POLITICAL TIDBITS-All You Need to Know About Jimmy Carter; and "Ugly Betty" Has Ugly Mouth

In this week's Political Tidbits we deal with former President Jimmy Carter.

Yes we do. Because he was the WORST President EVER and we've got a personal diatrabe and pics to prove it.

Plus, Ugly Betty is really, really UGLY!

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Political Tidbits


Ugly Betty and Ugly Comments

For a while there I liked the star of the "Ugly Betty" series. In fact, I rather enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek look at the world of fashion and the character of Ugly Betty was charming.

From Newsbusters.org

As a presenter at Saturday's “Film Independent's Spirit Awards” carried live at 2pm PST/5pm EST on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), actress America Ferrera (IMDb page), the title role star of ABC's Ugly Betty, interjected a bit of political commentary suggesting the U.S. will not be “the land of the free” again until President Bush leaves office. Taking the stage inside a tent on the Santa Monica beach, Ferrera was joined by actor Zach Braff, a star on NBC's Scrubs, to present the award for the “Best First Feature.” In the scripted exchange, Braff asked: “So do you think that you have any traits in common with the country that is your namesake?” Ferrera replied: “I guess I'm a free-spirited person and America's supposedly the 'land of the free,' right?” She then added, to loud applause from the left coast film industry audience: “Or at least we will be in 2008.”

Well I'll never watch this show again.

See, this is what these Hollywood ENTERTAINERS have yet to realize. No wait! Quite a few of them have realized the truth but they don't like it. Just ask the Dixie Chicks. Heh.

Like Laura Ingrahm says...SHUT UP AND SING!

Look you Hollywood Moonbats, we want you to entertain us. We do not, out here in la-la land where we carry this country on our backs whilst raising the next generation of citizens and soldiers that will protect your sorry butts, elect any of you starlets and singers to keep us informed politically.

If Ugly Betty and a few of her celeb friends would change the channel off of "E!" once in a while, they'd see that, hey, we've got cable news and punditry 24/7 now! We don't need the Dixie Chicks or Ugly Betty commenting on politics. We don't "elect" them to do this. The irritate the hell out of me, these plastic humans who think they can tell ME how to think.

The article linked above suggests that the 2007 Academy Awards would be full of such political commentary, the article having been written before the Oscar presentation. Well that didn't happen, even though we had hypocrite Al Gore on the stage and goodness, lesbian Melissa Etheridge launched into singing orgasms with a song about global warming, dear Lord these people need to get a grip. I'm going to pray for them they are just so depressed.

For now, "Ugly Betty" is off my list. Watch this little witch's show fall right off the radar.

The WORST President Ever

From CBSNEWS.com:

A question that seems to be on everybody's mind these days turns out to be: Is George Bush the worst President in American history?
But how do you judge? Is he the most morally disgusting? The worst mangler of the English language? Ever since the atom bomb was dropped, we've had a whole string of bozos who cannot pronounce the word "nuclear." How much should that count against them?

Former President James Carter wrote a lying book recently. More, it seems this loser will never go away. Thus, for posterity and for sweet granddaughter Kaitlyn Mae, I must correct the record.



Kaitlyn, who knows, might well be forced to read Carter's lying book where Carter blames Israel for the Palestinians' failure to craft a liveable, peaceful country despite money thrown at it for over twenty years now and a UN peace force watching over it. Kaitlyn might study a history book written by teachers' union liberals and who knows, Jimmy Carter might be depicted as a sucessful president, not the ever-loving loser this man was.

Finally, it seems that Jimmy Carter will never go away and despite his failures as a leader, he galavants all over the world acting like he has this country's respect. For Kaitlyn, study the picture below. THIS is what the US of A thought of Jimmy Carter's presidency when the man dared to run again in 1980.



While we're at it, Kaitlyn, look over the pics below for here, before your lying eyes, is what President James Carter brought down on America during the four years this man almost destroyed our country.





Okay, Kaitlyn Mae, above, we have the famous gas lines. Indeed I was but in my mid-twenties when Jimmy Carter was busy wrecking this country. I worked a full-time job and attended college at night. The economy was so bad that every day I dreaded going to work, fearful that THIS might be the day I'd get a pink slip. And if I wasn't laid off because of the bad economy, I had to struggle to get gasoline, often spending my evening hours waiting in gas lines depending if my license tag ended in an odd or even number.

Yeah....Jimmy Carter. He did this.

Oh....and no Christmas lights. Indeed, in order to "conserve" energy, we didn't put up Christmas lights. What a sad Christmas we had under Carter. Then this hypocrite brags publicly that he lit the fire in his fireplace even though it was mid-summer. Wasn't it too hot for a fire, the media would ask. Why NO Carter would say, he just turned up the air conditioner so it would feel like winter inside!

Let me get this straight....while I had NO Christmas lights up, Carter was cranking up the air conditioner so he could have a fire in the fireplace in mid-summer? Now we have the lovely Al Gore telling us to conserve and hey, I've been there and done that. They don't want us ALL to conserve, folks. They just want US to conserve. They will light fires in mid summer whilst running the air conditioner at full speed.

Interest rates on home mortages hovered at 17% and higher during the Carter administration. Nothing keeps a country strong like a healthy Middle Class. NO country on this planet has ever been sucessful without a strong, vibrant middle class. Carter beat us all up with his awful policies and lackluster economy. The inability of so many to buy a home, that benchmark of a strong middle class, damned us all to depression. Along with the gas lines and missing Christmas lights, of course. With all of this, Carter had the freaking NERVE to complain that America was in a state of "malaise". Damn right we were in a state of mailaise. We had HIM for a president!

Oh...and please don't forget those hostages in Iran!

Indeed. A bunch of radical Islamofacists took our Americans at the Iranian American embassy hostage. Study that pic above...damn if one of those captors doesn't resemble current Iranian president Ahmadinejad. Several of the captors today swear it's him. So STILL we pay the price for the awful presidency of James Carter, peanut farmer, liar and total zero.

Did Carter go in and rescue our American citizens which were lawfully in a protected embassy? No he did not. Our hostages were held captive for over 400 days and weren't released until the U.S. elected ANOTHER president. On the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration Iran released those hostages. What, you think that was just a coincidence.

And so I rant and more than anything, hope that Kaitlyn Mae reads this when the history books paint James Carter as a great president.

He was terrible, Kaitlyn Mae. Just an awful, awful man. He should be ashamed to show his face in public but then he does have his foreign policy business and gets a bunch of Arab money for his lies.

Just so you know, Kaitlyn Mae...the TRUTH about Jimmy Carter. From one who suffered under his ineptness.

An Inconvenient Truth...Hollywood and Gore Environmental Hypocrites-A Rant

I was cutting, folding and stapling used boxes in my garage the other day when I decided, the hell with it, I'm not going to recycle, I'm not going to conserve, I'm not doing all the things I and my fellow American citizens do on a regular basis for which we receive no bogus oscars or lectures from environmental hypocrites.

Come on folks. Not one soul in Hollywood, and especially Al Gore, pays any attention to their so-called "carbon footprint". Which is fine with me as they can waste all they want so long as they pay for their waste and cause no harm to me and mine. But when Melissa Etheridge and Al Gore team up to sing lies and tall tales to me, complete with song-background lectures, I'm tuning the whole lying pack out.

Let me tell you something Melissa and Al and all the rest of you high-flying, low-living celebrities who can't be happy just entertaining me for the big bucks America allows you to earn with its intrinsic freedoms. There are millions, go with me here, MILLIONS or Americans across this fruited plain who work in small and big ways to keep this country great, beautiful and peaceful.

For WASTE is the enemy of Mother Nature and us idiots out here in la-la land understand waste all too well. If we waste our money we can't pay our bills; if we waste food we'll be out of nutrition; if we waste electricity we got a wallop of an electric bill. Wealthy people needn't bother themselves with such details yet they're going to lecture US?

I belong to the National Wildlife Society as a Backyard Habitat Steward. I train people how to welcome wildlife into their own yards to better the lives or both the wildlife and the humans with a mutual shared environment. I wonder if Barbra Streisand would allow me to meet with her and give her tips on how to better feed those birds who will fill her days with song and avian joy.

I recycle trash on a regular basis as hey, I've got to throw those boxes out anyway, I've got to discard those cans, those newspapers need to be gotten out of the house.

I gather the autumn dying leaves from the ground and pile them onto a compost pile. All year I gather my vegetable and yard scraps, coffee grounds and other compostable material and mix it all together to rot. The result will be a rich dirt that will nourish my gardens the following spring.

Does Al Gore or Melissa Etheridge do any of this I must wonder?

And it's not just me, folks. Oh no, mine own wise self is not taking all the credit for recycling and avoiding waste. Us average citizens do this sort of thing every day. There are volunteers who clean streams and roadsides on their weekends. There are millions of us out here who HAVE to avoid waste for bankruptcy, who care about our surround and our small but precious eco-systems. We keep this country beautiful and neat.

In addition, I have a septic tank and a well. I've had a well run dry and a septic tank back up into the house. It's my own environment and I respect it. Does Babs or sweet Melissa have a septic tank? When it's brown, Melissa, we flush it down. When it's yellow, Melissa, we let it mellow. I wash dishes twice a week, I do the laundry once a month. I use the water I run while waiting for the hot to water my plants. In every move I make in this little eco-system I consider the effects of my world, my eco-system, the water of life I must reserve.

I AM SICK TO DEATH OF LECTURES BY THESE PEOPLE WHO LIKELY FLUSH THE DAMN TOILET EVERY TIME THEY TAKE A PISS! Out here in la-la land, we must live within the constraints of a budget, the water line of a well, the constraints of a septic system. We are not the ones to be preaching to, every damn one of you lying rich hypocrites. YOU are the ones wasting this planet's resources. And you know what? I wouldn't say a word about Melissa Etheridge's toilet flushing habits or Al's electricity bill....IF THEY'D STOP LECTURING ME!

Al Gore...dear Lord, what a zero. This man has never recycled a cardboard box in his entire damn life.

I must ask, yon readers, how long are we going to allow these people to urinate upon our feet while telling us it's raining?

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TRUE CRIME-That Judge in the ANS Trial-A Disgrace to the Legal Profession

Couple of intriguing updates in this week's True Crime post.

First we must comment on that Anna Nicole Judge. What an insult to the judiciary this man is.

Also, the ACLU former President arrested in horrific child porn sting. Yes, the ACLU! Now we know why they defend child predators.

Finally, the Pizza man bomb. A solution to the crime.

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The Anna Nicole Judge-Does He Have His Own Show Now?

Frankly I think reports that Judge Seidlin has negotiated a deal with CBS for his own show are vastly over-rated.

From the NY POST:

Judge "I Want My Own TV Show" Seidlin started hogging the cameras the minute they started rolling and wouldn't give them up until he ended it all with a no-decision decision complete with full-on cryfest and 20-minute speech about himself.

Those rumors may have been started and nurtured by Seidlin himself. Or they could be true, but I doubt it.

The day Judge Larry Seidlin gave his final verdict on the custody of Anna Nicole Smith's body I couldn't believe mine lying eyes and ears. I was positively embarrassed for this man. His tears and sobbing were so unprofessional and I don't even think they were real. Not to mention that after FOUR days...damn, FOUR days, the man gave a decision that was totally WRONG!

We won't get into the details but go with me, the judge gave custody of a dead body to a BABY! Which is why Anna's mother got a stay on her emergency appeal. The coroner even called, get this, directly into the court room to tell the judge that the body was decomposing very rapidly. They couldn't have the judge take this call quietly and quickly in his chambers? Can people routinely phone in during a court trials and pull the presiding judge aside for a telephonic chit-chat?

Beyond that nutty judge who essentially wasted four days while he sang and danced for the cameras, pundits continue to mock the huge amount of public interest in the Anna Nicole Smith case. I am here to defend that human interest.

First, we have a fellow who was the ONLY one around when not one, but TWO people died, two young, healthy people, up and died from no obvious sickness or trauma. Anywhere in the world this fellow would be looked upon with great suspicion. Now in front of our lying eyes, this Howard Stern is actively STEALING SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD. This is right amazing stuff, especially for a true crime buff. Rush, Laura and all those with mightier things to discuss can mock all they want. If this Anna Nicole story isn't an intriguing and mind-boggling compilation of social ills and true crime than there is no such thing.

All last week the president of Trimspa has been on Greta. He is quite obviously serving as spokesperson for Howard Stern and why is this? Because maybe Stern was "point man" for Trimspa and charged with keeping its spokeswoman, Anna Nicole, in line and THIN? Trimspa is headquartered in the Bahamas, by the way.

Viewership is up over 80% for those shows covering the Anna Nicole Smith trial! Go on and make fun of us if you will but hey, an increase in viewership by 80% is damned impressive and a sure sign that the silly public is interested in something. No we don't believe that Anna Nicole Smith was such an important personage that her death and all its details are paramount in our more ordinary lives. But such as using someone for money, mysterious and unexplained deaths, babies and their daddies....we understand all this out here in la-la land. For what it's worth, Anna Nicole Smith did get an audience before this country's Supreme Court regarding jurisdiction of her late husband's estate. This is more serious attention than your average bimbo gets.

Not to mention that all involved parties are putting on a grand show for us fools out here in la-la land and I like to be entertained as much as the next guy. The judge is entertaining me. Howard K. Smith is a fine villain in this drama. Larry Birkhead is a pathetic, spurned lover, little boy lost sort, exactly the kind of character audiences would root to win in the end. Birkhead's lawyer is a real hoot of a lady, damn she's putting on a show that is mesmerizing.

There's plenty of bit players in this drama too, including the president of Trimspa. So right there we add an element of big nasty business.

Sadly, for all these humans' silly personal melodramas, there really is an innocent child somewhere, God knows where but somebody tell me by what right does this Stern character get to keep this child not his?

Hey, SOMEBODY is the father of that child. And whoever is the father of the child should get custody of the child. PERIOD. Don't tell me that the child might be the inheritor of a bunch of money. There's no guarantee of that but besides, if that child were to require child support for 18-21 years that father would have to pay it. Look, somebody provided the sperm which grew into little Dani Lynn. That is the man who gets custody of her. We don't go deciding whether this sperm-provider or this female incubator are QUALIFIED to keep the child they created. Maybe we should but we don't. If a child is mistreated we have social services to handle this sort of thing.

Take a simple DNA test already and give the baby to its real parent. See, we understand this out here in la-la land. We understand child support, mommies and daddies...we get this. So we watch this Anna Nicole Smith drama and wonder what the hell happened to common sense?

A baby cannot bury a body even with a guardian ad litum doing it for her. By what law does this ersatz guardian for Dani Lynn have the right, out of all the interested parties, to decide where Anna is buried?

Next, do a DNA test FIRST, on this Howard Stern character. If he is NOT the father of that baby, take the baby from him and put it into foster care until a permanent guardian is appointed. Then do a DNA test on all the other males claiming fatherhood...heh, yet another side of the story that intrigues us fools out here in la-la land with its occasional snort...and give the child to its natural father.

It ain't rocket science, folks. After Anna's body is properly laid to rest and her baby is given to its father, then take a real close look at the lovely Howard Stern and Trimspa.

That's the part of this story that is criminal.



Saga of the Pizza Man With a Bomb on His Neck

On 8/28/03, a man with a bomb strapped around his neck robbed a bank. He had been innocently delivering a pizza, as was his job, when he was accosted by gunmen who strapped a bomb on him and demanded he rob a bank.

When police responded to the bank robbery, they captured Brian Wells who frantically informed the police that he had a bomb on his neck. It took police 32 minutes to contact the bomb squad. This was too much time. As Wells sat far from police officers hiding from potential bombs behind their cars, the bomb went off. Brian Wells was killed instantly.

Folks I've been following this case now for lo going on four years. I searched my Blog for links to this crime and could not find a one. I wasn't blogging back in 2003 so I must assume I didn't write about it.

Obviously Pennsylvania police were stymied by this whole matter. Think about the details-a pizza man is sent to a remote TV tower to deliver a pizza. When he arrives, a bomb is strapped on his neck and he is told to rob a specific bank. More details were provided about where to bring the bank money but Wells was captured by police and before the bomb on his neck could be diffused it went off and Wells was killed.

Wells' family has been demanding that Brian's death be investigated and they even have a web site devoted to finding out who did this awful thing to Brian Wells, HERE.

As it turned out, someone did live near that remote TV tower and that person had a dead body in his freezer.

It's a complicated story but it does appear that some weird "gang" of criminals came up with the plan to have a pizza guy rob a bank for them. Thus the call for pizza delivery, the bomb, the bank, the hapless police who had no experience with this sort of crime at all.

Many of the players in the original crime have died. Local police and the Feds continue to unravel the mystery of Brian Wells, innocent pizza delivery guy and adding to the horror of it all, Brian blew up right in front of the cameras for all the world to see.

Brian Wells deserves to have, if nothing else, his good name removed from police suspicions. Now we are to understand that the mystery of Brian Wells has finally been solved.

Official: Erie Collar-Bomb Case Solved
By JOE MANDAK
Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH — Federal authorities have figured out how a pizza deliveryman wound up in the middle of a bizarre bank robbery scheme that ended with a bomb around his neck exploding, and the identities of the plotters, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Brian Wells, 46, robbed a suburban Erie bank on Aug. 28, 2003, with the bomb attached to his neck and then was killed when it exploded as he sat handcuffed in a parking lot while police waited for a bomb squad.

No one was charged as authorities struggled to determine who was behind the plot and whether Wells was an innocent victim or willing participant.

Those Border Guards...It Continues to Get Murkier

A drug smuggler is shot by U.S. border guards yet the border guards end up in jail while the Mexican drug smuggler goes free and sues our government for millions. While I wasn't paying serious attention, the cacaphony about these border guards rang all about and I had to sit and study the matter.

The whole story is murky as all get out and now we're demanding presidential pardons and inflaming emotions for what is increasingly a very unclear scenario.

I don't normally like to link to personal and/or vanity posts for True Crimes but in this case I ran across a very interesting analysis and subsequent thread about this matter. I read the details studiously and suggest that before yon readers go defending these two guards, stop and take a deep breath.

Nothing about this case is as it seems.

Read post and thread for another aspect of the boarder guard case.

My conclusion is that there is little doubt the shooting was bad and Ramos and Campeon (and just about everyone else in that unit, including supervisors) did what they could to cover it up or at least engage in CYA. I'm not going to comment on what I believe to be bad management and operational practices, and possibly illegal activities, on the part of anyone other than Ramos and Campeon...the Justice Department and Border Patrol will have to deal with that, and I believe they are.

President ACLU Arrested for Child Pornography

OF all the True Crime stories this past week, THIS is the one that should cause the most outrage. Outrage not just because of the actual crime, which is horrible, folks, absolutely horrible, but outrage because absolutely NO major news outlets are covering it.

It seems the former President of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU...that's American Civil Liberty Union folks....has been arrested on child porn charges. Investigators found films of young girls bound up, young girls of four or five years old folks, and filmed while being brutally raped.

Now we all know the Lamestream media loves the ACLU. Damn, the ACLU never met a pedophile it didn't love so it's not surprising that one of its state presidents is involved in such actions. We HATE the ACLU, let us not deceive on this humble blog.

We've searched the Internet for this guy's picture and could only find a picture of his wife. So fine. We've no scruples. Maybe if the wife gets tired of seeing her pic with all the stories we'll get a pic of the real perp. For his wife is knee-deep in the ACLU coverup as well.

The blogosphere is on this case as is Bill O'Reilly of Fox news. Much as the Lamestream wants to cover for these child-pornography communists, hey, we've got a new media out here.

This crime is so disturbing that the only thing that could be worse is to make films showing the actual murder of young children.

From Clarice Feldman of the American Thinker:

Charles Rust-Tierney,the former President of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU ,is arrested for possession of very graphic and disturbing child pornography.

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TV-AI 2007 Down to 20-An In-Depth Look at the Contenders; "Apprentice LA"

American Idol 2007 now down to the final 20.

We do a closer look-see at the contenders this year and make our first winner prediction, both male and female.

Also, Apprentice LA churns on. Updates on the Priceline Task.

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American Idol-First Four Eliminations

The Fellows

Things got serious for "American Idol" 2007 this past week on 2/20/07. For the top twelve males have been appointed and the performances began.



My notes are sparse but I'll go through the male contenders and report what I wrote.

Rudy Cardenas-my cryptic note says "nope" thus I must think Rudy did poorly. Note to self-write better notes! However, in my defense, my "nope" was on the money. Rudy was sent home during the following elimination round.

Heh, next, Brandon Rogers-my note says "okay". Note to self-see above.

Okay, now for some meaty notes. Sundance Head is an interesting character. His name is unique and hey, so is his look. Sundance sang "Nights in White Satin", one of my favorites and not so easy to sing. The judges declared him pitchy but I thought he did exceptionally well.


Paul Kim was a contestant with a schtick. He wore no shoes. My notes indicate I could not hear or understand the words of his song but it's all no mind as Paul Kim was eliminated the Thursday following on the first elimination night. Which proves to me that America has some sense because that singing with no shoes was really dumb.

Chris Richardson-my notes say "best so far". Take that for what it's worth.

Nick Pedro made it to Hollywood last year. He was eliminated because he forgot the words to his song. I mean, how dumb is this? My notes indicate he sang a "safe" song and was very boring. I look for Pedro to get eliminated right quickly in this year's contest.

Ah....Blake Lewis. Folks, ladies and gems, music lovers across the fruited plain, BLAKE LEWIS is the one to beat for the "American Idol" 2007. Bearing in mind, of course, that I am usually wrong in these predictions but it's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Blake has demonstrated an easy talent since the first tryouts. Lewis performs some sort of "be-bop" thing that he does, making noises with his mouth only to call them "noises" is misleading. It's sort of a rap type of thing and while I don't much like rap music, what Blake Lewis can do with his mouth is amazing.

Now, besides all this, we discover Blake can SING! He was quietly confident and sang an odd song. Blake gave a great falsetto and was well-liked by our trio of judges.

The only problem I have with Blake is his "look". I realize gelling up one's hair and forming peaks and flips all over the head is a popular male style nowadays. Except Blake Lewis looks a little like "Bob's Big Boy" character and it might not serve him well.

Sanjaya has a last name but we'll stick with his first name for this contest. I don't think Sanjaya is going to last long at any rate but again, I could be wrong.

Sanjaya entered this year's contest with his sister, who was eliminated early on. Sanjaya is a cutie-pie, a mere 17 years old and folks, I'm not at all convinced Sanjaya is a heterosexual. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I thought his performance was boring, more of an adolescent lounge lizard. I thought for sure Sanjaya would be eliminated on the elimination round but I understand he came in the top four in the voting. Which goes to show what I know.



Chris Sligh is another intriguing contender. Here's a fellow with a head full of curls that defies taming. A casual viewer can easily ascertain this is a fellow with a great sense of humor and seems to be keenly intelligent. Chris did a nice job and by me, has possibly the best voice of all the males.

Below is a You-Tube clip some reader sent me. Click to see AI contestant Sligh perform as part of a garage band.



Jarrod Cotter sang and gave an un-notable performance. My notes suggest Cotter has a Harry Belafonte singing style, whatever that means.

An AJ Tabaldo informed us that this year was his FIFTH try at American Idol. Which makes me pause and wonder, does he really want the voters to know this? Just as soon as I absorbed this tidbit I thought, hey, time to toss him overboard. Fortune and luck finally landed him on this year but after five tries my instinct tells me not for long.

Phil Stacey mumbles when he sings. This is not a good thing. Phil informed the viewing audience that he has two kids and pics of these children flashed across the screen. Could this be a ploy to bring in votes?

The Females



We begin with Stephanie Edwards who performed a bluesy song and got down on her knees, literally.

We move on to Amy Krebs. My notes indicate she had bad skin (yeah that's a mean dig but I wrote it down), was boring and forgettable. Amy was eliminated during the first elimination round.

Next Sabrina Sloan. I liked Sabrina's hair and outfit but my notes indicate her singing wasn't the best. The judges, however, liked her. Next, Antonella Barba sang a ho-hum song and failed to thrill.

Now we introduce the female to watch this year. Jordin Sparks has a bubbly personality, a pretty face and seems to possess that star quality an American Idol must have. My notes say she reminds me of me but damn I don't know why I say that. Jordin gave great vocals and was generally viewed as terrific by all the judges. Sparks is my choice of the female to win this thing.

Nicole Tranquilla sang through her nose and was a very awkward dancer. Nicole was sent home the night of the first eliminations.

Haley Scarnatto is one to watch although Simon said she sounded "old". I think she had a great look and a great song. Next, Melinda Doolittle performed and my notes say SHE is the one who really sounded old.

Alaina Alexander has a nondescript voice and just as Simon predicted, if she made it through at all it would be on her looks alone. For Alaina is very pretty and a happening chick. She sang an awful song and while she did squeak through the first round of eliminations, she'll not likely last long.

Nina Glocksen performed the difficult tune "All By Myself". My notes say I did not like it.

Finally, Lakisha Jones performed and some surprises here. First, Lakisha is from my birth state and she's talented. Lakisha is a single mother in the manner of Fantasia and I must wonder if America will vote another single mother as American Idol although I suppose such things shouldn't matter. Fantasia sure made it part of her charm and appeal and Lakisha didn't shy away from it either. The judges sure liked her and to my everlasting surprise, Simon almost tripped over his tongue praising Lakisha. I softly suggest Lakisha might be a finalist in this thing but I don't see her carrying the banner this year.



Notes on the Elimination Round

There is something called an "American Idol" challenge. Viewers can win $10,000 and possibly up to $100,000. Besides money, viewers can win tickets to the American Idol finals. All information is available on the American Idol web site.

Speaking of Fantasia....she sang the night of the first eliminations which make me think she's not doing so well in the music business. She looked like a gorilla for some reason, her song was just terrible and she was not entertaining at all. Fantasia has a lot of talent and she should really be doing and looking better than she does.

AMERICAN IDOL 2007 LINKS
Seattle and Minneapolis 1/16/07 and 1/17/07
Birmingham 1/30/07
San Antonio 2/6/07
The Top 24 2/12/2007
First Four Eliminated

Apprentice LA-The Priceline Challenge

Before delving into this reality series' latest tasks and mishaps, right now I would offer my own fine suggestion on how to hype up renewed interest in this show. For "The Apprentice" was once the darling of the reality show air waves. Of late there's been challenging programming slamming up The Donald's show and let's face it, that Martha thing didn't help.

Here's my suggestion, free of charge, to The Donald....HAVE THE AUDIENCE VOTE FOR THE APPRENTICE!

Indeed, why not follow that tried and true method which has worked for so many reality type shows? Give each would-be apprentice a number and have the audience call in who should be fired.

Now I know The Donald uses the series to show off his amazing executive talent, including his unabashed ability to utter those famous words: "YOU'RE FIRED". Only I have a whisper of a message for Donald Trump: your series is losing viewers and that tent city stupidity ain't cutting it. Give the audience a horse in this race and viewership will rise.

Okay, now on to the task of 2/18/07. Which was, specifically, a challenge to sign up people in a mall to enter a Priceline drawing to win free trips. Likely Priceline will use the names and addresses obtained by the entrants for their marketing. Whatever, the apprentices tasks was to sign up said entrants. Whoever signed up the most entrants would win. The other team would be the losers and would move to tent city with one of their number being sent home.



The Arrow team was led by Surya. Surya led effectively, using free mall ad space to advertise and putting out flyers about the drawing.

The Kinetic team walked around the mall, gave away free hot dogs but failed to notice one important fact: the mall Kinetic was working was filled with Spanish-speaking people. Aimee, Kinetic's team manager, failed to notice how intrusive the language problem was.

Kinetic ended up signing up 326 people with Arrow leading with a sign-up total of 359. Kinetic was rewarded with a trip to the beach to take some surfer lessons. Nicole ended up injured and viewers were treated to some more of the Tim and Nicole romance.

The Donald and The Donald Jr. were in the boardroom. Aimee tried to pin the language problem on Jenn but it didn't fly.

Aimee was fired.





APPRENTICE 2007 LA LINKS
First Show 1/7/07
Swimsuit Task 1/14/07
Michelle Quits 1/21/07
Pollo Loco
The Honey of a Task
Priceline Trips and Language



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Pop Culture-Fox's New Satire Show;Eminem's Lovemaking Not So Good

We take on Fox's new satire show and we have some grammy gossip in this Pop Culture post.

The inventor of a guy's most cherished object died this past week. Also, talking urinals and Eminem's not so good in the sack so we hear.

Scott Baio of Joanie and Chachi tells us about his love life, aren't you beyond excited?

Finally, Media Nuggets and Snopes defuses that wildly popular Internet myth about Reverse PIN numbers and ATM's.

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Quote of the Day Quotes from the Celebrated The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen. ...George Bernard Shaw A coward is a man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. Unknown It is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most. ...God from Conversations with God (Book 1) through Neale Donald Walsch We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. ...Winston Churchill People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ...Samuel Butler Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. ...John Dryden All people have three characters: that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. ...Alphonse Karr (adapted) Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ...Aristotle The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ...Charles F. Kettering Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man. (Key word: "act") ...Napoleon Bonaparte

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Eminem's Ex-Wife Reveals Eminem's Bedroom Problems

Snort.

Of course one has to take recent ex-spouses with a grain or two of salt. Still, I don't especially like Eminem and goodness, the fellow's not only NOT well-endowed, but as young as he is he needs a pill to keep things moving along?

From DETNEWS.com:

In an explosive interview with WKQI-FM's (95.5) "Mojo in the Morning" show today, Eminem's ex-wife Kim Mathers flipped the tables on Em and cleaned out her closet live on the air for all to hear.

"I can't stand him. He's an absolutely horrible person, and he gets worse every day," Mathers said. "I vomit in my mouth whenever I'm around him or I hear his name. There's nothing left in me for him. Nothing at all."

She categorized sex with her twice ex-husband as "bad," and said "he's not very well endowed." She added, "If you're going to have sex with Marshall, make sure you have a little blue pill, because otherwise it does not work."

Grammys "Make Nice" With Dixie Chicks

It IS possible, of course, for the Dixie Chicks to make a startling comeback. But NOT, I argue, in the country music genre.

See, the Dixie Chicks did the stupid when one of their members, married to a Muslim Palestinian by the way she is, went overseas and condemned our President in front of a foreign audience. Couple of things here....it's okay that they don't like Bush, damn lots of people don't. It's okay that they disagree with his policies as well. But let us not forget that this group made its fortune off of the AMERICAN people. That frenchie audience didn't make the Dixie Chicks so popular.

Country music folks are notoriously patriotic and tend to look down on artists, or anyone for that manner, who talk bad about our country overseas. Call them stupid dumpkins if you want, it's their nature and they are the ones buying the records.

So the Dixie Chicks kept trying to come back, they scheduled concerts, they bribed (via Arab oil money I am totally convinced but cannot prove) but the Dixie Chicks were avoided totally by country music fans across the fruited plains. Sure the elite pundits lambasted the stupid American public but like the saying says...you can lead these horses to water but damn you can't make them drink.

So now the Palestinian has evidently laid out some bucks to the Grammy award committee, whoever and wherever they are because the Dixie Chicks went home with FIVE awards at the 2007 Grammy awards when this group sold the fewest country records on the planet.

From Yahoo.com:

Winners at Sunday's 49th Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in
Los Angeles:

Album of the Year: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks.

Record of the Year: "Not Ready to Make Nice," Dixie Chicks.

Song of the Year: "Not Ready to Make Nice," Martie Maguire,

Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks).

New Artist: Carrie Underwood.

Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Be Without You," Mary J. Blige.

Pop Vocal Album: "Continuum," John Mayer.

Pop Collaboration With Vocals: "For Once in My Life," Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder.

Country Album: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks.

Rap Album: "Release Therapy," Ludacris.

Rock Album: "Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers.

R&B Album: "The Breakthrough," Mary J. Blige.

Hey, we've got American Idol and we can elect our country music stars. We've got Carrie Underwood so who the goddamn hell needs this trio of idiots and their Islamofacist spouse?

These Grammy awards will get the Dixie Chicks invites to swanky parties, perhaps a performance with Britney Spears.

They won't make the American public buy their records but hey, let them keep trying and bribing. Natalie's Arab husband is going to have to bribe everyone in America.

Some quotes about entertainers who would try to educate us politically....:

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Robert A. Heinlein
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If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." - Alice Cooper

Reverse PIN Will NOT Summon Police

Just as soon as an email containing approximately the following wordage passed through my ebox I knew it was not true.

I just found out that should you ever be forced to withdraw monies from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. The machine will still give you the monies you requested, but unkown to the robber, etc, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.

The broadcast stated that this method of calling the police is very seldom used because people don't know it exist, and it might mean the difference between life and death. Hopefully, none of you will have to use this, but I wanted to pass it along just in case you hadn't heard of it. Please pass it along to everyone

Not that I had any inside knowledge or anything about PINs but if such a system were in place a)surely criminals would know about it too and be on the lookout for such shenanigans as they held a gun to your head and waited for your money to come out of the machine and b)more people would know about this system as I've read plenty of stories of people abducted, taken to their bank to withdraw money at force, then killed or hurt once the perp gets what he wants. Surely SOMEONE of these victims would have known about this reverse PIN thing.

Sure enough, from Snopes.com, we find out that in fact, entering a reverse PIN number when under stress or forced by a threatening gun, will NOT summon police and might likely make the perp with the itchy finger nervous and fearful you are trying to pull something over on him/her.

According to the Snopes post linked above, such a system HAS been considered by various state legislations but was dismissed based on, well pretty much the reasons stated above. For if the VICTIM knows about it, trust that the CRIMINAL probably does too. As soon as such a thing becomes common knowledge its usefulness is pretty much kaput.

She'll Dance With Only One Leg

Not that it isn't just great that Paul McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills, has a job what with divorcing this wealthy man and only having one leg. But doesn't this scenario just lend itself to mockery? I mean a one-legged dancer?

From the Indy Channel.com:

The estranged wife of Paul McCartney will be "Dancing with the Stars" when the ABC competition returns next month.

This year's season of "Dancing With the Stars" premieres on 3/19/07 and along with Mills, Billy Ray Cyrus and boxer Laila Ali will dance.

Fox's New Satire Show Funniest Thing This Year

It premiered on Sunday 18, 2007 but I was laughing at this series fully a week before anyone ever heard of it.

From ABCLOCAL.com:

It's the opening skit in the series premiere of "The Half-Hour News Hour," the conservative version of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." The show is set to debut on Fox News this Sunday at 10 p.m.

I was watching Hannity and Colmes when nature called. Upon return there was some sort of comedy clip being aired on H&C and I scratched my head.

Lord but it was funny. It featured a new magazine called "BO" and was billed as the definitive magazine on all thing "Barack Obama". The magazine featured Barack's favorite recipes, Barack in bathing suits, Barack every day and every way. I had no idea what I was watching and wondered if someone had flipped my channel from Hannity and Colmes and why would anyone sneak into my house and change my channel. In due course I learned that Hannity was showing a clip from the new Fox satire "The Half-Hour News Hour" and all I could think of, it's about damn time.

I've never watched "The Daily Show" but as I understand Stewart's show pokes fun at politics and has a generally liberal bent. Which is fine as it's a free country and everything. But a satire with a conservative bent?

Who knew conservatives had such well-honed senses of humor?

Co-Inventor of TV Remote Dies

He lived a long life of 93 years until his heart finally gave in. At that age, we must doubt that Mr. Adler, famed for co-inventing the TV remote, spent all his hours as a couch potato and slave to his own invention.

From Townhall.com:

Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.

Men of the planet, take a moment of silence in homage to an inventor who contributed so much to the happiness of males everywhere.

Talking Toilets Join in Fight Against Drunk Drivers

What's more intriguing about this article is the fact that New Mexico has the highest rate of DUI accidents of the 50 states. Which makes me wonder why this is so. Then again, I must suppose that SOME state has to have the highest rate. It's not at all clear what the "average" amount of DUI accidents are for a U.S. state but we must, as always, hope that it's not high and keeps going down.

From TheStar.com:

RIO RANCHO, N.M.–New Mexico is hoping to keep drunks off the road by lecturing them at the last place they usually stop before getting behind the wheel: the urinal.

The state recently paid $21 (U.S.) each for about 500 talking urinal-deodorizer cakes and has put them in men's rooms at bars and restaurants.

Ah. So a talking toilet is going to coerce drunks from getting behind the wheel in an impaired state? I'm not convinced.

Winnie the Pooh Licensee Unchanged

As near as I can figure out, sometime in 1983, Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard, licensed out the right to their joint creation to someone named Stephen Slesinger. Evidently Slesinger got licensing rights to Winnie forever and ever, amen.

From Reuters.com:

LOS ANGELES, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected a Walt Disney Co.-backed attempt to strip rights to the "Winnie the Pooh" character from the estate of long-time Pooh licensee Stephen Slesinger, according to court documents made public on Friday.

The most intriguing thing about this case is Disney's interest in the lawsuit. In the above-referenced lawsuit, Disney was not a party in the lawsuit but, "the company paid legal expenses for both women". We can thus assume that Disney wants this Slesinger character stripped of his licensing rights to the Winnie character.

It's not at all clear just why the author and illustrator licensed the rights to Winnie the Pooh, although I read that as far back as 1930 Slesinger had the rights to Winnie the Pooh, and it's equally not clear on what grounds the estates of the Winnie author and illustrator see as grounds to strip Slesinger's estate of the licensing rights. I suspect, and this is just a guess, that back in 1983 the two creators of Winnie the Pooh signed over licensing rights to Slesinger in an attempt to recoup SOME money from their creation. Slesinger likely agreed to market Winnie and handle other matters if the creators would just agree to give him complete licensing rights. Which means the royalties would go to Slesinger, NOT the Winnie creators.

Thus far, the Supreme Court has bailed out on the case, implicitly agreeing that the original 1983 agreement is correct and legal as written.

Finally, Disney is not paying royalties to Slesinger's estate even with the 1983 agreement in effect. I must suppose that Disney is letting this legal case play out in the court system because surely Disney must pay royalties to SOMEONE. Disney will string you up in a public square should anyone try to use their characters illegally. I suspect that the estates of the original Winnie creators will take a lower percent royalty than the licensee Slesinger's estate. But it's just a guess.

Who knew a cartoon character would cause so much letal intrigue?

"Happy Days" Scott Baio Writes Book...Describes Sex With Joanie

Well we must suppose that Scott Baio hasn't much left to raise some attention so he pens a book titled "How I Dated and Loved Hollywood's Most Beautiful Women and Ended Up Alone." Damn, the title alone will raise a few eyebrows. Why is it that Chachi doesn't strike me as a great lover along the lines of Omar Sharif?

From Radaronline.com

The book, which Radar obtained the first 60 pages of, is effectively a compendium of love advice Baio gleaned from flings with everyone from Pam Anderson to Heather "The One That Got Away" Locklear to, um, Liza Minnelli

One of the better stories, and probably the only true one, is his tryst with Joanie of "Happy Days". Seems Scott, deep in the midst of passion, somehow inserted his "love machine" in the wrong place and ended up making love to the couch pillows rather than Joanie.

Heh.

BLIND ITEM FUN
From: Janet Charlton

ASKED

This high powered music mogul is fabulously successful and lives in a grand manner. He has one of the most famous names in the business. Everyone wants to work with him because it's a ticket to success. He's always showing up at events with beautiful women on his arm and they're thrilled to be in his presence. No one seems to think about his sexuality. But in reality the love of his live is a cute young GUY who is not in the industry. Their relationship remains a secret because our mogul is still deep in the closet - for some reason he can't bear to reveal his real self.

GUESSED

This has got to be P Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean Combs

Clive Davis?

I'd really love for it to be Simon Cowell.

It's either Sean Combs or Russell Simmons. I've always heard that both of them are bisexual. Clive Davis is gay, and I don't think that's a secret.
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What's With the Gay Hatred?

Goodness, what's with Tim Hardaway and his unabashed gay hatred? It's not like he stated he's uncomfortable around gays, or feels like he doesn't fit in or something else stupid but remotely understandable. The man stated he HATES gay people! Why?

From WZZM13.com:

Undated - Former NBA All Star Tim Hardaway is apologizing for comments he made recently on a radio program in Miami.

Hardaway said quote, "I hate gay people. Let it be known, I don't like gay people."

The NBA has banned Hardaway from this weekend's All-Star game festivities in Las Vegas.

NBA commissioner, David Stern, explained why, "We acted immediately, we told him he couldn't do anymore work for us because his views don't represent our views."

Of course carte blanche hatred of any individual or group is a bad thing but I can, on some level, understand a distrust, yes even hatred, of Muslims, for instance. No, it's not fair but a person of limited IQ could conceivably blame all Muslims for the terror so many of them enact.

But what on earth did gay people ever do to anybody?

This sort of hatred flies way over my head. Perhaps it's a hetero-guy thing, perhaps there really IS such a thing as homophobia, perhaps Hardaway is scared senseless that HE might be gay.

For his unreasonable hatred, much less his totally unnecessary public pronouncement of same, makes no sense at all. Perhaps Hardaway needs to go into anti-gay-hatred rehab.

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TV-Review Lifetime's "Gay, Straight or Taken"; Superbowl 2007 Commercial Notes

Here's a TV show I've been wanting to watch and review and finally got around to it.

It's from Lifetime TV and it's got a real cute premise. The show is titled "Gay, Straight or Taken" and yes, a hetero female has to choose a possible future love connection from three guys which are, ahem, either gay, straight, or taken.

Some notes on the Superbowl 2007 commercials....funny, funny notes.

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Quote of the Day On Golf Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adpated for the purpose. - Woodrow Wilson If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope Golf has probably kept more people sane that psychiatrists. - Harvey Penick Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself, you forget to hate your enemies. - Will Rogers Euphoria is a perfectly excuted heroic shot. - Robert Trent Jones, Jr. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. - Pete Dye Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. - Harry Vardon How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. - Dwight Eisenhower

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TIDBITS We Can Dream Can't We?" A Lady wrote a lot of letters to the White House complaining about the treatment of a captive insurgent (terrorist) being held in Guantanamo Bay. She received back the following reply: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20016 Dear Concerned Citizen, Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Quaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington. You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the "Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant care-takers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter. Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his "attitudinal problem" will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him. Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually), since he views females as a sub-human form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will recommend as more appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of "respecting his culture and his religious beliefs" -- wasn't that how you put it? Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job. You take good care of Ahmed - and remember, we'll be watching. Good luck! Cordially, your friend, George W

 


Superbowl 2007 Commercials

Well it's time for the Oscars and I'm just posting about this past year's bevy of Superbowl Commercials. In fact, CBS has a site devoted to the Superbowl commercials, CBS SUPERBOWL COMMERCIALS Web Site.

The only reason I am really bothering is I really loved the Snickers' commercial and to my dismay I discovered that Snickers pulled the ad.

First, my favorite commercial this year was the Blockbuster "mouse", heh, which was a REAL mouse used to run a computer. Well maybe you hadda be there...

Anyway, the Snickers commercial featured two car mechanics feasting on a snickers bar. I'm not sure how it came about but these two manly fellows ending up munching away contentedly on one snickers bar, each chewing happily on an end. At some point their mouths meet and they realize their faux-pas.

So these manly men, having consumed the entire candy bar until their manly mouths met, decide to do something "manly". At which point they tear out their chest hair, screaming at the brutal pain.


Aw, come on folks. This commercial was beyond funny. Only the homosexual males amongst us got all offended and hey, I'll concur. The commercial probably was offensive to homosexuals and perhaps the company was right in pulling it. Well I don't think so but homosexuals eat candy bars too.

Still, the commercial played up to STEREOTYPES, folks, and in its own way it made great fun of homophobia, or stupid hetero men who fear that THEY may be homosexuals. Ah, but maybe yon average snickers eaters wouldn't get the nuance like The Wise I managed to catch the smirk as intended.

Let this Blog reflect the history of the snickers bar commercial which got pulled that Kaitlyn Mae will someday know that it DID happen.

Heh.

TV REVIEW-Lifetime TV's "Gay, Straight or Taken":

I was immediately taken by the premise of Lifetime TV's latest offering of a straight woman charged with properly picking an available fellow from a trio of offerings in which one guy is "taken", another is "gay" and one, finally, is available. If the lady chooses the straight fellow, well I guess she goes on a date and lives happily every after.

Actually, it's not clear what happens when and if the girl chooses the fellow who is available but I do know the viewing audience can win money. I'm not sure how the viewing audience can win money except perhaps to vote on Lifetime's web site with THEIR instinct on who's straight, gay and available.

Here is Lifetime's Site for this show; check it out yourself and maybe join in.

I only watched one show in this series and it was interesting. My intrigue was cultivated as soon as the hype hit the airwaves. For I once got myself all involved with a fellow who was a homosexual and I didn't have a single clue. It was a long, long time ago and there was no great history made besides a bit of embarrassment on my part. I was interested in seeing how another heterosexual lady handled identifying the taken, the gay and the available.

It turned out that Stephanie, the hetero female featured on the night I watched was about as dumb as me. Although I didn't get a single one of her choices classified correctly while she got two right. I completely agreed with Stephanie with her choice of which of her three choices was gay and I agreed with her logic as well. We were both dead wrong.





The male contenders were:

...Damien, 30-artist
....Zach, 28, fitness model
...Ryan, 23, waiter/model

The ages of the fellows is fairly consistant with Stephanie falling somewhere between all of the ages offered. As for the jobs of the fellows trying to either win or fool Stephanie, their careers are similar enough to be essentially worthless in identifying who is gay, much less taken or available.

To help her find her man, the female contender can assign a task or participate in an activity with each of her fellows. Stephanie had Ryan dress her up, Damien attended a wine tasting with her and Zach was supposed to do some sort of flower arrangement. Zach did do something weird in that he had Stephanie lie down and he strew flowers over her body.

The female contender can also snoop through her male co-contenders' vehicles. She found that Zach drove a BMW and there was a Mariah Carey CD in the player. Damien had a pair of designer sunglasses in his car and she found a membership to Gold's gym in Ryan's car.

Based on this, Stephanie guessed that Ryan was gay because, as she said, every guy she's ever known to be a member of Gold's gym was gay. This has been my experience too. Stephanie did guess that Zach was taken as she could not imagine a single and available guy having a Mariah Carey CD in his car. By the process of elimination, Stephanie arrived at Damien being her fellow, or the one who was available.

Well it turned out that Damien was gay, hey we got to meet Damien's boyfriend. Zach was taken, goodness he was married and yes his wife did own that Mariah Carey CD. Young Ryan would have been Stephanie's love but Stephanie guess him to be gay and, allegedly, he is not.

I say "allegedly" as I still think Ryan's gay even if he says he's not. That Gold's Gym membership is a dead giveaway. It's my story and I'm sticking to it.

This was an enjoyable 1/2 hour show and with a little more hype could go far. As I understand Lifetime offers two new shows every Monday.

I'd recommend it.

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POLITICAL TIDBITS-San Fran Mayor's Girlfriend Gets Big Pay Raise; Dems Gonna "Slow Bleed" our Soldiers

The Mayor of San Francisco continues to provide us with juicy political tidbits. First, that there is still heterosexual sex in San Fran and second, now we understand Newsome's lover girl got a big pay increase.

Murtha's plan for a "slow bleed" strategy that will lose the Iraq war for us takes shape. Yes, they BRAG about slowly bleeding our troops from needed supplies!

First GOP presidential debate scheduled.

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Quote of the Day Late Night Quotes Politics is a dirty business. And with Hillary Clinton announcing that she is running for president, Republicans are already digging up dirt on her. And they found out that she once slept with Bill Clinton. (David Letterman) The Wizard of Oz is seventy years old. The theme is very contemporary. Cheney needs a heart, Bush needs a brain and the Senate needs some courage. (Jay Leno) In a series of TV interviews this morning, Hillary said her favorite movie as a little girl was 'Wizard of Oz.' Her favorite movie in college was Casablanca.' And then after she got married, her favorite movie was 'Kill Bill.' (Jay Leno) Ted Kennedy attacked the president. He said Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam. Which is very unfair. There is a huge difference. Bush knew how to get out of Vietnam. (Jay Leno)

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TIDBITS HOW TO PREPARE FOR A PUPPY *Pour cold apple juice on the carpet in several places and walk around barefoot in the dark. *Wear a sock to work that has had the toes shredded by a blender. *Immediately upon waking, stand outside in the rain and dark saying, "be a good puppy and go potty-hurry up now- come on, let's go! *Cover all your best suits with dog hair. Dark suits must have white and light suits must have dark. Also float some hair in your first cup of morning coffee. *Play catch with a wet tennis ball. *Run out in the snow in your bare feet to close the gate *Tip over a basket of clean laundry, scatter clothing all over the floor. *Leave your underwear on the living room floor, because that is where the dog will drag it anyway (especially when you have company). *Jump out of your chair shortly before the end of your favorite TV show and run to the door shouting, "No NO! Do that OUTSIDE!" Miss the end of the program. *Gouge the leg of the dining room table several times with a screwdriver. *Put chocolate pudding on the carpet in the morning, and do not try to clean it up until you return from work that evening. *Take a warm, cuddly blanket out of the dryer and immediately wrap it around yourself. This is the feeling you get when your puppy falls asleep on your lap.

Political Tidbits

San Francisco Mayor Continues to Amuse

With a smirk worthy of the Grinch, I rub my hands with glee over this San Francisco mess with the mayor and his mistress.

They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people but SF Mayor Gavin Newsom is NOT, definitely NOT, ugly.

The beleaguered Mayor does, however, have some baggage. First, allow me to salute Mayor Newsom for bringing, single-handedly, heterosexual sex BACK to San Francisco!

Although, ahem, dearest Mayor Newsom, dear Lord, you slept with your deputy-chief-of-staff turned campaign-manager's WIFE? All covered HERE on this Blog, as soon as it happened and with all appropriate prurient details.

But it gets better! This tidbit coming out of San Francisco really tweaks the grins and smirks.

For Ruby Tourk, wife of Newsom's former friend and campaign manager, evidently once had a drinking problem. She received treatment requiring a 3-month leave. San Francisco does not permit paid leave for substance abuse BUT, get this, other employees can DONATE their accumulated paid leave to other employees if they so desire.

So if my own fine self had months of accumulated paid leave but decided to "give" it to another employee, well I could do this.

Okay, there's about twenty or thirty things wrong with this picture.

First, this type of thing USED to be done regularly in businesses across the fruited plain. Says me, a former payroll expert, that's who sez.

Of course I've never lived in California but I HAVE paid plenty of California employees via my job with a government contractor. No, uh-uh, I really don't think this is done in California in general but it could be something unique to the municipality of San Francisco.

The "trading off" of leave time was removed from most Human Resource policies because of its intrinsic unfairness. First, Joe Blow in Accounting might make ten bucks less an hour than Jane Doe in Information Systems. Thus he would not be giving Jane Doe leave hours at the same rate as if Jane Doe had it in own leave bank. And since very few people make exactly the same money, leave sharing is very difficult to administer and can literally break a business that allows the practice. This sort of thing was more common in hospitals than in any other business for which I've worked through the years. In order to get it out of use, many hospitals had to outright "buy" unused leave time from employees or grandfather them in to a new system.

It's just not done all that much is what I'm saying here and I really doubt it's done in San Fran either. At least not as cut and dried as they make it sound.

But if the practice is still allowed, WHO gave Mayor Newsom's mistress the leave time? Could it have been Mayor Newsom himself? If so, seriously, does the Mayor accrue leave time? Damn but I doubt it.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven. It stinks so bad I can smell it all the way here in Delaware. It stinks and it will continue to stink because I don't believe a word of it. It's all a lie. That big payment paid to Newsom's mistress from taxpayer funds was a bribe and nothing less.

From Yahoo.com:

The city attorney is investigating whether Mayor Gavin Newsom's former mistress should have received thousands of dollars in sick pay after leaving her job as a City Hall secretary.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera said privacy rules prevented him from disclosing why Ruby Rippey-Tourk received the lump-sum payment of more than $10,000 retroactively covering three months of leave she took last year for substance abuse treatment.

First GOP Presidential Debate Set

The 2008 presidential election campaign has already started which means our ears will be treated to the lies of would-be presidents for the next almost two years.

Invitations have been sent out to GOP presidential nominee hopefuls for a debate in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. You can get tickets to the debate HERE. and can submit questions to the candidates HERE.

So far no one has accepted the invitation but if this goes live, we should be treated to debates by the GOP nominees as early as May of this year.

From Ventura County Star.com:

Ventura County could soon be center stage in the national presidential race.

Ten GOP presidential hopefuls, including former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have been invited by former first lady Nancy Reagan to a May 3 presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

Moonbat Meeting

I do apologize if this notice is too late for yon Moonbat readers. For there is planned a national meeting for all the Moonbats who think our own government orchestrated the attacks of 9-11-01.

From AZStarnet.com:

MESA - Hundreds of people who believe the government has lied about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States plan to gather in Chandler later this week to strategize about how to find out the truth.

The 9/11 Accountability: Strategies and Solutions Conference will be held Friday through Sunday at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort in Chandler. The conference will include keynote speakers, panel discussions, strategy workshops and a documentary film marathon.

Sorry I didn't get this notice up earlier for any Moonbats who missed the meeting.

Just imagine, a whole bunch of Moonbats all in one place. Oh the possibilities.

The Bush Family and the Curse of the Moles

I don't know what's going on up there in the White House but this is the second story regarding the removal of stuff on the skin. Laura Bush had something removed from her legs recently, I believe it was also a mole. Now we hear Bush had two moles removed from his face.

From Yahoo.com:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A doctor removed two moles from President George W. Bush's left temple on Friday and they were believed to be benign, a White House spokesman said.

Now I don't get it. Moles are moles, right? I am very partial to moles, understand, as I spent a full 25 years of my life with a great big mole right below my left eye. When I was a child it was called a "beauty mark" and considered very desireable. But I was a kid and kids will make fun of anything. Which is why I grew up with the nickname "mole face".

I had that "beauty mark" removed once I was old enough to do so and the oddity is that most of the people closest to me in my life have never seen me with that big mole on my face, including my daughter and husband. Very few pictures exist with me and the mole as well. I used to deliberately turn the side of my face with the mole away from any camera aimed my way.

I hated the thing.

Still, it was a mole and God loved me so much he blessed me with a plethora of such moles all over my body. Now that I am ageing, as people do, I find I am getting even MORE moles all about dear Lord it must be genetic or something.

Still again, go with me folks, they're just MOLES. Of course I know that moles can signal skin cancer and I suppose this is why the First Couple have these growths removed with a resignation. Although moles don't spread or anything, do they?

Anyway, being a person "blessed" with moles, the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bush's bout with their own moles piqued my curiousity and humor.

The Democratic "Slow Bleed" Strategy

Let me state right here that the reason why the Democratic party in this country so desperately wants America to lose this war in Iraq is an eternal puzzlement to me. Sure the pundits, especially Rush Limbaugh, all speculate that the Dems are heavily invested in America losing the Iraq war as this will somehow bring them to power.

I figure that Democrats are Americans too, right? I mean, I may not like them all that much but we are all on the same team, right? Surely the Democrats don't want American soldiers dying for no reason, right?

The Dems will NOT cast a vote to cut off all funding for the Iraq war because, well they're cowards and they know the American people won't look kindly on a political party essentially orchestrating a loss during a war. Which is what the Dems are doing, folks, and they're struggling to do it under the political radar and still I don't understand why they want us to LOSE this war. Ladies and gems, there's just a few hot spots in Iraq right now and it's only a bunch of gangland type hoodlums mucking up things. Do you really think the American army can't put an end to this?

So Bush plans a so-called "surge" and it's working. So the Dems aren't satisfied because, again, they WANT us to lose the war. The Dems new plan? Choke the army and hamstring our soldiers by attaching all sorts of requirements to the funds for the war; funds that only congress can authorize.

From Politico.com:

Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration's options.

Led by Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., and supported by several well-funded anti-war groups, the coalition's goal is to limit or sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops available for the Iraq conflict, rather than to openly cut off funding for the war itself.

Hey, it's a methodology and it might work. This Murtha character is front and center with what is called the "slow-bleed" strategy to make America lose the war.

The way it works, instead of doing the brave thing and having a straight "yes" or "nay" vote to cut funding for the war, Murtha as head of the Armed forces committee or some such, will put so many restrictions on the funds that the army will be unable to meet the requirements. Thus the funding for the war, or so the strategy goes, will essentially be cut off without the damnation of publicly voting to lose the war.

John Murtha is one disgusting and doddering old fool. If you want to see the essence of John Murtha, check out this Blog HERE. It's a video of the ABSCAM scandal from waaaaay back in the 70's. The REAL John Murtha is on full and blantant display in this recently released video and imagine how much worse he's gotten through the years.

In fact, there have been whispers by many over this past week about Murtha's mental state. Brit Hume went on a mini-rampage on Fox News recently about Murtha and how the man is so out-of-touch with reality it's frightening. Imagine an American congressman taped openly and with great pride, plotting to undermine the American army in time of war, proudly uttering "We can bleed them slow, they won't be able to function", as I paraphrase.

And hey, Speaker Pelosi's going along with it! Well I'm not surprised. Pelosi too hates America...hey she represents San Francisco and we all know how typically American that city is.

This sort of thing is going to implode on the Dems I swear to you folks. Sooner or later the soccer Mom is going to realize just what these Dems are doing. With a Democrat senile congress critter and homo-loving House Speaker leading the way to America's defeat.

What the hell happened to my country?

Hollywood Goes Bananas for Obama!

I can't think of any political story I've enjoyed for a long time as the story of Hollywood's unceremonious overthrow of the vaunted Clinton duo for that young upstart, Barack Obama.

From BBC.com:

A host of Hollywood celebrities have donated $1.3m (£664,000) to Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign at a lavish fund-raiser in Los Angeles.

Not that I especially like Obama being that he's only been in politics for a couple of years or so. Thus he is entirely too inexperienced to run a big country like America. But I'd vote for Obama over Hillary although it'd likely be quite cold in hell before I voted for either of these Liberals.

So the Hollywood elite has begun embracing Obama and it looks like Hillary and her sexy husband are getting back-stabbed. This past week, music mogul Dave Geffin stated publicly that the Clintons lied amazingly well.

Yes they do, Mr. Geffin. We're sure Obama probably lies too. But like you said, all politicians lie. Also like you said, the Clintons lie as if born to it.

Yeah, I'd rather have Obama over Hillary if it comes to that. So I root Hollywood on. Go Obama!




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