What do HF345 and Mennonites share in common............

At present, both have elements surrounding them that are PISSING ME RIGHT THE HELL OFF!

Let's begin with the latter of the two:Mennonites.
Today, an Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of Mennonites in a "steel wheel" case citing the ordinance violated a Mennonite’s religious rights under federal law.

The county had the ordinance in place due to the fact that the steel wheels used on Mennonites horse drawn buggies were causing damage to paved roads in the area.

This case has been going around and around for the past five years or so, and every time I would hear "our religious beliefs are under attack", all I could think of was "GET THE F*CK OVER IT"
I am sick to DEATH over hearing religious communities hiding behind "religious beliefs" when something like "um, just wanted you to know that your steel wheels are damaging stated funded roads and the repair work is getting a little costly for us 'rubber-tired' folks" happens. This usually results in a response by some "panel of elders" saying "WE'VE BEEN USING STEEL WHEELS FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS SINCE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS BEGAN USING THEM AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO AGAINST THEIR WILL" blah blah blah.

COME ONE BLACK BEARD! That's great that you all worship Abe Lincoln but the times they are a changin'! We now have this compound that we use for tires that does less damage and while it's nice to have religious beliefs DON'T F*CKING HIDE BEHIND HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF THINKING WHEN THE DOT GIVES YOU A CITATION............

Now, while I'm sure there are more specifics surrounding this story, my bottom line is this, if you continue to hide behind "religious beliefs", and I do mean HIDE, then I will have to follow MY religious belief that anyone MY deity has deemed of inferior intellect shall receive, by me, a swift kick in the arse, and there is nothing you can do because my religious belief is protected under the first amendment..................f*cker.

As for HF345, which is an Iowa House Floor bill that is intended upon awarding fathers' shared placement when it comes to divorce with children.
The part that is really getting to me is the opinions of a certain 79 year old legislature on this bill.

He is completely against it stating that "Men of IowaFathers (a FaceBook group) just don't want to pay their child support." and "he does not have enough information to make a decision about the HF345 Bill", even though his office has been inundated with case study upon case study over the past several YEARS on this matter.

But on the flip side, he recently introduced a bill legalizing medical Marijuana because he thinks "introducing a bill will force a conversation and help lawmakers come to consensus on the controversial topic" while he sits on the bill that is BEST FOR OUR CHILDREN.

So, basically this old f*cker is on a personal mission, apparently having trouble with his glaucoma and wants to get some legal weed and is past the time when HF 345 would do him any good.

COME ON!

There is another Iowa legislator who also is Family Law attorney, divorcee' that has primary physical placement and is a child support recipient. She also additionally filed to have her child support increased.

Once again, I call "FOUL" in that it would appear that she is against this bill for personal reasons and doesn't give a SH*T about what's bests for children.

I sincerely weep for our future as a society

Movie reboots.............are filmmakers getting lazy?

I consider myself somewhat of a movie buff.
I've watched all sorts of different genre from silent movies all the way up to Twilight (what can i say, it was a date thing).

And from the big screen to television I've become to equate certain characters with the actors/actresses that have portrayed them.
Charlton Heston will forever remain in my memory as Moses just as whenever I imagine 'that guy in the red cape and blue tights, Christopher Reeve will ALWAYS be Superman.

But in the last few years or so, a lazy trend is taking place that wants to take our most sacred memories and replace them with new faces. It's called the franchise reboot.

When he first made the jump from comic book form to the big screen, The Punisher was brought to life by Dolph Lundgren in 1989. It was a decent enough film, recounting how Frank Castle, a police officer who watches his wife and child murdered, then shot and left for dead himself, becomes the stone-cold vigilante we all have come to know and love.
But then in 2004 along comes Thomas Jane in a retelling of that story.
Again, not a bad flick, but when Punisher:War Zone is released in 2008, an actor by the name of Ray Stevenson is cast to portray Frank Castle/The Punisher.

I never saw this movie, and after seeing the previews, I had no desire to.
Only one other time did a franchise change the main actor to portray a single character and I watched with an open mind each time. That's only because I am a HUGE Batman fan and in each incarnation of Bruce Wayne/Batman, I accepted a different leading man in that role.

But fast forward to 2012.
This year promises to reboot Superman, Spiderman and even Jason Bourne. And to make matters worse, there are talks of remaking The Evil Dead, RoboCop, Dirty Dancing, and even Great Expectations.

Each of these movies hold certain memories for each of us but the biggest memory is the actor/actress that portrayed the main character.

It's easy to associate characters with faces, but filmmakers have become lazy in coming up with new stories that the trend seems to be retelling of old ones and THIS movie goer doesn't want all of those memories replaced with someone else's face.