. So the show gave me hope that our world might one day resolve its differences and make something of itself. I watched Star Trek attack social stigmas and strike at heart of what was wrong in our country and the world at that time and realized this was something entirely different. Star Trek back then, took on new frontiers that were not just in space. I have also lived long enough to see much of what Star Trek talked about come to pass.
And so I went to see Star Trek rebooted on Friday May 8th, 2009 and my faith in Star Trek is renewed. It is an action packed movie. It has a little of the old, and a lot of new. I really feel Star Trek, is taking on new frontiers once again..
The part of Uhura was an inspiration for both Afro-Americans and women when Trek first aired. It was great to see the role greatly expanded and get much more attention in the new movie. This was something Nichelle Nichols complained about in her role of the character. She never had a very big part. I don't know how she currently feels about the new movie and the part she used to play but, I feel a great justice has been served. I watched her actually interact more with the cast around her. I saw her as a much needed cast member. And just like Trek aired one of the first interrical kisses which involved Uhura, Uhura went on to have an interspecies make out scene with Spock of all people in the new movie. It was different for Trek and I felt myself cock an eyebrow when I first saw it but I smiled thinking back about it. I realzied it was true Trek.
I saw Kirk as a little renegade a kid who had lost his father and felt sorry for himself and caused trouble. And for a guy who doesn't believe in "no win" senarios, saw him pick on some really big guys without a back up plan. This Kirk followed some of the better Star Trek novels out there and I was glad to see that. There are a lot of Trek novels which have much better storylines than some of the Trek movies. It is nice to see some novels get their due in movies. Trek fans never accept novels as canon only TV episodes and movies. So the director just wrote some novel into the movie.
Sulu's character didn't get enough due but, the movie payed tribute to his ability as a swordsman. This was a carry over from Trek the original series. I wished it had shown him with a firearm from present day. Sulu had a love {and large collection} for those as well. I guess there wasn't enough movie footage to go around for everything. *sigh*.
Chekov is only 17 in the new movie and that would make him a new cadet. I am not really sure what he was supposed to be in the new movie but he was weapons control and tactical officer in the original series. As I recall that came about at a later date tho. So he sat at the console and helped Sulu navigate, and helped maintain fire control and used his sometime halarious always loveable accent the way he did in the old Trek episodes and movies.
Scotty the beloved engineer started off with a rough start in the movie by teleporting an admiral's beloved doggie to parts unknown while traveling at warp speed. He was found exiled to a federation post on a frozen planet along with Spock Prime played by the original Spock Leonard Nimoy. Also there was the new Kirk exiled there by the new Spock. His part was true to the original Scotty and he had a bit of help with his formulas from Spock just like in the original series. I even got to hear Scotty say "I cannot hold
er much loon ger cap 'en!" I always loved that line.
Spock was shown as a young boy and then again as a teacher at Star Fleet academy before joining the Enterprise. He was as always in the early Trek episodes, trying to hide his human self and emotions. He was torn between his 2 halves as always.This new guy did it well and payed great homage to the Spock character. And even tho Vulcans go thru pon fare once every 7 years, Spock seemed to have his human half libido :P ie; the befor discussed make out scene with Uhura.
The doctor was great. He did an outstanding job of playing McCoy. He inspired some comedic moments as always, and his old passion for life as well, He carried his trusty whiskey flash as always and shared with Kirk again as always.
I realized after the movie, the crew didn't fix the timeline like the crew always did in every other episode so we are seeing an alternate universe unfold in this Trek but that's ok. This new Trek gives us a history of our beloved characters. A history I can accept. It is a history that pays tribute to Trek movies, TV, AND novels for a change.
The movie is action packed from start to finish. You really have to pay attention to keep up. There are twists and turns enough to make it qualify as a roll-a-coaster thrill ride. There was great comedy from all cast members at one point or another and the movie never took itself too seriously while still putting out great action, and special effects.
Two thumbs up from me; go see it :) The movie received a standing ovation at the end on the show I saw. So far this weekend it's took in $75 million bucks. Rotten Tomatoes the web site has it at a 96% approval rating from fans and critics. Its awesome folks :D
So I managed to fry the keyboard to my computer Friday afternoon. I spilled a full glass of diet Dr. Pepper on it to find Friday afternoon it didn't work any more. So the cheapest place to buy a new one is Wal-Mart the catch is our Wal-Mart is new. The newest one and it is busy beyond belief. But super centers stay open 24 hours and I got up super early this morning and went to Biscuitville and then over to Wal-Mart by 6AM> I wandered around about 20 minutes thru what I am sure was by now another zip code entirely and found a new keyboard that is to my likeing. And while wandering around looking for the keyboard I found a good bargin on coffee, some blue jean shorts for summer and diet Dr.Pepper for $2.50 a 12 pack. I also wonder if the average person spends $40 going to the store to buy and $11 keyboard like I do?
