My Bloody Valentine

I watched My Bloody Valentine in 3d last night. I was jumping out of my seat and I was even catching myself closing my eyes at certain times. I know that all of the people that were around me were jumping too. The movie was actually very hard to get in to see cause all of them were sold out and I had to buy my ticket ahead of time so that I could watch the last show. It is a scary movie that has non stop action. I loved being on the edge of my seat the whole time and never knowing when something was gonna happen until it popped out right in frount of my face. I know that anyone who watched this movie is probably thinking that it is gonna be like another Michael or Jason. That's what I think anyways. I think that there will be more of these movies. I want everyone who hasn't watched it, to go and watch it. It is well worth any amount of money that you will pay. Do not wait until it comes out on dvd cause you will miss a lot of things from the 3d. Everything was coming at you. At one time there was a arm laying oer the side of the chair and I could have sworn that the blood was dripping on a mans head that was sitting infrount of me. That was pretty cool and sick. haha. Anyways go watch this movie it's awsome.

Ice Storm wreaks havoc on Plains to east

Little Rock, AK- Schools closed and thousands of homes and buisnesses without electricity Tuesday as storm spread a coating of ice and snow on roads and power lines from the southern Plains to the mid-Atlantic states.
At least seven deaths have been blaimed on the weather. Highway crews were out spreading salt and sand on te acumlating ie, and police reported hundreds of accidents.
Ice had built up as much as an inch thick around Mountain Home Ark., and the utility Entergy Arkansas said about 5,800 customers were blacked out as the eight of the ice brought down power lines.
Missouri's Ameren UE reported about 6,000 customers without service.
Thousands more had no electricity in Kentucky as ice up to 1.5 inches thick snapped tree limbs and power lines, and caused short circuits that made transformers blow out.
The National Weather Service posted ice storm and winter storm warnings Tuesday along a broad swath from Texas and Oklahoma through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.

cold wave hits northeast

The biting winds and subzero temperatures that have turned the Northern plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes into a teeth-chattering misery, has hit north easterners. Maine residents were ready for Thursday reading down to 40 blow zero. And in the Midwest, Iowans were told that temperatures could drop as low as 27 below zero, matching a Jan. 15 record set in 1972. The deep freeze was part of a snow and arctic system that stretched from Montana to northern New England and dipped as far south as North Carolina.

Lake-effect snow warnings issued Thursday for Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Wind chill warnings were issued for those states as well as Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, and the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and Minneapolis.

Michigan, the community of Pellston, in the northern Lower Peninsula, and big rapids, in the central Lower Peninsula, were Michigan's cold spots at 6 a.m. Thursday with temperatures of minus 21 degrees. Glenwood, Minn, air temperatures were 29 degrees below zero on Thursday morning with the wind chill making it a staggering 54 degrees below zero. It was 20 degrees below zero at the Minneapolis St. Paul International airport, but the wind chill made it feel like 37 below zero.

Southwest Ohio, Butler County reopened it's former jail as an emergency shelter, with room for about 40 people to have a blanket, meal and shower, said nick Fischer of the sheriffs office. Fischer said the county will make room for more if needed.

Around Ohio, blowing snow grounded at least two medical helicopters called to transport accident victims. At the site of a wreck on Interstate 79 near Bowling Green, an ambulance had to drive two people to hospitals in Toledo. While "It's a dry heat in Arizona, This is a fresh cold." Light snow feel overnight in New York, temperatures early Thursday morning ranged from 7 above in Buffalo to 21 below in Massena in northern new York, lows of 18 below to 26 below are forecast for the Adirondacks Thursday night and Friday.

The frigid conditions caused complications for highway managers because road salt doesn't melt ice in subzero temperatures.

"Once we get into minus 10, minus 20, in some cases we have to go to just straight sand, a light dusting of sand, on the highway to get grit and provide traction." Said Mike Flick a transportation worker in Pamelia, N.Y.

Even northern Georgia and Kentucky could see single-digit lows by Friday, with zero possible at Lexington, K.Y., the weather service warned. Kentucky hasn't been that cold since December, 2004.

Obama seeks half of bailout funds

Obama seeks access to the second half of the $700 billion financial bailout fund.

He plans to be in the capital on Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats. His transition team prepared to dispatch top aides to meet with Senate Republicans this week in anticipation of a possible vote Thursday on weather to release the money from the embattled Troubled Asset Relief Program. In the House, the Financial Services Committee scheduled a hearing on the program in advance of the legislation offered by committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-mass, that would place tough new restrictions on recipients of the money and require spending to reduce mortgage foreclosures.

As legislation is scheduled to reach the floor of the House on Wednesday, with a vote set for Thursday. President George W. Bush's decision Monday to act on Obama's behalf and ask congress for access to the remaining $350 billion of the money congress authorized to rescue the nations financial sector. The request reached congress as lawmakers and Obama also were assembling a spending and tax-cutting stimulus package of $800 billion, or possibly more.

Obama said Monday that although the financial system has improved since September, it is still fragile.

Bush's notification set a 15-day deadline for congress to disapprove of the request law makers have complained that the Treasury department's use of the money has been muddled and misleading, that recipients of the funds have faced little accountability and that the program has done nothing to reduce home foreclosures. If the Senate rejects a motion to disapprove the funds, it would pave the way for Obama to begin dispensing the money about a week after he assumes office Jan 20.

Democrats hope that Obama's desire to place greater restrictions on the money and broaden it's goals to loosen more credit will build support among other skeptical lawmakers. The House scheduled a vote for next week. If both chambers refuse to release the money, it would be up to Obama to issue a veto - a dramatic first act by a new president - in hopes that congress would not override him.

The request by the Bush White house made it clear that the money was to be used by the incoming Obama Administration. It directed lawmakers to a letter Monday from top Obama economic adviser Mitch McConnell, R-KY., voiced skepticism but left open the possibility that he could be persuaded. McConnell said, that he would be hard-pressed to support additional funding for the TARP without sufficient assurances, this money will not be wasted, misspent or simply used for more industry-specific bailouts.

Summers' letter was not as detailed as the legislation proposed in the House by Frank. That bill would set new conditions on the institutions that receive the money, requiring limits on executive pay and an end to owing or leasing private jets. It would also require spending at least $40 billion from the fund on foreclosure mitigation.

financial services industry lobbyists said the opposed a provision in Frank's bill that would allow the Treasury Department to apply executive pay restrictions to banks that already have received government money.

Scott Talbott, Senior Vice President at the Financial Services Roundtable, said the group would like to see Congress' concerns addressed without the retroactive provision. The Roundtable represents 100 of the largest banks and insurance companies, including such government fund recipients as Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and JP Morgan Chase and Co.

Some lobbyists hoped Summers' letter would reassure lawmakers and make legislation such as Frank's less likely to pass. Summers' letter doesn't address the question of retroactive limits on executive pay. At the same time, the Federal Deposit insurance Corp. issued a directive Monday asking banks and other financial institutions to track how the federal money or guarantees the received helped them boost "prudent lending" and efforts to help at-risk borrowers avoid foreclosures.

Unborn

I love scary movies, so when I heard about and saw the previews to the movie Unborn I knew that I just had to watch it. Even though scary movies tend to make me jump and make my skin crawl at times I still love to watch them. The movie Unborn is about a girl that finds out about having a twin brother that died at birth and is now haunting her. After a lot of freaky things start to happen she finds out what exactly it is that is haunting her and what it wants. Now all she has to do is find a way to stop it. I would say to anyone that is a fan of scary movies, this is the one to watch to start off 2009. It is very good. I am looking to watch more movies to write about. If anyone has any good suggestions leave a comment and let me know about some that you have watched or have seen previews of.

Bernice Gallego of Fresno, Cali, age 72 was looking through some old boxes of antiques in her attic when she came across an old baseball card. She thought it may be worth something to someone so she listed it on Ebay. She started the bid at $10 until she started getting questioned by numerous people about it’s authenticity. She imediately cancelled the bidding and questioned herself if what she had was really more valuable than what she thought. Come to find out the card was made in 1869, featuring Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati, the first professional sports team. The baseball card that Bernice found is considered one of the first baseball cards ever produced and could be worth more than $100,000. After Bernice gained the knowledge she needed about the 140 year old card she put it back on ebay, but with a higher starting bid. I think that this woman is very lucky and if you ask her she will say that she has a history of being lucky, having once won $250,000 on a slot machine…

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