Mayor Signs Bill 54 Into Law

Mayor Carlisle signs bill 54 into law

        This article is about the mayor signing Bill 54 in to law. For those who do not know, Bill 54 allows the city to remove personal property left on sidewalks, in parks, or on other public property. The one point that I found very interesting in the article was “that the bill applies equally to everyone and does not target the homeless or any specific population”. The entire purpose of the bill seems to be aimed at homeless people. Most of the people that leave their belongings and property in public places are the mainly homeless people. Granted that there are some occasions where a homeless person is involved, but this bill is geared towards the homeless. I do agree that the bill will allow the city to clear paths that should be accessible for the public, but they are trying to cover up the fact that it is for the homeless people.

Here is the article for more information: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/16231158/mayor-signs-abandoned-property-bill-into-law

Britain Suffering In European Financial Crisis

From the article that was from the New York Times, Britain is in a tough spot with the Europe financial crisis. The crisis is about the euro and Britain’s refusal of using it. Britain’s economic status is not very stable and if the euro depletes in value then Britain is going to be following shortly after. The main leader in the European Union is Germany with France being a very big supporter.

At this point Britain has a problem because the country is torn between being anti –Europe and still having a benefit to any financial improvements that Europe produces. When attending the meeting in Brussels about the euro, Prime Minister David Cameron made it clear that he was out to protect Britain’s national interest. This type of behavior from Britain has Germany and France very annoyed because they are trying to save the euro and to impose policies that will keep the southern economies out of hot water. “We are sick of you criticizing us and telling us what to do. You say you hate the euro and now you want to interfere in our meetings” said Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France.

Cameron’s political opposition uses this problem to point out the prime minister’s “power” in the meetings. “The problem for Britain is that at that most important European summit for a generation, that matters hugely for businesses up and down the country, the prime minister is simply left on the sidelines." said Ed Miliband, Leader of the Labour Party. 

For more information and quotation reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/world/europe/britain-suffers-as-a-bystander-to-europes-crisis.html?pagewanted=1&hp

A New Planet That Can Possibly Harbor Life

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered its first alien world that is in the habitable zone.  The habitable zone is a zone where the distances are just the right range that could allow liquid water to exist. The new find by the telescope has made its total haul of 2,326 potential planets in the telescope’s first 16 months of operation.

The new planet is called Kepler-22b. The planet is located about 600 light-years away and orbits a star similar to the sun. Kepler-22b is 2.4 times bigger than Earth and has similar temperature as Earth.

To read more about the planet and the Kepler space telescope: http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-telescope-confirms-alien-planet-habitable-zone-162005358.html

"Occupy DC" protesters arrested

Police arrested “Occupy DC” protesters after the activists had set up a wooden building in McPherson Square. The police showed up and this prompted a 9 hour standoff. Once the police converged on the Square, some of the activists climbed up on the wooden structure and refused to come down. The police then brought a cherry picker to pull off the protesters on the structure.  The last protester on the building clung to the structure adamantly, holding off officers for about 30 minutes. After removing the last protester from the building, the police got a fork lift to tear down the structure. 

For more information on the event: http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-dc-protesters-arrested-standoff-035150675.html

Super Troopers

Super Troopers is a 2001 comedy film about state troopers. In the town of Spurbury, Vermont, there are a group of police officers that do just as much pranksters on the job as well as off the job. When the station is in jeopardy of being shut down, the state troopers have to solve a crime involving a murder, an animated vulgar monkey, and a boat load of marijuana. Also they have to solve this crime before their competition, the Spurbury local police.

This film is a very funny parody on state troopers. The some of the pranks that are concocted are harmless and others are ones that would only happen in this movie. The cast is flows nicely with each other and make the pranks even better and more enjoyable. However there is some mature content like drug use, nudity, and profanity. The Motion Pictures Assocation of America (MPAA) rates it as an R film. So viewer discretion advised.   

Weird Science

Weird Science was made in 1985. The story is that two nerds Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (IIan Mitchell-Smith) are the laugh-stocks of their school. One night after watching the movie Frankstein, the two get the idea of making their own girl from a barbie doll and Wyatt's state of the art computer. The two make her, but it turns out that she also has superhuman abilities like memory manipulation, altering reality and others. Gary and Wyatt end up naming her Lisa (Kelly LeBrock). Throughout the movie Lisa is helping Gary and Wyatt get the girls that they have liked since their got to high school. The problem is that the two girls have boyfriends, Ian (Robert Downey Jr.) and Max(Robert Rusler), that are the ones that harass Gary and Wyatt the most.

This movie is another root for the underdog comedy. Most of the film is Lisa showing Gary and Wyatt all of the good traits that they have, in order to give them confidence around these two girls. Also since the film was made in 1985, you get to see the technology of the time and the way the main characters make Lisa. It is a very funny scene, that made me have to pause the film because i was laughing at it. The film has corny parts, but there are other parts that make the corny parts actually funny.

Airheads

Airheads is a comedy film made in 1994. The plot is that Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) are a failing rock band called "The Lone Rangers". The band is trying to get a record deal, but everyone is turning them down. When attending a concert of one of their past competition, Sons of Thunder, they realize that in order to get a record deal they need to get their song played on the radio. They decide to get the same radio station that helped Sons of Thunder, KPPX 103.6 "Rebel Radio". So they sneak into the station to try and get their song played. The band goes to DJ Ian "The Shark" (Joe Mantegna) to have their song played and he talks to them while on the air. The manager (Michael McKean) comes in and tells Ian to get them out of here calling them "Hollywood Boulevard trash". Rex gets upset and pulls out a fake uzi and demands that their song be played and take the entire station hostage.

  This film is a funny comedy that has a root for the underdog theme. There were quite a few laughs on my part and seeing the technology in 1994 is just a blast from the past. Fraser, Buscemi, and Sandler really pull off the standard rock band that is down on its luck. They also play off each other in the film to make this film very enjoyable. Also the fact that they take an entire station hostage with just a couple of fake uzis is just hysterical and makes you wonder when will the hostages realize that the weapons are fake.