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Does this new template make my bookshelf look fat?

Last week at the library I purchased some videos as I frequently do…

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Among them was “Prizzis Honor”  (honorable mention to “Alive” the true story of the rugby players who eat each other after a plane crash).  Anyway I went home and slapped “Prizzis Honor” into the old vcr and found that it was in fact a different movie inside the box.  It was called “Skipped Parts” and it sucked harder than a republican in a pay toilet.  But it was a deeply perverse film.

It was about a 14 yr old hillbilly boy whose mother is a drunk wastecase living off grandpas hillbilly fortune.  She prefers her son call her by her first name and has a cigar box full of photo’s of guys in football uniforms which the boy thinks might be his father.  Anyway grandpa ships them out to Wyoming since the boy is a bastard and grandpa is running for the hillbilly senate or something.  Well, the hillbilly boy (I’ll call him Billy) and his drunk mother proceed to look down upon the Wyoming folks (how F-ing weird is that??).  Billy then gets involved with this wyoming 14 yr old who want to use him to practice having sex for when she gets a real boyfriend.  Drunk mom (who has found a drunken white trash wyoming sidekick) assists the boy by telling him how to have sex with the girl.  Drunk mom shacks up with an indian.  Grandpa disapproves.  Billy gets his sex practice partner pregnant (huh….how did that happen?).  Drunk mom and sidekick take the girl for an abortion but Lo and Behold the girls MOTHER is there to get an abortion at the moment since she has been banging the football coach.  The good people of wyoming shun Billy and his baby momma.  Grandpa comes into town to run off the injun but Drunk mom takes a job as a diner waitress so she can keep the injun and the bastard sons bastard baby.  They all move into a log cabin together and the movie ends with Billy tending to the bastard child while typing the story as Baby Momma goes to cheerleader practice.

the moral of the story is….WTF???

Anyway, tonight at the library I found the video box for “Skipped Parts” and inside was “Prizzis Honor”

not trying to make anyone spew venom…

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but does anyone have any idea why we are the only industrialized nation with out non-profit health care for ALL its people? Does anyone know why we are paying almost $5.00 per pill for many drugs while the rest of the entire world pays about $1.50 for the same drug, made by the same company? Does anyone have a hope in hell the democrats will step up to the plate and do the right thing? It’s clear the republicans won’t, which is obviously no surprise. This government seems so corrupt I just can’t see it happening, cynical as that may sound.

Wow, this is something and it asks the question

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“will  Hitler  never  cease  to make  news”  ?  Of  course  even  if  this  is  true   by  now Hitler  IS dead   or  if  not  he  should  apply for  the Guiness record of the  worlds  oldest  human at somewhere around  116  .  

here  it is  then  :

http://news.aol.com/article/hitler-dna-casts-doubt-on-suicide-story/690447

this seems a bit screwy to me

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Here is a new news story about a guy who killed his whole family….

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in Maryland.  My topic here is:  Are these loons predominantly wackjob republican cult members?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDK1sJSAsROmH9t_4gM2xhbQ2jOwD9AV64900

There seems to me to have been an increase in this sort of lunacy since the last election…discuss.

Berto is a douchebag….no discussion needed.

just a few things, the posted site is an AOL story

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about the  FLW house  named  Falling  water  ,    worth  having a look  at the  pictures.

http://news.aol.com/article/frank-lloyd-wrights-fallingwater-to-open/687316

The  second  thing  is  I heard  on  NPR  that  there  is a new  ken  Burns series starting  sunday  called ,  National Parks,  Americas  greatest  idea .  Its  a  6 part ,  12  hour  series that  is   likely  very well  worth  watching .  It  will  be on PBS .    

I’ve been to many  of the national  parks  both   the  big  ones  and  the  lesser  known  ones  from   Maine to California  and  I’m  glad  I  got  to see  such  amazing  things and  have  such  great memories  about  whats  out there  in America.  

Allan

Testing

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I am coming to youse guys live from my nifty swifty Blackberry. Walmart had a deal where you could upgrade your Sprint phone and get a Blackberry for free. The same deal was not available at the Sprint store or through Sprint.com. Weird.

What, if anything, does this story mean to you?

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Yes, yes, I know it’s all the Republican Party’s fault and all Republicans should have to stand in front of Ben Franklin so he can do a cartoon about them, and then in front of George Washington, so he can use his Terrible Swift sword to run us THROUGH…  But once that’s all done, what then?  And after I’m dead, any of you Liberals want all the ammunition I bought?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-largeloan-bank-losses-apf-3121886908.html?x=0&.v=3

US large-loan bank losses triple to $53 billion

Regulators say US lenders expected to lose $53 billion in 2009 on loans larger than $20M

  • On Friday September 25, 2009, 9:30 am EDT

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — U.S. regulators said total losses from large loans at banks and other financial institutions nearly tripled to $53 billion in 2009, due to a deteriorating economic environment and continued weak underwriting standards.

According to an annual report released by the four federal bank-regulatory agencies on Thursday, credit quality deteriorated to record levels this year.

The report said total identified losses of $53.3 billion in 2009 surpassed last year’s total of $2.6 billion, and nearly tripled the previous peak in 2002, when losses totaled $19.1 billion.

“While we expected a year-over-year increase in problem assets, given the weak economic environment, declining (commercial real estate) values, and previously weak underwriting, we were surprised by the magnitude of the increase,” wrote FBR Capital Markets analyst Scott Valentin in a research note to clients Friday.

Since 2007, banks have been crushed by mounting losses tied to real estate. Rising mortgage defaults since have helped push the U.S. into a recession. While the economic downturn was first pegged to residential mortgage loans, banks and lenders are now having problems with commercial real estate.

The report, called the Shared National Credits Review program, is prepared and jointly released by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. The report defines a “shared national credit” as any loan or formal loan commitment of at least $20 million that was financed by three or more banks.

Total loans across the institutions reviewed in 2009 was $2.9 trillion. The study looked at 8,955 loans given to about 5,900 different borrowers.

The report said foreign banks held about 38 percent of the $2.9 trillion in loans, while about 21 percent of the loans are held by hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and other entities.

Swine Flu

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My sister, who is pregnant with twins, appears to have the swine flu.  So, um yeah – good thoughts, prayers, whatever you all believe in would be nice.

I don’t know how things are going where you all are, but it’s already all up in the schools here.  A co-worker at my part-time job’s daughter has it, and apparently so do a bunch of other little girls who attended a sleep over last weekend.  I’m amazed we haven’t gotten it at the shelter yet.  My boss said she has already come to terms with the fact that we’re going to get it – she is just hoping that we don’t all get it at the same time.

Mmmmmkay….just finished Bob Woodwards third book on the chimp

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entitled “Bush At war’ or something like that.  Any of you read it?

It was funny….Woodward wrote 2 books trying to cut the chimp as much slack as possible but halfway through the third book he was pretty fed up.  One memorably sarcastic moment came when he was trying to explain how Bush’s speechwriter (“mission accopmlished”, Bring em on, Nice job Brownie) was laboring over the  comical “Plan For Victory” speech that was upstaged and postp[oned by the horrific debacle of Katrina.  Woodward reduces it to “He got himself so worked up he had a heart attack”.

Other memorable moments.  Papa Bush regarding Rice: “Condi’s a real disappointment isn’t she”.

Richard Armitage “Any administration that lets Powell go and keeps Rumsfeld is not worth saving”

The chimps first Chief Of Staff trying to get Bush to fire him “go ahead…just let me have it right now….don’t hold back”

If they weren’t so horrifically damaging they would be comical buffoons.

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