How's That Offspring Song Go?

"Dance F****r dance
Now he never had a chance"



Watch possibly the dumbest Press Secretary in US history explain the Executive Order banning abortion.

George, You Old Devil

Weighing My Options

I'm doing a little research on New Zealand right now. I saw a thing on the Azores on the Travel Channel a few weeks ago, there's some promise there. They looked like some pretty little islands.

The End Is Nigh

As we get closer to universal health care it becomes ever more clear that whether you are for it or against it, red or blue, liberal or conservative or any other convenient label you want to apply you should all be as pissed as you've ever been at the Government. If you're a liberal you had better wake up to the fact that your elected representatives no longer represent you. If you don't have a problem with Congress rewriting the rules as it goes then you can't see beyond the end of your nose. Victory at any cost isn't victory for long.

This isn't about health care anymore. We all want to see health care fixed. This is the dismantling of the political system that has protected all US citizens as well as any form of government can. Are the critics stirring up fear for personal gains? Possibly (probably) but if there was every a reason to get stirred up and fearful and angry it is just the threat of a political party in power doing whatever they want against the protocols, traditions and even laws of the country. Hopefully the system is strong enough to correct this problem.

Another Bump To The Count

Sorry, just another video. This one is a pretty good one. I like OK Go more and more all the time. Note that it's better to click on it and watch on youtube for the widescreen.

Just Bumping Up My Entry Count For The Month

Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

It's Not Nice...

We were spending some time with the nephew and his other Aunt yesterday when he asked if we thought 2012 would be the end of the world. He had the same concern in his voice that I felt as a child worrying about the “Population Bomb”. If you’re old enough to remember this pre-global warming hoax, you’ll remember that the author’s of the book were predicting that due to an unchecked expansion of the population there wouldn’t be enough food to sustain us all by the 80's. I think that’s why “Mad Max” was such a scary movie to me as a child. It was my more subdued, better done “2012”.

So as people like to do we started discussing the end of the world, with all the adults assuring Garrin that 2012 was an unlikely date. My wife in particular had a good answer, that I unfortunately can’t remember now. Mine was that I thought our ape slaves would turn on their human masters. Garrin solemnly nodded his head and predicted that “Mother Earth” would be our undoing. He elaborated just enough to lead me to believe he thought there was an actual woman standing on a mountain top ready to smite us all because we replaced her butter with Chiffon margarine. I remember the phrasing because I found it odd. Mother Earth, not Mother Nature. I immediately thought of Earth Goddess or some other Wiccan like term. I wanted to ask him where he had been told about all of this but I’m already known through out both sides of my family as “that conservative nut job, Brian” so I let it go. I thought about it the rest of the night though. It got me angry in the shower as most ideas for my blog do. I could just imagine some aging hippy teacher telling the class that there is a force in the world that makes bad things happen to evil men because they strip mine. That there is an actual yin and yang balance to the world that demands a pound of flesh for every misstep we make. Are there consequences for strip mining? Sure, anyone that grew up in south eastern Ohio in the late sixties and early seventies can tell you those consequences are sulfurous orange streams and erosion issues. I don't think Mother Earth was the one behind it.

So what we have are eco-nut jobs teaching your children a religion. Every liberal eco-nut job I ever met thought that man was the cause of all earth’s problems without every acknowledging that we are also the solution to those problems (the man made ones anyway). If you’ve ever been to “The Wilds” in southeastern Ohio you would be amazed to know that that entire wildlife preserve and research center is sitting where once there was nothing but man made holes for miles and not a tree in site. Mother Earth really didn't have a hand in the reclamation efforts.

The interesting thing to me is that while a lot of the eco-nut jobs will believe in the divinity of nature they are atheists who complain the loudest about separation of church and state. God forbid (pun intended) that creationism should be taught to children. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think creationism should be taught to kids either but I also don’t believe that an angry and wrathful Mother Nature should be taught to kids. Why not just go old school and tell them one day the sun god Apollo will destroy man as revenge for a minor slight by Zeus? It explains global warming as well as anything.

The one true God of Thunder

Valentine Weekend '10

It's been a pretty good weekend. My work schedule is arranged so that I only have to take one day of vacation to get four days off thanks to President's day. Our nephew, Garrin came to spend a few days. I almost got him into model building. We did put a Legos Star Wars model together, that's close. I couldn't believe he didn't want to build a snap kit Corvette to take home at the Rod and Bike show we went to on Saturday. Kids.

The car show was a decent one. It was a little small but they had some nice bikes and cars on display.

Sunday night Lisa and I had a Valentine dinner at the Briarhurst Manor. We saw an episode of Ghosthunters filmed there. I guess it's one of their claims to fame. We didn't get to see any ghosts but the six course meal we had was pretty decent.

The following day we went to Denver and used a gift card for the AMC theater to see the Wolfman. It was just okay. I was surprised by the young age of some of the kids. It's got a well earned R rating for violence.

My favorite part of the weekend was setting up Lisa's Wii. I enjoyed it so much because we finally have a mutual interest in video games. The bowling is a hoot even though Lisa is kicking my butt at it.

It was a long weekend but a good one.