A very successful and packed 4 days this weekend:
Friday - TGI Fridays and Simpsons movie. Spider Pig and teeny boppers. Like Oh MY GOD! Seriously! Shut up!
Saturday - Bowling for Rhinos, a fund raiser for the Detroit Zoo. Fun bowling, plus Mike won $300+ dollars on the 50/50 raffle (all of which are going to his wedding planner to ensure he gets his hand job on the wedding day). And white music that even I was ashamed of (I'm looking at you Sue, Mike and Pam!).
Sunday - Drove up to my uncle's cabin in the middle of nowhere Michigan to celebrate my cousin's graduation from high school. Rode jet skis, played Euchre, chatted with family, and watched my 18 year old cousin get wasted with parental blessing. Also, I think this may have been the very first time I have ever really drank in front of my parents. That was only a little weird. Plus my alcoholic cousin (a different one), is sitting there the whole time watching as I drink. I felt a little bad that I was drinking right in front of her, but f#$k it. I'm not the one with a problem, so why should I have to stop drinking? (really! no problems here!)
Monday - Drive back from Middle of Nowhere. About half way into this 3 1/2 hour drive, my mom runs over a large 2x6 board that was in the middle the of the freeway for God only knows what reason. Pops a tire AND bends the rim. Nice...My dad had to drive 60 MPH the whole way home.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Good Work Crew!
Posted by Eric at 10:03 PM 1 comments
Friday, July 27, 2007
Don't drink the water, there is earth's blood in the water
Posted by Sue at 12:34 PM 5 comments
Labels: global warming, hippie, Rant
Thursday, July 26, 2007
GOOOAALLLLLLL... BOOM!
I'm really tired. Please take what I say in this post with a grain of salt.
CNN.com - Baghdad bombers target soccer celebrations, killing at least 50
WTF is wrong with these people? Stories like this sometimes make me think for a brief moment that we should just move all our troops out of Iraq, then bomb it until it was a big sheet of glass. People who would do something like this deserve no mercy and will never ask for it anyways.
Sigh...
Posted by Eric at 12:26 AM 2 comments
Labels: Rant
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Wire
Sue and I have added The Wire to the growing list of shows we don't want people to spoil later seasons of for us.
We just finished Season 1, and I have to tell that this is the best cop drama I have ever seen. In addition to all the usual violence, drama, and cop stuff, it gives you a chance to bone up on your ghetto slang. If you talk to me and I let out a "Holla back at me shorty" or "WEST SI-EEEEDE!
I'd go far as to say this first season was better than most of the "The Sopranos" seasons. If you have a Netflix/Blockbuster card, go rent the first season tonight.
Posted by Eric at 5:31 PM 0 comments
Labels: review, television
Monday, July 23, 2007
Simpsons Movie Friday!
Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet?Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet? Is it Friday yet?
Can you tell I am excited for The Simpsons Movie?
Update: Had to remove that damn movie because it was constantly playing every time I went to the blog to check for comments (which is about every half hour or so).
Posted by Eric at 9:02 AM 1 comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
I am ready to rock!!!!
Posted by Sue at 1:22 PM 2 comments
Monday, July 16, 2007
New Look
Yea, we have new look here. Sort of a subtle update to the existing blog. The main reason is for the snazzy new voting module that Blogger added. And the better looking calender. And the fact that I just like new stuff.
I'll leave you with the wisdom of P. Diddy: "VOTE OR DIE!"
Posted by Eric at 1:44 PM 0 comments
Charle Scrubs Christmas
Charlie Brown Christmas - Performed by the Cast of Scrubs
Ah, the combination of my favorite christmas show and my favorite TV series. Now that's what I'm talking about!
Posted by Eric at 12:48 AM 0 comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Fear Tactics to the Rescue!
Experts warn of lightning-strike injuries with iPods
Seriously? This is what CNN.com chooses to put on their front page? A story about people being injured by their iPod while being struck by lightning? I can picture just how this story got approved...
Reporter: I've got this idea for a story about people being hit by lightning.
Editor: Yawn... Lightning? Lightning?!?!? Who cares about lightning? Its been going on forever. What's new to say?
Reporter: Well, see, I've got this angle to involve the iPod and some other...
Editor: APPROVED!
The worst thing is that the article mentions a grand total of two cases of people injured by lightning while wearing iPods. Two. Two cases in the last six years and I should be even thinking about this? Why I am wasting brain cells on this again? And the article even mentions that it is nothing specific to iPods. Nothing like "iPods make it more likely you will be struck". Just the fact that having ANY electronic device nearby will make the burn worse. So why does the title focus on the iPod? Oh right, because that will get people scared. Scared enough to read this boring and pointless article.
Posted by Eric at 1:28 PM 1 comments
Friday, July 06, 2007
President free to violate law as long as he is not caught
I'm baffled by the logic of this one:
Yahoo News: Court dismisses lawsuit on spying program
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled that the ACLU could not bring suit alleging that warrantless wiretapping is illegal because they can't prove that they were actually targeted by the wiretapping because by its nature it is secret. That raises the problem of course of then defining who exactly COULD challenge this program?
This despite the fact that one of the judges stated publicly that he believed the program was both unconstitutional and in violation of the FISA act of 1978.
So the lesson here is that the Bush administration can do anything they want without fear of judicial review as long as the person they are doing it to cannot prove they are specifically targeted. Lets see where that could lead:
1) Currently the program only intercepts calls from the US to foreign soil. But now that this ruling is in place, what is to stop the government from tapping US citizens at home? As long as they can ensure that no one can prove they individually were tapped they would be home free.
2) Internet snooping? No problem as long as you can't prove it.
3) Tracking via your cell phone? No problem as long as you can't prove it.
4) Your tax records? Your personal health records? check and check.
5) A camera in your bedroom? As far as I can tell, as long as no one could find the camera, they are free to do that too.
And I'll leave you with a few choice quotes:
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Posted by Eric at 9:16 PM 1 comments