Book Reading.........

I just finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker.

It was a pretty good read, although some times a little tough like when reading Van Helsing's entries. Not sure if it was written in a way someone from Amsterdam would speak or what, but it was a little tough to understand some times.
It didn't help that many times when I was "reading" I was also EXTREMELY tired and fighting to not fall asleep. LOL.......

It was an interesting read in that it was written in the form of diary entries from the different characters. Well, not Dracula. He was actually in the book very little, physically.

I think it would be pretty cool if someone would make a movie, or tell me of one, more directly from the book.


Book List:
1. Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett
2. Kingdom Keepers III Disney in Shadows by Ridley Pearson
3. The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
5. Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
6. Barbara Jordan American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers
7. 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
8. Kingdom Keepers IV Power Play by Ridley Pearson
9. The Other Tudors: Henry III's Mistresses and Bastards by Philippa Jones
10. Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie
11. Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall
12. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
13. Home A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
14. Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Why is it when REAL Americans need help Washington suddenly closed the pocketbook???

GOP Says Hold Your Horses On Disaster Relief
By Robin M.


The Republicans are making good on their promise not to provide any more aid to victims of natural disasters without ensuring there are equal cuts to spending to balance the expenditure. According to the New York Times, the Democratic effort to fast track a straight relief bill, which would help replenish the FEMA coffers that have been emptied by this summer’s string of tornadoes, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, has been blocked by the Senate Republicans.

The administration was asking for an additional $500 million in a stand alone vote with no strings attached to ensure the relief fund did not run out of money before September 30th. But the funding was denied by Republicans, who said they would instead add the request into a bill that would provide stop gap funds to keep the full government running past the end of the month, meaning those effected by disaster will only get the aid if the rest of the bill is passed.

The stand alone fast track bill was “defeated” 53-33, needing 60 votes to pass due to filibuster rules. It’s a sad day in government when people who have lost everything in natural disasters have to worry about whether or not aid money runs out because a bill to provide more only had 20 more votes for it than against it.

After a second try, a bill finally did pass on a 61 to 38 vote, with a group of Republicans voting yes who had abstained before — senators who had states who were suffering. The bill will now go to the House, where it could be stalled by the Republican majority.

Today's WTF Moment is Brought To You By Minnesota's Crazy Nut Job, Michelle Bachmann........

Bachmann on Immigration: Back To the Asian Exclusion Act
By Kristina C.


At Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party Republican presidential candidates’ debate, Michelle Bachmann said that pre-1965 US immigration laws including the National Origins Act and the Asian Exclusion Act “worked very, very well.” It was only when “when liberal members of Congress changed the immigration laws” in the 1960s that, says Bachmann, problems arose.

What works “very, very well,” according to Bachmann, are quotas on the number of immigrants that give European immigrants preferential treatment and policies that exclude immigrants on the basis of their race.

The first major law that restricted immigration to the US was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which halted Chinese immigration for ten years and prohibited the Chinese from becoming citizens. The law was extended for another ten years under the Geary Act and became permanent in 1902. It was a precursor to immigration-restriction acts in the 1920s that led up to 1929′s National Origins Act, which put a cap on overall immigration to the United States at 150,000 per year. The number of immigrants to be admitted from any country was based on the number of people from that country who were already living in the US in 1890. As Think Progress points out, because “Americans were overwhelmingly of European descent in 1890, the practical effect of these laws was an enormous thumb on the scale encouraging white immigration.”

Furthermore, Japanese and Chinese immigrants were in effect barred from entering the US, as the law stated that no alien who was ineligible to become a citizen could be admitted to the United States as an immigrant. Under the Naturalization Act of 1790, non-whites were not eligible for naturalization and were therefore, in effect, not allowed to immigrate to the US.

In other words, they were not only barred — the basis of their race – from being naturalized as US citizens, but from immigrating to the US.

Those quotas were only eliminated under the the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, a law which is “widely credited for opening up our nation to new Americans of Asian and Central and South American descent.” But according to Bachmann, the 1965 law is immigration policy that doesn’t “work” so well. As she said on Sunday,

What works is to have people come into the United States with a little bit of money in their pocket, legally, with sponsors so that if anything happens to them they don’t fall back on the taxpayers to take care of them.

It’s not just any tired, poor, “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” that we (according to Bachmann) wish to have emigrating to the US. Things just work “very, very well” when those “masses” are… monochromatic and not the “yellow peril.”

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Think Before You Speak..........

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Today is a Holy Crap day for me.

Today is my 30th Anniversary working for the "world famous" Mayo Clinic.

Seriously? Have I been there that long?

Somebody find me a wheelchair and prop me up in the corner. lol...

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This is just sooooooooo wrong.......


What's Up With Johnny Depp's 'Dark Shadows' Look?
Posted 9 hrs ago by MTV Movies Team in Commentary, Photos


By John Mitchell



http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/09/14/johnny-depp-dark-shadows-tim-burton/