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President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Hardcore teabagging Republicans already believe that President Barack Obama is just like Adolf Hitler because he wants every American to have access to quality health care. How on earth are they going to take the news that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?

They are probably drawing little Hitler mustaches on his face at this very minute.

I’ll admit that I like the man and that I voted for him to be president. In fact, we still have an Obama-Biden bumper sticker on both our cars. I think he’s doing a somewhat good job as president. Granted, he hasn’t started pulling combat troops out of Iraq like he said he would, but I have faith that he will get around to doing what he said he would do about Iraq.

I’m just not seeing what he’s done to warrant winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Read the full article »

21 Comments by Rick  /  October 9, 2009  /  Posted in: News
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When it comes to the ending of the ‘Watchmen’ movie, I agree with Hitler (SPOILER ALERT)

We went and watched Watchmen yesterday. Though I absolutely loved the movie, I didn’t care much for the ending. Not because it differed from the ending in the graphic novel (because it did), but because it was flawed.

In the graphic novel, the cold war comes to an immediate end by the introduction of a giant space squid that destroys much of New York City. People realize that they must stop waging war against each other. No matter what our differences are with each other, we have much more in common with each other than we do big giant space squids. The big giant space squid unifies all of mankind.

In the movie, there is no big giant space squid. Instead, a massive bomb based on the same technology that gives Dr. Manhattan his god-like powers is detonated not only in New York City, but in major cities all over the world. Dr. Manhattan is immediately blamed for the attacks that have killed millions. The cold war still ends, but instead of mankind uniting against the threat of giant space squids, it unites against the threat posed by Dr. Manhattan.

And that is where the problem lies.

A giant space squid that destroys much of New York City is neutral. Dr. Manhattan that deploys massive bombs in the world’s major cities is not neutral.

For years Dr. Manhattan has been the poster child of American power. Not only was he once a man, he was an American. Nixon after all used Dr. Manhattan to bring an immediate and swift end to the Vietnam conflict turning it into the 51st state. I’m not so sure the rest of the world would unite with the United States. I’m not sure the the rest of the world would see the United States in the same way that it sees all the other countries attacked by Dr. Manhattan. If anything, Nixon using the power of Dr. Manhattan in Vietnam would have likely united the world against the United States.

That’s not to say that I didn’t love this movie. Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach ridiculously good. He was born to play the part of Rorschach. His portrayal of Rorschach was truly Oscar worthy.

The level of graphic violence was at the same level with directer Zack Snyder’s other graphic novel adaption, 300. I was somewhat surprised by this. This movie is definitely not a movie for children or the squeamish.

I enjoyed this movie and I’m looking forward to watching it again and again when it’s released on Blu-ray.

3 Comments by Rick  /  March 8, 2009  /  Posted in: Comic Books
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Hitler’s lost U-boat fleet found in Black Sea

During World War Two, Nazi Germany transported six U-boat submarines 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping in the Black Sea. The subs operated out of Romania for over two years, hunting and sinking dozens of Russian ships.

When Romania switched sides and declared war against Germany, it left the remaining three subs – three had already been lost in combat – with nowhere to go. They were scuttled by their crew as the war neared its end.

The location of the three U-boats has been a mystery. Until now.

Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer, has located one of the subs two miles off the coast of Turkey sitting 8o feet under the surface. He believes he knows the location of the remaining two.

I’ve always wanted to dive a U-boat. There are about seven that can be reached by SCUBA here on the east cost of the United States. I got to dive ship wreaks while I was in the Air Force and stationed on Guam. There is one Japanese tanker from Word War Two sitting atop a German cruiser from World War One. I once dove deep enough so that I could put one hand on the German ship while placing my other hand on the Japanese tanker. It turned out to be highly anticlimactic.

Guam had a lot of cool dive sites. It didn’t have any U-boats.

Link (Telegraph.co.uk)

5 Comments by Rick  /  February 4, 2008  /  Posted in: General
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Blaming Bill Clinton is getting kind of old

The Disney Corporation which owns the ABC network is producing “The Path to 9/11″, a docudrama that recounts in dramatic fashion the many events that lead up to the terror attacks of 9/11. The six hour docudrama will be aired on ABC Sunday September 10 and Monday September 11. Oddly enough, Monday happens to be the five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.Evidently the 9/11 docudrama’s producers simply made a lot of the story up, even though they are claiming the docudrama is based on the 9/11 Report. Not that I’m against making stuff up and passing it off as fact. It’s just that they are trying to put much of the blame for 9/11 on former President Bill Clinton. There is a scene in the docudrama showing a crack team of CIA ninja assassins lead by Donnie Wahlberg about to spring into action and kill bin Laden. Before they can act, they get a collect call from someone in the Clinton Administration telling them to stop. To not kill bin Laden. The problem with this scene is that never happened. Nobody in the Clinton administration ever stopped the CIA from killing bin Laden.

Hasn’t Bill Clinton been blamed enough for things he had absolutely nothing to do with?

If Disney is going to make shit up about 9/11, why not be a little more creative then to simply blame Bill Clinton? It’s old. Why not go all out and blame the 9/11 attacks on Adolf Hitler. They could show that Adolf Hitler traveled to the future in a Nazi time machine and created the Al Qaeda terrorist network. The rightwing has been using the made up word Islamofascism quite a bit lately. Though Hitler was not Islamic, he was a hardcore old school fascist. It even says so on Wikipedia. Plus, Adolf Hitler hated Jews.

Now this would be a kick ass docudrama. They could show Donnie Wahlberg and his crack team of CIA ninjas racing to locate the Nazi time machine and Islamofascist Adolf Hitler. One of the Austin Powers movies featured time travel. Same goes with a couple of the Star Trek movies. The one with the whales was exceptionally good. Remember the Back to the Future movies?

The precedent of traveling in time has already been set.

Disney is missing the mark with this 9/11 docudrama. I applaud them though for having the courage to make shit up. Too many times, documentary film makers adhere to facts when it comes to telling a story. Most of them are beholding to the all powerful historian lobby. A bunch of stuffy know-it-alls assholes that wear tweed jackets with leather patches on the elbows. They smoke pipes and like to talk about Winston Churchill.

It’s refreshing to see a company like Disney have the courage to be a different. To spice things up. To think outside the box. I only wish they had been more original in their fabrications. A little bit more creative. Simply blaming the Clinton administration for everything is worn out.

by Rick  /  September 9, 2006  /  Posted in: Politics
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