The Vampire Diaries: Ep. 2 Night of the Comet Review [Spoilers]

Vicki Donovan (Kayla Ewell) remembers she was bitten by a bloodsucker, and Stefan washes her brain clean of her memories. She now thinks an animal attacked her, which is true if you categorize those pesky Nosferatu as animals.

Jeremy’s English teacher holds a conference with his guardian and aunt, Jenna Sommers (Sara Canning), and reveals that he thinks she can’t raise Elena and Jeremy on her own. She should have told him to back off. He talked down to her like she was a child. He’s a douche hose. Wonder if Damon will make a meal out of him.

Elena stops by Salvatore manor and meets Damon, who reveals he’s a fatalist. He’s also a gossiper. He tells Elena that Stefan isn’t over his ex-girlfriend, Katherine. Naturally, he leaves out that Katherine has been dead for about 100 years or so.

What’s Damon up to? At first, it looks like he wants to lure Stefan back into drinking human blood. But when he lets Vicki go after Stefan says he’d rather die than bond with Damon, his motives become unclear again. Maybe Damon wants Stefan to learn the hard way that humans can be vicious animals too.

Bonnie has a vision while passing Elena’s cell number to Stefan. She asks Stefan: “what happened to you?” He’s bewildered.

In a moment that is supposed to be tender, but is still a little creepy, Elena and Stefan kiss. Can you trust the undead?

This episode generates some pretty cool frights. Next weeks looks equally fun as Stefan joins the football team. If learned anything from Buffy, it’s that nothing good comes from hanging out with jocks!

Supernatural: Ep. 1 Sympathy for the Devil Review

In the season opener of CW’s horror series ‘Supernatural,’ the Winchester brothers struggle with the ramifications of having set Lucifer free. Armageddon is at hand, and angel Castiel is dead. Angel Zachariah tries the hard sell on Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) once more, this time telling him he’s ‘the Michael Sword’or angel Michael’s ‘meat-suit’. Dean, ever rebellious, is having none of it. He refused to be the ‘tool’ of corrupted angels. He’s his own man and he wants to fight the Devil (guest star Mark Pellegrino, “Lost”) on his own terms.

The brothers, Dean and Sam (Jared Padalecki), and Bobby (Jim Beaver) deal with the aftermath of Lucifer rising and the stunning news from Chuck the Prophet (guest star Rob Benedict) that Castiel (Misha Collins) was blown to bits by the archangels. Of course, Castiel is not dead, but Judgment day has been ‘jump-started.’ As Zachariah says, ‘it’s apocalypse now.’

Dean has a hard time forgiving Sam’s demon blood drinking habit, which brings on the apocalypse, and Sam finds it hard to apologize. Finally, Dean confesses to Sam that he can’t trust him anymore and he doubts they can win the war to save humanity from the hell’s minions.

This first installment of the new season is a decent opener. But following “The Vampire Diaries,’ the show may have a hard time keeping angsty drama queens and cynics glued to the screen.

Pelosi Equates Radical Obama Opponents with those of Harvey Milk

Asked if she was concerned about the nation’s political climate as a result of “anti-government rhetoric” and “the possibility of violence,” Pelosi said: “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because …I saw this myself in the late 70s in San Francisco,” the California Democrat said, adding that the language “created a climate in which…violence took place.”

Pelosi referred to events in San Francisco during the late 1970s, when Harvey Milk, an openly gay city councilman and a leader of the Gay rights movement, was assassinated by a city Supervisor.

Pelosi was a Democratic Party leader in Northern California at the time of Milk’s assassination.

Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Pelosi was off base when she related the rhetoric of anti-gay protesters in San Francisco in 1978. “The Speaker is now likening genuine opposition to assassination. Such insulting rhetoric not only undermines the credibility of her office, but it underscores the desperate attempt by her party to divert attention away from a failing agenda,” Sessions said in a statement. “During one of the most important policy debates of our time, the American people have been completely abandoned by those elected representatives under her control. Voters are justifiably frustrated with Washington, and the Speaker’s verbal assault on voters accomplishes nothing other than furthering her reputation for being wildly out of touch with the American people.”

Session ignores the proliferation in Right-Wing radicals carrying loaded weapons to political events and the exponential increase in credible treats against President Obama’s life. According to the Secret Service, threats are up 400% over similar threats against President Bush.

Speaker Pelosi, who joins former President Carter in denouncing the proliferation in hate speech aimed at destabilizing the Obama Administration, is right to make the connection. Perhaps her words will go a long way towards initiating action to call out and neutralize the instigators and their agents.

Hitler Reacts to Kanye West/Taylor Swift-boating Incident

According to CC Diddy Holla at Youtube.com, Hitler wasn’t too happy when he found out what Kanye West did at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In 4.11 provocative minutes, the video outlines the radical Right’s most basic sentiments about Kanye’s briefly snatching glory from Taylor Swift. Culled from the ‘Internets’ by elves, here’s CC Diddy Holla’s controversial find:

Jasmine Guy Joins The Vampire Diaries (Video)

Jasmine Guy (Different World) joins the cast of ‘The Vampire Diaries.’ According to the CW website, Guy will play seer Bonnie’s grandmother. Guy’s story arch involves Bonnie unearthing her Salem witch heritage.

‘The Vampire Diaries’ airs on Thursdays at 8pm, and stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder and Steve R. McQueen, grandson of teh actor Steve McQueen. The show is written and produced by Kevin Williamson, and based on the novels of L. J. Smith.
“The Vampire Diaries” was a nighttime ratings hit, reaching 4.9 million viewers. In this week’s episode, ‘Night of the Comet,” look for Damon to bust up Stafan’s game by telling Elena about Stefan’s ex-girlfriend and how he’s still into her. Big bro Damon’s such a hater!Here’s a preview of next week’s episode:

Race, The Final Frontier (Video)

Finally, a leader has come forward to address the unrelenting disrespectful attacks President Obama has had to contend with since winning office. Former President Carter tacked the issue head Tuesday during a response to a question at a town hall forum at his presidential center in Atlanta. He said: “I think it’s based on racism.” “There is an inherent feeling among many people in this country that an African American ought not to be president, and ought not to be given the same respect as if he were white. And this has permeated politics ever since I’ve been involved in it back in the 1960s, not only in the South, but also in many places throughout the nation.”

Carter added, “And the outbursts that we see, the scatological language, the sign that I saw on television last night, “We should bury Obama with Kennedy,” for instance, and “Obama is a Nazi,” and Obama’s picture with Hitler’s moustache on it—those kinds of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate over whether we should have a national program in health care. It’s deeper than that.”

Carter continued, “I think it was a dastardly thing to do, and I believe it was so bad that it’s going to be corrected by the overwhelming majority of Democrats and Republicans in the weeks ahead.”

Carter’s remarks have caused racists within the Republican party to quickly dismiss his comments as divisive and off the mark. But it seems President Carter was merely identifying a political reality that many Americans, liberal and conservative alike, have been unable or unwilling to acknowledge, namely that the current anti-Obama sentiment coming from the Right has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with race.

Of course, the White House has issued a statement that President Obama does not believe the attacks are racial in nature. To be fair, not every attack is race-based. For example, the health care bill introduced by Senator Baucus looks like a corporate give-away and insults the American people’s intelligence. Substantive attacks on the bill would be warranted. That said, Obama must stay above the fray. By taking the difficult position that the attacks by birthers, teabaggers and other radical fringe elements in the GOP are not racially motivated, President Obama maintains higher ground.

Melrose Place 2.0: Ep. 2 Nightingale Review [Spoilers]

This week’s ‘Melrose Place 2.0’ reveals how Auggie met Sydney. In true Hollywood fashion, she trolled Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for hot man-flesh while overcoming a pesky cocaine habit. Auggie has anger management issues as well as a dead girlfriend in his past, making him Detective Marco Rodriguez’s (Nicholas Gonzalez) prime suspect.

Meanwhile, Violet (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz), who just seems spacey at first, reveals herself to be a real nut job as well as Sydney’s long-abandoned daughter, maybe. Sydney can’t recall having a child. Indeed, you’d think a girl like Sydney would have remembered popping out a little yap; a child would have been a just the tool she needed to trap one of her old lovers.

Lauren, who can’t seem to secure a student loan to cover her med school tuition, slips further into call-girl mode. But unlike Belle in ‘Secret Diaries of a Call-Girl,’ who savors sex with hot strange men, Lauren does not allow herself that luxury. She’s all business. Interestingly, she does a great job at ‘pretending’ she’s connecting with her Johns until payment time comes around. Guess she’s a natural.
This week’s ‘Melrose Place 2.0’ reveals how Auggie met Sydney. In true Hollywood fashion, she trolled Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for hot man-flesh while overcoming a pesky cocaine habit. Auggie has anger management issues as well as a dead girlfriend in his past, making him Detective Marco Rodriguez’s (Nicholas Gonzalez) prime suspect.

Meanwhile, fawn-eyed newbie Violet (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz) reveals herself to be a bit of a nut. Is she on drugs or just naturally spacey and psychotic? She’s Sydney’s long-abandoned daughter, maybe. The problem is that Sydney can’t recall having a child. Indeed, you’d think a girl like Sydney would have remembered popping out a little yap; a child would have been a just the tool she needed to trap one of her old lovers.

Lauren, who can’t seem to secure a student loan to cover her med school tuition, slips further into call-girl mode. But unlike Belle in ‘Secret Diaries of a Call-Girl,’ who savors sex with wealthy and hot strange men, Lauren does not allow herself the luxury of enjoying herself. She’s all business. Interestingly, she does a great job at pretending she’s connecting with her Johns until payment time comes around. Guess she’s a natural.

CW’s ‘Melrose Place 2.0’ attracted 1.8 million viewers, down from 2.3 million viewers on its first night, according to TV by the Numbers.