Breaking Video: Pretty Girls Get Things For Free

Story of the year via Insty.

One woman's story of dressing down then going glam and the contrasts between the two. She found out the day she sexed it up, guys gave her free things. Who knew?

Documentary : Sexy Girls Have It Easy from Bright Hand Pictures on Vimeo.

Expect DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to start an investigation into this right away.

Spring Officially Started A Week Ago

And I'm just now getting around to posting this.

If You Think You Are Having A Bad Day. . .

. . . It could be worse.

You could be her.

Video below the fold. Not for someone with a case of the willies.

One More PSA For This Holiday Season

Tip #4 is good practice regardless of a Zombie Apocalypse.



Zombies: It's the new vampire.

Thanks to the fine folks at The Red Shaker.

Christmas Related Enough: How to make a gingerbread house without the gingerbread but using only meat and bacon.

New Survey Showing That Doctors Will Work Part Time Or Quit Altogether If ObamaCare Goes Through

This came out last week but I just saw it a few days ago.



Both Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan talked about the consequences of this.

Rand in the book, Atlas Shrugs:

Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward.

And Reagan in his speech against socialized medicine:



Can't say we weren't warned.

Friday Night Story

Heard this the other day at a department store-- it was being played for background noise-- and couldn't get it out of my head.

Hey Dave, Where You Have You Been?

These things aren't going to post themselves you know.

As other priorities present themselves, time spent blogger is one of the first things upon the alter of the clock. Soccer practice for my children, college semester rolling on for me and trying to keep our humble house in order seem to come first in my wife's eyes for some odd reason.

I'll do what I can to keep this going. Find something else to give up to help manage my time. Maybe personal hygiene.

ANYWAY:

In an effort to add a touch of class to the place, I thought some Sarah Chang playing Vivaldi would do the trick. Besides, it's appropriate. Its his Autumn Concerto.



And she's more than just a pretty face. No matter how many times I listen to this next song, it still amazes me. Don't let the first half fool you. Listen to the entire piece.



That is all the elegance and class for now. I'll get back to the usual stream of dick jokes and incoherent thoughts tomorrow.

When Mascots Attack!

If there was ever an argument to carry concealed on the football field, this would be it.

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Doing Damage Control?

After living in the limelight and saying things like this:

"I worry about bringing up a child in America. At the moment there's a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there, like, 'We're No. 1 and the rest of the world doesn't matter."

And:

"I think George Bush is such an embarrassment to America in the way that he doesn't take the rest of the world into consideration."

Not to mention:

"I don't feel there's any lip service with [Obama]. I don't feel like he's one of those jaded politicos who say one thing and are talking out of both sides of their mouth. I also feel we've done such incredible damage to our reputation — and as someone who lives outside America for half the year, I overhear things that I wish I didn't overhear. A lot of people in the West think that we're not very sensitive to the rest of the world, and I think that having a president called Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 says that we are part of the world and we don't want to make unilateral decisions about the fate of all of us. I just pray to God that he wins."

What better way to make up for that than star in a country film! Cause hicks love anything with music, boots, the flag and Jesus. That ought to satisfy those bitter clingers.



Thanks to Erin, who provided the concept I shamelessly stole. Shamelessly? Yes, I pretty much cut and pasted what she said on Facebook about this movie.

So now I'm going to play 'How The Movie Will End By Watching The Preview' of Country Strong. I also did read a very short description of what happened. It was two sentences long.

She's getting out of rehab, looking to make a come back. The problem is she's a has-been. She's had problems getting records out on time. It's a business but she's an artist, blah blah blah. She's not getting a record deal and hitting the road on tour unless she has another act on board to help sell songs and fill seats. So instead of one, she and her husband (Tim McGraw) offer two. Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester are the new acts. Not yet stars but have lots of potential. It's their job to help set fire to Gwyneth's comeback. Along the way, hilarity and high jinks ensues. Or conflict. It looks more like a drama than a comedy.

Gwyneth still has addiction issues and has an attraction to the younger guy of the new act. And trouble maintaining her Talor Swift coiffure on the road.

Tim second guesses his wife's decisions and undermines her whenever he can. He can't quite trust her as an addict. Also, he has the hots for Leighton.

Leighton may sound sweet and innocent but the film makers purposely left in the quote about who her two idols are, "Kelly Cantor and Jesus Christ." She will be the wily one. And possibly seduce the husband. Gossips Girls are never to be trusted.

Garrett will be the rock steady character. He'll be with Gwyneth at her worst, when she's drunk and horny and be the complete gentleman about it. Then some horrible allegations will arise that he did slept with Gwyneth after all. Which will cause the husband to fly off into a seething rage in an attempt to justify his own self hate for having cheated on his wife the night before with Leighton.

He will also be the one to take Gwyneth on her 'Journey Of Self Discovery'. Involving jumping on a freight train like a damnable hobo, singing at a seedy honky tonk and serenading some cute children at a cancer ward. Queue the montage (Montage).

In the end, Gwyneth will write a song with Garrett about their experiences which will top the charts. Garrett will be playing in her band, getting his own career going. And she will have left her husband by then.

Leighton will have moved on as well. She'll be doing okay. Moving her way on up the ladder the only way she knows how.

And Tim. He'll be left off into cinematic obscurity where all ex-husbands go from women wymen empowerment movies. What movie or TV series about women wymen empowerment doesn't have the wife leaving her husband?

Have to wait until December or January to see the movie to see how far off of target I am. Or longer than that. When it's released on DVD.

Friday Full Metal Jacket Round Up And Other Random Thoughts

I will be out of the office for some time this weekend. It's time to put on the Hunter Thompson hat and hit the road to Washington DC for the Restoring Honor Rally this Saturday. I'll leave the suitcase behind because I heard the Parks Department will be searching bags there and, well, it's always better to be safe than sorry.

Also, a big tip of the hat to Bob Belvedere over at The Camp Of The Saints for grabbing the pictures of the lovely Christina Hendricks and her work for London Fog. Thanks to the show, Mad Men, retro is making a come back.

Besides, a woman like Ms. Hendricks comes along a couple of times a lifetime. The first time for me was my wife (And maybe this way, I'll be allowed to keep this blog going a little longer).

The China Traffic Jam, which stretched into 11 days, might be over?  Do you know who is a fan of China's infrastructure?  Does the President of this country have a special place in his heart for totalitarian governments?  I believe he does.  

I don't care how Green you are, this is gross. Recycled toilet paper.

I've had this suspicion for some time but this only cements why the Republican Party wasn't as interested in the Tea Parties when the parties first started rolling.  Why wasn't anyone from the Party there, listening, taking notes on any promising young speaker to potentially recruit for local and possibly state office.  Because it threatens their status as king-maker.  How else would you explain why the NRSC sending up a lawyer to Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her effort to bitter cling to her job?  The one she received when her daddy gave it to her like a Ford Mustang on her sweet 16th birthday. 

In any case, it's time to get a man on the scene.  Who better to rattle the tip jar than Robert Stacy McCain.  Have a completely independent observer on sight, reporting the facts and nothing but the facts for the public at large.

I liked what the Daily Caller did exposing the Journolist.  But when they push items like blogger pay to play that can be easily debunked, it makes me wonder.  Is he really providing a service that the market needs or is it a true vanity project of Tucker Carlson?  Most of the anti-GOP stories are rather weak and seem to be along the lines of, "See, we bite the hand too!"

I'm don't know if Tucker is the kind of guy to carry a grudge but he did bring Robert Stacy McCain's name into the story for no better reason other than to associate Stacy with the Payola 'Scandal'.  A while ago, R.S. McCain did launch Not Tucker Carlson News with about ten bucks instead of the three million dollars in seed money.  Some people can't stand a smart-ass.

At this point, you would think CBS News would only be a camera pointing at a TV broadcasting ABC News. 

I called it almost a year ago and was proven right last March.  Cash for Clunkers was a destructive force on the economy.  Nothing like purposefully destroying the supply of used cars to drive up the cost on them later.  It's policies like this that makes me think Obama hates poor people.

I'm not paranoid but I think there is merit to the axiom, "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action".

1.  Potential for lawsuits for random blogs.

A company called Righthaven is purchasing the copyrights to the content in many media outlets and suing bloggers who republish that content.

2.  License the crap out of bloggers. The city of Philidelphia is going after anyone who happens to make money blogging.

3.  Those compiled with Net Neutrality seem to a handful of ways to make people 'Shut Up'.

Come after bloggers on copyright laws even though most of them try to promote the website they are linking to on one hand and the other is to regulate them to death by taxes and fines.  If that's not a pattern of censorship-- and I'm going to be honest and call a spade a spade-- I'm not sure what is in today's world.

It's maybe something, maybe nothing but even paranoids have enemies.

One last thing: They told me that if I voted for McCain that teacher would be fired for voicing their opinions. . . And they were right. No, that's not a joke. The school teacher who wrote this song on his own time was fired because of it.

Countdown to the ACLU jumping in on the case in 5, 4, 3. . . Ah, who am I fooling?


Update: Linked back by Bob Belvedere. Thanks for linking this conglomerate of a posting consisting of a round up, Rule 5 and a Friday Night song.

Why The Journolist Matters

For the average person, the Journolist doesn't matter. With bills to pay and kids to feed, who the hell is Ezra Klein and what is a 'Journolist'? That's where Marisa Tomei comes in.

And as much as it may sound like it, it's not a version of the Chewbacca defense.

Marisa had her claim to fame in with her role in My Cousin Vinnie as the girlfriend to the title character. The role where she won an Oscar.

And after that, she kind of dropped off the scene. She had a supporting role here or there but for the most part, she's been in independent films with no major studio behind it. Most notably, Cyrus.

When the rest of the nation watches movies that Hollywood makes, Hollywood watches independent movies. Sort of a farm team for potential movie talent.

Hence, why Marisa is on the cover of Shape Magazine this month. She's done her time with the smaller, independent films has a chance to move on to bigger roles. She was noticed by the movers and shakers and the time is due for another big role. A PR machine behind her is getting in gear with a puffball interview done for the magazine and a photohshopped picture on the cover.

The same with the Journolist.

2. Ben Adler – Newsweek, POLITICO
3. Mike Allen - POLITICO
[. . .]
51. Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
52. Joe Klein - TIME
53. Paul Krugman – The New York Times, Princeton University
54. Lisa Lerer - POLITICO
[. . .]
84. Ben Smith - POLITICO

If you listen to the radio news updates on the hour, many of those stories are based from The Politico.  The New York Times is what the alphabet networks base their nightly newscast on.  Not everyone on the Journolist are daily reads for the of the news industry but a good portion of them are.

Many of the sites and news bureaus that staffed members of the Journolist are what other news bureaus based their daily reads from.

It's a long way to go for just a picture of Marisa Tomei.

This Would Happen To Most Every Man. . .

. . . Should he find himself interviewing Christina Hendricks.



Via College Humor where it's still available. Unlike Youtube.

Who Is Taylor Schilling?

To answer that Rand-esque question, she is the actress who will be playing the role of Dagney Taggart in the long awaited adaptation of Atlas Shrugs.

I can see her at Dagney.

I was halfway through the book when I heard that it was Angelina Jolie who wanted to play her in the movie. After that, whenever I read a line by Dagney, it was Angelina in my mind saying them. But I'm open to Taylor in the role. Too many times the name gets in the way of the movie. See Knight and Day with Tom Cruise for an example.

I shamelessly lifted this video from Donald Douglas. He tipped me off to the news of it being made into a movie. It was about Atlas Shrugs, what would you expect? It's too good not to pass by.



Besides, I still owe him an answer to this and I'm woefully behind on it.

When Jane Austin Met Chuck Palahniuk

I would watch this movie.

Christina Hendricks In A Music Video?

When I first saw this, I thought it was Saffron from Firefly. But then the video goes a bit beyond what was shown in that universe.

Friday Night, Part Deux

I just found out that Sarah McLachlan canceled the Lilith Fair concert in Arizona as a protest over SB1070. Of course it's a protest and not the shoddy ticket sales that's going on elsewhere, forcing her to move to smaller venues.

The Lilith Fair is best remembered from being mentioned in the above paragraph.

Spoilers From Tonight's Series Finale Of Lost

You've been warned.

Turn Up The Country Tonight

Thanks to Nicole for the help.

Awesome!

First the Segway and now this. Are Hoverboards and those anti-gravity chairs from WALl-E just around the corner?

One More Conservative Out Of The Hollywood Closet

Via Speak, Dog! Speak!*

I've heard rumors about her being right of center but I think this pretty much confirms it. Janine Turner is out, promoting her new site, Constituting America. From their mission statement:

A renewed, rekindled enthusiasm and a patriot’s desire for the understanding of our Constitution begins with its accessibility. Challenging the mindset of those who consider our Constitution to be antiquated, is our mission. An enlightened America regarding her roots, her basis, and her thesis is the key to America’s pertinent survival. Americans have rights. Americans must have knowledge to understand them.

Constituting America’s mission is to reach, educate and inform the youth and all citizens through modern technology and modern means, because we must not let those who devalue freedom dominate the debate.

She's probably best known for her role in the show, Northern Exposure. She wasn't quite as blond then. She had more of a pixie cut.

*Which is one of the cooler names for a blog, in my opinion.