Jack of Harts

The Vice-Presidential Debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz and The Moderators went down Tuesday night. To start with, if you want to get a girl, get a girl that looks at you the way CBS moderators look at Walz. They looked like they were in love to me.

Secondly, the choice of questions was pretty much what I expected of CBS. Focusing on questions they planned to hurt the Republican with and avoiding questions that would hurt the Democrat.

Thirdly, the debate had a no fact-checking rule between the candidates and the moderators. So the moderators decided to fact-check Vance. He called them on breaking the rules, and then proceeded to tell them how their fact-check was dishonest. At which point they cut his mic, aimed obnoxious smiles at him, and told him that the audience couldn’t hear him because they cut the mics. And then went on to the next question.

I don’t know how much this is going to change the election, and I don’t know what the general public is going to think about this, but they lived down to my faith in them. The moderators broke the rules, were dishonest, and were obnoxious about it, all at the same time. Which sadly is what I expect of the mainstream media.

Israel has been busy turning bad terrorists into good terrorists lately. Hezbollah has been lobbing missiles and such at them for a while now, to the point that Israeli civilians had to leave the northern parts of Israeli for their own safety. Well after a series of really awesome plans kicked off, they nailed terrorists by tracking phones or detonating pagers and walkie talkies. And now they are just striking the terrorists from the air, absolutely taking marks off the American most wanted list in batch lots. These are guys on the list for unaliving Americans. And Israel is taking them off the board. Israel is absolutely smoking the terrorists, and that is good for civilization as a whole.

I saw Transformers One today and loved it.

It was a good story, filled with characters that shined in both the characters they were at the moment and the characters they would become. The foreshadowing was well done, and the ragtag band of misfits was awesome to watch go through the movie. I enjoyed it from beginning to end, and consider it one of the best Transformers movies made.

Unlike the live action movies, every character was designed to look like their G1 appearance, even while being different. Like protoforms, you could see what they would become when the toys and cartoon were made on Earth. In this way, it is basically a prequel of the original cartoon. It takes place entirely on Cybertron, so all of the alternate modes are Cybertronian, but once again you can see what they would become when they went to Earth in those modes.

This is true not only of the main characters but also of all the background characters who never even spoke. The backgrounds of many scenes are filled with dozens or hundreds of unique characters. Yes, there are many vehicon drones in some of the scenes, but other scenes are filled with Transformers that have graced the toy shelves for 40 years. Unique color schemes, heads, and body builds spread throughout the scenes. I could see the differences between Ironhide and Sideswipe. Both were background characters with no speaking lines, but they looked uniquely different even though both were candy apple red.

Pink bots, blue bots, green bots, white bots, hundreds of Transformers sprinkled the backgrounds of the scenes, and the inner Transformers geek in me loved scanning the crowds and putting names to each of them. Yes, I am one of those people who will buy the movie and pause it on some of those scenes to see how many characters I can identify. Hehehe. Just the quick glimpses I had in the theatre reminded me of all the bots I wanted or got as a kid. And now. 😉

It was a fun movie, and I could tell the people making it wanted to show us the characters we grew up with, even if only for seconds in many cases. I love it when people make a movie for the fans. It shines with fun and this is no exception.