Are 3D movies just a fad, or are they here to stay?

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Personally, I hope that 3D movies will not become the norm as they appear to be heading that way. When Avatar came out in its 3D version, it was breathtaking and it felt right. The movie and technology complimented each other perfectly. My husband and I are avid movies goers and after Avatar, it felt like everyone just jumped on the bandwagon, regardless of whether the story really needed the benefit of 3D technology. Apparently as long as there were action scenes, that validated the need for 3D. All this bandwagon jumping is making 3D less special and more run of the mill. I’m not sure why, but 3D movies give me headaches, so unless the story is really worth it, I’ve asked my husband to go 3D-less and accompany me, the old lady, to the 2D version and he hasn’t complained, not even once. So perhaps, even for a sci-fi gadget junkie like my husband, 3D isn’t required for every single story out there.

An Amusing Message Sent to Me on Accident

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I received an anonymous voicemail once. I think the person was drunk or spoke English very poorly but the person was leaving a very nice message for someone and I know it wasn't me. He must have gotten his digits crossed or something.

Jim Jordan Apologizes For Republican Study Committee Aide’s Email Targeting GOP Congressmen

I’m sure the GOP is really questionin­g their earlier judgment in embracing the tea party these days. These tea party representa­tives are not playing by the rules of the old guard, where everyone was on the same page. I guess on the day the tea party freshmen were sworn in, they didn’t read the fine print in the GOP handbook. These tea party activist representa­tives need to be taken down a peg or two, their vision for America does not work at all. If they want government to be reduced to the size it was in the 1960’s they need to go find a swath of land where they could all colonize, call home and live life like it was 1960 and leave us alone so that we can rebuild and reinvest in our country to make it ready for the 21st century that is going to pass us by if we don’t get moving.
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Tea Party To Republicans: ‘Hold The Line’ Against Debt Ceiling Deal, Bring Back ‘Cut, Cap And Balance’ (PHOTOS)

It galls me to no end all the theatrics over a balanced budget from the GOP and the tea party folk. The democrats under Clinton gave them budgetary surpluses and what did they do with them? They squandered those surpluses, they used those surpluses to party like it was 1999, “let’s give out tax cuts”, let’s keep pushing deregulati­on of the financial industry, Robert Rubin helped start the tide, it can’t be bad. Let’s just finance the two wars to our future generation­s, we don’t have to raise taxes for the war effort like the good old days, heck we just lowered them. Wouldn’t that make us look stupid. I could go on but the point is that the GOP has a lot to answer for and they have no right to hold our economy over the fire like they are doing right now. President Obama needs to blow out the fire and take the air out of their sails by declaring the debt ceiling unconstitu­tional and proceed with business as usual.
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What would it take to get you to move?

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It would take a forklift to get me out of my house. I recently wrote that my house is my present day-dream house, so it would have to be something huge, something earth shattering, to get me to leave, let alone pack. Oh, to think of packing again, now that is a whole other issue. It was the year 1994, the year my daughter was born. That year, we moved three times and I mean packing everything, three different times, in the space of one year. I had a new baby, a toddler and we got a puppy in the midst of all the craziness. That fact alone is a humongous factor in my steadfast refusal to ever move again. If we ever get the future dream house in the southwest of France, we will be purchasing everything brand new over there because I refuse to pack this house up and ship it. The children can use this house while their father and I enjoy our new dream house in France. I think that would be very fair for everyone.

The Best Celebrity Voiceover in an Animated Movie

The Toy Story Stars greet us at Disney’s Dine with the PIXAR Stars

I think Tom Hanks as Woody and Time Allen as Buzz Lightyear in all the Toy Story movies. They are both so believable as their characters and you really believe in their friendship. Fantastic movies.

Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus Knocks Obama’s Business Adviser, Says Entrepreneurs Fear Government

Are these guys inhabiting an alternate universe? The point that was made about healthcare costs is however relevant and true which is why if they are so brilliant they would be advocating for abandoning the employment based health care coverage in lieu for a single payer delivery system. The employers would be off the hook for health care coverage and that would be a huge burden lifted off their shoulders. The complaints about the regulation­s being onerous well they may be less onerous if health care coverage were taken off their plates. The “weird political philosophy­” that President Obama has is something that is in their heads because President Obama is so far away from socialism, Bernie Sanders maybe but President Obama no way.
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Boehner’s Revisionist Bull

By this time the American people should realize that this debt ceiling crisis is a man made one. The debt ceiling has never been used as a loaded gun pointed at the economy before, this is the first time. The GOP is on a tear to bring down the President and they don’t care about collateral damage. I have to say that situation would make for a really interestin­g paper on the difference­s between Pelosi as Speaker and Boehner as Speaker. The accepted wisdom in Washington was that the GOP held themselves as a discipline­d block of votes whereas the democrats were all over the place, sometimes it looked like herding sheep, except for the time of Pelosi as Speaker. Boehner now as Speaker is stuck with trying to find his sheep let alone herd them back into formation. Is it simply the phenomena of the tea party or was it the exceptiona­l skill of Pelosi that made her so productive­?
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My Parents' Influence on My Personality

Mer de Glace Mirror – 1995

My personality is so much like my father's that my mother used to get mad about it. That was before he passed away, I guess two of us was a bit much for one person to take occasionally. Her getting mad about it didn't happen often but when it did, my father and I would laugh about it together, secretly, so she wouldn't hear.

What would you want two hundred more of?

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I started thinking of material things, such as, would I want 200 hundred more books? No, because I have at least 200 books, I have just added a few that I haven’t started yet and I am running out of shelves and bookcases. The same goes with shoes and handbags, can’t wear them all or have the room to properly store them. Books, shoes and handbags are my material weaknesses, but I don’t have the logistical capacity for more of them, which is fine because they are simply possessions anyway, and you can’t take them with you in the end.

Speaking of the end, I might be open to the concept of having 200 hundred lives. I think that one of the “tragedies” of human life is the finite part of being alive. One day you are here and the next day you are gone. Sometimes in that one life, there may have been a crossroads where the choice you made put you on the path towards the right and you will never know what would have happened if you had chosen to go left. What would the journey have held for you then?

Having the ability to have 200 hundred lives with the capacity of remembering each and every past life would afford me the opportunity to really be a free spirit. It would even allow me to live recklessly, foolishly, without fear. I might eventually find a way to exorcise all my demons and really get to know myself and all my hidden talents and passions. I wonder how many lives I would have to burn through before I was able to really get my act together? My prayer would be to eventually evolve into the best possible me there is. I would be curious to know, that after hopefully learning and understanding myself well enough to become the best me, would I begrudge that last life or would I peacefully accept that the 200th lifetime would be my last? I would hope that at the end I would leave this earth graciously and at peace.

My husband mentioned money and that he would want 200 of a million or better yet 200 of a billion dollars. What is interesting to me is that I didn’t even for one second go to money in my mind. I immediately went to, like I wrote in the beginning, books, shoes and then handbags. It was only when I realized that I didn’t have the room in my house that I thought of 200 more lives so that I can play do over with my choices in life. Since I clearly don’t jump on the money aspect of life, I wonder if that could possibly mean that it would take quite a few lifetimes before I got the money thing squared away? But like I said above with the books, shoes and handbags, you can’t take it with you, not even money. So, I like my choice better.