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I am big on eliminating the income tax in favor of a national sales tax myself and skipping all this haggling over who makes too much money versus their tax burden.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-82758500057065956442011-09-16T14:30:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.335-07:00Friday Night BabeTonight's FNB* is <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.imdb.com/name/nm1720028/">Amber Heard</a>!<br /><br />(*a.k.a. <a href="http://theothermccain.com/">Rule Five Friday</a>)<br /><br /><center><a href="http://tinypic.com/?ref=k97vgg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i51.tinypic.com/k97vgg.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/?ref=alkbc7" target="_blank"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/alkbc7.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/?ref=oivd6x" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/oivd6x.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/?ref=2jdfif7" target="_blank"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/2jdfif7.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=10gimib" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/10gimib.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/?ref=1zef6nn" target="_blank"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/1zef6nn.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></center>cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-21026500705260140972011-09-16T14:24:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.335-07:00Formspring Question #254--Ten Percent Edition<BLOCKQUOTE> Taxes today are lower than they have been since the 50's (both for the super-rich and for the middle class) but most conservatives still want them lower. What is TOO LOW a tax rate?</BLOCKQUOTE>God only requires ten percent, so the government has to make an airtight case why it needs more. Not only that, but since God asks for the first and best ten percent, government needs to wait its turn, as well.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-22495691361509176152011-09-16T14:12:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.335-07:00Star Trek: Voyager--"Thirty Days"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bNTlWUaayyA/TnO7ya4JGLI/AAAAAAAAMk0/VjbG0MRpLyY/s1600/Thirty%2BDays.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bNTlWUaayyA/TnO7ya4JGLI/AAAAAAAAMk0/VjbG0MRpLyY/s400/Thirty%2BDays.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653068432162756786" /></a> The character studies certainly have been kicked up a notch this season. “Thiry days” is a Tom-centric episode. It is the best one yet for the character, as it does not involve him being accused of murder, turning into a salamander, or being obsessed with restoring an old Camero. It also brings back the old Tom--the screw up who cannot please his father no matter what he does, and fills the void by engaging in stupid, idealistic adventures. Tom has been “fixed’ a little too well by his time on <I>Voyager</I>. He is a crack pilot, a field medic, an engineer who can design an ubershuttlecraft from scratch, and an author Why did this guy ever have any troubles with screwing up in the past?<br /><br /><I>Voyager</I> encounters what appears to be an ocean in space. Upon investigation, they are attacked by the Moneans. It is a misunderstanding that gets cleared up quickly. In fact, the Moneans have a problem they would like the crew to tackle for them. The containment field holding the ocean in place is degrading. They do not have any submarines capable of diving deep enough to investigate the center of the ocean, but the Delta flyer can get there easily. Tom, who always wanted to be a sailor, but was forced into Starfleet by his overbearing father, jumps at the chance. <br /><br />The expedition discovers, after a brief encounter with a very cool looking giant, CGI eel, the Moneans own technology is causing the degradation. If they do not change their ways, the ocean will disappear in five years. Their chief diplomat promises some committee on science within their government will look into the matter. Tom knows nothing is going to come of that. It will be tied up in bureaucracy until it is too late. He decides to take matters into his own hands after a brief pep talk from Torres. <br /><br />Tom and a sympathetic Monean named Rigar steal the Delta Flyer and plan to destroy the underwater oxygen generators. By doing so, they will have to be rebuilt, and the likelihood is they will be rebuilt with preserving the ocean in mind. <I>Voyager</I> is forced to stop the act of ecoterrorism. Tom is brought back to the ship, demoted to ensign, and sentenced to thirty days solitary confinement in the brig. <br /><br />I am as shocked as you are there is no preachy environmental lesson to be found. Doubly so because of the running theme of environmental damage the Malon are causing that will play out for the rest of the season. The fact is, the Moneans are willfully killing themselves because they do not feel like spending the resources to prevent further damage, but Janeway--surprise, surprise--invokes the Prime Directive and says if they want to kill themselves, it is their choice. Just to make things a little grayer, the Moneans are revealed to be nomadic squatters. they found this ocean in space centuries ago and moved in. they do not know who built it or why, but it is assumed it was intended to preserve some planet’s ocean from an ecological disaster. But all that is cast aside for a character study. <br /><br />A character study with some oddities. For one, tom has never expressed any connection to the nautical life before, nor has he ever been an environmentalist. Sure, he has been looking for anything with which to feel emotionally connected, but his newfound concern for the ocean is out of the blue. For another, Janeway is back to her crazy self. She has violated the prime directive a heck of a lot worse than Tom does here, and while I understand she cannot let the matter go without a response, what a response! She dresses tom down, rips a pip off his collar when demoting him, and sentences him to solitary all <I>after</I> she tells him she would have blown up the Delta flyer to stop him. The episode, told in flashback, reveals Janeway forbade torres from visiting at all, while allowing only Neelix to drop off bread and water and medical visits in an emergency. Compare this to when Tuvok violated the prime directive in <A HREF="http://jeffords.blogspot.com/2011/06/star-trek-voyager-prime-factors.html">“Prime Factors”</a> and received a slap on the wrist. Janeway got up on the wrong side of the bad this morning, no? The biggest flaw is Tom is motivated to action by his poor relationship with his father, yet whatever happened between them is still not revealed. A little clarification might have elevated “Thirty Days” beyond pleasantly intriguing. No such luck. <br /><br />“Thirty Days” is a good episode, however. One cannot help but notice untapped potential in exploring exactly why tom and his father are estranged. Whatever the case, it is enough to compel tom to do some incredibly dumb things in order to give his life meaning. Some elaboration on just how damaged he is is in order. But I will be a lot more forgiving about the omission than usual because I did not have to sit through a hour’s worth of moralizing over how we are destroying the oceans with our careless ways. That is a relief. <br /><br />Rating: *** (out of 5)<br /><br />I have to earn my Parrot Head stripes:<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZQGTaS0IFOs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-59089428516011683122011-09-16T11:42:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.335-07:00Ford's Provocative Bailout Commercial<a href="http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/">Crossposted</a> at the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Left Coast <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Rebel</span></span><br /><br />The following Ford bailout commercial/ad campaign has been out for a while but due to my busy schedule, I hadn't see it yet.<br /><br />Delicious:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="390" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b_mwjaEI_hM&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b_mwjaEI_hM&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="390" width="640"></embed></object><br /></div><br />I think this is really going to strike a nerve with the American public and just may increase Ford's sales.<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Though it has been beaten out of us for decades, our independent rugged-individualist nature draws us to hate <a href="http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2011/06/we-could-have-let-auto-makers-go-into.html">cronyism</a>, <a href="http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2011/06/lcr-at-american-thinker-general-motors.html">crony capitalists</a> and the corporate-welfare, "<a href="http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2009/05/getting-finger-from-gettlefinger-and.html">too big to fail</a>" system that caters to them.<br /><br />Are you listening, GM, Chrysler et al.? Next time it just may be good business to say <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">NO</span> to Uncle Sam.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Updates</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">First: </span>Unfortunately <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/23/obama-rings-up-warren-buffet-and-ford-ceo-alan-mulally-for-economic-advice-but-why-them/">Ford's own Alan Mulally is an Obamanation ally</a>, so a crony capitalist in his own right.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">And</span>: via <a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/110916/p73#a110916p73">Memeorandum</a>, read <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/house-gop-seeks-cuts-to-auto-loan-program_n_964999.html">this story</a> to catch a glimpse of the slippery slope of corporate welfarism and the spectre of big-government/business collusion. The bigger picture missed by the Puff-Ho writer is this: who knew that there were still billions in fed auto "loans" floating around out there?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also: </span>Inspired by a Palin Facebook post on the topic, <a href="http://anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com/2011/09/sarah-palin-crony-capitalism-on.html">Another Black Conservative</a> checks in on the crony-capitalism debate:<br /><blockquote><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">In the speech Palin, points out something we should all have noticed, (had we not had our Red and Blue colored glasses firmly in place) that both the right and the left are correct as to what is kill our nation. On the right, we see Big Government as the killer or liberty and freedom. On the left, they see Big Business as the threat to the little guy. The truth is that it is the collusion of the Big Government and Big Business that is messing things up for this nation.</span></blockquote>Well said, Clifton! And, good to see you clawing back from the blogger abyss.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-85554387222856421202011-09-16T10:10:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.336-07:00Scarlett Johansson, Hacked Photos, the FBI, and...Gillian Anderson?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PLSQsbSjxFQ/TnOGixfdQeI/AAAAAAAAMks/kf6NQ0Y0Yts/s1600/scarlett%2Bjohansson%2Bnaked.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PLSQsbSjxFQ/TnOGixfdQeI/AAAAAAAAMks/kf6NQ0Y0Yts/s400/scarlett%2Bjohansson%2Bnaked.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653009889239056866" /></a>Every connoisseur of the female form is going to post photos of Scarlett Johansson in order to capitalize on nude photos from her hacked cellphone earlier. I will not post those here, since I like to keep the Eye family friendly, even though I do descend into dysfunction family friendly quite often. For the record, I have seen the photos, they are real, and they are spectacular. Bottticelli buttocks on that girl, folks. But the whole situation leads me to ask two important questions. <br /><br />One, why is Scarlett Johansson taking naked photos of herself if she does not want people to see them? Granted, they might have been meant for her latest fellow, whoever he may be. I lost track after Sean Penn. But is it really wise to take the risk of losing your cell phone or getting hacked, particularly for a celebrity constantly under the threat of being stalked by paparazzi and crazed fans alike? This strikes me as either an incredibly dumb mistake on Johansson’s part, or the most prurient publicity stunt since Paris Hilton made a sex tape. I want to give Johansson the benefit of the doubt and say she is dumb here--the kindest thing I can say--and hope she has not stooped to Hilton’s level of attention whoring. <br /><br />Two, why is the FBI involved? Hacking is a federal crime that is supposed to be reported to one’s local FBI office, but does it not feel like they ought to have better things to do right now than hunt done the pervert who stole naked photos of Scarlett Johansson? Are there no terrorists ought there any longer? We are running the risk of being overwhelmed by terrorists when you consider the dedication FBI field agents must have when assigned to find nude photos of Johansson.<br /><br />Speaking of FBI agents:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LWXrVUSdbFU/TnOFci_zIbI/AAAAAAAAMkk/1-SKYjZBgWU/s1600/gillian%2BAnderson%2B03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LWXrVUSdbFU/TnOFci_zIbI/AAAAAAAAMkk/1-SKYjZBgWU/s400/gillian%2BAnderson%2B03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653008682757333426" /></a>I have to throw something else in here to separate this post from every other Johansson write up out there, if only marginally relevant. Gillian Anderson is still hot long after her days as Dana Scully. <br /><br />In all seriousness, Johansson is threatening legal action to sites hosting the photos, and those threats are working. The photos are quickly disappearing from all but the underbelly of the internet. I am also a free spirited , whatever floats your boat kind of guy. If Johansson gets her jollies posing naked for cellphone photos, more power to her. But this needs to be a lesson to anyone who thinks what they do in private is always going to stay that way. Sometimes, it is going to blow up in your face instead. Always be careful, even when other people are not watching. <br /><br />(Part of <A HREF="http://theothermccain.com/">The Other McCain</a>'s Rule 5 Sunday.)cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-87201127843144677552011-09-15T21:01:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.336-07:00Quote du jour<blockquote>"As far as Ron Paul, we prefer Rand Paul. He's the sane one."</blockquote><br />-Mark Levin, on his radio showcokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-87568594801338282052011-09-15T18:39:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.336-07:00Formspring Question #253--Morality by the Numbers Edition<BLOCKQUOTE>In your review for "Nothing Human” you are implying committing immoral acts for the greater good is bad, but you have frequently said dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was morally acceptable because the resulting deaths would be fewer than in an invasion. Please explain the contradiction.</BLOCKQUOTE>The two scenarios are more complicated than saying the number of dead is smaller than the number saved, therefore the action is moral. Krell Mercet took hundreds of people prisoner and experimented on them in agonizing ways in order to find a cure for a plague that was killing thousands. There is no moral justification for it because it is a deliberate criminal act. Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a matter of their being no good options. Japan refused to surrender, but the war had to end before casualties piled up exponentially in an invasion. Dropping the bomb was the lesser of two evils, and therefore moral. <br /><br />We are just wired as humans to understand that deciding what is moral comes down to more than weighing the numbers against each other. As a Christian, I think it is the natural law, but if you want to call it being wired for such decisions, be my guest. Let me illustrate how it works regardless of its origins. <br /><br />Take two scenarios:<BLOCKQUOTE>One: There is a train with five passengers racing towards a section of the track between two cliffs which has been destroyed. The train is going to fall off the edge of the cliff once it gets there. There is no way the passengers can stop the train. Their only hope is you, because you can flip a lever which will switch the train to a new track which will save them. However, there is a man on the new track who cannot be warned in time the train is coming. If you pull the lever to switch tracks, you will kill him, but you will save five people in the process. <br /><br /> Two: There are five patients in a hospital ward. They each need a different organ transplant to live. A man walks into the ward, and you suddenly get the inspiration that you could kill him and harvest his organs for transplant. (Assume the organs would be compatible.) Again, you would be killing one person in order to save five.</BLOCKQUOTE>the numbers are the same--sacrifice one to save five--but the circumstances make the morality of the decision different. In the first scenario, not pulling the lever would cause five people to die. While pulling the lever will cause the death of another, you automatically think it is the most moral choice of a no win situation in which you have been forced. But the second scenario has an air of sinister conspiracy. You are not really in a no win situation, but you have decided to initiate a deliberate evil because you have calculated the results are worth it. But they are not. <br /><br />It is difficult to establish a general principle in regards to how moral decisions are more than adding up the numbers to make the better choice. I am a fallible person with a sinful nature. But there does appear to be a natural pull towards the right answer if you honestly look for it. The pull tells me that experimenting on people against their will to save thousands is evil, but dropping a bomb killing thousands to save far more lives is moral. You may draw your own conclusions, of course, but I would like to see your reasoning first.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-86218387363879954802011-09-15T17:15:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.336-07:00Brandon Wright, Rescued Utah Motorcyclist, Gives InterviewLCR posted the video of Brandon Wright's amazing rescue <a href="http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-bystanders-rescue-21-year-old.html">yesterday</a>. Here, he talks about the experience:<br /><br /><center><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMTYxMzI*MDY1ODUmcHQ9MTMxNjEzMjQwOTMwOCZwPSZkPSZnPTImbz1lNGZhYzVlMmNmZjA*MTcxODU3NjI*ZjJk/M2NhZjBlZiZvZj*w.gif" /><object name="kaltura_player_1316132401" id="kaltura_player_1316132401" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowFullScreen="true" height="310" width="600" data="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_gn5fzmbf/uiconf_id/5590821"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="movie" value="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_gn5fzmbf/uiconf_id/5590821"/><param name="flashVars" value="autoPlay=false&screensLayer.startScreenOverId=startScreen&screensLayer.startScreenId=startScreen"/><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com">video platform</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/video_platform/video_management">video management</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/video_solution">video solutions</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/video_platform/video_publishing">video player</a></object> </center> <br /> <br />Cross posted at <a href="http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/">LCR</a>.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-41744555263963705442011-09-15T14:30:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.336-07:00Vintage Babe of the WeekTonight's Vintage Babe* is <a href="www.imdb.com/name/nm0922213/">Mae West</a>!<br />(*a.k.a. <a href="http://theothermccain.com/">Rule Five Thursday</a>)<br /><br /><center> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2zpnpm1" target="_blank"><img src="http://i55.tinypic.com/2zpnpm1.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=14cr3fp" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.tinypic.com/14cr3fp.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2euudsj" target="_blank"><img src="http://i55.tinypic.com/2euudsj.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=24djy1t" target="_blank"><img src="http://i51.tinypic.com/24djy1t.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=ofd3zk" target="_blank"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/ofd3zk.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=1z1veax" target="_blank"><img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/1z1veax.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a></center><br /><br />Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-31024599296113692102011-09-15T07:39:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.337-07:00Pat Robertson is Wrong Yet AgainJust to keep you all from breaking Formspring by overloading it with queries, yes, I know Pat Robertson <A HREF="http://t.co/mUnDHi5q">said divorcing spouses afflicted with Alzheimer's</a> is acceptable because it is a 'kind of death." As usual, he is being bigoted and un-Biblical. I am certain his behavior comes as much of a <I>shock</i> to you as it does to me. By tomorrow, we will probably learn his wife has Alzheimer's.<br /><br />Yes, I went to law school at his Regent University. Yes, I went in spite of robertson, not because of him. Yes, I regret attending. No, there is nothing i can do about it now. No, i am not responsible for what Robertson says. No, I am not responsible for what he says because my diploma has his signature on it. No, he is not representative of Christian belief. no, the words or action of one Christian are not enough to condemn the entire religion.<br /><br />Have I covered everything? I have had to run through this routine like a fire drill many times since setting foot on the Regent university campus ten years ago. I am confident I have it down pat--no pun intended--but things have a way of sneaking up on you and gouging your eyes out, which I cannot afford. I only have one left, and it sucks.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-15373714799073104092011-09-15T03:45:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.337-07:00Republican Writes "The American Jobs Act"Last Saturday, we noted the President's bad case of premature espeechulation:<br /><a href="http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2011/09/least-serious-president-in-history-of.html"><br />The Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™ Makes the Most Irrelevant Speech in the History of the Republic </a>,<br /><br />where he repeatedly asked Congress to pass a bill that <span style="font-style: italic;">hadn't been written yet</span>. It appears that all of the Democrats, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, failed to file the bill which Obama specifically called in his speech "The American Jobs Act".<br /><br />But, since there wasn't actually a bill by that name that had been filed, a Republican lawmaker has stepped into the breach!<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/14/conservative-nabs-naming-rights-to-american-jobs-act-after-obama-delay/">President Obama</a> repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation.<br /><br />The American Jobs Act introduced in the House of Representatives looks quite different from the version President Obama outlined in his speech to Congress. Instead of hiking taxes on working Americans to pay for another stimulus, Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) legislation offers a <span style="font-weight:bold;">tax cut</span>.<br /><br />UPDATE: Gohmert’s bill now has a number. It’s HR 2911.</blockquote><br /><br />Brilliant! Simply brilliant! Maybe next time, Obama will actually have a bill for Congress to pass when he repeats ad nauseum, "Pass this bill"?<br /><br />H/T <a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/">Memeorandum</a><br /><br />Cross posted at <a href="http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/">Left Coast Rebel</a>, <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/republican-writes-the-american-jobs-act/">Say Anything</a>cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-29924125923260648712011-09-15T03:17:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.337-07:00Medal of Honor Being Awarded Today<center><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.tinypic.com/11j2f5t.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/?ref=33cls1i" target="_blank"><img src="http://i51.tinypic.com/33cls1i.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sgt. (then Corporal) Dakota L. Meyer </span></center><br /><br />Citation:<br /><br /><blockquote>For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the repeated risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a member of Marine Embedded Training Team 2-8, Regional Corps Advisory Command 3-7, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on 8 September 2009. When the forward element of his combat team began to be hit by intense fire from roughly 50 Taliban insurgents dug-in and concealed on the slopes above Ganjgal village, Corporal Meyer mounted a gun-truck, enlisted a fellow Marine to drive, and raced to attack the ambushers and aid the trapped Marines and Afghan soldiers. During a six hour fire fight, Corporal Meyer single-handedly turned the tide of the battle, saved 36 Marines and soldiers and recovered the bodies of his fallen brothers. Four separate times he fought the kilometer up into the heart of a deadly U-shaped ambush. During the fight he killed at least eight Taliban, personally evacuated 12 friendly wounded, and provided cover for another 24 Marines and soldiers to escape likely death at the hands of a numerically superior and determined foe. On his first foray his lone vehicle drew machine gun, mortar, rocket grenade and small arms fire while he rescued five wounded soldiers. His second attack disrupted the enemy’s ambush and he evacuated four more wounded Marines. Switching to another gun-truck because his was too damaged they again sped in for a third time, and as turret gunner killed several Taliban attackers at point blank range and suppressed enemy fire so 24 Marines and soldiers could break-out. Despite being wounded, he made a fourth attack with three others to search for missing team members. Nearly surrounded and under heavy fire he dismounted the vehicle and searched house to house to recover the bodies of his fallen team members. By his extraordinary heroism, presence of mind amidst chaos and death, and unselfish devotion to his comrades in the face of great danger, Corporal Meyer reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.</blockquote><br /><br />Sgt. Meyer: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.<br /><br />Editor's note: Some of the news coverage is erroneously reporting Meyer as an "ex-Marine". Whether or not he is actively serving, he will <span style="font-style:italic;">always</span> be a Marine.<br /><br /><center><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/8w9o2u.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br />Hat tip <a href="http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/wall/2living.html">Home of Heroes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">There are fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice. In the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:<br /><blockquote>“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors; the men it remembers.”</blockquote></span><br /><br />Cross posted at <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/medal-of-honor-being-awarded-today/">Say Anything</a>.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-49155524326800052192011-09-15T02:40:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.337-07:00Scarlett Johannson Nude Photos Stolen -FBINow that I've got your attention. Yes, apparently someone hacked her phone and my, oh, my, found something more than the number for her dry cleaner! And since you know you would keep Googling 'til you found them, here are the alleged photos, suitable sliced , diced and pixelated for a PG-13 blog:<br /><br /><center><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2ex31ib" target="_blank"><img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/2ex31ib.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2z5qf5u" target="_blank"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/2z5qf5u.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a></center><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/14/scarlett-johansson-nude-photos-part-of-fbi-probe-of-digital-theft/">The Federal Bureau of Investigation </a>is looking into a series of possible digital thefts involving notable people, including actress Scarlett Johansson. According to a number of reports, Johansson allegedly had nude pictures of herself hacked off her cellphone and asked the FBI to check into the matter.<br /><br />A spokesperson for the FBI said “The FBI in Los Angeles is investigating the person or group responsible for a series of computer intrusions involving high-profile figures.” Johansson is one of the victims of the alleged thefts.</blockquote><br /><br />Remember how your Mama always used to tell you about wearing clean underwear in case you got hit by a bus? Her Mama should have told her always to <span style="font-style:italic;">wear</span> underwear when storing pictures on her phone!cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-10348107324593263062011-09-15T01:37:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.337-07:00Star Trek: Voyager--"Nothing Human"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-grUJRNkfxPc/TnG5XqKLB5I/AAAAAAAAMkU/ySHhgigGoX8/s1600/Nothing%2Bhuman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-grUJRNkfxPc/TnG5XqKLB5I/AAAAAAAAMkU/ySHhgigGoX8/s400/Nothing%2Bhuman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652502823431767954" /></a>It is time to tick some people off. “Nothing Human” is not a very popular episode among fans. I can sympathize for reasons I will elaborate on momentarily. I respectfully have to disagree. Maybe it is because I like my <I>Star Trek</I> to be as little like <I>Star Trek</I> as possible, but I am appreciatively of what this episode is trying to do. It is also Jeri Taylor’s final episode and, credit where credit is due, she finally gets Janeway right without fawning all over her innate awesomeness. <br /><br /><I>Voyager</I> answers the distress call of an alien so exotic, the universal translator has no way of communicating with it. With no Rosetta Stone for Delta Quadrant languages, it ought not translate any alien the crew has encountered, but let us not quibble over that. Right now. This critter looks like a crawdad just to put the image of an animal--a lesser being, so to speak--in our mind. Torres heads down to sick bay for a contrived reason, stands a little too close to the critter’s bed, and it jumps on her to connect with her internal organs. The critter begins using her as life support. It cannot be removed from torres without killing them both. <br /><br />The doctor is out of his element, so it is suggested another hologram be created to work with him. This hologram needs to be an expert in exobiology. The best exobiologist in the database happens to be a Cardassian named Krell Mercet. Krell’s presence causes problems, particularly when a bajoran crewmember named tabor identifies krell as the Josef Mengele of Cardassia. Krell is most notorious for torturously experimenting on hundreds of Bajorans in order to devise a cure for a plague that was killing tens of thousands. The moral dilemma arises over whether it is justified to use his medical know how even if it means letting torres die if not. For her part, Torres would rather die than allow krell to save her. Ultimately, Janeway forces the medical procedure to go ahead. The critter and torres are safely separated, and it is sent home safely. <br /><br />So what are the problems fans have with “Nothing Human” and why am I not concerned about them? I will hit on three big points.<br /><br />One, “Nothing Human” is a dialogue intensive episode about a very heady subject. There is little action to the episode other than when the critter’s buddies show up. They have the same communications problem, so they decide to attack the ship. They are working under Al capone’s axiom that you can get more with a kind word and a crowbar than you can with a kind word alone. This episode is all about the moral dilemma. But unlike most moral dilemmas presented in <I>Star Trek</I> in general and VOY in particular, the argument is not overwhelmingly one sided. <br /><br />The crew is faced with the problem of how Krell’s victims would react to his research, research under which they died horrible deaths, being used for a positive goal? Would they be happy their sacrifice meant something, or would they feel exploited? The Doctor and tom feel the former. Torres’ life is at stake right now, so what is the point in wrestling with their consciences? Tabor, Torres, and Chakotay agree with the latter. Use Krell’s research, and you are saying the ends justifies the means. Legitimizing Krell’s work says atrocities can be committed in the name of medical science. <br /><br />Two, Krell did use sound science. Ethically bankrupt for sure, but real. I think less historically astute Trekkies have a problem here because the mengele allegory begins to fall apart even though they do not seem to know it. Mengele is one of those men you hope was demon possessed because you do not want to think another human being could commit the atrocities he did. His Nazi colleagues burned his research notes because they wrre scientifically unsound. Mengele was a man who enjoyed torturing and mutilating helpless people. Krell is not like that. Yes, he did allow people to die in the name of medical research and I am not excusing that. He ought to be hung as a war criminal. but he is not Mengele.<br /><br />I point that out, not to excuse his actions, but to note that his pleasant, friendly demeanor is not apologizing for Mengele’s atrocities. It is something that fans have asserted. There ought not be a moral dilemma here at all--you just do not use medical knowledge attained in such an evil manner, and it does not matter if he comes across as a nice guy who justified his actions by saying--brace yourself--the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Kill a few hundred to save thousands? Sounds like a bargain. <br /><br />Sure, Krell has a sadistic streak. He uses an old fashioned scalpel to cut the critter open. His only concern is saving Torres, so he does not mind if the critter dies in the process. Yet when the Doctor devises a method of sparing them both which will still work, krell not only goes along with it, but propses co-authoring a paper on the procedure. Krell is willing to do the right thing when he can. He just believes the ends justifies the means for what he considers the greater good. While this is still a tough moral issue to work through, it is not justifying the atrocities committed by Mengele by any stretch. <br /><br />Three, janeway is not justifying Krell’s medical research, either, and by doing so, tacitly claiming Mengele’s research is all right to use if good will come of it. Janeway does ultimately decide to force torres to go through with the procedure because she is the chief engineer on a trip that is going to take another fifty years. The crew has lost enough vital people already. While I am not thrilled janeway has forced another crewmember to undergo a life altering medical procedure, at least she recognizes she may be making a mistake. Normally in these cases, she arrogantly strolls in claiming to have absolute moral clarity and anyone else who does not agree is too naïve to pay any attention to, because disagreements with Janeway are a betrayal. Taylor resists the urge to do that again in her swan song script, so Janeway takes ownership of what may be a very bad decision. There should have been more of Janeway like this. <br /><br />There should also have been more episodes like this. Certainly, there are issues big and small with it. I have already addressed the big ones. For small ones, one has to wonder why it is so easy to create another hologram with specialized medical knowledge when it has been a plot point that creating a new EMH is too difficult. There is also the matter of avoiding all the controversy by not making the hologram Krell. Knowledge is knowledge. It could have been downloaded into a Wayne newton lookalike, which might have been wiser considering a third of the crew were at war with the Cardassians before they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Turns out, they are intimately familiar with old Krell there. <br /><br />But no matter. “Nothing Human” is thought provoking. It feels so out of place on VOY, with its presentation of both arguments and Janeway acting human for once, that I almost wish it had been a DS9 or TNG episode instead so it could have shined brighter under a better creative staff. As it is, I am going to awrd “nothing Human” four stars. It might have made a perfect score but for a few missteps. <br /><br />Rating: **** (out of 5)cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-76448422758983824602011-09-15T01:36:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.338-07:00Kaley Cuoco<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5xkdrknVnkk/TnG5FXoBRfI/AAAAAAAAMkM/HU7PZO_U8xo/s1600/kaley%2Bcuoco.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5xkdrknVnkk/TnG5FXoBRfI/AAAAAAAAMkM/HU7PZO_U8xo/s400/kaley%2Bcuoco.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652502509219038706" /></a>Thursday is Kaley Cuoco Day!cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-90322494475462439632011-09-14T21:19:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.338-07:00Stripper Lawyer Raises the BarWhen lawyers pass the bar, is it supposed to be <span style="font-style:italic;">vertical?</span><br /><br /><center> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=zveii0" target="_blank"><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/zveii0.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a></center><br /><br />Charles Dickens once wrote: "The law is an ass." Very prescient.<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037177/Cash-strapped-lawyer-Carla-turns-exotic-dancing-pay-debts.html">A lawyer </a>has told how she turned to stripping to pay bills after struggling to find a legal job in recession-weary America. The attorney, giving her name only as Carla, graduated from law school ten years ago. But after being made redundant in 2009, she had to take drastic action to avoid drowning in a sea of student loans and other debts.</blockquote><br /><br />Next time you hear of someone who lost the shirt off their back in the Obama recession, think of poor Carla! Did you hear the one about the lawyer who lost her suit?<br /><br />H/T <a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/">Memeorandum</a>cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-84784195517303519392011-09-14T21:01:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.338-07:00Quote du jour<blockquote>"We toasted to them, they to us and both of us all around. It was considered rude to stay sober. I was very polite."</blockquote><br /><br />-Michael Z. Williamsoncokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-38687571206514654942011-09-14T19:57:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.338-07:00"Gumby" in the "Pokey"?Did you hear about Gumby trying to stick up a 7-11 recently?<br /><br /><center> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FoXluAsy_jc" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="640"></iframe></center><br /><br />It turns out now, that "Gumby" has turned himself in.<br /><blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/kswb-gumby-bandit-gumby-robbery-suspect-turns-himself-in-20110913,0,4260106.story">SAN DIEGO</a> -- A man who attempted to rob a Rancho Penasquitos convenience store while dressed in a "Gumby" costume last week turned himself in to police Tuesday, authorities said.<br /><br />The would-be thief disguised as the famed green claymation character entered the 7-Eleven in the 9700 block of Carmel Mountain Road along with an accomplice in street clothes shortly after midnight on Sept. 5, SDPD Detective Gary Hassen said.<br /><br />A surveillance camera captured the entire odd episode on video, providing fairly clear images of the disguised man's outfit and the appearance of his friend. No weapon was seen during the alleged holdup attempt, and no money was taken.<br /><br />The clerk at the 7-Eleven didn’t take the pair seriously when they said they were robbing the store, according to Hassen. The would-be bandit fumbled with his outfit as if to pull a gun from a pocket, but only managed to drop 26 cents in change, which he left on the floor.</blockquote><br /><br />You know you're not cut out for a life of crime when you try to stick up a convenience store and you leave twenty six cents poorer than when you went in! Time to consider a career change!<br /><br />Guess old Gumby's in the pokey now!cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-5081243551432049262011-09-14T17:53:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.339-07:00Brain Eating Ameoba Claims Fourth VictimAll four victims <A HREF="http://t.co/bix1SSEp">contracted the parasite</a> while swimming in a lake. I have nothing more to add other than...eew. Parasites give me the creeps. Human or otherwise.<br /><br />(Via; <A HREF="http://seehere.blogspot.com/2011/09/people-who-hear-their-eyeballs-move.html">Look at This</a>)cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-47336775759468701252011-09-14T14:30:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.339-07:00Medal of Honor<center><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.tinypic.com/11j2f5t.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=v8oaz5" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/v8oaz5.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Gunnery Sergeant Allan Jay Kellogg, Jr. </span></center><br /><br />Citation:<br /><br /><blockquote>For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a platoon sergeant with Company G, in connection with combat operations against the enemy on the night of 11 March 1970. Under the leadership of G/Sgt. Kellogg, a small unit from Company G was evacuating a fallen comrade when the unit came under a heavy volume of small arms and automatic weapons fire from a numerically superior enemy force occupying well-concealed emplacements in the surrounding jungle. During the ensuing fierce engagement, an enemy soldier managed to maneuver through the dense foliage to a position near the marines, and hurled a hand grenade into their midst which glanced off the chest of G/Sgt. Kellogg. Quick to act, he forced the grenade into the mud in which he was standing, threw himself over the lethal weapon and absorbed the full effects of its detonation with his body thereby preventing serious injury or possible death to several of his fellow marines. Although suffering multiple injuries to his chest and his right shoulder and arm, G/Sgt. Kellogg resolutely continued to direct the efforts of his men until all were able to maneuver to the relative safety of the company perimeter. By his heroic and decisive action in risking his life to save the lives of his comrades, G/Sgt. Kellogg reflected the highest credit upon himself and upheld the finest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service.<br /> </blockquote><br /><br />G/Sgt. Kellogg: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.<br /><br /><center><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/8w9o2u.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br />Hat tip <a href="http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/wall/2living.html">Home of Heroes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">There are fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice. In the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:<br /><blockquote>“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors; the men it remembers.”</blockquote></span><br /><br />Cross posted at <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/medal-of-honor-63/">Say Anything</a>cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-58334599251559001082011-09-14T14:01:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.339-07:00Criticizing the President is Only Patriotic When Progressives Do ItAnnouncing <A HREF="http://www.attackwatch.com/">Attack Watch</a>, the place to rat out anyone who criticizes Barack Obama. Because you would not want the president to get his feelings hurt, would you?<br /><br />I do not know if I am relieved this is not a Gestapo, or embarrassed about what it actually is. This is an official campaign site for reporting on people who are talking about the president. The leader of the free world seems awfully petty and prone to sowing discord. <br /><br />Frankly, I feel sorry for Obama when he fails with endeavors such as this. If you look back at my posts regarding Obama during the 2008 campaign, you will note I mentioned far more often his inexperience as my big concern if he was elected. Certainly, he was a progressive and that worried me, but his leftist politics were a given. Every conservative complained about that. It was stuff like this I was concerned about. The guy is in over his head, but still spends his time hunting down criticisms of himself. This is not the type of person who needs to be president. It is a wonder the republic has survived three years under his “stewardship.”<br /><br />UPDATE: This funny video was pointed out to me by <A HREF="http://amusingbunni.blogspot.com/">Amusing Bunni</a>:<iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-XYKRokgX00" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>UPDATE II: I am merely <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/attack-watch-new-obama-campaign-site-to-fight-smears-becomes-laughing-stock-of-the-internet/2011/09/14/gIQAspHDSK_blog.html">one voice in the choir.</a>cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-90404326083687168082011-09-14T12:12:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.339-07:00Formspring Question #252--Enterprise's Scant Best Edition<BLOCKQUOTE>Since you have already said you do not plan to review ENT, are there any episodes of it that you really LIKED? Top 5, maybe?</BLOCKQUOTE> “Twilight” is about as close to a brilliant episode as the show comes. Watching Florida nuked in ’The Expanse’ was inspired. Rooting for the Xindi in “Zero Hour” upon realizing that, after a year of preparation to defend Earth, the only defense humans have established is a lone weapons platform was mildly amusing in a, ’Just how stupid can this show get?” sort of way. <br /><br />Sorry, I cannot come up with five. Three will have to do.cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1109110758185121374.post-64531913158510830092011-09-14T10:21:00.000-07:002011-09-16T20:57:59.339-07:00Star Trek: Voyager--"Infinite Regress"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7zqBxr1AX2w/TnDi2HYxuEI/AAAAAAAAMkE/mdCtKXw92-g/s1600/Infinite%2BRegress.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7zqBxr1AX2w/TnDi2HYxuEI/AAAAAAAAMkE/mdCtKXw92-g/s400/Infinite%2BRegress.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652266951673755714" /></a>“Infinite Regress” is another Borg implants gone wrong episode for Seven. More to the point, Seven displays the Borg equivalent of multiple personality disorder when the identities of individuals she has helped assimilate take over her mind. The scenario gives Jeri Ryan a chance to play more colorful characters than she can with Seven, for better and for worse. There is not much to the story beyond Seven experiencing these personalities and a quick fix mind meld--again--to solve the problem, but it is fun to watch Ryan ham it up at times. <br /><br /><I>Voyager</I> encounters a debris field which they soon learn is the remains of a destroyed Borg cube. At the center of the debris is a vindiculm, a device that suppresses individual thought in drones so they can concentrate only on the needs of the collective. The vindiculum triggers Seven’s MPD, as she starts bouncing between the personalities of different people she has assimilated. <br /><br />I am going to give Ryan credit here. She is a fine actress, far better than what the character of seven allows her to do. She acts out quite a few of the personalities wonderfully. There is a six year old girl who wants to play with Naomi Wildman, a woman who cannot find her husband/boyfriend 9it is not clear) after a Borg attack, and a newly Starfleet captain among them Ryan plays with a bittersweet sadness over their fate. These personalities do not know they have been assimilated. Only we do. That said, there are personalities like the Klingon who eats raw meat and tries to mate with Torres and a Fereng constantly looking for a new business opportunity which go in the opposite direction. They are stereotypical and played for laughs. I can appreciate the need for comic relief here, but it is too over the top. The human personalities came across as real, but the aliens are caricatures. They could have been presented much better. <br /><br />The final two acts reveal the vindiculum has been tampered with by an unnamed species--just to show you how unimportant to the story they are--to include a virus that will destroy as many Botg cubes as come into proximity. Over eleven billion of the species have been assimilated by the Borg in the last for years, so those few remaining are out for nothing more than revenge for the loss of their civilization. They repeatedly attack <I>Voyager</I> to retrieve the vindiculum from engineering while Tuvok mind melds with Seven to disconnect her from the thing or something like hat. It is just an excuse for a nightmarish sequence in which Tuvok walks through seven thoughts, looking for for her while all those she has assimilated claw at him. He saves seven, so Janeway beams the vindiculum back to the aliens. Unlike Picard, she does not blink at the idea of using a virus to wipe the Borg out.<br /><br />The idea of an alien race being completely assimilated by the Borg in the midst of other civilizations thriving untouched by them brings up one of the biggest questions of the series--how do the Borg decide who to assimilate and when? Half the aliens <I>Voyager</I> encounters have no fear of the Borg, but the other half live in mortal terror of them. The difference in attitude is never explained. The only thing I can recall is a line from Seven once that the borg had encountered a Kazon ship once and decided not to assimilate it because they would bring nothing to the Collective. So the Borgh do not assimilate solely to increase their numbers. A species has to have something new the Collective wants. If true, then those who have no fear of the Borg must recognize themselves as…what? Lesser species who have nothing to offer? Whatever the deal is, reducing the Borg to just another alien race rather than the force of nature they were previously considered to be is a bad move. Necessary to keep VOY an interesting show that can feature lots of different aliens, but still bad for the Borg. <br /><br />There is not much to “Infinite Regress” beyond watching Ryan act out different personalities. A mind Meld from Tuvok has saved the day on at least four occasions now, with the doctor making the same protests even though it has always worked in the past. The alien menace does not even get a name beyond the borg designation Seven identities, so that shows you how important they are to the story. Still, Ryan is entertaining and this is an episode which deals with seven well rather than tacking on her involvement in a story that is not really about her like VOY normally does, so it gets a weak thumbs up. <br /><br />Rating: *** (out of 5)cokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504359919506769125noreply@blogger.com0