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Does anyone really care that Hollywood had to delay their productions and rent a charter flight to fly their stars and production crews out of the areas impacted by Hurrican Katrina?

I mean give me a break? Is this really the news that’s worth printing at this point. Granted it was listed in the entertainment section of E! Online news, not exactly known for their focus on important causes.

I’m not surprised that studios have insurance policies to protect themselves from delays in production or unforeseen circumstances. But honestly, I don’t really care about their losses on delay in scheduling as compared with the other more important issues or stories at hand, like these:

A guard and his family is held hostage in a prison engulfed in rioting
Refugees seeking shelter in storm living in filth
Man’s wife ripped from his hands by surging water
Policeman shot in the head by looters

Give me a break Hollywood, can you give up the spotlight for one second and focus on the humanity and real world around you just a little more often?

A doctor in New Hampshire, Dr. Terry Bennett has been reprimanded by the New Hampshire state attorney general because he told a patient she was fat.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Considering the fact that the population in every state in the US is getting fatter, except Oregon, we should probably have more doctors telling us we’re fat don’t you think?

On a somewhat related note, if you’re like me, and think Dr. Bennett was right to be blunt with his patient, then you’ll love the series House, on Fox. Oooh, and when I was going to grab the link for the show, I just saw that you can purchase Season 1 on DVD on August 30th. Feel free to add that to my wishlist for anyone who’s in the generous mood!

Why has it taken this long for a toy like this to appear. Just saw this feed from the Uncrate website about this toy. I love it, if I had the money I can see myself ordering a boatload of these things and having them setup on my desk as my own little cube farm. Now, how about we get a new version of “The Sims” to manage our own little cube-topia!

Recreate your own boring corporate work life with these clever toys. In each Cubes set ($13) you get a plastic figure and all the parts needed to build your cube ? four walls, desk, chair, file cabinet, in/out box, phone, and computer. The set even comes with stickers of graphs, charts and more. Wonder if there’s a tiny TPS report too?

Find out more here.

The MN Headhunter just had a post on his site about this article.

Seems the California Highway Patrol (CHiP’s for anyone that remembers Ponch and Jon) has issues with the paint scheme on the Geek Squad’s cars, a.k.a. Geekmobiles. Story is they’re concerned that unsuspecting motorists may see the cars and mistake them for a police officer’s cruiser and wrecklessly change lanes to get out of the way, causing potentially dangerous citizen driving challenges.

Leave it to California to come up with a new problem that didn’t need to be a problem. Don’t they have enough problems of their own without making up new ones? And for anyone that may get confused and think an unmarked VW “Bug” with no-lights is a police cruiser, often a large sedan like a Crown Victoria, you probably deserve to be pulled over questioned by some of the Golden State’s finest.

Just read this little article in my email that was sent from the AllProDad’s website as their “Play of the Day”.

A wonderful woman named Edith Schaeffer had to care for four children, two of whom had major health problems. She writes, “Sometimes when difficult times are being lived through it seems as though the difficulties are simply too mundane to be the least bit worthwhile. Martyrs being tortured or persecuted for their faith at least sounds dramatic. Having to cook, serve meals to two sittings at times without ever sitting down to eat in between yourself, having constantly to clean up spilled and broken things, to empty mounds of garbage, and to scrub a stove that things have boiled over on, or an oven in which things have spilled over and baked to a black crust is neither dramatic nor glamorous.” But there is nothing more glorious than being a great mother. Remember that our culture does not put much value on what mothers sacrifice for us on a daily basis. Make sure everyday you tell your wife how much you appreciate her, don’t leave all the household chores for her and make sure your kids express their gratitude. You simply can’t thank her enough. Pick up the phone right now to call her and tell her how much you love her.

That’s right! Guess I need to do more than I have been to let my wife know how much I appreciate her. Even had two people at work comment on her beauty this morning. I agree with that too, even if I don’t say it as much as I should. Thanks honey, I love all that you do for me and our family.

Now, before you go off and think I’m being all insenstive, that’s the actual title of the webpage I just saw. You can check it out here.

It’s the online journal of a man that has left his wife and kids (on good terms it seems since she’s the one updating the blog) on a quest to lose weight. Encouraging story. Being the fat man that I am as well, I could use some more walking or exercise in my life. Guess that’s why I’m enjoying softball so much, play two times a week and would play every night if I didn’t have other responsibilities.

www.TheFATMANWALKING.com
“Walking across America to lose weight and regain my life!”

Whew weee! Boy howdy! Looks like I should probably stop commenting on my war viewpoints. Looks like I just lost another 3 Feedburner hits over there to the right. Hmm, let’s see, what could I write about that would offset the losses. Maybe I should make comments about how animals aren’t here to be eaten, Bush is a moron, Clinton didn’t have sex with that lady, Smurf’s weren’t blue, and we never did land on the moon. You know, non-sense stuff that just doesn’t make sense! (Guess, that’s why it would be called “non-sense”, eh?)

My brother just posted this on his blog and I’ve barely been able to stop laughing long enough to type this out and get it posted. Enjoy!

The Donkey

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again.

The local paper read: PASTOR’S ASS OUT FRONT.

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.

The next day, the local paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR’S ASS.

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of the donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.

The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.

The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.

The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.

The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.

The bishop was buried the next day…

Beloit College just released their latest Mindset lists to distinguish the newly entering freshman class.

Some of my favorites are:

• 2. They don’t remember when “cut and paste” involved scissors.
• 8. They never had the fun of being thrown into the back of a station wagon with six others.
• 17. “Whatever” is not part of a question but an expression of sullen rebuke.
• 20. They may have fallen asleep playing with their Gameboys in the crib.
• 30. Pixar has always existed (Note from me: Disney is releasing a 10th anniversary edition of “Toy Story”)
• 58. They never saw Pat Sajak or Arsenio Hall host a late night television show.

Check it out here

At the risk of losing more readers, I feel that I must share the following blog post by Michael Yon (his blog). He’s an embedded writer in Iraq covering the “real” story of what it’s like there on a daily basis. Many could state he’s just writing what he wants to color his view of the war, but when he includes photos of the action that he’s writing about in this post it’s amazing to me and further illustrates the importance of what we’re doing and that we are the good guys in this.

Now anyone that knows me knows I’m a Sony fanatic. Don’t know why exactly, I just have always loved Sony products. I know there’s better products out there, but you also pay a much higher premium for them. I don’t have much money, so Sony let’s me have nice things that interoperate frequently very well at an overall cost I can afford.

Now they’ve come out with their new High-Definition Digital Video RecorderDHG-HDD500. Here are some of the features:

• Pause, rewind and record live high-definition TV
• Record at least 60 hours high-definition video
• Record up to 400 hours of standard-definition video
• Up to 30, 60 or 90 minute live TV pause time
• HDMI? or Component high-definition output
• Record at least 60 hours high-definition video
• Record up to 400 hours standard-definition video

Anyone that has a Tivo or other DVR, knows the ability to completely change your TV viewing habits is a great feature. So, if you’re interesting in purchasing this for me for Christmas this year, just let me know and I’ll fill you in on where to ship it. Or, if you’re interested in trying out a Tivo, be sure and let me know that as well and I’ll send you a referral.

That last war post seemed to be interesting. Before I posted it I noticed that I had 8 readers per my little FeedBurner tracker over there to the the right. After the post, it popped down to 5. Now it’s back up to 7. Is that just a coincidence?

I kind of find it interesting if it’s not a coincidence. People that were interested in my blog previously and thought maybe I had some interesting posts decided they’d keep me around and see what else I had to write about. Then I allude to my political stance and because they didn’t agree, they unsubscribed from the blog.

One of the reasons I enjoy reading blogs is to get the perspectives and opinions of people that I may not agree with in full.

Is it a political thing, or am I just paranoid?