Hellraiser : Butchering Pinhead

Hasn't Hollywood figured out we don't want remakes anymore? STOP IT!

One of the problems with modern remakes is too much CGI, especially a movie or franchise where the practical effects are so amazing they still hold up today.

Another problem with modern remakes is the race or gender swapping of main characters. Most of us don't care what the race or gender of the main characters are when they are brand new; just make them a great character either hero or villain. Changing the race or gender of a popular or well established character is just pandering.

So what is happening to the Hellraiser reboot : gender swap of Pinhead, kinda'. It might have too much CGI too, but I don't know.

Full disclosure, I don't care about the Hellraiser franchise. The first one came out when I was 18 and I found it boring; in fact, I don't know if I finished watching it or even just fell asleep during it. However, I've been meaning to try to revisit it.

So how established is Pinhead as a male, or how deep is the franchise before this swap?

• 10 movies
• 4 Novels
• 103 Comic books (if I counted correctly)

What makes this gender swap more infuriating is that in the comicbooks there is a female Pinhead, Kirsty Cotton. In the storyline, after years of fighting cenobites, she agrees to take Pinhead's place as the Hell Priest and takes on his disfigurement. Kirsty Cotton even appears in the movies fighting cenobites. Maybe that's who they'll make this reboot Pinhead to be? But this is billed as a reboot, and the storyline reads like it is the same first movie.

Brace for fans picking this simplification apart.

So this Pinhead reboot is played by Jamie Clayton, a trans-woman, a faux-woman. So is this really a gender swap? Or is this appropriate casting having a mutilated man playing a cenobite?

All I know is this sounds woke, woke as Hell.

• imdb
• Wikipedia
• Hellraise Wiki
• Heightline

Strip Searched for Tobacco

A student has claimed that they were strip searched for suspicion of possession of tobacco at a Jordan-Elbridge Central School District school. No mention of the students gender nor age.

Tobacco is so evil that we need to strip search children for it?

No matter how evil tobacco is, things may not go well for the school district.

Back in 2009 a school district was found to have violated a 13 year old girl's 4^th amendment rights when she was strip searched for ibuprofen.

What is going on? These aren't even illegal substances. We can't sell them to children, but it's not like they are sneaking a weapon into school.

Children Sue Government Over Global Warming

NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen and several children are suing the U.S.Government over the continuing burning of fossil fuels contributing global warming. This ends up violating their future 9^th amendment rights depriving them of life, liberty and property.

There has not been one computer model to get climate predictions right. There has been an 18 year measured pause in global warming. None of that matters if you can use children as pawns to further your agenda.

Government Studies the Painfully Obvious

The National Institutes of Health reports that in a study there are adult Americans that have experienced pain withing 3 months of that study. Amazing. As you grow older you might experience pain.

The study also finds people experiencing pain are more likely to have poor health and use more health care. Wow. It's almost as if when you are sick your body tells you that you are sick through pain. And who would've thought someone sick and in pain is more likely to use health care than a healthy person that is not in pain. It seems to defy logic!

And get this. People that still experience pain after medication might turn to yoga, massage, and meditation to manage the pain. Wow. Doing something about pain instead of just looking at it.

I've learned a lot today. Thank you for this study.

I support the police but...

The stupidity is incredible. Just incredible.

Here is the set of information that the Court and the police had:

• The police were receiving online threats coming from a specific IP address
• The IP address belongs to a 68 year old woman's wifi network
• The woman's wifi network is unprotected
• Two houses down from the woman is a man with a history of making threats against the police

What happened next?

A U.S. Circuit Judge recommended waiting a day or two to get a better understanding of whom was responsible.

What happened next?

The day after the court's recommendation the police sent in an 11 man SWAT team knocking down a door and throwing two flash bang grenades through an open window at, guess who's house? That right. The 68 year old woman's house.

The 68 year old woman and her 18 year old daughter, yes, the story says 18 year old daughter, were put in handcuffs and interrogated. After it was obvious they were not involved they were released.

What happened next?

The next day the police asked the other suspect, yes, asked, to come in for questioning.

The police justified the first assault because they thought there might be someone armed and dangerous inside the home.

Seriously. WTF?

$130,000 per foot

What is $130,000 per foot? A new stretch of road in California.

DOT has put up a blog post announcing the completion of a $1.1 billion project for 1.6 miles of road. The Presidio Parkway website says it is 1.5 miles. The $130,000 figure ($130,208.33 to be exact) uses the 1.6 mile figure for the best case scenario in dollars spent per foot.

What's even worse is the subtitle of DOT's post is the following:

Federally funded project exemplifies transportation investment nation needs, officials say

Exemplifies transportation investment? Let's do a little math.

What if we want to build one road that connects one side of the nation to the other? We will use google maps and plot from San Diego, California to Bangor, Maine. That is 3,229 miles.

How much would that cost at $130,000 per foot?

$2,216,385,600,000! Take a quick screen capture of usdebtclock.org and that road would be about one ninth of the national debt. That one road is more than four times as large as the federal deficit!

Exemplifies transportation investment? I think we need to find a way to privatize roads. We can not afford the federal method.

Islam's Opposition to Freedom

Shooting Fish in a Dept. of Ed. Barrel

So I was going to make a blog posting and "shoot fish in a barrel" and do a dry sarcastic posting on Obama's ebola policy. However, first I thought it was my responsibility to first peruse the government blogs and laugh at the under the radar obscurity since I have not done anything original for quite a while. The first blog post I went to for absurdity is the Department of Education. They did not disappoint.

Let us start with the title of the blog post I encountered.
Investing in Evidence: Funding Game-Changing Evaluations

I was sooooooo drawn to this because of the title. I read it like this:

Investing in Evidence:
Funding Game,
Changing Evaluations

But it is really supposed to be read as:

Investing in Evidence
Funding <GameChanging> Evaluations

Hopefully you can see my initial misunderstanding; especially since I had had a drink.

So yes, from here on it is a drunken post, but it doesn't mean I can not make more sense than the Department of Education.

Let us move on into the post.

The Congressionally enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 allows the Department to strengthen the impact of our evaluation work by pooling resources across Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs. This makes it possible to fund rigorous evaluations of individual Federal education programs that currently lack sufficient evaluation dollars, and to evaluate the impact of various strategies that cut across a wide range of ESEA programs.

Year after year more money has gone to education and performance has gone down. We are told we need to give more money for education. However, this paragraph eludes that we can scrape money from this system like fat from a skinned rattlesnake for flavoring to fund a new study.

Really?

There's enough fat in the bone dry education system to fund a survey?

O.K. What's the survey?

Specifically, we are asking your help to identify what the most pressing education policy and/or practice questions are and how answering them could provide needed information to educators, parents and local, state, and federal governments to enable significant improvements in education. Our goal is to support the development of findings that have the rigor and power to inform significant improvements in how schools, districts, states, and the federal government provide services to students. We are seeking public input on the following questions:

So far the two quoted paragraphs go to a centralized point of decision. This is central planning. The thousands in Mississippi and millions in New York, the thousands in Missouri and the millions in California, speak their voice, supposedly.

All because school choice is bad.

So, let us move on to the questions.

What are the most critical P-12 questions that are still unanswered?

Are you f**king kidding me!? Aren't you supposed to be the experts taking our money telling us what is the best for education!? Aren't you the ones berating us for advocating for school choice? What the f**k is wrong with you!? Unanswered questions!?

How's this for unanswered questions!?

Why the f**k aren't you teaching times tables?

Why the f**k does simple subtraction take several steps in Common Core?

Why the f**k do you misinterpret the second amendment in Common Core?

Why the f**k do our students score high in self esteem but low in grade scores against other countries?

Why the f**k do you deserve a single penny of our tax dollars you dumb f**ks?

[compose thyself for the next question]

How could answering these questions provide information that could be used by schools, districts, and States to improve student outcomes for all students and/or particular groups of students?

[in a calm voice] I am glad you did not take the solution to the centralized federal level. This in general illustrates a problem with the educational system in that centralized planning devalues the need of local needs. To more properly answer the questions we need to answer local needs.

What type of study could answer these questions and produce findings that are reliable and generalizable?

[in a slightly irritable voice] What the f**k do you mean? We don't need a study for what is needed for our industries. And generalizable? What the f**k of major issues in our state is generalizable with the major issues of another state across the country? Why the f**k are we giving you money to homogenize states with incompatible interests!?

What implications would these findings have for existing practices, policies, and federal programs? Please mention the specific practices, policies, and programs by name if possible.

[uncontained outrage]
Oh my F**KING GOD! 50 different states with 50 different needs and you want me to describe how centralizing our interests and needs against 49 disparate ones will affect me? Can you do the math on that!?

Probably the f**k not but you might have learned the proper emoticon to express your disappointment in that!

Dept. of Education Rewards Incompetence Just Like the IRS

Oh it's so fun and easy to poke fun at government and its bureaucracies.

Hopefully all of you have heard about the IRS agents that didn't pay their taxes that received bonuses. How about the Department of Education employee that gives advise on student loans that self admittedly made mistakes on her student loans?

The stupidity of this is astounding. Nicole Callahan released an article named "4 Mistakes I Made With My Student Loans and How You Can Avoid Them." This is not advise from someone in the public sector but someone that works for the government. Her position? Digital Engagement Strategist at the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid.

Yes. She openly admits she made mistakes on her student loans and yet gets a job related to student aid. What could go wrong?

So what were her four mistakes?

I should have kept track of what I was borrowing
I should have made interest payments while I was still in school
I should have kept my loan servicer in the loop
I should have figured out what my monthly loan payments were going to be BEFORE I went into repayment

Half of her problems were "I didn't do simple Math."

However she is only a "Digital Engagement Strategist" and hence she is just more web designerish right? (Don't let Obamacare roll out affect you judgement of government web technology experts) Let's blog-search her name.

Oh no!

About 120 results

Let us list every headline associated with her name. Page one only.

• 6 Things You Must Know About Repaying Your Student Loans ...
• 4 Mistakes I Made With My Student Loans and How You Can ...
• Need Advice About Your Student Loans? Your Loan Servicer ...
• ED.gov Blog
• 7 Ways to Promote FAFSA Completion at Your School | ED. ...
• 5 Reasons You Should Complete the Free Application for ...
• 4 Common Student Loan Mistakes | ED.gov Blog
• 5 Things You Need To Know About Your Student Loans | ED. ...
• 7 Things You Need Before You Fill Out the FAFSA | ED.gov ...
• 4 Things to Do During Your Student Loan Grace Period | ED. ...

So there may be a bit of advice coming from Nicole on about 120 articles? And how does she describe herself in the 4 mistakes article?

So while I don’t claim to be a student loan expert, I have learned a lot of lessons along the way, mostly through trial and error.

Admits not an expert. Is this government promoting incompetence or an individual covering their posterior?

Shouldn't the Department of Education use an expert to give advise on student loans? Why are they using an amateur?

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Five Ranchers You Have Not Heard About

Some people have mixed feelings about what happened at the Bundy Ranch. Some feel part of it was Bundy's problem since he didn't pay grazing fees. From here on the arguments and little details go on for a while. One thing is for sure and that is that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) overreacted to the situation.

Even though Bundy might be in the wrong a bit, I'm okay with that because the government is in the wrong a lot. This push against the government is good even if done in a not so kosher manner.

If you play by the rules you might get trampled because the government does not play by the rules. Five ranchers are being trampled on in South Dakota^[1][2]. It's not the BLM this time but the Department of Game, Fish and Parks of South Dakota. Still, totally wrong.

These five ranchers have land that had, I repeat "had," a railway running though it. The land has been owned by their families but easement laws allowed some of it to be used for the railroad. So the tracks eventually closed and the railroad gave it back to South Dakota, except these are easements, not possessions. The railroad cannot give the land to anyone. Under South Dakota law the land goes back to the original owners once the easement is void which is the ranchers.

What actually happened was the state took the land and turned it into a scenic trail. It is now a 109 mile trail cutting through five ranchers' lands. The government has made a regulation no motorized vehicles can go on the trail. So now there is a line on their land the ranchers can not cross; a line that was illegal by state law to be made in the first place. A scenic trail is a piss poor use of easement laws.

In short the ranchers can not cross this line because of beautification, at least that is what I read "scenic trail" as meaning. We are not even talking about an endangered species anymore. Ranchers' way of living is threatened just so things can be prettier.

Are you kidding me!? This is why we should start breaking the rules because the rules are stupid. The rules are anti-human. Thank the founders for the Second Amendment. An aerobic exorcise of it might force the government to obey the law too.

So for now enjoy Joe giving a critique of the Bundy Ranch incident.

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The Iditerod is Rasict!

The ultimate sport deserves the ultimate coverage. How about the ultimate diversity?

Currently we are lamenting that too few players in baseball are black. No one has mentioned the Iditerod. In 2014 there were 69 racers and only one was black. Newton Marshall.

Well, here's the rub. Newton is not an African-American. He is Jamaican. No extra diversity points for African-Jamaican. Are there White-Jamaicans? Or is it Euro-Jamaicans? No, Euro includes Spain which are Hispanic-Jamaicans and are not White Devils. Anglosaxon-Jamaicans? Anglosaxon excludes the Spanish, right? What was I talking about?

Only 1.45% of the participants are black. 1 in 69, a sexy number. Are you saying blacks aren't sexy?

All of those Harlem youths that latch packs of wild dogs to their Radio Flyers are having their hopes dashed. Why? So cruel!

Do we really have to import black people to race dogs in sub-zero temperatures? The only black man in the world to do this has to be Jamacian high?

Sad.

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Equal Pay? Dept of Labor under Obama Admin Okays Women Make Less Than 6 Cents for Every Dollar Their Male Counterpart Makes

I can sensationalize through headlines too!

A group of female employees that work for the Oakland Raiders make about $5 an hour. That is $3 under the minimum wage mandated by California. The U.S. Department of Labor under the Obama Administration gives this a thumbs up because it is seasonal work.

These female employees only make $1,250 a season while their male counter part (I assume male, read to the end) makes $23,000 a season. He makes more than 18 times more. The gals make less than 6 cents for every dollar he earns.

Who are these down trodden females?

Cheerleaders.

Did you just suddenly discount their gripe? Don't. Time is money. Just because they are cheerleaders does not minimize their worth. They do train, practice, and are subject to fines like not having a proper tan color. Not the proper color? That's racist!

Who is the male counter part?

The team mascot. Honestly I don't know if the team mascot is a guy but the article [ here ] has a photo and it looks like that under the costume there is a guy. Maybe it is a bull dyke. I honestly don't know and don't care.

Let's face it, the cheerleaders are poorly paid. The fans need to do something about it, not the government.

So fans, what are you going to do?

Lying Dog

Y U No Obamacare?

Toast

Wendy Davis

Search it out yourself. This is like a two minute project a second grader could do.

We heard what Obama said!

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