Irises

This time of year is great, don't swap spit with swine, keep the weeds down, and enjoy.

Lick This

This is supposed to be a reference to the swine flu "pandemic".
The picture's caption reminds me of the movie "Hunt for Red October".

A Tree Grows in Georgia

This tree was a gift from the Lewis family.

Offered as a tribute to my brother Bruce.

More than a year old now, it is healthy and growing.

500 Years Ago Today

In 1509, England's King Henry VII died.
He was succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Henry VIII.

Burger King Kids Meal Ad

Next to television reporters giving their opinions instead of the news. Loud inappropriate commercials have been known to fire me up.

The wife and I saw this for the first time this weekend. It's an advertisement for a kid's meal! That creepy king character and all those women shaking their bottoms with boxes in their shorts. Pissed me off it did. Won't be going to BK anytime soon.

The report linked above interviewed a number young people who are entertained by the music and dancing, you do not see any parental types being asked if this is appropriate.

I am sorry that this will be interpreted as racial, but this ad is evidence that black culture has a disproportionate influence on pop culture, and that culture rooted in urban centers, is......

classless

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

This is a movie that was released in December 2007.
Written and directed by Jake Kasdan, son of esteemed director Lawrence.
The plot is essentially a parody of the Johnny Cash film, Walk the Line , except without any of the talent. Like Johnny Cash, singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity, leaves home after chopping his brother in half with a machete, and goes on to become a musical legend, with issues. That's all I really wan to say about that.
The cast.....

• John C. Reilly plays the lead as Dewey Cox, including as a 14 year old singing phenom.
• Tim Meadows play Sam, Dewey's career drummer. Over the course of the movie Sam introduces the singer to all sorts of drugs. Meadows is good in a SNL type role.

I give this movie a rating of 8 of 50. A new low, don't bother to rent.

• Character Development, 2 of 10, it's a parody, it wasn't meant to develop.
• Screenplay, 2 of 10, Kasdan did fall far from the tree.
• Acting, 2 of 10, Meadows is funny, without the sight gags, this movie would be painful.
• Photography, 0 of 10, nuff said.
• Plot, 2 of 10, shitty.

Texas Bill to Resist Federal Intrusion

These are citizens that intend to take care of themselves.

Resisting the temptation the Federal government offers as an inducement to dovetail into shifting national strategy.

The tenth ammendment to the United States Constitution reads....

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

This affirms the Constitutional principle of Federalism by making clear that powers not granted to the national government or prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.

Federal strategy winks at this with circumvention. Commonly, funds are offered to states with the provision that on acceptance Federal policy will be adopted. With the latest bailout project, states like like South Carolina and Texas are saying "whoa" maybe we should solve our own problems. To me this is evidence that the Federal policy creators are morally bankrupt, they are willing to build debt by borrowing money used to trap states in infinite commitments.

Make the Fair Tax federal law, then we'll find a way to clamp down on the borrowing.

Isn't it painful to recognize that logical steps are unlikely to ever happen?

A Friend Like Henry

A Christmas present that I finally got around to reading, from the wife, and looking at my last book report it seems she and I are in a pattern.
A Friend Like Henry is a story about a Scottish family that has a son Dale who at a very young age is discovered to have a severe case of autism. The family fails in its' struggles with communication until they obtain a Golden Retriever, named "Henry". The family learns to communicate with Dale using the dog as a sort of proxy. The success of this method is heartwarming, so much so that they decide to have another child. The good luck was only imagined though because the second child also develops autism. The tools learned though do help to start the daughter on the right path. Now Dale is integrated socially, virtually independent and his younger sister is mainstreamed in public school.

Through Dale's childhood, the dog ages and his demise is lamented.

This was an enjoyable, short read of 261 pages, published by Sourcebooks, Inc, written by the mother Naula Gardner.

I have attached a link to a YouTube film, showing the dog and family.

Brave or Stupid?

Check out this man serving is the test dummy for a bulletproof vest.
Did the shooter have to aim for the heart?

715

Thirty-five years ago today Henry Aaron hit the 715 th home run of his career.
This was near the end of his time with the Atlanta Braves, soon to be traded to the Brewers of his beloved first MLB city, Milwaukee.
Little did we know that on this day 35 years ago, Hank had started a new career as a miserable prick.

A Georgia Tech Icon

Two weeks ago the man that could have thrown me out of college, passed away. James Edward Dull, known to students at Georgia Tech for over 34 years, better known as Dean Dull died on 22-March-09 at the age of 80.

• Our first encounter was during my freshman year, in my alcohol dazed mind, and with the encouragement of others of like infirmity, saw fit to set off fireworks in my dormitory room, that after damming the communal shower room door and creating a pool for floating inner tubes. My student ID was revoked, and to get it back I had to visit the office of the feared Dean. The result was me being a scolded, and instructed not to do that again.


• Our second encounter was at my fraternity house. Dean Dull visited our house from time to time because one of my frat brother’s father and he had served together at Tech as assistants to then Dean Griffin. Upon inspection of my room, he proclaimed it to be “a free-form laundry bag” and walked off laughing.

During his time at Georgia Tech, enrollment grew from 5,200 to 13,000, female enrollment grew by 27,000% (11 to 3050). His greatest success will continue to please alumni, students and children alike, Dean Dull arranged the purchase of the Model A which serves as the 'Wreck', leading football teams onto Grant Field.
Thank you Dean Dull, for your service in the Korean War and to generation of Tech students.

Best wishes to your family.

Frozen River

This movie was released in 2008, carries an MPAA rating is R for language and has a length of 97 minutes.
The movie plot centers around an Indian (Mohawk) coyote who smuggles illegals across the St. Lawrence. This is accomplished by driving back and forth between the Canada and Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York. In this region the Mohawk tribe is contiguous, and they issue passports in conflict with federal authorities. The main character is a poor white mother of two boys, and husband of a degenerate gambler and has taken off with the money she had saved to get them a new insulated double wide. Because the dirt bag husband is gone with the money Ray needs $4k in the worst way to cover the down payment on the new double wide. By this Ray is primed for her accidental introduction to smuggling people. Being a good way to make big money fast, the mother makes extra risks that end badly.
The actors were.....

• Melissa Leo plays Ray Eddy, poor New York version of white trash, mother of two boys, left high and dry by her gambling addicted husband. Leo looked familiar throughout the movie and when I did a little searching and found out why, she has been all over television for the last 25 years. She, Leo played one of the regular detectives in the police drama "Homicide: Life on the Street" in the part of Det. Sgt. Kay Howard.
• Misty Upham play Lila Littlewolf, an Indian woman acquainted with trafficking in transporting aliens across the Canadian border.
• Charlie McDermott plays Ray's oldest son Troy J. 'T.J.' Eddy.
• Michael O'Keefe plays Trooper Finnerty, we've seen O'Keefe in other reviews, his repertoire goes back to Caddyshack.
• Mark Boone Junior plays Jacques Bruno, commonly plays the bad man in movies and television, no different here, except with canuck accent.
• James Reilly plays Ricky Eddy, Ray's younger son and generally sweet kid. In real life Reilly is his movie brother's cousin.

I give this movie a rating of 43 of 50.

• Character Development, 10 of 10, Ray Eddy plays an weather worn down on her luck mother who by misfortune begins on a path to crime, later caught in crime she commits an act of selflessness and takes on the responsibility for the debt so that her unfortunate accomplice can care for her own toddler and Ray's boys.
• Screenplay, 8 of 10, not a great deal of dialog, but minimal talk speaks volumes.
• Acting, 9 of 10, Leo does a great job as the down on her luck mother. Upham also plays an interesting injun with deep seated issues.
• Photography, 7 of 10, very simple, limited in cramped quarters gives the distinct feeling of winter contrasted by the wide open sensation of driving across a frozen river in middle of the night.
• Plot, 9 of 10, UNIQUE.

It's easy to see how this movie won at Sundance and was nominated for two Oscars.

Alan Keyes Speaks

Alan was not a spectacular Presidential candidate, but in this video he does portray the enigma Obama with clarity.

The Other End of the Chain

Who is John Galt?
A fictional character?
A possible result?

It Hurts

Trauma hurts.
A recessions lasts 1 to 10 years, socialism lasts till the social collapse.

Chains

The chains don't exist for citizens that are being pulled by those under the yoke.

Big But

The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, on today website carries a survey for readers, asking for judgement on the so-called classic fashion of Michelle Obama.

The question reads....

First lady Michelle Obama has wowed the nation with her classic style, grace and elegance. Already, she's compared to Jackie O. But what would she wear on her European excursion?

This this topic my wife who scream from the highest mountain. " I taught fashion for 30 years, I have students in prestigious collegiate fashion program, and I know that this woman does not know how to dress herself, she is overweight and wear big belts that make her ass look huge."

Why the obsession that media has with the comparisons to Jackie? Jackie's respect came from her actions in office, that in addition to her god given beauty, that too in addition to being compared to her predecessor Mamie Eisenhower who was not a handsome woman. Michelle Obama may yet show the class of Jackie O. but initial indicators in the election tour say otherwise. This is a woman that said plainly that only now is she proud to be an American, as if nothing in the past of the United States was praiseworthy until a black man was a viable candidate for President.

It's going to take a lot of success on Michelle's part to convince me she even compares to Mrs. Bush, either one. That said, in recent history, with exception of Hillary Clinton, presidential spouse are given enough guidance in public life that success is a pretty sure thing.

Don't Blame Me

Not unlike the stickers that we see demeaning W.
Dems would argue that they did vote for a hero.
But a hero because of what?

A New Day

People cried, others raved about a new Camelot.
Conservatives, beliefs founded experience rather than hope, were frightened.
It was fun to watch, seeing the media sycophants bemoan the experience of the President they endorsed.

DC Ignores the Supremes

Last Friday the NRA was forced to file an amended complaint in Dick Anthony Heller et al v. District of Columbia requesting an injunction to prevent the the DC City Council from creating obstacles to the Second Amendment rights related to firearms.

NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox said...

“It’s time to fully restore the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding residents in the District of Columbia. The D.C. Council’s latest gun registration scheme is proof of its continued contempt for the Supreme Court.”

The Supreme Court already spoke on this matter. By dodging the intent the city is ignoring constitutional authority. For this congress is about to give the district MORE of a voice in the House of Representatives, even though this is expressly forbidden in the Constitution. This is what happens when the document is looked at as a living instrument of public opinion.

NRA filed the original suit last summer after D.C. enacted a restrictive gun registration law in response to the landmark Supreme Court decision in the first District of Columbia v. Heller. The historic Heller decision struck down D.C.’s long-standing ban on handguns and self-defense in the home. The second amended complaint challenges D.C.’s current laws, which will become permanent in early April if not vetoed by Congress.

Don't look for Congress to support the Constitution on this one. It's not in the liberal playbook

Under the current D.C. law, prospective gun owners are required to pass a written test graded at the sole discretion of the Metropolitan Police Department. They must also have vision better or equal to that required to get a driver’s license (even for those who just want to possess a collector’s item), submit employment history for the past five years and surrender all handguns for ballistics testing, among other restrictions. The current D.C. law is more stringent than California’s draconian gun laws and bans many firearms commonly owned and used for self-defense. Failure to satisfy these onerous requirements can result in fines of up to $5,000 and up to five years in prison.

Isn't it rich, they ignore the Constitution and threaten to lower the boom any a person who attempt s to assert his "god-given" rights. The rights of citizens are asserted in the Constitution to be given by a power higher than government. These fascists, ignore the law, elect creeps like Marion Berry and hope for statehood. Let's move the capitol back to Philadelphia and flood the swamp on which the city is constructed.