Joe's Movie Reviews: Mud

Solid "real" drama about southern/poor white American culture and growing up in a small town today. And so much more than that. This movie touches on all sorts of things. The beauty of the natural world and grumminess of small town American. The freedom a vehicle of your own provides. What defines a "relationship" and love at different stage of life. Being happy with a simple family life living off the river. Fathers and sons and people who are like fathers and sons but not. Independent riverboat living vs modern family apartments. The Law and the "law". Being a man but not being the breadwinner. Being quiet and thoughtful and moral, a good person, yet needing to use your fists as the answer to every problem. This movie had a so much depth and the actors all pulled off their roles really well, even the side characters. Definitely a guys/fathers and sons movie as there lacked any real worthy female characters, which was the only criticism I really could lay on this film.

Wayne Gretzky's daughter

Comcast is a dishonest government monopoly

A cable company playing fast and loose? Shocking I know.

 I was paying 69$ but switched to the 99$ bundle for the phone cause cell coverage in my apt sucks."Somehow" I got put on a different package that costs $139. So I discovered Comcast had been over billing me for the last few month just today. I pay online and the bill they send me doesnt include the amount, just confirmation for the auto pay feature, so I only see the change on my bank statement. Anyhoo I call them up and ask them for an explanation and apparently they were giving me the wrong package. Fine..but they wont refund the money as the  money back satisfaction guarantee only applies within 30 days and only to new customers. In order to change me to a different package, regardless of the fact that I shouldnt be on this one to begin with, they have to take me off the "promotion" rate, which ends up costing me 20$ more money than my original package, even with fewer features.

I would LOVE to ditch these thieves but alas, Comcast has a government supported monopoly and are the only option for high speed internet in the area. Free market my ass.

HB 913

So Florida passed a bill on to the Governor allowing the State to seeking restitution against Nazis.

The measure was one of Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater's legislative priorities

Really?? A priority? The need for this is up with Jay Inslee's gender neutral language bill. I cant imagine who would be actually lobbying for this stuff..which leaves me thinking politicians are inventing this stuff so they look like they are actually working..Someone should sue these guys for fraud..I understand the newest way not to actually work is to run for an office and get loans against your campaign to pay your living costs.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/26/3366580/bill-to-help-holocaust-survivors.html#storylink=cp

Book report : Author James Corey aka Daniel Abraham

Ive been reading and really enjoying the collected works of an author who goes by multiple names:

US gov sets sugar price..not free market?

I heard a story on NPR this morn about how the candy manufacturers are leaving the US because they arnt allowed by the government to buy sugar at the world market price. I was under the impression we didnt do this sort of thing in our country. What happened to the so called "free market"? Why can the government set the price for sugar but not for gas; a recourse everyone needs.

Its because no one cares about agriculture - its perceived as boring and thus the only people who pay any attention to the laws congress enacts are the people with a serious motivation to set those laws. Same problem with social services - the only people who care about how the social safety network actually works are the people directly involved with it, and like farmers, they tend to be very busy doing there own thing and too poor to hire lobbyists. It seems to me like this problem stems from federalism - price points for this sort of product should be determined based on the local needs and local economy and above all by the market not who pays the most to political campaigns. But we need a system that makes sure issues that dont interest the public or make headlines dont get swamped by ones that do.

This is just one problem with the agri-bill that no one is paying attention to. We still are subsidizing the mega farms who dont need it and paying farmers to grow certain crops which arnt useful for feeding people.

Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight (Sun)

The Earth is once again rolling its way through the spotty slime trail left by the travel of Thatcher's Comet. I guess tonight is the best time to see it but the moon is near full so their will be a bit of light pollution.