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Tag: geek

Taking Granholm off our hands, but at what price?

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 12:03:03 PM EST
Tags: Granholm, Cherry, Obama, SCOTUS, Senate, Schauer, Stabenow, geek (all tags)

I'm a big fan of the Alien franchise. Or, rather, I'm a big fan of the first three movies in the franchise... the next three are Alien movies about the same way Episodes 1-3 are Star Wars movies. But that's neither here nor there.

In Alien 3, the series' heroine, Ellen Ripley comes to a horrifying realization. Growing inside of her is an Alien queen, a creature of incredible destructive power, its structural perfection matched only by its hostility. "Unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality." And this particular breed is able to reproduce without a mate.

Those familiar with the franchise will remember that when an alien enters this world, its host dies rather painfully. Its not a pretty picture.

Ripley is faced with an uncomfortable choice. She can either destroy the queen, and herself along with it, or she can embrace an opportunity presented to her by an outsider. He has the ability to take the alien and rescue her from her own horrific, premature death but Ripley understands that while handing over the specimen will grant her a temporary reprieve, the results for those around her would be cataclysmic.

Now here we are in Michigan and we find ourselves the host to our own parasitic, job-killing queen and darn it all if President Obama isn't rumored to be offering us a chance to get rid of it. But the consequences to those around us...

Technically NEXT Friday is Friday the 13th but if the rumors swirling around the Capitol press corp don't scare the life out of this state TODAY I'm not sure any mix of black cats, tall ladders and sci-fi horror movies could.

Read on...

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