1 Trillion new reasons to stay...

Well...it seems that Afghanistan is not just a jagged empty rock full of people who just want to be left alone, those who want to bother everyone(Taliban), & IED's. As it turns out underneath all that rock & IED's are a TRILLION dollars worth of minerals that range fro good ole Gold, Iron, Copper to Lithium (Lithium is used to make batteries...what makes your cell phones...PDA's...IPad's work)! This should be if nothing else just oh so interesting... For instance will Karzai play nice & cut major deals with us(read: Halliburton...yes that Halliburton)...or when the Chinese come a calling stick his finger in our eye? Will be give their old friends the Russians the finger? How will the Taliban react? Say screw it, play nice to get their cut or go ballistic & step up their attacks? Do they realize with a Trillion at stake what is coming their way? Do they get it if the Chinese cut some deals & they mess with them they will just throw bodies at them & slaughter villages without giving a damn? I'm sure the Russkies would like some payback...this is right up their alley. Regardless...not only is no one leaving so fast...Real Estate in Karzai is about to boom. What about their neighbors in Pakistan...some of the finds are on their borders...think they might want some? They are after all our partner in the war on terror...they just happen to train the Taliban as well...

How will this current Administration deal with this?!? Say what you will about the last...but they (ie Darth Cheney, Dubya, his Daddy etc...) had some experience & connections in the biz world. O & his boys don't have a heck of a lot(Read: NONE...they are all academics & politicians) How does O feel that his War is no longer just the"War on Terror"(currently known as the Minor Disagreement between those who are not Judea-Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, etc, Freedom Fighters who like to blow themselves up when they can't get close enough to behead non-believers live on the Internet but really are misunderstood & want to be our friends if it were not for their hatred of woman, free speech, common decency, free-trade, alcohol, sex, & sports which has yet to be tried in a court of law amongst their peers) but now possibly the War of a Trillion?!? I never believed that Iraq was about the Oil...Mexico & Venezuela are a lot closer...but this war just took one hell of a twist & turn. Too early to tell...but this story has just begun...

Vampires & Werewolfs & Rednecks...oh my!!!

Being a big fan of the Vampire genre when True Blood first came out I was really looking forward to it. While not familiar with the books the whole concept of it taking place down south sounded pretty cool. Early on I liked it. It was clearly for adults...way too much "teen-vamp" crap out there. While I liked season one...the ratio of Vamps & Blood to Red-necks & soft core porn was a little off kilter. If I want porn...I'll watch porn...hypothetically of course. If I want Vampires...I want vamps. Season 2 really changed things up & I absolutely loved it. The Eric character is great & love the dynamic between him & Sookie. The Maynard & the whole Female Pan gone bad dark & violent was great as well as the whole Church of the Golden Sun cult story. While that story is over with the death of Mary-Ann by Sam(the shape-changer) literally ripping out her heart...the repercussions of that story will be clearly felt throughout season 3.

Season 3 kicks off with Bill getting kidnapped by SPOILER ALERT...Werewolves! Now I just love the whole Vampire - Werewolf controversy. Yes ladies...your boyfriends, husbands, friends, brothers, etc...argue over which would they rather be...a Lord of Darkness...or a Raging Beast within...add it to the list of intellectually stimulating arguments/conversations that we have...such as who could beat up who amongst each other, whose team/player is better, which hot movie/TV/Model/Singer they think is hottest, which comic book must be made into a movie...best new video game, best pizza, beer...etc...

I happen to side with those who choose the Lycanthrope. While I dig vamps & their powers there are 3 major reasons I have to go Werewolf...

• Love the sun way too much...Born to Tan...pale is just not my thang...
• My nature...definitely a raging beast trapped within by nature...
• Suck or Eat...I prefer eating...

I like the fact that they are using real wolves as the werewolves & I'm really looking to see how they are incorporated into the story...a few key things set up for this season...

• What was Eric up to sending "who" to get Bill before the Werewolves got him?
• What is "Operation Werewolf"???
  
• What's up with the 50% True Blood discount...has the recession hit the Vampire community as well...
• Will the smoking hot Estonian stripper that can go at it for 6+hours have a role going forward? Will Pam get some???
  
• Will Sookie's bro Jason ever get hard again or spend the rest of the season limp watching two girls go at it?!? Hmmmm...that might work...
• What was up with the colored racism comments early on...will that play out further? I kinda thought that Vamps represented "minorities" & prejudice against them...?
• How will Andy handle his new found street-cred after taking credit for killing Tara's lover Eggs...(that Jason killed which has lead to his new found limpness)...?
• How far off the rails will Tara go???
  
• What the hell was up with Sam's gay dream?!?
• Will Hoyt and his smoking hot redheaded vampiress get back together...& did she turn her victim?!?
• Will the music be as good as last seasons?!?
  
• Will we get more words of wisdom to live by such as "Conscience off...Dick on"!

Looks like this season is going to be a good one...so stay tuned Dear Reader...same Bat-Wolf channel...same Bat-Wolf time...