| Our picks for weekend ideas that can't miss
3:10 To Yuma" // Russell Crowe and Christian Bale bring the Western back to the big screen with class and style in this compelling remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford tale. Crowe stars as a flamboyant outlaw captured by the law, and Bale is a financially ailing farmer who hires on to help escort the bad guy through rough country.
"Sunshine" // The end of the world is at hand in Danny Boyle's sci-fi saga set 50 years from now, when the sun is dying and a band of astronauts sets out on a daring last-gasp mission to re-ignite the fading star. Cillian Murphy leads an ensemble cast as the scientist who developed the bomb that the crew aims to deliver into the sun. Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Troy Garity and Rose Byrne co-star as fellow space travelers.
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Meat-Axe Justice
So many black males are going to prison now that it is a black rite of passage; their forced surrender to reality of justice in America. In nine states, up to 40% of black males are not permitted to vote because their citizenship has been taken away. Of course, now there are over a million black males in prison, but is anyone troubled by this? Not really, and besides, the good people of Tehachapi are begging bread from a flush-with-money prison system to build their hospital. Doesn't this strike anyone as even a tiny bit odd? Since many claim scripture for guidance, don't you think there is some counsel therein for conscientious citizens? What about a cruel David and the little ewe lamb? Do we have the wit to discern and repent when timely truths visit? David did, to his credit.
Open Thread
My only hope is we hold enough in the house and senate that we can slow down the ship. I know, cutting off my nose to spite my face, but at this point I'm disgusted with my face. Maybe, just maybe, if they screw it up enough (like Jimmy Carter did) we might get another Reagan. Its sad, and I think that a lot of people think like me. Fox viewers are down because we (the conservatives) are feeling rather low, so if they are like me they cut off the TV. The RNC is sooooo clue less, they keep sending me letterswith a check list to what is important to me, then ask for money. The last one I taped a brick to the letter and told them tobuild a fence and start with this brick. I haven't gotten any letter lately. IDIOTS. Sorry for the rant, I'm a bit pissed off.
Two men guilty of plot against US envoy released
The appeal court upheld the primary verdict which stipulated that the two accused be jailed three years from the date of arrest. They were arrested on the same day of their attempt to assassinate Hull in December 2004. On May 2007, the primary court, chaired by Judge Najeeb Al Qaderi, sentenced Al Mas and Al Halylah to three years in prison from the date of arrest. .
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