If nothing else has convinced any among my fellow citizens who beyond all reason yet hold to an opinion but that the government of George W. Bush is completely and hopelessly insane, then perhaps this will persuade them otherwise. It's about the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement. From the Associated Press story...The White House on Friday vigorously defended the 14-year-old free-trade agreement among the United States, Mexico and Canada...
Friday, April 18, 2008
Gasoline prices in Reidsville, North Carolina today
Averaging about $3.39 a gallon. Up about 10-15 cents in just a few days' time. And $4.45 has been spotted in at least two places around town. I had to pay a bit more than $50 to fill up my Toyota Camry.While gassing-up at a convenience store on Scales Street I had a spirited conversation with one guy and his mom, about the high gas prices. We all agreed: we are being led by "lunatics and madmen" who probably can never remember the last time they...
DC rolling out Gears of War comic this fall
WRAL is reporting that Cary-based Epic Games and DC Comics have announced plans to publish a Gears of War comic book/graphic novel this fall, in the lead-up to the release of Gears of War 2. The story is to be set after the conclusion of Epic's 2006 mega-selling video game, which saw main character Marcus Fenix giving humanity a dire-needed victory over the Locust Horde.A few days ago I wrote that I'd finished playing the game and how much I enjoyed...
No joke: THIS is what Storm Shadow and Baroness will look like in G.I. JOE
Words fail...There are many more pics of the G.I. Joe actors in their costumes over at What Would Tyler Durden Do, including additional pics of Rachel Nichols as Scarlett, Ray Park as Snake-Eyes, and also Dennis Quaid as Hawk... who looks like a cross between Solid Snake and General Bernard Montgomery.I haven't seen that many tight butts and rubber nipples in a movie since...
More American jobs moving overseas
A few days ago RF Micro announced it would relocate much of its work from its Greensboro, North Carolina plant to China. 80 local jobs will be lost at the microchip plant.And yesterday Dan River, a textiles plant that has been in operation for 126 years in Danville, Virginia, announced it would be closing down. It was a little over a year ago that Dan River was bought by a company based in India.About time to post on this blog a video of James...
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Potential breakthrough in creation of renewable oil receiving too little attention?
WorldNetDaily has published a story about a new process that, if it's economically viable, would use bacteria to break down organic matter like grass clippings and wood chips and convert it into cheap hydrocarbons: the basis of gasoline and diesel fuel. Which would mean a renewable supply of oil for the first time in human history. The guy who came up with the process has calculated that from 2 billion tons of biomass, 5 billion barrels of oil...
DOCTOR WHO meets THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
With the new season of Doctor Who now airing on the BBC (and very soon here in America on the Sci-Fi Channel, thanks for the tip Geoff!) a lot of fans are celebrating the return of the Doctor. Here's what one clever chap did: mashing up footage of both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Doctor from the revived series, with Waylon Jennings' classic theme song from The Dukes of Hazzard...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
WARNING: This post about the government contains the mother of all swear words... and it's about time
The federal government will soon be taking DNA samples from EVERYONE that it arrests.It took almost five years, but the dam has finally burst on this blog.If you have any small children reading this blog, now would be a good time to escort them away from the monitor. Because I'm about to use a word that until now, I've never, ever used of my own volition here. Why am I going to do this? Because I know of no other way to express the anger that...
This is NOT Scarlett!
Somebody doing marketing/promotional work for the upcoming G.I. Joe movie has screwed-up bigtime. Because this cannot possibly be what Scarlett is going to look like...That's so much black Spandex, how can there be any left over to use on the Baroness? She's got the cute ponytail and crossbow (which are iconic to the character) but this outfit is all wrong. I was really...
Just beat Gears of War
And in case anyone's wondering, it was in Casual mode. I might try Hardcore next. And since I never got far in Doom on Nightmare mode, I doubt I'll ever survive Insane on this game :-PI've had Gears of War for the Xbox 360 since late January, and had to re-start several times because stuff kept coming up and with a video game narrative like Gears of War, I like to play it...
The Knight Shift officially endorses Eric H. Smith for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction
Longtime readers know already that I'm very hesitant to hand out endorsements of candidates. Someone running for office has to sincerely persuade me that he or she is the right man for the job.In this case, that wasn't a hard thing at all...As of today, I'm announcing that The Knight Shift blog is officially endorsing Eric H. Smith in the race for Superintendent of Public...
German schoolboy corrects NASA's math on killer asteroid odds
A 13-year old schoolboy named Nico Marquardt has found errors in NASA's calculations about the Apophis asteroid. And NASA has conceded that the lad from Berlin, Germany is correct. Marquardt found that that Earth now stands a much higher chance of getting hit by Apophis than originally determined by NASA. How much was the multi-billion dollar space agency off by? It said that the odds of a collision with Apophis were 1 in 45,000. After Marquardt's...
High school students to get $100 for every AP exam passed
Students at Wilby High School in Waterbury, Connecticut have a chance to clean up: for each Advanced Placement exam that they pass, the school will pay them $100. It's part of a plan to increase participation in the school's AP programs.For what it's worth: I've never liked "incentive programs" like this. For years school administrators across the country have been attempting to "bribe" students to study harder and make better grades: offering...
Is it a police state NOW?
How in the world does a sheriff's department in a mostly-rural west Texas county justify having in its possession an armored personnel carrier?This was a picture taken during the raid a few weeks ago on the property of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.I know there have been some serious allegations regarding this religious group. And hopefully...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
New DOCTOR WHO season burns bright with "The Fires of Pompeii"
"Me no speak Celtic.""We're in Pompeii... and it's Volcano Day!""I am... Spartacus.""You fought her off, with a water pistol! I bloody love you!""Because that's how I see the universe. Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. It's the burden of the Time Lord, Donna. And I'm the only one left.""We'd better hurry. Rocky IV's right behind...
It's 5:18 p.m. EST on April 15th ...
Have you finished your annual tribute to the Almighty Government yet, fellow serf?The income tax is at once the most evil and the most accepted form of slavery of modern times. Has anyone ever stopped to think about how much free time that the federal government demands of us, that could otherwise be used productively, as we the people see fit?Instead we try to earn more to get things that we don't really need, and to pay more and more taxes to...
Ollie Johnston, last of Disney's Nine Old Men, has passed away
This is the second post in a row that I've had to make about the death of someone. I hope this won't be a trend :-(Now word is coming out that Ollie Johnston, legendary animator and the last surviving member of the Nine Old Men - Walt Disney's stable of talent that created most of the company's best-known films and made Disney an enduring entertainment powerhouse - has passed...
