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If you have any illusions about what side the freaks were on who held the "candlelight vigils" after 2000 American military personnel were killed in Iraq, these pictures from Zombietime should clear the subject up for you. These people are celebrating. These people in San Francisco are smiling in obvious happiness over 2000 dead Americans.

I am not sure what personal validation they are getting from their behavior, but they sure do seem to be getting off on it, don't they?

F*cking sickos.

I am thrilled that European beavers are being reintroduced to the UK some 500 years after being hunted to extinction.  It is wonderful.  That was all the newspaper had to say.  Instead...

The beaver was hunted to extinction for its fur and the pain-relieving properties of its anal gland secretions.

(Emphasis mine.)

Okay, now I am officially disturbed.  Exactly HOW did ancient Brits figure out that beaver anal secretions had pain relieving properties?

Ugh.  Forget I asked that....

I am a Texas Republican, as anyone can tell. But Bonilla doesn't represent me, and I sure as hell hope he never tries.  Any evil dude who wants to butcher foals and sell the meat to France needs to move to France where they like freaks like that.

Believe me, I will never forget this.  Ever.  I have forwarded Bonilla's little screw play to everyone in my family, and I doubt any of them will forget it either.  If he ever goes for statewide office (like senator or governor), I will remind everyone I know what he is doing now--and I'll make damn sure I donate to the other guy, even if it means donating to a Democrat.  That's a pretty rough thing to say, but murdering baby horses so Frenchies can get their jollies is really sick, and Texas doesn't need to be known as the state that allows that kind of evil around....

My copy of Godzilla Final Wars

I just got my Godzilla Final Wars DVD.  I waited until I could get something in English, either subbed or dubbed. I bought it off of eBay, but I couldn't find any subbed DVDs, just dubbed DVDs. 

This has got to be one of the worst dubbing jobs in the history of Godzilla movies.  It is bad enough when the words don't follow the mouth movements, but in this case, visually the words start before the audio track or end before the audio track.  In some cases, it was possible to see the actors talking, and no audio was issued.

It really detracted from the movie.  The second time through, I actually fast forwarded through the talking and went straight to the fighting parts.  Made for a much better movie.

UPDATE and CLARIFICATION: After posting, someone emailed me (a shy G-Fan, who doesn't want to be known as such) and asked if I liked the movie.  HELL YES.  Godzilla has his blue fire back, he kicks the ass of the limpzoid American so-called Godzilla, kicks the ass of a bunch of other monsters, and the aliens are still as silly as ever (even in black leather...weirdly, that makes them Goth Godzilla aliens, a real comedy act...)

So, in other words, the only thing I disliked about this movie was the dubbing.  If it had been subbed, I think it would be one of the top Godzilla movies ever.  Japanese movies really need to be seen in Japanese to get the real feel for performance of the actors in the show.  Just like anime needs to be seen in the original Japanese and subbed to get the full impact of the characterizations.

Subbing is just plain superior.

Here is the map of the ever expanding Rottweiler Empire.

A rare black tailed gull from Asia was spotted on the shores of Lake Champlain.  This bird either got lost during migration, hitched a ride on a ship, or got blown off course by a storm.  As pretty as the bird may be, it could carry diseases to this continent from Asia.  The one that everyone fears is the avian flu.

Black Tailed Gull

Although avain flu is being hyped to ridiculous levels as a danger to humans (about 65 people have died from it since 2003, and they all had contact with infected poultry), it is true that avian flu can kill poultry stocks by the millions.  This, of course, causes economic havoc with the poultry farmers, markets, and consumers.

I am not saying someone should go shoot this beautiful creature.  Quite the opposite; I think birds are some of the most wonderful beings around (else why would I keep raising them?).  I just think the avian flu is more likely to show up on our shores via natural means, instead of a human catching it and bringing it here. 

I was going through some of the reviews for Doom, and came across a weird passage by one of the reviewers:

Doom was merely known as a bleak game about killing creatures with big guns, chainsaws and other weapons—a flimsy premise even by video game movie standards. The final product was too steroidal to attract females, the demographic that drives most horror hits, and too hokey, with the look and feel of a bad 1980s sci-fi movie, to be taken seriously by anyone but video game fans.

(Emphasis mine.)

Too steroidal?  The only other movie worth a damn in the top five was remake of The Fog.  Face it, a horse movie is nice on cable.  A dumb as shit sexual harassment movie should be a movie of the week on a network. (North Country.  What a waste of $8.50!  I should have spent it on a gallon of cheap wine; that at least makes me sleepy without making me pissed off as well.)  The Wallace and Gromit movie would be great to take little kids to, but I don't have any of those--mine are all big.

And my girls love Doom the game, and liked the movie.  Our biggest complaint about the movie?  Not enough monsters, not enough of a variety of Doom monsters, and not enough killing monsters.  

My biggest problem with his review is that is generalizes the female population of this country--just like North Country does.  Just like all the studio execs who didn't bother trying to draw women into this movie (yes, the Rock is in it, but so is Karl Urban...and he is some seriously high class eye candy to most women).

Don't try to box me in, dude (with a little 'd').  Go pick on someone with your own "steroidal" issues.