Vitamin C, Mexican Vacation, and goodbye Souter =( April 30, 2009

Well its been a few days since I last blogged. Its the end of the semester and I am almost done…2 more papers to go! I am working on one right now…well not right now, im procrastinating and decided to update my blog, but I will get back to my prospectus update as soon as I am done here! Class was relaxing tonight, and for once we got out early which was a nice plus! Unfortunately the bus was running late, so I only made it home about 30 min prior to my normal time, but hey, 30 minutes is an eternity in grad school!

In case you havent seen the news…Justive Souter is planning on retiring. Im personally amazed that Justice Stevens is till kicking it! I thought for sure he would be one of the first to retire after Obama was elected , but hey, to each his own.  But for all of you out there who are obsessed with the hot topic issues, a court nomination will bring out all the crazies on both sides of every issue, so it should make for some interesting blogging!

Well earlier today I read an article about how Airline seats to Mexico are easy to come by right now….wanna take that dream vacation to the Mexican Riviera, well this is the time to do it.  While some professionals seem to think that its the flu and the economy that are making an excess of seats available, Im goign to bet its because of Speidi being there…come on, who wants to have to watch those 2 do photo ops all day!

Going along the lines of the ridiculous and needlesss information that seems to be floating around out there… Sarah Jessica Parkers surrogate may or maynot be from Ohio….who cares! Or how about the Jellybean thief…a robber in PA broke into a home, but all he took were some jellybeans….seriously?! How much you wanna bet its a kid who did it! Or how about the coke smuggling Grandpa in Italy…you have to admit it was pretty genius to put the coke inside of his oranges, and then tell the cops he needed the oranges for vitamin C. Regardless, news seems to be full of random and stupid things these days…maybe its the gecko flu…

Later!

Post Draft Update, Fox v. Obama, and the newest form of economic protest April 27, 2009

Well for a Post Draft update…my beloved Packers actually did well!  I am happy with the overall draft, although I do admit to a minor heart attack when Thompson traded up for a 2nd 1st round pick!  I thought hell had frozen over cause that was certainly unexpected…after all his trademark draft policy is trade down for more picks…oh well.  It was fun to listen to all my friends panic when Cleveland kept trading down…and then of course there was the perpetual name pronunciations which just got even funnier when Bobby got a little drunk and couldnt say any name…so I sent him and Jessie some nice long Hawaiian names to try, which was even funnier! Oh well, overall the draft was kinda odd but still predictable…Oakland was crazy, Minnesota hasnt truly learned the lesson that talent doesnt outway personal issues, and the Patriots continued to master the trade down tactics and manipulate their way into multiple draft picks in this year and next years draft. 

Wow! Can Fox get anymore partison? Oh yes they can…Fox Broadcasting Company announced Monday it will not carry President Barack Obama’s prime time press conference marking his first 100 days in office, the first time a broadcast network has refused an Obama administration request for that valuable airtime. Yes it may be May Sweeps, but to have one of the big 4 media outlets decide not to air the coverage is kinda shocking…maybe Fox should become a CW, and do away with news all together…that wouldnt be a bad thing in my eyes!

Well its nice to see that the community is coming together in the trying times in Mexico…wait…you mean those people wearing surgical masks arent just protecting themselves and helping others? Wait…they robbed a watch store?! Oh well, guess humanity still has its issues…With a rise in the population of Mexico wearing surgical masks to help prevent against the Swine Flu, thief’s are taking advantage of the situation by robbing stores wearing the masks…thus disguising their appearance without looking conspicuous…Its not like merchants can tell the police…there in the blue surgical mask…cause the thief’s can just disappear into the masses..genius!

Wow, I knew the economy was tough, but in Serbia a union worker cut off his own finger in protest over overdue and unpaid wages. The worst part wasnt the cutting off of the finger…in demonstration as to how desperate he and others are, he ate his finger. Um…protest cannibalism as a way to show economic frustration? Have we really resorted to that drastic of measures?! Even I, who find cannibalism fascinating, am slightly disturbed by this new tactic…lets just hope it doesnt get picked up by the mainstream, or there will be alot of fingerless people running around.

Later!

Pre draft day happiness, gecko flu, and the great pirate debate April 24, 2009

Although I have class tomorrow (yes on a saturday…morning nonetheless)this weekend should be relaxing…as long as the Packers draft the players they need and dont do something stupid like draft a QB, then I will be relaxed. So until I get home tomorrow to watch the draft, I will be following it on my cell…not as fun or relaxing, but it should go unnoticed tomorrow since we only have presentations and I am done!

In case you live under a rock (or on one like me), there is a swine flu waging in Mexico…and according to Anderson Cooper in NYC.  And here in Hawaii we are worried abou H5N1 (aka Bird Flu)…no one ever thought about swine.  Hmm…maybe we should be worried about gecko flu too because we have a lot of those out here!  All joking aside, any kind of pandemic sucks!  Especially since its a relative shock and not completely expected from what I can grasp. Mexico did the right thing by shutting down schools an dpublic buildings, but there needs to be more and soon…Bates would be so proud of seeing me use my NIMS training and disaster management mindseet to analyze the problem!

Ha..my classroom pirate debates have gone to Petraeus…Jared have you been talking?! Since I am in a program with many military people, it is common to end up in discussions about random military things…like arming boats with cannons or massive gun turrets to prevent Somali pirate attacks…yes…we have those discussions.  I always fell on the side that arming the crew is a bad idea cause handing people with little training guns could lead to bad situations…But it looks like Petraeus and the military ae looking at such options…but they seem ot be leaning toward trained gaurds rather than the crew…maybe they see the same problem as me.  Should be interesting to see if any country recommends this approach to their shippers…and what the outcome will be!

Aww I want to adopt a wild mustang!  Can I?!?!  Please!!!!  A fedral agency is offering stipends to people who adopt the older wild mustangs from the range and offer them new homes…all to help combat the population boom that is occuring in the wild.  Eventually one day I will get me a house and I will be happy! Yes it only takes getting a horse to make me happy…ok…i tend to be easily appeased by small things like gum but a horse sounds good too!

Well Im off to help Stella set up the IloveStella.org website she just bought…check it out sometime in the future when she actually gets it operational!

Later!

Shark cruelty, poison curry, and a night of oddities April 22, 2009

Well tonight seems to have been a night of oddities. First…Martinis and Oyster shooters do not mix (lesson learned!), Secondly…according to the bus it is 1/1/97 and it is 1130am. Hmm hopefully they fix that soon cause that could get really annoying! And lastly…i have a new pact…at the age of 85 I will be moving to South Florida with Selina and my fellow HPUers and we shall all play shuffleboard with out walkers…yes…we actually discussed this. Selina suggested we get state department tattoos too since according to Erik we will all live in DC and most of us will work for the state department. Oh well…i never said my friends were sane…just fun!

The President of Liberia was on the Daily Show last night, and if you get a chance, you should check it out! Heres the Link!

Hmm…scientists in Germany actually studied the spit of people from around the world…their belief…”(W)e can get more insights into human populations (from saliva) than we would get from just studying human DNA.” However…the study ended up concluding that people spit regardless of region or diet didnt vary significantly…guess you cant learn more from saliva then DNA…oops!

Wow…and we thought that our justice system was harsh…a Japanese woman was sentenced to death for the deaths of 4 people and making over 60 ill at a county fair from her serving a curry dish.  Dang…the death penalty for mass food poisoning?!  Oh..what?!?!?  It wasnt food poisoning? Oh she actually poisoned the crowd with arsenic for being shunned by her neighbors? Ok…I guess thats actually a just reason for the sentence then! 

A case of animal cruelty in Australia has me stumped…a live shark was left on the doorstep of a local newspaper….First…how do you catch a shark, keep it alive, and transport it across town without anyone noticing?  Secondly…Why???? Is this some new mafia gangster message to someone at the newspaper? Were they seeking publicity? Cause if thats the case they did it all wrong. Or is this some late April fools prank…either way…if caught the local police plan to charge them with animal cruelty charges…

Later!

Duct Tape Judge, too much Sci-fi, and living the clean life April 21, 2009

Hmm..have scientists finally discovered the planet for us to all move to when our planet dies?! A recent discovery of another planet with vast oceans and similarities to Earth has been found in a completely different solar system than ours… but I think in order to reach it we may need a Stargate or some BSG ships that are capable of carrying us all there….so I guess I wont get my hopes up until Richard Dean Anderson comes and saves our planet from those evil Gu’ould (sp?).  Yes Im beginning to think that I have watched way to much Sci-fi…when i start thinking in terms of planetary space travel you all know we are in trouble!

Hmm…Mexican cartels have told their smugglers to dont drink, do drugs, and to live a goof clean family life….are they taking cues from Weeds now? Cause I seem to remember a scene where she was told exactly that! But you know they never listen!

Oh you gotta love the judicial system in this country.  A judge in Idaho lost his patience with a defendant and ordered that his mouth be taped shut with duct tape.  The best part is that the man is incompetent to stand trial due to impaired mental faculties. I wonder when the ACLU will jump on this one?!  Duct taping an insane mans mouth shut instead of removing him form the room is kinda a weird measure…I just know when I worked with the MR/DD population this would have been ground for firing, so I wonder how the judge will fair!

Um…now Im really concerned about the google searches that are leading to my blog…yesterday “gaible porn” led to my blog…whos googling for gaible porn?!?!  How many gaibles are there in the world anyways?!

Later!

A mothers plea, random google searches, and a long Boehner rant April 20, 2009

Well…i guess regardless of where you live, being a mother to a rebellious teenager sucks!  The mother of the Somali pirate who was captured by the US for holding a US boat captain hostage has been pleading for Obama to relase her son.  Um, yea, like he listened so well to you before…besides…if Obama did fall for the sympathy card(which he wont) it would be stting a dangerous precedent for both foreign and domestic policies redarding hotage taking, piracy, and well just sheer stupidity that leads to violence. Sorry lady, but everyone is someones kid…

Oh man, you just gotta love Jon Boehner…as if the fact that the House Minority leader is from Ohio isnt bad enough, he seems to forget quite often that good diplomacy and good US foreign policy actually involves being cordial to people you may not like!  Like for example that he is chiding Obama for not ignoring Hugo Chavez…yes lets ignore world leadrers in a public diplomatic Summit which is meant to unite and not divide those leaders…what a smart move that would be for public diplomacy!  What an idiot…Im glad hes not in charge of our foregin policy, diplomatic efforts beyond his powers within the House!  He was quoted as saying “I just think it makes America look weak when we acknowledge this nutcase,” Boehner said on Monday, April 20. “I wish that hadn’t happened.”  Oh yes…cause acknowledging Hugo was a sign of weakness.  Hmm…guess you are wanting the good ole Bush approach back of ignoring world leaders and acting like other countries dont exist…cause that worked so well for us!  Every election, Im left wondering how the people down in West Chester keep electing this fool, and then begin to get really scared when he gains even the slightest bit of power and recognition beyond the southern Ohio area…Oh Boehner…when will you stop chiming in on topics you know little to nothing about?   Oh can I add one more thing….during this interview he brought up Dayton school districts and the need to better educate the youth there…while hell may have frozen over for a moment cause I agree with that comment…he went on to continuously chide Dayton businesses for their lack of participation in the area and local schools…hmm…has he forgotten that hes closer to the Over the Rhein area in Cincinnati?! I wonder what his feelings are about daily drive bys and overall security issues in that area? Cause im betting local businesses there are so involved! oh wait…what businesses! Hmm…maybe he should be focusing even closer to home…cause the Hamilton school teacher who took she took her students to a strip club is the best educator in the world!

Oh you gotta love peoples dreams sometimes!  A florida lotto winner is wanting to open a nude dude ranch! Well with one exception..you must wear pants and boots to ride the horses…cause god knows they will be so offended by seeing naked people…hmm…maybe its more hygiene related..either way its funny..More power to you guy!

Gotta love the Google searches that lead to my blog sometimes…such as..there were 5 different people who searched for “photos of the menehunes” yesterday…um cant say Ive ever used the word menehunes in my blog til now, but its nice to know that somehow it connected here…and then of course there is the old standbys like “Waikiki hookers” and “cool surfer dudes”…at least these are more explainable!

Sorry for the Boehner rant tonight…he just drives me nuts sometimes!

Later!

More shoe throwing, Israeli Lobby, and a little bit of Rehab April 18, 2009

Well I cant say Im surprised by the announcement that the US will be boycotting the UN Racism meeting, but I am sad.  Yes, the proposed draft has language that could single out Israel, but god knows, that alliance has worked so well for the  US in the past! And who helped convince the US to boycott? Well the Israel lobbies of course! They are a well oiled machine who isnt afraid to label someone as anti-semitic if they dont support their cause. Dont you just love the fact that you cant disagree with them over legitimate concerns for fear of being labeled a racist, yet they can be as racist as they want towards the Palestinians!?!  Oh the Irony…

Is it sad that one of the lead stories this week had to do with the Twitter battle between Ashton Kutcher and CNN…seriously?  Who cares who reaches 1,000,000 followers…

Well, it looks like fear of being attacked by shoes is something that other politicians have to worry about now too.  Thank you Bush for your wonderful leadership these past 8 years, but more thanks go to the reporter who decided that the best way to express his opinion of Bush was by throwing shoes….cause now those running for office in India are afraid that angry contituants will throw shoes at them…so a business has been born…erecting metal nets around podiums to catch any of those unwanted shoes…ahh…how the small things impact the economy!

Well its about time that politicians, aka the White House, began to realize that the war on drugs has one clear cut answer…lower demand! How do you do this?  Well Rehab of course! Its about time!!!!! Now that is how the US should deal with this problem, and its good that someone finally realized that throwing money and guns at the problem wont actually solve it!

Well Im off to a Flogging Molly concert….going to go listen to some Drunken Lullabies at Pipeline Cafe…

later!

Cloning Fred, Valium KY, and the Octomom game April 15, 2009

A recent study evaluated people for the level of stress they experience and divided it up by state.  Guess which state has the most stressed out people in it?  Guess! If you live in the Bluegrass state you better be taking some anti-anxiety pills!  Sorry Kentucky, but you lead the most stressed out state list! Although Im not really sure why?!?! I wonder how many people are on Valium there?!

Octomom trademarked?  Hmm…well to capitalize on the nickname she was given, Octomom is trying to trademark the name…but shes not the only one…some Texas game creator also has petitioned to trademark the name…please dont tell me we will see a new version of  Life where one of the spins gives you 8 kids!  Oh wait…its an iPhone game…its just got worse.  Want a description of the game? Here it is…The company’s description of the game reads: “Press down on Octomom’s swollen belly and another adorable bundle of joy will be brought into the world.  The babies must be caught by Octomom’s mother. Hold down on Octomom’s belly to charge, which shoots babies out faster and increases your chances of delivering twins! Tilt for better aim. Each baby earns welfare money. Having babies while the Paparazzi is in the room earns a cash bonus! Money is used to buy more fertility shots. Fertility shots let Octomom have more babies! It may ‘take a village to raise a child’ but it only takes Octomom to birth a village of children!” Yes…thats right…human birth as an iPhone game…I think hell has frozen over.

Whats with all the cloning going on in the Middle East? First Iranian scientists say they cloned a goat and now Dubai states they have cloned a camel. Whats with the cloning of livestock? I mean everyone loved Dolly the sheep, but its not exactly mans best friend…oh wait there was that Florida couple who cloned their lab…ok..nevermind. Mans best friend has been doubled too.  I wonder when scientist will attempt to remake The Island.  I for one would love to see a cloned Scarlett Johansen and Ewan McGregor!  Hmm…all this clone talk has me wondering…what did scientist start out cloning?  I want a single celled organism named Fred…can someone make me a clone of Fred? Thank You!

Well Im off for the night!

Later!

Pope porn, Gay elephant, and mom stalking April 13, 2009

Wow…has it really been almost a week since I last blogged?!  This semester Ive been really slacking on my updates of randomness…i guess its just the amount of frustration i have with all the classes that make the idea of more typing even less appealing! Where to start, where to start…well classes are almost done for the semester which makes me very happy.  I kind of have my thesis topic picked and just need to refine it within the next 2-3 weeks. In reality, if I can make it through next week then I will be home free with minimal work left to do, and I cant wait til I get a month off to do nothing but relax!!!

In world news, Al Franken was declared the winner of the election in MN that took place almost 5 months ago…yay Franken.  The American hostage was rescued from the pirates…although if I was held hostage by Johnny Depp I wouldn’t want the military to rescue me, but alas its a good thing they did cause these weren’t no Johnny Depp pirates…

In Taiwan, a man was arrested for throwing money out of a car…almost $30,000 worth…the money wasn’t stolen, just proceeds from a property sale…he was arrested for causing disorder in the streets. But come on! If you saw money flying out of a car, wouldnt you try to collect some too?! Chaos Schmaos..

I cant help but wonder why people are so worked up about a Polish elephant…yes politicians, he may be “gay”, preferring male company to females, but whats the big deal?!  Are you regulating gay marriage among elephants now?!  To top it off, the elephant in question is 10 years old, and wont reach maturity til 14…so who’s to say if hes truly gay or not…maybe hes just Bi!  The reason these politicians seem to be fuming over this is because they were hoping that this elephant would breed and create a whole herd…so even if he is gay…its called artificial insimination! Besides..i guess im just immune to the whole animal gay thing…after all I dealt 5 years at the kennel with frequent visits from the Perez dogs….it was an orgy in the making every time.

So much for strict marriage guidelines in Saudi Arabia…a man divorced his wife my text message.  If only that were possible in the US.  No more filing and lawyer fees, no more wasted time and fighting…for $0.25 you can divorce her, and never hear the whole alimony proposal!  Divorce text messaging is the next big thing in my book!

You know the courts have gone to an extreme when they charge a mother for stalking her son. In Austria, a mom was charged and fined for stalking her son for excessive telephone calls in a 2 year period.  Guess hes not a mamas boy after all!

Oh the FCC will be all over this one…during an airing of a Good Friday church sermon from the Vatican, a Philly cable channel switched to a clip of Girls Gone Wild…hahaha…Oh come on, you know the Pope enjoyed some of those hot college girls going crazy in Cancun as much as you did…just admit it!  the amazing part about this is that although the glitch happened during a religious showing, only one person called to complain, so I guess 1/2 naked girls really are divine…hahaha  I crack myself up!

Well on that note, Im off to work on a bomv scare exercise plan…i get to blow things up…well in my head anyways…

later!

 

Steeling a seat, a little Tofu, and the evolution of Darwin… April 8, 2009

Who knew that id go from discussing in class about stupidity of people to coming home and reading an article about how modern life is making humans evolve faster…and here earlier we all thought Darwinism was dead.  In class tonight we did a Tabletop exercise on a Hurricane hitting the Big Island…and one of the scenerios involved surfers going out in Cat2 and tourists deciding to hike Volcano Park during a Cat2…Seriously?! While this was all a scenario it was based on actual problems that Hawai’i has faced…I want to know who would really hike a volcano during a hurricane…it just seems like you are tempting fate a little too much there…what do you prefer…death by flying debri or death by lava? Hmmm….how about both!  We even joked about leaving the stranded toruists in Volcano Park because if they were stupid enough to venture out, then maybe the gene pool needed some help…man made Darwinism. Well Darwin evolution seems to be following me tonight cause I get home and see and article about how we are evolving faster now…and that our genes eventually will change enough to create an entirely new human species, one no longer able to breed with our own species…well I guess the evolution monkey chart had to have something beyond us…i wonder if they will still have opposable thumbs?!

I am seriusly distrubed by the route reality tv is taking now…more so then I was before!  A new reality show from the Dutch-based creator of the hit TV series ‘Big Brother’ will allow staff at companies struggling in the global recession to choose which colleague should be fired. Gee…the economy is bad…we need to fire someone…lets make it a televised event! Yes, because only the Dutch would think of something so horrible into entertainment…wait…its coming to the US?! Go figure  (ok its not really coming to the US but with the US leading reality TV, would it really be any shock to see Fox air it!?!)

When you hear the word ‘tofu’ do you think of somethin obscene?  Well a Denver lady who requested a personalized license plate to read “Ilvtofu” was deemed obscene because they said it could be interpreted as I lv to FU…well okay I get that but seriously? When I read it i saw tofu not FU…give society some credit…yes someone may see it and complain, but most people dont read license plates that closely..unless you are in a traffic jam or entertaining kids…but whatever…

Well Burris-isms are taking off everywhere!  A man in South Dakota was going through the drive through and accidently shot himself in the leg…i wonder if he will try and sue the fast food joint for something stupid like allowing weapons on the property…

In an unusual theft move…someone stole from a New Jersey womans Honda…the fact that her car was broken into isnt the strange part…its what was taken…the steering wheel, shift knob and front seats.  Now I know these are all vital parts of a car…but um you might as well have taken the entire car…I wonder if the theif needed new seats?

Jessie…maybe you should give Arkansas churchgoers a chance… A church in Little Rock will be holding Easter Sunday services at a local bar…and in case you cant make it that Sunday…check them out on Mothers Day and Fathers Day at the bar too…come for the choir…stay for the drunken karaoke!

Later!