Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace allow you to state what you are doing at that moment in time. Many people will state that they are "letting the dogs out now", or "going to bed now" or " just got up ,need coffee". As if anyone really cares about those things?
I've posted some lame updates myself like this just to see what response I get. I get some great responses sometimes. I'm not dogging this completely because I do see some value in it, even though I could care less that you are making dinner, caulking your bath tub, or you are complaining the clock is moving slow at work.
What makes someone want to tell everyone that they are now drinking coffee or watching a tv show? There has to be a new term for this online thinking. What is it, what is it? Is it some form of exhibitionism, or your simply way of just saying hi to the world, or just conversation starters? Or is it people that just want attention. I think people do also get sucked in, and just type without really thinking about much of anything they are saying.
I must say this one I came across on myspace takes the cake:
1. if you send me rude/offensive/perverted cmmnts or messages you will be deleted
2. i do not trade pics/send nudes.
3. if i dont reply, i did NOT forget to so, dont annoy me by continuing to send me messages, i will delete you
4. no pic, no add. KK?? I LOVE signs & when people make me PICS<3 When you add, please say hello:)
1.31.2009
1.30.2009
Truth - Don't Delete!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. You can't delete what is on the internet. Do you understand? Pictures..comments...things from years ago, they are still up there for all to see...for all to find. Haunting you like the ghosts from Christmas and Relationship Past!
The Internet Archive and its Way Back Machine gives you a historical snapshot of a site within just seconds. So it's there. Google even caches stuff as well.
So when you post your drunk photos, in five years when you need to apply for college or seek new employment will it matter? Probably. Additionally, you have to ask yourself whether you're just leaving more stuff for the next generation to clean up and deal with.
Get smart people! Don't put up stuff you don't want your kids to see, or your employer. It matters.
The Internet Archive and its Way Back Machine gives you a historical snapshot of a site within just seconds. So it's there. Google even caches stuff as well.
So when you post your drunk photos, in five years when you need to apply for college or seek new employment will it matter? Probably. Additionally, you have to ask yourself whether you're just leaving more stuff for the next generation to clean up and deal with.
Get smart people! Don't put up stuff you don't want your kids to see, or your employer. It matters.
LoveMail HateMail 13009
LOVEMAIL
I have no idea who you are but you are so freakin halarious!
LOVEMAIL
Thank you Dino....People like you that make me smile and laugh ..very few do.. but it makes life worth living..and I mean that.. never change.. thank you for being you all the way across the country and via satellite
LOVEMAIL
I love how you're mind works, you could keep me enthralled for hours!!!
LOVEMAIL
You are without a doubt, one of my favorite people on this planet.
LOVEMAIL
The Cure?
The Smiths?
And now depeche mode?
I think i love you.
LOVEMAIL
I think you are so funny and very imaginative
HATEMAIL
Surely, I'm not the first to object to the constant bitching about Obama and left wing politics? Don't be offended, I simply do not subscribe to your point of view, so I removed myself.
HATEMAIL
You love women. You love talking to them, listening to them...everything about them. I have a dream that one day my little Dino can talk to women like they're equals.
I have no idea who you are but you are so freakin halarious!
LOVEMAIL
Thank you Dino....People like you that make me smile and laugh ..very few do.. but it makes life worth living..and I mean that.. never change.. thank you for being you all the way across the country and via satellite
LOVEMAIL
I love how you're mind works, you could keep me enthralled for hours!!!
LOVEMAIL
You are without a doubt, one of my favorite people on this planet.
LOVEMAIL
The Cure?
The Smiths?
And now depeche mode?
I think i love you.
LOVEMAIL
I think you are so funny and very imaginative
HATEMAIL
Surely, I'm not the first to object to the constant bitching about Obama and left wing politics? Don't be offended, I simply do not subscribe to your point of view, so I removed myself.
HATEMAIL
You love women. You love talking to them, listening to them...everything about them. I have a dream that one day my little Dino can talk to women like they're equals.
1.28.2009
Truth - Facebook over Myspace
I've been a huge proponent of Facebook and all that it has to offer. I've yet to find one thing that Myspace presents that is better than Facebook. I do get comments from people who like to have ugly layouts, and annoying glitter graphics, because it somehow gives them creativity or something..??? Yeah right..it sucks, grow up.
Facebook grew 127 percent in the past year to 222 million users replacing MySpace.
Facebook is trouncing MySpace in the global social networking war, drawing in nearly twice as many unique visitors as its arch rival, new figures show.
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
In December, over 220 million people visited Facebook worldwide compared to around 125 million for MySpace, according to data from internet marketing research company comScore cited by technology site TechCrunch .
Facebook's numbers represent a nearly 11 per cent increase on the previous month when it drew 200 million unique visitors, evidence the site's popularity continues to soar. In December, over a fifth of all web users visited Facebook, TechCrunch reports.
About eight months ago, the net's two biggest social networking sites were pretty evenly matched in terms of unique visitors. Now Facebook has nearly 100 million more worldwide than MySpace, which is owned by News Corp.
The difference in page views is even more accentuated with Facebook, which remains in private hands, attracting 80 billion monthly page views in December compared with 43 billion for MySpace.
The global picture, however, is different than for the US where MySpace remains on top, although Facebook is catching up, according to comScore statistics on US traffic released earlier this month.
"Facebook is the world's default social network. MySpace is still the king in the US, but trends suggest that 2009 is its last year on top," TechCrunch predicts. "By January 2010, at current relative growth rates, Facebook will overtake MySpace as the largest U.S. social network as well."
In a statement to the technology site, MySpace said it was "laser focused on building a sustainable global business which we measure by profits and revenue - not just eyeballs" and emphasised its revenue building credentials.
"In a tough economic climate, our international revenue is up 35 percent year over year and we continue to focus on those markets with the strong monetization opportunities.
"Additionally, MySpace continues to dominate the U.S. market where the bulk of online advertising revenues reside both in terms of monetization and user engagement with more than 76 million unique users and a 40 percent spike in engagement year over year."
Facebook grew 127 percent in the past year to 222 million users replacing MySpace.
Facebook is trouncing MySpace in the global social networking war, drawing in nearly twice as many unique visitors as its arch rival, new figures show.
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
In December, over 220 million people visited Facebook worldwide compared to around 125 million for MySpace, according to data from internet marketing research company comScore cited by technology site TechCrunch .
Facebook's numbers represent a nearly 11 per cent increase on the previous month when it drew 200 million unique visitors, evidence the site's popularity continues to soar. In December, over a fifth of all web users visited Facebook, TechCrunch reports.
About eight months ago, the net's two biggest social networking sites were pretty evenly matched in terms of unique visitors. Now Facebook has nearly 100 million more worldwide than MySpace, which is owned by News Corp.
The difference in page views is even more accentuated with Facebook, which remains in private hands, attracting 80 billion monthly page views in December compared with 43 billion for MySpace.
The global picture, however, is different than for the US where MySpace remains on top, although Facebook is catching up, according to comScore statistics on US traffic released earlier this month.
"Facebook is the world's default social network. MySpace is still the king in the US, but trends suggest that 2009 is its last year on top," TechCrunch predicts. "By January 2010, at current relative growth rates, Facebook will overtake MySpace as the largest U.S. social network as well."
In a statement to the technology site, MySpace said it was "laser focused on building a sustainable global business which we measure by profits and revenue - not just eyeballs" and emphasised its revenue building credentials.
"In a tough economic climate, our international revenue is up 35 percent year over year and we continue to focus on those markets with the strong monetization opportunities.
"Additionally, MySpace continues to dominate the U.S. market where the bulk of online advertising revenues reside both in terms of monetization and user engagement with more than 76 million unique users and a 40 percent spike in engagement year over year."
1.27.2009
Truth: Online Storage
Need 50 GB of free online storage for your files?
Well who doesnt?
www.adrive.com
Pretty cool...pretty worth it.
How much is your data worth? heck you can even share files.
Me likey
Well who doesnt?
www.adrive.com
Pretty cool...pretty worth it.
How much is your data worth? heck you can even share files.
Me likey
1.26.2009
Liberty - Role of Govt.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I believe what Obama said in his inaugural address was (and I paraphrase) that it's not about reducing or increasing the size of government..it's about making government work better. The problem with that "nice idea", is that it's inherently incorrect. It's hypocritical by design. Government by design is destined to fail and not operate in the best interests of the people. There is no incentive for government to make things work. There is no incentive for government workers to work hard or become efficient. No country in the history of the world has become prosperous by government intervention or taxation. The problems we face are because past administrations and congress have increased spending, taxes, and the role of government putting a stranglehold on businesses.
I shall repeat this until I'm blue in the face brothers and sisters.
A.D.D. Rumblings No. 12609
1. I got this message sent to me: "Not to bring you down dear, but it's been said by many people that men that are fans of Coldplay tend to be gay as they are a "chick group". Now not saying this pertains to you, but just thought I'd let you know." Am I not allowed to like Coldplay? I do like them, but I do have my doubts on whether I should or not.
2. I got this message sent to me in defense of me leaving the Detroit Lions: "Leaving the Lions isn't like leaving your wife who is in a wheelchair, its like leaving your wife that makes fun of you for being in a wheelchair and spits on you before she goes out on a date with another man." Ouchy.
3. A coworker of mine cannot eat cookies. The texture of the cookies cannot be handled in her mouth. She just doesn't like it and freaks her out. I say I say, what a freak-a-zoid for not eating cookies. Did you know, well know you do, that my nickname was Cookie Monster back in the day. That's when I was 165lbs soaking wet and could eat a package of fig newtons in one setting without breaking any kind of sweat. True!
5. Someone please tell me what is up with Facebook and Myspace people going crazy using the word MOBSTERS all over the place. I see it everywhere. What is it? What's the point? I don't get it. I get invited to all these mob war applications, people wanting to add me as mobster friend. What is this all about? Forgetaboutit!
4. I played this really cool game called BUZZ the other day at some friend's house. They had a 56 inch big screen which made playing the game fun of the 15 or so people there. It's on playstation, and 4 people play by chiming with answers to trivia questions. I had a blast, and of course I WON! Me be Smert.
6. Helping family or friends move just sucks. Moving boxes from their basement to the car or moving truck, sucks. I have no problem helping, but inevitably I end moving more than I anticipated. Not to mention the stress involved by those who are moving carries over to you. I don't know whether I feel more bad for them, or myself for having to help move? There's got to be an easier way to move people. Perhaps lose my phone forever?
[ This blog is brought to you by the word phoenix and the number XLIII ]
7. If your significant (aka main squeeze) other tells you that you are perfect, but doesn't want to be with you, what does that say? If they tell you that you've done nothing wrong and they don't want to be with you, what does it say? If they tell you they aren't lying and there is no one else, and they still don't want to be with you, what does that tell you?
8. Dino (the snorkasaurus) has been kidnapped by Sports Divas and is being held for ransom. I do not negotiate with terrorists, however I am curious as to what their demands are. I shall keep you posted of what is going on. He's been kidnapped before, about 10 years ago...and finally showed up 6 months later. I hope he is being taken care of, because he needs his medicine or he'll not do well. He's like a delicate flower you know. Save Dino!
9. Is the coronation over yet for King Obama? My god...when will the mainstream media stop talking about what he eats for breakfast and what he wears to bed? I still think I'm living in some weird dream or movie, because I still can't figure out how a guy with NO real experience becomes the leader of the free world. It's mind boggling to me and always will be. No thanks still on the Kool-Aid.
10. My 4th favorite holiday, Valentine's Day (Christmas, my Birthday, April Fool's Day)is just around the corner. Another great day for you to shower me with gifts, chocolate, cards, and compliments. I'll accept all of that stuff, so don't fret. Usually I say no to chocolate, but times are tough and choosers can't be beggars. Anyways what do you expect to do on Valentine's Day this year? What are some good ideas to do with your love puppy? Smooches Gracias, let me know!
2. I got this message sent to me in defense of me leaving the Detroit Lions: "Leaving the Lions isn't like leaving your wife who is in a wheelchair, its like leaving your wife that makes fun of you for being in a wheelchair and spits on you before she goes out on a date with another man." Ouchy.
3. A coworker of mine cannot eat cookies. The texture of the cookies cannot be handled in her mouth. She just doesn't like it and freaks her out. I say I say, what a freak-a-zoid for not eating cookies. Did you know, well know you do, that my nickname was Cookie Monster back in the day. That's when I was 165lbs soaking wet and could eat a package of fig newtons in one setting without breaking any kind of sweat. True!
5. Someone please tell me what is up with Facebook and Myspace people going crazy using the word MOBSTERS all over the place. I see it everywhere. What is it? What's the point? I don't get it. I get invited to all these mob war applications, people wanting to add me as mobster friend. What is this all about? Forgetaboutit!
4. I played this really cool game called BUZZ the other day at some friend's house. They had a 56 inch big screen which made playing the game fun of the 15 or so people there. It's on playstation, and 4 people play by chiming with answers to trivia questions. I had a blast, and of course I WON! Me be Smert.
6. Helping family or friends move just sucks. Moving boxes from their basement to the car or moving truck, sucks. I have no problem helping, but inevitably I end moving more than I anticipated. Not to mention the stress involved by those who are moving carries over to you. I don't know whether I feel more bad for them, or myself for having to help move? There's got to be an easier way to move people. Perhaps lose my phone forever?
[ This blog is brought to you by the word phoenix and the number XLIII ]
7. If your significant (aka main squeeze) other tells you that you are perfect, but doesn't want to be with you, what does that say? If they tell you that you've done nothing wrong and they don't want to be with you, what does it say? If they tell you they aren't lying and there is no one else, and they still don't want to be with you, what does that tell you?
8. Dino (the snorkasaurus) has been kidnapped by Sports Divas and is being held for ransom. I do not negotiate with terrorists, however I am curious as to what their demands are. I shall keep you posted of what is going on. He's been kidnapped before, about 10 years ago...and finally showed up 6 months later. I hope he is being taken care of, because he needs his medicine or he'll not do well. He's like a delicate flower you know. Save Dino!
9. Is the coronation over yet for King Obama? My god...when will the mainstream media stop talking about what he eats for breakfast and what he wears to bed? I still think I'm living in some weird dream or movie, because I still can't figure out how a guy with NO real experience becomes the leader of the free world. It's mind boggling to me and always will be. No thanks still on the Kool-Aid.
10. My 4th favorite holiday, Valentine's Day (Christmas, my Birthday, April Fool's Day)is just around the corner. Another great day for you to shower me with gifts, chocolate, cards, and compliments. I'll accept all of that stuff, so don't fret. Usually I say no to chocolate, but times are tough and choosers can't be beggars. Anyways what do you expect to do on Valentine's Day this year? What are some good ideas to do with your love puppy? Smooches Gracias, let me know!
Liberty: New Era of Leadership???
The Obama cabinet is all Clinton folk. Where is the change? What's going on here?
Dachsel
Clinton
Holder
Emanuel
Holbrook
Kennedy
Rice
Dachsel
Clinton
Holder
Emanuel
Holbrook
Kennedy
Rice
1.24.2009
Truth - Drink Much?
THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3. Proliferation
4. Cinnamon
THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Specificity
2. Anti-constitutionalistically
3. Passive-aggressive disorder
4. Transubstantiate
THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. No thanks, I'm married.
2. Nope, no more booze for me!
3. Sorry, but you're not really my type.
4. Taco Bell ? No thanks, I'm not hungry.
5. Good evening, officer. Isn't it lovely out tonight?
6. Oh, I couldn't! No one wants to hear me sing karaoke.
7. I'm not interested in fighting you.
8. Thank you, but I won't make any attempt to dance, I have no coordination.
I'd hate to look like a fool!
9. Where is the nearest bathroom? I refuse to pee in this parking lot or on the
side of theroad.
10. I must be going home now, as I have to work in the morning.
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3. Proliferation
4. Cinnamon
THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Specificity
2. Anti-constitutionalistically
3. Passive-aggressive disorder
4. Transubstantiate
THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. No thanks, I'm married.
2. Nope, no more booze for me!
3. Sorry, but you're not really my type.
4. Taco Bell ? No thanks, I'm not hungry.
5. Good evening, officer. Isn't it lovely out tonight?
6. Oh, I couldn't! No one wants to hear me sing karaoke.
7. I'm not interested in fighting you.
8. Thank you, but I won't make any attempt to dance, I have no coordination.
I'd hate to look like a fool!
9. Where is the nearest bathroom? I refuse to pee in this parking lot or on the
side of theroad.
10. I must be going home now, as I have to work in the morning.
1.23.2009
Sports: Performance Enhancing Drugs
Roids anyone? Sure, if the price is right...come on down!
Performance-enhancing drugs
Big and Rich
By Thomas Boswell
Performance-enhancing drugs, especially in baseball, and performance-enhancing leverage on Wall Street may be akin under the skin.
I don't insist that the parallel holds. But I certainly suspect it. Trends in society, good and bad, seldom appear in just one place. Sport is sometimes an area that tips us off to what's coming. Perhaps something as large as a financial crisis shows itself in countless arenas and we each recognize some aspect of it in the places we understand best.
For me at least, it seems clear that baseball hit several of the same sad landmarks as the financial world, though baseball arrived at each juncture a few years earlier. At the risk of an iota of optimism, the national pastime seems to have passed the nadir of its crisis of public trust within the last year. If only banks could mend as fast.
Before the bosses of finance, already rich beyond imagination, took on too much risk and debt, baseball had broken fresh ground on greed, lax rules, indifference to risk and an anything-goes-if-it-makes- a-buck ethos. Yet it took the game a decade to slide into a sorry state. Rot is slow.
Starting in the late '80s, steroids made their way into the sport. But they were adopted slowly. Players, sensibly, viewed the drugs as risky, mysterious, not fully tested. By 1991, steroids were also specifically against baseball's rules. So, if you cared about your health, your ethics or the implications of getting caught, you had ample reason to look at "juiced" players and say, "Not for me."
The strike of '94 changed that. When the game came back in '95 after a canceled World Series, a sense of crisis was everywhere. Baseball's hierarchy, in management and the union, made no pretense that they cared what players did to jack up their performance. The game's popularity had to be saved. Nobody cared how. The ad slogan "Chicks love the long ball" sent a message.
A culture, whether in sport or business, changes a click at a time, not all at once. By '98, when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa finished their pursuit and demolition of Roger Maris's record 61 home runs, the shift in mores was in full swing. If you weren't using "whatever it takes," then you were at a competitive disadvantage. To be the greatest in the game, always the furious driving force behind seven-time MVP Barry Bonds and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, wasn't the choice clear?
At that point, with the whole sport in a tacit agreement to remain silent (and set a new attendance record almost every year), who was going to blow the whistle? Nobody. The excessive behavior had to run its course until some unpredicted event -- like the FBI busting a drug lab in San Francisco -- sent the secrets and sins spewing out.
Only then could the long process of blame and recrimination, congressional outrage and public disgust, begin to take shape. Finally, attempts at reform, and a new attitude within the sport toward the problem, could emerge.
Now, even a president has said, "Wall Street got drunk and we got the hangover." But the process of inebriation took a long time, just like baseball's spiral into widespread steroid use. Many of the new "financial products" -- which could be used to gamble more -- arrived in the '90s.
But just as ballplayers were initially reluctant to try something as little known and dangerous as steroids, financial markets stuck one toe at a time into derivatives. Who knew that new concoctions, all too familiar now, like CDOs and credit default swaps, were on some math whiz's mind. Just as, perhaps, the "clear" and the "cream" were still just a Balco chemist's fantasy?
Steroids and human growth hormone never really took over baseball until an industry-wide trauma -- including a canceled World Series -- helped create an anything-goes ethos. The financial arena may have had a similar watershed crisis -- the popping of the Internet stock bubble.
After that devastation, the markets faced a problem like baseball's: How do we bring back the customers, juice the business? In that environment, derivatives and various types of leveraged strategies were big money makers. Who would blow the whistle on excessive risk? Some did. Not many.
Neither Commissioner Bud Selig nor union boss Don Fehr had motive to get tough on performance-enhancing drugs after the strike. And few at financial institutions, in Congress or at weak regulatory bodies, had compelling reason to speak out against such a wonderful party. Tape-measure home runs? Big profits? What could be bad?
At this point, let's note that (among plenty of dissimilarities), the new financial instruments that have exacerbated so many problems were legal. The way they were used may have been incredibly irresponsible and greedy. But the tools being used were not against the law.
Perhaps the most undeniable parallel between masters of the universe and elite athletes is that they are hyper-competitive to their core. That can lead to bad judgment as quickly as almost any trait. If players on another team suddenly arrive in spring training 20 pounds bigger, other teams see it. And the pressure to keep up is enormous. If Lehman Brothers came up with a complex new SIV that made $100 million, how likely is it that Bear Stearns would've said, "No, that's too risky." Actually, we know the answer; they're both defunct.
The lure of more muscle to an athlete, even when he's already a lock for the Hall of Fame, is not so different from the lure of a bigger bonus to an investment banker who already has more houses than he can live in.
In baseball's worst days, when Bonds was booed as he chased Hank Aaron's record, fans agreed that the game might lose the public's confidence. How could we ever again know who was cheating? How could modern records be considered authentic? Would the Hall of Fame be more of a mockery with McGwire or Rafael Palmeiro in it or out of it?
When it comes to sports, the public wants to believe. An almost childlike benefit of the doubt is provided to our games and those who play them. Given time and the least excuse, fans go back to old habits and affections with almost alarming speed. So as soon as a pretext was found to give baseball a fresh start ("better drug testing!"), that new confidence started to appear almost immediately.
How simple, almost innocent and costless, it seems to watch baseball begin to heal and return to our good graces. If only the parallels could continue. But fixing half the banks on earth may take a bit more time. Oh, and money.
Performance-enhancing drugs
Big and Rich
By Thomas Boswell
Performance-enhancing drugs, especially in baseball, and performance-enhancing leverage on Wall Street may be akin under the skin.
I don't insist that the parallel holds. But I certainly suspect it. Trends in society, good and bad, seldom appear in just one place. Sport is sometimes an area that tips us off to what's coming. Perhaps something as large as a financial crisis shows itself in countless arenas and we each recognize some aspect of it in the places we understand best.
For me at least, it seems clear that baseball hit several of the same sad landmarks as the financial world, though baseball arrived at each juncture a few years earlier. At the risk of an iota of optimism, the national pastime seems to have passed the nadir of its crisis of public trust within the last year. If only banks could mend as fast.
Before the bosses of finance, already rich beyond imagination, took on too much risk and debt, baseball had broken fresh ground on greed, lax rules, indifference to risk and an anything-goes-if-it-makes- a-buck ethos. Yet it took the game a decade to slide into a sorry state. Rot is slow.
Starting in the late '80s, steroids made their way into the sport. But they were adopted slowly. Players, sensibly, viewed the drugs as risky, mysterious, not fully tested. By 1991, steroids were also specifically against baseball's rules. So, if you cared about your health, your ethics or the implications of getting caught, you had ample reason to look at "juiced" players and say, "Not for me."
The strike of '94 changed that. When the game came back in '95 after a canceled World Series, a sense of crisis was everywhere. Baseball's hierarchy, in management and the union, made no pretense that they cared what players did to jack up their performance. The game's popularity had to be saved. Nobody cared how. The ad slogan "Chicks love the long ball" sent a message.
A culture, whether in sport or business, changes a click at a time, not all at once. By '98, when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa finished their pursuit and demolition of Roger Maris's record 61 home runs, the shift in mores was in full swing. If you weren't using "whatever it takes," then you were at a competitive disadvantage. To be the greatest in the game, always the furious driving force behind seven-time MVP Barry Bonds and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, wasn't the choice clear?
At that point, with the whole sport in a tacit agreement to remain silent (and set a new attendance record almost every year), who was going to blow the whistle? Nobody. The excessive behavior had to run its course until some unpredicted event -- like the FBI busting a drug lab in San Francisco -- sent the secrets and sins spewing out.
Only then could the long process of blame and recrimination, congressional outrage and public disgust, begin to take shape. Finally, attempts at reform, and a new attitude within the sport toward the problem, could emerge.
Now, even a president has said, "Wall Street got drunk and we got the hangover." But the process of inebriation took a long time, just like baseball's spiral into widespread steroid use. Many of the new "financial products" -- which could be used to gamble more -- arrived in the '90s.
But just as ballplayers were initially reluctant to try something as little known and dangerous as steroids, financial markets stuck one toe at a time into derivatives. Who knew that new concoctions, all too familiar now, like CDOs and credit default swaps, were on some math whiz's mind. Just as, perhaps, the "clear" and the "cream" were still just a Balco chemist's fantasy?
Steroids and human growth hormone never really took over baseball until an industry-wide trauma -- including a canceled World Series -- helped create an anything-goes ethos. The financial arena may have had a similar watershed crisis -- the popping of the Internet stock bubble.
After that devastation, the markets faced a problem like baseball's: How do we bring back the customers, juice the business? In that environment, derivatives and various types of leveraged strategies were big money makers. Who would blow the whistle on excessive risk? Some did. Not many.
Neither Commissioner Bud Selig nor union boss Don Fehr had motive to get tough on performance-enhancing drugs after the strike. And few at financial institutions, in Congress or at weak regulatory bodies, had compelling reason to speak out against such a wonderful party. Tape-measure home runs? Big profits? What could be bad?
At this point, let's note that (among plenty of dissimilarities), the new financial instruments that have exacerbated so many problems were legal. The way they were used may have been incredibly irresponsible and greedy. But the tools being used were not against the law.
Perhaps the most undeniable parallel between masters of the universe and elite athletes is that they are hyper-competitive to their core. That can lead to bad judgment as quickly as almost any trait. If players on another team suddenly arrive in spring training 20 pounds bigger, other teams see it. And the pressure to keep up is enormous. If Lehman Brothers came up with a complex new SIV that made $100 million, how likely is it that Bear Stearns would've said, "No, that's too risky." Actually, we know the answer; they're both defunct.
The lure of more muscle to an athlete, even when he's already a lock for the Hall of Fame, is not so different from the lure of a bigger bonus to an investment banker who already has more houses than he can live in.
In baseball's worst days, when Bonds was booed as he chased Hank Aaron's record, fans agreed that the game might lose the public's confidence. How could we ever again know who was cheating? How could modern records be considered authentic? Would the Hall of Fame be more of a mockery with McGwire or Rafael Palmeiro in it or out of it?
When it comes to sports, the public wants to believe. An almost childlike benefit of the doubt is provided to our games and those who play them. Given time and the least excuse, fans go back to old habits and affections with almost alarming speed. So as soon as a pretext was found to give baseball a fresh start ("better drug testing!"), that new confidence started to appear almost immediately.
How simple, almost innocent and costless, it seems to watch baseball begin to heal and return to our good graces. If only the parallels could continue. But fixing half the banks on earth may take a bit more time. Oh, and money.
Truth: I Love Pie
Today is National Pie Day: Jan 23
A great way to celebrate is to bake some pies, and give me one.
These are the pies I like in case you were wondering.
Apple
Coconut Creme
Cherry
Banana
Pecan
Mince Meat
Sweet Potato
Chicken Pot
Pumpkin
Peach
Blueberry
Raspberry
Strawberry
Lemon Merangue
Mud
Custard
Creme
French Silk
Chocolate Creme
Inquire within on how to get me one.
Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie
This one makes you want to shake your thang
A great way to celebrate is to bake some pies, and give me one.
These are the pies I like in case you were wondering.
Apple
Coconut Creme
Cherry
Banana
Pecan
Mince Meat
Sweet Potato
Chicken Pot
Pumpkin
Peach
Blueberry
Raspberry
Strawberry
Lemon Merangue
Mud
Custard
Creme
French Silk
Chocolate Creme
Inquire within on how to get me one.
Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie
This one makes you want to shake your thang
1.22.2009
Truth: Uncle Ted the Drug Czar
The following is a letter from rock legend Ted Nugent. He wants to be the drug czar. Ted has always stood out against drugs in rock and roll, and follows a pure lifestyle; well at least as drugs go. Anyways I rarely disagree with Ted, and he raises some very good points. However I think more than enough money has been thrown on the war on drugs and it has not stopped anything. How long are you going to keep pouring gasoline on a fire? If you want to stop drugs, legalize them, and make them less valuable for the dealers. Crime will go down. Now I'm all for enforcing current laws, especially along the border. I'm not a fan of drug users either, but I think the government should stay out of people's homes. It's not a cut and dry solution, but as always I have a libertarian bent when it comes to this stuff.
Nugent for Drug Czar
by Ted Nugent
One of the most dangerous places on earth is our own 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Our southern border is a drug war zone, and we are losing the fight. Know it.
So dangerous is our border that Arizona Governor Napolitano has declared a state of emergency along the Arizona/Mexico border due to drug trafficking, shootouts and an increasing illegal immigration invasion.
Our Justice Department stated in April that Mexican drug cartels are the "largest threat to both citizens and law enforcement agencies in this country and now have gang members in nearly 200 U.S. cities." This in the big, bad, brave United States of America! How can this be? DOJ admits it, so now what?
There isn't a city in America that has not been scorched by drug-related violence.
In 2008, the Mexican drug cartels killed more than 4,000 people. Almost 500 Mexican police officers and soldiers have been murdered since January 2007. It is a nonstop orgy of vicious, violent crimes against law-abiding Americans living along that border and increasing acts of violence against our Border Patrol agents. This is unbelievable and totally unacceptable.
The drug cartels are extremely well financed and armed. They are as evil an adversary as the voodoo terrorist Taliban our soldiers face in Afghanistan.
President Obama has stated he will go after the cartels and increase efforts to combat gang-related crime. Good. But he had better be prepared to wage war with them with more than just soaring rhetoric.
I am aware there are prominent conservatives who make strong arguments in favor of legalizing drugs. Their argument is that legalizing drugs will take the crime out of drugs. Not only do I not believe that, but I have never been in favor of pouring gas on a blazing fire in hopes of extinguishing it, which is what I believe will happen if ever we are foolish enough to legalize drug use in America.
We have all the laws we need to fight drugs. What America needs is the will-power and a renewed warrior spirit to crush evil and evil doers.
We need a Drug Czar who will commit to the American people to stopping at least 50% of the illegal drugs flowing into the country within the first year of the Obama Administration. That's the kind of leadership America wants and deserves from its government.
Call me, President Obama. Hippies, dope heads, corrupt politicos and various other human debris hate me, which makes me the perfect man for the job.
As Drug Czar, I would charge our mayors and police departments to commit to fighting the drug gangs their top priority. Our inner cities will remain war zones until we commit to taking the trash out.
America needs to better arm our Border Patrol agents and we need more of them. The governors of the border states should call out the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol in securing the border. As Drug Czar, I would challenge them to do this today.
I would work with the Mexican government and other Central American nations to root out and arrest and/or kill the drug kingpins and their underlings. Working with the Columbian government a few years back, U.S. Special Forces filled Pablo Escobar full of bullet holes. Until assuming room temperature, Escobar was one of the world's richest
cocaine smugglers and controlled 80% of all the cocaine shipped into America.
I am not naïve enough to believe we can ever fully eradicate drugs. However, as America's Drug Czar, I would put a big hurt on the drug kingpins and consumers like they have never seen. Every American who smokes dope, manufactures, buys or sells meth or uses any illegal drugs is aiding and abetting the enemies of America. Case closed. This spiritual inbreeding and cannibalism must be identified, admitted to and stopped immediately. America can, and must do this. Good over evil. Next.
Nugent for Drug Czar
by Ted Nugent
One of the most dangerous places on earth is our own 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Our southern border is a drug war zone, and we are losing the fight. Know it.
So dangerous is our border that Arizona Governor Napolitano has declared a state of emergency along the Arizona/Mexico border due to drug trafficking, shootouts and an increasing illegal immigration invasion.
Our Justice Department stated in April that Mexican drug cartels are the "largest threat to both citizens and law enforcement agencies in this country and now have gang members in nearly 200 U.S. cities." This in the big, bad, brave United States of America! How can this be? DOJ admits it, so now what?
There isn't a city in America that has not been scorched by drug-related violence.
In 2008, the Mexican drug cartels killed more than 4,000 people. Almost 500 Mexican police officers and soldiers have been murdered since January 2007. It is a nonstop orgy of vicious, violent crimes against law-abiding Americans living along that border and increasing acts of violence against our Border Patrol agents. This is unbelievable and totally unacceptable.
The drug cartels are extremely well financed and armed. They are as evil an adversary as the voodoo terrorist Taliban our soldiers face in Afghanistan.
President Obama has stated he will go after the cartels and increase efforts to combat gang-related crime. Good. But he had better be prepared to wage war with them with more than just soaring rhetoric.
I am aware there are prominent conservatives who make strong arguments in favor of legalizing drugs. Their argument is that legalizing drugs will take the crime out of drugs. Not only do I not believe that, but I have never been in favor of pouring gas on a blazing fire in hopes of extinguishing it, which is what I believe will happen if ever we are foolish enough to legalize drug use in America.
We have all the laws we need to fight drugs. What America needs is the will-power and a renewed warrior spirit to crush evil and evil doers.
We need a Drug Czar who will commit to the American people to stopping at least 50% of the illegal drugs flowing into the country within the first year of the Obama Administration. That's the kind of leadership America wants and deserves from its government.
Call me, President Obama. Hippies, dope heads, corrupt politicos and various other human debris hate me, which makes me the perfect man for the job.
As Drug Czar, I would charge our mayors and police departments to commit to fighting the drug gangs their top priority. Our inner cities will remain war zones until we commit to taking the trash out.
America needs to better arm our Border Patrol agents and we need more of them. The governors of the border states should call out the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol in securing the border. As Drug Czar, I would challenge them to do this today.
I would work with the Mexican government and other Central American nations to root out and arrest and/or kill the drug kingpins and their underlings. Working with the Columbian government a few years back, U.S. Special Forces filled Pablo Escobar full of bullet holes. Until assuming room temperature, Escobar was one of the world's richest
cocaine smugglers and controlled 80% of all the cocaine shipped into America.
I am not naïve enough to believe we can ever fully eradicate drugs. However, as America's Drug Czar, I would put a big hurt on the drug kingpins and consumers like they have never seen. Every American who smokes dope, manufactures, buys or sells meth or uses any illegal drugs is aiding and abetting the enemies of America. Case closed. This spiritual inbreeding and cannibalism must be identified, admitted to and stopped immediately. America can, and must do this. Good over evil. Next.
1.21.2009
Sports: Stoney and Wojo's next move?
This is all right from Triple G, Gregg Henson's blog. http://gregghenson.typepad.com/
Stoney and Wojo's next move?
I just got off the phone with Stoney who was at Roosevelt's in Farmington having a few pops with his departed WDFN colleagues, he was upbeat and understanding, they are in good shape.
The question is "what is next for the Detroit sports radio icons?" NOTHING, at least not for a while. Stoney and Wojo are only two years into five year guaranteed contracts which will see them collect a salary until 2012. Clear Channel simply cannot stop paying them or they will be sued for even more than they owe the guys. Stoney and Wojo's contracts are a blessing and a curse, they have income but they really can't take other work unless somebody is willing to pay them what there current deals will pay them and it doesn't appear that anybody is able or willing to do that in the current economic climate in Michigan. That leaves Stoney and Wojo on the sidelines for the foreseeable future. Hell, they may be able to ride out the economy without working and return when things are better.
This is now the second and third Air Personality in 12 months to be paid NOT to work. Jamie Samuelsen was fired with a year left on his guaranteed contract last December and now Stoney and Wojo are being paid NOT to show up. What sense does it make? It is just more stupidity from a company that invented it.
What happened to Rona?
Sources told me tonight that Rona Danzinger was surprisingly asked to stay on as PD of WDFN but declined saying "give the job to somebody who has a family." This is a noble gesture but one that was necessary as she is largely responsible for the demise of the radio station. Action by her years ago would have prevented the radio station from collapse but she and others didn't keep the station relevant and allowed it to atrophy and slowly die. I have no personal ill will for Rona but she could have been part of the solution, instead she became part of the problem. Best to her and her husband Jeff.
Sean Baligean
Sean is a good man, but I don't see him getting hired because WXYT has no incentive to add payroll. It is more likely they will cut salaries at WXYT than add new ones. Sean is a good Air Personality who I brought to WDFN years ago, unless he is willing to leave town I don't know where he could possibly end up.
WDFN's future?
Sadly, there isn't one. It would not surprise me one bit of WDFN flipped to syndicated talk radio once the Piston's season is concluded. The Pistons are as good as gone and will be looking for a new radio partner in the off-season, likely one willing to put the games on FM. I doubt they would have stayed with Clear Channel even if these cuts hadn't been made, they look longingly at 97.1 and covet their own big FM signal. They could even end up on WJR or WWJ.
Stoney and Wojo's next move?
I just got off the phone with Stoney who was at Roosevelt's in Farmington having a few pops with his departed WDFN colleagues, he was upbeat and understanding, they are in good shape.
The question is "what is next for the Detroit sports radio icons?" NOTHING, at least not for a while. Stoney and Wojo are only two years into five year guaranteed contracts which will see them collect a salary until 2012. Clear Channel simply cannot stop paying them or they will be sued for even more than they owe the guys. Stoney and Wojo's contracts are a blessing and a curse, they have income but they really can't take other work unless somebody is willing to pay them what there current deals will pay them and it doesn't appear that anybody is able or willing to do that in the current economic climate in Michigan. That leaves Stoney and Wojo on the sidelines for the foreseeable future. Hell, they may be able to ride out the economy without working and return when things are better.
This is now the second and third Air Personality in 12 months to be paid NOT to work. Jamie Samuelsen was fired with a year left on his guaranteed contract last December and now Stoney and Wojo are being paid NOT to show up. What sense does it make? It is just more stupidity from a company that invented it.
What happened to Rona?
Sources told me tonight that Rona Danzinger was surprisingly asked to stay on as PD of WDFN but declined saying "give the job to somebody who has a family." This is a noble gesture but one that was necessary as she is largely responsible for the demise of the radio station. Action by her years ago would have prevented the radio station from collapse but she and others didn't keep the station relevant and allowed it to atrophy and slowly die. I have no personal ill will for Rona but she could have been part of the solution, instead she became part of the problem. Best to her and her husband Jeff.
Sean Baligean
Sean is a good man, but I don't see him getting hired because WXYT has no incentive to add payroll. It is more likely they will cut salaries at WXYT than add new ones. Sean is a good Air Personality who I brought to WDFN years ago, unless he is willing to leave town I don't know where he could possibly end up.
WDFN's future?
Sadly, there isn't one. It would not surprise me one bit of WDFN flipped to syndicated talk radio once the Piston's season is concluded. The Pistons are as good as gone and will be looking for a new radio partner in the off-season, likely one willing to put the games on FM. I doubt they would have stayed with Clear Channel even if these cuts hadn't been made, they look longingly at 97.1 and covet their own big FM signal. They could even end up on WJR or WWJ.
Truth: Clear Channel Sucks
Well Clear Channel axes Stoney & Wojo, and Sean Baligian from WDFN. They are now going to an ESPN type format. Clear Channel now will air nationally-syndicated Fox Sports Radio programs. Can you say BORING?
Clear Channel could care less about the local Detroit market, let alone the local sports celebrities. If 97.1 FM Detroit is smart, they'll pick up Stoney & Wojo, and Sean Baligian as well to bolster their already strong lineup.
I'm big on sports tradition, and I think guys like this need to be around. I'm old school, and you don't toss away guys like this.
Actually it would be nice to hear these guys on satelite but that doesn't help the local market. 15 years of sports tradition down the drain. Way to go Clear Channel, you corporate shrills!
Clear Channel could care less about the local Detroit market, let alone the local sports celebrities. If 97.1 FM Detroit is smart, they'll pick up Stoney & Wojo, and Sean Baligian as well to bolster their already strong lineup.
I'm big on sports tradition, and I think guys like this need to be around. I'm old school, and you don't toss away guys like this.
Actually it would be nice to hear these guys on satelite but that doesn't help the local market. 15 years of sports tradition down the drain. Way to go Clear Channel, you corporate shrills!
Liberty: Money Under Your Mattress
Invest or Stash?
Check out this article from one of my favorite sites REASON.COM about the impending Pension Funds Fiasco that may happen soon.
Pensions are being dragged into treacherous waters by investors who consciously choose to direct their money in socially conscious ways. It’s a questionable risk for cautious times. The use of political criteria may be fine for affluent investors and activists who gamble their own money and assume the extra risk, but pension funds should be held to a higher standard.
http://reason.com/news/show/130843.html
Scary
Check out this article from one of my favorite sites REASON.COM about the impending Pension Funds Fiasco that may happen soon.
Pensions are being dragged into treacherous waters by investors who consciously choose to direct their money in socially conscious ways. It’s a questionable risk for cautious times. The use of political criteria may be fine for affluent investors and activists who gamble their own money and assume the extra risk, but pension funds should be held to a higher standard.
http://reason.com/news/show/130843.html
Scary
1.20.2009
Liberty: Pick up or Delivery?
Picked this up from finance guru Paul Kedrosky...
Money spent on restaurants. Hmmm where should you invest?
Liberty: Not the end of the World
Saw this ditty from Steve DenBeste on the election of Obama as the president. He makes some good points, some pretty strong and scary predictions too. Let's hope he's wrong on some and right on the others. Don't worry...it'll be ok.
Not the end of the World
Steven DenBeste
It's easy to let yourself go in despair and start thinking things like "We are well-and-truly screwed" or "This is the worst of all possible outcomes". But it isn't true.
I think this election is going to be a "coming of age" moment for a lot of people. They say, "Be careful what you wish for" and a lot of people got their wish yesterday.
And now they're bound to be disappointed. Not even Jesus could satisfy all the expectations of Obama's most vocal supporters, or fulfill all the promises Obama has made.
I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn't respond to benign behavior benignly.
But there's another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they're going to find out what they bought. Obama isn't what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover.
And four years from now they'll be older and much wiser.
A lot of bad things are going to happen during this term. But I don't think that this is an irreversible catastrophe for the union. I've lived long enough to absorb this basic truth: the US is too large and too strong to destroy in just 4 years. Or even in 8. We survived 6 years of Nixon. We survived 4 years of Carter. We even survived 8 years of Clinton , God alone knows how.
The President of the United States is the most powerful political figure in the world, but as national executives go his powers are actually quite restricted. Obama will become President, but he won't be dictator or king, let alone deity. He still has to work with the House and the Senate, and he still has to live within Constitutional restrictions, and with a judiciary that he mostly didn't appoint.
The main reason this will be a "coming of age" moment is that now Obama and the Democrats have to put up or shut up. Obama got elected by making himself a blank slate, with vapid promises about "hope" and "change" -- but now he actually has to do something. Now he has to reveal his true agenda. And with the Democrats also having a majority in both chambers of Congress, now the Democrats really have to lead. And they're not going to do a very good job of it. It's going to be amusing to watch.
And the people who fell for the demagoguery will learn an invaluable lesson.
Oh, the Democrats try to blame failure on Republican filibusters, of which there will be many. But that's always been a factor in our system, and many people believe it's an important check on government excess. The tradition in the Senate is that it is supposed to be a buffer against transient political fads, and the filibuster is a major part of that.
If the Democrats go all in, and change the filibuster rule, then they'll have truly seized the nettle with both hands and won't have any excuses any longer. That's why they won't do it. It's their last fig-leaf. But even with the filibuster rule in place, they'll be stuck trying to deliver now on all the promises implied, or inferred, during this election. The Republicans can only filibuster on bills the Democrats have already proposed.
And it ain't possible for the Democrats to deliver what's been promised. Gonna be a hell of a lot of disillusioned lefties out there. A lot of people who felt they were deceived. A lot of people will eventually realize that the Obama campaign was something of a cult.
Disillusionment will turn to a feeling of betrayal. And that will, in turn, convert to anger.
In the meantime, Obama and Congressional Democrats will do things that cause harm, but very little of it will be irreversible.
I would have enjoyed watching lefty heads explode if McCain had won. But we're going to see lefty heads exploding anyway; it's just going to take longer.
In the meantime, those of us who didn't want Obama to be president have to accept that he is. And let's not give in to the kind of paranoid fever dreams that have consumed the left for the last 8 years. Let us collectively take a vow tonight: no "Obama derangement syndrome". Obama is a politician. He isn't the devil incarnate.
So what are the good sides of what just happened?
1. It is no longer possible for anyone to deny that the Mainstream Media (MSM) is heavily biased. The MSM have been biased for decades but managed an illusion of fairness. That is no longer possible; the MSM have squandered their credibility during this campaign. They'll never get that credibility back again.
2. Since the Democrats got nearly everything they hoped for in this campaign, they'll have no excuses and will have to produce. They'll have to reveal their true agenda -- or else make clear that they don't really have any beyond gaining power.
3. Every few decades the American people have to be reminded that peace only comes with strength. The next four years will be this generation's lesson.
Now, a few predictions for the next four years:
1. Obama's "hold out your hand to everyone" foreign policy is going to be a catastrophe. They'll love it in Europe . They're probably laughing their heads off about it in the Middle East already.
2. The US hasn't suffered a terrorist attack by al Qaeda since 9/11, but we'll get at least one during Obama's term.
3. We're going to lose in Afghanistan.
4. Iran will get nuclear weapons. There will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel . (This is the only irreversibly terrible thing I see upcoming, and it's very bad indeed.)
5. There will eventually be a press backlash against Obama which will make their treatment of Bush look mild. Partly that's going to be because Obama is going to disappoint them just as much as all his other supporters. Partly it will be the MSM desperately trying to regain its own credibility, by trying to show that they're not in his tank any longer. And because of that they are eventually going to do the reporting they should have done during this campaign, about Obama's less-than-savory friends, and about voter fraud, and about illegal fund-raising, and about a lot of other things.
and
6. Obama will not be re-elected in 2012. He may even end up doing an LBJ and not even running again.
One last thing: I'm not saying I'm happy with this outcome. I would much rather have had McCain win. But this is not the end of the world, or the end of this nation. We've survived much worse.
And now we need to show the lefties how to lose. Our mission for the next four years is to be in opposition without becoming deranged.
UPDATE: One other good thing: no one will be spinning grand conspiracy theories about this administration's Vice President being an evil, conniving genius who is the true power behind the throne.
http://www.denbeste.nu/archives.shtml
(Thank you Gambler W.)
Not the end of the World
Steven DenBeste
It's easy to let yourself go in despair and start thinking things like "We are well-and-truly screwed" or "This is the worst of all possible outcomes". But it isn't true.
I think this election is going to be a "coming of age" moment for a lot of people. They say, "Be careful what you wish for" and a lot of people got their wish yesterday.
And now they're bound to be disappointed. Not even Jesus could satisfy all the expectations of Obama's most vocal supporters, or fulfill all the promises Obama has made.
I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn't respond to benign behavior benignly.
But there's another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they're going to find out what they bought. Obama isn't what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover.
And four years from now they'll be older and much wiser.
A lot of bad things are going to happen during this term. But I don't think that this is an irreversible catastrophe for the union. I've lived long enough to absorb this basic truth: the US is too large and too strong to destroy in just 4 years. Or even in 8. We survived 6 years of Nixon. We survived 4 years of Carter. We even survived 8 years of Clinton , God alone knows how.
The President of the United States is the most powerful political figure in the world, but as national executives go his powers are actually quite restricted. Obama will become President, but he won't be dictator or king, let alone deity. He still has to work with the House and the Senate, and he still has to live within Constitutional restrictions, and with a judiciary that he mostly didn't appoint.
The main reason this will be a "coming of age" moment is that now Obama and the Democrats have to put up or shut up. Obama got elected by making himself a blank slate, with vapid promises about "hope" and "change" -- but now he actually has to do something. Now he has to reveal his true agenda. And with the Democrats also having a majority in both chambers of Congress, now the Democrats really have to lead. And they're not going to do a very good job of it. It's going to be amusing to watch.
And the people who fell for the demagoguery will learn an invaluable lesson.
Oh, the Democrats try to blame failure on Republican filibusters, of which there will be many. But that's always been a factor in our system, and many people believe it's an important check on government excess. The tradition in the Senate is that it is supposed to be a buffer against transient political fads, and the filibuster is a major part of that.
If the Democrats go all in, and change the filibuster rule, then they'll have truly seized the nettle with both hands and won't have any excuses any longer. That's why they won't do it. It's their last fig-leaf. But even with the filibuster rule in place, they'll be stuck trying to deliver now on all the promises implied, or inferred, during this election. The Republicans can only filibuster on bills the Democrats have already proposed.
And it ain't possible for the Democrats to deliver what's been promised. Gonna be a hell of a lot of disillusioned lefties out there. A lot of people who felt they were deceived. A lot of people will eventually realize that the Obama campaign was something of a cult.
Disillusionment will turn to a feeling of betrayal. And that will, in turn, convert to anger.
In the meantime, Obama and Congressional Democrats will do things that cause harm, but very little of it will be irreversible.
I would have enjoyed watching lefty heads explode if McCain had won. But we're going to see lefty heads exploding anyway; it's just going to take longer.
In the meantime, those of us who didn't want Obama to be president have to accept that he is. And let's not give in to the kind of paranoid fever dreams that have consumed the left for the last 8 years. Let us collectively take a vow tonight: no "Obama derangement syndrome". Obama is a politician. He isn't the devil incarnate.
So what are the good sides of what just happened?
1. It is no longer possible for anyone to deny that the Mainstream Media (MSM) is heavily biased. The MSM have been biased for decades but managed an illusion of fairness. That is no longer possible; the MSM have squandered their credibility during this campaign. They'll never get that credibility back again.
2. Since the Democrats got nearly everything they hoped for in this campaign, they'll have no excuses and will have to produce. They'll have to reveal their true agenda -- or else make clear that they don't really have any beyond gaining power.
3. Every few decades the American people have to be reminded that peace only comes with strength. The next four years will be this generation's lesson.
Now, a few predictions for the next four years:
1. Obama's "hold out your hand to everyone" foreign policy is going to be a catastrophe. They'll love it in Europe . They're probably laughing their heads off about it in the Middle East already.
2. The US hasn't suffered a terrorist attack by al Qaeda since 9/11, but we'll get at least one during Obama's term.
3. We're going to lose in Afghanistan.
4. Iran will get nuclear weapons. There will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel . (This is the only irreversibly terrible thing I see upcoming, and it's very bad indeed.)
5. There will eventually be a press backlash against Obama which will make their treatment of Bush look mild. Partly that's going to be because Obama is going to disappoint them just as much as all his other supporters. Partly it will be the MSM desperately trying to regain its own credibility, by trying to show that they're not in his tank any longer. And because of that they are eventually going to do the reporting they should have done during this campaign, about Obama's less-than-savory friends, and about voter fraud, and about illegal fund-raising, and about a lot of other things.
and
6. Obama will not be re-elected in 2012. He may even end up doing an LBJ and not even running again.
One last thing: I'm not saying I'm happy with this outcome. I would much rather have had McCain win. But this is not the end of the world, or the end of this nation. We've survived much worse.
And now we need to show the lefties how to lose. Our mission for the next four years is to be in opposition without becoming deranged.
UPDATE: One other good thing: no one will be spinning grand conspiracy theories about this administration's Vice President being an evil, conniving genius who is the true power behind the throne.
http://www.denbeste.nu/archives.shtml
(Thank you Gambler W.)
1.19.2009
A.D.D.Rumblings No. 11909
1. One of my pet peeves, probably number 582 is dirty dishes on the kitchen counter. Now I'm not talking about after parties, but just sitting around all day long. It bugs me. It bothers me. I don't like it. Put your dishes in the sink, or in the dishwasher. Do I have to do everything for you?
2. Got a friend who met her boyfriend online. She's a bit distressed at revealing this to her family and friends, because she feels they will give her a hard time about it. Aren't we past the "online" is taboo concept in this day and age. It's probably not unheard of for this to happen right? I'm sure you know people who do this or have done this. Would it be better to mention you met someone in a bar instead?
3. I was recently questioned that my leaving the Detroit Lions as a fan was wrong. That it was akin to leaving a wife who then got into an accident and was then handicapped. That I was leaving them when they needed my help most or I discarded them when things became too difficult for me. I find this laughable and absurd. The Lions left me!
5. I got into a debate with some buddies at the bar the other day, who said they can't understand why an athlete would choose more money over being with a winning team. I said I can understand that. Their time is short, they need to maximize their revenue. Playing with a bad team gives you more ice time, and you still get the coin. More coin! So for an extra 5 to 10 million dollars, I'm playing for the lesser team. They got into the whole playing for glory argument. Lame!
4. Uncle Ted Nugent wants to be the Drug Czar. While I mostly agree with everything he stands, I can't really support this. For one, we don't need more bureaucracy, and while he will probably clean things up, it'll never fully work. The drug war needs to have drugs not be valuable for it to work. How do you do that? Legalize drugs! I got me a rock and roll band it's free for all!
6. Obama just jumped a tall building with a single bound. Obama can run faster than a speeding locomotive. He also arm wrestled Godzilla and won. Did you hear he won the noble peace prize just for being himself? Not only that, he is the reason there will be peace in the middle east. I'm betting he can walk on water too!
[ This blog is brought to you by the word epiphany and the number 13]
7. I have been aggravated with people from the younger generation just letting the door slam in your face when you are walking in somewhere right behind them. I always hold the door open for the person behind me, even if it means waiting a few seconds. I did see a little 4 year old boy hold the door open for a few people and I thanked him. He said, 'you're welcome'. Now someone is thankfully teaching this kid manners and etiquette. I hope kids don't end up tormenting him in school because he's too nice or polite and ruin it all when he grows up to be a stupid teenager.
8. I have found that a roast cooked in a slow cooker all day, is comfort food. I know it's not easy, but the smell of it cooking all day is very savoring to say the least. I would like you to cook me a nice roast, with some gravy, and some carrots. Then maybe make me a pie. That'll be great!
9. Have you ever noticed when a celebrity dies the attention the media gives this person. The attention you give this person? Sure it's newsworthy, but wouldn't it be nice to praise such notable celebrities well before they pass on, rather than after the case. Kind of seems not worth it so much to me when that person isn't there to enjoy the acknowledgment. Celebrity deaths come in 3. Ricardo Montalban just died, so who is next?
10. In the mood to stay at a hotel room? The ice bucket, phones, and clock radio have been found to be loaded with Escherichia coli, the fecal-borne organism commonly known as E. coli, and Candida albicans, a fungus that causes yeast infections. Showers, remote controls, and desk chairs (where people tend to sit in the nude) have these things. Motel 6 anyone? We'll leave the light on for you.
2. Got a friend who met her boyfriend online. She's a bit distressed at revealing this to her family and friends, because she feels they will give her a hard time about it. Aren't we past the "online" is taboo concept in this day and age. It's probably not unheard of for this to happen right? I'm sure you know people who do this or have done this. Would it be better to mention you met someone in a bar instead?
3. I was recently questioned that my leaving the Detroit Lions as a fan was wrong. That it was akin to leaving a wife who then got into an accident and was then handicapped. That I was leaving them when they needed my help most or I discarded them when things became too difficult for me. I find this laughable and absurd. The Lions left me!
5. I got into a debate with some buddies at the bar the other day, who said they can't understand why an athlete would choose more money over being with a winning team. I said I can understand that. Their time is short, they need to maximize their revenue. Playing with a bad team gives you more ice time, and you still get the coin. More coin! So for an extra 5 to 10 million dollars, I'm playing for the lesser team. They got into the whole playing for glory argument. Lame!
4. Uncle Ted Nugent wants to be the Drug Czar. While I mostly agree with everything he stands, I can't really support this. For one, we don't need more bureaucracy, and while he will probably clean things up, it'll never fully work. The drug war needs to have drugs not be valuable for it to work. How do you do that? Legalize drugs! I got me a rock and roll band it's free for all!
6. Obama just jumped a tall building with a single bound. Obama can run faster than a speeding locomotive. He also arm wrestled Godzilla and won. Did you hear he won the noble peace prize just for being himself? Not only that, he is the reason there will be peace in the middle east. I'm betting he can walk on water too!
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7. I have been aggravated with people from the younger generation just letting the door slam in your face when you are walking in somewhere right behind them. I always hold the door open for the person behind me, even if it means waiting a few seconds. I did see a little 4 year old boy hold the door open for a few people and I thanked him. He said, 'you're welcome'. Now someone is thankfully teaching this kid manners and etiquette. I hope kids don't end up tormenting him in school because he's too nice or polite and ruin it all when he grows up to be a stupid teenager.
8. I have found that a roast cooked in a slow cooker all day, is comfort food. I know it's not easy, but the smell of it cooking all day is very savoring to say the least. I would like you to cook me a nice roast, with some gravy, and some carrots. Then maybe make me a pie. That'll be great!
9. Have you ever noticed when a celebrity dies the attention the media gives this person. The attention you give this person? Sure it's newsworthy, but wouldn't it be nice to praise such notable celebrities well before they pass on, rather than after the case. Kind of seems not worth it so much to me when that person isn't there to enjoy the acknowledgment. Celebrity deaths come in 3. Ricardo Montalban just died, so who is next?
10. In the mood to stay at a hotel room? The ice bucket, phones, and clock radio have been found to be loaded with Escherichia coli, the fecal-borne organism commonly known as E. coli, and Candida albicans, a fungus that causes yeast infections. Showers, remote controls, and desk chairs (where people tend to sit in the nude) have these things. Motel 6 anyone? We'll leave the light on for you.
Truth - It's Making Me Crazy
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
...The question to everyone's answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
You live in a world of illusion
Where everythings peaches and cream
We all face a scarlet conclusion
But we spend our time in a dream...
smb
...The question to everyone's answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
You live in a world of illusion
Where everythings peaches and cream
We all face a scarlet conclusion
But we spend our time in a dream...
smb
Sports: Le Turtle Returns!
The San Jose Sharks have recalled the 43-year-old Claude THE TURTLE Lemieux from Worcester (AHL), where he had 11 points in 23 games. This means Claude, one of the best clutch players in NHL history, will likely be in the lineup Tuesday night when the Fish host the Vancouver Canucks.
Bingo Bango!
Bingo Bango!
Love Mail Hate Mail 11909
Love Mail
I had some extra time today so I thought I'd check out your page a little. I gotta tell you...you're either full of sh!t or a seriously deep dude.
I think a lot of people can connect with what you've said about yourself but either are afraid to express it such as you did or aren't quite sure how to express it. Anyway well done...
Hate Mail
Since the election coverage ended, your posts have been super boring. You are funny, but I'm not interested.
I had some extra time today so I thought I'd check out your page a little. I gotta tell you...you're either full of sh!t or a seriously deep dude.
I think a lot of people can connect with what you've said about yourself but either are afraid to express it such as you did or aren't quite sure how to express it. Anyway well done...
Hate Mail
Since the election coverage ended, your posts have been super boring. You are funny, but I'm not interested.
Sports - Should I Go?
So the team I'm leaving wants me to come to a town hall meeting to talk. Will they let me talk? Or will they just give me the same old song and dance, filled with useless substance and corporate fluff? What could they possibly say to remove my resentment? How will it change the past? What guarantees are they going to give me that they already haven't? Are they going to tell me that they are going to have a 5 year plan of rebuilding? Will they apologize? Does it matter? I've been cheated I say...cheated. Winning won't erase the pain. It won't change what they did.
Sure it's pointless to dwell on the past, and one should move forward. But how many times do you plan to walk into a two by four swung in your face? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me 8 seasons in a row...shame shame shame.
Should I go and voice may displeasure? I'm sure they are already practicing and getting ready for their standard answers. Their sugar coating, their generic caring blah blah. It would be a good time though to test the clap on clap off bra.
Truth - Back Up Your Stuff Jerky
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Know Anyone who has ever crashed a computer without a backup? It's a painful, slow, and arduous process to restore the machine to its previous state. Perhaps get a back up hard drive? Duh
But there's another vast set of data many of us are creating on a daily basis that has little to no backup at all - beyond the services that host that content: our lifestreams, blogs, and photos. A new service named LifestreamBackup - aims to provide the peace of mind that your online data will always be just as accessible as the backup of your computer.
http://lifestreambackup.com/
Sign up...when they launch, you have a good back up plan there Jerky!
But there's another vast set of data many of us are creating on a daily basis that has little to no backup at all - beyond the services that host that content: our lifestreams, blogs, and photos. A new service named LifestreamBackup - aims to provide the peace of mind that your online data will always be just as accessible as the backup of your computer.
http://lifestreambackup.com/
Sign up...when they launch, you have a good back up plan there Jerky!
Liberty: Inauguration
It's great that an Africa-American will be sworn in as president of the United States. It's not great, that it's Barack Obama. The additional trillion dollar budget he is going to implement is going to come from your pocket. Good Luck with that kids.
1.18.2009
Truth: Footage of US Airways Water Landing
http://online.wsj.com/video/footage-shows-us-airways-water-landing/2E64F205-4E3D-41B0-94E4-EAA90DE44DBD.html
Pretty intense. Most of the video is after the crash. Wow.
Pretty intense. Most of the video is after the crash. Wow.
Truth: Because I Care
Bitching, Moaning, Complaining....is that all I do here for you people? Well mostly...when you are a bitter old coot like myself..it happens. But alas, I'm here to provide you some good tips for everyday living. Why? Because you love me.
Cheese:
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
Brownies:
For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
Garlic:
Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
Dating
Maker her pay for it, because eventually you'll be paying for it more ways than one.
(Thanks to Amanda Panda)
Cheese:
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
Brownies:
For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
Garlic:
Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it "home," can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
Dating
Maker her pay for it, because eventually you'll be paying for it more ways than one.
(Thanks to Amanda Panda)
1.17.2009
Truth: Obama's Coffee Crew
Starbucks: “Are You In” Obama’s Civilian National Security Force?
Starbucks wants to make it easy to join Obama’s proposed brown shirt volunteers. “Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25. The goal of the effort is to raise pledges in excess of one million hours of service from all over the country,” a Starbucks press releases states.
Starbucks wants to make it easy to participate in the new president's call for national service! Obama plans to “leverage volunteerism in communities across the country” and make government “cool again.”
I knew there was a reason I hated to drink that motor oil Starbucks calls coffee. Now I have even a better reason. How about Starbucks takes that million dollars, and uses it towards not laying off more people and closing more shops? But noooooooo.
Starbucks wants to make it easy to join Obama’s proposed brown shirt volunteers. “Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25. The goal of the effort is to raise pledges in excess of one million hours of service from all over the country,” a Starbucks press releases states.
Starbucks wants to make it easy to participate in the new president's call for national service! Obama plans to “leverage volunteerism in communities across the country” and make government “cool again.”
I knew there was a reason I hated to drink that motor oil Starbucks calls coffee. Now I have even a better reason. How about Starbucks takes that million dollars, and uses it towards not laying off more people and closing more shops? But noooooooo.
1.16.2009
Truth: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Finally slept 7 hours last night. I haven't had a full nights sleep since early November. What's up? Why can't I sleep more than 5 hours? Some people say I must be stressed, others blame it on the LIONs. The Lions? Aint no team worth losing sleep over. That's not it. Besides have I told you I'm Lions free? I am. Anyways others say to catch up on sleep at work...well that's not gonna happen anytime soon. I could sleep while I drive perhaps? Can't gotta be awake to text. Is it because I'm older now? It is something weighing on my mind? I need to sleep on this and figure it out. I'm very tired. So tired.
1.15.2009
Sports: Roarke - The Wrath of Shwartz
Ricardo Montalban dead at the age of 88. Wrath of Kahn, Fantasy Island...but to me, he was CORINTHIAN LEATHER pushing Chrysler products.
The Lions hire Titans Defensive Coordinator Jim Schwartz to be their new Head Coach. What do I care? I'm LIONS FREE. Yeah I'm sure he'll be an improvement. Yeah I'm sure he'll be here for about 4 years...probably winning 9 games by the 4th year, maybe sooner. That's the nature of the NFL. However, I don't care.
I'm done. I'm tired of waiting. I've been used, abused, and lied to by that team. Always waiting, always told one thing, but shown another. Always never taken care of. Always told I'm loved, but really...what does that mean? They can tell me they love me all day long, but they never show it. I had hope, lots of hope...but it's gone. They took it from me. You can only beat a man for so long before he let's go. But did I really let go? The fact is they let me go. They lied to me. They led me to believe I they would be there for me. That things would get better. That there would be change. It's been a long wait. I feel cheated. I feel ripped off. I am hurt. I am mad. I resent that team. It's going to take more than winning to win me back. It's going to take more than that. It may just take time. Time heals all wounds, and this wound is pretty deep. Why have you forsaken me?
The Lions hire Titans Defensive Coordinator Jim Schwartz to be their new Head Coach. What do I care? I'm LIONS FREE. Yeah I'm sure he'll be an improvement. Yeah I'm sure he'll be here for about 4 years...probably winning 9 games by the 4th year, maybe sooner. That's the nature of the NFL. However, I don't care.
I'm done. I'm tired of waiting. I've been used, abused, and lied to by that team. Always waiting, always told one thing, but shown another. Always never taken care of. Always told I'm loved, but really...what does that mean? They can tell me they love me all day long, but they never show it. I had hope, lots of hope...but it's gone. They took it from me. You can only beat a man for so long before he let's go. But did I really let go? The fact is they let me go. They lied to me. They led me to believe I they would be there for me. That things would get better. That there would be change. It's been a long wait. I feel cheated. I feel ripped off. I am hurt. I am mad. I resent that team. It's going to take more than winning to win me back. It's going to take more than that. It may just take time. Time heals all wounds, and this wound is pretty deep. Why have you forsaken me?
Truth: Global Warming!
Why can't the effects of Global Warming happen from December through March? Today would be a good day to start your lawn mower so we can effect the carbon footprint. Afterall we do make a difference, right Al Gore? As I write this in my speedo laying out in the snow, with the windchill at minus 15, I have to ask - Al Gore what are you doing right now?
He's laughing all the way to the bank.
It's so cold, even the Good Humour Man is in a bad mood.
It's so cold, chicken wings are being sold only in hot and suicide.
It's so cold, Paris Hilton is actually wearing clothes.
It's so cold, fleece is once again fashionable.
It's so cold that I can feel icicles forming beneath my eyelids
It's so cold that I put the meat in the freezer to defrost.
It's so cold that I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets for once.
It's so cold that even members of congress couldn't get into a heated argument.
It's so cold that cigarette smokers were passing out because they didn't know that
they were through exhaling.
It's so cold that instead of the finger, Detroiters are giving each other the mitten.
It's so cold that cabbies are wearing flannel turbans.
Jay Leno: "It was so cold, I saw an Amish guy buying an electric blanket."
It's so cold that I actually feel like listening to Hillary Clinton. That's how desperate I am for some hot air.
It's so cold, even Ted Kennedy won't go outside without pants.
It's so cold that Times Square strip clubs are advertising "Live Heavily-Dressed Girls!"
It's so cold that people are buying hot roasted chestnuts to put in their pants.
It's so cold, Richard Simmons was seen putting on a pair of long pants.
He's laughing all the way to the bank.
It's so cold, even the Good Humour Man is in a bad mood.
It's so cold, chicken wings are being sold only in hot and suicide.
It's so cold, Paris Hilton is actually wearing clothes.
It's so cold, fleece is once again fashionable.
It's so cold that I can feel icicles forming beneath my eyelids
It's so cold that I put the meat in the freezer to defrost.
It's so cold that I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets for once.
It's so cold that even members of congress couldn't get into a heated argument.
It's so cold that cigarette smokers were passing out because they didn't know that
they were through exhaling.
It's so cold that instead of the finger, Detroiters are giving each other the mitten.
It's so cold that cabbies are wearing flannel turbans.
Jay Leno: "It was so cold, I saw an Amish guy buying an electric blanket."
It's so cold that I actually feel like listening to Hillary Clinton. That's how desperate I am for some hot air.
It's so cold, even Ted Kennedy won't go outside without pants.
It's so cold that Times Square strip clubs are advertising "Live Heavily-Dressed Girls!"
It's so cold that people are buying hot roasted chestnuts to put in their pants.
It's so cold, Richard Simmons was seen putting on a pair of long pants.
1.14.2009
Truth - Email Phobia
I'm at the point now, where I'll get an email and I won't open it for a day or two. I can see it in my inbox, but the stress of actually having to respond to it is too overwhelming. Most emails I will read, but then there are some that just scare me sitting there. I know it's some argument that won't end, some debate I'm not in the mood for, some forwarded chain letter that I'll instantly delete, some joke I've seen 500 times, and probably something sports related from some chick.
There has to be a word for this fear of opening an email. Perhaps a snigglet exists? I don't know, but I know this concept lives, and it lives with me everyday..all day.
Somebody gimme a doctor!
There has to be a word for this fear of opening an email. Perhaps a snigglet exists? I don't know, but I know this concept lives, and it lives with me everyday..all day.
Somebody gimme a doctor!
1.12.2009
A.D.D. Rumblings No. 11209
1. Having too many key chains is a pet peeve of mine. I know some chicks who have like 5 keys, and 10 key chains attached to the same ring. What's the point? What a mess! It's been brought to my attention that I myself have too many keys. Maybe since I don't know what most of my keys are even for any more. I think I'll never know either and that hangs over my head like a dark cloud following me everywhere.
2. What do you think about personalized license plates? I remember being in Washington D.C. and they pretty encouraged people to use them. They were getting a shortage on number and letter combinations because of the growing population. I think something like HISTOY and HERTOY are stupid, and others like CATNIP are pretty funny. I do however think there's somewhat of a security issue, because you then know who drives what car. That's my issue with the personalization. I wonder if ULUVEME is taken?
3. You ever look at your clothes and think, I don't like that...then decide to not wear it because you just don't like it. Well then why do you have it, if you don't like it? I think you are nuts.
5. Got a friend who reads this blog who is buying a Sunday car just to tool around in. Well it's a very sporty BMW. Very nice car for sure and nice. But doesn't it initially seem to you that it's an Anti-American move on his part because the car is German? Isn't that your first reaction?
4. Some people refuse to eat mushrooms or cheese, because they see it as eating mold and fungus. Mushrooms are valuable health food - low in calories, high in vegetable proteins, chitin, iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Most mushrooms provide a wealth of protein, fiber, B vitamins, and vitamin C, as well as calcium and other minerals. Bet you didn't know that.
6. I blogged recently about the internet being too interpersonal. I got quite a few people agreeing that they didn't understand how anyone could not have email let alone a myspace or facebook account. I don't get it either. I think they are missing out on sharing things. They are missing out on photos, events, ideas, and commentary that they would never get otherwise. It just seems silly to me to not be connected. I can appreciate being anonymous, and I defintely support online security measures. However connecting with the world isnt wrong. You might want to be scared of those who don't connect, because you just don't know anything about them.
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7. I'll never understand why there is no peace in the middle east. Will it ever come about? What is it going to take to make it happen? Sometimes I talk myself into thinking I don't care, but how can I not? It's not safe there, and it's a time bomb ready to explode all of us into WW III. The people there have to want peace. Hopefully the messiah Obama can fix it.
8. How YOU doin?
9. Hey for the record, when I mention that I have a friend who did something or said something...it really is a friend. It's not me! Anyways so my friend comes home, goes in the basement and finds his 20 year old daughter in bed with another person. He's a bit embarrassed. He then realizes the other person is another female. Hello!!! What do you do? What do you say if you were him?
10. Somebody get me a doctor! I suffer from LISTOTHERIA. It's the compulsive behavior to have things in a list. I made the top movies list. I'm making a top artists list. I will make a best baseball players of all time list. I will have a list that has the best hockey players. I have the most beautiful women list. Somebody help me make it stop! I was thinking about making a list of all my lists. Is there something wrong with me? Please make a list of why I need to stop making lists.
2. What do you think about personalized license plates? I remember being in Washington D.C. and they pretty encouraged people to use them. They were getting a shortage on number and letter combinations because of the growing population. I think something like HISTOY and HERTOY are stupid, and others like CATNIP are pretty funny. I do however think there's somewhat of a security issue, because you then know who drives what car. That's my issue with the personalization. I wonder if ULUVEME is taken?
3. You ever look at your clothes and think, I don't like that...then decide to not wear it because you just don't like it. Well then why do you have it, if you don't like it? I think you are nuts.
5. Got a friend who reads this blog who is buying a Sunday car just to tool around in. Well it's a very sporty BMW. Very nice car for sure and nice. But doesn't it initially seem to you that it's an Anti-American move on his part because the car is German? Isn't that your first reaction?
4. Some people refuse to eat mushrooms or cheese, because they see it as eating mold and fungus. Mushrooms are valuable health food - low in calories, high in vegetable proteins, chitin, iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Most mushrooms provide a wealth of protein, fiber, B vitamins, and vitamin C, as well as calcium and other minerals. Bet you didn't know that.
6. I blogged recently about the internet being too interpersonal. I got quite a few people agreeing that they didn't understand how anyone could not have email let alone a myspace or facebook account. I don't get it either. I think they are missing out on sharing things. They are missing out on photos, events, ideas, and commentary that they would never get otherwise. It just seems silly to me to not be connected. I can appreciate being anonymous, and I defintely support online security measures. However connecting with the world isnt wrong. You might want to be scared of those who don't connect, because you just don't know anything about them.
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7. I'll never understand why there is no peace in the middle east. Will it ever come about? What is it going to take to make it happen? Sometimes I talk myself into thinking I don't care, but how can I not? It's not safe there, and it's a time bomb ready to explode all of us into WW III. The people there have to want peace. Hopefully the messiah Obama can fix it.
8. How YOU doin?
9. Hey for the record, when I mention that I have a friend who did something or said something...it really is a friend. It's not me! Anyways so my friend comes home, goes in the basement and finds his 20 year old daughter in bed with another person. He's a bit embarrassed. He then realizes the other person is another female. Hello!!! What do you do? What do you say if you were him?
10. Somebody get me a doctor! I suffer from LISTOTHERIA. It's the compulsive behavior to have things in a list. I made the top movies list. I'm making a top artists list. I will make a best baseball players of all time list. I will have a list that has the best hockey players. I have the most beautiful women list. Somebody help me make it stop! I was thinking about making a list of all my lists. Is there something wrong with me? Please make a list of why I need to stop making lists.
Truth: I've got a case of the Mondays
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Truth: Impersonal
I have many friends who still to this day think the Internet is a waste of time. They think Facebook is lame, and Myspace is a meat market. They think talking to someone online via email or chat, is impersonal and not "cool". They think it's just a fad.
They fail to see the fact you can easily and quickly connect and communicate with people you may have not had the opportunity before. Not to mention the cost savings involved. Do you really get more out of a written letter to someone than an email? I know a few people actually who do not have an email address. I find that odd I guess. I suspect these people aren't social, and are content in their own bubble. They could be just afraid, or perhaps smart to not get involved in the world of spam.
Impersonal...is that you?
1.11.2009
Truth: The Office
Check out this video of the best moments from THE OFFICE. It's pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Wl-N9iOts
I was thinking...I've been so anti-tv for the last decade; but there are some shows I do watch. The Office is great.
(thanks Gringo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Wl-N9iOts
I was thinking...I've been so anti-tv for the last decade; but there are some shows I do watch. The Office is great.
(thanks Gringo)
1.10.2009
Liberty: The American Dream?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Remember that? Well it still exists, but it's not what it used to be. It sure aint easy. This article from The Liberty Voice gives in interesting perspective on The American Dream:
What Happened to the American Dream?
Jan 9th, 2009
by Jim Quinn
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”
—Historian and writer James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book “Epic of America.”
Mr. Adams penned these words in the midst of the Great Depression. Then as now, the reason the American Dream is slipping away is due to the actions of politicians running our government and bureaucrats running the Federal Reserve. Those with ability who have earned a better life through their hard work and intelligence should be attaining a higher position in the social order. Instead, our government is rewarding those Americans who have taken unwarranted risks, made brainless decisions, and willingly chose the course of excessive debt to climb the social ladder.
As the politicians scurry to “save” capitalism through the use of communist measures, more Americans are becoming disheartened.
George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke have decided to seize money from the vast majority of Americans who lived within their means, utilized debt sparingly, and worked hard to get ahead — giving it to the most appalling failures in our society. They have shoveled billions to banks that operated their businesses like gambling parlors. They have shoveled hundreds of millions to people who bought houses with no money down, interest-only mortgages and fraudulent loan applications. They are now rewarding automakers who made the wrong vehicles, pay 30,000 workers per year to not work, and have only been able to “sell” cars by giving them away with 0% financing to anyone who could sign on the dotted line.
The jig is up. According to the Wall Street Journal, $530 billion of debt will come due in the next three years, with $160 billion due in 2009. Of course, in the America of today, bad business decisions of yesterday are cast aside with the “Too Big to Fail” excuse and “our government” will take money from the innocent taxpayers and give it to the rich negligent developers. The crux of the problem is that Americans, with a strong sense of morality are no longer steering the American ship. Thomas Jefferson declared that Americans had the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. The government’s obligation is to protect the life and liberty of its people. Representative Ron Paul bluntly speaks the truth about our government:
“The obligations of our elected representatives are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field further clarified pursuit of happiness in an 1884 opinion:
“Among these inalienable rights, as proclaimed in that great document, is the right of men to pursue their happiness, by which is meant the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others, which may increase their prosperity or develop their faculties, so as to give to them their highest enjoyment.”
Our current system of incentives is inconsistent with the equal rights of others. The pursuit of happiness by Americans is where the American Dream has gone off the track. The pursuit of excessive wealth, power, influence, luxury automobiles, McMansions and electronic devices has substituted for happiness in the world we live in today.
Federal Reserve Fraud
Thomas Jefferson said of central banks:
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. … The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.”
We did not heed Mr. Jefferson’s prudent advice. The result has been persistent inflation that has destroyed the purchasing power of the US dollar. It takes $1.00 to buy what cost 5 cents in 1914, a 95% loss of purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve. Most of this loss in purchasing power has occurred since 1971. “Tricky Dick” Nixon took the country off the gold standard in 1971 and uncorked the bottle letting out the inflation genie. The unchecked issuance of debt by our government, facilitated by Federal Reserve policies since 1971, has brought our great country to the brink of financial disaster. The organization that caused the problem and has utterly failed in stem-ming the damage, is now taking actions completely outside of its mandate, while telling the public they have the answers. They have duped the American public for 85 years through the insidious use of inflation, and now they are trying to dupe the world into keeping their Ponzi scheme going for a while longer.
The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 with the dual purpose of maximizing employment and preserving stable prices. New York Senator Elihu Root, in voting against the creation of a Federal Reserve, saw a vision of our bleak future:
“Little by little, business is enlarged with easy money. With the exhaustless reservoir of the Government of the United States furnishing easy money, the sales increase, the businesses enlarge, more new enterprises are started, the spirit of optimism pervades the community. Bankers are not free from it. They are human. The members of the Federal Reserve board will not be free of it. They are human. Everyone is making money. Everyone is growing rich. It goes up and up, the margin between costs and sales continually growing smaller as a result of the operation of inevitable laws, until finally someone whose judgment was bad, someone whose capacity for business was small, breaks; and as he falls he hits the next brick in the row, and then another, and then another, and down comes the whole structure.”
The concept of forming this central bank was to stop bank panics from happening. So far, they are 0 for 2. They were in charge in 1929 during the greatest bank panic in history. Their actions in the 1930s exacerbated and prolonged the Depression. Alan Green-span and the Fed are the chief cause of the current disaster. The absurdly low interest rates of the early 2000s and the complete lack of oversight of bank lending practices caused the greatest debt bubble in history. During September and October, the country experienced an electronic bank run. Americans rightfully lost trust in all financial institutions and began withdrawing their money. The Federal Reserve has done the only thing it knows how to do. Print money. It has doubled its balance sheet to $2.3 trillion.
The Federal Reserve is supposed to be protecting the people of the United States. Transparency is essential for financial systems and democracies to function. Instead, Ben Bernanke is withholding which banks have borrowed from the Federal Reserve and what collateral was put up for the loans. They have lent out over $2 trillion of your money with no accountability to the American taxpayer. Bloomberg News has sued the Federal Reserve to obtain this information under the Freedom of Information Act. They are covering up their actions because they know that the collateral they have accepted is worthless. These are criminal actions with the intent to deceive the American public. The government and Federal Reserve work for “We the People,” not vice versa.
Last week, the Federal Reserve decreased its discount rate to 0.25%, the lowest in history. They also announced they would use any means necessary to re-inflate our bubble economy. Deflation is not a bad thing for most Americans. Cheaper gas, food, cars and flat screen TVs are nice, and for people and countries without debt, deflation is just fine. Unfortunately, that does not describe American consumers or the US government.
Deflation in a country that has $10.6 trillion in debt will annihilate the debtor. Therefore, Mr. Bernanke has chosen to try and inflate us out of this mess. As an expert on the Great Depression, Bernanke believes that fiscal and monetary expansion will save the country, but there is one significant difference: When the crisis hit the US in 1929, the total US debt as a percentage of GDP was about 200% and we were a net exporter nation. We enter this crisis with total US debt exceeding 350% of GDP and we have a trade deficit of $700 billion.
Foreigners have been buyers of 70% of our newly issued debt in the last few years. Does Ben Bernanke really believe that foreigners will be willing to accept 2% interest for 10 years on bonds while we are printing trillions of new dollars? The all-out assault on deflation will work. It will work so well that it will lead to a crash in the US dollar as foreigners begin to shun the debased currency. A hyper-inflationary bust ala Argentina and the Weimer Republic is in our future. There is one thing for sure. Whatever happens will take the Fed by surprise. They didn’t see the credit crisis coming and will not see the inflation tsunami before it washes over us.
The last 85 years of allowing our currency to be manipulated by a private bank has been a series of crisis, failure, and mismanagement. Ron Paul clearly articulates why the Federal Reserve has helped destroy the American Dream:
“Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. It is time for Congress to put the interests of the American people ahead of the special interests and their own appetite for big government.”
We are about to experience the largest government outlay in the history of our glorious Republic. President-elect Obama and his team of economic masterminds are preparing to borrow and spend the country back to prosperity. The Obama plan to spend $1 trillion to stimulate our economy has the 17,000 lobbyists in Washington, DC swarming like voracious locusts over a field of crops. These lobbyists will utilize the $3 billion per year they spend (bribe) to “influence” policymakers like there is no tomorrow.
The dice are loaded and the fight is fixed. Those who played by the rules, lived within their means, went to work every day, didn’t flip condos, or use home equity to lease a Mercedes, will pay for those who lied, cheated, and cut corners. This is how the American Dream has turned into the American Nightmare.
James Quinn
What Happened to the American Dream?
Jan 9th, 2009
by Jim Quinn
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”
—Historian and writer James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book “Epic of America.”
Mr. Adams penned these words in the midst of the Great Depression. Then as now, the reason the American Dream is slipping away is due to the actions of politicians running our government and bureaucrats running the Federal Reserve. Those with ability who have earned a better life through their hard work and intelligence should be attaining a higher position in the social order. Instead, our government is rewarding those Americans who have taken unwarranted risks, made brainless decisions, and willingly chose the course of excessive debt to climb the social ladder.
As the politicians scurry to “save” capitalism through the use of communist measures, more Americans are becoming disheartened.
George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke have decided to seize money from the vast majority of Americans who lived within their means, utilized debt sparingly, and worked hard to get ahead — giving it to the most appalling failures in our society. They have shoveled billions to banks that operated their businesses like gambling parlors. They have shoveled hundreds of millions to people who bought houses with no money down, interest-only mortgages and fraudulent loan applications. They are now rewarding automakers who made the wrong vehicles, pay 30,000 workers per year to not work, and have only been able to “sell” cars by giving them away with 0% financing to anyone who could sign on the dotted line.
The jig is up. According to the Wall Street Journal, $530 billion of debt will come due in the next three years, with $160 billion due in 2009. Of course, in the America of today, bad business decisions of yesterday are cast aside with the “Too Big to Fail” excuse and “our government” will take money from the innocent taxpayers and give it to the rich negligent developers. The crux of the problem is that Americans, with a strong sense of morality are no longer steering the American ship. Thomas Jefferson declared that Americans had the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. The government’s obligation is to protect the life and liberty of its people. Representative Ron Paul bluntly speaks the truth about our government:
“The obligations of our elected representatives are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field further clarified pursuit of happiness in an 1884 opinion:
“Among these inalienable rights, as proclaimed in that great document, is the right of men to pursue their happiness, by which is meant the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others, which may increase their prosperity or develop their faculties, so as to give to them their highest enjoyment.”
Our current system of incentives is inconsistent with the equal rights of others. The pursuit of happiness by Americans is where the American Dream has gone off the track. The pursuit of excessive wealth, power, influence, luxury automobiles, McMansions and electronic devices has substituted for happiness in the world we live in today.
Federal Reserve Fraud
Thomas Jefferson said of central banks:
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. … The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.”
We did not heed Mr. Jefferson’s prudent advice. The result has been persistent inflation that has destroyed the purchasing power of the US dollar. It takes $1.00 to buy what cost 5 cents in 1914, a 95% loss of purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve. Most of this loss in purchasing power has occurred since 1971. “Tricky Dick” Nixon took the country off the gold standard in 1971 and uncorked the bottle letting out the inflation genie. The unchecked issuance of debt by our government, facilitated by Federal Reserve policies since 1971, has brought our great country to the brink of financial disaster. The organization that caused the problem and has utterly failed in stem-ming the damage, is now taking actions completely outside of its mandate, while telling the public they have the answers. They have duped the American public for 85 years through the insidious use of inflation, and now they are trying to dupe the world into keeping their Ponzi scheme going for a while longer.
The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 with the dual purpose of maximizing employment and preserving stable prices. New York Senator Elihu Root, in voting against the creation of a Federal Reserve, saw a vision of our bleak future:
“Little by little, business is enlarged with easy money. With the exhaustless reservoir of the Government of the United States furnishing easy money, the sales increase, the businesses enlarge, more new enterprises are started, the spirit of optimism pervades the community. Bankers are not free from it. They are human. The members of the Federal Reserve board will not be free of it. They are human. Everyone is making money. Everyone is growing rich. It goes up and up, the margin between costs and sales continually growing smaller as a result of the operation of inevitable laws, until finally someone whose judgment was bad, someone whose capacity for business was small, breaks; and as he falls he hits the next brick in the row, and then another, and then another, and down comes the whole structure.”
The concept of forming this central bank was to stop bank panics from happening. So far, they are 0 for 2. They were in charge in 1929 during the greatest bank panic in history. Their actions in the 1930s exacerbated and prolonged the Depression. Alan Green-span and the Fed are the chief cause of the current disaster. The absurdly low interest rates of the early 2000s and the complete lack of oversight of bank lending practices caused the greatest debt bubble in history. During September and October, the country experienced an electronic bank run. Americans rightfully lost trust in all financial institutions and began withdrawing their money. The Federal Reserve has done the only thing it knows how to do. Print money. It has doubled its balance sheet to $2.3 trillion.
The Federal Reserve is supposed to be protecting the people of the United States. Transparency is essential for financial systems and democracies to function. Instead, Ben Bernanke is withholding which banks have borrowed from the Federal Reserve and what collateral was put up for the loans. They have lent out over $2 trillion of your money with no accountability to the American taxpayer. Bloomberg News has sued the Federal Reserve to obtain this information under the Freedom of Information Act. They are covering up their actions because they know that the collateral they have accepted is worthless. These are criminal actions with the intent to deceive the American public. The government and Federal Reserve work for “We the People,” not vice versa.
Last week, the Federal Reserve decreased its discount rate to 0.25%, the lowest in history. They also announced they would use any means necessary to re-inflate our bubble economy. Deflation is not a bad thing for most Americans. Cheaper gas, food, cars and flat screen TVs are nice, and for people and countries without debt, deflation is just fine. Unfortunately, that does not describe American consumers or the US government.
Deflation in a country that has $10.6 trillion in debt will annihilate the debtor. Therefore, Mr. Bernanke has chosen to try and inflate us out of this mess. As an expert on the Great Depression, Bernanke believes that fiscal and monetary expansion will save the country, but there is one significant difference: When the crisis hit the US in 1929, the total US debt as a percentage of GDP was about 200% and we were a net exporter nation. We enter this crisis with total US debt exceeding 350% of GDP and we have a trade deficit of $700 billion.
Foreigners have been buyers of 70% of our newly issued debt in the last few years. Does Ben Bernanke really believe that foreigners will be willing to accept 2% interest for 10 years on bonds while we are printing trillions of new dollars? The all-out assault on deflation will work. It will work so well that it will lead to a crash in the US dollar as foreigners begin to shun the debased currency. A hyper-inflationary bust ala Argentina and the Weimer Republic is in our future. There is one thing for sure. Whatever happens will take the Fed by surprise. They didn’t see the credit crisis coming and will not see the inflation tsunami before it washes over us.
The last 85 years of allowing our currency to be manipulated by a private bank has been a series of crisis, failure, and mismanagement. Ron Paul clearly articulates why the Federal Reserve has helped destroy the American Dream:
“Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. It is time for Congress to put the interests of the American people ahead of the special interests and their own appetite for big government.”
We are about to experience the largest government outlay in the history of our glorious Republic. President-elect Obama and his team of economic masterminds are preparing to borrow and spend the country back to prosperity. The Obama plan to spend $1 trillion to stimulate our economy has the 17,000 lobbyists in Washington, DC swarming like voracious locusts over a field of crops. These lobbyists will utilize the $3 billion per year they spend (bribe) to “influence” policymakers like there is no tomorrow.
The dice are loaded and the fight is fixed. Those who played by the rules, lived within their means, went to work every day, didn’t flip condos, or use home equity to lease a Mercedes, will pay for those who lied, cheated, and cut corners. This is how the American Dream has turned into the American Nightmare.
James Quinn
1.09.2009
1.08.2009
LIberty: Shut up Ann
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ann Coulter the self appointed voice of the right drives me nuts. Why? Because everything is about Democrat vs Republican. So much so, it clouds the point she is trying to make. More often than not, she does raise good points..decent points, however when she because so venomous, it ruins her credibility. Then all you hear is this angry person who just hates democrats. It's people like here that create divisibility. She needs to attack the message, the messenger, not generalize with her message which clouds the attack. I don't dislike her, but her tact is horrible. It gets old.
1.07.2009
Sports: 5 Goals
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. 5 Goals is 5 Goals....
Mark Nebus scores 5 goals in a minor league hockey gmae. November 23, 2008 Kalamazoo Kwings vs. Port Huron Ice Hawks...Mark Nebus scores 5 goals in 1 game against port Huron Ice Hawks that ties a 25 year old record.
Pretty cool
Mark Nebus scores 5 goals in a minor league hockey gmae. November 23, 2008 Kalamazoo Kwings vs. Port Huron Ice Hawks...Mark Nebus scores 5 goals in 1 game against port Huron Ice Hawks that ties a 25 year old record.
Pretty cool
1.06.2009
Truth - No Meat!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.. This is from a Burger King in Detroit!
1.05.2009
Love Mail Hate Mail 1509
Thank you all for the kind birthday wishes, gifts, and comments. I really appreciate them. Without you I'm sure I'd be doing something more productive with my time, so thanks!
Although I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with a miniature pony, stuffed armadillo, Erick Estrada poster, and 10 pounds of regifted holiday fruitcake.
LOVE MAIL
Birthday greetings, all the way from Poland! I like your blogs and your music. Keep on having fun! God Bless you my dear brother, I love you!
I wanted to send you something sexy for your birthday, but the mailman told me to get my ass out of the mail box.
You are loved here! Looking forward to another year of your blog!
totally wrong! I don't love you, Dino. I absolutely adore you, even when I disagree with you. You rock. I only wish I could write and well and as consistantly as you do.
You ARE the best, I don't care what they all say
.....you are such a goof, maybe thats why I love you so much!!!
HOPE YOU GOT ALL THE THINGS ON YOUR LIST....I MOVED THE LIONS TO LA FOR YA....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DINO:))KISSES FROM POLAND...
I bought you the cutest pink ear muffs and matching scarf....hope you like them~
Die besten wuensche zu deinem geburtstag
Happy Birthday Chicken Butt!
You say its your birthday... DA da da da da da... your gonna have a good time!.. da da da da daa HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU SEXY THANG!!!
Happy Happy oh weird one!
Happy Birthday Dino! You're awesome!"
You're getting grayer, crankier and less continent
Close your eyes....blow out your inferno.....and make a wish~ Enjoy yourself today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HotStuff!
Continue to keep up the good work of annoying a few and making a few of us happy reading your scribblings
Hippo Birdie Two Ewe
Happy Birthday Old Man
Happy Birthday Mister "I don't talk sports with Chicks."
Hey sweetheart just wanted to let you know that i stop by to wish you a happy bday.your a wonderful person
HATE MAIL
Jerk
Although I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with a miniature pony, stuffed armadillo, Erick Estrada poster, and 10 pounds of regifted holiday fruitcake.
LOVE MAIL
Birthday greetings, all the way from Poland! I like your blogs and your music. Keep on having fun! God Bless you my dear brother, I love you!
I wanted to send you something sexy for your birthday, but the mailman told me to get my ass out of the mail box.
You are loved here! Looking forward to another year of your blog!
totally wrong! I don't love you, Dino. I absolutely adore you, even when I disagree with you. You rock. I only wish I could write and well and as consistantly as you do.
You ARE the best, I don't care what they all say
.....you are such a goof, maybe thats why I love you so much!!!
HOPE YOU GOT ALL THE THINGS ON YOUR LIST....I MOVED THE LIONS TO LA FOR YA....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DINO:))KISSES FROM POLAND...
I bought you the cutest pink ear muffs and matching scarf....hope you like them~
Die besten wuensche zu deinem geburtstag
Happy Birthday Chicken Butt!
You say its your birthday... DA da da da da da... your gonna have a good time!.. da da da da daa HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU SEXY THANG!!!
Happy Happy oh weird one!
Happy Birthday Dino! You're awesome!"
You're getting grayer, crankier and less continent
Close your eyes....blow out your inferno.....and make a wish~ Enjoy yourself today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HotStuff!
Continue to keep up the good work of annoying a few and making a few of us happy reading your scribblings
Hippo Birdie Two Ewe
Happy Birthday Old Man
Happy Birthday Mister "I don't talk sports with Chicks."
Hey sweetheart just wanted to let you know that i stop by to wish you a happy bday.your a wonderful person
HATE MAIL
Jerk
1.04.2009
A.D.D. Rumblings No. 1409
1. There's someone always who has it worse than you. How many times have you heard this? How many times do you hear you should be thankful for what you have, and realize others don't have what you have. I think it goes without saying that many others may have it worse than yourself. Disease, despair, blight, and death to name a few occur everyday. But should one be concerned to minimize their own life's problems because others have it worse?
2. Recently I've been told that I remind people of Dante from the movie Clerks, Dr. House from the TV show House, Robert Downey Jr. from Iron Man, Alfonso from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Rothelesberger. I'm afraid to check if I should be worried about any of these.
3. A HUGE pet peeve to me is when people lick and suck the fingers when eating chicken wings or ribs. Actually any food for that matter. I can't stand to see it. I don't want to hear it. It's disgusting, gross, and sick. I was at Buffalo Wild Wings watching football last week, when this guy next to me was sucking away on his fingers. I was 1 minute away from pouring a drink over his head.
5. I've recently come across another wave of females who despised being called a chick. They are adamant that they are not chicks, that they are women. Now these broads are serious, about me calling them a chick. They take offense to it. So I'm asking all you dames out there, is being called a chick a bad thing? Come on honeys, let me know.
4. You know who this person is. The person who needs to be heard with everything they say. When they speak to one person, they are speaking loudly so that everyone can hear their points. They want the world to know what they are saying, because what they say is super important. They'll often blurt out their thoughts even when not asked, but will always do so when asked. These people will often LAUGH loudly so others no they are laughing loudly. We need a name for this type of person.
6. Living IN the moment I can appreciate. Living FOR the moment is what I have issues with. Do you understand what I'm saying here? Have fun, seize the day, life is short. However don't look at everything as a means to an end. Can you hear me brohtas and sistas? Can I get an amen?
[ This blog is brought to you by the word INDIGNATION and the number 42 ]
7. I have a dilemma. Dutch chocolate vs German chocolate cake as my favorite cake. I tend to lead towards German, but the Germans bother me.
8. If you are a chick, woman, or broad skip this one. Former Lions President Matt Millen who pretty much destroyed the team with is inept performance for 7 years was an analyst on NBC for football. Are you FREAKING kidding me? NBC's credibility just took a nose dive. FIRE NBC!!!
9. Resentment is a weird emotion. It is said that it stems from pain caused by not but what happened, but how you related to what happened. It's confusing because you are so focused on that person who causes you the resentment, that you don't realize they don't have the skills to know they are causing the resentment. Confused yet? Yeah me too.
10. I often google alot to look up information. God how I wish I had this back in school, instead of spending countless hours in the library totally lost. Anyways at the top of many question results return either Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers. Wiki is nice for historical and biographical information. However when I want to ask life questions, Yahoo Answers is great. Getting real life examples and response from everyday schmucks seems to lend itself credibility rather than the standard psycho babble non-sensical bookmarked answer. You dig!
.
2. Recently I've been told that I remind people of Dante from the movie Clerks, Dr. House from the TV show House, Robert Downey Jr. from Iron Man, Alfonso from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Rothelesberger. I'm afraid to check if I should be worried about any of these.
3. A HUGE pet peeve to me is when people lick and suck the fingers when eating chicken wings or ribs. Actually any food for that matter. I can't stand to see it. I don't want to hear it. It's disgusting, gross, and sick. I was at Buffalo Wild Wings watching football last week, when this guy next to me was sucking away on his fingers. I was 1 minute away from pouring a drink over his head.
5. I've recently come across another wave of females who despised being called a chick. They are adamant that they are not chicks, that they are women. Now these broads are serious, about me calling them a chick. They take offense to it. So I'm asking all you dames out there, is being called a chick a bad thing? Come on honeys, let me know.
4. You know who this person is. The person who needs to be heard with everything they say. When they speak to one person, they are speaking loudly so that everyone can hear their points. They want the world to know what they are saying, because what they say is super important. They'll often blurt out their thoughts even when not asked, but will always do so when asked. These people will often LAUGH loudly so others no they are laughing loudly. We need a name for this type of person.
6. Living IN the moment I can appreciate. Living FOR the moment is what I have issues with. Do you understand what I'm saying here? Have fun, seize the day, life is short. However don't look at everything as a means to an end. Can you hear me brohtas and sistas? Can I get an amen?
[ This blog is brought to you by the word INDIGNATION and the number 42 ]
7. I have a dilemma. Dutch chocolate vs German chocolate cake as my favorite cake. I tend to lead towards German, but the Germans bother me.
8. If you are a chick, woman, or broad skip this one. Former Lions President Matt Millen who pretty much destroyed the team with is inept performance for 7 years was an analyst on NBC for football. Are you FREAKING kidding me? NBC's credibility just took a nose dive. FIRE NBC!!!
9. Resentment is a weird emotion. It is said that it stems from pain caused by not but what happened, but how you related to what happened. It's confusing because you are so focused on that person who causes you the resentment, that you don't realize they don't have the skills to know they are causing the resentment. Confused yet? Yeah me too.
10. I often google alot to look up information. God how I wish I had this back in school, instead of spending countless hours in the library totally lost. Anyways at the top of many question results return either Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers. Wiki is nice for historical and biographical information. However when I want to ask life questions, Yahoo Answers is great. Getting real life examples and response from everyday schmucks seems to lend itself credibility rather than the standard psycho babble non-sensical bookmarked answer. You dig!
.
1.03.2009
Truth: My Birthday Wish List
Ok you've asked for it repeatedly, now here it is:
1. Pizza in the middle east
2. Caulk Dr. Pro
3. White t-shirts v-neck or crew cut
4. The Detroit Lions to move to Los Angelas
5. 1968 Ferrari Dino, red.
6. Lamborhini Countach, yellow
7. Sham Wow
8. Moto Guzzi Grisso, black
9. Ducatti Monster, red or black
10. Vespa 1967, light blue
11. 1970 Cadilliac Eldorado, white
12. My Iron Man Costume polished
13. Pom Spinner
14. Green Tea packets, decaf, green
15. German Chocolate Cake
16. Red Wings Tickets or Fasta Pasta
17. Peaches
18. My patent for the clap on clap off bra to be finalized
19. Retro Snow Cone Maker
20. Obama to bring change instead of Clinton III
21. Waverunner or jetski. Which is easier for you to deliver.
22. Softball bat that works for me.
23. Aqua Minerale
24. Good jobs for my friends out of work
25. HD camcorder
26. A vacation to the Keys or Carribean or Mediterranean
27. My taxes lowered
28. More sunlight and less darkness; more or less
29. DOS Rebel SLR Camera
30. An IPOD or mp3 player
31. Hot Wheels Cars
32. A weekend in Toronto
33. A case of Pinot Grigio
34. Mighty Putty
35. New jeans…the ones I have are a mess
36. Gnocchi
37. Less gray hair
38. Chia Clown
39. 3 68” Plasma TVs
40. Power Trainer Pro
41. A Chicago weekend
42. A pet skunk. That'll scare ya !
43. Concert tickets…to see someone cool
44. All my vhs tapes converted to dvd
45. All my audio cd’s converted to mp3’s
46. An empty Pepsi Cooler to sit in
47. A block of Provolone
48. Steam Buddy
49. A punching bag with you know who's face on it
50. A widescreen laptop with webcam and stuff
1. Pizza in the middle east
2. Caulk Dr. Pro
3. White t-shirts v-neck or crew cut
4. The Detroit Lions to move to Los Angelas
5. 1968 Ferrari Dino, red.
6. Lamborhini Countach, yellow
7. Sham Wow
8. Moto Guzzi Grisso, black
9. Ducatti Monster, red or black
10. Vespa 1967, light blue
11. 1970 Cadilliac Eldorado, white
12. My Iron Man Costume polished
13. Pom Spinner
14. Green Tea packets, decaf, green
15. German Chocolate Cake
16. Red Wings Tickets or Fasta Pasta
17. Peaches
18. My patent for the clap on clap off bra to be finalized
19. Retro Snow Cone Maker
20. Obama to bring change instead of Clinton III
21. Waverunner or jetski. Which is easier for you to deliver.
22. Softball bat that works for me.
23. Aqua Minerale
24. Good jobs for my friends out of work
25. HD camcorder
26. A vacation to the Keys or Carribean or Mediterranean
27. My taxes lowered
28. More sunlight and less darkness; more or less
29. DOS Rebel SLR Camera
30. An IPOD or mp3 player
31. Hot Wheels Cars
32. A weekend in Toronto
33. A case of Pinot Grigio
34. Mighty Putty
35. New jeans…the ones I have are a mess
36. Gnocchi
37. Less gray hair
38. Chia Clown
39. 3 68” Plasma TVs
40. Power Trainer Pro
41. A Chicago weekend
42. A pet skunk. That'll scare ya !
43. Concert tickets…to see someone cool
44. All my vhs tapes converted to dvd
45. All my audio cd’s converted to mp3’s
46. An empty Pepsi Cooler to sit in
47. A block of Provolone
48. Steam Buddy
49. A punching bag with you know who's face on it
50. A widescreen laptop with webcam and stuff
Truth: My Favorite Movies List (revisited)
Due to the overwhelming blasting and criticism of my original list, I had to make a few modifications. Thanks to the downriver folk with nothing better to do who helped me out here.
1 16 Candles (1984)
2 1941 (1979)
3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4 61 (2001)
5 8 Men Out (1988)
6 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
7 A Bronx Tale (1993)
8 A Christmas Carol (1999)
9 A Christmas Story (1982)
10 A Day at the Races (1937)
11 A Few Good Men (1992)
12 Airplane (1980)
13 Alien vs. Predator (2004)
14 Aliens (1986)
15 American Beauty (1999)
16 American Beauty (1999)
17 American Graffiti (1973)
18 American Pie (1999)
19 Animal House (1978)
20 Apocalypse Now (1979)
21 Apollo 13 (1995)
22 Arthur (1981)
23 Babe Pig In the City (1998)
24 Back to School (1986)
25 Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
26 Bat 21 (1988)
27 Batman (1989)
28 Beetlejuice (1988)
29 Being John Malcovich (1999)
30 Ben Hur (1959)
31 Best in Show (2000)
32 Better Off Dead (1985)
33 Big Night (1996)
34 Blackhawk Down (2001)
35 Blade Runner (1989)
36 Blazing Saddles (1974)
37 Booty Call (1997)
38 Braveheart (1995)
39 Breaking Away (1979)
40 Brian's Song (1970)
41 Bull Durham (1988)
42 Bullitt (1968)
43 Casino (1995)
44 Castaway (2000)
45 Cheech & Chong Nice Dreams (1981)
46 Cheech & Chong Up in Smoke (1978)
47 Citizen Kane (1941)
48 Clerks (1994)
49 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
50 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
51 Dead Poet's Society (1989)
52 Die Hard (1988)
53 Diner (1982)
54 Dirty Harry (1971)
55 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
56 Dogma (1999)
57 Duel (1971)
58 Dumb and Dumber (1994)
59 Easy Rider (1969)
60 Escape from Alcatrax (1979)
61 Falling Down (1993)
62 Fast Times at Ridgmont High (1982)
63 Fear Strikes Out (1957)
64 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
65 Fever Pitch (2005)
66 Field of Dreams
67 Finding Nemo (2003)
68 First Blood (1982)
69 First Knight (1995)
70 Forrest Gump (1994)
71 Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994)
72 Ghostbusters (1984)
73 Gladiator (1999)
74 Good Morning Vietman (1987)
75 Goodfellas (1990)
76 Groundhog Day (1993)
77 Hell in the Pacific (1968)
78 High Fidelity (2000)
79 High Noon (1952)
80 History of the World Part 1 (1981)
81 Home Alone (1990)
82 Hoosiers (1986)
83 Il Postino (1950)
84 Iron Man (2008)
85 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
86 It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
87 James Bond Dr. No (1963)
88 Johnny Stecchino (1991)
89 Kelly's Heroes (1970)
90 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
91 Lethal Weapon II (1989)
92 Life is Beautiful (1996)
93 Local Hero (1983)
94 Lost Highway (1997)
95 Memphis Belle (1990)
96 Midnight Run (1988)
97 Midway (1976)
98 Miracle (2004)
99 Monsters Inc (2001)
100 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
101 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
102 Moonstruck (1987)
103 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
104 Mystery Alaska (1999)
105 Napolean Dynamite (2004)
106 Net Worth (1995)
107 Nightshift (1982)
108 Of Mice and Men (1940)
109 Office Space (1999)
110 Only The Lonely (1991)
111 Parenthood (1989)
112 Patton (1970)
113 Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
114 Plane trains and Automobiles (1987)
115 Planet of the Apes (1968)
116 Platoon (1986)
117 Predator (1987)
118 Psycho (1960)
119 Raising Arizona (1987)
120 Revenge of the Nerds
121 Risky Business (1983)
122 Rocky (1976)
123 Rocky III (1982)
124 Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
125 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
126 Say Anything (1998)
127 Sea of Love (1989)
128 Shrek (2001)
129 Sideways (2004)
130 Silver Streak (1976)
131 Slapshot (1977)
132 SpaceBalls (1987)
133 Speed (1994)
134 Spiderman (2002)
135 Stalag 17 (1953)
136 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
137 Star Wars (1977)
138 Stigmata (1999)
139 Strange Brew (1983)
140 Stripes (1991)
141 Taxi Driver (1976)
142 Terminator II Judgement Day (1991)
143 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
144 The Bad News Bears (1976)
145 The Birds (1963)
146 The Blues Brothers (1980)
147 The Breakfast Club (1985)
148 The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
149 The Dark Knight (2008)
150 The Deer Hunter (1978)
151 The Delta Force (1986)
152 The Dirty Dozen (1967)
153 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
154 The Family Man (2000)
155 The French Connection (1971)
156 The Fugitive (1993)
157 The Godfather(1972)
158 The Godfather, Part II (1974)
159 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
160 The Great Escape (1963)
161 The Green Berets (1968)
162 The Hunt For Red October (1990)
163 The Ice Pirates (1984)
164 The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
165 The Longest Yard (1974)
166 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
167 The Natural (1984)
168 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
169 The Passion of the Christ (2004)
170 The Patriot (2000)
171 The Pick up Artist (1987)
172 The Pink Panther (1963)
173 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
174 The Right Stuff(1983)
175 The Rosary Murders (1987)
176 The Sandlot (1993)
177 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
178 The Sons of Katie Elder
179 The Sure Thing (1985)
180 The Ten Commandments (1956)
181 The Tenth Victim (1965)
182 The Truman Show (1998)
183 The Untouchables (1987)
184 The Wizard of OZ (1939)
185 There's Something About Mary (1998)
186 This is Spinal Tap (1984)
187 Top Gun (1986)
188 Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)
189 Toy Story (1995)
190 Uncle Buck (1989)
191 Uncommon Valor (1883)
192 Vacation (1983)
193 Vertigo (1958)
194 Victory (1981)
195 Wall Street (1997)
196 War Games (1983)
197 War of the Roses (1989)
198 Weird Science (1985)
199 When Harry Met Sally (1989)
200 Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
No I don't care for Indiana Jones movies.
Titanic sucked.
9 1/2 weeks was good for sure.
I didnt see The Hustler.
I have not seen An Affair to Remember.
Didnt see Heathers.
Romancing The Stone wasnt that good.
Didnt see True Romance; probably wouldnt believe it anyways.
I didnt see 40 year old virgin.
Didnt care for Fight Club.
Horror movies dont interest me - but there are very good ones.
Independance Day was lame.
Armageddon was horrible, sorry Patty.
Beggar Vance and Tin Cup I could not stand.
Dances with Wolves was dumb.
Robin Hood with Kevin Costner was lame.
Goldfinger should be on there, love all the Bond flicks.
Wild Wild West..no way.
Kindergarten Cop and Twins could make my top 500 list.
I liked Men In Black.
Didnt care for The Matrix.
Some of the Star Trek were ok.
SeaBiscuit was good, but not that good.
The last Star Wars was worth watching.
5th Element was decent.
Should have added The Abyss.
Jaws I like but I'm gonna need a bigger boat.
An American Journalist I hear is great.
I should put Guns of Navarone.
1 16 Candles (1984)
2 1941 (1979)
3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4 61 (2001)
5 8 Men Out (1988)
6 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
7 A Bronx Tale (1993)
8 A Christmas Carol (1999)
9 A Christmas Story (1982)
10 A Day at the Races (1937)
11 A Few Good Men (1992)
12 Airplane (1980)
13 Alien vs. Predator (2004)
14 Aliens (1986)
15 American Beauty (1999)
16 American Beauty (1999)
17 American Graffiti (1973)
18 American Pie (1999)
19 Animal House (1978)
20 Apocalypse Now (1979)
21 Apollo 13 (1995)
22 Arthur (1981)
23 Babe Pig In the City (1998)
24 Back to School (1986)
25 Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
26 Bat 21 (1988)
27 Batman (1989)
28 Beetlejuice (1988)
29 Being John Malcovich (1999)
30 Ben Hur (1959)
31 Best in Show (2000)
32 Better Off Dead (1985)
33 Big Night (1996)
34 Blackhawk Down (2001)
35 Blade Runner (1989)
36 Blazing Saddles (1974)
37 Booty Call (1997)
38 Braveheart (1995)
39 Breaking Away (1979)
40 Brian's Song (1970)
41 Bull Durham (1988)
42 Bullitt (1968)
43 Casino (1995)
44 Castaway (2000)
45 Cheech & Chong Nice Dreams (1981)
46 Cheech & Chong Up in Smoke (1978)
47 Citizen Kane (1941)
48 Clerks (1994)
49 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
50 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
51 Dead Poet's Society (1989)
52 Die Hard (1988)
53 Diner (1982)
54 Dirty Harry (1971)
55 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
56 Dogma (1999)
57 Duel (1971)
58 Dumb and Dumber (1994)
59 Easy Rider (1969)
60 Escape from Alcatrax (1979)
61 Falling Down (1993)
62 Fast Times at Ridgmont High (1982)
63 Fear Strikes Out (1957)
64 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
65 Fever Pitch (2005)
66 Field of Dreams
67 Finding Nemo (2003)
68 First Blood (1982)
69 First Knight (1995)
70 Forrest Gump (1994)
71 Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994)
72 Ghostbusters (1984)
73 Gladiator (1999)
74 Good Morning Vietman (1987)
75 Goodfellas (1990)
76 Groundhog Day (1993)
77 Hell in the Pacific (1968)
78 High Fidelity (2000)
79 High Noon (1952)
80 History of the World Part 1 (1981)
81 Home Alone (1990)
82 Hoosiers (1986)
83 Il Postino (1950)
84 Iron Man (2008)
85 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
86 It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
87 James Bond Dr. No (1963)
88 Johnny Stecchino (1991)
89 Kelly's Heroes (1970)
90 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
91 Lethal Weapon II (1989)
92 Life is Beautiful (1996)
93 Local Hero (1983)
94 Lost Highway (1997)
95 Memphis Belle (1990)
96 Midnight Run (1988)
97 Midway (1976)
98 Miracle (2004)
99 Monsters Inc (2001)
100 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
101 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
102 Moonstruck (1987)
103 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
104 Mystery Alaska (1999)
105 Napolean Dynamite (2004)
106 Net Worth (1995)
107 Nightshift (1982)
108 Of Mice and Men (1940)
109 Office Space (1999)
110 Only The Lonely (1991)
111 Parenthood (1989)
112 Patton (1970)
113 Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
114 Plane trains and Automobiles (1987)
115 Planet of the Apes (1968)
116 Platoon (1986)
117 Predator (1987)
118 Psycho (1960)
119 Raising Arizona (1987)
120 Revenge of the Nerds
121 Risky Business (1983)
122 Rocky (1976)
123 Rocky III (1982)
124 Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
125 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
126 Say Anything (1998)
127 Sea of Love (1989)
128 Shrek (2001)
129 Sideways (2004)
130 Silver Streak (1976)
131 Slapshot (1977)
132 SpaceBalls (1987)
133 Speed (1994)
134 Spiderman (2002)
135 Stalag 17 (1953)
136 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
137 Star Wars (1977)
138 Stigmata (1999)
139 Strange Brew (1983)
140 Stripes (1991)
141 Taxi Driver (1976)
142 Terminator II Judgement Day (1991)
143 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
144 The Bad News Bears (1976)
145 The Birds (1963)
146 The Blues Brothers (1980)
147 The Breakfast Club (1985)
148 The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
149 The Dark Knight (2008)
150 The Deer Hunter (1978)
151 The Delta Force (1986)
152 The Dirty Dozen (1967)
153 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
154 The Family Man (2000)
155 The French Connection (1971)
156 The Fugitive (1993)
157 The Godfather(1972)
158 The Godfather, Part II (1974)
159 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
160 The Great Escape (1963)
161 The Green Berets (1968)
162 The Hunt For Red October (1990)
163 The Ice Pirates (1984)
164 The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
165 The Longest Yard (1974)
166 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
167 The Natural (1984)
168 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
169 The Passion of the Christ (2004)
170 The Patriot (2000)
171 The Pick up Artist (1987)
172 The Pink Panther (1963)
173 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
174 The Right Stuff(1983)
175 The Rosary Murders (1987)
176 The Sandlot (1993)
177 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
178 The Sons of Katie Elder
179 The Sure Thing (1985)
180 The Ten Commandments (1956)
181 The Tenth Victim (1965)
182 The Truman Show (1998)
183 The Untouchables (1987)
184 The Wizard of OZ (1939)
185 There's Something About Mary (1998)
186 This is Spinal Tap (1984)
187 Top Gun (1986)
188 Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)
189 Toy Story (1995)
190 Uncle Buck (1989)
191 Uncommon Valor (1883)
192 Vacation (1983)
193 Vertigo (1958)
194 Victory (1981)
195 Wall Street (1997)
196 War Games (1983)
197 War of the Roses (1989)
198 Weird Science (1985)
199 When Harry Met Sally (1989)
200 Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
No I don't care for Indiana Jones movies.
Titanic sucked.
9 1/2 weeks was good for sure.
I didnt see The Hustler.
I have not seen An Affair to Remember.
Didnt see Heathers.
Romancing The Stone wasnt that good.
Didnt see True Romance; probably wouldnt believe it anyways.
I didnt see 40 year old virgin.
Didnt care for Fight Club.
Horror movies dont interest me - but there are very good ones.
Independance Day was lame.
Armageddon was horrible, sorry Patty.
Beggar Vance and Tin Cup I could not stand.
Dances with Wolves was dumb.
Robin Hood with Kevin Costner was lame.
Goldfinger should be on there, love all the Bond flicks.
Wild Wild West..no way.
Kindergarten Cop and Twins could make my top 500 list.
I liked Men In Black.
Didnt care for The Matrix.
Some of the Star Trek were ok.
SeaBiscuit was good, but not that good.
The last Star Wars was worth watching.
5th Element was decent.
Should have added The Abyss.
Jaws I like but I'm gonna need a bigger boat.
An American Journalist I hear is great.
I should put Guns of Navarone.
1.01.2009
Sports - Winter Classic
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. When I first heard about the Winter Classic I immediately was against it being on New Year's Day. I assumed Gary Bettman was instituting another clueless gimick that would not work for the NHL. Who is going to watch hockey when all those football games are on?
Well I was wrong. This years 2nd Annual game between the Blackhawks and Red Wings was great. Having it at Wrigley Field was cool. I don't know how it was in person, but I'll ask some friends who went there. I doubt it wasnt that great in person. On TV, it was very cool. A very good game too with the Wings winning 6 to 4.
I like the idea and look forward to it happening more often actually. 41,000 people attended the game, and that's great. Great for hockey. Singing Take Me Out To The Ball Game was a nice touch. The Air Force jets fly over, gave it a Super Bowl feel. the weather was perfect, and the Red Wing Nation was there in full force.
How about Tiger Stadium next year? Or Fenway Park?
Go Wings
Truth: My Favorite Movies List
My Favorite 200 Movies of all time. Not in any order, just my favorite. I'm sure I'm missing some especially some sequels. What am I missing?
#1 A Christmas Story (1982)
#2 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
#3 The Godfather, Part II (1974)
#4 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
#5 Goodfellas (1990)
#6 The Godfather(1972)
#7 Apocalypse Now (1979)
#8 Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
#9 Psycho (1960)
#10 The Patriot (2000)
#11 Lost Highway (1997)
#12 Hoosiers (1986)
#13 Field of Dreams
#14 Bullitt (1968)
#15 Casino (1995)
#16 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
#17 Dirty Harry (1971)
#18 Planet of the Apes (1968)
#19 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
#20 Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
#21 The Sons of Katie Elder
#22 The Rosary Murders (1987)
#23 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
#24 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
#25 The Dirty Dozen (1967)
#26 Citizen Kane (1941)
#27 A Christmas Carol (1999)
#28 Stigmata (1999)
#29 Miracle (2004)
#30 American Beauty (1999)
#31 Castaway (2000)
#32 Of Mice and Men (1940)
#33 Raising Arizona (1987)
#34 The Dark Knight (2008)
#35 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
#36 Duel (1971)
#37 Rocky (1976)
#38 The Tenth Victim (1965)
#39 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
#40 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
#41 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
#42 Local Hero (1983)
#43 American Pie (1999)
#44 Patton (1970)
#45 Blade Runner (1989)
#46 Better Off Dead (1985)
#47 The Wizard of OZ (1939)
#48 Midnight Run (1988)
#49 Memphis Belle (1990)
#50 The Deer Hunter (1978)
#51 High Noon (1952)
#52 8 Men Out (1988)
#53 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
#54 Vertigo (1958)
#55 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
#56 Blackhawk Down (2001)
#57 The Family Man (2000)
#58 Aliens (1986)
#59 The Breakfast Club (1985)
#60 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
#61 Kelly's Heroes (1970)
#62 Stalag 17 (1953)
#63 Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)
#64 Net Worth (1995)
#65 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
#66 American Graffiti (1973)
#67 The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
#68 Midway (1976)
#69 Groundhog Day (1993) Groundhog Day (1993)
#70 Plane trains and Automobiles (1987)
#71 Dead Poet's Society (1989)
#72 High Fidelity (2000)
#73 Iron Man (2008)
#74 Airplane (1980)
#75 The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
#76 Slapshot (1977)
#77 Bull Durham (1988)
#78 Victory (1981)
#79 Shrek (2001)
#80 Clerks (1994)
#81 Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994)
#82 Taxi Driver (1976)
#83 War of the Roses (1989)
#84 Die Hard (1988)
#84 Il Postino (1950)
#85 The Sandlot (1993)
#86 Breaking Away (1979)
#87 Sideways (2004)
#88 When Harry Met Sally (1989)
#89 Life is Beautiful (1996)
#90 Johnny Stecchino (1991)
#91 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
#92 A Few Good Men (1992)
#93 James Bond Dr. No (1963)
#94 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
#95 The Ten Commandments (1956)
#96 The Passion of the Christ (2004)
#97 It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
#98 16 Candles (1984)
#99 The Birds (1963)
#100 Office Space (1999)
#101 Mystery Alaska (1999)
#102 This is Spinal Tap (1984)
#104 Toy Story (1995)
#105 Uncommon Valor (1883)
#106 First Blood (1982)
#107 War Games (1983)
#108 Say Anything (1998)
#109 Dogma (1999)
#110 The Sure Thing (1985)
#111 The Right Stuff(1983)
#112 Gladiator (1999)
#113 First Knight (1995)
#114 Braveheart (1995)
#115 Fever Pitch (2005)
#115 Lethal Weapon II (1989)
#116 The Bad News Bears (1976)
#117 Bat 21 (1988)
#118 The Pick up Artist (1987)
#119 Weird Science (1985)
#120 The Green Berets (1968)
#121 Moonstruck (1987)
#122 Big Night (1996)
#123 A Bronx Tale (1993)
#124 The Pink Panther (1963)
#125 Diner (1982)
#126 Animal House (1978)
#127 The Untouchables (1987)
#128 The Blues Brothers (1980)
#129 The French Connection (1971)
#130 Easy Rider (1969)
#140 Strange Brew (1983)
#141 SpaceBalls (1987)
#142 Stripes (1991)
#143 1941 (1979)
#144 Vacation (1983)
#145 Best in Show (2000)
#146 Only The Lonely (1991)
#147 Parenthood (1989)
#148 Beetlejuice (1988)
#149 Nightshift (1982)
#150 Pretty in Pink (1986)
#151 Forrest Gump (1994)
#152 Batman (1989)
#153 Spiderman (2002)
#154 Platoon (1986)
#155 The Truman Show (1998)
#156 Dumb and Dumber (1994)
#157 Finding Nemo (2003)
#158 Ben Hur (1959)
#159 Terminator II Judgement Day (1991)
#160 The Natural (1984)
#161 Escape from Alcatrax (1979)
#162 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
#163 The Hunt For Red October (1990)
#164 The Delta Force (1986)
#165 Hell in the Pacific (1968)
#166 Good Morning Vietman (1987)
#167 Top Gun (1986)
#168 Risky Business (1983)
#169 The Great Escape (1963)
#170 The Longest Yard (1974)
#171 Home Alone (1990)
#172 A Day at the Races (1937)
#173 Fast Times at Ridgmont High (1982)
#174 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
#175 Fear Strikes Out (1957)
#176 Sea of Love (1989)
#177 Back to School (1986)
#178 Revenge of the Nerds
#179 Cheech & Chong Nice Dreams (1981)
#180 Cheech & Chong Up in Smoke (1978)
#181 Being John Malcovich (1999)
#182 Apollo 13 (1995)
#183 Booty Call (1997)
#184 The Fugitive (1993)
#185 Ghostbusters (1984)
#186 Speed (1994)
#187 Monsters Inc (2001)
#188 Napolean Dynamite (2004)
#189 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
#190 Rocky III (1982)
#191 Predator (1987)
#192 Star Wars (1977)
#193 Arthur (1981)
#194 Babe Pig In the City (1998)
#195 Wall Street (1997)
#196 Falling Down (1993)
#197 There's Something About Mary (1998)
#198 61 (2001)
#199 Brian's Song (1970)
#200 Alien vs. Predator (2004)
#1 A Christmas Story (1982)
#2 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
#3 The Godfather, Part II (1974)
#4 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
#5 Goodfellas (1990)
#6 The Godfather(1972)
#7 Apocalypse Now (1979)
#8 Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
#9 Psycho (1960)
#10 The Patriot (2000)
#11 Lost Highway (1997)
#12 Hoosiers (1986)
#13 Field of Dreams
#14 Bullitt (1968)
#15 Casino (1995)
#16 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
#17 Dirty Harry (1971)
#18 Planet of the Apes (1968)
#19 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
#20 Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
#21 The Sons of Katie Elder
#22 The Rosary Murders (1987)
#23 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
#24 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
#25 The Dirty Dozen (1967)
#26 Citizen Kane (1941)
#27 A Christmas Carol (1999)
#28 Stigmata (1999)
#29 Miracle (2004)
#30 American Beauty (1999)
#31 Castaway (2000)
#32 Of Mice and Men (1940)
#33 Raising Arizona (1987)
#34 The Dark Knight (2008)
#35 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
#36 Duel (1971)
#37 Rocky (1976)
#38 The Tenth Victim (1965)
#39 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
#40 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
#41 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
#42 Local Hero (1983)
#43 American Pie (1999)
#44 Patton (1970)
#45 Blade Runner (1989)
#46 Better Off Dead (1985)
#47 The Wizard of OZ (1939)
#48 Midnight Run (1988)
#49 Memphis Belle (1990)
#50 The Deer Hunter (1978)
#51 High Noon (1952)
#52 8 Men Out (1988)
#53 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
#54 Vertigo (1958)
#55 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
#56 Blackhawk Down (2001)
#57 The Family Man (2000)
#58 Aliens (1986)
#59 The Breakfast Club (1985)
#60 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
#61 Kelly's Heroes (1970)
#62 Stalag 17 (1953)
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