TV Series Review: "Warehouse 13", Season 2

My wife and I finished watching season 2 of "Warehouse 13" last night. "Warehouse 13" is a SyFy series about 2 secret service agents, Pete Lattimer and Myka Bearing, who work for a secret government warehouse in South Dakota, collecting dangerous supernatural artifacts and storing them away from the public. Being from South Dakota originally, I do have to comment that there isn't really a town name Univille located in the badlands near a secret government warehouse...that we know of anyway...

I liked season 2 better than season 1. I give it 4.5 stars...I really wish Netflix would embrace the half star concept. This season was very funny, and the rest of the cast got more involved, making for some exciting episodes. There were some good guest stars along the way as well.

I'm just really impressed with the way SyFy keeps rolling out great TV shows. I hope they keep it up for a long time and I'm already looking forward to season 3 of "Warehouse 13".

Movie Reviews

"Clash of the Titans": If you recall, several months ago, I posted that the preview for the remake of "Clash of the Titans" was the proper way to do a preview. It's too bad the makers of this movie didn't follow through on the movie. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad flick, but it's too short on the story. I really enjoy Greek Mythology, and this movie sort of glosses over that in favor of another battle scene or some cool special effect. It's as if they ran out of money with all the special effects and had to cut the movie 45 minutes short.

Overall, I give this one 3 stars.


"Despicable Me": We went to "Despicable Me" as a family at the cheap theater last night. Another ok movie that just fell short of being really good. There are quite a few laughs sprinkled throughout, but for me the story fell short of matching the feel good nature of the Pixar films, and "How To Train Your Dragon." My wife and kids on the other hand were rolling with laughter and loved the movie, so perhaps I was just in the wrong mood.

Another 3 star flick.

Just a Slip?

Last weekend, the Commander-in-Chief, using the Teleprompter-in-Chief, was speaking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, when he quoted the following from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.".

So, what's the problem with that? Well, the actual words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration are, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Yes, he left out "by their Creator." Not surprisingly, the Drive-By media is ignoring this slip, but the Conservative Blogs have picked up on it. See what we wouldn't know without blogs? Imagine if George W. Bush would have made such a slip...all we'd hear about is what an idiot he is, but the Bamster screws up, and the media is silent.

Pundits have posed 2 possible theories on this. The first is that it was a mistake by the Teleprompter-In-Chief and Obama wasn't quick enough to catch it. The second, and more plausible, is that Obama's speech writer intentionally left it out so as not to offend Americans who don't believe in God. Notice that neither of these options actually blames Obama.

I'm going to propose a 3rd theory. I'm going to propose that this was an intentional omission by a man who believes that all rights come from the government and not our Creator. This is a man, who by his actions and words obviously has a god complex, and believes that the government he currently runs, should be the central force in our lives. Furthermore, I believe he doesn't agree with the Founders on much. I think that President Obama believes that the Founders gave us too much freedom and limited the power of the Federal Government too much, so I think part of him wants to change the words of the Founders, or the meaning of those words, to suit his purposes whenever he can.

And, to think, Obama would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling right-wing blogs and their ability to remember the actual text of the Declaration of Independence.