US Armada Heads To Costa Rica. Why?

It has been widely reported that 46 warships, 200 planes and at least 7000 military personal are being sent from the Gulf of Mexico to the hotbed of hostility that is...........Costa Rica? WTF. There are only three reasons for this each more dangerous than the last, all somewhat plausible.
First, the official reason is that this Armada of Death is being sent there to combat the drug war. In Costa Rica. With a boner (inside joke). If this was truly about the drug war shouldn't we be sending it to, I don't know, say, somewhere like Mexico! The drug war there is out of control and is spreading across our borders, killing American citizens. It has been reported that the drug war in Costa Rica is increasing as Cartels seek alternate routes to the US that doesn't involve Mexico. But 46 warships does seem like overkill. The opposition power there has filed a formal request with the Costa Rica government demanding an end to this armada but appears to have fallen on deaf ears. This is probably the most likely reason for the movement of ships but I'd like to point out something our leaders seem to have forgotten. WE DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING MONEY FOR THIS BULLSHIT. Our military budget is sinking this country fast and crap like this needs to end. Legalize or decriminalize ALL drugs now. Legalize pot and tax it, creating hundreds of thousands of much needed jobs. Decriminalize everything else under a certain amount like the rest of the world has. In France possession of 5 grams of cocaine is legal. Guess who doesn't have the coke problem we have? Guess whose military budget isn't swamping their budgets? The drug war needs to end now. It CANNOT be won. Prohibition didn't work in the 20's. As a matter of fact, it helped bring on the Depression as money that could have been better spent on fixing the ailing economy went into law enforcement. Sound familiar.
But that may not be the case, even though I think that's exactly why we're doing it. The second theory out there is that we are moving our troops into position for a possible attack on Venezuela. This is not as far fetched as you think. Over the past few months, odd ship and troop movements have been reported, with buildups in the Persian Gulf, The south China Seas and now off the coast of South America. If war with Iran occurs, it will be another World War. The powers that be may use this as an excuse to wipe all opposition of the map, like Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Lebanon and even Somalia at once. The war drums are beating louder and louder. Libya is sending a new flotilla to the Gaza strip next week. That won't end well. Iran is also saying that the recent round of sanctions placed on them is an act of war. Israel is getting itchy about their rivals. War is coming at some point.
Third is the least likely albeit the most frightening. According to unverified reports, a giant methane bubble is poised to erupt from the BP oil hole disaster. This has the potential to kill everyone on the Gulf Coast as well as all life on the planet. 251 million years ago, a giant methane bubble did erupt and 96% of all life ended on Earth so it's not without precedent. The most likely scenario though is that between the methane and the earthquakes and tsunamis it would produce, anyone living within a hundred miles of the Gulf Coast would be killed. Thus the evacuation to Costa Rica, a presumed safe distance. Several top scientists have stated that they are really worried about this saying evidence is occurring that this bubble may be ready to burst. The scientist the government used to help put out Saddam Hussein's oil fires is one such expert who has been vocal about this a year before drilling even started by BP. According to him, details show that a massive methane pocket exists where the drilling is occurring. Signs about the possible disaster are first seen by fissure cracks in the sea bed floor. Such cracks have been reported by investigating scientists, showing an instability of the sea bed floor. Further they say that how the oil rig exploded, a rarity in oil rig disasters, show that a methane pocket may have been responsible. Should the methane bubble erupt, every ship in the area will sink, every person will die. What follows will make the Indonesian Tsunami seem like a wave pool. A supersonic wave, as high as 200 feet, will spread across the region, wiping out states like Louisiana and Florida, The death toll there will be total. In other words, if you live in either of these two states when this disaster occurs, your chances of survival is nil. You won't be much better anywhere else in the area either. Supposedly, according to Wayne Madsen, Obama has secret data concerning this possible tragedy and that is why we are moving troops and equipment out of the area just in case. Madsen is a hit or miss guy but he has been dead on about a lot of things in the past and shouldn't be dismissed outright as a crank. As top scientists are also reporting this, this data should be thought about carefully.
Three scenarios. All reasonable. All dangerous.
Which do you think is likely?

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: THE WEATHER

Anybody on the upper East Coast this week would completely agree that the one true problem this week was the devastating heat. Responsible for numerous deaths (more people die from heat than cold), brownouts and a sincere desire to avoid public transportation, the heat wave shows no real end in sight. While the coming week will be blessedly less humid, it's going to be Africa hot until, say, November. Record temperatures were up and down the coast with New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, Providence, Boston and DC hitting well into the 100's. Central Park saw their all time high temperature this past week with records that go back into the 1880's. Subways stations recorded temps upward of 124 degrees. The smell must have been something. Imagine that packed train at rush hour, BO and that lovely urine smell mixing into a potpourri of awfulness. MMMMMMM good. Fourth of July was uncommonly hot but at least it didn't rain.
The weather will become more and more like this as climate change takes hold. One meteorologist predicts that by 2030 every summer will be like this with a temperature 3.2 degrees F warmer (2 degrees C). This would be very very bad. Assuming we even get to that point, which as of now looks increasingly unlikely, human life will have to change dramatically and chances are good that at least some of our population will be wiped out. Scarce resources will lead to a bottleneck of human survival, which has happened at least once in our past. We know this because the biodiversity between all humans is less than one percent. The only way that could have accured is if human kind was nearly wiped out at one point in our distant past. Extinctions are nothing new, they happen all the time. We are in the midst of the Sixth Great Extinctions. Pray that human kind is not on that list. Chances are good that some of us will survive, but they probably be those wealthy enough to afford the dramatic changes necessary. The rest of us are dog food.
Our Congress continues to fiddle as Rome burns. Food is now being stolen from home gardens across the country, a dire sign. With Republicans surging somehow in some races like California, we can expect a sudden demise. How Carly Fiorini is ahead of Barbara Boxer is beyond me, but never put anything past the Libertardians who are determined to kill us all. Their candidates are super right wing nutbags. Their support of Sarah Palin should have been a clue. Be afraid of this movement of the moment. The good news it won't be around long, perhaps as short as one more election cycle, due to their inability to have an coherent position. But the damage they could do in that time may be staggering.

Some Are Actually Defending BP

Lately we seem to have a bunch of self appointed morons who think that because they graduated with a MBA, they know everything about everything. You don't. As a matter of fact just about everyone I know with a master's in anything are usually kind of thick. I apologize to any readers out there with one but a lot of people agree with me on this and have even coined the word MBAtards. Having watched people like this fuck up the entertainment industry single handily, (the music industry is on its last legs) you can hardly blame us for not listening to you anymore.
But the MBA's strike again with their tone deaf rhetoric on such topics as cuts in spending (Horrible idea), raising the taxes on the middle class, (recipe for revolution/depression), and GASP, defense of BP by such winners as Rand Paul and Rush Limbaugh. They say there is no such thing as too much profit. Are you HIGH? Too much profit causes high prices on things like oil or medication which in of itself brings more and more hardship on the average worker as prices are driven up. Too much profit equals economic problems, especially when the industries band together to make sure the prices are kept higher than they should. Diamonds are plentiful and cheap. The only reason they are so expensive as that a handful of people control the supply. They short it, raising prices exponentially. And all that money that could have gone into another area of the economy is forced into the diamond suppliers, thus the rise in profits and a drain on the economic system as a whole. So point one, there is such a thing as too much profit.
The second point being made is that BP and like companies make money for other people, like the guy who works at the station, the shipping companies, the railroads, investors, etc. So do drug dealers. Illegal drugs are a trillion dollar business. The amount of money they pump into the economy is huge. By this logic, any business that makes a profit is good for society. Would you be okay with child porn being sold as that is a billion dollar business? Of course not. Just because a company makes lots of money doesn't mean it a good thing. So point two, just because you make money other people depend on, doesn't make it right.
As for the investors, particularly British pension holders, who lost their shirts, that's the meaning of the word risk. The stock market is not guaranteed money. It's no better than the casino, worse if you're an average Joe. Senators made 12% profit in the 90's, business 6% and the average Joe-1.7%. Thus the reason I support a Constitutional amendment that would disallow anybody serving in the federal government, particularly that of members of Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court from owning any stock in any company. The insider trading that goes on here is just too prevalent.
Does BP deserve most of the blame? Yes. But the MMS also gets some scorn for their way to cozy relationship with the companies they were supposed to regulate. However these types of new regulations have hit Republican scorn (surprise) who basically want us to live in oily goodness. These fuckers should be thrown face first into the gulf and then light a match.
BP should be seized, the top brass arrested, and the company sold at auction with the government as partial owners, with all the profits going to the clean up (minus the profits to the partner.) In this way everyone wins.

Knight and Day: Been There Done That

Poor Tom Cruise can't catch a break lately. His last few films have done badly and he really hasn't had a hit since Jerry Mcquire. That's probably why they're looking into doing a Les Grossman movie, a great role as a bit part from Tropic Thunder but hardly something to spin off a whole movie. The worst part is I like this Tom Cruise more than the cocky hotshot he played to death in the eighties and nineties. Films like Valkyrie and Magnolia were great roles and while the private Cruise is bat shit insane, his movie star continues to shine. It is perhaps that very reason why his films do better overseas than here because we can't get the image of Tom jumping up and down on Oprah's couch like a hyperactive, retarded monkey screaming "I love her!" Yuck. But as an actor, he's become quite good. And while he is very good in this role, I think both Cruise and his costar Cameron Diaz are both miscast.
The plot is nothing new but well executed none the less. Tom's a spy, Roy Miller/Knight, and Diaz's June are brought together in unlikely circumstances and are forced to work together to save each other's lives. After a great sequence in a plane where Cruise kills everyone on the plane but June, who is also unaware until it's all over, the two are briefly separated in Boston. When Tom realizes the bad guys are after June as well as him, thinking they are connected in some way, he kidnaps her and a race around the globe is born. Purely paint by numbers plot and a Mcguffin (if you don't know what that is look it up. I can't teach you everything) involving a battery. Don't ask. But Diaz and Cruise do shine, the stunts are good, and the constant drugging of June in tough situations is really funny.
But here's the hitch. Test audiences say Tom came out crazy and Diaz looks old. They were right on both counts. Diaz needs to stay out of the sun for a while. Her age is starting to show. Can't decide whether that's bad makeup or poor judgement. And Tom should be looking at roles that aren't as manic as his character needed to be. At one point, Chris Tucker and Eva Mendez were going to star. I think that would have been a better movie. As a matter of fact, lots of people would have been better and the screenplay sure needed work, first timer Patrick O'Neill's immaturity shows. All in all, not bad. Not great. Thought the Killers was better actually. The stunts in Boston were cool as was the scene with the running of the bulls. Rent it.

3 stars out 5

The Wolfman: Great Remake

I typically hate remakes, especially horror ones. Very few live up to the original and some like Psycho or Nightmare on Elm Street are just exercises in pointlessness. I had heard horrible reviews for this movie and was settled into hating it. I'll admit, the beginning is slow. But Joe Johnston of Jurassic Park 3 fame and Andrew Kevin Walker's screenplay are done quite well. Both of the aforementioned name had taken long sabbaticals before returning to their craft, Johnston was gone 6 years and Walker was gone 9. His screenplay for Seven is still one of my favorites of all times. So to get these talented guys back proved to be worth it because once Benico Del Toro wolfs out the film gets awesome. They keep the same look as the original, which I just watched for the upteenth time recently, with Lawrence Talbot once again being bitten by a wolf and turning into a monster. Emily Blunt is effective as the love interest and Anthony Hopkins does a great turn as Lawrence's father. Hugo Weaving gets a beefed up role as a Scotland Yard inspector looking into the rash of murders, all of which are of course blamed on poor Lawrence Talbot. The screenplay is not a shot for shot remake and the changes are actually quite good, including a fantastic scene with the Wolfman terrorizes London. The best part is the Wolfman isn't some stupid CGI nonsense and looks a lot like the original version. If you like horror movies, especially old ones from Universal in the 30's, this is quite the film.

4 stars out of 5

CNBC warns of possible coming depression

You know it can't be good when MSM starts telling end of the good times scenarios. According to Darryl Guppy, CEO of Guppytrading.com, the markets world wide are showing signs of a depression coming. Using historical data and charts, we see that the same pattern of market fluctuations from the second down turn of the economy from 1929 to 1930 are being repeated. As I have said in previous posts, the steps being taken by the Libertardians are ruining the economy. You cannot cut spending right now except in non critical areas. Things like our legal system, our medical system, our infrastructure, our economic patterns all need to be radically changed. And considering how well Congress is at doing anything at the this point, we can safely say we're screwed. Military budget needs to be slashed by 2/3rds. Social Security needs to be pared down as well as ALL medical costs. Will this happen? Never in a million years. Ten million people could protest till they were blue in the face and it still wouldn't matter. The writing was on the wall for months that a major market correction will happen soon. I am not the only one to notice as seen now by CNBC. The Chinese market is overvalued. Their Market average slipped 1.7% yesterday, a significant downturn,. Tomorrow's trading could be equally volatile. The decision to stop the jobs bill in this country is having horrific effects and it's only Monday. I know somebody who needed an EMT recently. They were almost 30 minutes getting there (she lives in a major city), were rude and didn't have things like tape or gauze or disinfectant. Had this been a major emergency, she would have died. So for all you who don't think that the jobs bill was important, remember it was more than just about unemployment but state aid and tax breaks for small busniesses. Incidently, the real unemployment rate is now 21.5% if you remove all the little accounting tricks they use to deflate the figure that even the nightly news gives with derision. A war grown nearer with a conflict that could go world wide, our economy is going to be in the shambles, and the new bank bill could doom us all, giving the FED unheard of powers that are almost dictorial. Pray it doesn't pass. I grow ever fearful of what is to come. All the signs point to something bad. Very bad.

The DVD Crazies: Much Better Than It Ever Should Have Been

Way back when came out a horrible movie called Sahara. It was based on a Clive Cussler book starring Mathew McConahey as Dirk Pitt (I loathe that name), an action adventure that was neither action nor adventure. I blamed it on the director, first timer Breck Eisner, son of douchbag Michael Eisner who still owes me money for the film his company stole from me a decade ago. I figured well we know how this little prick got his job. The movie was awful, the script lousy and the directing pedestrian. Too bad because Cussler has a zillion books out and while I don't care for them there is certainly a loyal audience out there. When I heard he was directing the remake of a rather mediocre George A Romero movie from the 70's I was less than interested. But then the reviews came in and they said it was really good. REALLY GOOD. I had to see for myself. And to the theater I went. And impressed I was. Had to hand it to the guy he did one of the better films in this lackluster year of film.
The original was filmed in Pittsburgh, like all his films and worked in parts. The stuff that happened in town was great. But the military subplots were dull and pointless. The remake wisely ditches that and leaves us with just the townspeople's stories, particularly that of the town Sheriff played well by Tim Olyphant and his doctor wife Judy (Radha Mitchell). As the town starts to schitz out from reel one, we find the water supply is infected with something and is turning all the residents insane and violent. It plays like a typical zombie/infected film but the directing is quite good and suspenseful and the acting top notch.
This is a good scary movie, lots of gore, lots of things jumping out at you. Not for the squeamish.

3 and 1/2 stars out of five.

PS With the death knell of Jonak Hex, a new horrible film makes it out with the Last Airbender which is actually getting worse reviews than any other movie I've seen this year. Avoid at at all costs.