I love this video.
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Ahh…the Transformers. As a tomboy with all boys around me growing up – I was a Transformer fan. The 80's had such great cartoons like the Transformers and GI Joe. I remember being a kid and being bummed out that there wasn't a cool Transformer, live-action movie. Well I am glad they waited.
Had they attempted to create a Transformer movie in the 80's it would have been absolute crap. The Autobots and Decepticons would have been portrayed by men in lame costumes or by cartoon renditions thrown in after the fact. Sure, the new Michael Bay vision of this cultural icon is an animated flick but its COMPUTER animation and it looks real.
I would absolutely recommend the movie to everybody. The action is great. The storyline is clear. We get to see some favorite Transformers. All in all…AWESOME! I will not give any spoilers because I would hate to ruin it but there is a caveat to parents.
Parents – be prepared to explain what masturbation is to your kids. For some reason, Michael Bay and his team saw fit to place a masturbation joke in the movie (the mom asks the kid what he is doing in his room and when he won't answer, she asks him if he is masturbating.) I think I did ok, because I told my 8-year-old son and nine-year-old cousin it was something that people did to make themselves feel good when they are in private. I did tell them it had to do with touching themselves and I emphasized it was completely healthy and natural but its private.
So my dearest friend, Priscilla, is now in the army. I have to get off my butt and write to her soon because she needs people to write to her while she is in boot camp. She has faced so much adversity in her life. Divorce(s), a bad family structure growing up, parental drug abuse, spousal abuse and the death of her child are just the start of her woes. I love this girl like a sister, so I need to force myself to support her decision – even if I don't agree with it.
She has chosen to work in the group that picks up body parts and identify them for their loved ones. This job pretty much guarantees that her a stint in Afghanistan or Iraq. I worry about her for so many reasons. Will she survive or will she be hurt and/or killed in an attack? Will her mind survive the horror of war and the gruesome task of picking of the shattered pieces of bodies destroyed by war?
So I can only support her. Words of friendship, love and support are all that I can offer her to her. She is trying to do something that will make her beautiful children proud of her – I just hope she comes back whole to her children.
There are people in this country that are sexual deviants. They are NOT homosexual people that are driven by biological desire to be with a person of the same sex. They are NOT two consenting adults that choose to engage in adventurous sexual practices. They are not a couple of teens a year apart having sex (a simple stupid choice does not make a person a deviant.)
Sexual deviants are the sick freaks that rape women in alleyways in the dead of night. Sexual deviants are men who force themselves on their dates even though their dates are saying "no". Sexual deviants are people who molest children. Sexual deviants are those that hurt innocent children, people and animals that either can't say "no" or that don't have the power to fight off their attacker.
So when will people get this through their heads?
OK. I am done ranting now.
