It appears the Republican party is desperate. Sarah Palin’s (Bristols mom in case you have been living in a cave) fifteen minutes of fame has come and gone so apparently its time to roll out the booze swilling, sex crazed, daughter who recently had a baby (she’s 16). So what’s the best forum to have this underaged mother speak upon.

 

Abstinence of course!

Governor Palin (now GRANDMA governor Palin) should have read Marketing for Dummies before advising her daughter on making such a laughable move. In a recent interview with Good Morning America, Bristol says “regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy. This appears to be in direct contradiction to what she told Fox News saying “abstinence wasn’t realistic for all teens.”
It appears that Bristol is on her way to being a good Republican with her double speak and contradictory comments we have all grown accustom to from the GOP.

This is not about Natasha Richardson or her recent death from a skiing accident. It is how I feel in general.

Every single day someone famous or well known dies. There are hundreds of traditional news stories and thousands of internet articles.  I hear people say “oh that is so sad” or “I feel terrible” or “I am really upset”.  To me these are incredibly “fake” comments in response to public media situations. If anyone actually felt bad single every time someone died they would be miserable 24 hours a day forever. Not just today or tomorrow, but every day for the rest of their lives.  That is just silly.

I feel bad if people I know intimately die. I feel bad if someone in my family dies. I know these people. I have a relationship with them. I have actual feelings for them. I don’t know Natasha Richardson. Some say she was a good actress. That is wonderful, but it does not make me feel more for her now then I did a month ago.

For example I am sure a great doctor somewhere on the planet just died as I was typing this post. I don’t feel sad for them, and realistically neither does anyone else with the exception of those immediately related or attached to them. Those people who make the “oh that is so sad” or “I feel terrible” comments are not going to be upset over this death. They just are not. And going back to what I said earlier, if they did have a profound emotional response to every single death in the world, they would be in the loony bin for deep depression.

What is more realistic is the emotional shock reaction people have to these very public death situations. Sure the deaths of Princess Di and John Kennedy were sensational and Read the rest

“Octu-Mom” and the relentless stories and reports about her every move just wont go away. A quick Google search for Nadya Suleman brings up hundreds of new stories in the past 24 hours and thousands of blog and forum posts. An image search for her name brings up tens of thousands of images, cartoons, and much more. How did this madness happen? How are we celebrating a woman who has ABUSED THE PRIVELEDGE OF GIVING BIRTH?

If I hear one more story about this Anjelina Joli obsessed, milking “the system” publicity hound and her 14 children I am going to scream. Let me say this again - THIS WOMAN HAS 14 TOTAL CHILDREN AND CAN NOT AFFORD THEM WITHOUT HELP FROM YOU AND ME.

• There are reports that Nadya Suleman or a close family friend is trying to sell the video showing the birth of the 8 babies to the highest bidder. Does this not bother you? She is selling the video of the birth of her kids??
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman is getting paid to make appearances everywhere and there seems to be no end in site. WHY are we making this “news”? STOP paying her and then let’s see what happens.
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman is getting a new 3,000 square foot home. People are losing their homes because they can not afford them. And now this woman, with no real income, is UPGRADING her living conditions. Ridiculous!
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman may or may not be shopping a reality TV show to the highest bidder.
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman is getting $135,000 a month of free child care from a charity. Read the rest
  

The numbers on the digital clock on my DVD player keep changing. 11:54pm, 11:55pm, 11:56pm.  Only 4 minutes to go now.

4 minutes till entering my 5th decade on the planet. For all you math majors out there that means 4 minutes till I turn 40 years old. How the hell did this happen?

I can still remember a good chunk of high school and at least 3/4 of college like it was last week. When I started my first job after graduating I had grand plans to save every penny I could and retire before turning 40. Now I’ll be lucky to stop working before I am 80. Assuming I make it past 70 that is. 11:57pm. 3 minutes left.

I wish I could slow down the clock but it keeps marching forward. Only 2 minutes of my 30’s left.  And speaking of my 30’s I had no problem with the past ten years. They actually felt pretty good. If 1999 - 2009 was the prime of my life, then what will the next decade bring? Are my 40’s the beginning ….. of the end?

I have partied hard, enjoyed an occasional drink, smoked a few cigars, rarely slept more then 4 hours a night, ate way to much fast food, and definitely not flossed my teeth enough. I am pretty sure that Read the rest

Saw Quarantine tonight. Not bad, but also not good.

Filmed like the movie Cloverfield, it is completely shot from the view of a cameraman following a reporter. the reporter is doing a story on a group of firemen and goes along with them, only to stumble into an effected building where they are locked inside (by the authorities) while everyone turns into blood sucking rabid zombies. Just like Cloverfield it starts with about 30 minutes of the filming of a bunch of people while the reporter is doing film spots with the different firemen around the firehouse. this lets the viewer get to know each of the characters.

After that and once they get to the infected building the movie quickly turns into a rapidly jerking around camera view, a lot of screaming, running, bloody biting, and people’s life ending quickly. Read the rest

Our new President signed the $787 BILLION dollar stimulus plan into law today.  I guess that is a good thing but I just don’t see it yet. I am someone who still has a job but is SLOWLY DROWNING. To make matters worse I can actually SEE the hypothetical water slowly rising above my head. With each passing day, week, and month I fall further and further into debt and operate at a quickly growing loss.

With less and less funds available I regularly short one bill this week to pay another, and then do the same thing again the following week. And I see no end in site. Where is my stimulus plan? $800 for couples in tax breaks is not going to cut it to be honest.

There are about 150 million tax paying adults in the USA. If you divide the 787 billion dollars up among them that is around $5,200 each or $10,400 per tax paying couple. Right now I could use $10,000+ a whole lot more then what is currently being proposed. Maybe that is selfish but I HAVE TO look out for what is best for me and my family. And right now I need to figure out how to pay for day care next week, purchase some milk for my son, and put gas in my car to get to the job I hope will still be there next week.

I guess I just don’t get it right now. Billions are going to the car industry. Billions more to the banks and even more to the housing industry. Billions of dollars here  and billions more there.

But where exactly is the money FOR ME? Read the rest

I just wanted to comment on how BAD most of the singers are this year. Maybe it is nerves, but I think more likely it is that the talent has dropped considerably this year. Sure there will eventually be one or two that are pretty good, but overall they really seem unmotivated, uninspired, and mediocre this season - at least so far.

Also, who in the world is picking the songs for these people?? They all have coaches helping them and they have to know in advance that they are going to sound horrible with the songs they are choosing.  The judges said over and over again that the wrong songs had been picked by the contestants. One female singer butchered a Police song so bad that it was painful to watch.

I have no problem admitting that we have watched American Idol since the begining. But this season might be the last one for us unless it gets MUCH better in the coming weeks. Right now it is hard to root for anyone when they all seem subpar.

From IMDB: Though it’s been some twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.

That about sums it up, but don’t forget the 2000 times they say fuck, mother fucker, fuck this, fuck that, and fuck fuck fuck. I have no problem with the word fuck being used in a movie, but in this movie it almost becomes comical how many times in the same sentence they use the word.

Actually a GREAT drinking game could be done with this movie if you had to take a drink every time they say the word fuck. You would be TRASHED within the first 15 minutes of the film.

I have long been a Samuel L. Jackson fan but this movie is below par even for him. Bernie Mac was fun in the Ocean’s 11 series of movies but has always been more of a supporting actor in my opinion.

What I disliked most about this film is that it is JUST NOT FUNNY. It was billed as a comedy and ends up failing as a buddy movie about 2 old guys becoming friends again. Overall I was not impressed.

I did not believe the “buddy” plot.
I did not think the music was particularly good or well performed.
I did not believe any of the main characters and the people they met along the way were even more ridiculous, highlighted by Jackson’s daughter’s clown of a boyfriend.

Sure Issac Hayes and Bernie Mac died shortly after filming this movie, but that does not change the fact that it is sub par (in my opinion) at best.

IMDB link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111948/
Box office - In 13 weeks in wide release it only made 12 million dollars, further showing that the viewing public (including the African American audience that it is obviously targeted at) clearly also thought it was not a good movie.

We saw Friday the 13th, 2009 last night and completely LIKED it. Very good remake that was neither cheesy or dumb. Very well done, well shot, and good effects. It has an R rating so the killing is graphic, there are excellent sex scenes, a good amount of humor mixed in and they don’t have to hold back with the scary stuff. ALSO, the sound track and sound effects are VERY well done. The “scary” stuff is enhanced by the sound effects that are perfectly placed and executed.

This is similar to the recent first remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where they did a good job reinventing the film in modern times. The same people produced this new version of Friday the 13th and did an equally excellent job.

I liked how they introduced the hockey mask into the story, but I won’t tell you so you can see it at the theaters.

Here is the description from IMDB - Read the rest

I will start by saying this - I LOVE MEAT. I eat it all of the time and have NO PROBLEM at all with eating meat. That being said this is a great ad that was banned by NBC and will not be shown on today’s Super Bowl broadcast. NBC rejected the video because of concerns over “rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin,” a woman “screwing herself with broccoli.” To funny! Enjoy the commercial. I did.