Edit : Further reason to watch this video. 1 in 4 texas residents polled believes Obama is a muslim. REALLLY?!?! ….. No, wait…. REALLY?! Sad. Sad. Sad. 45% (yes, less than half) correctly identifed him as protestant.
This video is worth a gander. It is 27 minutes long though so be ready for it. This is the Barack “infomercial” you may have heard about. Really unprecedented media buying that went on to get this on the air. Prime-Time tv on CBS, NBC and Fox for about $1 million per network. It also ran on about 5 or 6 other smaller networks at a different time from the 8p/et time slot he bought up on those main 3.
Not like that really cuts into his overall money lead (700 million dollars which is Bush & Kerry 04 combined). I’m gonna go ahead and call the election, McCain is grasping at straws and Palin is aiming for 2012. Now, if someone could give me my $700 billion back already I would be happy.
Sean Connery was heavily pursued to play Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but declined because he ‘didn’t understand them’ and had never read the books. At one point in the proceedings he was offered up to 15% of the worldwide box off receipts…. In case you were wondering how the movie did… that would have been $400 million in the bank.
Picture of the day :
Tiger Woods caddies for the winner of some contest. Yeah…. I would probably still carry my own bag.
Humor of the day :
Britney Spear’s sister getting pregnant…. 2 months after the first kid was born. Hi-larious, even if the news is a month old.
Little known info of the day :
This is Colt McCoy’s Girlfriend.
Good Ol’ Peoria, Texas. From The Texas Handbook : By the 1980s the town had a population of eighty-one, two general stores with gas stations, and a garage. Peoria residents, who primarily raised peanuts, cotton, and hay, attended the Baptist or Presbyterian churches still active there, and their children attended Hillsboro schools. Through 2000 the population of Peoria was still reported as eighty-one.
I don’t know that many monkeys… but these are the smartest ones. Seriously, watch this thing, its pretty incredible (minus the boring speaker) . Skip to 4:40 for the actual Bonobo video. If you skip parts make sure to hit the 16:00 mark also.
Ok, I saw this yesterday, and then again today in multiple places and now its just annoying the crap out of me. I really don’t know the legality of posting these images, so I pulled this first one from associatedpress.com and the second from cnn.com (both on their front pages)
Both are used with headlines such as “Dow has biggest drop in 5 years” or “Traders fear next great depression” pretty much the scariest headlines possible. Then they throw in a picture like this. Your wondering what is wrong with these? It is just some stock trader covering his mouth aghast at what is going on? But hes not covering his mouth in shock, hes guarding his headset so he can be heard by whoever he is talking to.
This second one is less apparent but I saw a bigger version and there is an obvious motion blur as he moves his hand away from covering the mic. I think anyone who covers the trading floor would know what these guys were doing since I picked up on it and my 3 months with A.G. Edwards as an intern don’t exactly qualify me as some sort of NYSE all-knowledgeable genius. It’s nothing terrible, its not photo shopping extra smoke in an Iraq city or extra missle launchers in Iran, but it is a misuse of a photo that goes against normal editorial rules. Now my rant is over it won’t annoy me… until I see it tomorrow.
It was Nate’s 21’st birthday so give him a shoutout at natemcguire.com. We had a fab time in downtown Austin, and cheering on the Texas Longhorns to their first of many victories this season. As I moved back into cyberspace today I hit up on some VERY interesting stuff. So here goes with a quick recap :
1. This is pretty crazy if true and the evidence is mounting. Mostly circumstancial but some very weird things going on at the least. Sarah Palin, the republican VP nominee, you may better know her as the attractive one McCain has been walking around with for a couple days… may not be the mother of her youngest daughter. She may be the grandmother. You need to read this one, it will take 5 minutes, and take it with a grain of salt its not a news network or anything, but I’ve seen it pop up in a couple places in the last 24 hours.
2. Also, Sarah Palin related, I saw a fox news clip where her experience on the national stage was cemented in place by the assertion that Alaska is the closest state to Alaska. Let me tell you what, all questions I have about her viability are now cleared.
4. If you have been hiding in advance of Gustav, here is an up to date tracker. Yours truly might have a quote in a local newspaper cause of a quote I gave. Hooray.
via :http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222358,00.html
The fact that I am reporting on celebrity gossip is downright distressing to me. However, this is Californication, its a different thing. Its an amazing show, and for that reason, I will bring you this news.
David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation center for sex addiction, his lawyer, Stanton “Larry” Stein, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction,” the actor says in an exclusive statement. “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”
Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Téa Leoni since 1997. They have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.
Holy Smokes Batman. I thought you were acting in Californication.
I am slightly distressed because I heard this show was filming as of early August, and if they still are then we might have to put up with a short season. Son of a ……. Funny quote from forum : “how can you be addicted to sex? thats like being addicted to ice cream… or life… or anything else awesome.” — I do not condone this quote.
I had a house. It was destroyed by this big predictable hurricane called Katrina. After Katrina I asked you for money and took that money to rebuild my house exactly as it stood before. Even though it happened once, it couldn’t happen again. But now there is another hurricane coming called Gustav, so I’m evacuating again. I’m gonna come hang out with you for a little while, and before I go back will probably need some cash to rebuild my house again. No actually, I’m going to demand the cash, and then blame the hurricane on you.
That is what I imagine New Orleans residents are saying to FEMA right now, which I don’t understand. How can you build an entire city in a below-sea-level area, in a hurricane-prone area, with sub-par levees? The argument that Katrina was an extraordinary storm are just wrong. Katrina was a strong hurricane, but its not like Andrew wasn’t as bad, or a number of other storms that have hit in the four decades since the construction of the levee system. NOLA rolled the dice for 40 years and when it finally got unlucky it decided to call on FEMA / our government … to rebuild it.
Now here is the thing. You would think that that money would go towards a) building the sickest sea wall ever or b) moving out. However, the levee system is not nearly enough to stop another hurricane (like Gustav) or anything else for that matter until up until 2011. What? How does it take 6 years to throw some dirt on a hill. I know thats an extreme exaggeration but you think a little bit more effort would go into fortifying an entire city. So, 15 billion is going into a ‘plan’ to re-protect the city, but only 20% of that is done and the rest won’t be done for some time.
I wouldn’t rebuild a house there. In 2008 there are expected to be 8 hurricanes that hit the US, 4 of which will be major hurricanes, along with 15 tropical storms (because parts of the levee may not hold up to that). Note that these are on the east coast (since on the West they are tsunamis), and that the Gulf of Mexico is sort of Hurricane Alley. So any resident of NOLA is rolling the dice that between 2005 and 2011 (6 years), that 1 of 48 (predicted) hurricanes will not hit close to the city (because if you remember Katrina wasn’t even a direct hit) . Yikes. Not odds I would bet my livelihood and home on.
While looking up some of these facts I found some other interesting tidbits such as parts of NOLA have sunk 3 feet in the past couple of decades, and some parts quite a bit more than that. Meaning a) the levees are lower than designed and b) the future of the city as a whole is seriously in doubt. Yikes, again.
So, it is with the above statements that I kind ask my government to not send my money to New Orleans this time around, that they can keep it and use it for other things, like re-painting the white house pink for Obama’s daughters…
P.S. Why stay in NOLA anyways? It sorta sucks outside the French Quarter, and really, you can move that anywhere. I hope I get hate mail.
I love how the vice-president choice is huge for the election and has a great impact on who is the leader of the free world, but as soon as they are elected they lose all that power and become a speech-giver / policy-follower for 4 years.
Anyways, Joe Biden is probably Barack’s running mate. We know this because he now has a secret service detail that was just dispatched to watch his back. AFter chicking out his website…. I’ve come to the conclusion that he has nice teeth.
Below, for your viewing pleasure, and to laugh at … I have included the losers.
Just saying that if elections were based purely on what side could write better music…. well, it wouldn’t be much of an election.
He’s got a new one, complete with celebrity cameos and an MLK speech voice over.
The new one for Barack from Dave Stewart : American Prayer :
We Are The Ones Song by will.i.am - Obama
and the now famous…. Yes We Can by will.i.am
and McCain’s cover of the Beach Boys :
…. I guess we know who has Hollywood’s support in that one.
Cool thing to note is that Microsoft has teamed up with Rock the Vote to allow you to register to vote via Xbox Live. Pretty cool to do it at home like that, real easy supposedly, in the near future.
As you may recall the age of some of China’s olympic female gymnasts was called into question in the last week as China won gold and USA won silver. At first there was a news report from China 9 months previous to the games that announced one of the girl’s age at 14, meaning she was under the required 16 years of age to compete in the games.
If I have my story straight this was originally reported by the AP but I could be wrong. Anyways, a random hacker with a blogspot account (Stryde Hax) did a little more digging, using google search skills and found a couple of documents reaffirming that fact.
After a week of doing everything to ignore the problem/question, the IOC has now decided to step in and do its own research becasue of the findings of this one blogger. The original news story I read had it right when it said it was amazing that this one regular blogger with a blogspot account got the IOC to move on this while the “real” reporters were eating scorpions and touring the Great Wall.
