The world continues to mourn

It may be a bit late, but I wanted to take the time to discuss one of the legends of the entertainment world, cut down in his prime. I've seen the various news items and blog entries, full of remembrance and appreciation. It is all deserved. The work he produced will stand up for decades and centuries to come, a pinnacle of human achievement. Sure, he may have been a little odd, but he brought great joy to the masses. For that, we salute you. I know the world is a little bit worse off now that he has left us.

Rest in peace, Kurt Vonnegut.

It's funny because it's true

In America, we have a problem where people cannot afford decent health care. Some people can't afford any health care. So what does our government want to do? Make it a crime not to have health care.

Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines will raise around $36 billion over 10 years. Senate aides said the penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals.

In a revamped health care system envisioned by lawmakers, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for the poor and many middle-class families, but those who still refuse to sign up would face penalties.

Subsidies mean people will have just enough money to still not be able to afford health care. Let's assess those fees!

Better yet, if we execute people who get sick, we can really drop the rate of illness in this country.



In other news, this video makes me laugh every time I see it. If you haven't seen it yet, allow me to be the first to share it with you.

At the movies

I'm anticipating the wide release of "Moon" - an honest sci fi movie made with minimal CGI and a huge steaming hunk of story - but in the meantime, I thought I'd enjoy some other films while I wait. I recently saw "The Hangover" (fairly funny, 4/5 stars), but who has time to watch a ton of movies? Fortunately, the internet is more helpful than you would suspect.

Want to catch an indie flick?




What about the latest Michael Bay action extravaganza?



Or maybe a good chase scene?



Whew, I feel like I've just watched the AFI's Top 100 - in 10 minutes!

A controversy 35 years beyond relevancy

T Rex recorded and published Get it On (Bang a Gong) in the summer of 1971. Here they are performing it in 1973:



The Rolling Stones recorded in '73 and released in '74 It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It). Here they are live in '76:



The guitar work during the verses of both songs sound very similar to me. Too similar. Not saying the Stones ripped of T Rex, but it's worth pointing out. To me, anyway.

While I'm here, let me say that KISS was a monumental disappointment. They had such a great image, but so many of their songs were terrible. I won't even get into the ridiculous merchandising. Here's one of their better tunes, from 1977, filmed in Japan:

Don't get all emo on me, Percy Shelley

I started reading Roseanne's (Barr/Arnold/et al) blog, and it is awesome. Whether or not you agree with her points, check out the sheer...power of it:

ted kennedy tanked health care
by tanking hillary clinton. He thought he could bring the center too far left, and because of his treachery and his betrayal of american women at the last minute, we are where we are right now. Hillary had worked it over forty years to move the center right, and the cards were stacked for her to walk in and reap the whirlwind for working class women and children and for their families. Kennedy's patriarchal programming could not allow it. We were so close to changing the system, and we got tricked by oprah at the last minute. Oprah is a billionaire who does not want her dogs to have to pay inheritance tax, and so she manufactured Obama, like the Bush family cia elements told her to do. the rich protect themselves at all costs, no matter what, they always stick together against health care and social safety nets for widows and orphans and the sick. I hope they all roast with satan.

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It's funny, it's crazy, it's weird, it's probably partially true...I love it.

Veteran of a thousand racist wars

"The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America's money. Jews control the mass media. The 1st Amendment is abrogated --henceforth." - James von Brunn

If this is true, then I wonder where exactly the Jews built Obama. Obama claims to have been born in Hawaii, but we have never seen a birth certificate sufficient to satisfy your general American crackpot. Could he have been assembled in Tel Aviv? New York?

Even a fertility increase of 0.4% will add millions of Jews over the next 50 years. But this is not happening right now.

As we know, the distribution of the Jewish population now is completely different from before WW II. Europe was decimated of its Jewish population and Israel and America became the new major centers of Jewry.

The Jewry center of the Jewish population is located in two countries, Israel and the United States of Israel. Conceivably, Obama's construction could have occurred in Tel Aviv, but realistically, it probably happened in the U.S.

Now, based on geography and global weather patterns, it would be easier for the Jews to smuggle manufacturing parts and genetic materials to Hawaii from California. Then, the Jews - or scientists, as they are alternatively known - could have "launched" Obama in the Pacific Ocean, much like a modern day, mulatto Godzilla.

Godzilla's signature weapon is his distinctive atomic breath. Godzilla's dorsal spines glow ominously, and then he lets loose with a concentrated blast of radiation from his mouth.
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In addition to his deadly atomic breath, Godzilla can also emit atomic energy in all directions from every inch of his body in a short-range pulse called the nuclear pulse.

From this we learn that Obama is a weapon of mass destruction. I find it more than coincidence that from the time Obama was elected president, North Korea has performed a series of nuclear tests. Obama, a known socialist, and Kim Jong-il, a Stalinist, are obviously collaborating to destroy opposition to communism.

Here is what we know thus far:

- Obama was constructed by Jews
- Obama has nuclear powers
- Obama is part of the Neo-Marxist Global Hegemony

Please feel free to expound on this information in comments.

Dying your own way

As I am sure you have heard by now, actor David Carradine was found dead in his hotel in Bangkok, one of the more reputable cities in the far east. Carradine was found in a most unusual way:

“There was a rope tied around his neck and another rope tied at his sex organ, and the two ropes were tied together and hung in the closet,'' Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha told reporters.

“Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide but he may have died from masturbation,” he said.

Many of us - usually males - joke about dying during sex, but I doubt that includes solo sex. Most people do not want to be found with their pants around their ankles, a box of tissues toppled over with Michelle Drake's platinum pubis flickering on the monitor. We don't want to be found in compromising or embarrassing positions, especially if it involves a shoelace around the scrotum.

Which is odd, because a dead person is one of the few people you can't embarrass. What does a corpse care what the living think? Even presuming there is an after life, there must be better things to do than read the gossip columns.

Masturbation does seem like an interesting way to die, though. Despite popular opinion, I think suicide is the best way to go. I understand life is precious and blah blah, but when you are ready to die, why not go out on your own terms? I don't want to be taken by surprise. I don't want to die in an accident or something like that. I also don't want to have a painful death, so if I have terminal cancer, I'd rather kill myself than let the cancer get to me first.

That's the catch, though, isn't it? Suicide can be painful. Dropping off a bridge, slitting your wrists, inhaling toxic vapors - these are painful ways to die. Again, what does it matter to a dead person, it's not like you have the memories of the pain, but I just like to avoid the process in general. Why spend the last minutes of life in agony?

If you're lucky, you can find some pills and hope washing it down with vodka will do the job, but if done improperly, you can end up mentally retarded, which is probably worse off than you were beforehand.

Maybe Carradine did it the right way after all. Suicide by auto-eroticism. If it is successful, you're out of your misery. If it isn't, at least you had a good orgasm out of it.