Short Post #8 - Bin Laden

This one is the shortest one ever:

Osama "I'm a total fucking asshat" bin Laden is DEAD!  Way to go Navy Seals or Delta Force or whoever got him! And yes, way to go Obama for giving the order!

Short Post #6 - Rick Scott

First off, I'm a Republican, and I can't stand my state's Republican Governor.  That being said, and though the man has done some utterly moronic things since he was elected (again, my opinion, I know you have 4000 of your own), he has FINALLY thought of something that makes sense.

Apparently, Gov. Scott would like to make every welfare recipient who has a history of drug use, take a drug test before they can be given assistance from the state government.  This is pure genius!  If they fail, then they are ineligible for state funds for a year AND they must pass the drug test at that time too or go for another year.  I love this idea!

Short Post #5 - Japan

OK, I'll be the first one to admit that what has happened in Japan is a disaster.  The loss of human life alone is terrible and my prayers do go out to those who were affected by the earthquake.  That having been said...it's Japan's problem.  We already rebuilt the country after World War II.  A country we were at war with at the time (yeah, that one boggles the mind).  We have enough philanthropic endeavors already going on throughout the world, not to mention the laundry list of issues going on in our own country to deal with, to assist one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world to rebuild.

You know what, scratch that.  Sure, let the USA help them out.  But don't offer this help until 4/11/2011.  Why wait a month UA?  That was how long it took Japan to offer assistance after the BP Oil Spill in 2010.  This was help that was ultimately declined, but it still took them a month to offer that assistance, long enough to damage our already hurting economy just a little bit more.  Am I an Angry American?  You bet your ass I am!

Short Post #4

I posted this on my Facebook page, but it really made me think so much that I wanted to do a short post on it.

Massey Services, a pest control giant down here in the greater Orlando area, has it's main offices in the same complex as my office.  Their normal work vehicles are mid-size trucks (mostly Chevy Colorados I believe) with the occasional F-150 or mini-van.  That being said, I was at work un-Godly early today because one of our servers went down, and I'm outside breathing in the nice morning air after the issue was resolved and watching the cars/trucks pull in.  Then it happens.  A full-size van with the Massey logo on the side of it pulls in.  What kind of infestation could possibly explain the need for a full-size van?!?

Here is my thoughts:

Mid-size Truck - regular home pest control/small office pest control

Mini-van/Full-size Truck - large office pest control

Full-size Van - I'm thinking R.O.U.S. infestation or something along the lines of this dialog from the classic 1984 movie "GhostBusters":

Guy at elevator: "What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?"
Venkman: "No, we're exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelve."
Guy at elevator: "That's gotta be some cockroach."
Venkman: "Bite your head off, man"

Short Post #2

As an avid movie buff and reformed comic book freak I've got a bit of an issue going on in my head right now.  Shouldn't there be a limit as to how many different comic book characters an actor/actress is allowed to play in the movies?

Case in point: Chris Evans.

Not that I have anything against Evans as an actor.  He's actually pretty funny, and most, but not all, of the characters he is playing fit his body type pretty good.  But still, I was looking at his IMDB page and saw at least 6 movies that he played a different character in that are based off of comic books.

My biggest gripe?  Captain America and Johnny Storm do NOT have the same body type.  One is a normal guy, who just happens to be able to burst into flames and fly around, etc.  The other is a Super Soldier.  Cap is supposed to be ripped and well BIG, the ultimate of human perfection, at least body-wise.  The photos I've seen of Evans as Cap don't look bad, but you can tell they added padding and fake muscles (though again, the guy is pretty ripped, just not Captain America ripped).

List of Evan's comic book roles:  Johnny Storm (Fantastic Four), Captain America, Nick Gant (Push), Jensen (The Losers), Casey Jones (TMNT), Lucas Lee (Scott Pilgrim)

Short Post #1

So I thought I'd do some quick posts on things that I notice "as they happen to interest me".  This, as you should be able to put together from the post title, is the first one.

I've been slowly cleaning off my DVR and I had basically half a season of the new Hawaii 5-0 to watch on there.  Like the show a lot, mostly because I'm a Scott Caan fan (and it could have nothing to do with how good Grace Park looks in a bikini I swear).  I get to the "Christmas" episode and it has James Marsters (another under-rated actor) in it.  At some point in the episode Marsters' character manages to steal Danno's (Scott Caan) Camaro.  And from that point on, the rest of the episode bothered me for one damned reason.  It was a 2010 or 2011 Chevy Camaro.  That means it had OnStar in it.  Every Camaro has it installed, whether you use it or not.  And being cops, they could have made a call, had the GPS turned on said "OnStar, where's the guy who stole my car?"  Boom, bad-guy cornered, episode over.

-UA