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A simple question, if the AIG bonuses are such a big issue to Congress and the President due to AIG getting a bailout package, how come it isn’t an issue when it comes to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Both are justifying the bonuses for the same reason and both are getting bailouts, but only AIG is being dragged over the coals.

I would love to see President Obama go on television, without a telepromptor, and give his opinion on this.

To offer my 2 cents on the matter, the situatution boils down like this:

1. Bad PR for AIG to be giving out such huge bonuses
2. It may be bad, but there are contracts that were signed.
3. Congress blustering about this event is kind of ironic as laws that they passed in the 19990′s helped lead to this mess

The next bailout money that AIG gets, and they will get more, deduct the amount they handed out in bonuses from it. Will it mean anything? Nope, purely symbolic. But members of Congress and the President can then pat themselves on their backs and say “we showed them!”

Jake over at the “An Honest Philosophy” blog has a post I suggest people read.

I was listening to an audio from Tony Blauer, and at one point in it he asked a basic question: What are your 5 self-defense beliefs? Tough question isn’t it?

Now saying I want to be able to defend myself against an attack isn’t a belief, more like a goal. So I’ve been thinking on it and here is what I came up with for my beliefs.

1. I believe I have the right to defend myself.
2. I believe that I can defend myself without using physical force.
3. I believe that my will to survive is greater then the will of my attacker to do me harm.
4. I believe in not being a victim
5. I believe that I will do whatever is necessary to survive

These are always subject to change based on what I learn.

First off, “The Watchmen” was a good movie. Good visuals and pretty faithful to the most popular grpahic novel of all time.  So why the huge drop at the box office in week number 2?

First off, the movie was pushed as a super hero movie. It really isn’t, the story goe much deeper and darker then that. How do you advertise a dark movie that relly pokes at the human physch? Well you advertise it as a super hero movie and hope no one notices.

The next thing is the R rating. Some complaints I’ve heard was that the sex and the violence of some of the fight scenes were way overboard. My thoughts, these people were right. You can show fight scenes without getting heavy intot he gore. And you can do alot with suggestion in letting people know that sex is taking place. Addressing these issues would not have changed the sotry and maybe got the film done to a PG-13 rating.

The final item I’ll address is that the movie is pretty faithful to the graphic novel. This is both a good (for the fans of the graphic novel) and bad. Another complaint I heard was people trying to figure out what the heck was all going on there. Well in the graphic novel it was easy for the writer to explain things, much harder to do in a movie. This tends to go for any book that has depth to it when trying to make a movie out of it, hard to translate tot he screen.

That all said, I’m waiting for the DVD to come out with the all the extra features. I might even see the movie once ore on the big screen. Then again I am fan of the grpahic novel.

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