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The Girl Who Played with Fire

  I just watched “The Girl Who Played with Fire” streaming from Netflix.  It seemed like it was four hours long but it was only two hours and 8 minutes.  It is in Swedish with English subtitles.

  I recommend you watch the first movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” before you watch this one.  It will made watching “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (Flickan som lekte med elden) better.

  These are not my type of movies but I got hooked on the first movie.  So I had to watch this one. 
  There is a lot of sex and nudity in these movies. 

Union Members Forced at GUN Point to Attend Rally!

  I am not even going to post the video.  You may not believe me but it is true… Fox News had four or five of their “news” people around a table talking about how unions are bussing in their union members “at gunpoint” to the Stewart/Colbert rally. 
  I was a union member for years.  I was a boilermaker and I was a member of the UAW.  You do not force union members do things.  You sure as hell don’t force them at gun point.  
  Unions are run by members.  Union members elect all of their officers.  Union members vote on everything. 

  I idea of pulling a gun on a boilermaker, pipefitter or any union member and trying to “force” them to do anything is crazy.

Fox “news” has gone crazy..They are out of control.  They are on drugs.  Someone needs to check the water and the air in the Fox “news” building.
  Why would anyone in their right mind watch Fox “news”?
  When they LIE like this.. they must lose viewers right?  I can not believe that hard working union men are going to sit and drink a beer and watch Fox “news” lie about their brothers and about unions and not turn off Fox and never watch it again.

  Only a scab would watch Fox “news” … No working man and for sure NO union man would watch Fox “news.”

VideoBlog for 10/28/2010

  Here is my video blog for today with an update on my pacemaker.
My BP today is 143/63 with heart rate of 71.

TNT on Rand Paul Supporters Actions

Good report from the pacemaker clinic

  I took a cab to the doctor’s offices to have the pacemaker clinic check my pacemaker.  Very pretty women hooked me up.  She said my heart rate was 70 bpm.  She said the doctor had set the pacemaker to work between ?? and 130 bpm.  Not sure of that bottom number .. not sure if it was 50 or 60.
  She said the wound looked OK.  She said everything was good.
  The doctor will want to see me in 3 months and I will see her in the pacemaker clinic the same visit.  They are going to send me a device to hook up to the phone and each three months I will have it send a report from my pacemaker.  If I have any problems then I can use it to send a report to them.  (Someone drag me to a phone and hook me up.  Smile)

  The cab driver that took me to my appointment was Kip King.  He was a very nice guy.  I got his phone number and called him and he came and got me right away and took me home.  He is has been driving a cab for six years.

  Glad to be home.  It cost me $25.00 to get home but if I had come home by buses it would have taken hours and hours.

Plotting to bomb D.C. Metrorail stations

“Washington (CNN) -- A Virginia man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to help others he thought were members of al Qaeda in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington area, the Department of Justice said.

Farooque Ahmed, 34, appeared briefly Wednesday before federal Magistrate John Anderson at the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. The court will appoint an attorney for Ahmed, and he was ordered to remain in custody until a detention hearing Friday, said Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria…” 

  That news story has an effect on me.  My oldest daughter rides the Metrorail in DC everyday.  It looks like the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are doing a good job but we all know that it only takes one time for something real bad to happen.
  I think I worry more about the right wing nuts right now… I would not worry so much about them except for the crazy talk they hear from Fox News and from other right wing sources.
  What Glenn Beck and Fox News and the other right wing people do not understand is that when they set off one of these nuts you never know who they are going to attack.  They might decide to attack Fox News for some reason.  These crazy people sometimes just attack any target that they have access to attacking.

Digital Bathroom Scale

  I just ordered a digital bathroom scale from Amazon.  I think I will get it about the first of November.  It looks like a nice one.  It is the EatSmart Precision Premium Digital Bathroom Scale with 3.5 LCD.

  I am going to start watching my weight a great deal.  I am not sure I can lose weight but I am trying.
  But the doctors want me to know my weight because any big fast change could be water being retained by me.

  The scale got great reviews on Amazon and the normal price is about $60.00 and I got it on sale and free shipping.

Waiting for the cab

  I am waiting for a Yellow cab to take me to have the first check done on my pacemaker since I left the hospital.
  I think I will get a good report.
  I walked two blocks to an AMT at about 0600 hours and my foot is still hurting.  I may take a cab home.  If I do not take a cab home then I have to take three buses to get home.

  I woke up about 0330 and got on the Internet and did a couple of things and then at 0400 the Internet went down.
  I tried everything…then at 0600 called Comcast.  They had the automatic thing run me through everything all the way up to even doing Pinging.  Then they put on a service tech and he ran me through a couple of things and then said that service was out in this area.
  At about noon I went down stairs and my ex-wife and son had never lost Internet service.  Well never lost cable service because they had TV, telephone and Internet.
  I called back Comcast and they attempted to run me through the automatic system again… At last I got a service tech…   He said let him try something and I am not sure how long it was…but it was a long long long time..
  Hell, I may have used up my 300 minute of cell time this month.  I hung up and still no Internet.
  I got Internet service back…
  But I got to get ready for the cab… so I will tell you later what I did.

Republican Blog Defends Mob Attacking Woman!

  The right wing blogs are starting their attack on the woman that got her head stomping!  Yes, it does not take long for the Republicans to start their attacks.
  They are saying that Rand Paul supporters feared “this wild-eyed person showing her way through the crowd” was a “weird Squeaky Fromme” and that she was going to attack Rand Paul!
   So that is going to be the Fox News party line.  All you Fox News people go to Fox News so they can tell you that the woman that got her head stomped on was a bad evil left wing liberal Communist.  They will tell you she was going to attack Rand Paul or his loving freedom loving supporters were just defending the great Rand Paul. 

   You know what… Just wait until the police arrest the guys that attacked her… I wonder what sort of great Americans they are going to turn out to be.  Fox News better get to them fast to keep them from making statements to the real news media.

MoveOn Activist Gets Head Stomped by Rand Paul Supporter

  I just posted a blog entry last night about the right wing blog RedState always talking about “union thugs” beating people.
  Then today I see this in the news:

”As Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul arrived, a MoveOn activist attempted to present him with a gag award. The crowd of Paul supporters intercepted the activist, Lauren Valle, and dragged her to the ground. This video of the incident shows a Paul supporter stomping on her head while she was pinned. Press reports indicate that Valle is pressing charges and was apparently not seriously injured as a result of this attack.”  Truthout

 

  What I find sick and disgusting is what Rand Paul has to say about it.  He says there was “high passion” on both sides.  He has  loss any moral standing that he might have had by this statement.  He needed to make a STRONG COMDENATION of what his supporters were doing.  Shame on Rand Paul.  Shame on him.
  He wants to make it appear that the other side was also to blame.