Could Congress Finally be Doing Something Right?

CNETnews.com is reporting that the House Transportation Committee has moved to permanently ban in-flight cell phone usage on airplanes (of course where else would in flight cell phone usage take place but on cell phones??!!!!!?).

From Oregon Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio's website press release:

"With airline customer satisfaction at an all time low, this is not the time to consider making airplane travel even more torturous. Polls show the public overwhelmingly doesn’t want to be subjected to people talking on their cell phones on increasingly over-packed airplanes," DeFazio said. "However, with Internet access just around the corner on U.S. flights, it won’t be long before the ban on voice communications on in-flight planes is lifted. The HANG UP Act, would ensure that financially strapped airlines don’t drive us towards this noisome disruption in search of further revenue."

I ride the Long island rail Road on a daily basis and on that public transportation where there ARE means to avoid jerkoffs even if it means you move and the jerkoffs stay. On an airplane? Today? They are cattle-cars and the last thing I need is to listen to some jerkoff on a phone. I have no problem with other modes of communication and DeFazio wisely addresses the issue:

The legislation only prohibits voice communications in-flight but passengers
would still be able to access the Internet, e-mail and send text messages as
these technologies become available on airplanes.

The only problem I have with this well-intentioned piece of legislation is the name.

The Hang Up Act??? The Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace Act????

Wow. What a mouthful.

Monica Lewinsky never had such a mouthful!

Anyway - Congrats to Congress for getting something right!!!!!!!!!

Another Science Post - What's Going on Here????

Here is a headline from MSNBC.com:

Exercise in a pill? Drugs show promise in mice

Is it just me or does anyone remember the late 50s and early 60s where experimentation on animals went horribly awry creating monsters that attacked large metropoli??????

I specifically remember hoards of gigantic killer ants attacking Los Angeles. The army only mobilized after a little girl walked out of the Mojave Desert and said "Them".

What about nuclear energy? Does anybody remember the radiation causing hoards of gigantic thunder lizards (some of whom had the power to expel bad breath and throw army tanks around as if they were toys!) running around cities especially in Japan!!!!!!

Now, Mice.

Exercise Mice specifically. These are cute little things. And I know the research is for good purposes but you do know that it is going to go awry.

These exercise mice will grow uncontrollably and will have pecs and deltoids and will kick the living shit out of every person that ever went after one of their descendants with a broom.

And what of the cats? Sure, there is a cat overpopulation and some countries eat, I mean drown, the excess kitties. But to go down having your head bitten off by a giant muscled exercise mouse is no way to go.

And of course the Army will fare no better. They never do. I'm sure the little Army tanks will slide on the giant exercise mouse droppings.

Will Science never learn?

Holy Smokes!!!!!!

Geeks In Space - A Science Post for Gumby

Space - the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the
starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.

Thanks to Gene Roddenberry these are words known to billions of people and most especially to the geeks of the world. Don't get me wrong - I love the original Star Trek series but I like to think that i am not geeky enough to refer to it as TOS (for "The Original Series").

Well who does refer to it as TOS? The Paramount marketing department and Geeks - many of whom are Gamers (Science proves there is a high correlation between the state of geekdom and the state of gamedom).

But at least the Gamers will realize their Final Fantasy (not bad, huh? huh?).

"Lord British" the nickname Geeks have given to video game designer Richard Garriott, has decided to launch "Operation Immortality".

He's going to take the DNA of any player of his game "Tabula Rasa" into space when he goes to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

His website, Operation Immortality, is not launched yet but has the phrase "Leave Your Mark. Save Humanity". The site apparently launches today.

But let's think a few steps ahead.

What happens if some malevolent space being ( let's say Ricardo Montalban as Khan) gets all of the DNA, extracts it and synthesizes it into one unstoppable monster.

What would it look like?

Scientists have come up with an artist's conception. You can access it here. But I warn you. it is not pretty.

Lord British ought to think twice.

Gotta Love Those Germans

This Just In:

There was a Wild Party in Berlin.

The neighbors called the Police.

The police responded.

The Guests thought that the police were male strippers.

Only in Germany.

"When your IQ rises to 28, sell.”

Just wanted to give a shout out to one of the funniest comedians ever. Today is the birthday of professor Irwin Corey, the lovalble shleppy looking comic who came out on stage in a tattered tuxedo and gave new meaning to the term "stream of consciousness".



Corey is 94 today and was born in 1914.


I'll make a hash out of anything Corey did so the best thing to do is for me to link you to his website and specifically to his audio and video clips.

Happy Birthday Professor for all the fun you've given.

The Real Reason

"Qantas"

Ahhh, the name always brings back memories of "Rain Man" and while it is true that the airline has never had fatalities on any of its jet aircraft, they came close the other day.

On July 25, 2008, Qantas Flight 30, a Boeing 747-438 on the leg from Hong Kong to Melbourne, suffered an explosive decompression as a result of in-flight structural damage. The aircraft, at cruising altitude, made an emergency descent and landed uneventfully in Manila. No one was injured. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau referred to the occurrence as a "Serious Incident", while the National Transportation Safety Board (an American agency, as the aircraft is of American manufacture) initially called it an accident. Scotland Yard dismissed the possibility of a bomb exploding, although the possibility of an exploding oxygen supply tank is being investigated. read about it here.

Pay attention to the photo.

Now we know why they are focusing on the oxygen tank.

To hide the real reason:


THERE WAS A MAN ON THE WING!!!!!!!

Giving the phrase "being up for the game" a whole new meaning.

A 73 year old Japanese man, bored after being retired, has become one of Japan's hottest new porn stars.

No word on whether Viagra is being used but a distribution deal has been achieved to allow release of some of his films on DVD.

First Pearl Harbor, then the transistor radio. Now this.

And he's one goofy looking bastard, too.

Been There Done That

So what's the big deal???

A Wisconsin man was arrested for shooting his lawn mower went it wouldn't start. Why is that such a big deal? I mean, unless you have a lawn mower with an electric plug they all don't start up at some time or another and deserve to be shot.

And this was Wisconsin. That's a big gun state. I heard that's how they get the holes in the swiss cheese.

Maybe they arrested the guy because he looked like the unabomber. Read about it here

Retraction of Retraction

Piece of Shit Mets

Retraction

I know I said the Mets were fucking pieces of shit.

Now that they are in first place by 2 games, i retract that statement.

I reserve the right, however, to re-apply it at a later date.

This is the Guy that Ought to Win MLB Player of the Month

There Is A Lot Going On In The World

There is a presidential campaign going on.

There is global warming.

Obama is in Iraq.

McCain is possibly naming his Veep this week.

Angelina Jolie left the hospital with her twins, Rhubarb and Myopia or whatever their fucking names are.

Warren jeffs was charged with sexual abuse.

Jeffrey Lyons and ben Mankiewicz are replacing Ebert and Roeper (not quite the same ring to it, huh?)

The Beijing (I prefer to say Peking since you don't order beijing duck at a restaurant) Olympics are soon going to be underway with protests along the way and the Dalai lama trying to lead the opening ceremonies with a "Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga".

and all I have to say is.....


FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT NEW YORK METS.

In Happier Times

Why are these folks smiling?

Well, it was before she got fired when details of her personal life became fodder for the tabloid columns. This included her scuffle with police in New York City.

It turns out today that he was arrested for alleged unauthorized access to her email revealing alleged details that were allegedly leaked to the gossip columnists.

America. What a country.

Read more here.

News On The March

Three News Stories Worthy Of Our Attention

1. CNN reports that the NYTimes has refused to print the John McCain essay on Iraq, despite having printed Senator Obama's views.

Now we all know that the Times is a liberal dishrag that wasn't even Fit to Carry my Dog's Shit(get it???) but now they have proven it. Don't get me wrong. I am not a huge McCain fan but equal time has some merit. Not this nonsense like "we don't like what you've written but if you write what we want you to write, we will print it." Fer crying out loud - the man is a Presidential candidate. Isn't it newsworthy to see exactly what he submits instead of some massaged bullshit that fits the Times' agenda. Back to my dog - I wouldn't use the Times to pick up my dog's crap because it would most assuredly fall apart like the far left's viewpoints when subjected to closer examination. Click here for story.

2. Court Tosses 'Wardrobe Malfunction' Fine

It's nice to know that Janet Jackson's tittie ain't worth as much as everyone thought it did. A court in Philadelphia threw out the fine for the exposed tittie during the 2004 Super Bowl. The pro-Bush FCC might have overstepped it's grounds according to the court - not a surprise in these times when the government wants to regulate everything. The court found that the FCC fine for the "broadcast of a nine-sixteenths of one second glimpse of a bare female breast" deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining broadcast indecency only when it was extremely "pervasive." click here for story

Besides, the one who should have been fined was Janet Jackson - it wasn't a particularly nice tittie and it had that stupid little tittie ring on it.

3. On a personal Note: Roger Ebert gives "thumbs-down" to Disney.

Ebert, one of the finest movie critics ever, decided to chuck his show one day after Richard Roeper stated that he was leaving the show in August. Ebert, classy as ever, stated that Disney/ABC wanted to take the show "in a new direction", a path that Ebert would not elaborate on but would also not go down. Maybe this new path would have guaranteed good reviews for all Disney movies. click here for the story.

Ebert is taking this great stand, despite being sidelined with health issues over the past couple of years. He retains the trademark to the "thumbs up, thumbs down" motif that he and Gene (we miss you muchly) Siskel innovated.

Yet it seems that he gave quite a different un-trademarked finger to Disney/ABC.

I'm Drawing a Blank

I have no idea what to write.

I have been sitting here for quite some time having taken the time off from posting over the weekend.

My brain was lazy this weekend so I don't know what to write. I can't write as well as my friend Gumby who has had two excellent posts recently on the (faked) moon landing and a service that will bless your resume or photograph (really!!!!!). I don't think the moon landing was faked and capricorn One was such a hose job of a movie (come on - in the chase scene you see palm trees. Palm trees. In Houston?????????).

Gumby writes so well - for a guy from Akron.

And me?? English major and I cannot get a thought in edgewise.

Like I was running this morning and in the morning I see people running and you give the little wave, you know? Well, there is this woman. Let's call her Brunhilde. She never waves. Never.

Here I am, waving my chicken arms around and she looks away. She shouldn't be able to run. it's like a law. Well, more like a guideline, but there are rules of the road. And she's not obeying and she's pissing me off.

And AIG's stock is up $5 from last week and that's pissing me off as well.

And the Mets have a share of the lead but it's in that National League Least and that's pissing me off as well.

Notice a trend?

Well, you know what also pisses me off? Nancy Pelosi calling George Bush a total failure. I mean, is that a case of "Hello Kettle, You're Black" or what??????

And Starbucks closing 600 stores around the country. That pisses me off. They should close all of them - except mine, the one on the corner of Liberty Street and Nassau Street in Downtown Manhattan. If that's the only one open, the line can be not only out of the door but down the block as well. Then I won't go there anymore and then they can close that one and i will be okay.

For now, I will pay $2.28 per day for two Venti cups of coffee. And what the hell does Venti mean? Shit, it sounds like Italian but in Italian, Venti means "twenty".

That pisses me off. And you know what pisses me off more???? Baristas. what the fuck is a Barista?? In what language do the idiots at Starbucks speak??? Esperanto????

And you know what else pisses me off??? Dan Rather referring to Barack Obama as Osama Bin Laden and no one reports on it except Bill O'Reilly.

Aren't you glad I drew a blank?

SNAG FILMS

a great new service to showcase documentary films for free.

Here's the first one. It's Ah-nuld of course.

An interesting movie if also a bit of a polemic.

Jesse Jackson Part 2

From the Associated Press:

CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse Jackson used an emotionally charged racial slur during a break in a TV interview in which he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.
The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show. In those comments, he contended that Obama wasn't speaking to issues important to the black community and unaware that his microphone was still on, he said, "I want to cut his nuts off."
In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, the African-American leader is reported to have said Obama was "talking down to black people," and referred to blacks with a slur commonly referred to as the N-word when he said Obama was telling them "how to behave."

A Legal Document. Really

in case you can't read it, this says:

"I am informing you that I am appealing the asshole Ronald B. Leighton's decision in this matter.

"You have been hereby served notice. You are not getting away with this shit that easy."

all TRUE.

Summer Classes for Men

Summer Classes for Men at THE ADULT LEARNING CENTER
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETEDby August 15, 2008

212-458-1722

NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVELOF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM

Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?Round Table Discussion.Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 1 2:00 for 2 hours.

Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.

Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?Examples on Video.Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginningat 7:00 PM

Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.Help Line Support and Support Groups.Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM

Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.Open ForumMonday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.

Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.Graphics and Audio Tapes.Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost --Real Life Testimonials.Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined

Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?Driving Simulations.4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.

Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.Online Classes and role-playingTuesdays at 7:00 PM , location to be determined

Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping CompanionRelaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.Meets 4 w eeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 14
The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.Live Demonstration.Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.

Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.

Mystery of the Manhole Covers Solved!!!!

Yahoo news reported that 400 Manhole covers were stolen in Flint Michigan.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_missing_manhole_covers


Reliable sources have informed this writer that Flint native Michael Moore thought they were hamburgers lying around town and tried to eat them.

I hope many read this soon.

I might have to take the picture down. it grosses me out.

An Iconography of Contagion

I was reading this week's Newsweek.

There was an article about the National Academy of Science's latest exhibition called "An Iconography of Contagion"

I wish I lived in Washington DC - there are some excellent medicine public service announcements/advertisements from the 1940s.

Here is my favorite. She looks like Angelina Jolie, don't you think?

AIG Update July 15, 2008

Closed at $20.64.

Went as low as $19.73.

$19.73.

wow.

all because of melon head Sullivan

must be a reason he isn't smiling.

Fuck Cancer

Over the weekend Cancer took the lives of two great well-known personalities.

First, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow died at the age of 53.

Then, later in the day, Yankee Great Bobby Murcer died at the age of 62.

Both men spent their final months showing uncommon grace and dignity.

I can't really speak too much about this because it is an issue very close to me.

Rest In peace, guys.

from cnn.com

From Al Capone to al Qaeda

The article was intereting but the title was a grabber.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/11/fbi.terrorism/index.html

AIG Update 7-14-08

Got rid of the old post by request.

Today's update.

AIG closed DOWN at $22.55 per share.

I just bought a crappy Timex watch for running that cost more by $8.00.

Jesse Jackson 24 years later

Jesse Jackson Civil Rights Destroyer.



On the O'Reilly Factor, Jesse Jackson, thinking the microphone was off said the following:

"See, Barack been..um..talking down to black people..on his faith based. I want to cut his nuts off."

Beyond reprehensible, really.

But what can we expect from Jackson who is 1984 as a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE no less referred to New York City as "Hymietown".

Larry Sabato's excellent piece from the Washington Post reported at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htmoutlines how Jackson denied the remarks and blamed it on a Jewish conspiracy. And then he admitted the remarks were made but it was supposed to be made "off the record" as if that made it okay.

To make it worse, Jackson's good buddy and everyone's favorite anti-semite, Louis Farrakhan, threatened the Washington post reporter and Jackson refused to denounce Farrakhan.

Good going Jesse.

Not even your role in The Man with The Golden Gun is going to save you.

Me?

I don't mind politicians making on-air gaffes.

I didn't mind George W. Bush calling a reporter an "asshole" thinking his microphone was off.

Most reporters are.

My favorite moment was Ronald Reagan's.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."

But Jesse Jackson? He, like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, should be beyond forgiveness.

Both are reverends, notice that???

I hope the divinity school they went to has closed up

To Missy With Love

http://tinyurl.com/6baf7h

Missy, I have included this link to a story on Yahoo just for you because since one of the Professor's quoted in the article has the last name of LEDGER.

Perhaps your loss of Heath can be compensated against by this new LEDGER.

Perhaps, some of what he says is applicable to you.

signed,

NGTBIH
(never going to burn in hell)

Missy the Fundy

Missy just posted the following comment

I hope that all of you that make this hateful and reckless comments about Heath burn blissfully in hell. It's so classy of you to take the plunge on him now that he can't fight back... Really brave!Yeah... Awesome.... Just fucking burn
in hell. All of you, motherfuckers.

My friend Gumby correctly points out that Missy is one of those Fundamentalists who preach fire and brimstone. I could have responded in the comments section but I wanted my faithful readers to see her comments up front.

Not only did she use bad words. She used bad words twice, feeling the need to post on multiple occassions. Must have LOVED that Ledger drug abuser.

keep the hits coming.

Oh, Missy, by the way: Us Jews don't believe in hell - so there won't be any burning by me.

But YOU, chickie-poo - not only are you going to burn in hell, you are most likely going to get sued by Peter Travers for copyright infringement by putting up links to his articles which he doesn't like. I know this because I know him. I have alerted him to your copyright violation.

Finally, on the subject of Heath Ledger, I'd like to offer an apology for my prior comments......

to ABSOLUTELY NO ONE.

You take Drugs. You die. He took drugs. He died.

And his actions should not be rewarded.

And Missy, had I known he took drugs I woulda busted his balls while he was alive.

George be Not Proud

I just found this quote from Mr. Carlin and I liked it a lot. He would appreciate the application to himself:

I dread the deaths of certain super-celebrities. Not because I care about them, but because of all the shit I have to endure on television when one of them dies. All those tributes and retrospectives. And the bigger the personality, the worse it is.
– George Carlin

Is it Just Me

or is it a coincidence that Jesse Helms and Bozo the Clown died at the same time?

Could they have been the same person?

The Origins of the Fourth of July

Gregorian reform
The motivation of the Catholic Church in adjusting the calendar was to celebrate Easter at the time it thought the First Council of Nicaea had agreed upon in 325. Although a canon of the council implies that all churches used the same Easter, they did not. The Church of Alexandria celebrated Easter on the Sunday after the 14th day of the moon (computed using the Metonic cycle) that falls on or after the vernal equinox, which they placed on 21 March. However, the Church of Rome still regarded 25 March as the equinox (until 342) and used a different cycle to compute the day of the moon.[7] In the Alexandrian system, since the 14th day of the Easter moon could fall at earliest on 21 March its first day could fall no earlier than 8 March and no later than 5 April. This meant that Easter varied between 22 March and 25 April. At Rome, Easter was not allowed to fall later than 21 April, this being the day of the Parilia or birthday of Rome and a pagan festival. The first day of the Easter moon could fall no earlier than 5 March and no later than 2 April. Easter was the Sunday after the 15th day of this moon, whose 14th day was allowed to precede the equinox. Where the two systems produced different dates there was generally a compromise so that both churches were able to celebrate on the same day. By the tenth century all churches (except some on the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire) had adopted the Alexandrian Easter, which still placed the vernal equinox on 21 March, although Bede had already noted its drift in 725—it had drifted even further by the sixteenth century.
Worse, the reckoned Moon that was used to compute Easter was fixed to the Julian year by a 19 year cycle. However, that approximation built up an error of one day every 310 years, so by the sixteenth century the lunar calendar was out of phase with the real Moon by four days.

The Council of Trent approved a plan in 1563 for correcting the calendrical errors, requiring that the date of the vernal equinox be restored to that which it held at the time of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and that an alteration to the calendar be designed to prevent future drift. This would allow for a more consistent and accurate scheduling of the feast of Easter.

The fix was to come in two stages. First, it was necessary to approximate the correct length of a solar year. The value chosen was 365.2425 days in decimal notation.[8] Although close to the mean tropical year of 365.24219 days, it is even closer to the vernal equinox year of 365.2424 days; this fact made the choice of approximation particularly appropriate as the purpose of creating the calendar was to ensure that the vernal equinox would be near a specific date (21 March). (See Accuracy).

The second stage was to devise a model based on the approximation which would provide an accurate yet simple, rule-based calendar. The formula designed by Aloysius Lilius was ultimately successful. It proposed a 10-day correction to revert the drift since Nicaea, and the imposition of a leap day in only 97 years in 400 rather than in 1 year in 4. To implement the model, it was provided that years divisible by 100 would be leap years only if they were divisible by 400 as well. So, in the last millennium, 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. In this millennium, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 will not be leap years, but 2400 will be. This theory was expanded upon by Christopher Clavius in a closely argued, 800 page volume. He would later defend his and Lilius's work against detractors.

The 19-year cycle used for the lunar calendar was also to be corrected by one day every 300 or 400 years (8 times in 2500 years) along with corrections for the years (1700, 1800, 1900, 2100 et cetera) that are no longer leap years. In fact, a new method for computing the date of Easter was introduced.

In 1577 a Compendium was sent to expert mathematicians outside the reform commission for comments. Some of these experts, including Giambattista Benedetti and Giuseppe Moleto, believed Easter should be computed from the true motions of the sun and moon, rather than using a tabular method, but these recommendations were not adopted.[9]
Lilius originally proposed that the 10-day correction should be implemented by deleting the Julian leap day on each of its ten occurrences during a period of 40 years, thereby providing for a gradual return of the equinox to 21 March. However, Clavius's opinion was that the correction should take place in one move and it was this advice which prevailed with Gregory. Accordingly, when the new calendar was put in use, the error accumulated in the 13 centuries since the Council of Nicaea was corrected by a deletion of ten days. The last day of the Julian calendar was Thursday, 4 October 1582 and this was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected).


(for more infor see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar)


Oh - you wanted the origins of Independence Day????

Our pal, Pal 1994 - 2007

One year ago, my family and I put our beloved dog, Pal, down after he was suffering with dog cancer.

July 3, 2007 was one of the hardest days of my life, coming home from work early knowing what had to be done yet having to wait until 830pm at night to do the most dastardly of deeds. For months afterwards my family and I, out of a profound sense of loss, would reflexively think he was still around.

My wife would come home from her mother's house, thinking she had to feed him. When I would go to sleep after watching movies late, I felt the need to shuffle into our darkened bedroom as I had when he was alive so I did not trip over him and hurt him.

He was without a doubt the most special dog we have ever met and he was our friend.

I find it difficult to write about him even now.

Pal, just know that we love you and we miss you very much.

My friend Gumby

My friend Gumby wrote an excellent post about the 100th Anniversary of the Tunguska Blast

You can read about it here.

He is a scientific guy. You can believe his explanation or you can listen to me.

It was the crash of a very large UFO.

Russian Scientist Alexander Kazantsev documents quite clearly how a Martian spaceship trying to get fresh water (sound familiar????? remember the Mars Rover DID just find evidence of water on Mars - Brian DePalma had it right) from nearby Lake Baikal when it blew up.

See, the composition of water on Earth is H2O.

On Mars, the composition of water is H2O2.5.

It was that extra 2.5, Kazantsev hypothesized, that did not comport well with the Martian technology and which caused the spaceship to explode with the force of 185 Hiroshima bombs, leveling the remote outpost.

Click Here for another horrific picture of the blast.

Kazantsev hypothesized even further that the martians were friendly to us puny earthlings giving us such things as Ayers Rock, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Sphinx and Millard Fillmore.

After the Tunguska blast the martians turned on us and wreaked havoc on earth until a crash of one of their smaller non-nuclear powered ships occured in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.

If you click here you can get an actual picture of the crash site from 1947.

It's all true.

I mean, it's on the internet.

It follows that it must be true.

Hollywood Once Again has lost its Collective Minds!!!!!

There's a tiny movie opening in a few weeks.

It's called Batman The Dark Knight.

Fine.

I liked Christian Bale's Batman - it made me forget Tim Burton's Batman.

As I said, the movie hasn't opened.

Yet the people in Hollywood have already started the "buzz" that Heath Ledger deserves an Oscar for playing The Joker.

You can read about it here.

Has Tinseltown gone mad?

Isn't this the same Heath ledger who died of a DRUG OVERDOSE?

Does it not matter to the morons in Hollywood that honoring this joker (without a capital J) sends the wrong message to kids?

Is it only me?

Boo Hoo Hoo. Heath Ledger is dead. HE KILLED HIMSELF. He didn't die of a heart attack like Peter Finch did. He did not die in a car accident like James Dean or Sam Kinison.

He killed himself by taking too many drugs.

Boo Hoo Hoo.

I have always wondered why I stopped watching the Oscars years ago.

Now I have the reason.



Yeah - a fine upstanding member of society.

Another Loss For This Guy

In a stunning blow that must have wiped the shit eating grin off this moron's face, an appeals court in NY concluded that jerkwad exceeded his authority in the prosecution of the complaint against former NYSE chair Dick Grasso's excessive pay.

Like we did not know that.

You can read about it here.

At least, Andrew Cuomo had the good sense to announce he would not appeal the ruling.

Looks like Client Number 9 just moved lower on the list.