TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 premiered 30 minutes ago in theaters across America

"Our long national nightmare is over." Until my dying day, I will deny that those are real vampires.Not afraid of sunlight? Not repelled by crucifixes or holy water or garlic? Casting shadows and appearing in mirrors? Not sleeping in coffins? Being "sparkly"? No fangs at all?!?"Vampires" my butt. Those are, at most, people with severe eating disorde...

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What does the Bible say? Homosexuality and marijuana use are legal!

And not just legal but apparently endorsed.Found this on Facebook and it was too good not to share... Just more proof that if you study the Bible hard enough, if you want to find something, you can find sanctioning for just about ANYTHING in it!Okay, in all seriousness: I know and would dare say most everyone else knows that the Bible does not condone sexual immorality or...

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Bob Buckley turns in a BEAUTIFUL story about tobacco barns

When it comes to North Carolina architecture, there is no more ubiquitous an example than the humble tobacco barn. You can barely drive half a mile in the rural farming areas without seeing at least one or two dotting the landscape. With some of them dating back a century and more, they once exemplified this state's agricultural acumen like nothing else could.And it is not without some sadness that in the modern era, most of them have fallen into...

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Just back from SKYFALL

Go see it. Now. Trust Chris. And trust Chris's girlfriend too.Let's just say this: I loved Casino Royale. I enjoyed Quantum of Solace. BUT...Skyfall is what those first two movies were building up to. Daniel Craig has been James Bond for the better part of a decade. And now with Skyfall his James Bond is at last, now and forever, 007.If you've seen it already then...

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37 years ago tonight came "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

It was on November 10th, 1975 that the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest ship on the Great Lakes, sank into the depths of Superior. She carried twenty-nine men down with her.The following year, Gordon Lightfoot recorded what is almost certainly his best-known song. It's also one of my personal favorites, and when I found this on YouTube I had to post it here too.Accompanied by video and photos from her construction on through her tragic end and beyond,...

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And on the day after...

...we still woke up. The sun rose again. There was a new morning. Life did go on.In fact, it couldn't sincerely be said that much of anything changed at all.This country, this world even, is not made by the grace of a single man or woman. An individual can render it grievous harm however.But in the end, America - and every other country for that matter - is the result of the diligence of her entire people. And I tend to believe she is only as good...

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Somebody voted for me for President!

Hey, I got a write-in vote from Florida for the office of President of the United States! Not a joke: that is a real ballot a friend turned in this afternoon. I doubt I'll win but hey, at least someone thinks I'm more qualified for the job than Roseanne Barr. That's... something, I suppose!As for my own vote for President: There it is. That's it. The space on my ballot...

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This week's THE WALKING DEAD was the darkest yet

And that's sayin' something about this show...Congratulations producers of The Walking Dead: you finally brought television its most gruesome and disturbing birth scene since Robin's delivery in V: The Final Battle all the way back in 1984:Yeah. It was sicker than that even."Killer Within" raised the stakes. Dropped jaws. And most of all, broke our hearts.Due to peculiar circumstances at the moment I'm not catching The Walking Dead until the day...

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American politics: How to level the playing field

The game is rigged. We all know it. So why do we tolerate it? America owes the old Soviet Union an apology. At least the Soviets had one party rule and were honest about it. Tomorrow is the national election day in the United States. But nothing will substantially change as a result of it. The two major parties, corporate interests and the mainstream media have perpetrated...

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1956 TV appearance by Samuel Seymour

Good friend "lowbridge" informed me about this a few years ago, so I've got to credit him with the find. It's a story that's gained renewed interest because of a certain upcoming movie.So who was Samuel Seymour? He was the last surviving witness of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.And Mr. Seymour lived long enough to talk about it on national television (sharing a stage with Lucille Ball, among others).From February 9 1956, here is...

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Bold prophecy about Election Day

You know what's going to happen to America after Tuesday?Nothing. Not a damned frazzling thing.We will still be taxed too much.Abortion will still go on.TSA will still be molesting children and elderly people.We will continue to be over-extended militarily.Companies will keep relocating their production overseas.Children in our schools will continue to be taught to obey and not question instead of encouraged to think for themselves.Government...

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The Top Ten Greatest Fictional Statesmen

We deserve better.  We should have demanded better.  We should have had higher expectations from those who asked to be entrusted with crafting laws, with the public treasury, with judicial integrity, with command of the military. Let's stop the bullcrap and be honest.  I mean, SERIOUSLY honest.  With an election looming in the next few days here in...

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Shumate revs up the spiritual engine with CARS AND CHRISTIANITY

Awright, disclaimer time ('cuz I believe in that sort of thing): I've known Stephen Shumate for most of my life, though it's been the better part of twenty years since we've corresponded at all. But as is such these days we wound up hooking up again through Facebook. I've always thought Stephen as being one of the wisest and coolest people I've ever met (not to mention adventurous:...

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Penka Kouneva's A WARRIOR'S ODYSSEY: a journey across emotion under fire

In the almost nine years of writing on this blog and not a few write-ups about music, I can't recall doing any review of an original orchestral composition. Mostly it has been soundtracks and albums by "Weird Al" Yankovic. So it is that when a copy of A Warrior's Odyssey - the new album from film composer Penka Kouneva - arrived for review, I made the approach with more than...

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Congratulations Jerel and Grace!

Awright, so it comes almost three weeks too late. I've had a lot going on here and it just kinda slipped my mind.But a wedding is always a good thing to celebrate!So to great friends Jerel and Grace: congratulations on your nuptials! You guys had a beautiful ceremony and I am thankful to have been there to see the two of you off on your adventure through life together....

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Today's ultra-scary BLONDIE comic strip

Out of the mouths of babes... Click to enlarg...

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Too dangerous to make a video out of it...

My Facebook status at 9:03 p.m. EST this evening:ITS FINALLY SINKING IN THAT WE ARE GETTING NEW STAR WARS MOVIES!!! A WHOLE NEW STAR WARS TRILOGY OF 7 8 AND 9 AND MORE NEW MOVIES AFTER THAT!!! MORE STAR WARS IS COMING PEOPLE!!! I DON'T GIVE A FLYING RAT'S ASS WHO WINS THAT DAMN ELECTION NEXT WEEK!!! WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT THAT F-CKING ELECTION??!!?? THE UNITED STATES POLITICAL SYSTEM CAN GO TO SH-T NEXT WEEK AND I DON'T GIVE A DAMN BECAUSE WE'RE...

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