Sunday, January 31, 2010
Imagen de SeasPray Clase Voyager
Como se mencionó en la nota anterior acerca de la version de SeasPray, aqui les dejo una imagen que fué revelada, bien amigos, no hay muchas novedades salgo esta.
Saturday Night Live Spoofs Scott Brown
SNL saw the writing on the wall and was the first entertainment show to take pot shots at President Obama when no one else had the nerve. This is significant considering the show is part of the NBC universe where stations like MSNBC continue to sing Obama’s praises.
This Scott Brown sketch makes the statement that Scott Brown’s arrival to Washington changes ObamaWorld in a huge way.
Update: Video Back Up!
Scott Brown thought the piece was funny.
Via Memeorandum
Via National Review Online
From The Last Tradition
'24' Filming In LA
The following is a blog entry from someone who observed 24 filming at her office building last week in Los Angeles. Thanks to "Call Me K" and her blog: copper-spoon.blogspot.com. Also thanks to Lisa (@K2293 on Twitter) for sending me the link.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Hangin' with Jack Bauer
As if it's not distracting enough to work in an office, where nearby conversations, furies of keyboard clattering and different musical preferences are forced to meld together, add a Hollywood shoot to the environment and the level of perplexity becomes immediately intensified.
From Wednesday through Friday, the cast of the hit Fox show 24 took over the lobby, elevators and outdoor area of my office building, One Bunker Hill. Kiefer Sutherland and gang could be seen throughout the day acting in various different scenes, from some sort of bank heist, to action scenes in the elevators and on-foot chases overtaking the sidewalks.
From Wednesday through Friday, the cast of the hit Fox show 24 took over the lobby, elevators and outdoor area of my office building, One Bunker Hill. Kiefer Sutherland and gang could be seen throughout the day acting in various different scenes, from some sort of bank heist, to action scenes in the elevators and on-foot chases overtaking the sidewalks.
Kiefer playing chess during a break on the set.
Freddie Prinze Jr. getting ready for shooting to begin.
Freddie and Kiefer in between takes. Photo taken from inside Coffee Bean, my coffee shop of choice.
It was clear from the hot dog stand, long line of yellow cabs, and extras dressed in buttoned-up black that the episode is meant to take place in NYC rather than LA. The only thing that remained true to the laid back style of the West coast was the relaxed nature of the crew, including Sutherland, who was nice enough to pose for a shot with me.
Kiefer and I before his next scene began.
'24' Filming In LA
The following is a blog entry from someone who observed 24 filming at her office building last week in Los Angeles. Thanks to "Call Me K" and her blog: copper-spoon.blogspot.com. Also thanks to Lisa (@K2293 on Twitter) for sending me the link.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Hangin' with Jack Bauer
As if it's not distracting enough to work in an office, where nearby conversations, furies of keyboard clattering and different musical preferences are forced to meld together, add a Hollywood shoot to the environment and the level of perplexity becomes immediately intensified.
From Wednesday through Friday, the cast of the hit Fox show 24 took over the lobby, elevators and outdoor area of my office building, One Bunker Hill. Kiefer Sutherland and gang could be seen throughout the day acting in various different scenes, from some sort of bank heist, to action scenes in the elevators and on-foot chases overtaking the sidewalks.
From Wednesday through Friday, the cast of the hit Fox show 24 took over the lobby, elevators and outdoor area of my office building, One Bunker Hill. Kiefer Sutherland and gang could be seen throughout the day acting in various different scenes, from some sort of bank heist, to action scenes in the elevators and on-foot chases overtaking the sidewalks.
Kiefer playing chess during a break on the set. Freddie Prinze Jr. getting ready for shooting to begin. Freddie and Kiefer in between takes. Photo taken from inside Coffee Bean, my coffee shop of choice.It was clear from the hot dog stand, long line of yellow cabs, and extras dressed in buttoned-up black that the episode is meant to take place in NYC rather than LA. The only thing that remained true to the laid back style of the West coast was the relaxed nature of the crew, including Sutherland, who was nice enough to pose for a shot with me.
Kiefer and I before his next scene began. down down the dark ladder....
cold blue steele outta money
When Obama met with the Republicans recently, he looked like a guy trying to calm a bunch of restless 3rd
graders...they cried: "what do I tell my constituents"..." why won't you listen to us?".. "are you going to kill old people??"..well, because you lost the election that's why!!
the Republicans looked like a ghost ship adrift at sea..no leadership whatsoever...nowI hear a group of Repubs are forming a new party..the group consists of Norm Coleman who lost to Al Franken, Jeb Bush and a few other losers...so we got the Tea Party and this new party as of yet unnamed.... and we got people in the spotlight like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich as possible presential contenders for 2012...and then we got Michael Steele, head of the RNC sending people letters asking for money and warning that Obama and the Dems are leading us down the road to radical socialism....the notion is that the gov't is too intrusive now and we are losing our freedom..well, if the gov't is bent on taking away my freedom, then I will lead the charge to overthrow it. But if the gov't is trying to undo some of George Bush's management mistakes, then I say go for it...it will take awhile, but if the private sector is content to rob me via high insurance rates, high gas prices, profits over priniciples, then I would encourage the gov't to use the National Guard to deal with these private monsters...I want jack-booted thugs to get in their fat red faces and get back to democracy with an iron fist..these private sector softies have been getting away with too much for too long...the worst offenders always get caught in their own web of deceit, but there are others out there doing just as much damage to America: namely media monopolies! We have rich criminals buying up papers, radio and TV stations, and numerous other channels to forward their own agendas..if you think anything own by Rupert Murdoch is fair and balanced, then you are a zombie. Now, the bright side of this is cable networks and satellite radio. Sirius XM is growing while terrestial radio is dying..and if you want to invest, you can buy SIRI for under a dollar..I bought a huge chunk at 40 cents a while back. It's up to 84 cents and if it keeps on the right path, everyone wins: you get choice, no censorship and you get rich...and that's the American Dream as I hum a little tune....
"I was making my way through the wasteland..the road into town passes through..I was changing the radio stations..with my mind on you"
When Obama met with the Republicans recently, he looked like a guy trying to calm a bunch of restless 3rd
graders...they cried: "what do I tell my constituents"..." why won't you listen to us?".. "are you going to kill old people??"..well, because you lost the election that's why!!the Republicans looked like a ghost ship adrift at sea..no leadership whatsoever...nowI hear a group of Repubs are forming a new party..the group consists of Norm Coleman who lost to Al Franken, Jeb Bush and a few other losers...so we got the Tea Party and this new party as of yet unnamed.... and we got people in the spotlight like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich as possible presential contenders for 2012...and then we got Michael Steele, head of the RNC sending people letters asking for money and warning that Obama and the Dems are leading us down the road to radical socialism....the notion is that the gov't is too intrusive now and we are losing our freedom..well, if the gov't is bent on taking away my freedom, then I will lead the charge to overthrow it. But if the gov't is trying to undo some of George Bush's management mistakes, then I say go for it...it will take awhile, but if the private sector is content to rob me via high insurance rates, high gas prices, profits over priniciples, then I would encourage the gov't to use the National Guard to deal with these private monsters...I want jack-booted thugs to get in their fat red faces and get back to democracy with an iron fist..these private sector softies have been getting away with too much for too long...the worst offenders always get caught in their own web of deceit, but there are others out there doing just as much damage to America: namely media monopolies! We have rich criminals buying up papers, radio and TV stations, and numerous other channels to forward their own agendas..if you think anything own by Rupert Murdoch is fair and balanced, then you are a zombie. Now, the bright side of this is cable networks and satellite radio. Sirius XM is growing while terrestial radio is dying..and if you want to invest, you can buy SIRI for under a dollar..I bought a huge chunk at 40 cents a while back. It's up to 84 cents and if it keeps on the right path, everyone wins: you get choice, no censorship and you get rich...and that's the American Dream as I hum a little tune....
"I was making my way through the wasteland..the road into town passes through..I was changing the radio stations..with my mind on you"
CRIMINAL MINDS: Esprits Criminels
Paget Brewster shows reporters from La Folie Des Series US the set of Criminal Minds - or Esprits Criminels - during the filming of Retaliation.
We know that Emily Prentiss speaks several languages and Paget is deft at bringing those skills to our screens. Here Paget speaks French and conducts a tour of the bullpen, the BAU round table room, and the jet.
We know that Emily Prentiss speaks several languages and Paget is deft at bringing those skills to our screens. Here Paget speaks French and conducts a tour of the bullpen, the BAU round table room, and the jet.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Top 10 NFL Head Coach Tirades
As we enter the week before the Super Bowl, lets have a good laugh before the endless stories about Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Stains start rolling in.
Via You Tube
From The Last Tradition
Bush Lawyers Cleared in Torture Memo Probe
In a stunning victory that exonerates the Bush Administration’s use of waterboarding that helped keep the nation safe since the 911 attacks, Newsweek reports that Bush lawyers who were targeted by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama will be cleared of any wrong doing.
“Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.”
Full Article Click Here
This hits keep on coming for the House of O!
This probe should never have happened in the first place and if anyone deserves to be investigated, its President Obama himself for treating terrorists like the common criminal who robbed the liquor store last week.
When will that probe begin?
UPDATE: As of yet not many News outlets are running with this story. Uhmm, I wonder why. But, I wanted to get the reactions of Liberals. So below are the first 20 reactions on the Lib site Think Progress. Some of them are quite funny.
1.
WTF? This is down right depressing. I don’t think the Bush Administration will ever be brought to Justice. All the crimes, all the lies and all the deaths they are responsible for and they will walk away. I not only need a beer, I’m getting a shot of rum.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
2.StratRat says:
Sadly, not unexpected. Remember, we mustn’t ‘look back’. Obama thinks it would be rude to do so…
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
3.Bobwurst says:
Is Margolis a holdover from the bush years?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
4.Bobwurst says:
Here’s the answer to my question:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27300
January 30th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
5.drhunt says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
6.Bobwurst says:
drhunt says:
“Good torture”?!?!?!??!
Your logic is a shock to rational minds everywhere. Please crawl back under your rock.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
7.Badger says:
From the Emptywheel link:
Margolis is, however, also tied to the DOJ and its culture for over forty years, not to mention his service in upper management as Associate Attorney General during the Bush Administration when the overt acts of torture and justification by Margolis’ contemporaries and friends were committed.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
8.StratRat says:
We owe them a debt of gratitude.
We murdered many such ‘grateful’ detainees, didn’t we? Men we will never know if they were innocent or guilty. AmeriKKKa has a new fan in drhunt.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
9.Bozo The Neoclown says:
“Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this”
so, shitstain, i suppose you’re also alright with american personel being tortured. right, scumbag?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
10.Ape-Man says:
The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
11. Bozo The Neoclown says:
remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
12.StratRat says:
Ape-Man says:
The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
Even children know better than to torture innocent men. Before Bush, we honored our treaty obligations. Now all of our fighting folks will be subject to the same torture we inflicted on others.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
13.Badger says:
drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious (sic) in order to be effective.
What the hell does that mean/???
Torture sure shocked the minds of impressionable Muslim youth, by turning them into avenging terrorists.
The Military readily acknowleges that all hell broke loose in Iraq after the News of Abu Ghraib hit the streets.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
14.P.D. says:
Bozo@11, Yeah really. And the SOB writes a opinion column in the Philly Inquierer too. So does good ole Ricky (Man on dog) Santorum. I think I’ll throw up now.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
15.paleolib says:
Margolis is needed on urgent business in Lubbock, TX or some other garden spot. Let’s bring some accountability back to some aspect of the federal government.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
16.StratRat says:
Bozo The Neoclown says:
remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
Because the America you and I read about in school is no longer the country it once was. It was once a proud and honorable country. The likes of Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Fox news destroyed what could have been a wonderful place to live.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
17. Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:
drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this.
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
and which you think we should do to O’Keeffe and gang? water board or shock?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
18.just the bleepn facts says:
drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective.
You little nazi limpd*cks think there is “good torture”? And you wonder why people call for you to be put in mental hospitals?
drhunt says:
It need not be illegal to do this.
Because only the criminally insane believe this…
drhunt says:
Yoo and Bybee have constructed legal opinions that will stand the test of time.
Only if we become the fascist state you teabaggers are drooling for. I’m not banking on it, neither should you whackjob.
drhunt says:
They define the tools to be used in intelligence gathering. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
LOL! Torture has nothing to do with intelligence gathering, it’s about limpd*ck p*ssies like you needing to feel “powerful” in the face of being made to feel impotent. It’s nothing more than your psychotic insecurity and lunacy that drives it. We owe them a debt of gratitude for exposing what radical extremist lunatics make up the right wing mainstream!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
19.P.D. says:
Strat@16, Now China is kicking our as* with green energy. And because Bush’s policies banning stem cell research, other countries have advanced in medicine as well.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
20.just the bleepn facts says:
Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
That would Doctor in the same way that “doctor J” is a doctor! ;)
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Via Newsweek
Via Memeorandum
From The Last Tradition
Nueva informacion acera de los "Power Core Combiners"
La UK Toy Fair 2010 nos tiene nuevas noticias acerca de no solo de los Power Core Cominers, sino también de la línea Revenge Of The Fallen, bien, al parecer la line ROTF dejará de llamarse asi y pasaran a llamarse solamente Transformers, en la feria ya presentaron el nuevo empaque en que las figuras saldrán a la venta.
Que curioso que la figura que nos muestran para salir al mercado con nuevo empaque sea Sideswipe no?
Como les decía, las nuevas figuras vendran en estos llamativos blisters, si bien no son la gran cosa pero estan bonitos. En otro tema, nos fueron reveldos los nombres del misterioso Porwer Core Combiner que es un camión de bomberos que vimos unos dias atras, su nombre es Smolder y como ya dijimos viene acompañado de su Mini-Con Chopster, tenemos ya una imagen de la nueva version de Bruticus, al parecer lo que se ve en la foto tiene apariencia de ser bueno, pero hasta el momento no hemos visto nada mas, también se puede ver a Huffer acompañado de su Mini-Con Caliburst, tendremos un nuevo Deluxe Ironhide y otra (una mas del monton) figura de Bumblebee, también ya nos fué revelado el nuevo Seaspray y el nombre de otro set de Power Core Combiners, sus nombres son SearchLight y BackWind, estos dos caballeros son nuevos en la lista asique por el momento no hay imagenes de ellos. Bien, estas han sido las noticias de día de hoy, chau.
american woman...
i don't need your war machines...i don't need your ghetto scenes
hey guys..are you tired of Christian American women?? well, why not try one of these fine Palestinian Muslim babes?? check it out...
Yonkers, New York, United StatesLooking for DatingFamily roots: PalestineRace: Middle Eastern (Palestinian-American)
Height: 5'4" (162 cm) Weight: 130Lbs (59 Kg) Eye Color: Brown Hair: Brown Physique: Firm and toned
Religion: Muslim Smoking: Non-Smoker Drinking: Never Has kids?: No Wants kids?: Maybe Education: Master’s Income: Ask me later
About Me: I am a palestinian woman born in NY , 27 years old. I would appreciate serious attempts to get to know eachother only, meaning I am not a casual dater! I would like to hopefully meet a man with a Palestinian background who is a hardworking and honest person. I am into human rights and creative thinking in the forms of writing, photography, music and art. I love to work out and would like that person to understand my passion for that. As for friends; I am pretty open to people who are good hearted and intellectual. I like to be around open minded people. I am very dedicated to the Palestinian cause. ... (cont'd)..
Female 28 -Never MarriedRaleigh, North Carolina, United StatesLooking for DatingFamily roots: PalestineRace: Middle Eastern (Canadian -palestinian)Height: 5'8" (173 cm) Weight: 145Lbs (66 Kg) Eye Color: Blue Hair: Balding Physique: Petite
Religion: Muslim Smoking: Non-Smoker Drinking: Never Has kids?: No Wants kids?: Yes Education: Master’s Income: Ask me later
About Me: looking for man from my family roots arabic Muslim, can be a good husband and a good father. real man so i can trust and love him.
Female 27 -Never MarriedScarsdale, New York, United StatesLooking for FriendshipFamily roots: PalestineRace: Middle Eastern (Palestinian-American)
Height: 5'9" (175 cm) Weight: Tell you later Eye Color: Green Hair:
Brown Physique: Lean/Slender
Religion: Muslim Smoking: Non-Smoker Drinking: Never Has kids?: No Wants kids?: Yes Education: Master’s Income: Ask me later
Best Attribute(s): subject to opinionAbout Me: hhhmm let's see, i'm palestinian-american...i'm energetic, bubbly, friendly, serious, stubborn, ambitious, sensitive, opinionated, open-minded, outgoing, random, can't hold a grudge for the life of me...i'm a perfectionist, a lawyer, a nerd, a sushi-lover, a pushover (sometimes), a people-person, a wanna-be doctor, a talker, an optimist...i love family, friends, laughing, debating, swimming, the sun, NYC, babies, mr.goodbar, surprises, disney movies, spoken word, indie films... Looking For: anyone who's open-minded, outgoing, doesn't mind talking about politics, likes to read, not judgmental, easy-going, ambitious, concerned with humanity, funny, optimistic, confident, a good-listener ....lol, i'm flexible :) ... (cont'd)
no time left for you on my way to better things I'll find myself some wings....
hey guys..are you tired of Christian American women?? well, why not try one of these fine Palestinian Muslim babes?? check it out...
Yonkers, New York, United StatesLooking for DatingFamily roots: PalestineRace: Middle Eastern (Palestinian-American)Height: 5'4" (162 cm) Weight: 130Lbs (59 Kg) Eye Color: Brown Hair: Brown Physique: Firm and toned
Religion: Muslim Smoking: Non-Smoker Drinking: Never Has kids?: No Wants kids?: Maybe Education: Master’s Income: Ask me later
About Me: I am a palestinian woman born in NY , 27 years old. I would appreciate serious attempts to get to know eachother only, meaning I am not a casual dater! I would like to hopefully meet a man with a Palestinian background who is a hardworking and honest person. I am into human rights and creative thinking in the forms of writing, photography, music and art. I love to work out and would like that person to understand my passion for that. As for friends; I am pretty open to people who are good hearted and intellectual. I like to be around open minded people. I am very dedicated to the Palestinian cause. ... (cont'd)..
Female 28 -Never MarriedRaleigh, North Carolina, United StatesLooking for DatingFamily roots: PalestineRace: Middle Eastern (Canadian -palestinian)Height: 5'8" (173 cm) Weight: 145Lbs (66 Kg) Eye Color: Blue Hair: Balding Physique: PetiteReligion: Muslim Smoking: Non-Smoker Drinking: Never Has kids?: No Wants kids?: Yes Education: Master’s Income: Ask me later
About Me: looking for man from my family roots arabic Muslim, can be a good husband and a good father. real man so i can trust and love him.
Female 27 -Never MarriedScarsdale, New York, United StatesLooking for FriendshipFamily roots: PalestineRace: Middle Eastern (Palestinian-American)
Height: 5'9" (175 cm) Weight: Tell you later Eye Color: Green Hair:
Brown Physique: Lean/SlenderReligion: Muslim Smoking: Non-Smoker Drinking: Never Has kids?: No Wants kids?: Yes Education: Master’s Income: Ask me later
Best Attribute(s): subject to opinionAbout Me: hhhmm let's see, i'm palestinian-american...i'm energetic, bubbly, friendly, serious, stubborn, ambitious, sensitive, opinionated, open-minded, outgoing, random, can't hold a grudge for the life of me...i'm a perfectionist, a lawyer, a nerd, a sushi-lover, a pushover (sometimes), a people-person, a wanna-be doctor, a talker, an optimist...i love family, friends, laughing, debating, swimming, the sun, NYC, babies, mr.goodbar, surprises, disney movies, spoken word, indie films... Looking For: anyone who's open-minded, outgoing, doesn't mind talking about politics, likes to read, not judgmental, easy-going, ambitious, concerned with humanity, funny, optimistic, confident, a good-listener ....lol, i'm flexible :) ... (cont'd)
no time left for you on my way to better things I'll find myself some wings....
Friday, January 29, 2010
CBS Rejects Gay Dating Service Super Bowl AD
Strike two for the Left!
On the heels of Liberals going berserk over CBS decision to air a Pro-Life ad featuring college standout QB Tim Tebow, a second blow was dealt to the Libs when the Tiffany network decided to pass on ManCrush.com, a Gay Dating service for failing to meet broadcast standards.
Ain’t that a shame!
Speculation persist that the whole thing was a publicity stunt by the dating service known as ManCrush.com for knowing full well that the ad would be rejected in the first place and thusly gain free publicity for the effort.
However a spokesman for ManCrush.com said:
"We're 100% serious," said spokesperson Elissa Buchter. "We have the money to pay for it. If the ad showed a man and woman kissing it would have been accepted. You see ads for erectile dysfunction morning, noon and night. It's discriminatory that they wont show this."
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Liberals.
Via Fox News
Via The Hollywood Reporter
Via Slate.com
From The Last Tradition
Nancy Pelosi Spends $1,000 per Week on In-Flight Food and Booze
When you’re Speaker of the House, you might as well take advantage of the perks, especially when it’s on the public dime.
Remember, the big stink about Nancy Pelosi’s insistence that she needed to be flown in a government version of a Boeing 757?
Well, you don’t think Nancy is gonaa fly without eating and drinking right?
No, way San Jose!
And she ain’t drinking any of the cheep stuff either.
We’re talking Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy Bailey's Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
It’s party time whenever Party Pelosi hops on a plane!
Via WorldNet Daily
Via CBS News
From The Last Tradition
Nazneen Contractor revels in mystery on 24
Actor Nazneen Contractor was blown up at the end of the second season of CBC's The Border, only to land on her feet on the eighth season of the U.S. hit 24.
She plays the daughter of the president of a fictional Middle Eastern country, a role that began as a couple of scenes and now looks to be taking off in a new direction.
"I know nothing about what's going to happen," Contractor said Friday, describing how the writers of 24 develop the script as the season progresses.
"They just sort of fly by seat of their pants and are inspired by what happens in the world and what happens on the set," she said in an interview with CBC's Q cultural affairs show.
She'll admit her role has grown and she even has a stunt double for an upcoming scene, but says that like every actor in the show, she does not know how the plot will twist until she reads the next week's episode.
"Because I'm a recurring character, I don't even know if I'm going to be in the next episode or not but it just so happens, every time I get a script, I'm in it," she said.
"They do say, if you are going to die, they call you beforehand."
On the set of 24, she's working alongside Kiefer Sutherland, the Canadian actor who is both agent Jack Bauer on screen and executive producer on the set. She said Sutherland is a strong influence on the shape of the show, working with the director, calling shots and helping with the camera.
'Learning experience'
The season also stars Cherry Jones as the president, Iranian-American actor Necar Zadegan as the mother of Contractor's character and Katee Sackhoff, formerly of Battlestar Galactica, as one of the data analysts.
It also features Anil Kapoor, the Slumdog Millionaire actor who is one of India's biggest stars. He plays Contractor's father, the president of the fictional nation who is subject to an assassination attempt.
"He is such a treat to work with. Not only that you're on the floor with a star who's been in more than 100 films and knows how to work the camera like nobody's business — it's a learning experience," Contractor said.
"But there's also a cultural aspect to it because he's the George Clooney of India and it's his first time doing American TV."
Success at Stratford
Contractor was born in Mumbai and raised in Nigeria and London before immigrating with her family to Canada. She trained as a classical ballerina before discovering acting and finding success on the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
She said she'd tried to get attention in Los Angeles before landing her part as Sgt. Layla Hourani in The Border.
Contractor said she was "disappointed" to be written out of The Border script, but that opening has done wonders for her career.
"After The Border, I went to L.A again. I wanted to try it. I thought the timing was right. I could take everything I had and kind of jump in with both feet in Los Angeles," she said.
A huge fan of 24, she is thrilled to be involved in making the series.
"There's no other show on televison that's as compelling in the writing and the fact that it takes place in real time is a very smart gimmick on the producers' behalf," she said. "My character is a very slow burn but I have some fantastic story from it."
Nazneen Contractor revels in mystery on 24
Actor Nazneen Contractor was blown up at the end of the second season of CBC's The Border, only to land on her feet on the eighth season of the U.S. hit 24.
She plays the daughter of the president of a fictional Middle Eastern country, a role that began as a couple of scenes and now looks to be taking off in a new direction.
"I know nothing about what's going to happen," Contractor said Friday, describing how the writers of 24 develop the script as the season progresses.
"They just sort of fly by seat of their pants and are inspired by what happens in the world and what happens on the set," she said in an interview with CBC's Q cultural affairs show.
She'll admit her role has grown and she even has a stunt double for an upcoming scene, but says that like every actor in the show, she does not know how the plot will twist until she reads the next week's episode.
"Because I'm a recurring character, I don't even know if I'm going to be in the next episode or not but it just so happens, every time I get a script, I'm in it," she said.
"They do say, if you are going to die, they call you beforehand."
On the set of 24, she's working alongside Kiefer Sutherland, the Canadian actor who is both agent Jack Bauer on screen and executive producer on the set. She said Sutherland is a strong influence on the shape of the show, working with the director, calling shots and helping with the camera.
'Learning experience'
The season also stars Cherry Jones as the president, Iranian-American actor Necar Zadegan as the mother of Contractor's character and Katee Sackhoff, formerly of Battlestar Galactica, as one of the data analysts.
It also features Anil Kapoor, the Slumdog Millionaire actor who is one of India's biggest stars. He plays Contractor's father, the president of the fictional nation who is subject to an assassination attempt.
"He is such a treat to work with. Not only that you're on the floor with a star who's been in more than 100 films and knows how to work the camera like nobody's business — it's a learning experience," Contractor said.
"But there's also a cultural aspect to it because he's the George Clooney of India and it's his first time doing American TV."
Success at Stratford
Contractor was born in Mumbai and raised in Nigeria and London before immigrating with her family to Canada. She trained as a classical ballerina before discovering acting and finding success on the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
She said she'd tried to get attention in Los Angeles before landing her part as Sgt. Layla Hourani in The Border.
Contractor said she was "disappointed" to be written out of The Border script, but that opening has done wonders for her career.
"After The Border, I went to L.A again. I wanted to try it. I thought the timing was right. I could take everything I had and kind of jump in with both feet in Los Angeles," she said.
A huge fan of 24, she is thrilled to be involved in making the series.
"There's no other show on televison that's as compelling in the writing and the fact that it takes place in real time is a very smart gimmick on the producers' behalf," she said. "My character is a very slow burn but I have some fantastic story from it."
Criminal Minds hits 3rd for the week of Jan.18-24 in Canada
BBM Canada: Criminal Minds hits 3rd for the week of Jan. 18-24 in Canada
TORONTO — Here are the top 10 television programs in Canada, with viewer numbers, for the week of Jan. 18-24:
1 "American Idol" (CTV, Wednesday) - 3,191,000
2 "American Idol" (CTV, Tuesday) - 3,040,000
3 "Criminal Minds" (CTV, Wednesday) - 2,736,000
4 NFL Playoffs (CTV, Sunday 6:30-10:30 p.m.) - 2,620,000
5 "Grey's Anatomy" (CTV, Thursday) - 2,339,000
6 NFL Playoffs (CTV, Sunday 3-6:30 p.m.) - 2,323,000
7 "C.S.I. New York" (CTV, Wednesday) - 2,305,000
8 "The Mentalist" (CTV, Thursday) - 2,132,000
9 "Big Bang Theory" (CTV, Monday) - 2,105,000
10 "Two and a Half Men" (CTV, Monday) - 2,029,000
Source: BBM Canada
TORONTO — Here are the top 10 television programs in Canada, with viewer numbers, for the week of Jan. 18-24:
1 "American Idol" (CTV, Wednesday) - 3,191,000
2 "American Idol" (CTV, Tuesday) - 3,040,000
3 "Criminal Minds" (CTV, Wednesday) - 2,736,000
4 NFL Playoffs (CTV, Sunday 6:30-10:30 p.m.) - 2,620,000
5 "Grey's Anatomy" (CTV, Thursday) - 2,339,000
6 NFL Playoffs (CTV, Sunday 3-6:30 p.m.) - 2,323,000
7 "C.S.I. New York" (CTV, Wednesday) - 2,305,000
8 "The Mentalist" (CTV, Thursday) - 2,132,000
9 "Big Bang Theory" (CTV, Monday) - 2,105,000
10 "Two and a Half Men" (CTV, Monday) - 2,029,000
Source: BBM Canada
James O’Keefe Speaks About Arrest: Reports Are False
Big Government.Com
The government has now confirmed what has always been clear: No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office. Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines. Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.
As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions, as I did last year when our investigations revealed the massive corruption and fraud perpetrated by ACORN. For decades, investigative journalists have used a variety of tactics to try to dig out and reveal the truth.
I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill. When asked about this, Senator Landrieu’s explanation was that, “Our lines have been jammed for weeks.” I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for “weeks” because her phones were broken. In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working.
On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building. The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator. We video taped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.
It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story. MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.” The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public. The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me. And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting. The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.
Via Big Government.Com
From The Last Tradition
Sarah Palin Slams Obama’s SOTU
Motivation: Truth
“While I don’t wish to speak too harshly about President Obama’s state of the union address, we live in challenging times that call for candor. I call them as I see them, and I hope my frank assessment will be taken as an honest effort to move this conversation forward.
Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.
He called for Democrats and Republicans to “work through our differences,” but last year he dismissed any notion of bipartisanship when he smugly told Republicans, “I won.”
He talked like a Washington “outsider,” but he runs Washington! He’s had everything any president could ask for – an overwhelming majority in Congress and a fawning press corps that feels tingles every time he speaks. There was nothing preventing him from pursuing “common sense” solutions all along. He didn’t pursue them because they weren’t his priorities, and he spent his speech blaming Republicans for the problems caused by his own policies.
He dared us to “let him know” if we have a better health care plan, but he refused to allow Republicans in on the negotiations or consider any ideas for real free market and patient-centered reforms. We’ve been “letting him know” our ideas for months from the town halls to the tea parties, but he isn’t interested in listening. Instead he keeps making the nonsensical claim that his massive trillion-dollar health care bill won’t increase the deficit.
Americans are suffering from job losses and lower wages, yet the president practically demanded applause when he mentioned tax cuts, as if allowing people to keep more of their own hard-earned money is an act of noblesse oblige. He claims that he cut taxes, but I must have missed that. I see his policies as paving the way for massive tax increases and inflation, which is the “hidden tax” that most hurts the poor and the elderly living on fixed incomes.
He condemned lobbyists, but his White House is filled with former lobbyists, and this has been a banner year for K Street with his stimulus bill, aka the Lobbyist’s Full Employment Act. He talked about a “deficit of trust” and the need to “do our work in the open,” but he chased away the C-SPAN cameras and cut deals with insurance industry lobbyists behind closed doors.
He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending is up by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.
He spoke of a spending freeze, but doesn’t he realize that each new program he’s proposing comes with a new price tag? A spending freeze is a nice idea, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. We need a comprehensive examination of the role of government spending. The president’s deficit commission is little more than a bipartisan tax hike committee, lending political cover to raise taxes without seriously addressing the problem of spending.
He condemned bailouts, but he voted for them and then expanded and extended them. He praised the House’s financial reform bill, but where was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in that bill? He still hasn’t told us when we’ll be getting out of the auto and the mortgage industries. He praised small businesses, but he’s spent the past year as a friend to big corporations and their lobbyists, who always find a way to make government regulations work in their favor at the expense of their mom & pop competitors.
He praised the effectiveness of his stimulus bill, but then he called for another one – this time cleverly renamed a “jobs bill.” The first stimulus was sold to us as a jobs bill that would keep unemployment under 8%. We now have double digit unemployment with no end in sight. Why should we trust this new “jobs bill”?
He talked about “making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development,” but apparently it’s still too tough for his Interior Secretary to move ahead with Virginia’s offshore oil and gas leases. If they’re dragging their feet on leases, how long will it take them to build “safe, clean nuclear power plants”? Meanwhile, he continued to emphasize “green jobs,” which require massive government subsidies for inefficient technologies that can’t survive on their own in the real world of the free market.
He spoke of supporting young girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school and young women in Iran who courageously protest in the streets, but where were his words of encouragement to the young girls of Afghanistan in his West Point speech? And where was his support for the young women of Iran when they were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran?
Despite speaking for an hour, the president only spent 10% of his speech on foreign policy, and he left us with many unanswered questions. Does he still think trying the 9/11 terrorists in New York is a good idea? Does he still think closing Gitmo is a good idea? Does he still believe in Mirandizing terrorists after the Christmas bomber fiasco? Does he believe we’re in a war against terrorists, or does he think this is just a global crime spree? Does he understand that the first priority of our government is to keep our country safe?
In his address last night, the president once again revealed that there’s a fundamental disconnect between what the American people expect from their government, and what he wants to deliver. He’s still proposing failed top-down big government solutions to our problems. Instead of smaller, smarter government, he’s taken a government that was already too big and supersized it.
Real private sector jobs are created when taxes are low, investment is high, and people are free to go about their business without the heavy hand of government. The president thinks innovation comes from government subsidies. Common sense conservatives know innovation comes from unleashing the creative energy of American entrepreneurs.
Everything seems to be “unexpected” to this administration: unexpected job losses; unexpected housing numbers; unexpected political losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. True leaders lead best when confronted with the unexpected. But instead of leading us, the president lectured us. He lectured Wall Street; he lectured Main Street; he lectured Congress; he even lectured our Supreme Court Justices.
He criticized politicians who “wage a perpetual campaign,” but he gave a campaign speech instead of a state of the union address. The campaign is over, and President Obama now has something that candidate Obama never had: an actual track record in office. We now can see the failed policies behind the flowery words. If Americans feel as cynical as the president suggests, perhaps it’s because the audacity of his recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.
Real leadership requires results. Real hope lies in the ingenuity, generosity, and boundless courage of the American people whose voices are still not being heard in Washington.”
- Sarah Palin
Via Motivation: Truth
From The Last Tradition
see the USA!!
in a Chevrolet....or Ford..or Dodge....
I drive a Chevy truck so maybe I'll get elected..a man of the people, but no BMW for me...no Mercedes, no Mazda no Nissan and no Toyota..Chevy... got it? All you Tea Party patriot bozos
worried about socialism..well, I've seen you driving around in Toyotas and now Toyotas are being recalled by the millions..do you know why? It's not anything mechanical as some would have you believe. The reason is there are hidden messages in the Toyota seats..have you ever seen a seat cover in a Toyota? Little squiggly lines and dots and dashes designed to convey a subliminal coded message to the driver that the America gov't is out to get you! But upon futher investigation by Toyota, the message really reads: " Tea Baggers: slanty eyes don't mean slanty pussies" or something to that effect and that does not go well with the family values folks at Toyota and the heartland. So get a clue and buy a Ford!
Spy Game..
there's a striking resemblance to twenty-something but now dead Timothy McVeigh, the American terrorist who bombed a gov't
building in Oklahoma and James O'Keefe, the guy who tried to prove Acorn is a place where hoes and pimps can get some good business advice...now, both these guys are right wingers to the max and so skinny their pants barely stay up..so I'm thinking that they got to be the way they are by not eating 
right...when you're young you should eat hamburgers and fries and milkshakes coz you never know where or when the next meal will come.... McVeigh was convinced he acted to defend the Constitution, for he saw himself as crusader, warrior avenger and hero....a harbinger of future Tea Baggers? or Fox News bobble heads? You betcha!!
O' Keefe was busted for trying to spy on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu by alleging a plot to tamper with phones in her office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans..
the issue is these guys are oddballs
, instead of trying to please mommy and daddy, dressing up like pimps and acting like little punks, they should be out trying to get some hoohah, bajingo, some fuzzy wuzzy or bikini bizkit..geez guys there's all types and sizes and designs...and Christian Conservative self manipulator Carrie Prejean is a perfect example..she doesn't care about ACORN, she cares about sex!!
if O'keefe wasn't such a nitwit, he could have hooked up with Carrie and she would have made a man out him instead of a skinny white guy with a Nixon fetish....
America is being invaded alright...by a bunch of little jerkoffs...
I drive a Chevy truck so maybe I'll get elected..a man of the people, but no BMW for me...no Mercedes, no Mazda no Nissan and no Toyota..Chevy... got it? All you Tea Party patriot bozos
worried about socialism..well, I've seen you driving around in Toyotas and now Toyotas are being recalled by the millions..do you know why? It's not anything mechanical as some would have you believe. The reason is there are hidden messages in the Toyota seats..have you ever seen a seat cover in a Toyota? Little squiggly lines and dots and dashes designed to convey a subliminal coded message to the driver that the America gov't is out to get you! But upon futher investigation by Toyota, the message really reads: " Tea Baggers: slanty eyes don't mean slanty pussies" or something to that effect and that does not go well with the family values folks at Toyota and the heartland. So get a clue and buy a Ford!Spy Game..
there's a striking resemblance to twenty-something but now dead Timothy McVeigh, the American terrorist who bombed a gov't
building in Oklahoma and James O'Keefe, the guy who tried to prove Acorn is a place where hoes and pimps can get some good business advice...now, both these guys are right wingers to the max and so skinny their pants barely stay up..so I'm thinking that they got to be the way they are by not eating 
right...when you're young you should eat hamburgers and fries and milkshakes coz you never know where or when the next meal will come.... McVeigh was convinced he acted to defend the Constitution, for he saw himself as crusader, warrior avenger and hero....a harbinger of future Tea Baggers? or Fox News bobble heads? You betcha!!O' Keefe was busted for trying to spy on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu by alleging a plot to tamper with phones in her office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans..
the issue is these guys are oddballs
, instead of trying to please mommy and daddy, dressing up like pimps and acting like little punks, they should be out trying to get some hoohah, bajingo, some fuzzy wuzzy or bikini bizkit..geez guys there's all types and sizes and designs...and Christian Conservative self manipulator Carrie Prejean is a perfect example..she doesn't care about ACORN, she cares about sex!!if O'keefe wasn't such a nitwit, he could have hooked up with Carrie and she would have made a man out him instead of a skinny white guy with a Nixon fetish....
America is being invaded alright...by a bunch of little jerkoffs...
CRIMINAL MINDS - 5-14 - Parasite - Promo
THE TEAM PROFILES A CON ARTIST WHOSE CRIMES ESCALATE AS HIS LIFE BEGINS TO UNRAVEL, ON "CRIMINAL MINDS," WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3
"Parasite" - The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become so complicated that he begins to eliminate the people involved in them, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Feb. 3 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
David Eigenberg ("Sex and the City") Guest Stars as a Police Officer and Annabeth Gish ("The West Wing") Guest Stars as a Victim of the Con Artist
SERIES REGULARS:
David Rossi................................ Joe Mantegna
Aaron Hotchner....................... Thomas Gibson
Emily Prentiss........................... Paget Brewster
Derek Morgan.......................... Shemar Moore
Dr. Spencer Reid........... Matthew Gray Gubler
Jennifer Jareau................................. A.J. Cook
Penelope Garcia.................. Kirsten Vangsness
GUEST CAST:
Agent Goldman ..................... David Eigenberg
Rebecca.................................... Annabeth Gish
Unsub...................................... Victor Webster
JD........................................... Bryce Robinson
Lorraine................................... Rebecca Staab
Carla Marshall.......................... Suzanne Quast
Frank McKelson.......................... John Idakitis
Dina McKelson.................. Anna Marie Wood
Brooke Sanchez........................... Valerie Cruz
Stuart.................................... Mike Randleman
Agent Cal................................ Calvin Harrison
WRITTEN BY: Oanh Ly
DIRECTED BY: Charles S. Carroll
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Informacion revelada, un nuevo "Power Core Combiners" sera una nueva version de Bruticus
Transformers Generations estrena su primer podcast , ahora las noticias también en mp3
Asi es amigos, esta es una noche muy especial para el blog ya que estrenamos nuestro primer podcast de transformers. Para aquellos que no sepan el significado de lo que es un podcast, un podcast es como un programa de radio hecho por archivos de audio los cuales se editan y se obtiene un "programa de radio" salvo que este es via internet en formato mp3 y para escuchar en sus reproductores de audio.
El primer episodio de este podcast tiene una duracion de 10 minutos y 6 segundos, al principio los episodios van a ser de este tiempo de duración, pero el tiempo de duración lo van a decidir ustedes transfans, por medio de los mails que envien diciendo lo que les parezca el programa, bien, ccon este comentario, aqui les dejo el enlace para que puedan descargar el episodio, espero que lo disfruten y también espero muchos mails por responder, hasta la proxima y transform and rollout!!!
Podcast TransformersGenerations Episodio 1
El primer episodio de este podcast tiene una duracion de 10 minutos y 6 segundos, al principio los episodios van a ser de este tiempo de duración, pero el tiempo de duración lo van a decidir ustedes transfans, por medio de los mails que envien diciendo lo que les parezca el programa, bien, ccon este comentario, aqui les dejo el enlace para que puedan descargar el episodio, espero que lo disfruten y también espero muchos mails por responder, hasta la proxima y transform and rollout!!!
Criminal Minds Season 5 Available from iTunes USA
Criminal Minds is now available for download on iTunes USA. You can download the first 12 episodes from season 5.
Obama’s State of the Union Hypocrisy About Foreign Money for Presidential Campaigns
I was half listening to the President Obama’s 3rd State of the Union speech, er…my bad, his 1st State of the Union when I heard something I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to say:
I like to focus on these phrases in the speech.
“I believe will open the floodgates for special interests…
“…including foreign corporations. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.
Notice Obama’s use of the phrases “foreign corporations, and “foreign interests”.
Before I get to my main points, lets quickly dispose of Obama’s fears about the influence of foreign money in presidential campaigns.
Legal experts believe that Obama assertion that outside of the U.S. funds can have an disproportionate impact on our democracy is a wild over exaggeration and has no basis in law.
Uh, I thought Obama was constitutional law expert?
Oh well, so much for that.
Last night and this morning, when I looked at the news services and other blogs, all the focus was on Justice Alito having a Joe Wilson moment when Obama uttered his gripe that’s seen in the above video.
EVERBODY IS NISSING THE BIGGER POINT!
The reason I could’ve believe that Obama had the nerve to mention anything about foreign money in a presidential campaigns is because he benefited from googobs of foreign money in his 2008 run for the White House, and the Step-N-Fetch-It media covered it up.
Pam Geller, Editor and Publisher of Atlas Shrugs wrote an excellent expose on the matter.
Here are some excerpts:
“Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story”
“Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians" spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.
And yet still no media.”
And here’s the kicker:
“Obama's overseas (foreign) contributors are making multiple small donations, ostensibly in their own names, over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.
The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc,”
Is anybody going to give this story any legs besides little ol’ me?
Either Barack Obama is absent-mined, or arrogant enough to know that this wrinkle of his SOTU speech won’t get much play in the ass-kissing media.
Via American Thinker
Via New York Times
Via Politifact.com
Via Atlas Shrugs
From The Last Tradition
creek alley...
how to mess up a creek
I remember a few summers ago riding my bike across the 8th Street bridge in Carp...it was an enchanted place..the creek meandered peacefully below as I stopped mid-bridge to reflect..why, I coulda been Huck Finn wondering where the water could take me..what is a creek but a haven from society and a source for adventure..the flowing water was freedom..the plants were happy together..natives and non natives danced in the wind..the water teemed with life..birds sang, polywogs woggled, even the arundo was mighty profundo! The bridge was a sturdy wooden structure that fit perfectly in this place and would have lasted another 100 years...it was a respite from city ways..I crossed over to Arbol Verde and the cool old houses that bordered the creek....then something happened..the City of Carpinteria and the Co
unty Ag commission plotted to destroy the creek and bridge to make things safer and remove non natives..and destroy they did..they took out nearly everything that was there..even forced a homeowner to flee it looks like, there's a "for sale" sign....they turned a pristine area into a horrible, over-engineered debacle 
of the highest magnitude...and now we are stuck with a giant ugly brown steel bridge that is already rusting and a creek that has had its banks stripped of vegetation...what happened here is a crime of incompetence...the previous Carp City Council and Public Works Director pushed this and the city went along with it....it's too late to do anything now as it's all water under the bridge, but we must prevent the same thing from happening in the future...en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head or dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed."
I remember a few summers ago riding my bike across the 8th Street bridge in Carp...it was an enchanted place..the creek meandered peacefully below as I stopped mid-bridge to reflect..why, I coulda been Huck Finn wondering where the water could take me..what is a creek but a haven from society and a source for adventure..the flowing water was freedom..the plants were happy together..natives and non natives danced in the wind..the water teemed with life..birds sang, polywogs woggled, even the arundo was mighty profundo! The bridge was a sturdy wooden structure that fit perfectly in this place and would have lasted another 100 years...it was a respite from city ways..I crossed over to Arbol Verde and the cool old houses that bordered the creek....then something happened..the City of Carpinteria and the Co
unty Ag commission plotted to destroy the creek and bridge to make things safer and remove non natives..and destroy they did..they took out nearly everything that was there..even forced a homeowner to flee it looks like, there's a "for sale" sign....they turned a pristine area into a horrible, over-engineered debacle 
of the highest magnitude...and now we are stuck with a giant ugly brown steel bridge that is already rusting and a creek that has had its banks stripped of vegetation...what happened here is a crime of incompetence...the previous Carp City Council and Public Works Director pushed this and the city went along with it....it's too late to do anything now as it's all water under the bridge, but we must prevent the same thing from happening in the future...en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head or dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed."
Transformers Ongoing Nº 2 en descarga directa de aqui, de Transformers Generations
Asi es amigos, como les omente ne la nota anterior , el blog ya tiene sus propias traducciones de la mano de Rodrigo y mia, y hoy les traemos el segundo comic de la saga Ongoing. Bien, aqui les va el link y espero que lo disfruten, chau
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