Guy Brings Beer To His DWI Hearing...

Great article here about a fella who arrived an hour and a half late to his court hearing for a DWI case. Problem is, he showed up drinking a beer in court. Check out the article, its hilarious - short - and sweet.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-Brings-Beer-to-DWI-Court-Appearance-118419829.html?dr

Libya strike... war no. 3

War Number 3. The US economy must not be doing that good because this is the third war in 10 years... Three different skirmishes for the US (and its coalition) at the same time, that's completely insane. This is all coming from the leader of the 'free' world instituting this wacky plan because of Gadhafi and his evil 'bullying'. What, do they think we're nuts???

So, I'm hoping that we - the people - are going to be able to elect a candidate for president that will actually bring in the HOPE and CHANGE that the current fearless leader promised about 3 years ago. I've seen no changes... and in fact, have only seen the addition of bankers and lobbyists to the cabinet and leading public positions - this all when the leader promised that this would never happened before being elected. Horrible.

Florida DOT, Racial Profiling and Huge Profits...

If anyone has ever had to travel the innards of Florida and drive north, they've probably been on the Florida Turnpike. The northern stretch of the road cuts through a beautiful piece of Florida countryside, full of rolling hills and such... but there is a dark side to the drive. Every 50 miles or so, the ride is broken up by a toll. Yes, a toll to get on the Turnpike, a toll to exit, a toll in the middle of nowhere and so forth.

To get the tolls, there must be toll takers - people who are willing to stand there all day and harass travelers for money. Well, I know I've personally given thousands to these people over the years. Now I feel duped after reading this article. Seems that the FDOT has made a fortune with their relatively new program of 'detaining' people who pay with larger bills. This is all part of the system to bring in a digital currency. This is an interesting story, a good read and news video to check out when one has time.

Story link:
http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=178322&provider=top

MMA at Wal-Mart

I couldn't believe my eyes when I checked in at PeopleOfWalMart.com and found that someone with an entrepreneurial mind injected MMA training at the US's lowest price leader. Notice the kids in this picture, getting trained to beat the hell out of someone... the future of America is here.

The sound of 'Team America: World Police' is drifting into my ear, loud and clear. Check out the video for the song below - excellent laughs ahead ;)

Charlie Sheen and The Devil

I think Charlie Sheen showed a lot of courage to come out and talk about nine one 1 back a couple years ago. It didn't really seem to hurt his reputation because he went on to become the highest paid tv actor. But his recent rounds of debauchery and porn pal gals plus the briefcases of cocaine don't do his already tarnished rep any good.

However, the latest rant that Charlie went on during Alex Jones' radio show last week really spent the actor off in a loop that I can only see as him continuing off into space. Sheen is brilliant, but he's showing his nutty side now. The only thing I see is that Alex and Charlie may have been pulling a Joaquin Phoenix on everyone - I don't KNOW this but it could figure in to make Alex's show more popular with those not familiar to his truth serum.

If you think about it, Alex was at Charlie's house in CA a week before the radio rant and Alex wasn't talking about the trip before hand. Something's afoot here... and I think its pretty cool actually. Anyway, the devil's definitely sitting on Sheen's shoulder, I just hope he doesn't go completely off the deep end.

BANKSY! and Hollywood...

Banksy continues to be my hero. His sarcasm is legend. He's taken it to the next level recently in Hollywood. So, its excellent to see that he's still around doing his thing. Here's the latest story he's involved in. Apparently, there was a scuffle over his billboard that was just pulled down today - and the company who yanked it refused $10,000 for the 'art' that their advertisement had become.

Excellent. Good work, sir!

Jake Shimabukuro Plays Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody

Jake Shimabukuro is amazing. First, he's got an almost Dalai Lama-like presence. Second, he can play the hell out of the ukulele! In this video, he's playing at the TED conference. Its amazing to hear what he can do with 4 strings on what looks like a mini-guitar!

The first time I saw him play was on a YouTube clip in Central Park covering

Dalai Lama's Nephew Killed In Florida

This is sad news... very sad. The Dalai Lama's nephew was walking on the side of a Florida highway the other day was struck and killed by a car the other day. He was walking the white line with traffic. A man driving the car with his son were not charged with a crime.

The Dalai Lama nephew was walking for the Tibetan struggle for independence from China. I don't know why he was walking in that area after dark but it led to his demise. Very sad. I love the Dalai Lama and his sense of compassion and humility. Its a shame this happened to him and that his nephew was taken from him, I can only imagine that we've lost another amazing human from this world.

Lady GaGa Arrives In An Egg...

The Grammy's... an event - a spectacle - where EVERYONE seems to care about what people look like and what people wear, who they're with. Its an amazing process for someone like me who doesn't have cable. The vision of an ant farm keeps coming to me, you know, when you're a kid staring at all the ants going to and fro. Its amazing.

And so are The Grammy Awards. But this year, with everyone trying to upstage each other, one guest outdid everyone. She's Lady GaGa. She's being carried in on the shoulders of muscular models and toned ladies in some sort of weird take on an Egyptian thing. Does anyone think that there may be a hidden statement about Egypt in here? I'm guessing not - no one can get over the giant egg being carried by faux slaves with some ultra-weird rock star inside.

Only in Hollywood.

Mubarak IS the Sphinx!

I have evidence that Mubarak actually IS the sphinx...


Well, that's my evidence - manufactured of course. I'm still kind of aggravated that he hasn't stepped down as president which makes him seem more like a dictator than a 'president'. Semantics.

But then, this guy is 84. He also has billions of dollars, that he apparently made while 'being president'. Sounds shady to me. But the fact that the guy is 84 and still dies his hair black says a lot about him. Egotism? DEFINITELY YES. I guess that's a pre-requisite for being president though.

Congressman's Trouble on Craigslist

Why do these people do it? I swear its got to be the dumbest thing on Earth - to post your picture on the internet of yourself in a compromising situation. The compromising situation in this case is a MARRIED congressman (Rep. Christopher Lee is a married Republican congressman serving the 26th District of New York) who's trying to pick up some woman on Craigslist. Its just tragically funny. Now this guy's got a huge pile of trouble on his hands.

Here's the link:
http://www.massiveink.com/blog/110210_jump.html

I had to make a jump link on my site because Facebook wouldn't go straight through to Gawker. Its obvious that the link is being blocked, but whatever, if one knows even a nickel about html - they can make a load linked page... so that's what I did. The story is rather amusing. The reason I care is that this guy obviously doesn't have integrity. If he does this to his wife, what is he doing to our country.

There. Posted.

No Cell Phones While Driving in North Carolina

I just heard via the radio, that drivers in North Carolina may not be able to talk on the cell phone while driving any longer. The NC house has just drafted the bill and its on its way to be passed and will go into effect in December if all goes 'well'. Having lived in North Carolina, I can't help but say that this may not be a bad thing due to the extremely fast driving I've seen there.

Then again, I don't like the over-reach on the half of the gov. Its just one of those things that will pile up over time. Can you imagine what people are going to be 'allowed' to do 20 years from now? Other than walk on a sidewalk, I don't know if anything else will be legal. On a good note though, the US House of Representatives voted against an extension of the 'Patriot Act' in a recent session. No reports yet on how that's going to hold up.

Flaming Youth

I was laughing at a pic of Phil Collins that one of my friends posted on Facebook today. The photo shows Phil here with an awesome mullet on one side and some British actor from a new movie "The King's Speech". Whatever. Don't really care about it... but the picture of Phil in the photo is one of the classic one's of him from the early 1980's - back when I'm guessing he guest starred as a drug dealer in Miami Vice.

Phil started in a band in the late 1960's called Flaming Youth... the album I came across last year in a thrift store (yeah, vinyl!) was called Ark2. Classic psych album actually... lots of great grooves, harmonizing and such. I had no idea Phil was in this band actually until I heard a song that had the classic Phil voice carrying through. I flipped the cover over and there he was!

Bellagio Bandit Bum

Bellagio Bandit Bum. Why couldn't this guy just be smart about it all... I mean, he really screwed up when walking into the casino with his helmet on then demanding chips... his first mistake was committing the robbery in the first place, the second was the $25,000 chips that he stole, the third was sending pictures of the chips with "the biker bandit" from his cell phone.

Idiot. He could have had a comfortable life soaking up his score from this mob's big business but instead he acted like a true criminal - and - acted stupid.

Dumb. Oh, and his dad is a local Las Vegas judge.

Howard Stern Crushes Leno

I've stumbled across a funny bit on the Letterman show from Howard Stern's recent appearance. Great stuff actually. Every time I hear Stern I think of the Jerky Boys for SOME reason. But in this clip, Stern is classic because he completely upstages Letterman. This is great - because personally - I don't care for Letterman.

I've seen Letterman live. Its not all that and a bag of chips. And if you've ever heard someone say "the set is a lot smaller live than what you see on tv" - they're RIGHT. Its a small stage, just filmed with huge lenses. Its filmed in a high rise after all. The ground floor or whatever, but still, its not that big of a place. And, Dave isn't that funny.

Here's a link to TMZ's link to the Stern appearance. Howard makes this clip... he is the king of all media, but only in short spurts.

SUPERBOWL!

The SuperBowl is coming... and the commercials with it. All I care about are the commercials. I don't like the game thing really. My competitive nature left me after 10 or 11 years old. Everyone comes upon these milestones in life sooner or later, fortunately for me it came before I hit the teenage years.

However, this mass mania for football - our modern day version of old Rome's gladiator events - means HUGE business. People will be parked outside the stadium this year, being charged $200 a head, just to watch the game from OUTSIDE the stadium. "Moronic", I say to myself, but that's not my reality and I shouldn't judge.

The powers at be love this predictability in human nature. They feed on it, get fat gorging on it. Now, we have rolling power blackouts in Texas of all places, just a couple days before the game. Perfect timing for conditioning people - if you want my opinion. For most though, this is simply an inconvenience and a bit of news that the average taxpayer will just shrug their shoulders to.

When there's talk of having to get our Texans power from Mexico, my ears perk up. That doesn't make sense. But then, neither does the fact that the mass rolling blackouts that have been plaguing Texas for the past couple days haven't ONCE touched the 'Colosseum' where the two teams will be meeting on Sunday. The multi-billion dollar stadium has experienced no power outages at all.

But the hospitals have.
This is where our priorities have shifted (or sunk in the mud).
This is not good.

In Come The Camels!

The time has come for the camels to show up in Egypt. I've always found camels interesting. There's so much a camel can do, but I never thought wrestling through crowds and carrying a rider through a riot was one of them. There's a lot going on in the Middle East. The people up top know what's going on... they're letting this act of the play go on as long as it takes I guess... as long as it takes to escalate things to the next level.

Prophets across time seemed to think that the final days would come to pass with trouble in the Middle East. We've always seen problems there but this is bigger than those relative skirmishes. Apparently, there are similar protests all over the Middle East now. I don't know how this will all get settled but I bet there's going to be more violence before calm comes. Its a violent, more archaic society over there, all we can do is have hope.

3 Branches of Government by Chuckie Schumer

This is great. A sitting Senator in the United States senate apparently doesn't know what the 3 branches of government are. Now one would argue that he just made a mistake, but he clarified the branches he was talking about and then continued to try to prove his point. My question is, does he really think that the House, Senate and the President are the three branches of government or is he just trying to see how far he can get with misinformation? I'm thinking he's no idiot - so I'm going with my second guess.

And... I think if the people up top think they can rewrite history, they would. That's pretty apparent. Evidence of this can already be seen in certain history books claiming that Bush the Second was a 'great' president. I don't know who's giving him props - or why - but clearly if one looks through the videos online of him tripping over his own tongue and often acting like the village idiot, they would quickly think otherwise.

Anyway, here's the video everybody's been posting recently with Schumer's ridiculous statement. Watch in amazement.

It All Started in Egypt...

Egypt has the oldest buildings. Egypt led the way back in the day with slavery (I guess) and having a well defined caste society. Well, since society is currently in a mess, why shouldn't Egypt lead the world into a global revolution against a sitting government?

And why not start the looting (in disgust for the current political regime) by ripping the heads off mummies and rioting? Sounds like this makes perfect sense in our less than perfect world. Humans never cease to amaze and continue to prove that they, indeed, are animals. Human but animal at the same time.

Check out this article.

Kardashians Can't Help Piers Morgan

As I was reading through news blogs and such this morning, I come across this article talking about how Piers Morgan's new talk show is circling the drain. Who knows how much the network is paying that guy. A sign that a show is hurting though is when you bring in a couple scantily clad Kardashians to resurrect your ratings. Especially when the sisters are talking about their sex tapes.

As far as the demographics go, I can't really see the target group for listening to these bimbos' interview. These are just rich girls who have nothing better to do than have cameras follow them around for no reason... or talk about the way they look... or complain about their problems. Why even look into watching this hard hitting 'interview' for more than a minute? Once you've see them for 10 seconds, you've pretty much seen it all.