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6-29-2006

Although it's not flooding here in Ithaca, Binghamton, Endicott, Owego and Deposit are all under water right now.

In Binghamton it looks like the water was coming over the flood walls along Court Street.  That's like 25 high.  Fuckin' insane.

The Delaware is over it's banks in Deposit swamping parts of that town including my mother's house which, I didn't think was possible.  Hopefully I'll see some pictures because with the roads all closed I won't be down that way any time soon.  Until it's time to clean out the basement anyway.

Crap

I have a bad feeling about this whole Israeli thing going on right now.  Bombing in Gaza over a kidnapped soldier?  Buzzing the summer house of the Syrian President with your fighter jets probably  isn't a good thing either.

I have a bad feeling about this...

Blade

Anyone watch the new "Blade: The Series" on SpikeTV last night?  I did.  Meh.  Sticky Fingaz is not Wesley Snipes.  There was some okay action, they didn't trample on the movie continuity and the production seemed to be pretty good.

The best thing about the show?  Jill Wagner.  Great googly moogly that's a hot girl.

Oh, and if you suddenly feel the need to buy a Mercury Mariner or feel like Ashton Kutcher is about to attack you, yes, you know Jill.  She does the current batch of commercials for the Mariner and Montego and was an extra on "Punk'd."  Check out her MySpace profile (just watch out for the pedophiles).

6-22-2006

It's an all-movie update!

Bad Movie News

According to this report from IMDB yesterday the new Miami Vice movie isn't looking so hot.

'Miami Vice' Film To Flop? The film version of 1980s TV series Miami Vice is in serious trouble after experiencing budget problems and less-than-stellar reviews, according to press reports in the US. The movie stars Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell and is set for its American release on July 28. The remake cost $125 million to make. A source at Universal Pictures tells Fox News correspondent Roger Friedman, "And that's just what we're admitting to. It's probably more like $150 million." Director Michael Mann has reportedly been furiously editing the film, which apparently fails to capture the spirit of the original hit series. A source adds, "Michael still has time to fix it, but not much. But he would have to pull off a miracle to make it work."

That's too bad.

I saw the trailer in front of The Da Vinci code and I actually thought it looked like it might be an interesting flick.  One thing they mention is that it doesn't capture the feel of the TV show...well, I don't necessarily need it to.  Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas had a great chemistry on that show and like him or not, Johnson brings a certain feel to his films and TV shows.  A feel or a vibe that's not easily duplicated.

Besides, this isn't the 80's.  I didn't get the impression from the trailer that this was going to be a period piece.  Being that it isn't, it inherently has a different "feel" to it.  There's no more pastel suits, 5 o'clock shadow or rampant coke problem like there was back then.  Now it's crack, E and meth and the clothing style is probably more vivid Latin and Cuban colors.  I'm actually looking forward to the movie but we'll see.

Speaking of Summer Movies

To all the gays out there, you can't have Superman.

You've already stolen the rainbow, triangles, purple, the words "gay," "fag," and "queer," you have the red "AIDS" ribbon and the white "gay-teen suicide awareness" ribbon.  Batwoman is now a lesbian.  You've even co-opted a US Congressman's last name (although Rick Santorum deserves to be named after anal leakage) for your cause.

Leave the worldwide accepted symbol of freedom and peace alone because if you don't, I see a hate crime in the near future.

And finally

Remember when I told you how bad Bloodrayne was and blamed it squarely on Uwe Boll for being a LANT?  Well, apparently he's taken notice of the criticism on the Internet because he's challenged his greatest detractors to come have a boxing match with him in Canada.

First up, Lowtax from Somethingawful.com.  Read Lowtax's review of another Boll stinker, Alone in the Dark.

If Lowtax actually gets that boxing match I hope they put it out on DVD.  I'm sure it'll be better than Bloodrayne was...except that Boll will be the only boob we'll get to see.

6-20-2006

Hazelton, PA (of all places) is taking a stand on illegal immigration.  Basically the mayor wants to crack down on illegals, revoke business licenses if they hire illegals, put $1,000 fine on landlords that rent to illegals and make English the official language of the city.

Hooray, Hazelton!

Asinine quote of the article is from Jose Lechuga:

Jose Lechuga, 42, came to the United States illegally in 1982, received amnesty in 1986 and now operates a grocery store and restaurant in Hazleton. He said the mayor is "confusing illegal people with criminals

Umm, well, Jose, if they're "illegal" that means THEY'RE FUCKING CRIMINALS!  See, that's why English should be the national language, so there's no misunderstanding when we explain the rules to you.

The Fast and the Furious: Ontario Crush

Apparently juiced ricers aren't welcome in Canada, especially when they're caught doing 180 km/hr on city streets.  That's about 111 mph American or 9.25 Jareds-per-hour 

 Dominic Toretto unavailable for comment, last seen living his life ten seconds or less at a time.

Questions that demand answers:

Has anyone actually watched a Steven Segal movie, on purpose, since 1992?  I almost got sucked into (key work "sucked") a movie called Submerged last night.  Let this be a warning to you.

MacGyver

This is the most important list of problems and their solutions you'll ever read. 

6-19-2006

Holy Shit

Apparently there is a plan in the works that will create a 10 lane super highway from Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico to Kansas City that will be used to transport goods into the US and then even into Canada.

This would allow docks in Mexico to offload goods from Asia instead of taking them through ports in Los Angeles and other ports in California.  They'd then be shipped by truck north into the US for distribution outwards from KC.  The border crossing in Laredo, Texas will only be checked by an electronic security stop unlike the manned stops we have now.

No wonder the Bush administration is taking a guest worker approach to immigration.  Cheap labor unloads the ships, cheap labor transports said goods to the US and from there it'll need to be transported throughout the US.  If he wants a partnership with Mexico on this he's probably planning on Mexican workers doing a lot of that labor.

Anyone heard a peep about any of this on the national news?  I certainly haven't and I watch between 2 and 4 hours of news nightly during the week.  If you follow the links on that page I linked you'll find that there's a lot of documentation on this thing that's not new. 

I don't like the sounds of any of it.  In this day and age I'm all in favor of more secure borders and tighter immigration laws.  Opening a gigantic hole in the Texas/Mexican border and potentially taking work away from our California ports is NOT the way to go about that in my opinion.  Cheap goods from Asia are great, for some things.  But we rely on them too heavily for things.  We need to be bringing control of our own destiny back into this country.  The way things are going pretty soon when I want to take a shit I'm gonna to have to outsource it to China.

North Korea has lost it

According to North Korea if we start a war with them we'll be wiped out.  Yeah.  Didn't the Taliban and Saddam both say something to that same effect?  We know how that worked out for them.

Hard Labor

Saturday we put a new window in the front of Todd's house and it was actually kind of fun.  Learned some new things about framing and that it's easy when you have the right tools.  And Gene, the master carpenter.

I was beat afterwards though.  Took a shower when I got home and promptly passed out.  I was in bed well before 9:00 and didn't get up till 8:30 yesterday morning.  I blame it on the heat.

6-17-2006

Stake to the heart

California has approved a the "Vampire Slayer Act of 2006."  Buffy unavailable for comment.  Spike not thrilled with having to power down his computer rather than using standby mode during the day.

Out of ideas

We all know that there are only about 3 people left in Hollywood that are actually trying when it comes to getting original ideas made into movies.  But, please, this is just piling on:

Affleck To Star as Magnum PI?

Producers of the big screen adaptation of cult TV show Magnum PI are keen to cast Ben Affleck as the famous Hawaiian private investigator. Charles Floyd Johnson, one of the producers of the original 1980s TV series, insists the Daredevil star would be perfect for the mustachioed role after Tom Selleck held out too long to reprise the part. Johnson hints Affleck would be his first choice to play the lead but, regardless of the final casting, he tells moviehole.net, "I think it will be wonderful. Unfortunately it won't star Tom. He was asked to do six or eight TV movies and at that time he really wanted to do it as a feature, so he held out on it and probably now they will consider him too old to do it." Johnson names hot Hollywood producer Brian Grazer as the man behind the movie adaptation

Beauty kills

Apparently the number one cause of auto accidents in Columbia last year were hot chicks distracting male drivers.  Although that article is interesting, it's completely and utterly useless without photos.

Luck for you this is Net Enigma where we have no shortage of photos of hot women, some of which happen to be Columbian.

Lena Perossa / Lena / Lena

Amy Rodriquez / Amy / Amy / Amy

6-16-2006

It's not your fault you're stupid.

Okay, now maybe it's just me, but usually when you hyphenate a last name it's because your parents were hippies and your mom didn't want to give up her identity. 

But, when you're both named Hernandez, why would you go with Hernandez-Hernandez?  Maybe they were brother and sister?  First cousins?  I guess the inbreeding would explain the stupidity in fucking with a venomous snake, though.

Still harping on this...

The net neutrality fight is now going to be taking place in the Senate.  If you have Senators up for election this fall now is the time to get hold of them and let them know that your vote could hinge on what they do with this. 

If you want a good talking point bring up how, if net neutrality isn't upheld, they could find their web sites unavailable to voters if Verizon (substitute your local provider) doesn't agree with their campaign.  Maybe potential money donors will have such slow access to your Senator's web site that they'll give up trying to reach it to pledge money. 

Ooooh, presents

Bush receives some interesting gifts from foreign leaders.  Some of them are kind of cool including "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" which I actually own.

If the archive gets tired of that Dakota Arms sniper rifle or the Dallas Cowboys hats I'll take them off their hands.  We'll call it compensation for 6 years of Republican brutality and high gas prices.  Afterall I didn't benefit from the tax cuts so box that shit up and send it my way and we'll call it even.

6-15-2006

Wanna send a shout out and a Happy Birthday to Zac today!  Happy Birthday, buddy.  Be good or the Devil might get you!

6-14-2006

'Bout time!

I finally got the power supply back for this new rig I built.  Only took 3 weeks.  Note; don't buy Enermax power supplies.  Or, if you do, hope they don't break down. 

Now I can finally install the DVD burning software I bought and see about cranking out some multimedia disks.

Fun Videos

100 round Glock

Bush gets to the bottom of the immigration issue.

Right click on the links and choose "Save Target As..." or just click to stream it into Windows Media Player.

Interesting Solution

What do you do when a panty shot of a female student ends up in the yearbook?  Why, rip out page 224.

In other news, book banners now have a new weapon in the fight against questionable material in schools.  Holden Caulfield seen running for a new blue state.

In the "We didn't see that coming" Department

Fraud has been discovered in the use of billions of dollars sent to Katrina victims.

Hmm:

I would have thought people from NO wouldn't want to spend any more time in the Superdome...  I guess when someone else is picking up the tab it's okay.

Unfair

Lip synching in the US means we have to put up with Ashlee Simpson or Britney Spears.  In France they get Alizee.  I think we need a trade. 

I propose that France takes Ashlee and her sister, Britney Spears and K-Fed and any three American Idol contestants they want.  We get Alizee and a draft pick which we can then use to bring Tatu back (Yeah, they're Russian....so?).

And while we're at it, how about we also trade them Katie Couric for Melissa Theuriau?

6-12-2006

New Chinese Restaurant recipe:

This country is getting ridiculous

Apparently if you kill a snake it's animal cruelty.  If you do it in front of a minor it's upgraded to a $5,000 felony fine.

Hey Todd, we should be in jail!

Hahahaha!

Even Britain is not immune to unnecessary panic.

You've Been Warned

Net Neutrality took it's lumps in the House on Thursday getting soundly defeated by the Republicans.  You know, the guys that are running the country so well now.

Not that the Democrats are any better but when looking for a lesser degree of suck they win by default. 

Now this all moves on to the Senate I guess.  We'll see what happens there.  They've been working on their own bill but since the House passed theirs first I don't know if that goes to the Senate for approval or what.  I don't recall my Schoolhouse Rock right now.

6-8-2006

So the most important thing facing America is gay marria...ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz

Huh?  What?

Screw that.  Let's talk about something really important such as the the missing data from the Veterans Affairs department that not only affects 26 million military veterans but also all or most active duty military.

Sure, identity theft is a big issue with this but what if this list of info made it into a terrorist's hands and they decided to track down the family members of someone serving in Iraq or Afghanistan?  Could that be the next terrorist attack on the US?  Not the bombing of some buildings which serves no purpose but to piss us off, but to instead attack the support base of our soldiers. 

Nothing would take the fight out of our soldiers faster than knowing their families were in jeopardy at home because they were serving in the Mid East.

Someone needs to track down that stolen laptop and memory stick.

Here's another one that could likely hold much more relevant consequences for you, net neutrality.

It looks as though the House could vote on new rules this Friday.  If you haven't done so already you should let your representatives know that you want net neutrality and any new law passed that doesn't include it is a bad law.

6-4-2006

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) "will put a bullet between the President's eyes." - State Controller Alan Hevesi

Nice quote Alan.  He, of course, later apologized for the remark that he made during a commencement speech at Queens College.  According to the article the graduates had little reaction to the comment which is surprising for a liberal college in NY...

Unfortunately it was a bad comment because, of course, we all know we'd rather see Schumer get the bullet between the eyes.

Irony

A federal judge has decided that it's unconstitutional to require students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school every day. 

I guess pledging allegiance to the country that grants you the rights to not pledge makes all sort of sense to the students of today.  Seems kids have learned something from their good-for-nothing, litigious parents.

But, you know, if you don't want to recite it for religious reasons or because your not a citizen then that's fine.  But at least get off your lazy ass, stand and show some respect.  Otherwise your fellow students have my permission to kick your ass.

Huh!

Snakes on a Plane, Samuel L. Jackson's upcoming movie may not be so out there as I thought originally.

Cheesy 80's Music

If you grew up in the '80's or are just a fan of the music you'll probably like this article.  The 80 worst songs of the '80's.  That link will take you to the page with 10 - 1, just track back to the beginning.

Immigration

Want to help patrol the border with Mexico but don't live anywhere near Texas?  Don't worry, you may be able to monitor from the comfort of you home via the Internet.

Interesting idea.  Now, if they could tie that monitoring in with remote control hunting I think we'd have a start on a solution to illegal immigration.