Warmer or colder then average this winter

I watched "Defiance" Monday and thought it was a very good movie! One of those movies that was not exactly what I thought it was going to be. Yea - a war movie but more about living then killing.

I could write a review but it would be like reinventing the wheel after reading this review. It's what I would have said . . .uncanny!!!

Part Schindler, part Robin Hood, and part Moses, Tuvia Bielski (D Craig) slipped into the vast Belarusian woods with his two brothers in 1941 to avoid being captured and executed by the Nazis. Over the course of the next three years, the bothers Bielski collected, protected, cared for, and ultimately saved 1200 of their fellow Jews from the gas chambers. It's one of the most uplifting stories of the century, but few have heard of them until now, and for that reason alone, Defiance is worth seeing.

I watched the extras and one of the things I remember was when the children of the Bielski's (who lived and moved to America with their wives and lived happily ever after) told the story's of strangers always coming to their house in America and greeting and hugging their parents "I thought they were always relatives" one said.

Here is the trailer.




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So the Viking-Packer game has been moved to 3:15 to get a bigger national audience shoving the Giant-Eagle game to noon. Sure the official reason has to do with the Phillies maybe having a World Series game at the same time and they share parking lots but . . . . come one, I believe the NFL has more power then MLB (remember, it was the NFL and the Republicans that banned online poker and cost me $10,000 a year). It was an easy way to get more people to watch the Packers.

I like what this one news article said.

Though Giants-Eagles is still a great game, it's not as if Eli Manning has talked about retiring for five years, retired, unretired, retired, unretired, was spurned in his attempt to return to the Giants, was traded to a team out of the conference, played a year, retired again, was released by the team in the other conference, hinted at unretiring again to play for the Eagles, told the Eagles no after weeks of anticipation, changed his mind again after training camp closed, and then helped lead the Eagles to a 5-0 record.

Pretty much sum's it up.

OH - I see Favre said he has never played for a better team! Not so sure about that. I suppose 5-0 is good but best team ever? Forget about the 1997 Packers? I guess he does not count the Defense when I talks about "team".

BTW - Vikings lose this week! What defenses have that played against?

Cleveland ranked 27th
Detroit ranked 32nd
San Francisco ranked 12th
Green Bay ranked 13th
St. Louis ranked 30th
average defense - 22.80 - Next up
Baltimore ranked 3rd

OH - Green Bay???

Chicago ranked 6th
Cinci ranked 16th
St. Louis ranked 30th
Minnesota ranked 7th
average defense 14.75

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Check out this DWI bust!!


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What's up with Courtney Cox - does she look different to you then she did in Friends? Something is slightly different. Just less make-up??

My two new shows that have caught my attention this year are Modern Family and FlashForward and, oops, this is three, StarGate Universe. Plus Parks and Recreation had it's best episode yet, it keeps getting better. Watch it on Hulu - just check out the first 5 minutes.

And finally - you are wondering about the temperature and how we compare to the last 30 year averages.

Here is 2009 + or - compared to the average

Jan -5.7
Feb +1.0
Mar +1.9
Apr -0.1
May -1.7
Jun -2.2
Jul -7.1
Aug -2.7
Sep +3.1
*Oct -8.6

The Farmers Almanac forecast (totally worthless but entertaining)

The NOAA 3 month out look Nov-Dec-Jan


Cheers
Rod