Stoopid reporting

CNN had an article today that is beyond dumb. you can find it here with this title:

Alleged John Edwards sex tape survives courthouse fire

It then goes on to say that the tapes weren't even in the courthouse. WOW. REALLY?!?! Kind of like saying I survive Pompeii and Vesuvius because I wasn't born yet don't you think? Ranks up there with bad late night inside Hollywood that spent 5 minutes talking about a picture of tiger's wife in Europe even though it was her sister. AND THEY KNEW IT! It seems more than just a little lazy to me, it is dishonest. I don't much care for liars. If you are wrong that is one thing, but to pretend that an item is something it isn't... I hate it.

Jamie Lou went to the Black Eyed Peas last night at the well. She wanted me to go, but it seems like a big waste of money for the amount of enjoyment I would have received from it. For the third concert in a row she was amazed at the number of parents that bring their children to a profanity laced overtly sexual concert. I don't have a good answer for it, because it sure isn't for the art. I am thinking it is because the baby sitters are at the show too, and rather than stay home with the kiddies, it is easier to bring them to hear Luda...... the downfall of American society ;-)

So in honor of BEP be reppin' it. Here is Fergie pissing herself on stage

Happy Birthday Dani

Well I guess for the next few months since we are now the same age well will probably have a lot more in common, but come August 28th all bets are off as I am sure I will have many new interests then.

Too bad UNI is more important to you than presents and parties... it only means and extra week of waiting. You want a hint for your gift? it is bigger than a bread box and smaller than a bread truck. See Two HINTS! If you solve this riddle you may get some insight into what you are getting:

Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?

So happy birthday, good to see you when you swung by to see the Troll at Hooters. Glad to hear you had a fun time and saw a real one shoed drunk at the movies.

Jamie Lou says Happy B-Day too!

I guess you'll have to look forward to someday....

Get to the CHOPPAH!

I gave in and got gas, the computer said 8 miles remaining, I really wanted to just go home, but I had a much better feeling after the 44 dollar fill up that the range said 325 miles. I am such a wimp. $44.00 even, I should have received a discount or something for hitting that amazing-high-expensive-unnecessary number.

TV shows have been pretty OK lately. I am enjoying the new FX Justified. Lost is winding down, nice to learn a little about Richard and Jacob last night. Chuck I am not so sure about, sometimes fun other times feels like they mail it in. Caprica has had some good moments lately too, I am curious to see how he story will change to the people that make it to the Battlestar. Nurse Jackie is DVR'd but not yet watched, I am geeked to see where that show takes everyone. And Dexter is the one I am truly waiting for anxiously. After the way last season ended, I can't wait to see what the writers do with Dexter. The put some new life into something that was a little formula based. And Flashforward I am hoping for big things from.

In 2011 George RR Martin's Game of Thrones is to be on HBO as a mini series/ show. I can't tell you how much I want this to happen. Almost as much As I would like him to finish his fucking next book. My sister sent me this about HBO's Game of Thrones:

Novelist George R.R. Martin, who just Monday blogged that he would be "gutted" if HBO decided not to order to series "Game of Thrones," was doing the "happy dance" Tuesday that he promised if the network moved ahead with the project. Adapted from Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy epic and shot in Northern Ireland and other European and North African locations in late 2009, "Game of Thrones" will resume production on nine additional episodes in the summer. One of the most anticipated TV series in a while, it probably will premiere in 2011. Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the cast includes Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Sean Bean, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Ehle, Jack Gleeson, Iain Glen, Kit Harrington, Lena Headey, Harry Lloyd, Richard Madden, Rory McCann, Tamzin Merchant, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, and Isaac Hempstead Wright. "From the start of this, I've told myself, 'Don't get too emotionally invested in this, or you will be devastated if it doesn't go,' Martin wrote in his blog Monday. "Wise words, those. I'm a smart guy. But easier said than done. I've failed. I am totally emotionally invested, and if HBO does indeed decide to pass, for whatever reason, I will be gutted. So let's all hope I am soon doing the happy dance instead."

Well I too would be gutted if I was deprived not only his next book but his show as well, I hope they stay true to the book. But there are some issues that can be put down on paper that if acted out may turn into a Lolita type problem. I am wondering how they will deal with that. First guess is to just make the children older, but who know....

Instead of music more along the line of Movies I am looking forward to:
The Predator has always been bit of a fun thing with me. Personally I think the Predator is a FANTASTIC movie, I actually really enjoy the second one too. AVP I didn't mind, honestly I never saw the newest one as billy joe's closed before it ever got there. Who would win in a fight? Predator. Who would you draft first? Vick? Peterson? no, Predator. There is no killing what can't be killed, no stopping what can't be stopped.

I am excited for this summer!

Miles To Empty

Part of me wants to see how accurate the computer really is. But the biggest part of me has no interest in being out of gas on the side of the road so I suspect I will get gas tonight before bowling league. Strangely enough, I have never been been driver of a car that has broken down on the side of the road. When the Contour died, it died as I pulled into the lot at work. I have been in cars that have run out of gas, but I sure wasn't driving.

I would suppose that with a lot of things in life it would be nice to know how many more miles you had left. But then that might take some of the fun out of what is coming up next. Over at Run Fat Cam Run I am trying to keep an account of what is going on with trying to be a little bit better of a person. And while I can't say how many miles I have left I can say that over they last few weeks I do feel like my personal tank is getting bigger and I can go a little farther.

I have given up on road racing and running, I haven't shot a basketball in years, the invitation to play footy had to be respectfully declined. So that leaves bowling and golf (I don't think the sport of NASCAR would have me, those are finally tuned athletes). I played golf like twice last year. Don't really know why either, I quite enjoy golf and am fair to average at it. Bowling on the other hand I do get plenty of at the moment, and that is fine with me.

Song of the Day: "I Miss You" Blink 182.... this is a strange video for a catchy tune

Health Care

I am not a political person. Not because I don't care, not because I don't have opinions, I think it is because I hate the aggression from other side from what I think in my mind is "right". And that goes both ways - dems and reps. And I have decided that there is really only the illusion of choice and all roads lead to the same place. I think I would qualify myself as a pro civil liberties, anti hate, people generally know better what is good for themselves, the haves should help the have nots, guns are good, don't tell a woman what to do with her body.... kind of guy.

My buddy at work a while back received a letter from the RNC, in the return address it was titled "2010 OBAMA AGENDA SURVEY". It makes me laugh the this mailing says there is an agenda. OF COURSE THERE IS A FUCKING AGENDA IT IS POLITICS EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA, IT IS JUST THAT THEIR AGENDA FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER ISN'T YOURS. It is funny to me that this friend got this letter as he would be about as far from the RNC as any of my friends are.

The questionnaire inside just makes me shake my head. It is when my wife comes home and says things like "did you know that 1 in 10 people.... did you know that 40% of... did you know that...." I have a degree in Mathematics from Simpson College, one thing that I did learn is that numbers can be made to say anything you like. I wonder what this RNC survey is trying to make the numbers say. It has such gem questions like:

Do you agree with Barack Obama and the democrats that the taxes should be raised for the sake of "fairness," regardless of the negative impact it is likely to have on the economy? I love how they lower the importance of the president by referring to him by his first and last name. And what are we agreeing with? What was said by who? Did the democrats say regardless of the negative impact...? No one will agree with that statement the way it is worded.

Do you support the creation of a national health care plan that would be administered by bureaucrats in Washington, DC? Isn't this have bureaucrats do? Administer programs for the nation? Who would the RNC suggest runs the plan?

The questions go on and on with words like eliminate, controls, government-funded, unionization.... I would almost like the chance to re-write these questions just to make them in a way to get the complete opposite result as what was intended. i.e. Would you be in favor of a program that would allow 32 million Americans access to health care for the first time, allowing for medical care saving millions of dollars in emergency care by allowing for regular doctor visits and preventative care?

I am excited to see that finally there may be a chance for those people that have to tell their kids "Don't get sick we can't afford it" or the ones that wait to go to the emergency room when it is too late to treat their illness, or those that are diabetic and can't get treatment. .... I am excited that the greatest nation on the planet is trying to do something to help the health of it's people. You don't agree with me, suck it, I don't like politics and I am not going to debate it with you. It is my opinion and there isn't anything I want to hear from you on it. Or maybe that is the attitude that gets us the Glen Becks and Sean Hannitys and Keith Olbermanns of the world. What do I know? I am just a fat guy trying to get by happy to see a man get something done he campaigned to do.

Song of the day: In keeping with the health care theme no song of the day, but here is a show that is cranking up for season 2 tonight. It is one of my favorites right now as they are all so flawed, the kids the adults the patients, it has a "real" feel to it and I am glad to see it back. Nurse Jackie

Movie Review - Green Zone

Went with Mike to the movie Green Zone starring Matt Damon. There wasn't much funny to learn from the this movie. Fictional Movies trying to find the why, where , when and why of how we were lead to believe there were WMDs in Iraq do not make for funny blogging fodder. A lot of people have given way too much for something that has been shown to be a terrible mistake at best and (as the movie portrays it) the biggest kind of treachery at the worst.

With that said here are a few things I learned from the movie Green Zone:

• I learned that I chuckle every time I hear a a radio conversation contain the word "Niner"
• I learned that every time I see Matt Damon's name or face for the first time on a movie I say out loud "Maaattt Daaammonnn" Thanks Matt Parker and Trey Stone, you have ruined his name for me.
• I learned that after the bad guy gets shot in the movie, and the guy's phone behind you in the theater starts ringing to "Our God, is an Awesome God" it kinda sounded like it was part of the soundtrack at first.

So there is a new movie coming out called "Marmaduke". I wonder what it could be about.

This shot is to show that you dontt have a big enough room to take this promotional piece home. That or is show Mike is actually just a lilliputian.

There were some pretty good trailers. So in lieu of a song here are 2 movies I am looking forward to seeing:

St. Patty's Day

I know this may come as a surprise to most of you, but St Patrick's day is one of my least favorite days of the year. The drunks and the drunk fighters and the drunk drivers come out in force. As my brother likes to say "The rookies come out and try to impress the pros and ruin it for everyone."

One good thing I have noticed is the progression of St. Paddy's (which is it Patty's or Paddy's?) Day t-shirts. Here they are in order for boring to awesome:

The bad:

The Better:

AND THE FANTASTIC!

Song of the day: "Jump Around" The House of Pain... I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe...