It's a Matter of Race: How the Government Confused Millions

What Race are you?

Never shy to discuss a topic in detail, I picked up the story of how the census confused millions of Latinos around the country. At the end of the day, language is about communication. On this topic I have to actually ... DRUM ROLL... agree with the government. I know, stop laughing. It happens sometimes. Who'da thunk it? Me, Mister Antiestablishment, agreeing with "THE MAN". Ah well, I never close my brain off to the truth, even if it comes from the mouths of devils. So let's get into the story.

Movie Review: Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

So Tim Burton takes on Alice in Wonderland, the classic Lewis Caroll "children's" tale. This movie isn't just a simple remake of the Disney Cartoon, but an add on. In this one, Alice is not 10 she is now 20. Tim Burton fails to capture any of the magic of the book or the old cartoon. The audience is left hanging from lack of story or feeling about any character in the entire movie. While the acting is OK and the visuals are OK, lackluster special effects and line delivery, a movie doth not make. It seems this director is trapped in his own grandiosity and has completely forgotten that he is making a movie for other humans to see. Wait till you can rent it for a dollar if you simply must see it before you die. Other than that do not waste your time and your money.

By the way, I did check other reviews before I started my review and every single person agrees with me. This movie is rubbish.

The Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland "Story"

So in the prologue to Alice being in wonderland she is first a little girl. We find her having a dream of wonderland. She is disturbed by the dream and goes to get her father, who tucks her in and talks to her about it. She asks if she's "mad". A bit of obvious foreshadowing since the entire movie centers around the Mad Hatter, played by Johnny Depp. Her father makes her laugh and she drifts off to sleep. In the next scene she is now 20, played by Mia Wasikowska, and is saddled with an engagement to a local Lord's son, this being set in the Elizabethan era. She whines about having to get married to a lord. When everyone gathers in the garden to witness the proposal, she runs away to chase the white rabbit, leaving 200 guests with mouths agape. She sees the rabbit go down a hole and this grown woman now tumbles down the rabbit hole.

So Alice is now in wonderland. She is greeted by the white rabbit, played by Michael Sheen ( from New Moon, never seen it, and probably won't ), Tweedledee and Tweedledum played by Matt Lucas, and Doormouse played by Barbara Windsor. They are debating whether she is the right Alice, apparently the white rabbit has retrieved more than one Alice before, only to be disappointed. They decide to take her to Blue Caterpillar, played by Alan Rickman ( from Harry Potter *yay* ) since he is the wisest in the land. He refers them to their visual calendar of events. In there it is shown that the next day Alice is to slay the Jabberwocky with the vorpal blade. When Alice balks at the idea, everyone decides that she is in fact the wrong Alice.

The entire movie then is set that she should come to her senses and slay the Jabberwocky. Boy, who could see that coming. Except, there was no montage of her training with the vorpal sword. Thank God Tim Burton left that cheeseball Hollywood playbook kitchen sink out of the movie. I don't know if Hollywood is stupid or Hollywood thinks audiences are that dense.

About Wonderland

The very idea of wonderland normally conjures up a world visualized through a smoke filled hazed one can only conceive of from a hookah pipe. Either Tim Burton is sorely lacking in psychedelic drugs or has no imagination whatsoever. I'm not one to condone drugs normally, but Tim, come on, next time take some shrooms for.... research purposes.

The entire movie was just so bland. While some of the visuals were nice, they were just that. "Oh that's nice." As bland as... this jelly is nice.

If Hollywood wants to produce eye-popping movies and crazed stories, perhaps they should throw their hat in to stand against the government's "war on drugs" and recognize that drugs, while harmful in a stupid person's hands, are quite the artistic boost in other hands.

Literally, a 4 year old with an exceptional talent for drawing could have come up with a far superior world than Tim Burton.

About the Story

Lord of the Rings was a box office smash. It seems any and everyone who can throw in a grand melee war scene, does so, hoping to ride the wave of battle scene mega bucks. So instead of the story being about Alice fighting the evil Red Queen and her army, played by Helena Bonham Carter ( from Harry Potter ), they throw in the White Queen, played by Anne Hathaway ( from The Devil Wears Prada ) and her army. Instead of Alice being this cheeky, witty and mischievous girl, she is instead a warrior princess, a la Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, in full plate mail, wielding a vorpal, long sword +5 vs Jabberwockys.

Tim Burton tried to throw in the failed reluctant hero, a la Matrix, but there was no montage of training. In fact there was no story at all. Once you found out they had the "wrong" Alice, since she refused to slay the Jabberwocky, the entire movie just moves toward her coming to an epiphany to slay the Jabberwocky. However, there is no epiphany. There is no sense of duty. There is no man vs anything in the whole movie.

Well what about the Red Queen? Isn't the Red Queen the enemy? No, in fact, due to mistaken identity, Alice is invited as a guest to the Red Queen's court. And the Red Queen, although the acting was fine, was nowhere near the terror of the book nor the cartoon. The script just was not there.

What about the mad hatter? Johnny Depp is falling into being typecast now. He has accepted too many roles of, weird English eccentric character number 3. While he sort of played the part OK, he was neither "mad" nor eccentric. The script for him was so dull, you would not have identified him as the mad hatter, were he not in costume and presented at the mad hatter table. I am sure everyone saw the movie preview where he walks on the table to shake Alice's hand. That is the summit of his madness in the entire movie.

What about the chesire cat? The chesire cat, played by Stephen Fry, was so boring it is laughable, and not in a haha way, but a derisive, "oh how droll" way. Whoever wrote the lines, needs to seriously just do some drugs and ponder their navel as it relates to world hunger for a few hours and then do a do over.

Save your money. This is a let down of let downs.

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Watch Out, Census Bullies Coming to Town

Don't Be Bullied by the U.S. Census

We the people... wait, does that say We the lawyers, or maybe We the judges, no no We the bureaucrats, perhaps We the NWO? I'm so confused, what does it say :( Oh, we the PEOPLE! Yay, what did I win? 60 days in jail you say? A $100 fine? Pretty small price to pay. Wait, what? Remove my right to buy weapons? When did that occur? So, let me get this straight: you can violate all my rights to privacy, which are listed, in no less than 5 Amendments to the constitution; and if I uphold my right to privacy, strictly against the government, you throw me in jail and fine me and take away my constitutional right to bear arms? What blue planet did I fall off of?

Silly, ain't it? But, let's get on with the discussion. So the U.S. Census is coming to town. Maybe some of you have already gotten it. There is a big controversy over it. What is that controversy? Well apparently, instead of a census, the census bureau is taking it upon themselves to ask you very personal and extremely private questions that you should never tell anyone in government. People argue that the questions would not be held against you, however in the past they have been used to round up the Japanese and send them to internment camps and other horrible things, that were personally identified by the U.S. Census. If someone ever said it cannot be used against you, they are either trying to willfully mislead you, or they are oblivious of any recent history.

What are You Constitutionally Mandated to Say?

The article discussing the census is found in the very first article of the constitution. You cannot get any more important that that. The U.S. Constitution requires that a census of the entire population, citizens and noncitizens alike, be made every ten years (Article I, Section 2, Clause 3). The 14th amendment to the Constitution directs that the census will be used to determine the number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives from each state. The census is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, an agency established in 1899 within the U.S. Commerce Department.

Let's see that Article 1, section 2, clause 3:

Clause 3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons [oh my God, negro slaves]. The actual Enumeration [that means head count] shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

Let's look at the 14th amendment:

Section. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Now I already did a piece on your right to privacy, against the government. So clearly the census is used solely to count people for representation of the house of representatives. It is not supposed to be used to ask you what time you go to work. [actual question] The constitution was written to give us the limitations of the government, not the powers of government. The governments, up until that time in history, assumed all powers. Given this assumption, the founding white fathers decided that the constitution was expressly prohibit the government from that very assumption of power, except for what was expressly given in the constitution. If anyone ever tells you otherwise, they have no business opening their mouth.

What does all this mean? As a U.S. citizen, by your birth right, you are to give just an accounting of what grown adults live in your house. In plain English, how many, what number, adults live in your house. That does not include names, things, money, medical information, family history, financial information, social information.

The debate goes on because there are two obscure cases that had nothing to do with the census, that said "no one should question the power of congress." Well, I just told you the constitution expressly prohibits the power of congress. The two cannot be right. Neither case were a supreme court case though. So for someone to even site the cases is dumb. The cases had nothing to do with the census and they were not supreme court cases.

Why has there not been a supreme court case? Because the census bureau is afraid that if they were to actually prosecute someone that refused to fill out the census, that there would be a massive backlash and participation in the census would immediately fall to like 10% participation. As it stands now, there is nowhere near 100% participation. To my knowledge, no one has been prosecuted for not filling out the Census.

I am not trying to get you or anyone else to disobey the law. I am not giving you legal advice. This article is for entertainment purposes only. I ain't one to gossip, so you didn't hear this from me. BUT...

I'm sure you're asking am I going to fill out the census. Well, I've never ever received a census to fill out. Besides, the government is about to get more information out of me than that measly census anyway, because I'm applying for a Washington job. I expect I'll get a full cavity search. I expect they'll go over my finances with a fine tooth comb. I expect no part of my privacy will be left undisturbed. *sigh* But, that is the price you have to pay with them right? No more income tax, at the expense of giving up all your constitutional rights. LOL Luckily, they'll never see this, because no one knows my real name, and the picture is fake. I'm actually a blond haired, blue-eyed, fat, Asian, Brazilian, chick from Mongolia. Yeah, that's the ticket.

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