I just finished watching Caprica Pilot show and it was Fraking great!
Someone I know had told me that it wasn’t the real show about life on Caprica before Battlestar Galactica but after watching and reading about it, it really is the pilot. I can understand why it went straight to DVD, there is no way they could have put it on TV with all the stuff they would have had to cut out of it for the censors.
I was lost and confused at first but after watching the first Cylon made and finding out about the true origin of the Adama family it all fell into place.
Ron Moore and the gang really out did themselves in fitting the two series together after just one episode.
I can’t wait for the rest of the series to air on Scifi in 2010.
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In the 1950s and 60s giant mainframe computers gradually became a common sight in large companies – but it was not until the mid-70s that the idea of home computing started to take off. Check out a slide show of the computer revolution from the 50’s to today. (Be sure to look toward the bottom of the pictures on the right hand side and click on “turn on captions”)
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California is in a financial mess and has declaired a fiscal emergency. State workers will now be off for 3 Fridays a month without pay.
All becasue the Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on a budget. Republicans want to cut benifits and not raise taxes, Democrats don’t want to cut benifits and are afraid to talk about raising taxes, so in the mean time, state workers suffer with a loss in pay, people on social services suffer with delayed or lost benifits and everyone loses with the reduced state services being provided.
Nothing has been said about if the California legislator has also adopted reduced work hours and reduced pay to help fix the deficit problem.
The entire country will suffer if Obama decides to bailout the state at everyone’s expense. Could you imagine the federal government “owning” California like it does GM?
What are your Legislatures paid? Here are the 2008 listings. It looks like California’s are paid the most.
On the Federal side here is a list of WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS EARNING THE TOP SALARY OF $172,200
David Axelrod
Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser
Melody Barnes
Assistant to the President and and Director of the Domestic Policy Council
John Brennan
Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Elizabeth Brown
Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary
Carol Browner
Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
Gregory Craig
Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President
Thomas Donilon
Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser
Anita Dunn
Assistant to the President and Director of Communications
Rahm Emanuel
Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff
Jonathan Favreau
Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting
Patrick Gaspard
Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs
Robert Gibbs
Assistant to the President and Press Secretary
Valerie Jarrett
Senior Adviser and Assistant to the President and for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
James Jones
National Security Adviser
Christopher Lu
Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary
Alyssa Mastromonaco
Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling and Advance
James Messina
Assistant to the President and and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
Peter Rouse
Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser
Philip Schiliro
Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Legislative Affairs
Susan Sher
Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Lawrence Summers
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council
Mona Sutphen
Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
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The Streets of San Francisco were never safer. RIP Karl Malden
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5014






