Phenetic’s Principles: Street Crime and Education

Phenetic’s Principles: Street Crime and Education

Obviously we as Americans love our guns, it’s something we have basked in and gloated about since the formation of our great country. However, not only are we a country who loves gun the most, but we are a country who dies by guns the most. We hold the record of most gun deaths per year. If you notice, our tolerance on guns is very, very high. Our education system is nothing to brag about either, most students drop out and turn to the streets.

So what do these two highly debated topics have to do with one another? Simple. Lower gun tolerance to zero percent, making gun crimes punishable to up to 15-25 years or life. The schools in our ghetto/poverty areas are also something we need to be concerned about as well. We have a huge pool of bright individuals in every area, and we must capitalize on that.

If a student lives in a horrendous neighborhood, but meets test scores that are well above average, then that student and their family will be moved out from that area, and moved to a better neighborhood. While they will be aided in payment of basic necessities, i.e. food, water, rent, etc. Any extras, i.e. cable, cars, Internet, and such will be the responsibility of the parents, but the government will AID them in their needs. Please note I said aid, not give, they wills till be required to pay some of the bill.

Now some of you may be asking, what about the other students? We can’t leave them behind. I agree. We must not raise the standards of graduation, but the standards of the teachers. We must no longer push the poverty stricken citizens into their own little corner. No, we must, as bad as it might sound, spread them evenly around all of the areas. We must no longer give tax breaks to companies who outsource, but give tax breaks to companies who keep jobs in this country. Right now the American dream for most young citizens is a big mansion, plenty of bling, an Escalade with 24’s, and plenty of “bitches and hoes” to fill the house and vehicle up. The white picket fence dream is dead, gone, vanished, ceased to exist.

The government should not be responsible for giving citizens health care, the government should not be responsible for giving you most of the free stuff some of us take for granted. Yes, the government could provide aid in health care as in McCain’s plan, but giving it for free? Absolutely not. This goes against what the fore fathers and the American dream are all about. Working hard too achieve success, not getting it handed too you. A little help here and there is fine, but we as Americans take for granted all the stuff that is literally just handed too us.

Back on subject with our Education System, I fully support the school of choice program in which a parent is able to choose the school they want their child too attend. Let’s face it; some schools are better than others, theres no denying that. But what we need are teachers who really care. A special scholarship/grant for any striving teacher to major in alternative schooling. As a graduate from an alternative high school, I feel that we need more teachers who really pay attention and take notice to each student’s lives. This is something that has long been forgotten and ignored by many politicians. Let’s face it, it’s becoming an issue, and we need someone to prevent it from fully becoming one.

And that is one of Phenetic’s Principles.

The Roaring Gas Prices

Both political parties, Republican and Democrats are too blame. See Democrats actually want higher gas prices because they believe that’s the only thing that will make Americans use less fossil fuel. And you know using less fossil fuel is the mission of the global warming nimrods. So you see, it’s just a global warming play. For eight years Bill Clinton and Al Gore did little to nothing to develop any alternative energy. Liberals gave them a pass, why? Because they are Democrats. But if you think it’s just Liberals, your wrong. There are still a lot of conservatives who actually believe the oil companies are harmless concerns just trying to do the right thing for us citizens. That’s absurd. Ben Stein even reported that he was in a room full of oil company traders, who happen to be former Enron employees. These people fucking laugh at how much they manipulate us out of gas.

But the blame doesn’t entirely fall on Clinton’s shoulders, because Bush didn’t do much to protect us either. Yes, they both rant on how we should develop alternative fuel, but little action has been taken by either of them. Both parties, Democrat and Republicans, have sold us out. Let’s look at Sweden, are there any members here form that country? Half of that country is nuke powered. France has I think 75% of their electricity and power coming form nukes as well. Norway drills offshore, and look at their result: they are wealthy and little environmental downside has occurred. I would love for us to drill offshore and here in America, we are the only country who has oil in their own country, but won’t drill. I understand that states like Florida and Colorado rely on tourism, so careful precautions must be made to adjust too it.

Both sides have fucked us, the eco extremists will not budge with traditional energy development, but the big corporate fuck bags in the oil companies, have halted any research at alternative energy. From what I have heard, Brazil runs their vehicles on sugar-based ethanol, what about us? Norway is able to cleanly drill their oil, but the most advanced country isn’t capable? How is it that smaller countries like Sweden and France and Norway can bury nuclear waste, but a more highly sophisticated and advanced country like us cannot? Both candidates need to get with this and get up to date with energy production.

The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight

By: Phenetic

When someone goes up to you and tells you the movie was good, or it was awesome, and they hype it up to be the greatest movie in a long, long, long time: Believe It! For quite some time, this has been the most anticipated movie. For me, I was waiting ever so dearly when I heard Heath Ledger would star as The Joker. It has been hyped up as the best Batman movie, and starring the best Joker. Well not only do we get both of those, but we also get the best Two-Face as well. Sayonara Jack Nicholson and Tommy Lee Jones, you were both just out performed. While many argued that Jack Nicholson’s version of Joker was more cartoonish and made to be more comedic, Heath Ledger once again exceeds out expectations and shows us that his version of Joker is sick, twisted, sadistic, and hilarious at the same time.

When we see Gotham in this installment, we see a truly dark, and slum city. If you thought the streets of Gotham were distorted beyond belief in Begins, then you haven’t seen anything yet. As the movie opens, we are brought into a bank robbery, led by, you guessed it: The Joker. Although you do not necessarily see him, he disguises himself as one of the bank robbers sent on a mission to rob a bank controlled by the mob. Crazy, insane, what ever you want too sue to describe it, it most likely describes Joker. As the cops arrive, we witness the chasing game as Batman highly underestimates his arch nemesis. When Alfred (Played by the underrated Michael Caine) tends to Bruce Wayne (Played by Christian Bale)’s post-fight with a few mob goons and drug dealers, he warns Bruce to know his limits. “Batman has no limits” comes out as the arrogant reply from the cocky ego of Bruce Wayne. Bruce holds on to the belief that Joker is after something, he is after an object such as money or power. But the wise Alfred suggests maybe he is not like the other men Batman has taken down, perhaps he has no desire for riches, fame, or power, perhaps he just wants too witness the city burn.

In a roomful of Gotham City mobsters, they discuss what too do with Batman, and what too do with this new “competition” from Joker. In true fashion, Joker arrives in the flesh, licking his lips and giving that sick mentality aurora that he is so known for. He sticks a pencil into a table and says he’s going to perform a magic trick. His devil-may-care tactics angers the men around him, and one of them decides to actually step to the plate in taking down the mascara-filled dark clown. Within the blink of an eye, The Joker count sot five and grabs the gangster’s head and rams him, face down, on the pencil. Within a split second, the man’s head bounces up and the writing utensil disappears to as promised. It’s the most epic punch line because it’s not joke, it’s not funny, it’s just his mentality. A perfect conclusion to one of the most epic scenes in the movie.

This movie takes a much darker and serious approach, if that was even possible, than Batman Begins. Bruce Wayne begins to plan his “retirement” so to speak, telling Rachel (Played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) that Gotham no longer needs batman, but their “White Knight” which is instilled in Harvey Dent (Played by Aaron Eckhart). Eckhart gives a riveting performance, showing us why he is one of the best in this industry today. Harvey Dent is the new hot shot DA bent on cleaning the streets of Gotham. The difference between Dent in Knight, and Rachel in Begins, Harvey actually gets the job done. We find out that Rachel and Dent are “together”, and it’s somewhat unusual we don’t see more of a jealous side to Bruce. But just before Bruce throws in the towel, Joker comes in crashing the party, drenched in his “war-paint” he reveals his one plan, his one goal, his one desire: kill the batman. Cliché? Yes. But this unites the underworld that was once separated by rivals and unhonorable codes.

I could go deeper into the plot, but to be honest, on paper it would be way too complicated. There is twist and turn every twenty minutes that you must witness the vision instead of reading it. There are few to no complaints, besides that the movie is jam-packed with characters, that it seems as if they are crammed. The ending, while many see it as too sudden, does leave speculation to a third installment, even though it has been confirmed by Bale himself. If you were not one of the millions of people who saw the movie on opening night, get to the theatre A.S.A.P. because you are missing one of the greatest movies ever. Now the question is, which villain is next? Will we see a return of The Riddler? The Penguin? Or will we see another god-awful Mr. Freeze? Time will tell.

Overall, this is the best sequel possibly ever made; it beats out Empire Strikes Back, and even Godfather Part II. In Batman Begins, Nolan had raised the bar with the hit prequel, but in The Dark Knight, he raised the bar to almost unreachable heights.

This gets a Ten … out of Ten.

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Directed by: Adam Brooks
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fisher, and Abigail Breslin.
Review: Political consultant Will Hayes (played by Ryan Reynolds) attempts to tell his 11-year old daughter how he met his mother, and how his three past love kindles affected his life. Before the story even begins, he tells his daughter the names are changed, but at the end you discover he didn’t change the name of only one, you will have too watch to find out who. He explains that the first girl, “Emily” (played by Elizabeth Banks) was his college sweetheart, destined to be together forever. But times had changed and he moved to New York to work on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. While in New York, he meets another future flame: April (played by Isla Fisher), a spunky and wild intern who tries to get Will to live on the edge a little more. He also comes too meet Emily’s friend Summer (Played by Rachel Weisz) who also becomes a future love interest.

Later in the movie, Will plans on proposing to Emily, but as he is in the process of it, Emily blurts out that she cheated on him with his roommate back in college. After they sit, talk, and she dumps him, Will begins to date Summer. He begins to fully fall in love with her, they both share the same passion for politics, they both are intelligent, and have a huge bursting passion of lust that explodes almost every time they are together. Just as he gets ready to propose to her, a bombshell breaks out and he discovers she writes unfavorably about the new politician he works for. So now he is out of a job, a girlfriend, and friends in general. Will becomes disillusioned about his choice of profession when Bill Clinton is implicated in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He now hates his job, and starts to drink heavily, stewing in his own misery, and goes into a depression. He leaves his birthday party thrown by April, and walks to her house. In a drunken rant, he confesses romantic feelings to April, but in the process, ends up having a fight with her, telling her to go to life-rehab. She slaps him in the face and leaves.

I could go further, but doing so will spoil the ending, which isn’t too surprising, but not entirely predictable. This overall was a delightful movie, and not just another chick flick. I watched this by myself, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Ryan Reynolds locks himself in as the new romantic figure in movies, and will likely be moving up to Matthew Mcconaughey’s position soon. The good thing about that is Ryan Reynolds can actually act. You get the Ryan Reynolds charm and witty attitude that really makes the movie that much better. This is a good film to kick back with your girl, grab a bowl of popcorn, cuddle under the blanket with, and just relax as you watch it. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a nice flick to just relax and watch.

This gets an eight, out of ten.

10,000 B.C. (2008)

10,000 B.C. (2008)
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, and Cliff Curtis
Review: When you watch the previews for this movie, it resembles a fast paced, hard-hitting action flick similar to Apocalypto, but with English dialog. After the first half our, and two botches at saving a woman from her kidnappers, you quickly discover this movie was all hype, nothing else. A bland plot that always makes you consider the historical accuracy of the movie. But too some it doesn’t matter. The movie starts off when D’Leh (Played by Steven Strait) goes out on a Mammoth hunt with all of the other young men in his tribe, all in hopes of winning the heart of the local village beauty, Evolet (Played by Camilla Belle). He admits his cowardness, never actually chasing the mammoth; instead his hand was caught in the ropes. He then admits that he never actually “slaughtered” the mammoth, instead it just fell on his spear, killing it’s self. She leaves, feeling betrayed, but only to walk right into the tribe being invaded by a band of mysterious, horse riding warlords, similar to Gangaskon.

D’Leh leads his own band of minions too free her, but ends up botching the attempt, twice. He even managed to free her, but left her so he could chase after one of the warlords. The main leader of the pact ends up kidnapping her again and sells them all off to slavery by the Egyptians. It makes you wonder why this woman still keeps he hopes up for this guy throughout the movie, let alone still have feelings for this guy. D’Leh ends up gaining support through a few African tribes, gaining thousands of support, only to be enslaved by the Egyptians. Only after the mammoths that are enslaved by the Egyptians, trample over ¾ of the army, are the slaves able to retaliate and outnumber the army vastly. Evolet ends up being freed, only to be killed by an arrow. Of all of the stuff she was put through, an arrow kills her. Horrible. She is brought too life by an elderly woman who, I’m assuming since they never explained, that she shared her life with. The elderly woman dies, and Evolet is brought back too life, how that makes sense, I don’t know. The fight scenes are mediocre at best, and nothing new really. The movie was a waste of time, and I recommend you just watch Apocalypto instead.

This movie gets a four, out of ten.

The Bucket List (2007)

The Bucket List (2007)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Review: The movie starts off showing Jack Nicholson playing as Edward Cole, a greedy old hospital owner, and Morgan Free playing as Carter Chambers, a Mechanic who has an extensive knowledge and passion for history. Both men are diagnosed with cancer and have less than one year to live, and who would have guessed it, they are placed in the same room. Cole is a cranky, four times divorced, and arrogant prick. Carter is lovable, kind, gentle, who always wanted to be a History professor, but due to being “broke, black, and having a baby on the way,” those dreams quickly deteriorated. During their time in the hospital room, they briefly get to know each other, but not much really. Then one day, Carter begins to write a bucket list, but crumbles it up soon after. Cole’s assistant happens to pick it up, and Cole reads it and even suggests his own items. The list contains everything they ever wanted to do before they “kick the bucket:”

1. Witness something truly majestic
2. Help a complete stranger for a common good
3. Laugh till I cry
4. Drive a Shelby mustang
5. Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world
6. Get a tattoo
7. Skydiving
8. See the pyramids
9. Get back in touch with …(a daughter)
10. See Rome

Without spoiling too much, most of the list is completed by BOTH men. However while they are in Hong Kong, Cole hires a prostitute to “help” Carter since he has never been with a women other than his wife. He discovers his love for his wife is still burning deeply with passion and decides to leave for home. For thanks for the whole experience, Carter sets Cole up to meet his daughter that he never was able to bond or connect with, not to mention never was around for. Cole however cannot find the courage to face her, and ends up storming off in anger. Who finishes the list, your going to have to watch the movie and find out yourself. But this movie is a great story, with great actors. There is nothing over the top remarkable about the movie, but there is nothing awful about it either. If your looking for a good flick to watch by yourself or with your significant other, this is something I recommend.
Rating: 8/10