Goodbye Fall

Okay, here's Winter for those folks who believed that Winter 2006-07 would be a pushover. Cold, cold, cold, snow on November 1st. I stand by my earlier prediction that this will be a Winter that smites your energy and is Satan in cold form.

Shovels, snowblowers; bah! You all will need snowplows, each and every one of you! Moohoohahaha!

Wow! Jury did it right!

A rape victim with over 50 separate wounds and injuries found some small bit of justice in that her attacker was found guilty after an hour of deliberations. The articles covers it all, but most telling was that the attacker claimed that, "the acts were consentual or didn't happen."

What are the odds?

A US soldier is kidnapped. What ere the chances that this fellow was of Arabic origin? I'd say fair to medium. There he was trying to see his new wife of 2005, when he was caputured. I wonder now if the US will use this as a tool regarding the situation there or simply free the US soldier. Huh ... it makes me wonder.

authoring competition between the states

In the nation now there are millions of convicts, hundreds waiting to be executed. I think the states should compete to see which state can caputre the most criminals, legitimately convict them and execute those senteced to die. There is a healthy competition! Texas is supposed to have the highest rate of criminal execution. I think Indiana can do better.

I challenge Indiana to escalate its execution rate, in accordance with the law, to not meet, but beat Texas' execution rate. I also challenge other states to then beat that number, and so on. Make it so that those waiting on death row not have to wait ten to twenty years to die. I think that "speedy trial" should be matched by "speedy execution". My reasons for execution option are quite plain (covered almost endlessly in previous blogs), but suffice to write: "The dead commit no more crimes, leaving society safer in their passing."

Keep at it, noble warriors!

Capturing 11,000 some fugatives, how could that be bad? I'll enter in a submission of way to go! I think that those arrested should be denied civil action suits against law enforcement. Tip of the hat a salute to you all!

Thanks for making it a safer nation!

I hate to be right

oh wait, I enjoy being right!

I mentioned so long ago my quitting of Lost for it seemed to me to never address the underlying issue of people trapped on a friggin' island with tattooed sharks, polar bears, mysterious grey cloud and a conspiracy. It seems to me that many Lostphiles are going to the next floor, having finished shopping there. People, people, people, I could have saved you a few hours and told you to shop elsewhere for entertainment, but you woulnd't have listened.

I'm not sure if Lost has jumped the tattooed shark, but it sounds like it's close. I did enjoy the analogy that I read here on Barbie and Ken, who I guess are Johnny-come-lately brother and sister team+ they had in season one.

+ When I use the term team, I mean that they portrayed them as at-odds siblings, later showing incest between the two -- ew, but there were bigger issues. While these characters left, I think Walt did the best with, "drive me off this picture" ++ or something to close to it.


++ Harvey Koreman in Blazing Saddles.

Ho Ho huh

Christmas With the Kranks was not so good. Rather than nuking the movie from orbit, I will mention that it wasn't really a feel-good movie, had little to do with Christmas and made very poor use of talent that they had.

Tom Poston played a rare role for him, a little creepy Father, or at least in one part.

shouting

A little late, but Michael J. Fox made a plea to continue stem-cell research in pursuit of health beenfits. There is research that might lead to Parkinson's Disease treatment, a noble cause. There was a big furvor over Rush making rude statements. Okay, right there.

Who listens to Rush blowhard? The loud jerk who is no stranger to making an ass out of himself. Look, after Clinton, I though he'd be just about done. I guess with other democrats and those who listen to his show (snicker), it's reasonable to go talking for three hours on the same subject of how bad a candidate is. Even better than that, you get to do another three hours the next day, and the day after that.

I liken it to any other enterainment show, which sadly isn't touted as such. It's for entertainment only. The same would go for Comedy Central's Daily Show and Colbert Report. There are people who "swear" by these shows. Did it ever occur to them that since they are on the comedy channel that they are for entertainment purposes only?

While people make some interesting points, they don't have to stick to fact, which tends to be boring. Any sensationalist does poorly when s/he moves from the shock to the "awww" (audience shown newborn kitten). Fact deters from sensationalism, so much so, that facts are as deeply hidden in the diatribe as spittle in a wading pool.