Road Trip Thoughts
As nice as it is to travel, always a feeling of tired satisfaction to pull in the driveway and leave all those other poor drivers in traffic where they belong. ;)
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May 31, 2009
May 30, 2009
Laser Beams and Rhapsodical Musings
I have always loved lasers, but never had one.
Maybe Apple will produce an iPod with option phaser/laser someday, complete with "stun the Federal spending" capability if aimed at certain politicians cramming Marxism down our throats.
Experiments are close to successfully fusing hydrogen atoms in a controlled environment with laser technology. I say "close" with respect to realizing Kitty Hawk was not that long ago. But think about the implications of nuclear fusion, virtual limitless energy, on our world.
It is a race to reaching a world of free energy for everyone, versus nations and politics and propriety over national power, frenzied religious jihads, government control over liberty in the US and then the globe based upon leverage over current industry - a thousand fallible weaknesses in man's vanity at the helm of an out-of-control ice sled careening down a glacial slope amazingly unmelted by man's contribution to the global warming fraud.
All those themes intertwine in hapless contrast of disorganization of Obama's lust to control every fabric of our lives to the finely-tuned orchestration of photons.
Physics versus man's continual abuse of power, which even in the country that is discovering new marvels, Marxist mistakes of old threaten to reduce us, as the sheep we seem to be, back into the foster care of Orwellian, bleak, surrender.
I've grown to the age of awareness such that I cannot marvel and appreciate human advance in areas like science without immediately observing it may be the final breath of a free society's ability to achieve genuine improvement. Because what I am seeing in the United States now, with the world in tow before it whiplashes us, is the product of a generation of dumbing down, and the willing sacrifice of liberty by a majority who are simply too stupid to know what they are doing.
Yet a scientific breakthrough may be what is necessary to shake things up enough to wipe out the grapple of political institutions digging into our flesh. But only if we get it first. If the West or USA does not make the next leap forward, it's all over, which it may be anyway through our incredible national penchant for internal disintegration.
Or dilly-dallying over the hubris of thinking government controls can act like a thermostat upon the earth, measurable in nanoseconds of time otherwise known as mere decades dedicated to the foolish.
Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here. But a cool laser nonetheless.
May 26, 2009
Verrrry Civilized
Is it just me, or do nuclear bomb tests and missiles bother anyone else, coming from a country that not only cannot feed its own people, but has a shortage of what you and I might call "light bulbs?"
May 25, 2009
Random Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennett needs to be a guest at my next staff meeting.
Look Who is Back
So she can't move.
That is really a striking problem.
Way to go Maria.
Maria Does Not Look the Same
Maria Sharapova had a good run. Got lucky once or twice. Made a lot of money. Superstar.
Oh how the mighty legs have fallen.
After a slight thing called "shoulder surgery," girl has the guts to at least try to play one match today at the French Open.
Hey ka-billionaire, mix in a hair stylist. You are looking way too Novosibirsk.
You can see this gal is someone who captured lightning in a bottle for one moment and will grow old fast.
Scary but true.
Grunt. Shriek. Hit the corners.
It's good if you can do it ten thousand times in a row.
Maria in her heyday led half of American men into dementia, if not Dementieva (<-- that is a humorous tennis reference for the unwary).
Up early. Clicking channel 703.
Dinara Safina is kicking the holy shit out of some girl named Keothavong.
She is not letting her win ONE GAME.
6-0, 6-0. Thanks for coming.
You don't want to mess with this russian.
Let the next internationally-televised humiliation commence with a girl who will have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from the locker room onto her clay court burial ground.
May 24, 2009
Kelly Clarkson Does Tokyo
Hey, what else are you going to do when it is raining cats and dogs on a Sunday in Houston?
They won't allow me to imbed the music video, but
I am one of those guys who never watches "American Idol," or "Dancing With the Stars," as much as provides brainless fodder for radio talk show hosts without an ounce of personal inspiration.
But this Kelly Clarkson's voice is superb.
Helps to have talented musicians and musical arrangement, but still - that voice.
So enjoy the video from the link above. They will not let me embed it.
Ta ta folks.
It Has Begun
And may the best (cough, cough), prettiest player win.
As I write this, Ana Ivanovic is striding around her match like the twenty-two year old cougar you don't want any part of.
National Bankruptcy
Guess where it's coming from?
Every gallon of gas.
Every ounce of orange juice.
Every flick of underwear.
Every electric bill.
Every lunch, dinner, spare breakfast.
No matching co-pay for health insurance.
No proper hospital care if you feel something wrong in your body.
Every toy car that will kill your kid, to save the planet from a myth.
Every cup of coffee.
Every time you swipe a credit card.
Every trip to the cleaners, optometrist, haircut.
I try not to scare you.
I try to soothe what must even to the most die-hard liberals, what has become more than a slight worry.
Income redistribution baby.
Government is great. If you talk into a teleprompter and avoid the word "socialism" in favor of,
"We will not go back to the failed policies of the past. Our common future requires investment."
Lap it up. Then allow an 8 month old baby to die on a cold floor. It's a gay man's right to choose.
Or excoriate Miss California. Yes, let's trash her for holding an opinion.
Our national debt is 11.2 trillion dollars. Let me spell that out for you:
$11,200,000,000,000
Eleven thousand, billion dollars.
This is insane.
It is not coming from nowhere. This government has just sent the United States into horror, and he is only getting started.
"America is not about Christianity, or Judaism, or Islam. We are a country founded on values."
I'm not even ranting. I am just aghast. I have to say something. I have to hope that anyone who reads this with a disbelieving eye will simply look at the facts. That is all I ask.
One year from now, every single item you buy will cost twice as much as it does now.
Two years from now, it will cost five times as much.
And you will have less to buy it with, IF you still have a job.
Wow, did I just criticize the president? I mean Jesus Christ?
Look at him turn his chin up into the light. Ignore the slobberings of Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer.
Fair and rigid journalism is what this country was founded upon.
May 23, 2009
It's a Cool, Cool Summer
I am ready for summer.
Are you?
How's your tennis?
Crystal Gayle
I realize women like short hair after the advanced age of nineteen, but some of them are still willing to put up with conditioner.
<--- Behind-the-scenes stuff waxes golden in Muppet Land.
Are You Ready for Some Tennis?
I had to post Ana Ivanovic for two reasons. #1 She's the champ from last year. #2 Really hard on the eyes.
But I am rooting for Dinara Safina. However, thinking it is "anyone's turn" is a huge mistake in professional sports (much as in life).
The other fun fact, much to my SHOCK, is that Maria Sharapova, now ranked in the mid-hundreds, is actually playing. At least her name is in the draw. She has been injured for a year, and just only starting to play again. I can't believe she entered the tournament.
Television coverage this year exceptional. DirecTV has seven channels dedicated to the tournament: a mix channel, plus court coverages. Add ESPN and one of the blah networks to the group.
I have been to Paris and seen French Open matches live, four times: 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994. Those were the Monica Seles days before she got stabbed by a German madman who now walks free after getting his wish for Steffi Graf to be number one.
May 22, 2009
That Guy Looks Like My Chem Prof at U.T.
Dude on the right, of course.
Wonder what those balloons are all about?
Hey, I have not yet seen "Star Trek." Either I am falling behind or waiting for PPV or HBO.
Anyone who sees this (after "WALLe"), let me know if they performed another veering swing. Pixar loves to do that.
May 21, 2009
What a Coincidence - DirecTV Upgrade Timing
Eight channels, plus ESPN and NBC when they get their turn.
Should be fun. :)
May 18, 2009
Reprise: The Battle at Kruger
Several months ago, maybe even a year, this video was all the rage and I blogged about it.
But just in case you are new, or missed it, or wandering by wondering - fascinating footage.
Keep an eye on the Discovery Channel or National Geographic, and you might see the documentary. In the meantime, here's the website link.
Enjoy!
What an Embarrassment
Joe Biden is such a duffass.
Does his foot ever come out of his mouth?
The YouTube Gods Have Let me Keep this Clip :)
I don't know what it is about this British chick.
She is not THAT pretty.
True, the girl owns a certain "stoutness," but remarks about thighs like tree trunks would be going too far.
She is just normal, not some anorexic mannequin with pristine tinkertoys otherwise known as limbs.
I have never seen her since this movie about ten years ago. Yet the YouTube hits are fabulous.
May 17, 2009
Caroline Has Had Her Romper Room Fun
Tennis nirvana never ceases.
Men's final looks awesome with Federer and Nadal in Spain. Poor Djokovic. He had it. Then he didn't.
Turning to women, always awesome in breezy weather, Caroline Wosniacki is too young to even know how good she is.
Miss Safina ain't exactly amused with the idea of losing to the newest blonde on the block.
I like Dinara. She deserves to be number one.
"Safina" much easier to pronounce than "Wosniacki."
May 16, 2009
Give Me a Break
Oh my God.
Hey, dems. We can agree to disagree about everything from socialism to global warming.
You may desire institutional government control over every aspect of your life.
I do not.
However - when it comes to the terrifying prospect if any harm comes to Obama.
We have the clown, buffoon, Biden next in line.
And after him - this witch.
The word "appalling" should be dredged out once in a lifetime.
Nancy Pelosi is appalling.
Trek Trek Trek
Or will it be another, "wait for Kirsten Dunst on HBO?"
There is a non-sequitur for ya.
May 15, 2009
A Little Good News
Way to Go Sarah
This whole Miss California thing has people outraged that she is shoving Christianity down everyone's throat in a hypocritical, homophobic assumption of superiority.
Give me a break. Which agenda is shoving what down whose throat lately? Carrie Prejean expressed her opinion. She has a foundation for her belief about marriage, and when asked, stated it.
Now after weeks of being crucified for the gall of stating it - she is finally getting a little support in fairness from Donald Trump and now Sarah Palin.
is exactly what it is, in the ten thousandth form in one hundred days. Since when did ultra-left become "the center" (despite every poll) and any reasonably grounded opinion turn into "right-wing radical?"
Here is when: CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, (must stop before running out of blog space).
I for one am unconcerned if you agree with me or not. Tired of cowering under the crushingly humiliating moniker of "white conservative male."
We need our country back, before it is ruined past recovery.
May 14, 2009
Blog Mood Like a Sin Wave
Got a little heavy this morning, but the frustration was real.
Also, I felt I needed to vent somewhat seriously after so many movie and entertainment posts.
Life is about balance.
Anyway, look at the right sidebar. Newest thing is to add my Facebook "badge." If you are visiting this blog and would like to check out my profile on Facebook, or see what chats and friends are over there - be my guest. :)
And yes, tomorrow is Friday.
Economic Disaster Seems Inevitable
Diatribe Start.
It is hard to remain optimistic about the future of the United States when it seems we are committing national economic suicide, or weakening our standard of living and social strength to the point where we are vulnerable to physical harm from enemy nations.
Even my limited awareness and understanding can see the result of the following:
* Social Security tipping point soon, where payouts exceed income, meaning borrowing on top of the debt, increasingly, without end of acceleration
* Medicare in worse shape. Neither of these two programs have any money in a "lockbox." They are abject failures, unsustainable
* $1.5 Trillion deficit per year on top of the debt, at the same time as the above
* National Health care proposals for trillions more in debt, in a very debatable framework of feasibility and quality of support
* Cancellation of companies' ability to contribute towards employee health insurance, leading to compression of any free market choice for health services
* Medical professionals saying "to hell with this."
* Higher income taxes on everyone, especially small business
* Tax increases on Gap and Trade, government control over industrial standards that increase the cost of everything consumers buy (i.e. hidden tax by cost increase)
* Overall inflation from decline of the dollar and massive government borrowing
* Lower overall tax revenues, despite increased rates, due to declining gross national product
* Paper money printed as fast as mints can pump it out
* No halt to illegal immigrants taking on more benefits than they provide
This is a downward spiral to bankruptcy, with no chance of easily undoing. Graft and corruption throughout all new extended controls which extort the money and manipulate penalties for political purposes.
It is too big, too fast, thrust upon a society largely ignorant of any concept other than envy, or "gimme mine," which is basically a pool of voters bought and not paid for.
Is this what the government of the United States exists for? To be given over to control every industry, legislate arbitrary theft, impose judicial appointments to effect an agenda, manipulate the constitution? Was not this tried in the Soviet Union and Europe. Now look at them.
I say all that, just as entry points, high-level topics each of which has more tendrils of horror no clear-headed media is willing to disclose in our current cult of personality era.
I don't enjoy posting this nor believe for one second that anyone's mind will ever be changed. I suppose it is just a cathartic moment. I can't do anything about it except remain aware, try to protect myself, vote, and intellectually measure my opinions against facts.
Diatribe Over.
May 10, 2009
Trekkies Need a Life
Can't wait.
Audrey Hepburn - Take Two
Just for fun.
Audrey Hepburn
I made the mistake of re-watching "My Fair Lady" yesterday. Classic film of course. The mistake part was imprinting this song in my head, which I am glad to share.
And you thought those radio jingles were endlessly repeating...
May 9, 2009
There's a Spider in the Bathroom
People seem to love it.
Safina Just Won Rome
Crushed the field.
Have you seen this chick play?
Number one and on a mission.
Next up - The French Open
May 8, 2009
Star Trek
"Spock, is there a new movie?"
"Logical."
"Why can't they lend us one hundred years?"
"If Edith Keeler would have broken the speed of light before you let a car run her down."
"Scotty, how much power left in these warp engines?"
or
Somewhere in Time
It could happen.
Then just when we believe it, penny from a pocket sends guy cascading back into his future through glorious music and saddest outreach.
Saps unite.
Too Many Natural Disasters?
What's up with the increased frequency of natural disasters in recent years? Hurricanes, fires - and still waiting for that next major earthquake.
The latest fire is consuming much of the Santa Barbara, California area.
One celebrity who is close to it is Dennis Miller. He does his radio show from his home. Was not in direct danger yesterday, but sounds like the fire is moving down from the mountains towards more populated areas.
May 4, 2009
Meet My New Best Friend
His name is Riley, because that is the kind of life he is living.
Birds cannot do anything about Mr. fat Riley upending the feeder, spilling priceless Walmart-garnered seed across the back porch in an incredible display of aberrant rodent hubris.
I swear his IQ is 140+.
Tiny claws perform differential equations on whatever constitutes a whiteboard in hovels absconded from less gifted furry brethren.
I feel like Bill Murray, unsuccessfully snaking water hoses into gopher dwellings on a golf course.
Did you know this little bastard can leap four feet straight up, and walk on a wire, all the while taunting?
Those of us with access to Academy stores own a special present for friends who wish to remain in the first circle of animal kingdom social prominence.
Consider the irony of a squirrel being killed by a nut traveling at the speed of sound.
Live it, Love it, but don't Drink it.
May 3, 2009
C-Span Rocks
Amid the noise and haste, I like on Sundays to tune to C-Span 2's "Book TV."
Most of the speakers are impressive for good reason. It is educational, instructional, a pleasant diversion that offers the mind glimpses into insights maybe formerly not considered.
Sometimes a person will say things I do not agree with. When that happens, I like to examine why the person is saying something I oppose.
Most of the time, their stories stem from personal experience and dedication to something, the reach for a goal that matters to them - and the insight is hardly ever found wanting.
The People Seem to Like It
One of my top YouTube ventures.
May 2, 2009
Ana Ivanovic
I am not saying she can win it again.
Muscle-bound women are all the clay court rage.
Maria is out, again. (she is gonzo forever now)
A Williams sister might blunder through, which would not be so bad except we must continually witness their mom and dad in the stands.
Greek Goddess thing is so retro.
Aphrodite, apple of rapture, never steered ships onto shoals.
Just stay down on your backhand baby.
And if you must date, your father and I agree 32 is a very reasonable age to begin.
1977 Flashback
Kindle 2 Update
Yes, I am loving it.
But how much can anyone read? Especially with Facebook on this planet.
So we have got all of Shakespeare, The Bible, The Divine Comedy, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Isaac Asimov, Dickens.
Add to that "The Wall Street Journal."
Have you ever tried to wade your way through that newspaper for even one day?
For kicks after that we have "Frankenstein," and ten free volumes of "The World's Most Famous Books."
Who has time to Twitter?
May 1, 2009
I Miss Ally McBeal
Where does time go?
Remember lazy nights watching.......
Where No Man Has Gone Before (redux, again)
No pretensions to comparing it to any of the other originals. Scary to realize that "Next Generation" itself has now seen our earth circle the sun nearly twenty times.
Hopefully a good action-packed story with a young Kirk and Spock, elements of human drama.
Think there will be any girls in it?
Time and time again, they try and fail to surpass the heart wrench of the best 50 minutes of the original "Star Trek," episode #28, production #28, first broadcast on April 6, 1967.