I go to Ohio, visit the home of The Chief, get Teabagged, gaze at my cousins non-existent backyard and spend time with the cutest girl on Earth

My cousin, Joe, is moving to Japan to work for Honda for a year so I quickly mobilized a rental car to visit him for the weekend. Problem is, Zanesfield, OH is not particularly near any major throroughfares.



So you have the option to go 80/90 along the north of Indiana and Ohio, then straight down on 75 from Toledo to Zanesfield, which is not the hypoteneuse this geometry student was looking for. So I took the shortest distance between two points, highway 30 straight there. Only Pythatgoras never factored in a STOP LIGHT EVERY 5 MILES!!! Holy shit, it took forever. Get the car up to 75, slow down to 45, and stop. Two observations: Every town between here and Zanesfield should be renamed RubyApplebeeTuesdays because those two landmarks are in every town, and Fort Wayne has a strip club for every 3 citizens.

Spent some quality time with my cousin and his kids, Rachel and Josh, who are the greatest kids ever! I challenge any cynic who hates kids and would never have kids to spent .10 seconds with little Rachel and not change his views. Also, DAMN am I good with kids. The best moment was when I woke up way early Monday to drive back, the whole house was quiet but little Rachel obviously heard me and I had a Santa Claus moment, the little inquisitive girl coming down and interrupting the man in the living room trying to be quiet and asking 100 questions of him: why do you have to leave? Where are you going? Why? What's that? Are you coming back for my Kim Possible birthday party? Rachel is having a Kim Possible birthday party and must mention it every five minutes.

My cousin and I are rather immature, we stopped during a drive to get some Planters Hot Nuts and proceeded to do every combination of entendre's on the damn things: Would you like some hot nuts in your mouth, you got some hot nut on your chin. suck on these hot nuts, etc. But you often forget the repetition of youngsters of frequently said phrases. Bottom line, Rachel, who wasn't allowed to eat any, made the correct statement that only boys have hot nuts.

Short-Haired Chick Friday!

First of all, the new Battlestar Galactica is not just good in a "loved the original" way (that would be impossible for me), it's just really good. I remember the original but don't remember watching it all that much, it was a pretty shitty show, Cylons looked cool, so the did the Battlestar X-Wing rip-off ships and the rest kinda sucked, BUT is indelibely imprinted in my mind, which did make me enjoy the reference level in addition to the drama of the show.

I'm generalizing, I'd love to do the research, but I think it's takes an average of 60 people telling me they like a show before I'll go to the effort of putting a TV show above Van Helsing in the Netflix Queue. Poor Van Helsing, always a bridesmaid.

Caveat:: Don't you all have those movies that get like two from the top or next in line all the time but always get trumped by the newest and hottest movie, sort of like Hollywood itself. Poor Van Helsing and The Village, still haven't seen either of them and they've both been next in line like Six times. And what just arrived, Layer Cake, so young and hip and new. OH! And then months in the future you're scanning down your list and see a movie at slot 126 that you remember used to vie for first years ago. Sorry We Were Soldiers Once and Spy Game, I'll get to you...I promise.
End of caveat, my point is, 24 season 1 disc 1 is on the way, I've heard it's good.

So Battlestar. I was told from a sci-fi angle that I'd love the show, but Sandy & Stephe also added one other thing, that I would love Starbuck. And yes, Starbuck is perfect!



Starbuck is everything I love about short-haired chicks, that tough exterior, that take-no-shit attitude, and yet you KNOW her toenails are painted. About two hours in after fighting her Chief Officer, being thrown in the brig, and masculinely screaming as she fights off Cyclons, she has the giddiest girliest scene with a very handsome Tom Cruise ripoff Apollo.



I'll file a proper review later because I've got an hour left, but Starbuck is definitely Short-Haired Chick of The Week.

Some sort of psychological disconnect.

UPDATE: New Quote: This I my favorite.

"they're the party of "the ends justify the means." And they have an incredible lust for power. The only way they think they can get us is to burn down that house with an ethical cloud over it, and so their only agenda is this kind of politics of personal destruction." Huh? Democrats talking about the Republicans assault on Clinton? Nope, Tom Delay accusing the enemy of doing what they do.

Nothing fascinates me more than when Republicans or Conservatives blame others of crimes that they themselves are perpetrating. It's a weird mania, I have a feeling psychologists have years of research on such unhealthy behavior, and I have a feeling serial killers exhibit this type of behavior, claiming a woman they killed had ditry thoughts when they themselves are the dirty thinkers.

"In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination and they wish to make everyone powerless except themselves…They seek to end dissent in every form and to control every aspect of life and to rule the soul itself."

Someone talking about the Republicans?...no, it's Bush in his speech 10/5/05

Here's another one...

"We have now left entirely the field of normal political conflict and entered a twilight world where fantasy is presented as fact and the only standard of conduct is "will it work?". This is not the actions of a political Party engaged in seeking a majority - it is the action of a Party determined to destroy its opponents entirely and sieze all power for itself...it is, in short, the stuff from which civil wars are made."

A blogger talking about the Republicans?...no, a Conservative Blogger talking about the idictment on Tom Delay. He continues, if only irony fueled SUV's...

"I really do urge our Democrats to step back from the edge - you are sitting in a lake of gasoline and you are playing with fire. We on our side will only put up with so much before we start to pay back with usury what we have received. If you can't defeat Tom Delay in the electoral field, then you will simply have to accept him as Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives - and you'd better start accepting political reality before things get really bad."

And there's lots more where that came from, I'll keep reposting this as I find more.

And again!

Under fire for cronyism? Hire your personal attornery to the Supreme Court.
Under fire for a slow respone to Katrina due to bureaucracy? Add some loopholes to announcing the weather.

But really, who know more about the weather, the National Weather Service, or the Commerce Department.

Bush gag orders National Weather Service
by curtadams

Tue Oct 4th, 2005 at 22:02:17 PDT

Employees of the National Weather Service, in the process of accurately warning the public about recent hurricanes, have apparently stepped on some toes. Recent weather facts have exposed both Bush's incompetence and Santorum's corruption. As reported by Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story NWS employees who wish to talk to the press must now obtain authorization from the Department of Commerce.

curtadams's diary :: ::
Reality has been hard on the Bush administration lately. Part of the slow response from the federal government to Katrina resulted from the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA using different weather services. DHS used a weather service which has made large contributions to Santorum, who in turn introduced a bill to prohibit the National Weather Service from releasing information that is available from private weather companies - which is to say, anything. NWS will still have the privilege of providing these companies with information for free, paid for by taxpayers.

Now the Bush administration has taken a new tactic to reduce the effectiveness of the National Weather Service and reduce the chance that weather facts will refute administration spin or show up private companies (which cannot currently match the NWS' hurricane forecast accuracy)

NWS must obtain approval before they talk to the media. Employees must obtain the following:

-The name of the reporter and their affiliation
-Their deadline and contact phone number
-The name of the individual being requested to give the interview
-The purpose of the interview
-The expertise of the requested interviewee on this subject.

send it to the Department of Commerce, and get approval.

Obviously, this is ludicrous for an agency with such desperately time-sensitive information. The next major weather event - hurricane, blizzard, tornado, you name it - will be a much greater hazard to the public, which will be restricted to the narrow straw of regularly scheduled bulletins. Call CNN to announce a shift in forecast track? Ix-nay! Good luck, suckers.

In The Administration's Continuing War On Irony

A war on terror that creates more terrorists?
Expanding government in the name of lessening it?
The winner's of 2000 and 2004's elections providing democracy to the middle east?

If only the class projecthad been about any other subject...

Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him
Matthew Rothschild
October 4, 2005
Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.

But that’s what happened on September 20.

Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class “to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights,” she says. One student “had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb’s down sign with his own hand next to the President’s picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster.”

According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent.

But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.

An employee in that Wal-Mart photo department called the Kitty Hawk police on the student. And the Kitty Hawk police turned the matter over to the Secret Service.

On Tuesday, September 20, the Secret Service came to Currituck High.“At 1:35, the student came to me and told me that the Secret Service had taken his poster,” Jarvis says. “I didn’t believe him at first. But they had come into my room when I wasn’t there and had taken his poster, which was in a stack with all the others.”

She says the student was upset.

“He was nervous, he was scared, and his parents were out of town on business,” says Jarvis.

She, too, had to talk to the Secret Service.

“Halfway through my afternoon class, the assistant principal got me out of class and took me to the office conference room,” she says. “Two men from the Secret Service were there. They asked me what I knew about the student. I told them he was a great kid, that he was in the homecoming court, and that he’d never been in any trouble.”

Then they got down to his poster.

“They asked me, didn’t I think that it was suspicious,” she recalls. “I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!”

At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident “would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted,” she says.

The student was not indicted, and the Secret Service did not pursue the case further.

“I blame Wal-Mart more than anybody,” she says. “I was really disgusted with them. But everyone was using poor judgment, from Wal-Mart up to the Secret Service.”

A person in the photo department at the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk said, “You have to call either the home office or the authorities to get any information about that.”

Jacquie Young, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart at company headquarters, did not provide comment within a 24-hour period.

Sharon Davenport of the Kitty Hawk Police Department said, “We just handed it over” to the Secret Service. “No investigative report was filed.”

Jonathan Scherry, spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said, “We ertainly respect artistic freedom, but we also have the responsibility to look into incidents when necessary. In this case, it was brought to our attention from a private citizen, a photo lab employee.”

Jarvis uses one word to describe the whole incident: “ridiculous.”

August 6th, 2001

Had this pointed out to me by the liberal blogosphere. Interesting choice for a photo, what's more interesting is the date the photo was taken. August, 6th, 2001

This is all insignificant because the memo was of course debunked as meaninless, junk, worthless, and insignificant by those that could catch hell for having overlooked it, an impartial jury to say the least. Who would know whether he threw a strike or not better than the pitcher?

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