2012 the End is Near

I took Thursday as an escape from normalcy day and went to Great Escape Movies Theater in Moline to watch the new movie 2012! I was not disappointed.

I really like the Moline theater for the most part. The Davenport Showcase Cinemas should feel ashamed and must feel bathroom envy. The GEM parking is adequate though not great. I do think they really need a stoplight located at the their shared intersection with Wal-Mart. Though if I were an advertiser with the location I would be screaming holy hell at the film quality of the pre-movie advertisements. I could barely view some of the paid advertisements. Now on to the show.

The movie 2012 could have spent a great deal of time dealing with ethical questions on how man and government should proceed during times of catastrophic disasters. They didn’t. The  science, religion and moralizing is kept to a minimum in this movie. It is a big budget disaster movie along the lines of Independence Day. There is a lot of action in this movie. The movie was a hold in your breakfast rollercoaster moment from start to finish. Leave your thinking cap at home –you do not really need it to enjoy this flick.

John Cusack (my favorite Cusack Movies are America’s Sweethearts and Grosse Pointe Blank) has the lead role and his character eats up most of the screen time as the divorced dad trying to get his ex-wife, played by Amanda Peet, and kids to safety. But the English actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor (he was the assassin/operative in Serenity) and Oliver Platt really have the juiciest parts in the movie. Ejiofor plays a soul-searching scientist fighting with his emotions while trying to save what he can of the World. And Oliver Platt plays a hard-edged politician selling seats on the rescue arks to finance a world wide rescue project for a minimum amount of survivors and whom calmly lies to his elderly mother on the phone, informing her all is right with the world and he will see her next week, at the very moment he is he preparing to abandon her and the majority of the world’s population to the ravages of a natural disaster. Woody Harrelson plays a shaggy-haired pickle-munching doomsday prophet who is transmitting government conspiracy stories from his radio mounted in a recreational vehicle located in Yellowstone Part. Harrelson’s final scene in the movie is memorable. The special effects are awesome. I really enjoyed the movie.

Team Obama Still Wagging that Dog

I have been thinking about the reasons why Team Obama member Eric Holder insists on bringing the terrorists stateside to prosecute. Some are suggesting that it is a profit motivated event for Holder and his lawyer cronies. That would not surprise me as politics has become all about the grab for money. It certainly not for the terrorists personal safety, because they are already located in a safer place for them to be incarcerated, than being tossed among some of the various already overcrowded stateside prisons. It is certainly not because it is safer for the public with the terrorists awaiting trials near rural and metropolitan communities. It is certainly not because they can receive any justice stateside that they cannot receive where they are already located. It is certainly not a cost factor, as I heard estimates that cash-strapped New York will be saddled with millions of dollars in expenses -that they cannot afford- to prosecute the terrorists placed in their system. So what does that leave for the rest of Team Obama’s reasoning? Wag the dog? Team Obama’s Marxist agenda has been meeting with considerable public resistance, so much so, that the Obama personal  ratings have plummeted and he has even discussed the possibility of not running for a second term. What better way for Obama to stir up his electorate than putting the terrorists on trial here inside mainland USA? It is a good gamble for Team Obama. The trials will be a high profile media circus and if they mange to successfully prosecute the terrorists, it will certainly boost his public image. And if they get off through some legal technicality – Team Obama will still win some support as they will spin the loss to Blame GW Bush. That would incite the core of Team Obama’s base – the Bush Deranged. And should a terror event arise from out of the wag the dog operation; Team Obama would still find a way to Blame Bush. It is what they have done from day one since they took office. It is how they fuel their followers. And places surrounding the prisons containing the jihadists, like the Quad Cities, will face terrorist danger all for Team Obama’s quest for glory and poll ratings.

Quinn and Durbin Throw Out Welcome Mat to Terrorists

In what seems like a full-court press by the Dispatch/Argus, QCOnline has posted rah-rah articles from Illinois Politicians, a Brandy Donaldson rah-rah article and even a D/A editorial-parroting of our local politician’s cheerleading ovations about the idea of locating Muslim terrorists at the Thompson Prison located in our district. According to the D/A editorial (which was basically Pat Quinn talking points) it is a huge opportunity to add great paying job/s to the area, while actually having prisoners sited in an expensive prison the State does not use – despite considerable overcrowding in other Illinois prisons.

Well there is no doubt the costly to build and upkeep Thompson prison without tenants was poor planning and implementation by our State government. The Dispatch/Argus readership displayed an unfavorable attitude towards moving the terrorists into a facility so close to the Quad City area in the QCOnline poll they posted. As I stated in my previous post – I personally think the risks far outweigh any possible gains. Still local and State level politicians, now joined by the Dispatch/Argus, continue to ignore the public’s discontent over the decision to pursue jihadist tenants for the prison. Is it a great opportunity to add high-end jobs in the region- probably, though the debate is still ongoing as to the real financial gains! The real question, which the editorial avoided – does the risk outweigh the gains? I suppose it all depends upon how you weigh the risks and gains. Why take the unnecessary risk,  is the real question!

I am not sure why the D/A is on the bandwagon to sell out our safety. But for members of the State of Illinois Government, it is all about the Benjamins.  I believe former Judge John Donald O’Shea hit a homerun in his article/evaluation of the situation. The State of Illinois is so cash strapped from years of reckless State Government waste and corruption that they are willing risk the safety of the citizens of this district and State to gather in the considerable cash the Obama administration will offer to the State that houses these dangerous criminals.

You say how can they be dangerous? After all they will be locked up under strict supervision by prison and military personnel. So what? That has never stopped any other dangerous criminals from operating their dirty activities from behind bars. Sympathetic lawyers can act as go between among locked-up criminals and outside criminal cohorts. Guards can make mistakes. Some guards could even be sympathetic to their causes. All it takes is one jihadist like the recent terrorist, whom murdered many military personnel in Fort Hood Texas, to create a similar event of terror at the local level. Plus once on mainland soil some hate on America organization,  like the ACLU, will be doing their best to make it possible for these jihadists to lessen any restrictions that prison/military/government  offcials attempt create. It is what they do. Those types of nutroot organizations motto is  -screw the average citizen and let the criminals can wreak havoc on society. It makes no sense to move these terrorists to mainland USA and create risk. There is no justice here that cannot be served in the more appropriate GITMO prison, where they are already located. But our greedy Governor Pat Quinn along with Senator Dick Durbin and many other government  that are supposed to be serving the citizens of the State of Illinois have got dollar signs in their eyes. The politicians are willing to throw out a welcome mat to terrorists and risk the safety of the citizens of this State and District for thirty pieces of silver from the Obama Administration.

NIMBY – GITMO – Gilligans Island

It seems that the GITMO detainees have once again popped up on his holiness Pope Barack Obama the First’s radar. That is good news and bad news. The good news is we need to quit pussyfooting around with these people being held in prison and serve up whatever portion of justice they have coming. The bad news is, his holiness still wants to remove them from their Cuba based prison and place them in prisons inside the main borders of the US for trials. Worse yet the Thompson Illinois Prison, close to the Quad Cities, is one of those under consideration for their relocation. Normally, I am not a big NIMBY person but in this case I say clearly – not in our backyard, not inside our state or not even inside the main borders of the US. GITMO is the best place to give them their complete justice.

Some are worried about the possible escape of prisoners or prison riot possibilities of these terrorists. Those are possibilities. I am more worried about the possibility of sympathetic criminal elements moving in to the area to get close to their jihadist friends and family and underground terrorist pipelines forming through that association made possible by the lunatic judges and hate on America organizations -like the ACLU- that toss away justice in this country by protecting criminals with glitches in the system. It only takes ONE Crazy Judge and ONE Bloodthirsty  Jihadist to make an act of terror possible. I am not interested in seeing multiple Pachino Hill-like opportunities created for a jihadist by some fringe judge that decides – because terrorist-X was too short, too fat or was not allowed to watch reruns of Gilligans Island while he was incarcerated, thus he should be set free and given the opportunity to reign violent destruction upon this district, state or country. In this case I am a strong proponent of NIMBY. No thank you Obama – I have no desire for jihadists to be relocated to my backyard! At least if they are freed on GITMO they can be dropped off anywhere in the World without ever entering the US. Perhaps someplace like  Gilligans Island could be arranged for their future home.

Someone to Watch Over Us

In a move that should have surprised no one that follows the kiss-ass relationship between local Quad City press and the political scat/talking points that is exported straight from the mouths of the Rock Island County Democratic Politburo – the Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch proved that it does not matter which reporters name is on the byline – they will leave the investigative journalism and challenging questions locked up inside the cobweb encrusted safe, that the local media has left untouched for years. In the most recent interview of Congressman Philobluster Hare by our local watchdogs, err… politburo-bootlicking pooches, the Dispatch/Argus managed to prove that the patronizing of politician reporting skills of the D/A journalists are capable of breaking the gender barriers. Yes instead of the normal D/A male dominated journalistic word-for-word recital of Philoblusters reverberation of Pelosi/Reid/Obama rhetorical promotions –—- the job of repeating the National Democratic Politburo platform was handed off to a female, Brandy Donaldson. Well done Brandy – you’ve come a long way and proved yourself as capable of marketing copy as your male political advertising counterparts. Maybe you could also pick up a few advertising tips from watching AMC’s Madmen, an excellent and introspective show of the 1960’s advertising world. Now get in there with your D/A equals and Sell-Sell-Sell!!! I would say this is just the Dispatch/Argus’ way of crying for their share federal bailout money – but unfortunately,  as QCExaminer is often pointing out – it seems just repeating Philobluster Hare and the local Democratic Politburo word-for-word has been standard-operating-procedure for our local watchdogs, err… sorry about that, politburo-bootlicking pooches for practically forever. Ahh isn’t it nice to have such valiant pooches, someone to watch over me? However there seems to be a problem as the watchers’ loyalty has become passive and even taken sides with the thieves they are supposed to be guarding us from.

Who Joe Biden

Year-after-year I watch people interviewed on the big-city streets fumble around like imbeciles when asked basic questions concerning the country we live in. And I would think being able to name the current vice president of the United States of America an easy question for any US adult at or near voting age. Yet in a recent man on the street interview – only about one-third of the big-city adults questioned, the same regions that always vote overwhelmingly liberal,  could name Joe Biden as VP of the United States. Yikes! Heck I am just a barely educated 29+ year-old hillbilly from a little country school  and certainly no Joe Genius,  but at least I can easily name the Presidents and Vice Presidents all the way back through Eisenhower/Nixon. And yet year-after-year the big-city strongholds of progressive liberalism continue to undazzle me with their historical knowledge of politics. Do they teach anything in the big city schools other than sex, drugs and rock-n-roll?

T O and the UN Giving Me Ten Million Dollars

Holy Cow fellow bloggers! Team Obama and the United Nations want to give me TEN million US dollars!!! Well maybe. At the very least probably; according to one of my recent e-mails- one of the multiple individuals that get e-mail, at one of my shared e-mail addresses has been offered up the Ten million dollars. (Which person is unknown since the correspondence was only directed toward the e-mail box. Does that sound suspicious to you readers?) I thought I would share that fantastic transmission with my fellow Internet voyagers –>

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Subject: From Mr.Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the United States NationalTreasury

Good day to you, I am Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the United
States National
Treasury.President Barack Obama nominated me to be the 75th secretary
of the treasury on January 20th, 2009. I am the president’s leading policy
adviser on a broad range of domestic and international economic issues.I have
spent most of my career at the U.S. Treasury, which I joined in 1988 after
having worked three years in the private sector for Kissinger Associates.

Before going to the IMF, I Geithner was undersecretary for
international affairs
at the Treasury Department under then- Secretary Lawrence Summers.I played a
major role in the Treasury’s efforts to contain the Asian financial
crisis in 1997 and 1998. A biography, furnished by the New York Fed,
highlights
my management responsibilities. I am the director of the Policy
Development and Review Department at the IMF, which has a staff of 180 people.

As a Treasury official, I Geithner participated in a number of international
negotiations, including agreement on international banking standards known as
the Basel accord, and an agreement that created the IMF’s expanded emergency
reserve fund.I am married and has two children to my Name, also received my
bachelor’s degree in government and Asian studies from Dartmouth College and a
master’s degree in economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins
University. Kindly visit the website below to view my personal profile.

Website: www.treas.gov/organization/bios/geithner-e.shtml

The United Nations have given me due instructions, alongside with the World
Bank to wire the sum of $10Million US Dollars Only into your Bank Account in a
Legal way.

For this reason I have contacted you. Below is the Required Documents:

1: United Nations Stop Order Document
2: World Bank Clearance Certificate
3: Proof of Ownership Certificate.

These three documents are needed before i can proceed with the transfer of the
total fund into your Nominated bank account.The United States Department of
Justice, can help you secure this needed documents,I will furnish with the
contact detail of whom to contact, so that this transaction can be completed
without delay.

In the meantime, I want you to re-Confirm the following details to me for your
case file processing.

Legal First and Last Name:
Complete Residential Address & Age
Direct Telephone No & Fax
Legal Occupation and Position
Address of Occupation

Please get back to me as soon as possible.

Thanks and God Bless you.

Mr. Timothy Geithner
Executive Secretary United States
Treasury Department Main Treasury1500
Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20220

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Sigh! I might have believed all the prattle contained in the e-mail despite the poorly worded document, as I am not a wordsmith either. But I am afraid the closing signature of the correspondence leads me to believe it is nothing more than more SPAM and I will not be getting my ten million dollars! I can believe that the immense corruption rampant among United Nations executives would have Ten million dollars of illegal funds they need to hide away from possible honest bean counters. I can easily believe that members of Team Obama could be right in the middle of the fraud – after all it seems efficiency at evading taxes has been an expected part of the résumé of Obama advisors like Timothy Geithner. But any US citizen, not under the media spread viral spell of the False Prophet, knows that any member of the politically correct Team Obama Presidential administration would not have closed the letter with “Thanks and God Bless you”. Now had they closed the signature off with “God Damn America” the letter might have been believable. So I conclude this must be more SPAM from someone out of the country unaware of the “Hate America” leadership nature of our current administration.

The Team Obama Magic Show

A great magician like David Copperfield is successful because he can tell you of the illusion he is about to stupefy your mind with and is still able to offer up distractions that allow him to fool your mind into missing the reality behind the illusion.

Team Obama along with attack dog Nancy Pelosi has just extorted and bribed the House version of Obamacare through the House of Representatives voting process. On November 9^th Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley was in the Quad Cities pimping out that US House legislative version of Obamacare by using his attempts at the magic of distraction. Bruce Braley is not David Copperfield. Like a bad magician incapable of averting your eyes from the trick of the performance -Braley’s message to the media was ignore all the bad parts and just look at the illusionary big picture.

There is a reason the Obama/Congressional attempts at health care reform continue to lose support –the contents of the legislation in both the House and the Senate is full of rotten produce and no matter how much you look at the big picture – the rotten spots have permeated the product and cannot be hidden by a Congressional Magic Show. The “big picture” of Team Obamas health care plan is so full of rotten ingredients it has spoiled the whole creation. And even the most expert Congressional magic could not distract the stench coming from this legislation. And sadder yet an included component of this legislation, that could distinctly win increased support from the public- a written reaffirmation against government funded abortions – in all likelihood will windup getting cut from the final recipe by the Congress. And considering the increased expense it adds to the already gigantic tax costs wrapped up in this legislation  – it would not surprise me if the elimination of pre-eisting conditions legislation eventually wound up cut from the legislation.  Meanwhile Congressmen, like Braley, will travel the country putting on their phony magic shows attempting to sell the country on this expensive product made-up of mostly rancid ingredients. Of course their Congressional illusions only work if the voters allow the Congressional deceptions to confuse the public mind.

ObamaCare -No Dissent Allowed

Team Obama member Nancy Pelosi continues to bully opponents within her own party that disagree with voting for her version of Obamacare. Pelosi is determined to push her own personal agenda over the tops of concerns of party legislators that live in and represents  voting regions that do not worship the Pelosi East/West Coast ultra-liberal progressivism, no matter the political costs to more conservative party members. The 2009 election has already displayed a voting public that is backing away from the hidden nightmares of Obamacare. Pelosi’s thuggish tactics on Democrat Legislators living in more conservative regions could end up costing those Democrats coming up for reelection  -their seats in Congress- if they succumb to Pelosi’s intimidation tactics. Team Obama lives among a world of progressives that imagines and characterizes those whom offer up dissent towards their Marxist agenda as fanatics and racists whom offer up insignificant fanatic and racist thoughts and opinions.

White House Meets Epicurean America

In an upcoming January episode of Iron Chef America – politics will mix with epicureans. It seems that first lady Michelle Obama has sought out the popular cooking show as a way of promoting her cause of healthy eating for children. The show will be a team effort of Food Network Icon Chefs Mario Batali & Emeril Lagasse versus fellow FN Chef Booby Flay paired-up with White House Executive Chef, Cristeta Comerford.  According to a Marian Burros article, the show visited the White House and the chefs wandered through the White House Garden to decide on vegetables that will be used in their creative dishes. The rules were that the Chefs must combine ingredients of the types grown in the White House garden with other FN supplied food components in every dish.

I am a regular viewer of Iron Chef America as well as the original Japanese version of the show. And while it should be an interesting battle – I do not foresee healthy eating habits coming from the creativity of these Chefs. Both Batali and Lagasse could sub for the Pillsbury Dough Boy should he call in sick. “Blue Corn” Bobby Flay, while not of Pillsbury Dough Boy material, is not known for serving health food either. They are all top end Chefs that serve gourmet taste buds, whom seek extravagant cuisine that does not come from healthy eating habits. The prepared foods are often large portioned high-fat high-carb high-caloric treats accompanied by more of the same side dishes. The favorite accompanying ingredient to any dish for the guest judges is usually – BACON! One of the media leaked not so healthy ingredients for this episode also happens to be baby-pig.  And though the some guest judges may look healthy to pencil thin – if they eat meals similar to those served on camera, when at home and away from the show, then they must be often practitioners of bulimia. Great Television Spectacle, you bet! Good politics, probably. Good food, no doubt. Healthy eating habits encouragement – not so much and only at a public pretense level.