I've got a hint for you

Hollywood,

Cruise missile hits deck

Make good movies!

Then we'll start going to see them again. I certainly wouldn't pay $15 for a movie with the crap you're putting out there now! "Snakes on a Plane"? Andy said it had a suck modulus of 1, the perfect movie. It can't be worse than you could possibly imagine. However I won't actually pay any money to see it. Even if it does have Samuel-Motherfucking-Jackson in it.

And who's fault is it if you give the A-list actor a cut of box office receipts before costs. Hello!!! Nina Jacobson is right, it's not fair. But it's not our fault you people (studio executives) are idiots!

But then do I really care if the hollywood movie business is in the gutters? They haven't done very many good movies and none recently. If the poor executives have to only live on six figure salaries? Does Cruise really care that he's been "fired" after having made *how* many millions over the past few years? (of course I wonder what Scientology's cut has been)

Interesting

Oh, really?

Unfortunately it doesn't say whose opinion it is, even if it is interesting. And I can't much condone people who will say something anoymously anymore.

Dear Diary

"Today I was pompous and my sister was craz..." wait, that's not the right entry.

[looks through pages]

Democratic Web ad angers some Hispanics

Here it is:

"Dear Democratic Party:

Can you pretty please not fuck this election up and leave the neo-con 'republican's in charge of the country for another two years? They've really dicked things up so far and we really need someone with a brain in charge.

Pretty Please!"

Too many more like this and we'll undo all the benefit we get from these,

Sen. Allen's remarks spark controversy
(let's let the racists mutherfucker shoot himself in the foot)

Ah well, we can always hope ...

Amazing Audacity

While he hasn't gone so far as to claim credit or anything, the claim is implied.

Bush on high-profile visit to counterterrorism hub

And I suspect that the neo-cons will continue to harp on this until after November. I hope people don't buy their crap but I fear they will, just like always.

It's not like liquid explosives haven't been around for oh, say ten or fifteen years. My fellow platoon leader in Germany in 1986 ran an experimental project on them. Heck, there's a professor here at MU who has been studying them for years trying to design building structures to withstand them.

It was the British who caught these guys and they had the intel on them. I haven't see anything anywhere which says or implies we had anything to do with this and yet it's the topic of assorted speeches and whatnot.

And all the comments and blogs complaining about how long people have to wait and how they can't stay hydrated. Boom! You blow up you won't really have to worry about your hydration, now will you? I'll pour a bottle of Evian on your grave. I promise!

Pennsylvania Town Takes Stand Against Immigrants

I can't say that I would really want to live there but if there are no penalties for employing people in the country illegally then we can't really expect them to stop coming over from wherever. And expecting the Federal government to actually do anything to solve a problem is like wishing on stars. Warm and fuzzy when you think about it but no one expects any results.

Exiting Iraq: Maj. Gen. John Batiste's View

One in a number of interviews with people who might have an informed opinion about what we should do regarding pulling out of Iraq. I still maintain that it was a mistake to go in the first place but since we broke it we have to try to fix it. As painful as that might end up being.

In all I feel ... odd again today.

A new definition

For "Bogus" ...

Luxury spending found in legal program

I know we're supposed to hate lawyers but this seems to combine the desire to hate rich government pukes who are wasting our money on their limosine rides and expensive dinners along with that! How efficient, killing two birds with one stone.

Hot Dogs May Cause Genetic Mutations

And here they thought hot dogs only caused colon cancer ...

Astronomers meet to define 'planet'

It seems like a simple question but way out on the outskirts of our system things get a bit murky (a bit cold too!).

Saw

This the other day and it was particularly disturbing. Announcing to the world that you won't follow the law strikes me as the precursor to lawlessness.

Read the fine print

And brings to mind the question "Just who does he think he is?". The answer is "The President" but the first qualification of being president is that you're a citizen. You're one of us to begin with. And now he seems to think he's so much better than the rest of us. I think he needs to be brought back to reality pretty quick (slapped down would be another way to say that) but I don't see it happening.

Byte me

You pretentious ASS!!!

Portrait of a Blogger: Under 30 and Sociable

(and it's strangely gratifying that a woman can be a pretentious ass as well as hairy [or hairless] old neocon white men)

[goes off to read the article, having only so far read reviews of it at Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad (Woman) Blogger?]

It's a bit difficult to tell if the wildly stupid claims (bloggers are mostly young, they mostly do it just to network or they don't intend to have any social impact) made in the article come from her or from the Pew study she quotes as a major source.

I'd been meaning to blog on something but nothing had coalesced to the point of coherent thought much less actual words. Until I got angry about something stupid posted out there in internet-land (I refuse to call it "the Internets"). But you have to admit that this is just plain stupid-Stupid,

"'The average blogger is a 14-year-old girl writing about her cat,' said Alexander Halavais, an assistant professor of interactive communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut."

Fuck you "Professor"! Just what blogs are you reading and should your name be on a watch list in Connecticut?

I have you now!

I just found out the other night that my neice Hannah has become a science fiction fan.

Score!
I've corrupted another one!

Well not really. But that particular voice in my head goes to extremes.

I've gotten Neverwinter Nights up and working and have been having fun with the Infinite Dungeon module. I'm playing around with some of the DMG presige classes again.

It seems that someone tied the minimum wage bill together with the repeal of the estate tax and tried to sneak it past the senate after the house passed a version of it last week. It didn't work (the bill failed) but the Dems had to vote against it, which the GOP (Grody Obstinate Poopheads) will portray as voting against raising the minimum wage. However I did find a place where I could go to see how our senators voted.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm

I bookmarked it and will be watching Misters Bond and Talent.

Physical therapy is going well. My mobility is mosty back and my toes only get tingly occasionally, usually when I'm doing my morning stretchs.

The retreat was great fun and I loved it but it's going to be a whole year before the next one. [sigh] Fortunely I've got a great game group so it will be fun in the meantime.

All for now, it looks like Hannah sent me another message.