Movies & DVD

No End In Sight

Buzz Blogger — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:34:06 GMT

Every year I try and see as many of the Oscar Nominated movies as I can before the big show. This year one of those is the movie "No End In Sight" which is up for best documentary feature. All I can say is every person in America should watch this movie.

This movie will open your eyes as to what is happening in Iraq and why it happened.

I'm always a bit skeptical when it comes to Documentaries, because it can be easy to create propaganda films. Get the right people to say the right things and you have your message. What impresses me about this documentary, is that they have the people from the Bush Administration, who were in Iraq telling the story.

What is sad about this film, is that it shows when we went into Iraq the people were happy that we took out Saddam. However, in the months and years to follow we did not do what we knew needed to happen. We did not let the military secure the country. We did not enforce marshal law, to prevent looting and anarchy. We did not set up a system to allow the Iraq people to govern themselves. Instead of putting the people to work, we brought in American contractors, which led to not only thousands of Iraq's without jobs but costing the American taxpayers more money as American contractors cost more money. Instead of training and using the Iraq military to help police the country we disbanded them putting thousands of men with guns into the streets with no job and no future.

This movie does not touch the politics of if we should have gone to war in the first place. What it does show is that the policies of Rumsfield and Cheney led to the present state of Iraq. It baffles me, because Republicans are supposed to know how to go to war. Let the Marines secure the country, put in place a provisional government, give the people hope, put them to work.

Vietnam was supposed to have taught us never to politicize war again. Make sure you have a plan, not only to take over the country, but to have a plan in place once you do. It seems like our military knew what needed to be done, but once again the people in Washington got in the way. The most telling part is when they showed how American planned for two years about how we would set up Japan once we took over. For Iraq we gave our planners 60 days.

I encourage you to watch this movie and let us all know what you think.

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

Buzz Blogger — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:06:57 GMT

Fun little bit of local information. The movie "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze" which was produced by local media company Chambers Communications is now available as part of the Netflix Watch Instantly. So if you are a Netflix subscriber you can watch the movie on your computer, or Roku box.

Free Tickets to see Speed Racer

Buzz Blogger — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:28:59 GMT

Right now speed down to either the Springfield or Eugene Elite Car Bath and you can pick up free passes to a special screening of Speed Racer, compliments of our sister station The Eugene CW. The special showing is this Tuesday, May 6th at 7:00PM.

There are only a limited number of tickets available so hurry down to Elite Car bath at:

192 East Q Street
Springfield, OR

1713 West 8th
Eugene, OR

Record/Play DVD Problem

badgerrr — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:20:08 GMT

I've got a weird problem with my DVD recorder and I hope someone out there can set me right with this thing.

I can record to the DVD from the TV or my Camcorder. Have done both. Put those DVD's in the machine and they play just fine. What I'm finding, however, is that my recorded discs won't play on anyone ELSES machine! (at least, I haven't found one yet).

I have been using DVD-R discs. Is this the problem? Is there something else I can do to get this critter to record for other machines?

(fortunately, that machine also records good-ole VHS and have resorted to that when recording. But it sure would be nice to get the stupid DVD happening)