US Politics: same as usual

I can't believe THESE are the kind of people who are vying to lead our country. No wonder our country is slowly going down the toilet...so sad. We have no chance.

Was it true, Lauer asked, that the vetting of Sarah Palin was so woefully inadequate that no one from the campaign traveled to Alaska to interview her husband or any of her political opponents?

"I wouldn't know," McCain said. "The fact is that I'm proud of Sarah Palin, I'm proud of the campaign we waged, she energized our party, she will be a major factor in American politics in the future, and I'm proud of our campaign."

Somewhat taken aback, Lauer told McCain that he found it "somewhat surprising" that he didn't know anything about the vetting process, adding "You were the presidential candidate."

McCain testily shot back by saying that he had no intention of "looking back over what happened over a year ago," adding, "I'm sorry, you'll have to get others to comment on it."

From the new book 'Game Change' by New York magazine's John Heilemann and Time Magazine's Mark Halperin:

- that the affair between John Edwards and his campaign videographer was known about and kept quiet by three of his aides from early on. Edwards comes off in the book as a man with a massive ego and delusional tendencies. His wife Elizabeth is described by insiders as being "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid condescending crazywoman."

- that former President Bill Clinton was involved in an affair in 2006 that many thought would derail Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency and he offended Ted Kennedy deeply while trying to win his endorsement for his wife's campaign by saying the following about then-candidate Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."

- that Sarah Palin believed Saddam Hussein to be behind the attacks on 9/11, didn't understand why North and South Korea were separate (the Korean War) and that she could not properly pronounce Joe Biden's name. The book contends that Palin was a mentally unstable person prone to wild mood swings, describing her being hopelessly lost in a "catatonic stupor" at one point during the campaign.

10 corrections needed for "hot" TV shows right now.

I thought this is a great, quick analysis of some of the "hot" shows on TV right now and how they're starting to veer off their "hot" paths...

I'd like to add that Modern Family and Cougar Town not try to introduce too many more new characters. Guest stars are fine occasionally ala Friends, but we don't need any more characters. Use the ones you've got in the stories. And no babies!!!!

AND PLEASE...LET LOST END WITH ANSWERS!

Future fees for iPhone apps!

An AT&T exec stated on 12/9/09 that iPhone data usage could become more restrictive in order to provide better service overall. Basically, AT&T is saying "Thanks for getting hooked on our hip product, but now we're going to charge you fees to use it because our service sucks." Nice.

Consumer Reports agrees:

Yet, both Apple and AT&T encourage iPhone owners to use more of those bandwidth-hogging features.

Palin courting anti-abortion votes

An article on Palin pimping out her Down syndrome son to gain possible future votes for the next Presidential election lobby against abortion rights.

Seriously, why can't I stop reading about her? There's something wrong with me.

Happy Turkey Day!

I got some pie!!

Some 400 years ago, pilgrims sat down with indians Native Americans people indiginous to North America and ate delicious foods, right before giving them blankets with small pox. Isn't it ironic that we now give thanks in rememberance of giving indians disease and killing their people?

Well, the point is, as Americans, we give thanks on this day for all of the blessings we have in life. I must say I'm pretty lucky to have wonderful, healthy and happy people in my life who make me feel wonderful and happy. Note, I didn't say healthy, since I ate like a freaking pig today and am so stuffed all I've eaten since Thanksgiving dinner is tums and water. So worth it though.

For non-Americans, it is a day to drink. In abundance. OK, us Americans do that today too. About the only thing you can't do on today is have sex because most of us feel too fat or too drunk to do so.

Thanksgiving ruined? No pumpkin pie?!!!

Yes, you read the title correctly. Word on the pumkinvine is there won't be enough pumpkin pie to go around this year and we'll have to give thanks for sweet potato pie. Oh the humanity.

No, but seriously. How ironic is it the organic pumpkins yielded a better crop than mass production?

Palin and Prejean go Jezebel!

Jezebel.com posted a great write-up on the parallels between Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean. See this link to "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1." Here's my favorite part of their analysis:

Neither Palin nor Prejean seem to understand that while they ask America to sympathize with their victimization, they're also asking us to support policies that victimize others. Prejean's views on gay marriage and Palin's beliefs about reproductive rights (and welfare, and healthcare reform) aim to restrict people's freedom to live the way they want. To espouse these views while complaining about handlers who try to rein them in and reporters who criticize them reveals a staggering egocentrism.

Well, don't all conservative, selfish great famewhores think alike?!

Going "Ho"gue: How Sarah Palin still doesn't get it

Like any hard-working famewhore, Sarah Palin has a book to pimp out. She's putting on her tired Joe-sixpack "I'm just like you" fake persona heels and doing her best trick strut to hit the cold Alaskan street corners airwaves and pages for interviews. Lucky for us, POLITICO got ahold of Palin's book before it's spun to death. They put together some snippets and paraphrasing from the book which I'd like to add my own spin to:

John and Cindy McCain receive fulsome praise throughout the book from Palin, him as a brave American hero and her as a mix of elegant lady and Every Mom.

An American hero who Palin was more than happy to step over in order to gain popularity. And nothing says everyday mom like a spoiled rich pill popper, right Governor beauty queen Sarah?

Taking issue with what she said was Schmidt’s attempt to get her a nutritionist, Palin observes: “As he lectured, I looked at his rotund physique and noted that he used nicotine to keep his own cognitive connections humming along.”

I love how judgemental Palin can be one minute and yet ask for sympathy when the mirror is turned on her. How old was your daughter in the MySpace photos showing her drinking? How much did you sell the previous governor's airplane for? How was your brother-in-law fired as a cop again?

“This picture says it all,” Palin writes in the caption. “A dark hotel room in Philadelphia and a frustrated Mark Wallace trying to tell me which of his non-answers I should give during debate prep.”

Sarah, your debating was all fluff! Without those non-answers, you had nothing. If you'd listen to McCain's camp, you may have actually of won your debates. Christ, the times you "went rogue," you sounded like an idiot. And onto the Katie Couric issue...

Palin accuses Couric of having gone easier on Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, and twice claims that the newswoman’s own clothing stylist was actually part of the team hired by the GOP to outfit the vice-presidential candidate for the campaign.

Yes, this is true. Instead of asking Joe Biden where he gets his news, she asked him his favorite color.

Cornell sex scandal

A scandal broke last week where 2 employees at Cornell University accidentally sent a private email thread to the entire University. The big problem? It was an email thread detailing their affair with each other (both are separately married) and how little work they get donw during the day. Lazy sluts!

Click on the link to view the entire thread, which is quite entertaining, I must say. One of the gems emailed during their workday:

And I will be SO F*CKING HORNY after I get done SPANKING that FINE A*S of yours for hours, you’ll be FULL for a week after you swallow me! And I hear that C*M is an excellent source of protein, as well as other nutrients!!!

Class all the way! The link also shows a photo of a gentleman and a lady these two pathetic, white trash cheaters.

I can't decide what's more sad: reading how the woman is tired of her kids and her home life OR reading how much a grown man gets into being tickled. Seriously, this guy goes from bj to tickle torture every second he gets. True torture is knowing these two idiots were paid for six hours of freaky deaky forplay.

Link between early television exposure and later problems with attention span?

I do think kids are exposed way too early these days to television (and generations of ADHD kids are propagated), but blaming dvds for lazy parenting is an all new low. I mean, I've seen minivans on the road with infants in carriers watching tv in the backseat. (BTW, I notice because the carriers should be facing the other way, but don't get me started on those parental units.)

How is it a scam to sell dvds that at least try to be educational, since you're plopping your kid in front of the boob tube anyway?

McNair not a hero. Not much of a father either?

I thought an article/editorial on the death or murder of Steve McNair made a good point about the America's tendency to "hero-ize" less than moral celebrities once they've died:

What we do know is that McNair had four sons. And based on the observations and comments of Kazemi's neighbors and neighbors at the condominium McNair rented, McNair spent so much time with Kazemi over the past few months that people assumed they lived together.

You see, this is my problem with McNair, with American men as a whole.

We shirk our responsibilities as fathers. We don't have time for it. We think it's a part- or no-time job. We think our career is more important. We think charity work is more important. We think some young tail is more important.

We foolishly believe we're unnecessary in the rearing of children. This mindset must die.

It's also a good highlighting that state of being a father in this country has been downsized in importance over the past couple of decades. No longer respected or even feared in most households, a father is simply a sperm donor in this day and age. Sad.

Wii want to bowl!

1. This has disaster written all over it. Bowling ball in the tv, anyone?
2. Seriously, why wouldn't someone just go bowling?

Fleecing of America at the pump: shocker!

No, not a fun shocker. The kinda shocker that makes you realize how much Big Brother and Big Oil control how we function daily (travel, plastics, etc.). Yeah, gas prices still on the rise and no stopping them anytime soon.

Apple mugs it's iPhone clitentele and sets them up to get mugged on the street!

Wow, that was a fast iScrewjob. Turns out Apple won't let you be cool for under $399.

...Those of us who were eager (dumb?) enough to buy last summer's iPhone 3G will not be eligible for the discounted $199/$299 iPhone 3G S pricing...Instead, prepare to pay $200 extra for an 'early' upgrade, which comes out to $399 for the 16GB iPhone 3G S or $499 for the 32GB version. According to TUAW, some iPhone 3G owners aren't even being offer the 'early' upgrade option—in which case, they're stuck with AT&T's 'no commitment' pricing of $599 for the 16GB iPhone 3G S or (gulp) $699 for the 32GB model.

That's a bunch of iBull. Buy a Crackebrry, you iSuckers! True, you don't get to look cool scrolling through screens hard and furious with your index finger, but who can afford an iPhone upgrade in this economy? And if you can afford it, do you really want the iSnob label while loudly pointing through apps?

And the number one reason not to upgrade: you're going to get mugged for your iPhone3GS! Ask Apple if they make an iTaser while you're at it...

1st Anniversary

I missed that Saturday was the date I first reserved this website and started thinking about blogging. June 6, 2008: so one year old! 407 posts and 1400 views in one year. I'm kind of proud of that, considering how little time I've had to invest in this blog. Gotta work and pay the bills, you know? Hopefully this year will allow for more creative juices and the blog will evolve even more.

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Pluto

The things women think "woo" men are sweet notions, but let's be realistic. Here's the real list of 5 things that make men smile (I won't limit to a particular order, since every man is different):

1. Sex
2. Sports
3. Beer
4. Sleep
5. Food

Single ladies: want to land a guy for the long haul? Feed him (cook or go out), encourage him to drink, update him on the sports scores that night (he'll think you're cooler than Mary from "There's Something About Mary"), give him some action (at least 2nd base, but not a homerun...don't be a prude if you want to seal the deal) and then let him sleep. He'll be in love the next morning. Trust this.

Twitwits

I still don't get why people think Twitter is of use other than telling people mundane happenings in their lives. Yes, even more mundane than the crap you post on Facebooks or MySpace or LinkedIn. Twitter does nothing to improve on those social networking sites, other than expediting ways in which self-promoters and spammers can capitalize on innovative technology and people's leisure. Even Kanye agrees. And he's pissed.

Keep ing up with the Jones' maybe wealthy

It's a said day when making six figures isn't considered wealthy. Inflation and the fleecing of America make it impossible to be comfortable for under six figures a year (and still put money away i savings). Sad. I try to stay grounded/realistic by remembering that my parents first living room furniture was lawn chairs.

Big Oil needs to pay for X-mas party 2009

I already posted about gas prices rising recently without many people noticing. Well, it's still going up and doesn't show a slowdown. The fleecing of America continues. I read that gas prices have increased 96% since December 2008 (5 months ago) and 33% since the beginning of May 2009. And it's getting worse. Think about that next time you fill up your car's tank or pay your gas bill or buy a plastic product. We bring this on ourselves.

A chickouse?

50% mouse, 50% chicken. 100% creepy. this is a strong argument for why mankind should not be messing with Mother Nature by cross-breeding...