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Friday - June 11, 2004
Huh?
By Jay

Check this out:

Man Falls To Death From Helicopter Over Grand Canyon

A helicopter tour company said a man took off his seat belt, opened a door and intentionally fell to his death during a sightseeing flight over the Grand Canyon National Park Thursday.

Authorities say the investigation of the man's death continues. They've offered few details on what led up to his exit from the helicopter about 90 miles northwest of Flagstaff, Ariz.

The man fell about 4,000 feet.

Officials don't know if the man had any connection to the others on board the helicopter. The pilot and four other passengers were shaken by what happened but weren't hurt.

Authorities say the cause of death won't be determined until the body is recovered from White's Butte.

The search in the rugged terrain will resume Friday.

Emphasis mine.

Is a medical opinion necessary for this one? I think the cause of death is landing on the ground travelling at a speed of 200mph because he jumped out of a freaking helicopter!


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Such Class
By Jay

An old rap group called 'Whodini' had a song called, 'The Freaks Come Out At Night.' Well, in this day and age, the freaks come out during Ronald Reagan's funeral:

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I can imagine these clowns exclaiming, "Look, our picture is in the news!" with most people thinking to themselves, "Yeah, and you look like an asshole."

UPDATE: The morons holding those signs are, ironically enough, members of 'God Hates Fags.'

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Happy Anniversay To Me!
By Jay

I am off work today and going to be spending the day with my wife who I married 9 years ago yesterday.

Of course, gifts are always appreciated. I can say, "Look honey. My faithful readers have paid to take us out to dinner!"

Paypal link is to the right.

Now excuse me while I go enjoy the day while most everybody else works. Cheers!

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Thursday - June 10, 2004
Goodbye Ray
By Jay

You will no doubt be missed. I loved this man's music, his style and his attitude about life. We should all be so blessed.

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Here's a great song he did here's hoping you'll take a listen. It's called "Song For You" Please right click and save it. Don't stream it!

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Strange Poll
By Jay

This new LA Times poll that shows Kerry leading Bush 51 to 44 percent is a little weird.

If it's true as Dowd says that Bush is leading independents and is grabbing a larger share of the Republican vote than Kerry is with the Democratic vote, then the results seem off.

In addition, Bush's overall job approval rating was at 51%, which is higher overall than it's been.

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Wednesday - June 09, 2004
Your All NBA Team
By Jay

Listening to the local sports station this morning and they were discussing who they would pick first if picking an all time basketball team. Who is the guy you would choose first? The host, Dan Sileo, a former Miami U. player and Tampa Bay Bucs player said the player he would take first is Shaq.

He said that he would take him before Michael Jordan, saying that Jordan played in a "watered down NBA" when the Bulls started winning championships. He said there's no way the Bulls teams of the 90's would have beaten the Lakers and Celtics teams from the 80's, but said this Lakers team would give them trouble and that this Lakers team would beat Michael's Bulls teams from the 90's.

I'm not so sure about that. Michael Jordan was an assassin. It's as simple as that. As great as Shaq is, he doesn't have the same killer instinct that Jordan had. Shaq was younger, bigger and stronger than Hakeem Olajuwon in 1995, yet the Rockets, a sixth seed team defeated Shaq and Penny Hardaway in the finals and Shaq looked helpless next to Hakeem who was 32 at the time.

In fact, not only would Shaq not be my first pick for an All-NBA team, he wouldn't even be my starting center. Olajuwon would. Shaq is great. There's no denying that and right now, there isn't a center in the league except maybe for Tim Duncan, who can touch him. However, he has one fatal flaw that eliminates him from my starting team and that's his lousy free throw shooting. Sileo says Shaq would be his first pick, but what if that first pick had to make two free throws at the end of a game to win it? Do you really want O'Neill at the line? Or would you rather have Jordan?

To me, it's not even close. Jordan is the first guy I take, hands down.

All-NBA Team

Point Guard: Magic Johnson
Shooting Guard: Michael Jordan
Small Forward: Larry Bird
Power Forward: Karl Malone (or Charles Barkley. It's a tough choice)
Center: Hakeem Olajuwon (71% lifetime free throw percentage)

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Tuesday - June 08, 2004
No, People Remember It Because It's True
By Jay

Still whining about the polls. Stop whining about the media.

Just. Stop. Whining.

Reagan was popular. Deal with it. His "job approval" ratings are not the be all end all of his popularity. There's a combination of different things, and as time goes by people's attitudes and views are subject to change. People's views can grow and differ from what they were 20 years ago, so get over yourself with blaming the media for making people think this way.

This asshole acts like he's being personally insulted every time this comes up and sure enough his sycophant readers are lapping up the revisionism like dehydrated dogs.

Morons.

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Media Matters: A Dictionary Could Matter
By Jay

What is propaganda? It's a concerted and persistent effort to persuade a group of people to conform or to agree with a particular opinion, position or action.

The guys at Media Matters might want to learn that before calling what are accurate headines, propaganda.

In this entry, MM complains that the GOP is using George Soros as a way of attacking John Kerry. Well, that's too bad really. It was a high profile Democratic Senator (Hillary Clinton) that introduced him and happily clapped along, and Soros has become the anti-Bush sugar daddy, donating tens of millions to organizations such as Moveon.org that have close ties to the Kerry campaign.

But back to the issue of propaganda. In a speech given at a "Take Back America" conference in DC, Soros compared the attacks of 9/11 to the Abu Graib prison abuse scandal, and said that the United States had become a perpetrator in the war on terror. This of course, was welcomed with thunderous applause.

The question is, how can it be 'propaganda' for conservative news outlets to headline stories that accurately reflect what Soros had to say in that speech? I looked at three of the linked stories, and they don't even mention John Kerry. So where's the propaganda?

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Marvin Gaye
By Jay

This musical genius is the subject of a new biography.

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What's With Al Gore?
By Jay

Al Gore said this recently (actually he typed in an email to the Miami Herald):

"He is the single most treacherous and dishonest person I dealt with during the [2000] campaign anywhere in America."

One might think Gore was talking about a Republican, but he wasn't. These words were aimed at Miami Mayor Alex Penelas, who's in a three way battle for the Democratic Senate primary with Rep. Peter Deutsch and education commissioner Betty Castor.

Gore's attack wasn't received very well by other Democrats in the state. Bill Nelson said:

"I am pretty disappointed that Al Gore would say that. This doesn't help John Kerry in a state that is thought to be split right down the middle."

Good job Al!


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You Have To Love The Irony
By Jay

Union members picketing at the site of the Democratic National Convention.

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Pop Quiz
By Jay

How does a musician, who hasn't recorded any new work in seven years get some good publicity (in the entertainment world, there's no such thing as 'bad' publicity)?

They say something 'controversial.' In this case, it's Morrisey, formerly of the below average 'The Smiths':

Thousands of fans at Dublin Castle, in Ireland, cheered when the ex-Smiths frontman made the announcement that the former American president, who had battled with Alzheimer's Disease, had passed away.

And an even bigger cheer followed when Morrissey - who is no stranger to controversy - then said he wished it had been the current President, George W Bush, who had died.

That should boost sales quite a bit.

UPDATE: Phil has a much more direct way of responding.

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Monday - June 07, 2004
How To Feel Old
By Jay

I was looking through some old record albums - you know...vinyl (by the way, if you have any and want to get rid of them or sell them, please let me know) and I had to explain to my kids how they worked.

My son thought they were big CD's and that we didn't have a CD player big enough to fit them.

Since my turntable isn't hooked up to my system just now, they didn't believe me when I told them that a needle played along the lines on the record and they'd hear music. They thought I was joking.

It was funny and a tad depressing at the same time.

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It Wasn't Just Me
By Jay

Eric Lindholm and Bob Musil both recognized that this NY Times editorial is an attempt to pay homage to Ronald Reagan, but it's written in such a way that does nothing but disparage him with a slew of back-handed compliments.

I read it this morning and came to the same conclusion. Read closely enough and what they're basically saying is that Reagan was a folksy dunce whose successes were mostly due to nothing but good luck.

At least the moonbats are up front with their contempt.

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A Touching Photo
By Jay
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Context
By Jay

Via Bill Quick comes this piece from Caroline Baum in Bloomberg. Apparently, liberal policy groups are saying that the excellent jobs data coming out needs to be put in 'context.' Baum points out that the 'context' they seek to explain is their own. She reveals some more 'context' they just happened to leave out.

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Comments
By Jay

Apparently, something is wrong with the comments as they are not posting. You might want to hold off on posting comments until I get this resolved.

UPDATE: Ok, it's fixed. Since MT Blacklist is not yet compatible with MT 3.0, that plugin had to be removed for comments to post.

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The Sopranos
By Jay

*** Spoiler alert. If you watch the show and haven't seen the season finale, I suggest you stop reading at this point.

I suspected, along with a few other fellow Sopranos viewers, that the season finale would not be a collection of fireworks like some had hoped. Instead, we suspected that what would really happen is that the stage would be set for the final season of this great show.

Tony B. getting killed was no surprise. You knew it was going to happen, especially after the conversation Silvio had with Tony. Tony knew that if he didn't take his cousin out, some in his family might turn against him in order to save themselves from anything Johnny Sack might do to them. Tony S. did it himself to send a message to the rest of his family that he is the boss and they had better remember it. After all, if he can take out his own cousin, then nobody's safe.

One has to admit that the ending was pretty comical. Here we are, thinking that the finale is going to set up a series final year with a war between the New York and New Jersey families, and instead, Johnny Sack gets busted by the feds, and Tony is left stumbling through the woods in the snow like a kid, running away from the cops.

Of course, what sucks is that unlike network television, where there's a three month delay between seasons, there's going to be quite a long wait for the final season of this great show. Word is, it won't start filming until March of 2005, meaning the show won't be ready until January of 2006.

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Comments
By Jay

I've upgraded to Movable Type 3.0 and with that upgrade comes the option of asking people to register to comment.

Normally, I don't like doing those kinds of things, but sorry folks, I have to do it.

I'm tired of deleting spam comments and despite the fact that I can ban IP addresses and use mt-blacklist, It's just too much of a pain to keep up and I am tired of wasting up to 30 minutes of my time deleting kiddie p0rn links, links to viagra, and links to Direct TV offers.

So you will have to follow the links in the comments section and register with Typekey in order to comment. Best thing is, as others upgrade to MT 3.0, you won't have to register at other sites since it's controlled by a central source, not by the individual blogs.

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Sunday - June 06, 2004
Good Grief
By Jay

Get over yourselves already.

I mean really. How pathetic is it to go around investigating poll numbers?

Here's the poll number that really counts boys:

1984 - Biggest landslide in Presidential history. Ronald Reagan captured more electoral votes than any other President in the history of the United States. He captured close to 60% of the popular vote.

Ronald Reagan is going to be remembered as one of the greatest Presidents ever. And guess what? Bill Clinton will probably be revered the same way when he passes away, so stop worrying and get the hell over it.

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Quotes On Reagan
By Jay

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Some quotes on the passing of the former President:

President George W. Bush: "He always told us that for America the best is yet to come. ... We comfort ourselves by telling ourselves that the same is true for him. ... We know a shining city is waiting for him."

Former President George H.W. Bush: "The most I learned from him was his adherence to principle and to fight for them. ... He used the term 'evil empire' and all his critics were ringing their hands, saying he doesn't know how to conduct foreign affairs ... sure enough peace happened on his watch."

Former President Gerald Ford: "Betty and I are deeply saddened by the passing of our longtime friend, President Reagan. Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad. We extend our deepest condolences and prayers to Nancy and his family."

Former President Bill Clinton: "Hillary and I will always remember President Ronald Reagan for the way he personified the indomitable optimism of the American people, and for keeping America at the forefront of the fight for freedom for people everywhere. It is fitting that a piece of the Berlin Wall adorns the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington."

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.: "Ronald Reagan's love of country was infectious. Even when he was breaking Democrats' hearts, he did so with a smile and in the spirit of honest and open debate."

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert: "How ironic that he died on the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion? He shared the vision of those brave men who risked and sometimes lost their lives, so that others could live in freedom. That vision lives today."

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi: "All Americans are grateful for Ronald Reagan's great leadership and service to our country and admired his special grace, optimism, and humor. He served our country with dignity and he died with dignity."

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: "I've studied him more than any other man in modern politics. ... He changed the direction of the world on the strength of his convictions."

Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "It is easy to see how profoundly President Reagan changed the world. He made it safer, more free and gave hope and opportunity to millions.

Newt Gingrich: "All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves."

Sen. John McCain: "In the more than thirty years that have passed since I first met [Ronald Reagan], I have never lived a day that I wasn't grateful for the privilege of the Reagans' friendship, and the strength of his faith in America that inspired my own, and so many others."

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: "America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten."

Secretary of State Colin Powell: "President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history."

Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie: "Ronald Reagan was a president of great historic impact who led the United States with strength and conviction, and the positive impact of his policies is still felt today here and around the world. More than two decades after he was first elected president, the Republican Party still bears his imprint. Because Ronald Reagan lived, people across the globe live in greater freedom and prosperity."

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass: "On foreign policy he will be honored as the president who won the Cold War, and his 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' will be linked forever with President Kennedy's 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' President Reagan and Nancy were always very gracious to the Kennedy family and they are both very much in our thoughts and prayers in this difficult time."

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm: "President Reagan transformed our nation's psyche with his optimism and positive vision. He was a strong leader who made a lasting mark on our nation's history. He was gentle and kind and every American can learn from his example."

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas: "An unequaled champion of freedom, smaller government and market-oriented principles, he has always been an inspiration to me. Perhaps most importantly, this happy warrior faced the gravest threat of his time and made the difficult decisions that ultimately won the Cold War."

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R.-Neb.: "Ronald Reagan was a unique leader who understood the greatness and goodness of America. History will judge him well. He led our nation through historic challenges and changes with unyielding confidence and courage. Ronald Reagan embodied the best of America. He was the American spirit."

New York Republican Gov. George Pataki: "The sun has set on the remarkable life of the great man who reminded us it is always morning in America. President Ronald Wilson Reagan will always be remembered as a man of unwavering principle whose sense of hope, optimism and opportunity appealed to the best in Americans."

As for me, I was in my teens during Reagan's tenure. It was really after his Presidency that I learned more about him and my respect for him grew. As for my memories, I remember the calming voice he was during the Challenger tragedy.

I was seventeen years old and on the verge of graduating high school when Ronald Reagan gave one of his most famous speeches. It was the speech in Germany where he challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" It was a challenge to extend freedom to the people of East Germany. I remember it being extremely ballsy and I remember many adults tut-tutting such a statement as 'reckless.' Two years later, that wall fell.

Saturday - June 05, 2004
So Long Gipper
By Jay

Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004

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Rest in peace Mr. President.

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