Let's move forward.

The last ditch effort of the Grand Old Party had been a simply vile and pathetic attempt to scare people into voting for Sen. McCain. I know your candidate has not performed well, and that his soul selling attempt to dramatically alter everything he believes in to fit into his parties archaic mold may have backfired. Instead of coming across as an unflinching patriot , a war hero, a maverick, he's been looking more like the archetypal cranky old neighbor who refuses to throw your soccer ball back over the fence, choosing instead, to flatten it, proclaiming things like 'you kids stay the hell outa my yard ya hear!.' Sen. McCain has really sunk so far, it truly is a sad decline in character. Let's move forward.
A disturbing and terrifying reality is that many Americans, are racists; not in the hate spewing, hood wearing way in which some display it, but racists nonetheless. They are new age racists, if you will, people who don't openly say racist statements but have thoughts that fester beneath the surface. Its sad but, many Americans will not vote for a candidate based simply on the color of their skin, regardless of a solid agreement in their policies. America needs to progress past these vividly ignorant thoughts. McCain knows this, and instead of being honorable, instead of showing the American public why we should choose him as our leader over Sen. Obama, he's preying on some Americans racist insecurities and fears by spewing complete fallacies at an alarming rate. Robo-calls which state nothing about himself or his campaign, or their plans, just simply speak in complete lies and inaccurate statements in a last fleeing attempt to cash in on 'the Bradley Effect.' DO NOT BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU'RE READING IN EMAILS OR HEARING FROM THESE CALLS. Racist and ignorant people will always be around, but if we can elect a black man as President we are showing the youth of America that skin color should not be an issue. Not to mention the undeniably progressive message to the black youth of America that anything is attainable. let's move forward.

You can wade through the bullshit by checking FACTCHECK .ORG
A non-partisan site that debunks all the lies and inaccuracies told on either side.
This election could be a turning point for us, don't let these scare tactics sway your decision.
Lets be progressive, let's move forward, lets stop the malignant selfishness which has placed us where we are today, health care should be a right not a privilege, we need to improve our global reputation, please do not be scared away, don't let dirty politics sway your vote. If you don't agree with Obama, then don't vote for him but please, do not cast an opposing vote out of fear. Let's move forward.

JCVD

A new film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, titled JCVD and it looks... good?
For a while, it seemed like the name Van-Damme and quality film was a recipe for a tasty oxymoron.
Maybe Dylan was right 'the times they are a-changin.'

Check the trailer HERE

Synopsis below
When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the reality of a hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly the huge movie star turns into an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions and hopes. How can he be up to the legend he has built? What can a film hero do when the gun pointed to his temple isn’t charged with blanks? JCVD finds himself at the turning point of his “hero” life

Nickelback

I will uncharacteristically shy away from saying anything negative about Nickelback because it feels like the equivalent of mocking a 3 legged dog for its inability to jump a fence. I would, instead like to give them some props, for never has a group sailed through on the winds of generic mediocrity with more raspy and passionate zest than Chad Kroeger and Co. Never has a group been so talented at being talentless. Nickelback are to rock, what 'Loopy Fruit Circles' with the Pelican instead of the Toucan on the box are... to rock.

PS- what kind of a dog cant jump a measly fence?

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

I have been reading nothing but great things about this film for a while now, and after viewing the trailer HERE, I am substantially more geeked out. Let the Right One In is a fresh off the vine vampire tale by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, based on the novel of the same name. It has already won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and the European Fantastic Film Festival's Méliès d'Or (Gold Medal) for the "Best European Fantastic Feature Film" not to mention a current 100% rating on rotten tomatoes.

Heres the synopsis

12-year-old Oskar is a fragile boy living in a village just outside Stockholm. He is regularly bullied by his classmates during the day and, while he never strikes back, he spends the nights dreaming of revenge, rehearsing knife attacks outside his apartment complex. There he meets and befriends Eli, an apparently 12-year-old girl, who has recently moved in next door to Oskar with her father. Eli is a pale girl who only comes out at night and doesn't seem affected by the freezing temperatures.
Coinciding with Eli's arrival is a series of disappearances and gruesome murders. Victims are found with broken necks and drained of blood. Oskar fills a notebook with stories of the killings and realises that Eli is a vampire. Eli helps him to fight back against his bullies, while Oskar reawakens her hunger for love: Eli is trapped forever in a 12-year-old's body, with all the confused emotions of an adolescent. Despite the new beginning, Eli knows that she needs to keep on moving to survive.

Nobody cares.

So apparently the 'new' Guns and Roses* album, Chinese Democrazy has a release date. At this point I'd be considerably more amped at the news of a new Wham! album. Mr.Rose finally deems the public ready for his masterpiece, he is so rock n' roll looking like a 90's hip hop video extra threw up their fashion sense on his dreaded ginger head. Did I mention the pre-order is available exclusively through Wall Mart, now that...is... ROCK. Axl thinks Wall Mart is where rock LIVES! I think, its where it goes to die.

*Axl Rose with random artists is not Guns and Roses.

The Wrestler

I know Mickey Rourke looks like Bobo the clown after a hearty meth binge, however, I'm very glad to report that Aronofskys praised new film, 'The Wrestler' starring the aforementioned Rumble fish has a release date.


12.19.08

Recycling CO2

Using Biocatalysis, a procedure used by employing natural catalysts to perform chemical transformations on organic compounds, a group of scientists have made a breakthrough which they believe can transform CO2 back into the basic building blocks of fuel. This process, commonly utilized by the pharmaceutical industry to create fine chemicals from man made organic material, has apparently, effectively transformed CO2 into methane, propane and Ethane, all which can be used to make higher grade fuels.
The organization is called Carbon Sciences.