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2012 movie review

Today we saw the movie 2012. Now I have read and heard that the movie was anti-Christian prior to seeing the movie and debated even going to see the movie and supporting it. The director is supposedly a gay, anti-Catholic. I have no idea if he is or not. There are movies I refuse to pay money to see due to the actors or directors benefiting from my money either at the movies or at Blockbuster.

First off I did not feel, see, or hear any anti-Christian tones; and I was looking for them. Some say that because the movie showed things like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio DE Janeiro crumbling and the Sistine Chapel ceiling falling in on Cardinals that it was anti-Catholic. I feel that this is not the case. A Wal-Mart in Philly doesn’t have the same meaning and reverence as the statue and chapel do and makes for better TV. If anything, it showed that in times of turmoil people turned to their faith to get them through it. It also showed the Pope standing in a window when the building collapsed on the followers below. I still did not get that the Catholics were bad from this seen. I saw it as the Pope being the most important man (in religion) talking to his people during a time of crisis.

I recommend seeing this movie and in a theater. The effects are better than average. I am not easily impressed by special effects now that we live in the computer age. One thing I wish they would have spent more time on was the basis or scientific proof of the Mayan calendar; the basis of the movie. There is no reference to the bible. The movie is based on science but they don’t cover much of it. It is more about surviving the aftermath than the time up to December 21, 2012.

I do not feel that the world will end like the movie is portrayed. I do think that something big is going to happen on 12-21-2012. I feel that if what happens is not done by nature that some wack job will take it upon himself to do something stupid. Let’s just say I may not build a bunker and be sitting in it on the 21st, but I guarantee that I will be stocked up on essentials that I would use anyway. It will be right after hurricane season so I will have plenty of can goods, batteries, and such but in addition I will have plenty of ammo, guns, and other things to survive in a mild state of chaos if need be. Better safe than sorry. Like I said, I won’t stock-up on anything that I can’t use at a later date if nothing happens. You can bet your sweet ass I will have lots of caps to pop in dat ass. Later.

It is the little things in life...

The other day I was out running some errands. I ended up picking up some jalapeno popcorn at a gas station along the way. On my last stop, WalMart, on my way back to the truck there was a crackle; a bird that looks kind of like a blackbird but is brown. Pretty good size bird though. They were in the parking lot scrounging for food. After I got in the truck and started the a/c, I threw out a piece of popcorn for the bird to see if it would take it. It did and it's friends saw the free handout and started gathering around my truck. My door was between two other vehicles. One was a small silver car and a huge one ton truck. Well, the silver car was closer to the ground so a couple of birds used it as a staging/landing area. A minute later I had well over thirty birds eating popcorn about the time the owner of the little silver car showed up. It was a little silver haired lady. She kept hollering "shooo" and "get out, get out!" If looks could kill some of you would be attending my funeral today. She sure didn't have the Christmas spirit in her eyes. I laughed my ass off and drove away. I only wish I had thrown some on her windshield wiper gutter so the birds would have followed her for a while tryin to get the popcorn out while driving down the road. Later.

Military salute, Americans cover their heart, muslims recite a prayer form the koran and do nothing with their hands

Yep, y'all voted for him. Reminds me of the ten year old a few posts back that refused to say the pledge. And I bet that anonymous commenter would say that he served in the Army for the right of his muslim president to not say the pledge. Moron. And we still have 3/4 of his term left to go. The economy is in the crapper, the "real" unemployment rate is over 16.5%, and we tax paying workers are about to get the biggest dick in the ass we have ever gotten when this ridiculas healthcare shit passes all the way through. God help us; because obama and the dimocraps are tearing this great country apart. Later.

This is just the beginning. When the feds get involved everything will go to shit. Now all of a sudden breast exams are not that important. You need to wait longer and have fewer of them? Bullshit! Just wait until the government takes over completely. I can only imagine how much f#cked up it is going to get. Later.

Unfortunately, even if every dumb ass dimocrap realized this muslim was lying from the get go, like us smart republicans did, we are still stuck with his ass for three more years! Later.

How pumpkin pies are really made!

I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. Later.

Cotton Candy feul additive

When you put this stuff in the gas tank of your motorcycle it makes your exhaust smell like cotton candy! WTF! I have never heard of anything like this. I was told there are several other flavors like grape, cherry, etc... I reckon when you are racing someone and you pass them up at least the can smell cotton candy after loosing to you. Weird stuff. Later.

A bad way to get a good message across

Hey there home slice, go check this website out. Trust me, it seems bad at first but there is a purpose and you will see it if you complete the challenge. Here is a link to the article. I can't imagine interpreting this any other way than negative. Later.

Bem Stein's point of view

As President Barrack Obama's poll rating heads south, Ben Stein explains why in The American Spectator:

Why is President Barrack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths: The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barrack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith. They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright. They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator. The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar. Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barrack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future. The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans. Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do. The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

Later.

Take some responsibility why don't you

Here is an article that got my attention:

“I currently don’t have a family care plan, but they told me they did not care and for me to get ready to go to Afghanistan”. Alexis joined the Army in 2007. She is currently a cook that got pregnant soon after basic training.

So the scoop is, she joined the military on her on free will, chooses to get knocked up, and now is refusing to go and do the job SHE signed up for. I don’t get it. How can she sign up for all those benefits of the Army and when asked to serve she refuses? It is kind of hypocritical in my opinion. If she did not want to go to Afghanistan with a child being left back home, then maybe she should not have spread her legs and got knocked up. Bet she did not think of that or did she? Is this her way out of the military because she doesn’t want to go into a war zone? It is possible.

To resolve this issue I feel the Army could offer her a dis-honorable discharge and she relinquish any and all benefits including medical, retirement, etc… or she can do what she told Uncle Sam she was going to do and go to work. It is a horrible situation for anyone to go overseas away from their family but once again, SHE decided that course and she should take responsibility for her decisions. Later.

One of the problems with this country

So here is this kid who is refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Here is an excerpt from the article:

Will Phillips appeared on CNN Monday morning with his father, Jay, to discuss his refusal to say the pledge of allegiance. "I've grown up with a lot of people and I'm good friends with a lot of people who are gay and I think they should have the rights all people should, and I'm not going to swear that they do," the ten-year-old Phillips said. Jay Phillips, asked if his son was prepared for the media attention, said his son saw it as an opportunity to raise awareness. "He felt that just because he's ten years old doesn't mean he doesn't have opinions, doesn't mean he doesn't have rights, and doesn't mean he can't make a difference.”

I totally disagree. First off, I think it is extremely wrong for a ten year old kid to be making a statement or stance on any form of sexuality. There is nothing heroic about this. He has not got a clue of what he is talking about. How can a man allow his child, his son to do this? Both of them are attention whores and this type of shit is at the very center of why the world is as screwed up as it is.

If someone doesn’t won’t to say the pledge, then they should not live under the flag nor sleep with the freedom that comes with this great country. You ungrateful parasite. Take your homo-loving, moral deteriorating, anti-American ass across the water if you don’t like it you dick-smoker. And take that bitch of a dad with you because he has failed you and is worthless to us as a society of God fearing, family loving, Americans. Later.

Fire alarm

I mentioned that we had a fire alarm last night while I was taking a shower. Today I found out what caused it. Steam. Someone taking a shower in room 202 opened the shower door with the bathroom full of steam and that steam set the smoke alarm off in the room. It is procedure that if a fire is in the quarters the power is shut down and only emergency lighting is on.

Today around 0830 we had an "Abandon Platform" alarm go off. About the time I got to the muster station and donned my life preserver the announcement came over the inter comm stating that the gas alarm had been possibly accidentally pushed and to stand down. Fun and games. Later.

Time line of a hard days work

Here is a breakdown of a typical day on this platform:

0515 alarm goes off
0530 breakfast is served
0600 safety meeting detailing the days scheduled activities
0630 go to the work area
0800 or later you get your permit to start work and have a job scope meeting
0830 actually start work
0900 break which includes soup or gumbo
0930 back to work
1045 go to the galley and get something to drink
1130 head to the galley for lunch
1215 back to work
1400 walk around outside and see what activity is going on in the Gulf
1500 break
1525 watch the fish swimming around underneath eating table scraps
1630 watch the fishing boats reeling in the big ones
1730 head to the galley for dinner

Here lately we have been working 15 and 14 hours but tonight we only are working 12. As you can see, we may be paid for 12 but the actual hours worked is far less.

Tonight was steak night and they were damn good. I tore up two great bigguns. The second was rare with blood oozing from the top. Kick ass grub. We currently have 1 foot seas and winds are at 1 to 3 knots. It is pretty smooth out there and should be for a couple more days. Later.

We are cowards

Here is an article by a newspaper columnist and author Mr. Peterson titled “We are cowards”.

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.
This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."
But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.
And the Army won’t. Because it’s senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."
And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.
Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.
Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.
Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.
But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.
Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.
Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.
Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.
There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?
For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.
Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that "he’s a good American." In their world, maybe he is.
But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?
A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.
Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that "Islam’s a religion of peace."
I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.

Later.