Little Rascals

So I am watching the early 90's classic Little Rascals and I have some problems with it.
First off, you have a group of about twenty boys who live in a blatantly sexist society, and their parents seem to be okay with it. Once their clubhouse burns down they do not have enough money to rebuild it, but how did the clubhouse get their in the first place? Where was the budget for this? Not only do they have a house, they have a car! Not only do they have a car, but these boys who think they can get a bank loan by standing on each other's soldiers are smart enough to assemble a new and fully functional car out of random spare parts.
The story takes place in about a weeks time, yet Darla can meet a random rich kid on the street and fall in love with him. The whole concept of eight-year olds experiencing love aside, I think this is an example of a woman going after a man only because he has money.
Plus, the rich kid not only drives a go cart with an industrial rocket on the back, it also has serrated blades that he is not afraid to use against his enemies.
The movie teaches boys that it is okay to dress up in a leotard and sneak in to the girls dressing room. It also teaches boys that it is okay to beat up the bully instead of working out your differences.
I also noticed some very adult-oriented jokes. When asked how he stopped a girl from handing over at his house, Froggy tells the guys he whipped out his lizard. This sounds like sexual harassment to me, but we find out that he actually showed her a live lizard, and not his manhood. Alfalfa's hair pops up as if erect when kissed by Darla. This kinda bothered me, I don't think I have to explain why.

Even though the movie is full of sexism, adult innuendo, cross dressing, impossibility, and underage loving aside, I really enjoy this movie.

LOST-4/24 The Shape of Things to Come

BEST LOST EVER!
Alex has been captured by armed mercenaries. They have her type in the code for the electro-fence thing.
Locke, Sawyer, and Hurley with Aaron are playing a nice game of RISK when the phone rings and says CODE 14J. Ben is playing the piano when Locke comes and tells him. Ben reacts by pulling a shotgun out of the piano bench. He says that people are coming to kill them and they need to fortify in the house. Sawyer leaves to get Claire. On his way, the mercenaries start shooting, killing the Red Shirt castaways living with them. Sawyer ducks behind tables and fences and sees a missile hit Claire's house blowing it up. Somehow Claire survives and Sawyer gets her back to the house. The doorbell rings and it is Miles. He has a walkey talkey the mercenaries have given him. Ben won't leave the house even though they have Alex. They shoot Alex in the back of the head. Ben summons the smoke monster to kill the mercenaries in possibly the coolest scene in the history of LOST. The Locke group retreats into the woods and split up again. Locke, Ben, and Hurley go to look for Jacob.
Back on the beach, Vincent finds a body in the water. Faraday reveals it is the freighter's doctor. They contact the boat to ask about the doctor. The boat replies in Morse code and Faraday tells them that rescue is coming for them. Surprise! Bernard knows Morse code and says Faraday lied and the boat said the doctor is fine. Jack attacks Faraday and has Faraday admit they did not come to rescue them. Jacks appendix explodes.
In the Flashforward, Ben is in Tunisia and Iraq. He notices one of Widmore's men at a funeral. One of the pallbearers is Sayid. The funeral is for Nadia, Sayid's wife. Ben tells Sayid that the man he is following killed Nadia. The man confronts Ben and Sayid kills him. Sayid will now help Ben kill Widmore's people, like in Sayid's flashforward. Ben goes to Widmore's house and wakes him up in the middle of the night. He tells him that he is going to kill Penny since he killed Alex. Widmore says he wants the island.

Questions:

1. What happened to Ben in the future that he looks confused and doesn't know the year?
2. What is happening with Widmore's nightmares?
3. Why does the freighter tell them the doctor is fine?
   

Pennsylvania

Last night was the Primary in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton won at a 9.2 percent margin. That was better then the 25 percent margin Barack Obama was losing by six weeks ago. Now Hillary Clinton is saying that she has received more votes then any candidate ever. The math doesn't add up, but she is counting Michigan and Florida. The problem with that is two things. 1) The votes don't count, 2)She was the only candidate on the ballet. Again, campaigning and putting your name on the ballet in those states was against the rules. I don't understand where that is hard for her to grasp. Obama, Edwards, Richardsen, Biden, and Dodd all figured that one out. Another problem with her math is that four states including Iowa are not included in the final popular vote tally. Of the other three Obama won two.

Colbert tonight said it best when he compared the Clinton Campaign to the War in Iraq.
She goes in expecting to be treated as a liberator with initial success.
She is hit by opposing forces that hit harder then expected.
She has repeated requests for with drawl.
People who supported at first now don't.
Now she has a surge that has sorted worked, but is still widely unpopular.

Another thing that has come out of Pennsylvania is polling that says people will vote for McCain if Hillary is not the nominee. Pundents and the Clinton Campaign are now trying to use this to lure voters and Superdelegates. Do they not realize there are 49 more states out there? There are more voices then the ones in Pennsylvania, and those voices have called for and will continue calling for Barack Obama.

Funny Republicans

What is with the funny Vice President-types this week?

Dick Cheney cracked some jokes about himself at a dinner this week. So did Romney.

John Edwards

John Edwards appeared on tonights episode of the Colbert Report. Colbert has been in Philedalphia all week for the Pennsylvannia Primary on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton made a brief appearence, and Barack made an appearance via satelitte, but the highlight of the show was Edwards. Her came out to do The Word, and changed it to the EdWord. The topic was about white make voters and their importance. Of course the most sought after white male is John Edwards. Edwards used this to take about his issues. He said he can't go against Obama because he doesn't want to seem Anti-Hope. He said he can't go against Clinton because he is scarred James Carville will bite him. He wants a Jet Ski so him and Elizabeth can go out on the ocean, and he wants to be a spy. Edwards would also like his face on money. I don't think he was really asking to much.
But really, John Edwards needs his own show. He had a good presence. What I'm thinking, next year Conan gets Jay's job so that leaves a slot open. Enter Edwards.

Deomcratic Debate- 4/16

Hillary Clinton's whole campaign and basis for staying in the race is that Barack Obama can not win against John McCain in November. So, the surprise moment of the night was when Hillary was asked if Barack could beat McCain and she said, "Yes, yes, yes." Not one yes, three yeses.
I missed the first hour of the debate due to Glee Club Practice, but I got the gist of the campaign. Debates are supposed to sit a situation on the table and the candidates go over what they would do in that situation. The way this debate went was tell Barack Obama all of the things that the Clinton campaign has said he did wrong and have him defend himself. And yet, all of the critics are saying that Barack came out better.
Barack made the "bitter" comment a week ago and he really has yet to receive a big fall out from it. He still has received Superdelegates support when she has not. His poll numbers are doing a lot better in Pennsylvania and way ahead of her in Indiana, North Carolina, and Nationally. All of Hillary's campaigning in Pennsylvania is based around that comment showing that she is running a negative campaign. And The Boss himself Bruce Springsteen has announced his support for Barack. Even if Barack loses in Pennsylvania, people will need to look at the margin of votes and then look at the margin a month ago. He was down by around thirty a month ago and has made up that gap. Without running a negative campaign and with all the controversy with the bitter comment and Rev. Wright.

The Pope

One of my favorite late night hosts is the one that I can't watch, Bill Maher. Bill Maher host a show every Friday night on HBO called Real Time. Maher is a known Atheist and a frequent critic of all religion. And this week two big events in religion occur, a polygamist compound raid, and the Pope's first visit to America. Of course Maher had to comment on that:

"I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and, ladies, he's single."

And now Bill O'Reilly and members of the Catholic League are mad a Maher now for calling the Pope a Nazi and the rest of his comment. Well lets dissect it.
Child Abusing- Priests have molested alter-boys
Compound-The Pope does live in his own country
Operates outside the bounds of Law-The Priest really didn't get in to much trouble for molesting alter boys, and the Church gets away with a lot more then a major company would.
He's a Nazi- Pope Benedict was a member of the Hitler Youth, he was not an actual Nazi, and you can argue that he was only doing it because he was a child. But at one time he did wear a swastika.
Funny Hats- Come on.
So all Maher did was take fact, and put it into a humerous sentance.

Okay, now lets take a look at the Pope.

Now lets look at Emperor Palpatine, one of the most evil characters in cinema.


All the Pope needs is a cool laser sword. Maybe he can use his Hitler Youth Knife.
Oh crap, did he just compare the Pope to Emperor Palpatine? Only by looks, for right now.
My take on the Pope. I have nothing against Benedict, unless he doesn't take a photo with my Potato. I feel the very fact of having a Pope goes against what Christ was trying to say. He had a problem with the Jewish leaders because they were using God as basically a way to show off themselves. He knew that no one man could speak for the word of God. Christ did not wear robes or a stupid hat. Christ rode on a donkey, not a "Christ-Mobile." Christ did not have his own country.
Christ said, "Go and make disciples that make disciples." The Great Commission. How did that turn into, Go and make a city of beauty and statues. Build a leadership-system of Cardinals and Bishops and Priests that run the religion, oh and if one of them touches the alter-boy keep it hush. Make up a list of sins that are not in the Bible. Make religion and God into a chore instead of a joy.
Maybe Bill Maher is right.