Musings and Meanderings

TV Recommendations. New shows Wonderwalls. OMG this is great. Fox on Friday Nights. It's kind of like Joan of Arcadia without God. Inanimate objects tell the heroine what to do to help peoples lives. No it's not a new idea, but the writing is very fresh, and the cinematography is outstanding. Joan of Arcadia. God speaks to Joan. This works because the actors are magnificent. The writing isn't half bad either. Century City. Had enough legal shows? How about one set in the future. But instead of peddling the same LA Law schlock that lawyer shows have been peddling for years the cases are sci fi oriented. Ethical and legal issues that might come up in the next 50 years having to do with biotech, gerontology and other near future issues. NCIS , (or Navy NCIS which is repetitive). Mark Harmon rocks this one. Its a cross btw Jag and CIS (duh) but the package works well: acting, plotting, writing. The cast is superb, my fave being the Goth Chick who...

Open Reply to a post regarding the piece from Monday The problem with right side of the aisle is that they cannot face it when their machinations are uncovered. Please do your own research on the names I have listed. Their actions, publications and resumes are public record. Google it if you have to. Bracketed by what are obviously *Opinions* I have simply stated the facts of these appointees. It's all public record. Yet when the denizens of the Public Morality And Patriotism turn on their “machine” its ok to take the gloves off and distort the facts as they see fit. See Limbaugh, Coulter or any one of a number of White House talking heads. But you cannot have it both ways. I’ve said this before, I am absolutely stunned with the cries of foul play echoing from the Right Side of the Aisle when all the Left has done is play by the rules set out by that very same Right Wing. More often than not it’s the Left side of the Aisle publishing some tidbit of fact that the Rig...

Another Hidden Bush Agenda Yet another terrifying glimpse into the Bush White House. Here is a partial list of Bush appointees to the Deptartment of Health and Human Services. While fighting the Taliban abroad the Bush Adminstration has been quietly creating his own Christian Taliban right in your own back yard. For an adminstration that campaigned as a unifier, and who won with out a Mandate from the American People, they sure seem quite set on forcing their minority views on the majority of Americans. Read on: Dr. Alma Golden: appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs. A Texas pediatrician, she is a longtime proponent of abstinence as the only acceptable means of birth control. Dr. Golden declared that henceforth the department would stress "abstinence-only" as the solution to unwanted pregnancies, not just for teens, but unmarried adults as well. Tom Coburn: Former Republican congressman and anti-condom crusader. Appointed co-chair...

Open Letter to Fox News Although I cannot expect Fox News to show a balanced outlook I would at least expect that the letters shown on your Fox News Sunday show would be filtered for facts. I would assume that you have literally hundreds of letters to choose from regarding your roundtable discussion on the Scalia/Cheney Duck Hunt episode. Instead you choose one letter that is incorrect and one that is immaterial to the matter. The letter stating that the Sierra Club had it out for Scalia is just plain incorrect, (they have no comment on this matter) and the Ginsberg/NOW connections is just immaterial. So why Fox would choose a letter stating incorrectly that the Sierra Club had any comment on the Scalia/Cheney Duck Hunt? Why choose another letter out of hundreds that is just immaterial, but also retaliatory? Because your editorial slant has such right wing bias as to make the entire network the laughing stock of real journalism. Just to set the record straig...

A Knights Tale Finally saw this movie front to back on Network TV last night. I really liked it. I can see how the critics went banana's with the two scenes where modern music is intigrated into this medieval setting. But the entire setting was not even remotely historically accurate. There were no World Championship tournaments, it wasn't like the WWE. So its was just a fun fantasy and love story. The love interest, American born actress Shannyn Sossamon was quite good and exotic enough looking to pass as a French Princess with no problem. So it jousting was fun, the script was hilarious (especially Paul Bettany's Geoffery Chaucer), the plot watchable, and the villian Rufus Sewell quite nasty. But the movie was definitely made by the easy acting of Heath Ledger .... Sir William Thatcher/Sir Ulrich Von Lichtenstein of Gelderland .. was just quite enjoyable. So rent the movie. Get some popcorn, and escape to the movies

One Nation under God Everyone has a right to their opinion. Hence the raison d'etre for this and most other blogs. But this guy sueing to stop the pledge of allegiance is fundamentally stupid. Or extremely clever. Depending upon his politics. But first I want to say that the entire suit is JUST the sort of thing that these right wing conservatives like the Fox Network, Anne Coulter etc hang their hat on. There is no need for this. If he doesn't want to say "under God" in the pledge then he can just not say it. Don't force a nation to change what is tradition. So my theory here is the "background noise" issue in the election year. Things like this, and the gay marriage issue polarize a nation. They put labels where they don't belong (by the above mentioned sources) and offer general ammunition to the right. So this guy's timing sux, unless he is a Conservative... So, its a dumb thing to do and a dumb time to do it. Could I...

Well the shit is really hitting the fan now. At 4:30 today my boss came in and pulled up a chair. He said Mike I don't have to tell you that things are not going as well as they should. Oh oh.... To be fair he was going to offer me a few "choices". I just cut him off and said well you are going to have to lay me off because I can't take any more pay cuts. Let me go on unemployment and look for another job. However, in order to cash in on any previous work I did bringing in new accounts and old, he is going to pay me a commission 1099 as long as I keep the accounts active. So I'm going to do that while I look for a job. Called the MW on the way home and she had some nice bits of advice for me. Frankly I don't know how we are going to pull this off.... we were strapped as it was.... I just LOVE this new Bush Economy. SHITE

I will tell you the real reason why I am tired is all. Work is difficult. Now that the primaries are over the "election" is already disintegrating into mud slinging. So I took a break from blogging. Just a quick break mind you. If you don't check back on a regular basis however you may come back and find yourself a week behind. You KNOW how verbose I can be. I'm doing the proverbial girding of the loins before the real onslaught. It's going to be a nasty tough fight. And the longer I see this brand of Republicanism in power, and meet the nasty small minded people (from forum posters to Ann Coulter herself) the more disgusted I become. These people make me very sad and very tired. Well and angry, but anger is a tireing thing. Humans were not made to be angry all the time. I'm honestly not sure the center can hold. And you can quote me here. And it makes me very worried. Till we speak again (very soon)

Pictures of the New Car. If you are curious the bumper stickers are one round silver STS9 and one square STS9 (thats Sound Tribe Sector 9) and two political bumperstickers. The Black one says If you are not completely appalled you are not paying attention. The white one says I dont have to like Bush to Love my country. Neat thing is they are moutned on magnetic strips so 1) it doesn't abuse my finish and 2) so I can change them at whim. I have quite a few others.....

Gad Zeuks! It's Thursday already! Garsh this week has flown . Lets see, Monday was Boys night in, and we didn't rent a movie. Got a call from Alex's Teacher during the day, so we had a little homework and Owed Work session. We did watch a couple of episodes on CrasHBOx on "on demand." Tuesday was Super Tuesday here in NY. Spoke with Brother Greg. Voted for Edwards, kinda like my Anderson vote in 1980, in that the other guy had it in the bag but I like diversity. So it's Kerry Vs Bush. Who would have thunk it five months ago? Well I'll tell you who. The Economist Magazine. They had Kerry picked all along, I think those guys over there are Psychic. Its gonna be a dirty nasty drag out campaign, and in the end, the Repbulican dirty tricks club will slime Sen Kerry enough to win the election. So prepare yourself for four more years of GWB, of fiscal irresponsiblity, jobs moving overseas, foreign relations estrangement and all the other ...