3 billion

Heard yesterday from yahoo news, it a was a report made by Matthew Daly from the associated press that the U.S. government is giving Native American tribes three billion dollars "to settle claims dating back more than a century that American Indian tribes were swindled out of royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases."
The website to the full article is http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_indian_money;_ylt=AnkKbqA90U5EOOXfaP7OL7wUewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTM0dWY3YTBxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjA5L3VzX2luZGlhbl9tb25leQRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzUEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawN1czNidG9lbmRyb3k-

The next great California petition

This is the site with the article that you want to read. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/30/national/a111733S84.DTL So simply follow the link and start reading. Enjoy.

John Marcotte has the idea to make marriage truly as it should be. As God wanted it. With no homosexuals messing it up. Going stait back to the Bible. Yes Mr. Marcotte has had the ingenious thought of petitioing to make marriage under a new Califorina law illegal to divorce.

This brillant idea of his must have been forming ever since the passing of the much needed propositon 8. Proposition 8 passed in 2008 made it illegal for homosexuals to get married. As for all of the gay marriages that took place while it was still legal for them to marry were declared invalid. When proposition 8 was passed it nearly made marriage perfect and now with the banning of divorce, marriage will at last be as it should!

It is my opinion that this idea is superb. All supporters of proposition 8 should have no qualms about passing this bill that will insure traditional marriage. After all that is what at least some of the people wanted when they passed proposition 8 isn't it? However if the people decide that traditional marriage is not the way in which they want to go then they must make one little change to their laws they'll have to get rid of proposition 8. After all if the only reason it was passed was to keep marrage scared and if they do not make divorce illegal then that is not very traditional now is it?

Over the weekend the movie Frost/Nixon was being watched and slowly reviewed.

In the opening scenes of the movie the viewer enters a flash back of news reports of the infamous Watergate scandal coupled with President Nixon notice of resigning. The opening unlike anything I’ve ever seen is remarkable. Not many films could be able to pull off such an opening, lucky for them they don’t have to as Frost/Nixon already done it. Throughout the whole movie it is set up like one of those where are they now? shows.
If you never have seen Frost/Nixon before and you’ve never seen a where are they now episode of anything, then imagine the beginning of the movie The Incredibles where the heroes are being interviewed - well that is sort of how the movie is set up. The movie is in a form of one part interview, one part movie. A lay out that not many films have and it is too bad because it is good.

The main character David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) is an Austrian news show host who wishes to interview Nixon (played by Frank Langella) after he had resigned office. The interview is an hour long with each subject being talked about for twenty-five minutes. There are four different topics that they chose to discuss. One is the war, another (the one that everyone was waiting for) is Watergate.

Before the actual interview (which is viewed live) Nixon and his team research all what they’ll talk about during interview. With a different man covering a different area. While the group collects information they also practice “interviewing Nixon” on one of their teammates. That is one of the guys pretends to be Nixon and he is asked by another guy questions. The guy playing as Nixon is to answer questions as Nixon would.

Before the interview Frost met up with Nixon, they talked a little about how the interview would be laid out, with Watergate at the very end. Both parties agreed on this and it is how it was going to be until circumstances changed for some reason and at the very start of the interview Mr. Frost blindsides the former president with questions of Watergate. The first question was something to the like of “Why didn’t you burn the tapes?” This makes you feel a little bit sorry for Nixon. After all he was promised that Watergate would be talked about at the end of the interview and that is what he prepared for. During this time I thought I would not like to have that done to me.

Near the end of the movie (while Nixon is still being interviewed) Frost gets what he set out for Nixon admitting to what happened with Watergate and an apology from the former president to the people of the United States.

Towards the end of the movie just before the credits appear is a small little aftermath of what happened to the characters. If for some strange reason you didn’t know that this story was based on an actual event. After they roll up you finally know. A little bit of what we learned at the very end of the movie is that Frost went on to host more shows and interviews, though none was as famous as the one with Nixon. Nixon died from a stroke and it also stated the year that the Frost/Nixon interview happened.

This was a fine movie worth seeing. It is not like other movies but that’s a good thing. It is something different and after seeing it I had a desire to hear the original Frost/Nixon interview.

Hambugers

Rembering what my dad told me about how people once made hambugers, with real pork instead of cows like they do now, I began thinking 'Where do they sell hambugers made out of real pig?' Please if you do know of a place that sells real hamburgers made out of pig, please tell me.

I am currently working on a new story about leperachauns. If you know of any names that begin with a 'L' go ahead and tell me please.

While trying to think of something to post I got distracted and found this neat joke off of iloveindia.com I thought it was funny and besides Thanksgiving is right around the corner. This website also has a lot of other jokes that are fun and not only for Thanksgiving but other sorts of jokes as well.

Baby Bruno was sitting in his grandmother's kitchen, watching her prepare the Thanksgiving meal. "What are you doing?" Bruno asked. "Oh, I'm just stuffing the turkey," his grandmother replied. "That's cool!" Bruno said. "Are you going to hang it next to the deer?"

The spring sings to the south
New flowers and trees now grow
Shoveling away winter and death

A happy spring day
Warm and fun
Making all people good and gay
On these sunny spring days
Everyone is full of spring cheer.

This was a poem I wrote inspired by another poem out of the book: Robert Burns Selected Poems.