Whatever happened to songs for America?

So Fox News has a blog about Obama's singing choir. I guess that all of the socialists are really on the bandwagon trying to gum us up for communism. Maybe we'll have Obama placed on some historical site in the US like Mao on the forbidden city entrance in China. I'll bet that a good place would be on the statue of Liberty, or even better, the capitol building! I don't have photoshop, so you can use your imagination.

Crystal Light + Workout

My day today began with a dentist appointment. It hurt and you always get a bit bloodied when they stick those metal prodding tools into your mouth. Then I went to work out. I got to do hack squats for the first time in my life. They are like squats, but harder because you're at a 45 degree angle. After doing them, I was really thirsty. I brought crystal light thinking that it's just water with a few chemicals. It's not like I'm drinking carbon or anything like that... WRONG!

Into my third set, I began to feel a bit queezy. I didn't think much of it and then it really hit me. I couldn't go on, so I put the freeweights back and headed home. On the way I felt so sick that I had to stop. Then when I arrived home, no sooner than getting out of my car I hurled. I spent the rest of the morning on the couch and in intervals made appointments with the porcelain basin. YUCK! I think I'll stick to gatorade and/or water from now on.

No... that's stupid!

I went to buy (ahem) feminine hygene products for my wife this morning after I worked out and while I was checking out, I made the usual squirmy statement that I make when I'm sent on husbandly missions, "This is true love!"

The service rep looked at me and said, "No, free reign on my baby's American Express is."

I didn't say anything back, but I thought No, that's stupidity on his part.

Phew! We're safe for now.

So they took down the LHC. We're not going to be sucked into black holes after all. Yes I'm being sarcastic (no I don't think we're going to die from black holes).

If this is true, it's absolutely outrageous

Apparently to help his own campaign out, Barrack Obama asked the Iraqi administration to delay sending the troops back home. Isn't this the promise that he's been making to everyone. What a shmuck!

This one goes out to Nate and Tiff

Good intentions

Although T. Boone Pickens' plan is noble, it has one very major flaw - supply and demand. This has been a major concern of mine ever since he started touting his "brilliant" plan. Steven Milloy from Junkscience.com says:

Moving past the personal expense and inconvenience, the broader implications of natural-gas cars are worrisome.

The U.S. currently uses about 23 trillion cubic feet of natural gas per year. Like all commodities, the price of natural gas is supply-and-demand dependent.

Switching just 10 percent of the U.S. car fleet to natural gas would dramatically increase our consumption of natural gas by about 8 percent (1.9 trillion cubic feet) -- an amount that is slightly less than one-half of all current residential natural gas usage and one-quarter of all industrial usage.

The price ramifications of such a demand spike would likely be significant. The current cost advantage of natural gas over gasoline could easily be reversed. Our move toward energy independence could also be compromised.

Domestic production of natural gas has not kept pace with rapidly increasing demand. Consequently, about 15 percent of our natural gas must now be imported.

It's good to be independent, but wouldn't this just delay longer what's going on with oil?

By the way, this guy needs to read Clark's blog about what's going on.

P.S. I hope they read this!

Favre anyone?

Man, I am tired of fogies "deciding" to come out of retirement. More like they found out that their endorsement's don't pay the bills anymore, so they do some sort of ploy to get marketers on their bandwagon again.

The End of the World?

This is interesting. I wonder what physicists instead of reporters think about it. At least we’d know that the world will end in 2012 (4 years from now). Isn’t that the end of the Mayan calendar too? Scary…

Good motivation for the olympians

While Alex was watching the endless march of the opening ceremonies, I was surfing and came across despair.com. All I can say is that I need more of this kind of stuff at work.

If you're interested, you can make your very own here.

The NBA stole their Thunder

I was casually looking through espn and lo and behold, I saw this. It's pretty funny if you ask me.

I know... my title is puntastic.

WTS (what the smell)?

Listen to this link. It's really disturbing sounding. I can't post it here, so I'm going to give you instructions on how to get there. Go to this link to Shannon's Blog. If you look at the verification section on the lower right hand side, you'll see a little handicapped character. Click on it and be afraid like Alex and I were.

PS The Red Sox Empire is crumbling.

Worst 5 character crossovers ever

What I mean by character crossovers is the crossovers that you see like Star Trek characters from one series to the next (e.g. captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager on Star Trek: Nemesis). Get it, got it, good. This is according to me, so take it easy. Here goes:

5. Lee Majors from the Six Million Dollar Man appearing in Jake 2.0
4. Kevin Sorbo from Hercules: the Legendary Journeys appearing in Xena: The Warrior Princess
3. The Hardy Boys meet Nancy Drew
2. The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
1. Sunny from the Host meets Edward Cullen from Breaking Dawn.

Nancy Pelosi should look in the mirror to see a "total failure"

I know, politics = bad blog, but it's an election year and I don't hear about anything else, so I'm chiming in. Nancy Pelosi said, "God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States -- a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject..."

Congress last month celebrated a job approval rating of about 18%, whereas Bush is holding steady around 30%. Who's the bigger failure?

If you haven't seen this, you need to...

nothing ado

I'm still here, just no inspiration. Possibly more to come soon...

Ramsey

So I turned on the radio on Monday and heard this guy talking to a caller about debt. The guy who called said his wife has $80,000 in student loans and the guy said that he wanted to pump $2,500/ month to get it paid off in a few years, but that his wife wanted to put about $1,500/month instead because she had just graduated and wanted some time to relax. The host David Ramsey said, "She just doesn't get it. You'll end up paying that off in 10 years instead of 3. Do you know how that's going to set you back financially?"

That's when I was interested.

So I found out this guy, David Ramsey, has a few books out. I bought Total Money Makeover and I'm almost done. I am hooked. So far, I've gotten through baby step 1 (thank you federal goverment) and I'm starting the "debt snowball" on my next paycheck. I've also canceled Netflix and my newspaper subscription and I'm going to cancel our satellite subscription on June 28th. I've declared war on debt!

I've decided to keep tabs here on my blog, so we'll keep you posted.

Why else would we have "forever" stamps?

Did you ever wonder why the US postal service started doing "forever" stamps. I'll tell you why I think they did. If you read here you'll notice that they raised prices again. It's less of a headline now since we don't have to worry about getting those 1 cent stamps anymore. But you can count on this happening a lot more often in the future since they don't have pricing on the stamps anymore to remind us of what they cost us.

Iron Man? More like Terran Man

This idea looks more like Starcraft than Iron Man to me. Especially since they won't fly.

West Coast Watefronts

For anyone who frequents the link to Engrish.com you are probably aware of the typos that are going on in China. I didn't expect this to happen on foxnews.com:
Nice, eh?