Movies. Coolest Invention Evar

Courtesy The Bioscopic

Since I've been blogging, I've wanted to write about things where pure opinion matters. I don't have a ton of interests. However, movies happen to be one of my few "things". Ever since the inception(pun completely intended) of movies in the early twentieth century, they have captured the imagination of the world. Some of us take this interest to near obsession, like me. I'm so much of a junkie that I procure movies from many a source. I just can't wait for the movie I want when I want it. F.Y.E and Neflix are vendors I patronize pretty often. I recommend them, especially if you're trying to find something obscure. Best Buy has great prices sometimes for new releases. But sometimes I wish Circuit City didn't get run out of business. But I digress.

Shallow Water Drilling Permit Has Been Issued

I guess it's an oil rig.

This particular story caught my eye today. It seems that the Interior Dept. has issued a permit to drill for natural gas in a shallow water area. Here is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal:

The Interior Department has approved a permit to drill a well in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the first such clearance since new safety regulations took effect following the BP PLC spill.

Russian Spies? Now It's Cuban Spies

It sounds like the FBI has been busy the last few year in counter-intelligence.

A former State Department analyst, a privileged great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell who became a spy for Cuba, defended his decades of work for Fidel Castro before being sentenced Friday to life in prison.

Government Wants To Know How Fat You Are

It looks like the Feds are now going to force health care providers to not only monitor, but report on your body-mass index so that they can "encourcage" you to loose weight. They even put a deadline on receiving ratings from all citizens by 2014. I'm not going to rant to you about how intrusive, and illegal, this is.

Well, okay, yes I will.

Don't Forget About The Upcoming Primary Elections!

It seems that at this point of an election year people, even junkies like myself loose interest in the races for office being run; especially at the local level. Here in Salt Lake County we have two very important races being run on the republican side: The senate race between Tim Bridgewater and Mike Lee and the Salt Lake County Counsel race between Richard Snelgrove and Winston Wilkinson. I believe that the candidates are very different on the issues for both races, despite the fact that all candidates are relatively very far right conservatives.