by Anthony Barnes
So James Cameron thinks global warming is just as dangerous as WWII? And he is imploring us to do something about it. Lets just put this into perspective.
First James before you tell someone else to do something perhaps you should give up your mansion which I am sure uses quite a bit of electricity and energy.
Or if you can't do that maybe you could not fly on a private jet to promote your anti-military movie, about blue dirt-worshippers.
Maybe you could just stop making movies, because you know James there is a massive amount of energy used up to run the computers, cameras, and lighting that it takes to bring a movie to life.
When are these people going to admit it that this is their religion. Stop trying to make it into a life or death struggle for the planet, and just admit that your life is empty and your trying to fill it with this junk science to give you a purpose.
Not to mention the giant slap in the face to the sacrifice the honorable men and women who served during WWII. To minimize the horror and memories by comparing a debunked and dishonest science to the greatest calamity of the 20th century is inexcusable.
So next time James when you feel like preaching your gospel to the masses and minimizing the struggles of our grandfathers with your twisted idealogy why don't you just bite your lip.
Afterall you used to be a truck driver so maybe you should concentrate on your own carbon footprint before you tell others what to do.
Harry "The Iraq War is Lost" Reid: The Republicans need to stop rooting for failure
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posted at 6:36 pm on March 5, 2010 by Allahpundit
A choice snippet from his floor speech this afternoon accusing Republicans of having mischaracterized what he said about this morning about America’s big 36,000-jobs-lost day.
And while the majority leader said that February’s job losses were “undeniably devastating,” Reid argued that job losses were much less than they could have been had Democrats not acted with their stimulus measures over the past year.
But Reid also lashed out at Republicans who’ve opposed many of those policies, accusing them of rooting for the economy’s failure for their own political game.
“And I warn them, once again, that this country has no place and no patience for those who root for failure,” Reid said to the GOP.
If this country had no patience for people like that, his ass would have been tossed ages ago. Not because he once thought the war was lost — a lot of people thought that — but because he insisted upon it, occasionally in the most reptilian political terms, in ways that few others did. Everyone remembers him declaring defeat but few people remember this, from 2007:
Senior Democrats are calculating that if they keep the pressure on, eventually more Republicans will jump ship and challenge the president — or lose their seats to Democratic contenders…
Added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.: “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.”
That’s not all. After Bush ordered the surge, Dingy had to cope with the prospect that it might work. His solution? Simply refuse to believe Petraeus if he came back with good news. A few months later he supposedly told a conference call of nutroots bloggers that Petraeus and Peter Pace were incompetent, just in case they were inclined to start believing the reports of progress too. As late as December 2007, after it was already widely accepted that the surge had begun to turn things around, he was still arguing to the contrary. And why not? There were Senate seats at stake, after all.
Via Greg Hengler, here’s a mash-up of this tool’s hypocrisy in action. Honestly, I’m starting to come around to Michael Roston’s position: Between his rhetorical miscues and his mismanagement of the caucus, we really can’t afford to beat this guy this year. He’s too valuable to us. Reid in 2010!
UPDATE: Ravens Sign WR Anquan Boldin
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by Mike Duffy
Mar 5, 2010, 6:38PM
The big-bodied wide receiver Ravens fans have been clamoring for is heading to Baltimore.
It took a third- and fourth-round pick to acquire receiver Anquan Boldin and a fifth-round selection from the Arizona Cardinals. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Boldin, 29, will get a three-year contract extension worth $25 million, giving him four years in Baltimore since he is in the last year of his original deal.
“Anquan is a player who makes the tough catches and he is outstanding getting yards after catches,” said Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome. “He will also help the running game with his blocking skills. He’s a very tough competitor and, with the way he plays with passion, he’ll fit right in with the foundation we have for our team.”
The three-time Pro Bowler would add one of the NFL’s toughest targets for a Ravens offense that acquired deep threat Donte’ Stallworth last month. The Ravens have made no secret about their desire to add more weapons around quarterback Joe Flacco, who will enter his third season under Cam Cameron’s scheme.
With Derrick Mason and Kelley Washington’s current standing as unrestricted free agents, the Ravens could move forward with Boldin, Stallworth and restricted free agent Mark Clayton, who received a second-round tender. Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh recently expressed his desire to re-sign Mason, who wants a two-year contract, and the Ravens could still bolster their receiving corps through the draft.
“The Ravens just got better,” Harbaugh explained. “Anquan is a significant addition for us. He fits the personality of our team with the hard-nosed, physical way he plays. We love the way he competes. Our fans will enjoy watching him compete and his teammates will be excited to have him with us.”
Said Boldin: “I’m definitely excited. For me, I’ve been hoping for this for a year since I first heard that the Ravens might be interested in me. I even talked with Ray [Lewis] about it a year ago. I really look at this as a great opportunity for me. They love football in Baltimore. I know that from when the Cardinals played there a few years ago. That place was loud, very impressive by the fans. The Ravens play a certain way. They play as hard and as physical as any team in the league, and I want to add to that. I think I play the way they play.”
Entering the league in 2003 as a second-round draft choice out of Florida State, Boldin quickly burst onto the scene with 101 catches for 1,377 yards and eight touchdowns. And, he never stopped, as his 586 career catches rank seventh most and his 7,520 receiving yards sixth most in the NFL.
Boldin has battled injuries throughout his career, however. He missed both of the Cardinals’ playoff games last year with ankle and knee injuries and sat out four games in 2008 and 2007.
Reportedly, Arizona was asking for first and third-round picks last offseason in exchange for Boldin, who was frustrated over his contract.
Multiple outlets reported that the price dropped this offseason and that the Ravens were battling the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs to make a trade for Boldin.
by Anthony Barnes
Well Harry Reid thinks that 36,000 people losing their jobs is a good thing, maybe in his world an unemployment rate of 9.7 percent is super, the real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, but for those 36,000 its not a great day in America.
One can only imagine the reaction by the media if a Republican made the following statement, but Prince Harry gets a pass. Perhaps they are watching the Admistration's official public service ad below Prince Harry.
OFFICIAL OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC SERVICE AD
‘If the Senate cannot find $10 billion to pay for a measure we all support, we will never pay for anything.’
By Jim Bunning
I have been serving the citizens of Kentucky for nearly 24 years in Washington. During that time I have been a member of both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. I have taken thousands of votes in relation to spending the taxpayers' money. I will be the first one to admit that I have cast some bad votes during my tenure, and I wish I could have some of them back. For too long, both Republicans and Democrats have treated the taxpayers' money as a slush fund that does not ever end. At some point, the madness has to stop.
Why now?
Last week, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., asked to pass a 30-day extensions bill for unemployment insurance and other federal programs. Earlier in February, those extensions were included in a broader bipartisan bill that was paid for but did not meet Sen. Reid's approval, and he nixed the deal. When I saw the Democrats in Congress were going to vote on the extensions bill without paying for it and not following their own Pay-Go rules, I said enough is enough.
Many people asked me, "Why now?" My answer is, "Why not now?" Why can't a non-controversial measure in the Senate that would help those in need be paid for? If the Senate cannot find $10 billion to pay for a measure we all support, we will never pay for anything.
America is under a mountain of debt. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a hearing last month that the United States' debt is unsustainable. We are on the verge of a tipping point where America's debt will bring down our economy, and more people will join the unemployment lines. That is why I used my right as a United States Senator and objected.
Only in Washington
After four legislative days of impasse, I reached a supposed deal with Majority Leader Reid to have an up-or-down vote on a pay-for amendment that would fully fund the legislation and not add to the debt. Only minutes before the vote, Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver to set aside my amendment and not vote on the actual substance of it. Only in Washington could this happen. The Democrats did not want to vote on my amendment because they knew they were in the wrong and ignored their own rules. Hypocrisy again rules the day in Washington.
I have 40 grandchildren, and I want them to grow up in a country where they have all of the same opportunities I had as a child. I fear that they will not have those opportunities if Washington continues on its course of spending without paying for it. We are at over $12 trillion in debt. I know many Americans sit around their kitchen table and make the tough decisions. It is time for the politicians in Washington to do the same.
Jim Bunning is a Republican senator from Kentucky.
by Greg Gutfield
MONDAY'S GREGALOGUE: HE'S BACK, AND BACKIER THAN EVER
Well, he's back like Chucky, and twice as Yucky.
I speak not of my former houseboy Roderigo (we still can't find him, alas), but Al Gore, who mysteriously disappeared as his self-propelled universe of climate change hysteria started to crumble around him.
Gore was always "the boy in the plastic bubble" - he could go anywhere and say anything he wanted about the coming apocalypse - but you couldn't say anything back. He was protected by the shared assumptions of a like-minded media, fawning academics and that cool habit of skipping out of conferences before those awkward Q and A sessions.But now he's reared his hallucinatory head - in yet another bubble - the New York Times op-ed section. There he addresses the "climate-gate" mess - but being a true believer, he prefers to call it an "attack" on science, and focuses only on details he feels comfortable defending.
He sidesteps Phil Jones' revelations of no global warming in the last fifteen years, and the fact that the famed "hockey stick" graph that Gore embraced like a bag of éclairs, is a fraud.
So what is Gore's defense? He writes...
"But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes."
And therein lies the hubris. Fact is, just months ago, Gore would have told you there were no mistakes when it came to manmade global warming science. Belief was pure.
Now, after all the fabrications, cover-ups and "mistakes" have been exposed, you have the commander-in-climate...shrugging.
Of course, he still clings to catastrophe, pretending it's based on fact. But facts are not what you're hearing. What you're hearing is all the air coming out of the bubble.
And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than a racist homophobe who eats polar bears.
by Mike Preston -Baltimore Sun
As far as ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. is concerned, the Ravens' top mission during the NFL draft will be to find quarterback Joe Flacco some talented receivers.
Forget about a cornerback and pass rushers. Those are secondary issues. The main emphasis should be allowing your franchise quarterback to grow.
There wasn't much room in that area a year ago, Kiper said.
"Before the last regular season started, I went on record and said the Ravens had the worst receiving corps in the NFL," said Kiper, who resides in Harford County. "They had Derrick Mason, a No. 2 playing No. 1. Mark Clayton never caught on, and Demetrius Williams didn't live up to his potential. Kelley Washington was solid at No. 3, but they might let him go with Williams during the offseason.
"Selecting offensive tackle Michael Oher last year helped in pass protection, but in a league that has gone pass-happy, the Ravens rely on running back Ray Rice. They've got to get Joe some help. When you don't, it stunts the growth of really good quarterbacks."
The Ravens have the No. 25 overall pick in the draft, and Kiper says they could fill most of their needs as far as finding a receiver, tight end and cornerback.
According to most draft experts, Oklahoma State's Dez Bryant is the best receiver coming out of college, and he'll probably be gone by the time the Ravens select.
But Kiper says the Ravens don't need to trade up to get a quality receiver. He expects a lot of defensive players to be taken in the first round, and the Ravens should just hold still.
"The Ravens could trade up, but it is too costly," Kiper said. "There are more health issues regarding this draft, particularly of possible first-round players, than I've seen in quite a while. So, do you trade up to get Bryant, who has had his own health issues?
"I think if the Ravens stay where they are, then they can get a quality receiver like a Demaryius Thomas out of Georgia Tech or Arrelious Benn, from Illinois. Either one of those guys could help the Ravens."
Or, Kiper said, the Ravens might opt for a tight end in the first round, such as Oklahoma's Jermaine Gresham. If the Ravens take a wide receiver, they might take a tight end in the second round.
" Todd Heap had a solid-to-OK season, but his age has become a factor," Kiper said of the Ravens' starting tight end. "L.J. Smith gave them nothing at that position. So, it is of vital importance that the Ravens get multiple receivers out of this draft, I'd say at least two, to improve the play of their quarterback and the passing game."
The Ravens would like to come out of the April event with a cornerback, too. Lardarius Webb had an outstanding rookie year in 2009, but he tore an anterior cruciate ligament late in the season. Fabian Washington, once a starting cornerback himself, also tore an ACL last season.
Veteran cornerbacks Chris Carr and Domonique Foxworth were playing reasonably well at the end of the season, but the Ravens need another cornerback in the mix.
Kiper said the Ravens can find one in the third or fourth round, just as they found Webb in the third last April out of Nicholls State.
Donovan Warren out of Michigan and Iowa's Amari Spievey, both of whom he labels as second-tier cornerbacks, would fit the bill.
"Just because we're projecting them as second-tier means we think they will go third or fourth round, but that doesn't mean they can't play," Kiper said. "Webb wasn't projected as a first-round pick last season, but he had a great year, and the Ravens hit on him.
"The Ravens are one of the better drafting teams in the NFL. You make your team with fourth- and fifth-round picks, and it helps if you can get a lot of those. The Ravens haven't had a lot, but they do well with the ones they get.
"Look through the years. They found guys that no one else wanted like Mike Flynn, Priest Holmes, a Bart Scott, Kelly Gregg, Jameel McClain, even a B.J. Sams. Sure, they will have their misses,but they are good at finding entities that no one else thinks can play."
Breck Eisner's "The Crazies"
Review by Anthony Barnes
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Modern horror movies are in really bad shape today, what with the endless remakes(Friday the 13th, Halloween, and coming soon A Nightmare on Elm Street) and pointless sequels like the "Saw" franchise, which seems to go on and on with no end in sight. 'The Crazies" belongs in the first category of endless remakes. It was an equally bad movie when George Romero directed it the first time and they should have just left it with that. With that being said here we go.
The film takes place in the very rural and isolated town of Ogden Marsh. As if you can't tell by this time this is what Hollywood thinks of middle America, not too bright hicks with the exception of Sheriff David Dutton(Timothy Olyphant) and his wife Judy a Doctor(Radha Mitchell). The troubles start when the town drunk waltzes onto a high school baseball game with a shotgun in hand and is taken down by Sheriff Dutton. The town chalks it up to the man being drunk that is until later a seemingly sane farmer burns his house down with his wife and son in it.
Dutton is then notified that several hunters found a dead pilot in a swamp just at the outskirts of town. Dutton then takes to boat and comes across a large military aircraft that has crashed into the swamp, and by some form of osmosis or Einstein powers of deduction decides that the craft was carrying something that got into the drinking water of the people of Ogden Marsh. David pleads his case to the mayor to shut the water down so no more can be infected but of course the mayor will have none of it(think the mayor in Jaws who was determined to keep the beaches open because of the money that will be made, same concept except it will ruin the farming community) and before long more and more people become infected.
Before David and his wife can leave the city we find out who the true bad guy is in this movie. Drum roll please....You guessed it.....the military shows up and delcares martial law on the whole town. Just when you thought you were going to see a somewhat zombie movie you are then forced to watch a portrayal of the men and woman of the armed forces (who in real life are fighting 2 wars oversees and serve honorably) kill and detain civilians in makeshift concentration camps, and blow mothers heads of and burn their bodies with flamethrowers. Now I like carnage in my movies and horror movies are favorite genre, but for God's sake can Hollywood get some imagination and come up with a different villian besides our military. It turns out the plane was carrying a biological weapon that was on its way to Texas to be disposed of. Why dispose of it in Texas you ask? I don't know is the answer. The weapon ( like Sheriff Dutton acurately assumes in approximately 5 mins after finding the plane) found its way into the drinking water.
When the escape is finally made we are left with an end that is incredibly ridiculous. I say ridiculous because if you do see this film keep in mind that the rest of the country is supposedly unaware what is happening in this town. The ending will leave you scratching your head and wondering how is that possible. Look I love zombie movies, but this movie is not one, you see less zombie destruction in this movie than you do military destruction. The scares that you do get are predictable, and more of the jump out of your seat shockers with loud shrieking music to go with it. I didn't like the way the military was portrayed and the story just dragged on for far too long.
You may like it and if you do then we definately have different tastes in horror movies, but I like my horror served raw with a side of suspense and a topped off with imagination, something in my opinion this movie does not have. I say wait for video if you don't want to blow $30 on tickets and popcorn.
3 stars out of 10
Sunday, 02.28.2010 / 8:57 PM / All-Access Vancouver By John Dellapina - NHL.com Staff Writer Share VANCOUVER –
It was a psychological ploy of course. But it also had a lot of truth to it.
Team USA Brian Burke spent the months leading up to these Olympics and every day since the cauldron was lit telling everybody that his club was a decided underdog that nobody expected to contend for anything more than perhaps a bronze medal. Given the daunting quality of some of the other teams and the fact that American hockey was turning a page to a younger generation, Burke was absolutely right.
Except, that is, for the presence of Ryan Miller. In a sport in which the one man between the pipes can nullify any and all disadvantages for one game or even a series of them, Team USA had the best of those men.
No, Miller did not win gold for the Americans. He did everything but.
Ryan Miller was the best goalie of the tournament," U.S. defenseman Erik Johnson said. "He was our best player every game."
Having stopped 42 shots one week before to lift the Americans to victory over a Canadian team that came at them in waves, Miller was doing it again Sunday.
He stopped 23 of 25 through two periods, keeping Team USA in a game in which it was slow to find the high-energy style it had displayed throughout the tournament. Then he stopped seven more in the third – including a fully-extended toe save on a Dany Heatley slam dunk midway through the period that made it possible for Zach Parise's goal with 24.4 seconds left to send it to overtime.
Canada kept coming though, firing seven more shots at Miller during the 7:40 of overtime. The seventh, by Sidney Crosby, found the back of the net, leaving Miller without the only accolade he wanted from these two weeks: a gold medal.
"I feel good about my game," Miller told NHL.com afterward. "But it kind of stinks coming up short. I guess I'll get some perspective in a few weeks."
Perhaps, so will the folks who didn't quite know about Miller coming into this tournament. The ones who weren't aware that, had he not been injured early during the 2005-06 season, he undoubtedly would have been on the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team. Or that, through the first five months of the NHL season, which resumes Monday night, Miller has been perhaps the best goaltender in the League.
In 355 minutes against a galaxy of NHL stars in these Olympics, he allowed just eight goals on 147 shots. His .946 save percentage led the tournament. His 1.35 goals against average not only led the tournament, it shattered the American Olympic record, set by a guy named Jim Craig, who posted a 2.14 GAA in 1980.
Miller shut out Switzerland in the quarterfinal and then was shutting out Finland in the semis when U.S. coach Ron Wilson, in a nice gesture, replaced him 8:29 into the third period to give veteran Tim Thomas a chance to play some Olympic hockey. Throw in the 3:09 that followed a Sidney Crosby goal last Sunday and the 12:50 until Jonathan Toews beat him on a no-chance goal in the first period of the gold medal game and Miller went 124:28 without being scored on.
Quite simply, his play enabled the predominantly young Team USA to contend for gold four years ahead of the schedule most had mapped out for them.
"It's a little too close right now," Miller said when asked about that. "This is not the way we wanted it, but I think we earned a lot of respect. Our guys came here as an afterthought to a lot of people and I think we started a new trend with USA Hockey.
"We know we were trying to help USA Hockey turn a page. And I guess this is a good start. But it kind of stings at the moment."
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