Overlooked Pictures and Performances for This Year's Academy Awards

Every year, there are many quality films and performances that are overlooked and not included as nominees for the Academy Awards. Here are few that have caught the eye of various critics and analysts:

Best Picture:

United 93
Children of Men
Inland Empire
Flags of Our Fathers
Old Joy
The Devil Wears Prada
Hollywoodland
Infamous
Factotum
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Black Dahlia
Blood Diamond
The Illusionist
Stranger than Fiction
The Prestige
The Good Shepherd
The Painted Veil
Apocalypto
Sherrybaby
Candy

Best Director:

Bill Condon, for Dreamgirls
Robert Altman, for A Prairie Home Companion
Paul Greengrass, for United 93

Best Actor:

Matt Dillon, for Factotum
Aaron Eckhart, for Thank You for Not Smoking
Leonardo DiCaprio, for The Departed
Jack Nicholson, for The Departed
Clive Owen, for Children of Men
Matt Damon, for The Good Shepherd
Edward Norton, for The Illusionist

Best Actress:

Maggie Gyllenhaal , for Sherrybaby
Gretchen Mol, for The Notorious Bettie Page
Laura Dern, for Inland Empire
Shareeka Epps, for Half Nelson
Geraldine Hughes, for Rocky Balboa
Maribel Verdu, for Pan's Labyrinth

Supporting Actress:

Sandra Bullock, for Infamous
Diane Lane, for Hollywoodland
Emily Blunt, for The Devil Wears Prada
Rose Byrne, for The Dead Girl
Vera Farmiga, for Breaking and Entering

Supporting Actor:

Ben Affleck, for Hollywoodland
William Hurt, for The King
Michael Caine, for Children of Men
Paul Giamatti, for The Illusionist


The pictures I saw among all the listed here were:

United 93
Flags of Our Fathers
The Illusionist
The Pursuit of Happyness
Hollywoodland
The Devil Wears Prada

I hope see all the others in the coming years.

Alarming and Terrifying News

One of the most alarming and terrifying news items which is almost never covered by any media is the looming prospect of the creation of the North American Union. This process, well under way, will economically, legally, and politically integrate the three North American Nations of Canada, America, and Mexico. The consequences for ordinary Canadians and Americans is a loss of quality of life and greatly endangered personal and community economic security, among many other things. There are a number of websites which further address the perils and consequences of this looming action which is being pushed hard by a powerful coalition of monopolist-leaning multi-national corporations and their government lackeys, the Bush Administration; and the corrupt graft-ridden Mexican government which is deeply beholden to criminal interests and a mindset that focuses on weakening American economically to the benefit of their elites and wealthy class. Some of these websites are:

http://stopspp.com/stopspp

http://www.spingola.com/building_a_north_american_commun.htm

http://www.sppsucks.com/

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15017

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15059

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15233

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20061017134736757

http://www.michellemalkin.com/immigration/2005/03/28/11:22.pm

http://www.independentvoice.ca/2006/10/national/NRoshak_DeepIntegration.php

Sitemeter Results

Its been about over three weeks since I put the sitemeter on my blog. This program not only tallies the number of visitors to one's site, but also provides some information on where they are from. I find it fascinating on where people are from when they view my blog. I have had visitors from Canada, Spain, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, India, and Malaysia. Domestic visitors have come from states throughout America. The world is indeed getting to be a smaller place. I have also been visited from people using servers that are government operated both on the state and federal level.

I wish these individuals would leave a comment letting me know a little more about them and where they are from and how they happened to come upon my site. I think I will keep my readers aware of this every so often as I am sure that it is of some curiosity.