via YouTube - New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Super Skills Trailer .

Along with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox, but of course I need Xbox Live Gold in order to make it worthwhile. And Borderlands looks pretty neat too. Tis the season for gaming!

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However, with The Clinton Tapes, the material is very dense. Lots of names, biographical information, descriptions of meetings and interactions, and the writing style is very different. I often need to re-read paragraphs to understand who or what is being discussed. It feels like I’m reading 100x slower than normal. Usually if that were the case then I would give up on the book, but this one I find particularly interesting because the 90′s were when I started paying attention to broadcast news. So many of the names and events are familiar to me and it’s very interesting to get the background story on the negotiations and developments of all the things that happened during the Clinton presidency. It’s also interesting to me that several Clinton events parallel Obama events, such as health care reform and wars (in Clinton’s case, Bosnia cleanup).

Is it only democrats who care about health care reform for all Americans, instead of just those employed by big business/health insurance companies? Are our congressional leaders so swayed by lobbiest and contributions that they can’t see the greater good this would provide? What’s the point of requiring every American to get health insurance if there’s no public option? They’d be required to purchase from insurance companies, further inflating their revenues while doing nothing to curb their abuse. Worries about insurance companies dissolving due to competition from a public plan are needless. If they can’t compete, they should close up shop. And if it requires new taxes to pay for this reform, then so be it. Citizens of other countries pay far more taxes than we do and enjoy more benefits while we keep getting the shaft because our politicians are too scared to raise taxes when new revenue is seriously needed (see Michigan’s legislature/failed budget).

So irritating. I don’t like to choose political party sides because I think it’s narrow-minded to box myself in, but I can’t help but agree with the democrats on many of their issues, and shake my head at republican opposition. Why should businesses constantly favored over individuals?

On a completely related note (sarcasm), I have started playing FarmVille on Facebook. So ya’ll should add me as your neighbor and send me stuff.

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Most of us have a little filter we can activate that prevents us from saying everything we think. Call it lying or call it tact, it makes our lives that much easier. Luckily for comedy, however, Ricky Gervais knows how to override that switch.

The British comedian is a master of uncomfortable comedy, and “The Invention of Lying” is a perfect platform to display his craft. The first third of the movie is a contender for the smartest, funniest half hour on film this year. (Why doesn’t the Academy have a comedy award? Shame on you Oscar!)

via Tactless society is comedy gold in ‘The Invention of Lying’ | Michigan Movies & DVD – - Movies & DVD – MLive.com.

Check out the trailer at Apple.com Trailers.

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Check out the Apple Trailers site for Toy Story 3 trailers in HD.

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Remember Dishwalla? They had that song “Counting Blue Cars (tell me your thoughts on God)” back in 2005 from their Pet Your Friends release. That was a pretty cool song but apparently they have released several albums since then. All worth listening to.

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It’s an easy listen with catchy, soulful, thoughtful tunes.

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I dig the guitar energy and their yell-singing but also their harmonizing. Good stuff.

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I love the Global Underground series because they are usually DJs that I know and enjoy and they do such a stellar job picking and mixing tracks. The euphoria I feel while playing through these releases is just amazing.

My feet don’t really stop moving and once I add coffee to the mix, I get a pretty good workout just sitting in my chair! I also feel like my productivity and accuracy increases exponentially. When I’m in the zone and then I have to step away from my PC to take care of something, leaving the headphones brings a new clarity to the term of ‘disconnected’ because that’s how I feel when I step away from the album.

You can listen to bits of each track at the GU35 Nick Warren – Lima page. The player initially picks a random part of the song and plays through it but you can click a different part of the song to hear a shorter sample. You can keep skipping it forward to eventually play the whole song in bits and pieces, but I just ended up buying the album off iTunes for 11.99. The album is 25 tracks plus an uninterrupted continuous mix of both discs, so that’s another 2 tracks each an hour and 15 minutes long. Great value!

Good stuff!

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