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I’m only making this post because what I’ve been observing since yesterday especially has become so prevalent and provocative, it practically demands being noted.

For sake of those years and decades from now who won’t know what I’m talking about (because it will have been long forgotten), today is the day when a second “No Kings” protest is being had across the country.  This is going to be the latest in a series of allegedly “home-grown activism” by leftists who can’t stop being bitter because President Donald Trump won the 2024 election over Kamala Harris (thank God she wasn’t elected).
I could say much about the events scheduled for today.  About how they are not “organic” at all but are being organized and funded by evil men like George Soros.  I could note that these “protests” will do absolutely nothing because they are in the end about nothing.  They
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Four years ago I made a solemn vow to myself, and I have kept to it. Not only that but my conscience has rested much better because of it…

I pledged to not vote for any candidate for public office who runs even a single negative campaign ad against an opponent.

I’m telling y’all right now that the ballot I cast in 2008 had a lot of wide open empty spaces. But the candidates that I didn’t vote for, it can’t be said that they didn’t earn that. Either because I believed they were not suitable for office on their own merits, or because they violated the terms of my vow.

Look folks, seriously: if a candidate spends millions of dollars attacking his or her opponent instead of telling us “This is what I believe and this is how I want to serve you…”, why should we trust them with ...

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Have to confess that until tonight I haven’t seen any rationale at all for the “Occupy Wall Street” protests going on right now in New York City. I mean, isn’t part of the American dream having the freedom to get as rich as you want to be from honest hard work and taking risks and making investments on those risks?

Let me be more succinct: in my mind, the Wall Street protests are being driven by activists determined to bring about socialism, to the detriment of industry that has allowed this country to boast the highest standard of living of any nation in recorded history.

Is our country perfect? No… and it never will be either. There’s always going to be room for improvement. But socialism has never proven itself in the long term to be a viable model and we would be wise to remember that.

However, tonight I ...

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Two years ago, an online petition drive spun out of this very blog and may or may not have convinced The Powers That Be to release a CD of Steve Jablonsky’s amazing score for the motion picture Transformers.

In 2009, Warner Bros./Reprise did release a CD of Jablonsky’s score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And everything was cool this time, right?

Well…

A LOT of folks have written in here over the past few weeks about how much of Jablonsky’s score for the new movie is missing from the current CD release. And we know for certain that there were plans to publish the full score (or a much bigger chunk of it than we have now anyway) but now, those plans have been officially dashed. It’s currently not set to happen.

But now, a warrior has arisen “to light our darkest hour”!

Mike Casteel, a ...

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A few days go I started an online petition to show support for an album release of Steve Jablonsky’s amazing orchestral score from Transformers. At the time I intended for the petition to reach whoever was responsible for Transformers‘s marketing, and I thought that this should include Warner Records, since that’s the label that produced the Transformers “soundtrack” with music “inspired by” the movie. I was acting under the impression that Warner Records would be the outfit that would release the CD(s) of the actual score.

(By the way, I’ve watched the Transformers “soundtrack” sales rank on Amazon go from #22 this past Saturday to #282 today, just 5 days later. A lot of people are buying this CD thinking it’s the Jablonsky score, and some are returning it once they realize this isn’t the score at all. And word about that is getting around fast.)

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