Sunday, October 27, 2013

Mount Dora Politics #3 - Sunday October 27th



You may have read my post of last week on the Medallion Homes campaign contributions issue, and here is the link for that if you want to refresh your memory......it first looks at the response from Randy Wiseman to Mel DeMarco's piece of investigative reporting....

The basic facts are that Medallion, the developer of the Lakes Of Mount Dora subdivision, has given campaign contributions in the thousands to four candidates for Mount Dora City Council and Mayoral election coming on Nov. 5th -  Wiseman, Wood, Canas and Payne. This is a matter of public record.











Lauren Ritchie had an excellent column in the Orlando Sentinel Friday on our Mount Dora political goings on......

As for the third paragraph of her column, do you think the fact a large corporation was trying to influence the City Council to vote in their favour by contributing to certain candidates would have come to light without DeMarco's investigation? Of course not......

Mount Dora candidates take developer money

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Lauren RitchieCOMMENTARY
4:53 p.m. EDTOctober 25, 2013
Four of Mount Dora's nine candidates for public office accepted money from an out-of-town developer who likely stands to make profits off 54 more houses if City Council members approve a request he has pending before them.
The vote on Medallion Home's application to kill requirements for a park, fire-station site and open space for endangered birds and turn those 35 acres into more houses at the Lakes of Mount Dora could come before the council just weeks after the Nov. 5 vote, when the mayor's chair and three council seats are up for grabs. The same company also has an open code-enforcement complaint for conducting an agricultural operation inside the city, where that use is prohibited.
Three of the candidates now are saying that they'll either return the cash or donate it to a charity. The fourth, mayoral candidate Randy Wiseman, said, "You should stay out of this race" before hanging up. Later, he termed an email asking why he took the money as "harassing" and "insulting," and he said he'd sent it to legal counsel.












Live in The Lakes Of Mount Dora?

For residents of the Lakes, you might want to think about this - if the candidates who took Medallion Home's campaign contributions vote to sell the City's land to the developer, you will have years of construction traffic, noise and general mess as they build their 54 houses - concrete trucks at 7am, nail guns and dirt. 

In addition, every brand new house they build drops the value of YOUR home if you need to sell it. Loans are easier to get for new construction, and most buyers like the thought of brand new houses, and your home is pre-owned..






Live in Loch Leven?

From DeMarco's original piece.

Medallion Homes sued the City of Mount Dora because the developer was allowing construction, delivery and resident traffic to use a neighborhood next door to theirs as their own short-cut toward Highway 441. The police and the council determined the practice was dangerous so the City stopped them.  Medallion Home lost the lawsuit, but informed sources report they are still trying to gain access to that neighborhood’s streets for their convenience.

If Wiseman, Wood, Canas and Payne are elected and vote to sell the city property for more construction, and Medallion brings the issue of construction traffic taking a short cut through Loch Leven's streets up again, guess which way the vote will go? In Loch Leven's favour, or Medallion Home's?










To all residents of Mount Dora

If the issue of the agricultural exemption resurfaces, do you think Medallion Homes will be granted their totally bogus request? 

And guess who will have to make up for these taxes? All of us......

Medallion Home applied for an agricultural exemption to lower their taxes - agriculture right there, in amongst where there are homes at the Lakes of Mount Dora, Lancaster at Loch Leven, the Country Club of Mount Dora and Loch Leven. Follow the money - the South Gulf Coast developer would save over $40,000 a year in taxes that we - the local residents - would have to make up for and pay. If that sounds ridiculous to you - as it did to me - you should know that though this request was denied by the City more than once, the developer has ignored what the residents and their representatives here want and they went to the County Appraiser's office to apply for the exemption anyway.









This election - Tuesday November 5th 2013 - Vote wisely

I agree with Mel DeMarco's recommendations below.....

I am supporting:

 Ryan Donovan in District 1 - he lives and works here in Lake County, father of 2 kids, uses common sense, independent thinker, experience on council.  

Michael Tedder, At-Large - Michael has lived here a long time, raised a daughter, now has a grandchild.  His business is here, he supports downtown businesses.  He is an active boater and advocate for our docks and waterfront. 

Carla Pepperman District 4, also has lived in Mount Dora for decades. She is a lawyer, a mom, an active citizen in our community who has the talent, education and smarts to make a difference. 

Cathy Hoechst for Mayor, she's a champion for downtown vitality, volunteers endlessly with children and our local food pantry, has worked for the interests of small business tirelessly, has had a corporate career, remains objective and she works to build consensus among her peers.


Friday, October 25, 2013

Davids Daily Dose - Friday October 25th





1/  The always excellent Frank Rich on the events of last week and the future of the Republican Party.........

Frank Rich on the National Circus: The Shutdown Won’t Kill the Radical Right

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 13:  Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin (R) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally supported by military veterans, Tea Party activists and Republicans, regarding the government shutdown on October 13, 2013 in Washington, DC.  The rally was centered around re-opening national memorials, including the World War Two Memorial in Washington DC, though the rally also focused on the government shutdown and frustrations against President Obama.  (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: The GOP shutdown surrender and what it means for Barack Obama, John Boehner, and viability of the radical right.
The sixteen-day government shutdown is over. The debt ceiling has been raised. Obamacare is still intact. Will this hurt the Republican Party? Or will this apparent total defeat yield unexpected fruits of victory?
After Barry Goldwater was buried by LBJ and the Democrats in the most lopsided presidential popular-vote landslide in history, the leading Washington pundit of the day, James Reston, wrote in the Times that the radical-right GOP standard bearer “has wrecked his party for a long time to come.” Richard Rovere, the similarly esteemed Washington columnist for The New Yorker, agreed: “The election has finished the Goldwater school of political reaction.” This triumphal consensus by the Establishment press of 1964 was, in the words of the historian Rick Perlstein, “one of the most dramatic failures of collective discernment in the history of American journalism.” And it was being repeated during the GOP’s Waterloo this week. To quote just one example (in The New Republic), Boehner’s attempt to rally his troops was “the final spasm of a still-fresh corpse, the corpse being the GOP’s legitimacy as a political party.” From the philosophical point of view of liberals — which I share — the GOP is illegitimate: a nihilistic, hostage-taking, anti-government fringe that wants to bring down government by any means necessary, no matter what the damage inflicted on either constitutional government or the American people’s well-being. But it remains a legitimate party however much its ideological opponents may despise it; it’s lavishly funded, boasts a sizable (if minority) number of loyal adherents, controls a majority of statehouses, and is run by a radical core protected in safe congressional districts. And it has a will to keep fighting no matter what.














2/  In the midst of all of the BS in the world, our politics and greedy corporations, there are some organisations that truly think outside the box.....here is a story from CBS News on a different kind of debt collector, who uses kindness instead of intimidation. Why? It's good business as well as being morally right......

Three minutes that may give you some hope......














3/  The Koch Brothers could make up to $100 billion if the Keystone Pipeline is approved....

If you were the President, and you knew your mortal enemies would profit handsomely from this pipeline, would you approve it?

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The progressive think tank International Forum on Globalization (IFG) released a report today investigating how Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the Keystone XL pipeline is built. The report, Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb: The Koch Keystone XL Pipeline, finds that the Kochs hold up to 2 million acres in Alberta and have spent upwards of $50 million on Congress and think tanks that heavily push for the pipeline.
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A Google map showing the Koch assets in the tar sands region as well as interests along the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Image credit: International Forum on Globalization.
The Kochs have long been one of the largest players in the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada, according to a IFG press release. The report connects the Kochs’ 50 year history and large footprint in the Canadian tar sands to the current debate about the Keystone XL pipeline.
“The Kochs have repeatedly claimed that they have no interest in the Keystone XL pipeline, this report shows that is false,” said Victor Menotti, executive director of IFG.
“We noticed Koch Funded Tea Party members and think tanks pushing for the pipeline. We dug deeper and found $100 billion in profits, $50 million sent to organizations supporting the pipeline, and perhaps 2 million acres of land. That sounds like an interest.”
















4/  An absolute classic Jon Stewart, where he goes after the financial journalists on CNBC and Fox Business for complaining about the JP Morgan $13 billion fine.....this is a wonderful 8 minutes......

Jon Stewart does not often dip into the shenanigans of the financial world, but when he does, it’s certainly something to see. And he set his sights Wednesday night on financial networks CNBC and Fox Business Network for their incredibly hyperbolic outrage over JP Morgan paying a settlement fine of $13 billion.
Business analysts are calling the settlement a “shakedown and a jihad.” Stewart took it one step further, suggesting “it’s like if the Holocaust had sex with slavery while the last ten minutes of Human Centipede watched!




















5/  A follow up to our story on how bad plastic chicken is for you.......and it's not just WalMart chicken - it's ALL cheap birds.....

7 Horrifying Things About the Chicken You Eat

Many people eat only chicken to avoid the health and environmental questions surrounding red meat. Yet the track record of US chicken may be worse.
October 16, 2013  |  
 
 
 
 
Could there be anything worse for the chicken industry than this month's outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that hospitalized 42 percent of everyone who got it—almost 300 in 18 states?
Yes. The government also announced that  China has been cleared to process chickens for the US dinner plate and that all  but one of arsenic compounds no one even knew they were eating have been removed from US poultry production. Thanks for that. Also this month, some food researchers have revealed the true recipe for chicken "nuggets"…just in time for Halloween.
Many people have decided to eat only chicken to avoid the health, environmental, worker and humane questions surrounding red meat. Yet the track record of US chicken in these areas is no better than red meat—and may be worse.
Here are some things you should really know about your chicken. 
1. Extreme Salmonella
Do you remember the joke "denial is not a river in Egypt"? Well "Heidelberg" is not a charismatic city in Germany when you're talking about food. It is a monster version of salmonella, some strains of which are resistant to  seven antibiotics , says Christopher Braden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division of foodborne diseases.

Thirteen percent of people affected by the current outbreak have salmonella septicemia, a serious, life-threatening, whole-body inflammation, says Braden. The contamination stems from  "fecal material on carcasses, poor sanitary dressing practices, insanitary food contact surfaces, insanitary nonfood contact surfaces, and direct product contamination," says the USDA. That about covers it. The California-based Foster Farms, believed to be the source of the outbreak, has had salmonella problems for a decade says  Food Poisoning News. Nor has the government shut them down, even now.
Salmonella is a "naturally occurring bacteria," says the USDA and hence allowed in food—but we are supposed to cook chicken and other products to at least 165°F to kill it and other microbial freeloaders. But Caroline Smith DeWaal of the Center for Science in the Public Interest disagrees with the government's leniency. Salmonella strains like Heidelberg “are too hot for consumers to handle in their kitchens,” she told  USA Today.
2. E. Coli
Just because chicken has salmonella doesn't mean it doesn't also have E. coli!
















6/  If you watch this 7 minute clip of the Ohio State Marching Band playing at a halftime game, someone tell me how they managed this complex and intricate tribute to Michael Jackson flawlessly......they are marching in formation and playing music simultaneously - amazing stuff....

The Ohio State University marching band celebrated the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's album, "Bad," during halftime of the game against the University of Iowa Saturday.
Their flawless synchronicity is pretty mesmerizing, but it's game over once they start doing the moonwalk at 4:40.
Seriously guys, stop reading and start watching because The Buckeyes are so bad, they're good.
















7/  Rand Paul is the white hope of the Republican Libertarian wing, and will be running for the Republican nomination for President in 2016. One of the things he touts about himself is that he is a board certified Opthamologist......which is nice, except he's not certified by the Board that holds the credentials of 99.9% of the country's Opthamologists

Read this story, and ask yourself "can I trust this asshole"? 

Dr. Paul: Not board-certified, but self-certified

Asked by a Louisville reporter when he would explain his dubious certification, Rand Paul said: "Uh ... never"

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Dr. Paul: Not board-certified, but self-certifiedRepublican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul addresses a luncheon meeting of the Lions Club in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, May 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)(Credit: Ed Reinke)
Libertarian ideology rejects most of the modern regulatory systems that protect consumers, because everyone should be responsible for determining whether the hamburger contains E. coli on his own. But does that do-it-yourself dogma apply to the regulation of medicine, too? If you’re Dr. Rand Paul, practicing ophthalmologist, the answer is emphatically yes.
According to an amusing story in today’s Louisville Courier-Journal, the Kentucky Republican Senate candidate bills himself as a “board-certified” physician even though he is not actually certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology — the only recognized body that certifies doctors in his specialty.
Paul’s only certification was provided instead by something called the National Board of Ophthalmology, which is very convenient because he operates that organization himself. As the Courier-Journal explains drily, the American Board of Ophthalmology, which maintains a fully staffed headquarters in Philadelphia, has existed for roughly a century and currently lists about 16,000 doctors on its rolls. (Most hospitals and insurance companies strongly prefer doctors who are board-certified because certification indicates that they have kept up with changes in technology, best practices and so on.) The National Board of Ophthalmology has existed since 1999, when Paul “founded” it, lists no more than seven doctors, and its address is a post-office box in Bowling Green, Ky. He had claimed to be certified by both boards, but Courier-Journal reporter Joseph Gerth quickly discovered that claim was false.













8/  Interesting video of Jumpy the Border Collie doing some incredible tricks.....these dogs are supposed to be the most intelligent dog breed, and make wonderfull working dogs. They are also really bad pets for normal people, as they need constant exercise and are happiest if they have a job to do.....like herding a few hundred sheep!

Anyway, enjoy three minutes of smart dog tricks.....

http://www.flixxy.com/jumpy-the-dog.htm















9/  Loudon Wainwright 111 with "The Swimming Song".....a charming ditty about nothing much, just nice, calm, simple music......video is Los Angeles traffic, speeded up.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuz5TKzaJoE














10/  We all need to defend ourselves against the medical system, which doesn't make money unless you are sick and either getting "treatment" of taking drugs. This is why when you are trying to decide what to do when you have a medical issue, you step back and try to make a rational and informed choice, which is very difficult according to this excellent story in the Times.....

Really very interesting.......

Why We Make Bad Decisions

By NOREENA HERTZ
Published: October 19, 2013
LONDON — SIX years ago I was struck down with a mystery illness. My weight dropped by 30 pounds in three months. I experienced searing stomach pain, felt utterly exhausted and no matter how much I ate, I couldn’t gain an ounce.
Wendy MacNaughton
I went from slim to thin to emaciated. The pain got worse, a white heat in my belly that made me double up unexpectedly in public and in private. Delivering on my academic and professional commitments became increasingly challenging.
It was terrifying. I did not know whether I had an illness that would kill me or stay with me for the rest of my life or whether what was wrong with me was something that could be cured if I could just find out what on earth it was.
Trying to find the answer, I saw doctors in London, New York, Minnesota and Chicago.
I was offered a vast range of potential diagnoses. Cancer was quickly and thankfully ruled out. But many other possibilities remained on the table, from autoimmune diseases to rare viruses to spinal conditions to debilitating neural illnesses.
Treatments suggested ranged from a five-hour, high-risk surgery to remove a portion of my stomach, to lumbar spine injections to numb nerve paths, to a prescription of antidepressants.
Faced with all these confusing and conflicting opinions, I had to work out which expert to trust, whom to believe and whose advice to follow. As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions — prime ministers, presidents and chief executives — and so I’m all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere. But up until then I hadn’t thought much about the process of decision making. So in between M.R.I.’s, CT scans and spinal taps, I dove into the academic literature on decision making. Not just in my field but also in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, information science, political science and history.
What did I learn?
Physicians do get things wrong, remarkably often. Studies have shown that up to one in five patients are misdiagnosed. In the United States and Canada it is estimated that 50,000 hospital deaths each year could have been prevented if the real cause of illness had been correctly identified.


















11/  There seems to be no limit to how low Fox News will go to vilify this president.....here a "psychiatrist" diagnoses Obama......but luckily we have Stephen Colbert to set him straight.....3 good minutes......

Stephen Colbert took aim at Fox News' resident psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow on last night's "Colbert Report." In response to Ablow diagnosing President Obama with a "victim mentality" that could be traced back to his father's abandonment, Colbert took a tongue-in-cheek approach to proving what a ridiculous diagnosis Ablow dished out.
"We've seen this sad story too many times: African-American males without role models go onto become president and give everyone healthcare," Colbert joked. "One must ask, how was he able to yank such an insightful diagnosis so smoothly from his ass?"
Check out the clip above, where Colbert gives Ablow a taste of his own medicine: By giving his own psychoanalysis about Ablow's potty-training years.
















12/  Our Attorney General "Perky Pam" Bondi is giving the appearance of being corrupt, according to this post. Donald Trump is under investigation by the NY Attorney general, and there was going to be an investigation in Florida too.....which was dropped when the Donald gave a $25,000 campaign contribution to Bondi.....

Florida’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has more than once been accused of seeing dollar signs rather than justice. Just last month, she delayed an execution so she could raise $140,000 for her reelection coffers. Now, just three days after her office announced that it will be investigating Donald Trump, it’s been reported that she accepted a $25,000 contribution from one of Trump’s organizations.
The controversy against Trump began with a lawsuit filed by New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman on August 25. In the suit, Schneiderman alleged that Trump University and its affiliates were “sham for profit colleges” and that they ripped off 5,000 consumers. The suit is for $40 million in restitution.
“Mr. Trump used his celebrity status and personally appeared in commercials making false promises to convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldn’t afford for lessons they never got,” Schneiderman said in a statement.
Source: TampaBay.com
Dozens of the complaints cited by Schneiderman had been filed in Florida in 2008, two years before Bondi took office. On September 14, a spokeswoman for Bondi said her office would review the New York lawsuit. Three days later, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 contribution to a political fundraising committee, And Justice for All, which in post-Citizens United legalese, is described as not technically part of Bondi’s reelection campaign, but nonetheless, it is for Bondi’s reelection.
Bondi’s office has now apparently handed the ball back to New York, saying that Floridians affected would be compensated if New York wins the suit. However, the Florida complaints named the “Trump Institute,” which is not named in the New York suit, meaning that it is unlikely Florida consumers would see anything.
















13/  Florida is cursed with a weak, corrupt and callous Governor in "The Skeletor", but other Republican Governors are doing the right thing for the poor people of their states.....but not Rick.....


Editorial: A Medicaid tale of two GOP governors

    Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:28pm
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    Ohio Gov. John Kasich, above, secured an expansion of Medicaid; Gov. Rick Scott didn’t.
    Ohio Gov. John Kasich, above, secured an expansion of Medicaid; Gov. Rick Scott didn’t.
    This is a tale of two Republican governors who oppose the Affordable Care Act. One looks out for the best interests of his state's residents, and one does not. One is pragmatic about accepting federal money to cover the uninsured, and one is hypocritical. Guess which one is Ohio Gov. John Kasich and which one is Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
    Hint: Both governors live in states with highly ranked college football teams, but the pragmatic one lives where it snows.
    Kasich took extraordinary measures this week to win legislative approval to accept more than $2.5 billion in federal dollars in the next fiscal year to expand Medicaid and cover 275,000 uninsured Ohioans. That makes Ohio the 25th state to move toward accepting Medicaid expansion money, including a number of states with Republican governors. Yet Florida sits on the sidelines because of a weak governor and a stubborn state House speaker who places ideology above the health of the state's residents.















    14/  A good prank can be fun, and this one has a GPS talking to passengers in a taxi........a mildly amusing three minutes.....

    As if the annoying monotone voice of GPS systems weren't bad enough, the guys over at College Humor decided to prank innocent New Yorkers with a very opinionated GPS system. What starts off as the system audibly making mistakes and correcting itself turns into berating passengers for walks of shame, ugly shirts and the oh-so-shameful act of tweeting with the window up.














    15/  One day.......
    A good story about the new Audi A8 and Audi Coupe A7 with their new engine......for all of you car buffs.....

    BEHIND THE WHEEL | 2013 AUDI S7 AND S8

    Internal Combustion as a Term of Art

    Audi of America
    The S7 hatchback, above, is a more conventional steel-body car than the S8, which has an aluminum space frame. More Photos »
    By JOHN PEARLEY HUFFMAN
    Published: October 18, 2013
    The state of the internal-combustion art has never been more artful. Direct fuel injection, variable valve timing, computer-controlled ignition systems and a hundred other technologies have become tools for shaping how an engine performs. Engineers can add torque here, subtract it over there, let the engine rev at one point and hold it back at another. This is a new artistic medium, and Audi’s latest V-8 engine is a masterpiece.
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    Called the EA824 inside Audi, and marketed as the 4.0 TFSI V-8, it’s a densely packed engine less than 20 inches long that overachieves relative to its 4-liter displacement. TFSI stands for Turbo Fuel Stratified Injection, and right now internal combustion doesn’t come better than this.
    I drove two 2013 Audis equipped with different versions of the EA824. In July, my nephew and I took the large 520-horsepower all-aluminum S8 sedan ($125,995 as tested) on a blitz from Dallas to Oklahoma and across the Texas panhandle, all the way home to Santa Barbara, Calif.
    Then, a few weeks later, my wife and I drove the slightly smaller, sleeker, steel-body 420-horsepower S7 ($94,570 as tested) up the California coast to San Francisco and back.
    On the long, often empty, straights of Interstate 40 across the Great Plains, the S8 was outrageously serene. As we cruised through sudden cloudbursts, surprise hailstorms and blistering heat over three days, it pushed forth with only slight differences in tire noise to indicate whether we were moving across water, ice or broiling asphalt. Even on lonely stretches of open road, as our speed crept inadvertently toward three digits, there was barely a change in the wind’s whistle. This is Audi’s most capable and powerful large sedan, and it is built to ingest continents.
    The family of A8 sedans, of which the S8 is the highest performer, includes standard and stretched L versions (with wheelbases of 117.8 or 122.9 inches), with powerplants ranging from a turbodiesel V-6 to an outrageous 6.3-liter 12-cylinder. All of the A8s and the S8 are built with an all-aluminum space-frame structure that has been the car’s hallmark technology since the first-generation sedan of the mid-1990s.

















    16/  Good remake of "Carrie", with Julianne Moore as the religious loonie mother and Grace Morenz as the telekinetic Carrie......

    The last time we saw Carrie White, she was looking a little, well, red around the gills. She had just taken a splashy blood bath in Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror freakout “Carrie,” and then settled in for what looked like the big sleep. Stephen King’s tormented teenager proved a restless soul, though, and returned in a 2002 television movie and a short-lived 1988 Broadway musical that was revived off Broadway again in 2012. Now she’s back, as they like to say in movie ads, in a fine, largely faithful screen remake, directed by Kimberly Peirce that stars Chloë Grace Moretz as its goddess of gore. It’s hard to keep a franchise crazy down, especially one that can be retrofitted for today’s fears.

    Ms. Peirce gets off to an enjoyably disgusting and blunt start with Carrie’s mother, Margaret (Julianne Moore), screaming for help in a blood-streaked bed. There’s an enormous cross hanging above the bed, and some burning candles off to the side add a nice Gothic touch to what quickly becomes a very weird scene as Margaret — thrashing, screaming and to her great and evident surprise — squirts out a baby. After giving the infant nestled between her legs a quick look, she pulls out an alarmingly oversized pair of scissors and, whoosh, goes for the kill. But something stops her (divine or narrative intervention), and instead she embraces Baby Carrie, a child to hold, protect, mother and smother until death do them part.
    Soon after, Ms. Moretz has taken over the title role, and Carrie has set off down her dreadful path. Margaret, as the opener suggests, is a religious fanatic of ambiguous denomination who has an unpleasant habit of mortifying her own flesh by, say, gouging her pale thighs with sharp, unsubtly phallic objects. Fearful of the fallen world, or rather its effect on her too mortal flesh, she keeps Carrie on a tight leash and in modest clothing. A seeming prisoner of her mother’s madness, Carrie finds no refuge at school, where the other girls taunt her, including in the shower, where, after she gets her period for the first time, she’s pelted with tampons and chants of “plug it up” by the likes of Chris (Portia Doubleday) and Sue (Gabriella Wilde).
    As in the first film, blood runs through “Carrie,” first as a symbolically suggestive trickle — initially as an unholy brew of menstruation and the blood of Christ — and then in great, gushing waves as the body count mounts. Ms. Peirce plays up the story’s religious themes and Carrie’s burgeoning power as she discovers her telekinetic gifts, even as the dread of the female body that deepens Mr. De Palma’s version somehow goes missing. This “Carrie” has its share of terrors, certainly, partly because of the seeming timelessness of its deeper, more resonant themes. Although now, when Carrie — one of the more memorable screen victims of bullying — locks the doors of the school gym and does her bloody worst, it’s a good guess that it won’t be the movie that you will be thinking about, but recent headlines.



    Scary trailer......even when you know what's coming.....















    Todays video - something useful for you....."How To Open A Bottle of Wine With A Shoe"......













    Todays Medical joke

    Two best friends graduated from medical school together.

    They decided to open a
    practice together. even though they had different specialties.
    Dr. Smith was a psychiatrist.  Dr. Jones was a proctologist.
    They put up a sign saying:
           Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones - Hysterias and Posteriors
    The city council was livid and insisted they change the sign.
    So the docs changed it to read:
           Schizoids and Hemorrhoids
    This was also unacceptable to the city council.
    As was:  Catatonics and High Colonics.
    Next was: Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives
    Then: Minds and Behinds
    Once more: Lost Souls and Butt Holes
    That was no good either.
    So then came:
           Analysis and Anal Cysts.... not a chance
           Nuts and Butts.... no way.
           Freaks and Cheeks.... still no good.
    Almost at their wits end, the docs finally came up with:
           Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones.  Odds and Ends
    Everybody loved it.






    Todays golfers jokes

    LAW 1:
    No matter how bad your last shot was, you should have Inner Peace knowing
    that a shittier one is yet to come. This law does not expire on the 18th
    hole, since it has the supernatural tendency to extend over the course of
    a tournament, a summer and, eventually, a lifetime.

    LAW 2:
    Your best round of golf will be followed almost immediately by your worst
    round ever. The probability of the latter increases with the number of
    people you tell about the former.

    LAW 3:
    Brand new golf balls are water-magnetic. Though this cannot be proven in the
    lab, it is a known fact that the more expensive the golf ball, the greater
    its attraction to water. Expensive clubs have been known to be partly made
    with this most unusual natural alloy.

    LAW 4:
    Golf balls never bounce off of trees back into play. If one does, the tree
    is breaking a law of the universe and should be cut down.

    LAW 5
    The higher a golfer's handicap, the more qualified he deems himself as an
    instructor.

    LAW 6
    A golfer hitting into your group will always be bigger than anyone in your
    group. Likewise, a group you accidentally hit into will consist of a
    football player, a professional wrestler, a convicted murderer and an IRS
    agent -- or some similar combination.


    LAW 7:
    All 3-woods are demon-possessed. Your Mother in Law does not come close.

    LAW 8:
    Golf balls from the same "sleeve" tend to follow one another, particularly
    out of bounds or into the water. See LAW 3.

    LAW 9
    The last three holes of a round will automatically adjust your score to
    what it really should be.

    LAW 10
    Golf should be given up at least twice per month.

    LAW 11:
    All vows taken on a golf course shall be valid only until the sunset.

    LAW 12:
    Since bad shots come in groups of three, your fourth consecutive bad shot
    is really the beginning of the next group of three.

    LAW 13:
    If it isn't broke, try changing your grip.

    LAW 14:
    It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you're lying 8.

    LAW 15:
    Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like
    expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.

    LAW 16
    Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

    LAW 17
    It's not a gimme if you're still 4 feet away.

    LAW 18:
    The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a
    straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large
    tree.

    LAW 19:
    You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10% of the time, and a 2-inch branch 90% of
    the time.

    LAW 20:
    Every Time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make a double or
    triple bogey to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

    LAW 21:
    If you want to hit a 7-iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to use it
    to lay up just short of a water hazard.

    LAW 22:
    There are two things you can learn by stopping your back swing at the top
    and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and
    which one is wearing the glove.

    LAW 23:
    A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.

    LAW 24:
    Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it.








    Todays Newfie joke

    Two Newfoundlanders, Larry and Doug, are sitting at their favourite bar drinking beer.

    Larry turns to Doug and says, 'You know, I'm tired of going through life without an education. Tomorrow I  think I'll go to the Community College and sign up for some  classes.'

    Doug thinks it's a good idea and the two  leave.

    The next day, Larry goes down to the college and  meets Dean of Admissions, who signs him up for the four basic  classes: Math, English, history, and Logic.

    'Logic?'  Larry says. 'What's that?'

    The dean says, 'I'll give you an example. Do you own a weed  eater?'

    'Yeah.'

    'Then logically speaking,  because you own a weed eater, I think that you would have a  yard.'

    'That's true, I do have a yard.'

    'I'm not  done,' the dean says. 'Because you have a yard, I think
     logically that you would have a house.'

    'Yes, I do have a house.'

    'And because you have a house, I think that you    might logically have a family.'

    'Yes, I have a family.

    'I'm not done yet. Because you have a family, then logically you                          must have a wife. And because you have a wife, then logic tells me you must be a heterosexual.'

    'I am a heterosexual. That's amazing, you were able to find out all of that because I have a weed  eater.'

    Excited to take the class now, Larry shakes the  Dean's hand and leaves to go meet Doug at the bar. He tells  Doug about his classes, how he is signed up for Math, English,  History, and Logic.

    'Logic? ' Doug says, 'What's  that?'

    Larry says, 'I'll give you an example. Do you have a weed eater?'

    'No.'

    'Then you're a queer.'