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I believe that homosexuality and bisexuality is just as wrong as heterosexual extramarital intercourse, rape and polygamy and for the same reasons.

Do I have gay and lesbian friends?  Yup, sure do.  Plenty of them in fact.  They already know that I cannot approve with a sincere heart the behavior they engage in.  They also already know that though I must judge as wrong that behavior, I cannot judge them wrong as people.  Certainly not as the friends who I am thankful to have.

I don’t believe that “homosexual marriage” is wrong.  I know that it is.  The notion itself is a contradiction against logic and human culture.  “Marriage” entails the uniting of two unique characteristics into one, so that the the sum is greater than the equal of its constituent parts.  That is something among human society that can only be found in the uniting of one man and ...

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Bev Perdue – also known on this blog as “WORST GOVERNOR EVER!” – has done it again. ‘Course to be fair she had help from North Carolina’s lawmakers. Amazon.com has stopped doing business with all of its affiliates in this state: a consequence of, as Amazon.com puts it, “the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor.”

This is already the most taxed state in the southeast. Piling on more taxes is not a smart move by any measure. But sadly folks, this state’s head honchos have long been drunk on wild spending and are desperate for any way they can find to keep their mad orgy going.

North Carolina, ladies and gentlemen: “The California of the Eastern Seaboard”....

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…and it’s being attributed to the official Monty Python channel on YouTube and all the free videos on it.

This was a sales gimmick from the very beginning (see my post from November when Monty Python launched the channel) and, apparently (LOL!) it has been an earth-shattering success! Monty Python is now sitting pretty in the #2 slot on Amazon.com for TV and movies, and as Mashable notes that’s likely because of all of the links embedded in the YouTube clips that take viewers to the appropriate product page at the Amazon site.

The lesson from this should not be lost on those from the RIAA, and others who have been overly-zealous in enforcing “copyright” on the flimsiest of grounds. This story demonstrates more than adequately that YouTube can be a marketing powerhouse and that it is a friend to commercial art, not a foe to be ...

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Here’s one for the “Things We Don’t Really Need But Are Lusting For Badly” file…

The Amazon.com exclusive Gears of War 2 Lancer. Full-sized replica of the workhorse weapon used by Marcus Fenix and the Delta Squad, right down to the bloodied chainsaw bayonet. Squeeze the trigger to activate the chainsaw sound effects and vibrating action. It also features a removable clip.

Retail price: $139.99 and that isn’t stopping it from currently being the #1 video game item at Amazon.

Think I’ll just get the game instead 🙂...

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It’s bad enough that they have a package sent out two weeks after it was ordered…

…but to waste my valuable time with a “customer service representative” who is talking to me from another country and can not speak discernible English at all, when there are plenty of people in America who could both use a job and would not be an insult to the intelligence of Amazon’s customers as their “outsourced help”, is the final straw....

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NOW can we see a wider release for this thing?

After its first week out, Transformers: The Score, Steve Jablonsky’s orchestral soundtrack for the blockbuster movie, has debuted at #172 on the Billboard 200 chart and is #13 on Billboard’s Top Soundtracks. This comes in spite of what MTV has noted was a limited store release with about 4300 scans at the cash registers.

Meanwhile, the Transformers score CD continues to do well at Amazon, where it is now #39 in overall music (having increased in rank in the past few days) and is currently #5 in soundtracks.

Someone… probably a lot of someones… at Warner Brothers Records needs to very strongly consider getting this thing out to a lot more outlets. They are sitting on a goldmine with this CD and the demand is only going to get bigger now that the DVD is out and ...

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There’s not nearly as much news about Transformers: The Score as I wish I could relay to y’all tonight. But here ’tis…

First, word is that Warner Records is still “scrambling” to distribute the score CD. Someone told me that this past week was something of “a shock” regarding demand for this album.

Amazon is still reflecting the shortage. Earlier on Friday morning the site said that it would again be in stock on October 20th. Right now it’s saying that the product “Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks” although some who ordered the CD this past week said on Friday that they received e-mails from Amazon stating that their orders are either about to ship or are already on their way. As of this writing according to Amazon’s product page for Transformers: The Score it is holding strong at #35 in music sales and #4 in movie soundtracks. ...

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Just because yesterday was the release date, doesn’t mean that the struggle is over with. We won’t stop demanding Transformers: The Score …

Bigtime props to Mike Halverson for coming up with that awesome line!

(It’s a paraphrase of the ‘”Til all are one!” final quote from the 1986 animated Transformers movie, in case ya didn’t know 🙂

Now, on to serious business regarding the problems still plaguing the release of the score CD…

Am still trying to get hold of someone at Warner Records about this, especially the Canadian distribution issue. It may take another day or so before I can come back with something definitive on that though, but will keep working on it. Keep your fingers crossed for tomorrow ‘cuz I hope to be able then to talk with someone who can provide some real skinny about what’s going down.

Now about the orders placed through Amazon.com, ...

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