Caleb Jones

Getting Your Fillings Replaced

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Today I had a procedure done that I’ve been putting off for many years. Many years ago when I was young and stupid (about 19 or 20 years old), I ate a bunch of junk food and didn’t brush/floss my teeth much. I went do the dentist had had something like six or seven cavities. So they did what dentists did back then (early 90s or so) and they gave me a bunch of metal fillings. I never had a cavity since then, because I’m no longer an idiot, but the fillings I received stayed with me.

Just one problem. If you have metal fillings in your teeth, they likely include mercury and other evil minerals that will put you at risk for cancer later in life. Not to mention the fact that metal fillings in your teeth don’t look very nice.

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Gun Laws

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Disclaimer: I am neither conservative nor liberal. I criticize both heavily. I never, ever vote for either Republicans or Democrats (and frankly, you shouldn’t either).

I have purposely waited a few months to post this, for reasons that will hopefully become apparent.

On Tuesday, December 12th, 2012, my 70 year-old mother and my 14 year-old daughter were in the car headed to the mall. They were going to go Christmas shopping to buy presents for me and other family members.

My daughter wasn’t in the mood. She complained to my mom that she didn’t want to go but my mom pushed it. My daughter complained some more, and eventually my mom caved. (My daughter is a pretty tough cookie.) They skipped the mall and went to a local Starbucks instead.

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Female Teachers Give Male Students Lower Grades (“Education” Sucks)

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My mom is a teacher. My sister is a teacher. I’ve raised two kids through the American school system, mostly through public schools though my son did attend a private high school. During that time I was very active in school activities with both of my kids, often being a helper dad on field trips and similar. I have also donated my time to several high schools, delivering speeches to the business students regarding entrepreneurship, business management and goal setting.

My point is that I have some experience in school matters.

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Movie Reviews – The Action Movies of 2012

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2012, the best year for movies in many years, finally draws to an end. We’ve finally gotten to 2012’s ACTION MOVIES, the type of film I love most. I’ve been waiting a long time for some of these movies, and many of them were fantastic, most of them surprisingly so. Let’s rock…

Dark Knight Rises – Of course it was awesome, of course it looked great, of course the acting and direction were perfect. I have been a hardcore Nolan fan since Memento, which is probably one of my all-time favorite movies. Bane in this movie was likely the scariest villain in my movie memory. Yeah, the Health Ledger Joker was better overall, but Tom Hardy’s Bane was far more frightening. You felt a strong sense of danger every time he was on the screen, and man, that’s really, really hard to pull off. I love how his voice was an almost happy tone despite the audio effects, and it was still menacing. Very cool. So yes, the movie was awesome, but that being said I’m going to tell you what I didn’t like. The film definitely suffered from pacing problems. There were times I wanted the movie to just get on with it (never a good sign) and then suddenly an action scene or even a romance scene just popped up out nowhere for a few minutes, then it dropped back into dialogue-heavy slowness. I also did not like Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Look, Anne Hathaway is not hot. Anne Hathaway is not cool. Yeah, she’s a good actress, but she’s not Catwoman. Sorry, she’s just not, I don’t care how good the writing or direction is. Lastly, Heath Ledger’s absence is really felt in this film, at least it was for me. Not the director’s fault of course, but when you see all the villains released from jail and you see Scarecrow (played by Cillian Murphy ) in the movie but not the Joker, a part of you thinks “Aw….shit.” Still a great movie though.

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Books I’ve Been Reading Lately – Part One

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Every once and a while I’ll make a “Books I’ve Been Reading Lately” post where I will have a quick review on some of the books I’ve read in the last few months. It won’t be ALL the books I’ve been reading. I read a hell of a lot of books and that would take too much time, but it will be some of the more notable ones.

As I’ve talked about before, I am always reading two books at a time, one fiction book and one nonfiction. The fiction books are almost always historical fiction or fantasy novels, usually with a heavy Alpha male focus and tone. The nonfiction books are always books on business, success, philosophy, history, or economics. I love reading books and my reading has indeed been responsible for a lot of the success I’ve experienced in life, including the fiction books.

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Movie Reviews – Early Summer 2012

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Here we go again with micro-movie reviews from movies over the last few months. This covers the summer months, so were talking the big-budget blockbusters in this post. That means we’re in for some serious Hollywood insanity…

The Avengers – Awesome. I don’t have a single complaint. Marvel Comics made the very smart (and very risky) move of setting up their own movie studio several years back so they could make movies with 100% control over their own intellectual property. With the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor movies, they’ve been leading up to The Avengers for several years now. People don’t realize how stupid and disastrous this movie could have been. Instead, it was fantastic. Action, special effects, plot, characters, acting, script, all well done. By the way, Scarlett Johansson is still really hot. I was distracted from the movie whenever her black leather ass was in the camera frame.

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More Reasons To NOT Go To College

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At one point in society, college was a worthwhile endeavor that served a real purpose. Today you pay annual double-digit increases in tuition to take classes about Spider-Man, just to have an over 40% chance of dropping out before getting a diploma and having a 52% chance of moving back in with mommy and daddy once you get your diploma. Not to mention having a diploma representative of everything real-world employers don’t want.

This is insanity folks. You’ve got to man-up and say no to this system.

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How To Fix Every Political Problem In The United States

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Here’s a fun thought experiment to roll around in your brain today.

Last week the news broke that peace-loving Barack Obama has a Kill List of people that he personally reviews and approves. This list includes teenage girls. We also know historically he’s approved the killing of American citizens and the incarceration foreign journalists.

That’s great. Good thing Obama is “better than Bush”.

As usual, conservatives are (correctly) bashing the behavior, when we all know if Bush was doing it, they would applaud it.

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Movie Reviews: March / April 2012

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2012 is the best year for movies probably in my lifetime…not only lots of movies but lots of good movies.  Here we are only four months into the year and I’m already quite impressed.

I’d love to do an expanded review on some of these like I’ve done for other films, there’s just so many this year this blog would get cluttered with movie reviews. So for the time being, I’ll be doing these occasional mini-summaries instead of full blown reviews.

Here we go:

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