I still vaguely remember the night in 1993, fiddling around with my mono T.V.'s dog-ear antennas, trying to find something to watch, and happening across this show on Fox. Spooky music, F.B.I. agents, aliens, UFOs, that guy from "Red Shoes Diaries", and this amazing, unknown redheaded actress (even at 13 I had this thing for smart redheads), and I wondered, What is THIS!? This is science fiction T.V. show, on a -- at the time -- minor network, that had nothing to do with Star Trek.
What I had stumbled upon was the very first episode of the very first season of "The X-Files". A show that defined the iconography of my youth and helped in some strange way to set me on a path that would take me to Hollywood at the age of 21. A show that, despite the disaster of its final two seasons, and the wet carp to the cranium that was John Doggett, I harbor a lot of fond memories of.
So going to see the new X-Files movie was not a choice. It was automatic.
SPOILER WARNING! Do Not Read Past the Fold if You Don't Want Spoilers!
NBC offered Bill O'Reilly "a ton of money" to bolt Fox News and join NBC News, O'Reilly said on his syndicated radio show Wednesday. According to a transcript of his remarks posted on the Johnny Dollar website, O'Reilly told his audience, "I wouldn't work for NBC News. ... They offered me a ton of money to go over there and I said no. They offered me more than I am making now at Fox, Ok. And the reason I am saying this is because now NBC News attacks me everyday. And um, I said ... 'I think that I am better suited to Fox, more traditional and you dance with the one who brung you.' Not to say that I wouldn't go someplace else. That's possible, but it would have to be a Godfather offer."
So by Godfather Offer ... does that mean Keith Olbermann is going to stuff a Horse's Head into Bill Orly's bed?
A bit of Media News from the New York Observer by way of Huffington Post. Apparently David Gregory's show on MSNBC, "Celebrity White House Squares", er, wait, "Race to the White House" (which, according to the Observer's story, the New Republic called, 'Intergalactic Nancy Grace') isn't doing so hot on MSNBC.
See my original conception for this diary was going to be the completely absurd and false tale of how I was in fact a 40 year old, over-weight mentally challenged Trucker named Sven, who makes his money driving the ice roads of the Arctic Circle, only to be insulted by impudent Canadians, and how those insults by impudent Canadians tenuously linked back into an incredible elaborate reason and justification why I was voting for Barack Obama for President.
But, really, you don't need all that. The reason to vote for Barack Obama is easy. Unlike the other Whys in life, this why is a no-brainer for any Democrat, Independent, or even moderate Republican.
Why vote for Barack Obama?
Because he's better than the other guy. Because he's better than what we've had for the last eight years. No, Barack Obama is not perfect -- not even close as his last vote on FISA proved. But he's the best we've got and in no way can any one convince me that not voting, or voting for the Green Party, or Ralph Nader is a better choice.
See, I told you the Why is really simple. The How -- How do the Royal We elect Barack Obama -- that's the hard part.
According to my Super Secret Friends in the U.S. and Israeli Intelligence organizations Iran is just days away from perfecting a new flying aircraft that can strike Israel or the United States with devastating results. I have obtained photos, originally taken by the Official Iranian News Service, of this new super secret aircraft.
I know you are all sick of James Dobson diaries. But I couldn't resist an opportunity to sink the hypocrisy knife into Dobson's fleshy backside and giving the blade a quarter twist. As we all know James Dobson accused Barack Obama of "misrepresenting the Bible". The same Bible that James Dobson and his clan of Christian Right nutcases interpret literally and demand that all of us interpret literally.
The same Bible that proscribed this punishment for a Thief:
“If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.”
And said this of Liars:
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
So why is James Dobson publicly Thanking and Praising a Thief and a Liar?
For those that know, they already know what NeoGAF is. For those that never had the privilege NeoGAF is one of the largest Forums for the discussion of video games in the World. As of this entry about 3400 people are online at NeoGAF right now. When I type the term “video game forum” I know I lost about half my audience; I know, I know I can hear you saying, NERD! and screaming, 'Who Cares?! WHAT ABOUT FISA!?' through my monitor.
NeoGAF is more than jut a home to the emotionally stunted musings of Thirteen Year Olds with anime avatars discussing the plot intricacies of “Final Fantasy X”. NeoGAF's Video Game Forum is home to more than Thirteen Year Olds and Gamers that act the part. NeoGAF is a professional video game forum patronized by leading members of the video game industry. Game designers, software coders, artists, producers from major game developers like Bungie, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft all either lurk or post on NeoGAF.
In many ways NeoGAF is the watering hole for the entire Video Game Industry. A watering hole that used to be fairly a-political in the past. And a watering hole that appears now tainted by ugly, racially charged Anti-Barack Obama Smear ads.
Feeling as though his brief time in the political spotlight has waned James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, one of the leaders of the Christian Far Right, and exhorter of Family Penis Displays, took a swipe at Barack Obama a couple weeks ago for "misrepresenting" the Bible and then accused the former Constitutional Law Professor of having a "fruitcake" interpretation of the Constitution.
This didn't have the intended effect that James Dobson had no doubt prayed for the night before he ran off his mouth. Barack Obama shrugged it off, Evangelical Christian leaders rebuked him, and the National media seemed to use the occasion to point out that James Dobson was quickly becoming politically impotent.
As we all now know Purity DEMANDS that we shoot ourselves, our country, and the Progressive Movement in the foot by not voting for one of the most viable Progressive Political leaders in the last forty years because... you know he is Pure on every political issue. Okay, so we'll be giving the country over to a much worse Republican buffoon who will keep us in Iraq 100 years and turn a bad recession into a Great Depression, but we can all feel smugly self-righteous about our choice to remain political pure on the soup kitchen line.
So if you are a little hesitant in sitting on your hands in the name of Purity I've compiled a list of reasons you can cite to everyone who will listen (all two of them) as reasons you are not voting for Barack Obama.
Guess what? I am not going to even try and defend Barack Obama against today's Purity Troll on the rec list. Why? Because, frankly, I see it as a anthill sculpted into a real life model of K-2, complete with a frozen sherpa at the top named dhonig.
But if access to safe, legal abortions and the continuance of Roe Versus Wade is the issue you vote on, the hill you are prepared to die on, then know this ...
As well all know by now James Dobson lashed out at Barack Obama for "distorting the Bible"" in a desperate attempt to get attention. And in a moment of Ned Flanders-like pique labeled Barack Obama a "Fruitcake".
Darn Diddley Yarn! Fruitcake ... them is fighting words! OK, fighting words from a 50s Sitcom, but Fighting Words nonetheless! With such strong language I am sure that James Dobson has never written or said anything at all that might cause people to compare him to everyone's least favorite Holiday gift, right?
I'm a Gamer and have been since I was big enough for my Mom to lift me up to bang on the buttons of the Star Wars Arcade cabinet in a hotel somewhere in Iowa. Video games fill up most of my passive entertainment time simply because I find most regular television dreadful. I also enjoy writing and talking about games so I thought I extend that discussion to a part time diary on DailyKOS. Somewhere for Kossack Gamers to blow off a bit of steam before going back to reality to realize how screwed we all really are.
Today I give you a my review of Metal Gear Solid 4, released about a week ago for the Playstation 3. Be warned there are some small spoilers for the game's story so if you are really into the MGS Mythos you might want to look away.
By now we've all read the Screaming Tabloid Headlines about a supposed "Pregnancy Pact" in Gloucester, Massachusetts. For those that haven't, from MSNBC:
An investigation has been launched into an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact" that has at least 17 high-school girls expecting babies, four times more than last year, including many aged 16 or younger.
A high school health clinic in the city of Gloucester, Mass., became suspicious after seeing a surge in girls seeking pregnancy tests. Local officials said Thursday nearly half of those who became pregnant appear to have entered into a pact to have their babies together over the year.
Stan Winston, an Academy Award-winning special effects and makeup artist known for his work in “Aliens” and “Jurassic Park,” died Sunday after a long struggle with multiple myeloma. He was 62.
Winston won a total of four Oscars in the special effects and makeup categories for his work in “Aliens,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and “Jurassic Park.”
Besides his four wins, Winston was nominated for several other Academy Awards in the same categories for “Batman Returns” and “Artificial Intelligence,” among others.
Other projects he worked on as special makeup effects artists included “Constantine,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Edward Scissorhands.”
Winston also worked on the visual effects in Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man.” He earned his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.
From his hatred of Beer to his vague threats to deport Simon on American Idol to the fact he doesn't know whether he is a Liberal or a Conservative Republican John McCain's just not change we can believe in.
I was bored this morning and thought, What the hell? I put together some my favorite John McCain Senior Moments and Gaffes, and then tossed it up on YouTube.
Enjoy, and remember, John McCain is older than dirt.
Now that the Democratic Primary Campaign is over and there is no horse to keep racing the Mainstream Media seems to be shaking off the Memes (sowed in part by the Clinton Campaign) of Barack Obama's "problems" within the electorate one by one. The Mainstream Media appears to be grasping its forehead like a cocaine addict after a month long binge, asking, "What did we do? What the hell were we talking about?"
This is more personal than political, just so you know.
I've been bouncing between Los Angeles and the Midwest since last Fall thanks to the Holidays, the writers' strike, an unsteady living situation back West, and (lately) a couple of script projects that have taken me to Missouri and back again. So I've been crashing at my Parents' place in Indiana, an old farmhouse with a lot of land.
Since I was little my family and I have always been animal lovers. I know I've mentioned that before on KOS. We've taken in dogs and cats, and even when I left for California my Mom and Dad continued to feed and care for the strays the Rednecks would dump in the adjacent wooded areas. I do not know why people do that -- dump cats and dogs off to die, or to be other people's problems -- but they do, particularly the further out you go into the country.
When I came back in the Fall their was a new litter of dumped kittens hanging around. Combined efforts over the Winter managed to get two kittens in-doors and later fixed. The third ... something awful happened to her in the past because she just would not come near human hands, settling instead for an old doghouse in the garage.
I touched off a bit of intra-diary controversy not so long ago when I posted, in response to nyceve's diary about Health Insurers requiring women to get tubaligations after a C-Section delivery, that I didn't really have a problem with the idea of sterilization after someone had had a child (probably didn't say it in quite the right tone). Of course HR's abounded, outrage was had, rejections and denouncements flew.
I later went back and posted a clarification which included this personal tidbit:
I asked about getting a vasectomy at 23 and was told by a Doctor he couldn't do it because I was single and young. Even though I don't want kids, and have no desire to breed copies of myself, and won't date women that want kids I still couldn't get it done. Just in case I might suddenly get hit on the head with a blunt instrument and turn into a Middle Class Bourgeois douchebag.
So, as a white, urban, educated male, I at least practice what I preach. Or tried to without much success.
