I laughed my a** off when Slate parodied the “Leave Britney Alone” viral video, in response to McCain’s “Celeb” ad. Here it is!
WARNING! NSFW!

HAT TIP: Hot Air Again

Now that Cheech & Chong are getting together for the first time in 25 years, would I pay to see these guys?
You’d better believe it!

“We’ve gotten to the age where we don’t feel like fighting anymore because the end is a lot closer than the beginning.”

Up In Smoke is, of course, in my DVD collection. My folks couldn’t stand the fact that when I was a teenager, I had most of their vinyl. I only remember Chong showing up in one episode of Sliders (as a Vampire Hunter), while Marin’s TV career became very successful with his portrayal of Joe Dominguez in Nash Bridges.
It’s hard to say whether their stereotypical Hispanis and/or counterculture humor would work in this day and age. That said, if they come this way I’ll definitely check into tickets and venue.

Let’s see…Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Louis Farrakhan…that’s just for starters. Now, add Ludacris to the list.
WARNING! NSFW!

Notice this guy exhorts only blacks to vote. Not the rest of America. Ludacris seems to ignore the fact that it takes a lot more than just blacks to elect a President of the United States.

HAT TIP: Hot Air

The bosses knew it was going to be a brutal day, and it was. So they fed us. Pizza at lunch and Subs in the evening. It just so happens that the team I’m on has a member who’s leaving today, and so we honored her with a Mexican-themed potluck. I happened to bring bagels for the team’s breakfast.
So we were well fed, indeed. Sigh….

That is…if you were inclined to do such a thing. From an Unknown Author, and I’ve decided to tweak it just a touch:

  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I believe three or four pointy headed elitist liberals need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would NEVER get their agendas past the voters.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I believe that when the terrorists don’t have to hide from us over there, they’ll come over here, and I don’t want to have any guns in the house to shoot them with.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.
  I’m voting Demo☭rat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

And there you have it: why Demo☭rats are Demo☭rats.

And here’s another story to warm your icy-cold heart: the UN is reporting that North Korea’s food levels are dangerously low to the point where famine will once again hit the impoverished nation, thanks to flooding and poor harvests.
And we’re supposed to feel sorry for a country whose leader pours its entire resources into its military…and ultimately, a nuclear weapons program…and go in and feed the North Koreans? Here’s what the Good People of Rock Ridge have to say.
I don’t care if they blew up the Yongbyon cooling tower. The North Korean People are just sitting there and taking it and doing nothing about it. They’d better get up off their collective a** and depose the DFCs, or else they don’t deserve to have their own country. Just like Iran.

Now when I heard about this story involving Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old actress who plays Hannah Montana on Disney Channel, which is supposed to be family-oriented TV, I immediately thought of teh Lethal Weapon 2 scene where where Murtaugh’s oldest daughter got a job doing TV commercials; only when it came time to air the ad and everyone was watching, it was for…condoms! Murtaugh’s fellow Cops were laughing their a**es off, while Murtaugh himself wasn’t too happy. C’mon! This was Daddy’s Girl.
Only this time around, I’d say there’s a 13-year-difference between that fictional character and Cyrus’ alter ego. Cyrus herself has supposedly pledged to remain a virgin intil she’s married. And her agents have replied that they never received a formal offer. I hope they turn it DOWN, and that she doesn’t succumb to yet more pressure from the prevailing societal attitude of “Sex Sells.”
And where the hell is her Dad in all this? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

I have a co-worker who was born in China. She’s all gung-ho about the Olympics and that her birth nation is hosting. She tells me that “...the world will see a different picture of China.”
I had to really bite my tongue on that comment, since China continues to crack down, this time on freedom of the press which they originally pledged to allow. Not only that, but if you’re going to any hotel there, they’ll be monitoring what sites you visit while you’re there.
And to top that off, certain Chinese athletes from the Athens Games four years ago have been removed from this year’s team. Gee I wonder why.

I’ve taken the liberty of downloading “Professor” Obama’s (yes! He was a prof at the University of Chicago before he became a United States Senator) final exams from 1996 to 2003, and a couple of memos to boot. If you want to take a peek at how he ran his classes, tap into the New York Saddam Times’ article, “Inside Professor Obama’s Classroom.”
If this article, and/or its accompanying exams and memos, shoud ever disappear by action of Senator Obama, his campaign, or the Demo☭rats, I WILL make them available.

I couldn’t even go any further than then the very first paragraph of this story of Nancy Pelosi trying to “do her part”:

“I have always loved longitude. I love latitude; it’s in the stars. But longitude, it’s about time….Time and clocks and all the rest of that have always been a fascination for me.”

Here you have a Speaker of The House sound like a flower child from the 60s, even though she’s speaking about a painting in her office. I can’t wait till the catfight occurs between Madame Speaker and Cindy Sheehan. They’ll still be debating George W. Bush’s “failed policy” and he isn’t even running for re-election. (For the record, the only “failed policy” of Bush is not wielding his Veto Pen during eh first six years of his Administration.)
And last time I checked, they still haven’t done squat in terms of major legislation ever since her party took control of Congress. Which of course gets the country nowhere.

Throw one more search engine into the works. This one, Cuil (pronounced “cool”), is a start-up by a group of former Google employees; Cuil goes live today, and presents itself as a more efficient means of searching the Internet.

I hope this group is a little bit more observant of American holidays than Google is. Now the bragging war begins.

In light that I just watched my first NASCAR race in quite awhile, the Allstate 400 at The Brickyard, won by Jimmie Johnson:

Yeeee-HAWWWWWW!

OK, seeing as I’m getting some membership requests, I thought I’d revamp the procedure for signing up, simply because I won’t put up with bogus requests coming from Russia or some nefarious location in eastern Europe.
And it’s very simple. Really, it is. If you wish to sign up, go ahead and do so, and then send an e-mail to me within 24 hours, letting me know where you heard about my blog. If you can do that, great. If you can’t do that, well then, see ya!
This applies to the person who signed up from Search for Glory…the clock is ticking for you!

Now I haven’t written much about ol’ Pooty since he slipped back into the shadows. This time, he utters words against a major Russian steel producer and their stock takes a nosedive in New York.
I wonder if he’s fixin’ to nationalize Mechel like he did Yukos a few years ago. In any case, there is no doubt who wields the real power in Russia, and it ain’t Medvedev.

Since The New Yorker did their strange satire on the Obamas, it was only fitting for their upstairs neighbors at Vanity Fair to placate Senator Obama’s supporters. So they take on the McCains and, true to form, it’s an almost exact copy of the Obama cover.
Granted, the New Yorker’s accompanying article was a positive portrayal of the junior Senator from the Народная Республика Ильиной, but don’t expect the same type of treatment for Senator McCain from Vanity Fair.