2006, a remarkable year

While John Karr, much like a habitual drunk driver, walks away unscathed, his actions brought results this year. I think, although he certainly wasn't the cause, he really showed how vulnerable people and society are and that the laws does not protect people, especially children. I think the penalty phase should run about like: you have two options and two options only. You may either enter the crematorium kiln alive or you may enter it dead. Either way it doesn't make any difference to me, but to you, I think already dead might be "more pleasant".

2006 might very well mark a year where America, for a short while, stands up and addresses the injustices here and the law's inability to correctly handle molesters. Note the number of prior arrests and convictions of those in the ring. Should those persons re-enter society? Are they more capable of handling their impulses? Statistics, while they don't lie they can be deceiving. Stats here, undoubtedly would show that less than 5% of those caught, ever stop. Okay, so ... they are dumped back into society for what purpose?

American should make this a banner year for convictions and retaining molesters and rapists. 2006 should be a proud year, not with loss, but with improvement. I hope, after the decades of watching these crimes, many of which are never reported and some are not adequately investigated that society wearies so much of it that it takes a bolder stance on molesters and rapists. Make 2006 a year with better, stronger, more effictient law protecting soceity from predators.

To Madonna

far from immaculate, far from Guadalupe/Madonna/Mary mother of Christ, it is admirable that you should take it upon yourself to adopt and raise a child. I would like to intercede here and mention, while you have the money, and maybe the time, you lack any possible ability to raise a child as a person. For this reason, I respectfully request that you find another worthy parent or couple capable of raising him, while similtaneously helping the financially with the inital costs of raising the child.

A person who puts herself on a cross, as though a martyr during her concert, while including live sex acts or pantomined sex is really, not ready to be a parent. Verified orgies and partner swapping with multiple people known and unknown within the house, really is akin to trailer genetics. Do not, and I mean this sincerely, do not, attempt to raise a child as you are too selfish, too self-invovlved and too ignorant to raise one.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Mexico refuses foreign corn

It's okay for the people to leave the country strife with overpopulation and financial difficulties, but it isn't okay to plant hardier genetically modified corn. Corn, a general staple doesn't get in? Are they sure they support this fool who is the President? Why would you block a potentially healthier and hardier plant in favor of native species exclusively? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you didn't need the food, which they do, and if there were climate issues and pollution issues, which there are, perhaps then I could see not using the food.

Tom Jones said it

No one, no one, no one ever -- is to blame. Foley tries to squirm out of reprisal and justice by accusing priest, who then denies "sex", but claims memory lapses due to tranquilizers. So, let me get this straight. The tranquilizers disabled the priest from making decisions, leading him to molest Foley, who in turn, under Helsinki Syndrome (victim duplicating crime upon another) sought to engage in sex with minors. Oh, so the tranquilizers are to blame rather than the people involved, the so-called adults, who should take responsibility for their actions. I see. I also, disagree. They did it. They knew it was wrong.

job search engines that work

but, piggy-back on others, such as yahoo hotjobs ....

Job Bank USA, which is also your state if you select it, JobBank[your state].
Thingamajobs also works pretty well.

I have found that most of the postings on these places are more for professionals, in that experience and degrees are required. A few others I have used are not as picky, such as regional help wanted, Career Builder, Monster Jobs.

I also have found that these sites are all glitchy in their own way. What irks me most is that a site can show a job, the link leads you to another site, which then has a link to the compnay itself, through which you apply. What a waste of my time! Moreover, there are postings that lead you to employment agents that take 25-50% of what you could be paid, leaving you with substandard pay and little/no benefits. A good example of this would be Man Power, which could be dubbed as ManEater or Abuseof Power. I worked for a short time, for Kelly Services and if any employer is smart they won't use them. While I was there, they were the least efficient place I'd seen. They paid me for at least 10 hours of sitting doing nothing, but waiting. I wasn't the only one and I wasn't the one who waited the longest. I know what they paid me and I know they take a chunk. I would highly recommend that companies stay away from them, since they are very wasteful.

Dark Water

Spells deep trouble for those wanting a good movie. It borrowed ideas from Ring, Grudge, and a couple others. While the acting wasn't terrible, the dialogue was. I liken it to an orca movie, with enough red herrings to keep most orca well fed. I think, perhaps I am wrong, it was a Lifetime (for women) movie that actually hit the theaters, in the way that it victimized a woman, then her child, then an unknown child, matched with paranoia both founded and unfounded. It would strike a win or "liked it" category with women who watch Lifetime channel movies. I, surprisingly, didn't like it. I like Jennifer Connely, but it wasn't a good movie.

Scholastic video

Tikki Tikki Tembo, a long since seen bit, was refreshing. I remember the old film strip version I saw in class so many decades ago. It is still interesting. I saw for the first time, Penguin Cinderella. It was odd, surely, but not unwatchable.

edutainment

Human Body for Children: All About Bones & Muscles , Schlessinger Science Library. This is fairly informative with vidoe and graphics. It is posted as being appropriate for K-4, an assessment with which I agree. It would be a neat addition to an educators handbag for science introduction the human body. There are others in the series, I have watched only this one.

lunkheads

Okay, that's just stupid! Democrats are lobbying to remove voter ID requirement for voting. How in the heck is this a burden? If you don't drive, you can get a state ID. I believe often, you can present your ss card which bears your signature, matching that of your voter registration card. So ... this attempt to remove the ID requirement is all bad. How many people has it really excluded? I actually think that the whole voting should be by fingerprint only. That way there is one voter, one vote. If you're a con, then you don't vote. It's that simple. It removes the ID process by requiring you to have fingerprint on file. Generally, those worried about that are those who are more likely to commit crime.

graduating to slap in the head

Prayer available during school time -- unconstitional? She even mentioned that it was OPTIONAL. Hey, flake, get the [blank] out of Dodge! So, you don't want your child attending, okay, so s/he doesn't have to attend. Instead, they have more time to read, complete work, or what have you. That's a bad thing? Go away. Go far away, flake!

Ass sets

I got a call back from a company in Indy. I had to do some number crunching to see how much weekly rates are for hotels there. I weighed that against the projected payrate. I could only get the weekly rate from one hotel. Most other hotels are so full of illogic, that I couldn't get a weekly rate. When a hotel's online serice notes that more than one month rate cannot be calculated and I did it twice 30 days and 28 days. How is that not a month? Anyway, so far, the payrate minus the weekly rate that may or may not stay static, isn't so good. It far exceeds an apartment which might be more inclined if I were to have a paystub showing that I'm working there, ya know?

I just got soured on online hotel reservations that tout weekly rates, when you can't get them to disclose the rates. Pains in the ass!

Really worth reading

Dose of Sanity, a psychiatrist sums up his approach to assessment, partially based on an examination of a 24-hour day. Since medical/psychological help is sought, then clearly something is amiss or aberant, at least from the patient's POV. Here, the larger part of the book is explaining the errors of psychiatry, when not approached from a medical basis, including is the over-prescription of America and the pop self-help gee-whizes who sell an idea, regardless whether it helps people or not.

This is not a self-help book. It is a book detailing an approach by neuropsychiatry which might replace the norm. That author hopes that many people aggrivated with typical pill-prescribing docs who treat their patients with insane and inane treatments, including those in his own field, drop that which doesn't help and move on to real medicine, based on blood tests, medical workups and asking questions, rather than a script after 45 minutes.

It was enlightening and worth reading. It's short, 235 medium sized font and set so just about any layperson could read it.

Quick books, quick review

Shel Siverstein, Runny Babbit, not very good work. The recurring theme of letter transpostion was clever for two poems, but not a book. Hmpht!

Jack Prelustsky, poet, A Pizza the Size of the Sun, fanciful, whimsical, fun. Coupled with James Stevenson (greyscale) illustration make for a good book of poems. Adults might also find many of the poems quirky and cute as well.

English Freshly Squeezed by Carol Diggory Shields is interesting. While not every page is gorgeously crafted, it does use each topic in each poem. One topic, exclamation marks, using them the ends of each sentence, crafted in such a way that they are not wasted or added only for color. If a school or class wanted to demonstrate grammar and poetry, this is it! A+ material for introducing grammar with clever, helpful, fun poems.

Howl's Moving Castle

director

Miyazaki borrowed some ideas from his earlier works to put together another tale of where love conquers all, a girl protagonist, and magic. The musical score is very similar to Spirited Away, but not disenchanting. Here, he addresses shallowness, greed and eny. There has been something about his work -- something, but here in the post WWII, mixed with Hong Kong feel -- VonTrap sandwiched there too, is American Girl series, the dolls, coupled with other sales items like movies. I'll have to see if there is much on him. He seems to be writing for a daughter who never ages.

It has rewatchability and has no strong adult content. The war in the backdrop plays a role in character coloring and a theme of pointlessness of war. In the end [SPOILER -- the war is called off, for a boy's heart cannot be won by a jealous queen]

I think, if I had a little girl, she would very much like this movie. The English version I saw had some voices, which seemed to me like Billy Crystal. I can only hope that Wikipedia is correct here for the voices:

Character	Japanese version	English version
Howl	Takuya Kimura	Christian Bale
Grandma Sophie	Chieko Baisho	Jean Simmons
Calcifer	Tatsuya Gashuin	Billy Crystal
Young Sophie	Chieko Baisho	Emily Mortimer
Witch of the Waste	Akihiro Miwa	Lauren Bacall
Markl	Ryunosuke Kamiki	Josh Hutcherson
Madame Suliman	Haruko Kato	Blythe Danner
Prince Turnip	Yo Oizumi	Crispin Freeman
Lettie		Jena Malone
Suliman's Servant	Mitsunori Isaki
Heen (Dog)	Daijiro Harada	--same as JP--

Still, I would rate Spirited Away, for sheer re-watchability as my favorite of his work. Since ... Moving Castle is based on a book, I will have to get that some time.

I think another recurring element in his work is smoke and clouds. Perhaps difficult for some to master, but he seems to have a team that realistically renders these ambiguous gases and makes them live. The film incorportates, as do all his films, different styles of motion, stills, animation. Some of the humor is very subtle and some visual humor is, well worth watching and can't be written as funny.

After some further reading, he directed (English name: Lupin IIII) I have never seen all of this, but some of it was included in an '80s laser disc arcade game. Lupin has many sequels and some TV episodes. From what I saw of it, it was definately the forerunner for physical comedy and slapstick found later in Poke'mon and other cartoons.

I was already thinking about seeing Howl's Moving Castle, when MR mentioned that I should watch it then bitch about it.

Ken Lay

returns from the dead, having faked his own death after the verdict of his guilt, in light of the verdict being tossed out by the judge. Now, having lots of time and money, Ken hopes to enjoy the unembalmning, but sees no need for further botox injections, as the embalming fluid has made him, "fresher" looking. Okay, none of that is true or nice to write, but hey ... there is no way he was innocent of all charges there. I guess, it makes a small bit of good news to his family, of little confort to those who lost because of the illegal trading.

Blade of the IRS

Wesley Snipes tried to not pay taxes, then claim he needed taxes back. What wild ideas! I think all of that heavy martial arts moves he learned might be useful in prison, if he goes. Filing for tax refund of $12 million, can't come without a penalty. Vampire Blade and investigator at 1900 Pennsylvania Ave may have some interesting dodging and figures to fight, by his own making.

poker tip

Don't play with somebody if they have a machete. If they're drunk and they have a machete, you're just asking to play, Scarface, if you ever saw the movie. An Indiana man gets 50 years for kiling another poker player with a machete. Okay ... so, why did you have that? Did you like, uh ... come in after cutting down folliage from the backyard then? The sad thing is, he could get out in 25 with "goood" behavior. This non-English speaking defendant seemed remorseful, but butchered death --- machete? Come on man! This isn't Havana!

Calling a bluff

I support the Ohio police is killing this man. Undoubtedly, there will be a flood of soppy-eyed bleeding hears claiming illegiimate killing, but I think they erred on the side of caution to hospital patients. The man claimed he was going to kill one of them, made a move toward an are where he might have a weapon. Should the officers waited until he had the weapon drawn on a person or them ... I think not.

For the families of the officers in the shooitng, I prematurely offer my sympathy for the crap you'll have to endure with those who would rather a robber shoot their family, than fatally defend their family. If somebody comes in to hurt your family ... like the man recently charged with killing a family, leaving two alive who he kidknapped and raped, then killed the boy. The girl was fortunate enough to survive the weeks of rape and made a break when the felon brought her inside a restaurant with him.

Would you stand by and let him take your kids and kill your family? Hell no you wouldn't! If you were a reasonable person you would grab the nearest weapons -- lamp, chair, pencil and charge after him, stopping at nothing but your death or his.

For the Ohio police stopping a man who would, likely have later done more crime, of a more violent nature, I salute your quick action in bringing down the man. The officers tried a stun gun, but it was ineffective. They tried, but the suspect clearly wasn't going to stop.

helpful local crime search engine

I looked up this street and found, suspicious person seen. Whatever that means. Anyway, it was quite useful. Who know it existed?

I hope that other cities have this as well.

Absolutely Fabolous

Rapper Fabolous whose lyrics include gang warfare with snipers is shot by men. In the car were unregistered (illegal) handguns -- shock! Fabolous is in hospital, likely to find trial proceedings against him. Hey, live and die the "g" life, ass*****! You say, you write, you die it!

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I don't know why it's on the books

Indiana might release someone who killed another man. The guilty person was found "not guility by reason of insanity", which means that after institionalization, he can be free, never serving jail time. He was in a mental facililty for months, but has been found "sane" by doctors there. They should be required to rotate their housing/boarding of him, since he is "sane" now. I think, if I were ever in trouble, I would act like a rabbid dog, clawing myself so that I could be in a nice padded cell, get fed and pampered and then act, 'all better now' after several months.

So, you kill someone, act crazy and have stupid doctors believe your bull. You then gradually act better when you get your scooby snacks for correct behavior. After that, you can go into hiding and kill again, meanwhile the doctors can pat themselves on the back over their "success story" with the wild man who killed someone. Society pays the price for this heinous miscarriage of justice.

Get this law off the books. If you're crazy, then you are crazy. I think if you are then found "all better now" you should then enter into prison, having a new ability to deal in reality. Better still -- if you're crazy enough -- kill yourself. Eliminating the responsibility part of a crime helps absolutely no one. I think they should find the lawyers who wrote the law, then those who passed the law and jail them for obstruction of justice. What complete bullcrap!

Suave Chavez

"How did a gargoyle like that ever get to be judge?"
"A couple years back, he spread out a million samollians and bought the election."+

So, Chavez is buying his way into the hearts of many. Yep, that will probably pan out for him as long as he has money. I do think that soon, internal strife will take hold and you'll hear more about political opponents being slain and protesters arrested. If the country has that much money, which it doesn't, it shoudl at least spend more at home. He is buying political capital, while like a communist letting his own country fester a bit.

I'm sure that since he touched so many, he will also wanted to be touched later, when it comes time. While I won't give him brilliance, he is clever. I hope his own people don't suffer long.

" Who Framed Roger Rabbit

weirder

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Okay, from where are these spammers drawing their word lists?

dead teen

my neice was sad last week, for a friend (or someone she knew) died. A day later, they announced it was suicide, by hanging. What is significant here is that he was Muslim. I believe that he was born in the US. I know in town there is a very small population of Muslims, but to my knowledge there is one or no mosque anywhere near. I understnad that it is custom, by religion, that the body be laid to rest in the ground within 24 hours. That is interesting. I could write much more on the juxtaposition some Muslims make with some of their actions, but I'll consider that later.

Of the times in any person's life that suicide is most seductive, attractive and desirable is generally in the teen years. I would hazard to guess, being a Muslim in a town with few others, with the times as they are (aggression and anger towards Muslims in general), and being a teen, I think this is tragic, bur foreseeable. The teen years are tough, but for a Muslim in this town with more direct US involvement in wars, it would be very tough to stick it out.

My sister called to see if the paper online had the obituary but it didn't. For shame, for some might need a little closure, whereas this might deny them of that. hmmmm

looking familiar

Meet hot singles in my area? Sweet! Excellent! Hey!

Is she listed twice? She's 18 and 26? So if I search for her, which girl am I getting? Do I get the dark-haired cutie or the blonde one who's not looking at the camera? Better still, Katebabe has fluctuating cup size breasts. How does she do that? Overall, I don't think they're being very honest with me.

French don't rape

because it isn't recognized as a crime.
Check out the law. Touring in France, bring protection -- and I don't mean trojans.

Try this one, a woman in a Muslim country alleges gang rape, and she is then arrested for adultry (a Muslim crime). How do you like that? Hmmm, gang raped, then jailed. What a wonderful system of government you got there! My qeustion is ... why would any woman want to be Muslim?

creeping around

I wrote that a raccoon was digging trenches. I included pictures of the mild damage.

Happy birthday!

This is a sequel to this pair, the dog giving out the penalty and the cat receiving it. The first was the cat's poker streak, always losing. Rather than gamble for money, it was for penalties which were on file. Here, the dog got tired of the cat being in the way and penalized him with displays all ready for him to endure. Here, it's happy birthday with explosives on the cake.

Evil work afoot

The other morning, a tell-tale path was dug in the grass. The ditch wasn't nearly as wide as Bugs Bunny's burrowing, but it was just as winding. It likely stopped, but failed to turn at Albequerque. Something was digging, but for what? I couldn't figure out what was digging, let alone for what.

Tonight, I got my answers, a raccoon was chasing a mole. I saw it at work last night, chasing then digging. They are a good deal more nutritious than bird seed -- about all he'll find in this yard. The neighbors have a vegetable garden which has been feeding raccoons, squirrels, and opposums this year. I pity the neighbors for trying with so many greedy hands.

I would guess the digger is an adult (though smaller than some of the trashbag size urban raccoons I have seen, female. They semi-hibernate, but with a predicted mild winter, it won't have to store a large larder or fat.

Confidentially, I don't much care for the destruction that moles do, but they eat grubs that hurt plants and grass. They can help the grass be ariated, but with too many, you get moguls in your lawn. I think there are enough to spare, so I'm not unhappy about one or more being food for the raccoon.

How not to watch a cartoon

Don't pay close attention. Don't expect logic. Don't have a corrupt mind.

Going here, I saw some Wacky Races cartoons. Once racer, Penelope Pitstop (pictured above) has a pink car with blonde hair design. If you watch it like I watched it ... looking at details, a blonde bit on the windshield is almost always covering her chest. It looks like a hand (kinda) and so my mind raced to a direction that it wasn't intended ... or was it?

Well then, y'all

In both of these scenes, the pistol packers fired at Snagglepuss who ran much like Oz's cowardly lion (perhaps a greater source of the character's basis then my description below) He was the target because he was a lion, or was it beccause he was pink?

I better do a lil' ol' yell to protect my lil' ol' self, she said in a lil' ol' southern belle accent. A lion on deck! Snagglepuss, a laughable name now, but appripo for the era. Snaggle (getting caught in messes) and puss, shortened for cat, a softer kinder word before the usurping of it for euphemisms anatomy. I think, quite sharply the creators, Hanna Barbara were keen to the relationship between efeminate voiced lion and a pink character who says everything as though he were on stage.

another local news story

A drunk driver who left his children in the car after the scene of an accident was found with mutiple stab wounds. He was found by a repairman. Isn't irony a funny thing? I guess someone left the scene of an accident where he was stabbed.

It's so beautiful

Fort Wayne's board has written a wonderul re-submission to the smoking ban and ordinances. While it concludes with, "more money and staff needed ... inadequete at this time ..." it is an idea for policy change. Namely, the exclusion of "clubs" that would allow smoking via a clause. Bars might also be affected when a new law or ammendment is ratified, which might end smoking in bars as well. What was surprising was that Indiana has the 2nd highest adult tobacco usage in the US, if I read that correctly. That is surprising.

When the new laws, hopefully bearing out to reality &/or ammendments are written and ratified, I hope that Indiana is a less-smoke filled state. I believe that, since smokers spend around $1000- $2000 per year, that could easily be spent on Nicorete gum or patches to cure the habit.

This is based on the report on the direct relationship between smoke (first or second-hand) and disease. It's really obvious, but people are generally stupid or fiesty, preferring their ignorance. I'm sure that the people who smoke would not like it if I were to pull out a plastic model and begin building it with glue at the dinner table. What's that you say, it stinks and is proven to be a health hazzard? Gosh ... quit your smoking and you got yourself a deal! If you smoke, I'll laquer my curio cabinet near you ... use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire danger.

I think Kraft Foods can make good money without the cigarette sales.

Getting Mad

While this is in direct opposition to everything that they suggest and direct and won't last, it might very well mark the point where people have finally gotten sick of criminals. Here, specifically school infiltrators and child murders; but applicable to many circumstances. I think calling in for a surgical strike on the felon(s)' butt is wiser. Often, conpliance yields better results, but examples given in the article point to times when compliance yeielded suffering then murder.

Skip all that! I think America sould finally wake and be sick of crime and criminals and accept, "I shoot the bastards! That's [our] policy!" That's right. Whether the muderer was suffering from a bad case of indegestion or inoperable brain tumor, the wrongness of the act requires action -- prompt action. Tooo often people try to emancipate people from their actions and responsibilies. Gosh, he did that because he was abused *1, or she had PPD (post partem despression) or PMS, or mixed coffee and three other caffeine drinks and got too wired.

While this thinking -- prepatory retalitory violence, may be innappropriate for some situations, I dare say that subduing an attacker (especially when outnumbered -- which is almost always the case) makes much more sense than accepting the doom. If you do some reading on recent shootings, including the poor victims of the Amish killer, he supposedly brought in materials for raping as well, since he freed the boys. In another shooting, the guys were freed and a few girls freed who reported to police/swat outside that he was sexually assaulting the girls there. They went in and only one child died. Now, fingers could be pointed to police mishandling, but if a felon comes in with automatic weapons, do you really think he's going to drop them and say ... "kidding!"

*1 Those abused are not doomed to repeat the crime. That's bullcrap! Victims, more than non-victims should know the wrongness of the act and how it hurts and the long-standing difficulties it can have, therefore they should not act out the abuse that "still" makes them suffer. If they are struggling that badly ... seeking counseling. Many therapists work cheap or free and are readily available.

I have never been confronted with rape or murder before, but I would like to think that I would battle until the end. "If you're gonna die ... if you're gonna die. If you're gonna die ... if you're gonna die. If you're gonna die ... die with your boots on!" + In one hypothetical, first you are raped then you are killed or you could die fighting never being raped. "It's a logical transaction, one life for billions." "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few -- or the one."

+ Iron Maiden, meaning, die fighting, die trying -- don't so easily submit to defeat on important matters.

Movie on stupidity

I got it from the library, categorized as an educational video. It wasn't educaitonal, per se, but worth seeing parts of it. The premise is analyzing the dumbing of humans through media, but it first examines the psychological terms of "idiot, imbecile, moron" related to IQ. Now these terms are synomous and interchangable for stupid acts or persons acting in a stupid manner.

The movie raises some interesting points, but continues to use the same technique it claims that TV does to capture the audience -- soundbites and 2-5 seccond bursts of visuals; including violence, sex, and less savory human tendencies. I found it easier to experience with my eyes closed, visuals distracting from the meaning. In the end, it both reviles and shields Bush in regards to stupidity. Generally, post viewing perspective -- which is it, that he is stupid, "only plays one on TV"+, or that he is made stupid.

In any case, many are stupid, anyone can act in a stupid manner, and that no one that they polled (people on the street) could really give a good meaning of the word stupid. There were a few long scenes of people waiting to enter a theater to see Steve-O and a Jackass creator in "action". While waiting, COPS crowd antics ensued including jumping onto a locally parked car, uprooting of a street sign, and more. What a complete waste! The throngs of the easily manipulated couried and pushed into violence by the anticipation of stupid live acts.

I won't rate the movie, as I would not want to see it in its entirety again, but ... I would like it re-edited for the 20 -40 some good minutes of narration that it does have. The background could be switched instead of seeing countless Jackass-esque antics from real accidents or violence. That would, of course, "rip the soul" out of the artistic work that is Stupidity.

+ used in the movie declaring him to be not an idiot

Topless protests okay

Judge ruled that women may protest topless. I believe he added the caveat that the protesting women be "sweet honies with bodatious ..." Okay, he didn't add that, but the "sweet honeys" part he should have added. I think, if the protesters were thinking clearly -- ha, fat chance there, that the 400 pound women be discouraged from going topless.

Hey, what's with the non-traditional burlesque show going on there? Are the dancing hippos with the dancing ostriches as well?

More on the Gibson

Of course I didn't say those things. And if I did, I didn't mean them. And if I did mean them, I meant them in a satirical manner. I got more sense than to say those racist things!

Yeah, I remember saying those things. They were funny.

Alcohol is a hell of a drug, eh?
......
Now, Gibson is trying to do three card monte with the media. You see .... it's that cop, he's got it in for me, you see? I didn't inhale, while expelling my awful tirade on Jews everywhere.

I'm waiting for Gibson to come out and just admit that he's an ass and be done with it. Didn't he see Clinton? "I did not ..."

8 years of wrong

Pennsylvania court rules in favor of plaintiffs in Wal-Mart suit. Hmmmm ... $78 million, which will be appealled taking another 8 years, 'til finially it drops to $54 million and $40 some million dollars in court fees and lawyer costs+ yielding around $10 million for those affected, after taxes and other fees, bringing a healthy $20 check to each party on the class action suit against Wal-Mart.

So, Wal-Mart loses money, maintains prices, foregoing the happy smiling bouncing face lowering prices and reshapes its policies and procedures.

Two people I know that work or have worked recently for Wal-Mart remarked how "anally retentive" it was about clocking in, out, breaks and the seeming minutia. I suppose it/is due to the lawsuit mentioned above. Hmmm, food for thought, I suppose.

MSNBC chose a picture of lotto winners outside the courtroom delighted that they won. I guess no one told them that it would take years to get the money, which would be widdled down to less than a day's paycheck per litigant. Well, it's gas money for 2015.

+ intentional reversal

Cartoons -- stage left

including slowpoke Jinxie and Pixie and Dixie. He isn't the same as Slowpoke Rodrigez (also fastest gun in Mexico), but you get the 60's drift, right?

Snagglepus, ending a cartoon with, "Wait ... I'm going to gay Paris (paree) too!"

golf clap

Man, this case could go either way .... [ring]
Yes. Um hmm. I see. Okay, let me know if his condition changes.
Well, what? Why isn't he here?
He's dead.

Child molester finally does the right thing -- kills himself. Far too late, but still the effort is comendable.

Dragon's Lair

Oh, wait ... make that Dragon's Keep (Cafe). Lances are prohibitted. Cerpicio, MR, and I went into the cafe Thursday. I first had to wait to the little beeping and the blue light+ to know if I should walk straight or left. The wide hallway (the cafe) was quaint, cramped for space, but they did a nice job with what space they had. The 60s-80s music was intersting. The barrista was friendly enough and Cerpicio and Paula had been there often enough, he knew him.

The coffe was okay ... hey, it was coffee, right? The food, overpriced, but I didn't know that. I'm picky about nearly everything, so the food was okay, just. The atmosphere, decor is unique to the coffee shop, but it would be better out west or east looking a little out of place in its present locale.

The wrought iron chairs (2 chairs per table) was better suited to couples -- you know, like Cerpicio and Paula. Anyway, it was okay and for couples who like wrap sandwiches and coffee or tea, it is a quiet, quaint little place. More more space and some scents (oils, candles, or incense) it would be homey.

+ allusion to arcade game (first laser disc game '80s, later a short-lived Disney cartoon. For trivia, the laser disc games failed as a "new wave" of arcade games.

War; it's fantastic

Shoot, shoot, shoot ... shooting . .. shooting, shooting. It also encourages you to hit a target more than once. I really like overkilling.

bones on which to chew

Look, I have a compromise. Inmates stop being uncooporative and the dogs won't need to be there. I have another solution. If inmates are uncooporative, you move them unconsciouly to the new locale. How they change from conscious to unsconscious is up to the prison authority then. I don't want to hear any more about who bit who. I do think, however using trained aggressive dogs in this manner sets a bad precidence for law regarding mauling deaths and harboring of dangerous animals, etc. The dogs, noted here are trained aggressive, as has been the argument of felons (caught and to be caught) who raise dogs for dog fights.

I like better my idea of moving instructing prisoners with the guidelines that transfers while conscious is preferred, but not manditory. Hey, look! You're already in prison, generally+the more obstinant ones are repeat felons. The guards and staff should be safe, so ... I prefer to error on the side of staff and faculty safety, rather than worry as much about rights infringement on the "poor" convict.

+ generalization, for sure, but not unreasonable.

Hey! I have a new defense

I was nude because I had stress in my life. I'll use this case all the time now. You see, I have bi-polar disorder and stress, which is why I was wandering in the nude. You see, it makes sense, right? Presently, I don't have bi-polar disorder, but with the right lawyer, it's likely to win. I'm wondering where that hidden lover is. Oh, come on now. A man wandering around in the nude at the offices after business hours. You know he has a lover there. The reason is not medical, but perhaps is biological.

as covered yesterday

I think the constitutional law being violated is the pursuit of happiness (and safety and well-being) for children and parents alike. 1,000 feet is too short. I'd recommend 1,000 miles. I suggest an anchored floatilla (Waterworld) in the South Pacific. Sex offenders -- move or kill yourselves, either way, we win.

Expect More

I do! MR responding to my criping about pork in congress and access to bills and the pork on them showed me that link. It was signed into effect by Bush. I expect more for: it DOES NOT show me the law that was approved nor list the HB number. It DOES NOT show me pork. It IS NOT indepedantly reviewed, but rather reviewed by ... shock -- lawmakers and other government agencies. Find a single name of a reviewer ... uh ... uh ... er ... you can't.

I will ASSUME it is only it its infancy and will really detail what it is they are showing viewers. By its own standards, I rank it ineffective. I like the idea, but showing this law and funding is effective, that one not, what the bill entails in its ENTIRETY. I am not cynical here, just that I read it and there's little there to read to make an opinion.

done without guns

My sister emailed me today that she killed yet another hard drive. I guess that she should stop juggling them or using them in skeet shooting.

Kentucky buddy and the Indy Fed fools

So, a KY judge forces sex offenders to move. Way to go buddy! I only wish I could vote you into office here! Menawhile, Indianapolis decides that sex offenders should be closer to children for the time being. Uh ... did I vote you folks into power or were you appointed instead. Step away from the bench please, remove the robe and resign, please.

Mentally insane

So, he's nuts! My questions are:
He violently killed people close to him. Is he at all likely to kill again? Yes.
Is there a method to get him to not kill, apart from executing him? Maybe.
Which makes society safer execution or imprissonment with possibility of parole or escape? Execution.
Well, this non-English speaking murderer, I think just about spelled out his end with morte, no comprende

That's a damned shame that he's crazy. He's not going to get sane nor nonviolent, so ... we're keeping him around, why?

More Bush bashing?

Barbra Streisand does comedy skit ... ha! I don't think so. I will again mention that I disagree on a number of points with Bush, but this crap -- why? I wonder if the entertainers don't read and smell their own crap? Dixie Chicks ... anybody remember this group that went up North to make money? Look, SNL might do some lampooning, but hey ... the TV audience isn't paying for it, so you can protest by stop watching it. When you paid for ... choke, chuckle, snicker; paid for a Streisand ticket, then you got screwed. Oh, I mean that you got her singing and "comedy" skits. I guess, if she's done this kind of stuff before, you couldn't be surprised, but you are sitting there having paid for it. Likely, you didn't want a political satire, least of all from her. I could be wrong, but doubt it.

What makes a bad teacher?

Well, one, when your bigotry and angst interfere with teaching. Here, we have a case for a piss-poor teacher being excused for his evil-intent in that he has a passion for teaching. Really, like decreeing what is, rather than allowing decisions to be made. Moreover, forcing the purchase of propoganda? I think this guy knows Hilter, because he imitates him. Fire him, now! Regardless whether people approve of Bush or not, this teacher's teachings are flatout wrong and inflamitory.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Well, I don't think it was too bad as an early movie, but ... it left a bit to be desired. The fickle, lonely thriteen year-old girl here has troubles and typical teen problems, especially moving into a new city alone. The theme of discovering what makes you, you ... good, but mired with other complexities. It played a bit like a Tarot reading, while you thought a Queen would show, oddly the 8 of hearts would be flipped. Of course, for Tarot reading, you disclude many of the cards of the deck for meaning.

It has some rewatchability, with era-specific music, but pre-teen and early teen girls might find it watchable. Most other characters in the story are walls, windows, and doors in a room. They confine the main character, some allowing limited movement and growth. There is no strong violence in the movie, though injuries and deaths are implied (accidents in climatic wreck, leading to rescue).

The diector uses a range of animation and drawing techniques, including flat backdrops and animated backgrounds. The sound is good, but mixed on English, lacking some fluent ambient noise for more realism. The version (re-release) I saw marked at the end as a dedication to Phil Hartman who voiced the black cat familiar of Kiki the witch.

it's timing

Really, long before North Korea fired it's nuke. I do, however find it now ironic that -- hey, we need teachers here in South Korea!

2008 election (presently)

Nominee	My vote
Former North Carolina senator John Edwards	Maybe - unsure
New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton	No
Former vice president Al Gore	No
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry	No
Delaware Senator Joe Biden	Maybe - unsure
Retired general Wesley Clark	Maybe - unsure
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean	No
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson	Maybe - unsure
Former South Dakota senator Tom Daschle	No
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold	Maybe - unsure
Former Virginia governor Mark Warner	Maybe - unsure
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich	Maybe - unsure
Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack	Maybe - unsure
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani	No
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice	No
Arizona Senator John McCain	Yes
Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich	No
Florida Governor Jeb Bush	No
Tennessee Senator Bill Frist	Maybe - unsure
Virginia Senator George Allen	Maybe - unsure
Vice President Dick Cheney	No
New York Governor George Pataki	Maybe - unsure
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney	Maybe - unsure
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee	Maybe - unsure
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback	Maybe - unsure

Maybe - unsure means that I need to do more research on them.

I always feel like

somebody's watching me ... or is just fantasy ...

Echo was watching out of curiosity and because we were playing outside and he wanted to be a part of it.

not 2-pac

2 hat Monkeyjack
Walker would be proud

What we might have had, but didn't

This is a hospital helicopter ... no one needed for Sunday.

-- photo shot couple weeks ago, midafternoon at a local park

realistic, my foot!

You'll shoot your eye out

Charlie got a bow & arrow set, one arrow broke early

A loosed arrow into the sofa. I insisted that it never be aimed at the living ("people and puppies")

blunt points make for slow arrows

Monkeyjack devised shooting at the pumpkin

and so he tried,

and tried,

and finally hit it, though the arrow bounced off and went farther than he was standing

Someone foolishly let this guy have the bow & arrow

Most excellent

State plans to establish protective order registry

From The Associated Press

 

EVANSVILLE — Indiana plans to use a federal grant to establish a protective order registry, which will link courts to police data to try to ensure information in the orders is entered and available immediately all over the state.  Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shephard announced the state has received a $259,000 federal grant to create and fund the plan.

Protective orders sometimes would not be available to law enforcement officials for days, which is “unacceptable and too dangerous to continue,” Shephard said in a news release.

Once the registry is running, copies of new orders that go into the system will be faxed to local law enforcement agencies, ensuring all are immediately aware that a protective or no-contact order has been issued or revoked.

The orders also will be registered with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, offering protection across state lines.

Candice Perry, the legal advocacy program coordinator for Albion Fellows Bacon Center in Evansville, said that the new registry can only help.

“I think the majority of people we come in contact with are unsure with how the protective order will really help them,” Perry said. “We try to educate them on what it does and what it doesn’t do.”

Clients often say they have been told the protective order is “just a piece of paper.”

“We are very realistic with them that it is a piece of paper,” said Perry. “But it’s also a first step that gives law enforcement the ability to do much more for them.”

Perry said the new registry could ease concerns some clients have when traveling between counties.

Never constant

folks resting after a short walk

Yesterday, it was warm, the sun and light clouds were soothing. The autumn colors were beautiful. Thomas and Marcus put on yet ANOTHER rod. Thomas was clever enough to yank the last one out of the wall. In his defense, the metal sheered in half, not really pulled out of the wall. The bar, like the others was a nusance to put into the wall. It took parts, tools time, and a drill bit was broken in half.

Later, the folks went out for a walk in the nice autumn weather. It isn't supposed to stay nice for all that long, so today was the day. We three ate orange roughee for dinner and then the folks watched the Ugly Dachshund, an old Disney movie.

In the evening, for no particular reason, Thomas took out the blood pressure monitor and took his reading, then Lois' and found that Lois had a heart rate in the 40s. Despite taking it several times, it was always low (a few times in the 30s). Since she's had heart problems, heart attack history, we got to see the emergency room last night. We were there for two hours, then Lois was discharged with a 24-hour heart monitor.

It was determined that she had non-symptomatic bradycardia (slow heart rate without any symptoms). It is likely that some of the medicines that she's taking are now at too high of levels and are pushing her heart rate down too low. Well, they'll determine what they will do later.

....
As a side note, while the entire staff that night was nice, congenial and friendly, they had -- bar none, the most effeminate male staff. The EMS guy there (though Mum was driven to hospital by myself), had a voice higher and odder than Pee Wee Herman. The doctor who was working was about half as effeminate and the registry guy was slightly less than that, but good golly! I guess Lutheran wanted to keep them out of the more typical public eyes or something? I applaud their promptness and quick work to get her out of there shortly after midnight.

Feeling no pain, Mom gets patches to monitor her heart functions 11 somthing at night at hospital.

Elevator scents

Who has the most fragrant and expensive scent?

spam titles

Equestrianism Roller hockey

Racquets Ice dance

....

Now, what is equestrian roller hockey?  I don't know, but I'd like to see that!  The racquets ice dance also sounds pretty interesting.

No Child Left Behind

Hey, lunkheads in congress and senate. Do think that, instead of making accountability law without money is more important than keeping students who want to go to school safe? Flunkies at the congress and senate wheel, step away and quit. Safety should be number one! If they aren't safe at school, they won't go and the smart parents won't send them. Get that "No Child Left Behind" shit off the books and make funding for education. Look, you can tell the world that you don't have the money, but you had the money for a war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're still paying that daily. SO ... I don't believe a friggin' word when you tell me the nation doesn't have the money. You lied right there. "You're sitting there, acting like we didn't already have this conversation!"+

Make schools safe. Fund schools so that they have staff and supplies. Make education work. If you only look to the next day and not the next couple of decades, then step away. You aren't a thinker and aren't a planner. The US imports college grads abroad because we don't produce enough. How many GED or High School only jobs are there now? How many will there be in ten years? There will be fewer and you know that!

Let "No Child Left Behind" be a founding for money and education and the resurgance of learning, not a cold phrase from a teen killer holding a gun.

+ Fargo

Access, genetic donors, access

Case in point a mother used her baby as a weapon in a domestic despute. Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away?+ Some people should never have access to children, even their own. I blogged yesterday on this very topic. So, you think these people would adopt out their child? So, you think these people are good parents? So, the child won in this case? Bullshit, that's an animsl! Shoot it!++

+ Aliens
++ Party Animal

Local newspaper poll

Would the country be better off if Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November?

Yes. Democrats better represent the needs of ordinary people.

Yes. Democrats couldn't be worse than Republicans have been.

No. Republicans haven't done as much good as they could have, but they're still better than Democrats.

No. Republicans hold the line against terrorism abroad and moral decline at home.

........

I'm going to borrow a short dialogue from My Cousin Vinny;

“I can't answer that question.”

“Are you saying that you don't know the answer?”

“Nobody can answer that question.”

“You see, she doesn’t know!”

“No, it’s because it’s a bullshit question!”

“Why is it a bullshit question?”

……….

I can’t answer it because you don’t friggin elect a party, unless you’re an ass and pull the party switch not choosing at all. The question should be, while difficult to answer: “Who should be in the US House to make things right?” This now doesn’t imply that things are wrong or right and doesn’t matter at all what party, sex or whatever. I should see persons on the ballot, not parties, which are like online spam or popup ads. I know that it doesn’t take a particular party to improve or ruin what is, but rather individuals. Take, for example Foley. Does Foley represent the Republican party? If you say yes, then there you go. I think most people would cite him as an individual, as are they all. If I take this approach, then parties need to be disbanded, because you recognize persons as individuals. Otherwise, you could assume that all Republicans are like Bush and Foley, and that all Democrats are like Kennedys and Clintons.

It’s a bullshit question.

Iran blames US -- how shocking!

Oct 9, 10:44 AM EDT

Iran blames U.S. for N. Korea nuke test
By Ali Akbar Dareini
Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state radio Monday blamed North Korea’s reported nuclear test on U.S. pressure, accusing Washington of “humiliating” the impoverished communist country. “Not only did the United States not lift the sanctions it had imposed on North Korea, it even increased the diplomatic pressure. Such pressure finally led North Korea to conduct its nuclear test,” Iranian state radio said in a commentary.

“North Korea’s nuclear test was a reaction to America’s threats and humiliation,” it said. Iran has said it will not abandon uranium enrichment despite the threat of international sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, which Tehran insists is purely for peaceful purposes to be used for nuclear energy.

President Bush on Monday said the United States was still attempting to confirm that a nuclear test in North Korea had actually taken place. Still, he said, “such a claim itself constitutes a threat to international peace and security.”

Iranian state radio accused Washington of “double standards” in its policy on nuclear nonproliferation, pointing to its attitude toward Israel and India. India has tested a nuclear bomb and Israel is widely believed to possess such weapons, but the United States is not currently applying sanctions against them.

In an oblique message to the United Nations, which is considering taking steps against Iran’s nuclear program, Iranian state radio said that the Security Council should not punish North Korea but disarm the nuclear arsenals of the great powers. “Instead of imposing comprehensive sanctions on North Korea ... it would be better if the U.N. Security Council adopt a wise decision and seek full implementation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty,” it said.

“That is to say, it should seek to disarm the countries that currently possess nuclear weapons and provide conditions so that signatories to the treaty will be able to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” it said.
........

So, the US is to blame for that whole thing with North Korea building nuclear weapons and selling them to Iran and Syria. I see. Yes, that would make sense that the US would encourage arms sales to and through the "Axis of Evil" governments named in 2001. I can see exactly why the US got in on that. Oh, wait ... headache, no, it's

Logic time!

Iran, shout all you want. No one with a brain listens to that crap anyway. Having a long ... L -- O --- N ------ G history of strife, fighting, murder, absolute control over groups, kidnappings (remember the 444 days with the US captives) , Iran has absolutely no backers on this one. I dare write, they should not have backers at all.+ That 33 year old horse isn't going to win that race, long shot and big payoff or not. It ain't gonna happen. If we examine Iran and its developments we find ... almost no change since 578 A.D. -- yep, A. D. (in the year of our Lord, buddy.)

Iran, in weapon development, or rather in hopes of development, is casting blame on US and trying to direct attention to North Korea, which could be wiped off the face of the planet in a non-nuclear war against China. Now, Kim Jong-II might be mad. He might even launch one, but at the peril of mostly himself. Not too many countries would cry over the carpet bombing that many close nations would do in order to, well, create overnight desertification on the area.

Oh, just FTI: as you called China an hour before the testing, you'll likely also get an FYI call about an hour before forfeiture of control. News tomorrow: North Korea and Iran get deliveries of weapons-grade nuclear material ... in warheads themselves. No communication available from either government.

+ backing and betting on the wrong horse

More bills I didn't know I was paying

The military outsources advertising, so "Paid for by the US army", which is you is also then sent to another company that is in charge of advertising for the armed forces. They were paid $200 million in 2005. I wonder how many tax dollars Godsmack got for the Navy commercial. Isn't that a funny bit of irony. Godsmack paid by the taxpayers. Hmmm. I'd say there weren't too many bands paid by tax dollars like that, eh?

Method 2

As well as a wall that will be erected, the US will soon have a croc filled moat. While, internationally, they caught and will keep the crocodile in a holding area, I suspect that some clever thinkers will now have a new method of eliminating the would-be river crossers from Mexico to the US. I think that few persons use this path to enter, but should it ever had been, these nature files of the migration would be sickening and planned, but effective for some.

Cross at your own risk.

I'm the guilty party

When around the youth -- children, it is always wise to carefully choose your words. I refrain from swearing as best as I can and I try not to refer to adult matters. I have, unwittingly, left a word well in the vocabulary of Charlie. I had played some game and then -- bampf, "moron" spilt out. I paid no attention to my liking of this word until Charlie referred to folders on the TiVO as morons. Oh, my ... I'm glad that I didn't say it in a derogatory manner denoting its meaning. Yikes! A tabboo word for him and family is "stupid".

In this case, I would like to backpeddle away from responsibility, but I can't ... I am the moron for using the word.

N Korea's rooster act

I would call it peacock act, but there's nothing pretty about it. Although I'm not in agreement on many levels with China, it could be a powerful nation to put N Korea back into line. I might suggest a short monologue (as it's full of rhetorical questions) like this (as China speaks with N Korea):

So ... I was kind of wondering if you'd like to continue to be called North Korea. You would? I think, if you thought about it at all, China (us) could very well run military through your country and take it like Germany did France. You could be China's little brother to south, still called China. North Korea would then, virtually vanish from the map and well ... victorious get to write the history, so ...

You get my point?

I've stated it before ... (based on S Dakota's potential ban)

The ban on abortion, while touchy and emotional warrants thinking about this:

How many children who aren't aborted are without homes?
How many children who aren't aborted are in foster care?
How many children who aren't aborted by "biological donors"+ are in a household poorly suited to existence?++

If there was a ban, dare I predict a national ban on it, who then raises the children? Should unreported criminals, sadists and molesters and rapists and child exploiters be granted them; especially since they would relish the opportunity to have a bevy of kids at their beck and call and access. Many of the people on the ban-wagon don't raise a single child at all, let alone foster or adopt a child. If you don't do that, you aren't part of the friggin' solution! So, shut up! If the argument is that adoption process is too tedious or full of too much red tape, therein lies the problem. When there is a suitable home for all children, I will agree that there should be a ban on abortion, for there is no call for it.

As far as abortion being in place of contraception, then I don't mind another $500 a year of my taxes being spent on free prophylactics. Heck, that's cheap and considerate. If that would help, go for it! In the end abortion is selfish in that I understand. I do know that many of the people seeking abortion tend not to be cut out to be parents at that time anyway, so the would-be child has that potential danger ahead of her/him. Children are destroyed daily, some or most by people who should never have had access to them in the first place (regardless whether they are genetically related to them or not).

+ you can't call people parents unless they raise their children. Siring offspring isn't parenting.
++ there aren't enough agents and people and not enough money to patrol houses with poor living for persons there. Find out stats on CPS (Child Protective Services) and find out that I'm right.

Day at the zoo

I'm not typing or posting it twice, so this is a brief on the zoo day where I went with the folks.

We elected to go Japanese for dinner and found, sadly, that our preferred restaurant is no more. I don't know if they opened elsewhere or are permanently gone. Yokohama, we missed out. Instead, we went to Asakusa which was just fine, just not quite the same. They serve lots of food and no one went home hungry.

anime environmentalism

Nausicaa, a tale of a girl who has "strange powers", really is good-natured, so say it simply. She cherishes nature, life, insects, and plants. When another group of humans tries to take over her community, the story unfolds as into a story against war, ultimate weapons (thermonuclear), slaughter, and hatred. It is a little brutal and would leave many kids with lots of questions, but they would be answerable. I would suggest 9 years and up watch it, though many 9 year olds' would probably not like it.

It's overall messsages are fairly clear, the visuals are intersting and the music is quieted, but so-so only. The background child singing (Nausicaa's little to-herself song) is pleasant and used for allusory purposes. Patrick Stewert dons the voice of Ebineezer and Uma Thurman plays out a quasi- Kill Bill character seeking bloodshed and curiosity through control, domination and warmongering.

I would rate it about a 4.8 with limited re-watachability, also due to some ambiguity to the story line and characters. The same director did Spirited Away, a much better film, and Kiki's Delivery Service. Not so surprisingly, the protagonists (girls) look remarkably the same in so many ways.

House of Wax

For an interesting twist, I write the few things that were interesting in the movie, then slash it to pieces as per normal. It had a few red herring curves and it had some potential for haunting scenes and the night scenes added a bit to the allure. There was a scene where they showed Paris Hilton dance a little, down to her undies. Finally, someone recognized that Paris Hilton couldn't act to save her life and wisely gave her very few lines in the movie. She more like a late Monet in the background ... captivating, until you look at it closely (finding there is flatline brain activity) then it loses it's wonder.

I wouldn't bother watching this sophomoric attempt at the horror genre, but the director has some potential to do better. I applaud the attempt to use wax museum, as they faded into obscurity in the 70's, much like is stated in the movie, and it is difficult to go back in the past. The "horror" bit of it is B-horror movie antics mixed with Saw and Dawn of the Dead music inclusion to thunder your way into being scared. The brutality goes between old Friday the 13th epic slaughtering, near cartoonish to bloody (aforementioned horror movies).

The dialogue wasn't that interesting and some of the "unusual ways to die" weren't original. The talking with the guy who wants to kill you bit; why are you talking to him. This movie has no re-watchability. With some of the errors in it including, but not limited to:

Gee, he's a creepy guy, but he's offering us a lift. Okay, but only if I sit my girlfriend next to him in the truck cab.
First stab him, then hit him with a rock, then tumble him down the stairs ... no, wait; that's not right. Wait 'til he stands then hit him with a rock.
Let's make the shadow protagonist a complete ***hole who you'd rather see slaughtered in "many nasty ways, "Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Robin"+
Gee, one black guy ... think he'll get it? They avoided the obvious problem of one skin tone only (although there were wax persons of some varying degrees of skin color). It wasn't simply a matter of press and spray.
Hey, teens and young adults! We'll show you that you picking a random spot in the wilderness and dropping trash and bottles friggin everywhere is justified. I think it was a bad message to send.
Oh, yeah ... we were going to a football game without tickets, right?
No ... no ... no similarity at all to Evil Dead, well, a little ... maybe more than a little.
Superglue on mouth, then ripped open -- nope, uh ... nope ... but if you have a mind, you know that's not right.

[SPOILER -- the whole city being desolate was much like Hills Have Eyes and really expected after they walked through the town; hint -- old pumps at gas station and no sermon at church]

I would rate it about a 2.5, but not higher. I was interested in seeing more of Elisha Cuthbert after watching the movie. She looked pretty cute.

+ Monty Python, Holy Grail