REVOLUTION: Glenn Beck's Call To Action

Buchanan: Socialist America Sinking

aux.link.: Socialist America sinking

"Coming to America to feast on this cornucopia of freebies is the world. One million to 2 million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. They come with fewer skills and less education than Americans, and consume more tax dollars than they contribute by three to one.

Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women.

As almost all immigrants are now Third World people of color, they qualify for ethnic preferences in hiring and promotions and admissions to college over the children of Americans.

All of this would have astounded and appalled the Founding Fathers, who after all, created America – as they declared loud and clear in the Constitution – "for ourselves and our posterity."

China saves, invests and grows at 8 percent. America, awash in debt, has a shrinking economy, a huge trade deficit, a gutted industrial base, an unemployment rate surging toward 10 percent and a money supply that's swollen to double its size in a year. The 20th century may have been the American Century. The 21st shows another pattern.

"The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event," writes Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, in CFR's Foreign Affairs magazine. "Astonishingly, some people do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious." "

Outstanding! Notre Dame Student Group Responds, Condemns Obama

aux.links.: YouTube - ND Response - Official Video - ND Response - Some Notre Dame Seniors Say No to Graduation

DIRE: Cheney Exclaims That Obama 'Endangers The Nation'

aux.link.: Cheney: Obama endangers the nation - Washington Times

It's not funny because it's true.

SCANDAL: Vatican Archbishop Slams Notre Dame, Obama Policies

aux.link.: Archbishop Slams Obama Appearance at Notre Dame, Administration's Abortion Policies - FOXNews.com

The Wussification Of America- Manly Image Lost?

aux.link.: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » The Wussification of America

Petition For Pope To Excommunicate Pelosi

aux.link.: CNSNews.com - Catholic Group Petitions Pope to Excommunicate Nancy Pelosi

Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please...

1/20: Bankrupting, Senseless Socialism Arrives

aux.link.: Early Risers Try to Get a Jump-Start on Celebration

WASHPOST observation: "Skip work! Skip work!" people chanted, followed by shouts of "Obama! Obama!"

Bad Ass II: Ex-USAF F-14 Pilot Saves 155 Lives

aux.link.: HERO PILOTS DISABLED PLANE TO SAFETY - New York Post

Disappearing Investor Saga Needs To Be A Movie

aux.link.: Authorities: Pilot stashed motorcycle in Ala. - USATODAY.com

This has Harrison Ford written all over it- 'The Fugitive 2'! Actually, Ford is a fairly standup guy- this Schrenker fellow here is an idiot for trying to evade federal prosecution by faking his own death... and risking the lives of others... by letting his own plane fall out of the sky... near a residential area... after he jumped out. I know!

Perhaps something more like 'U.S. Marshals 2' with Wesley Snipes again. C'mon, folks- the plot is simply writing itself here. Easy money.

Geert Wilders: 'Our Culture Is Better'

aux.link.: Geert Wilders: 'Our Culture Is Better' - WSJ.com

"As he sees it, the West suffers from an excess of toleration for those who do not share its tradition of tolerance. "We believe that -- 'we' means the political elite -- that all cultures are equal," he says. "I believe this is the biggest disease today facing Europe. . . . We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.' A culture based on Christianity, Judaism, humanism is better. Look at how we treat women, look at how we treat apostates, look at how we go with the separation of church and state. I can give you 500 examples why our culture is better." "

SC Priest: No Communion For Obama Voters

aux.link.: SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

Republicans In Manhattan- Fact Or Fiction?

aux.link.: YouTube - Liberal Outrage: A Pro-McCain March In Manhattan

Archbishops Smack Down Biden, Pelosi

aux.link.: Washington Times - Archbishop scolds pro-choice Biden
aux.link.: Washington archbishop rips Pelosi on abortion - TheHill.com
aux.link.: Pelosi gets unwanted lesson in Catholic theology

Alongside John Kerry, mark these masquerading Catholics for excommunication! Meanwhile, over at the AllInAHuff-ington Post, a severely out-of-touch Scott Swenson is calling groups of pro-life Catholics against the pick of Biden, 'extremist social conservative Catholic organizations'. What?

Extremists, as we all know, are at the fringe of a group- they don't make up the whole core of it. So if I decided to go out and bomb an abortion clinic overnight (why only pray/protest outside of one, when a few cases of strategically-placed C4 could eradicate a devil's paradise in seconds, whilst helping city council pave the way for a new mall?), what would my reference be noted as? Scotty here is an idiot who knows nothing about one of the bedrock foundations of the Church. Quality piece, Ariana.

Obama's Elephant In The Room For Catholics

aux.link.: A Catholic Case Against Barack - HUMAN EVENTS

Proof: Enviros Want Western Lifestyles Changed

aux.link.: Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming - ABC News (Australia)

Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals

aux.link: Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals

'The Yuppie Show' Celebrates 2 Years Online

And the crowd goes... mild. Bueller?

It's overwhelming. Not the silence... from the lack of viewers as I complain into the darkness like a 12-yr. old who somehow broke into the school auditorium at 3:00am to practice his rendition of 'Purple Rain' before the talent show the next afternoon... but the content. The sheer gravity of content out there to bitch and moan about- there is just too much. There is just not time enough in a day to cover everything that pisses me off, and perhaps write-up a few articles of how I would fix the problems. This is the part where I get jealous of those who write stuff for big sites like The Politico or The Journal as their day job.

RUSH: Cubans Granted Mobile Phone Sales, Use

aux.link: FOXNews.com - Cubans Mob Cell Phone Stores as Service Becomes Available

This is great, though a very small start. I hope there are plenty of old Chevy and Trabant body shop mechanics ready for a swell in business...

Divorce & Premature Chilluns Reaming Taxpayers

aux.link: FOXNews.com - Study: Divorce, Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing Cost U.S. Taxpayers More Than $112 Billion a Year

As someone who just got married, even despite our leading 2.1 replacement rate of births in the US, I find this terrible (if I may channel my soft side, somewhere). We need an infusion of better values for our kids, among which is not leaving them. Ever.

Let this generation get some realization here, for moral or financial implications, to put a dent in these figures going forward. If anything, because living on your own without real love sucks. And indoctrinating your own kids to take your place here on Earth is awesome. The former of which Islamists will not understand. The latter of which we can all appreciate.

NASCAR Coach Reveals Secrets Of Driving

I've laughed so hard I'm crying hysterically. This is embarassing. For me and them.



Viva F1, LeMans and WRC. I pray to God (literally) that they catch on more in America. RIP Speedvision.

Young, Stupid Liberals Think Iraq Still An Enemy

aux.link: Poll: Iran, Iraq, China Top US Enemies

Well this is pretty telling even if it's of no real surprise to you and I... excellent.

"Gallup first asked the question in early 2001, before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. At the time, Iraq was seen as the biggest foe, followed by China and Iran.

Iraq has remained one of the most frequently named ever since, even though Saddam Hussein was overthrown and the current Baghdad government is backed by the U.S.

Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to see Iran as the top U.S. enemy, while Democrats are likelier to name Iraq. Older people and those who say they closely follow world news are less likely to cite Iraq than the younger and less informed."

Why The Special Muslim Privileges?

aux.link: Georgie Anne Geyer: Why the special Muslim privileges? - Dallas Morning News

"What we are seeing is a wave of arrogance sweeping into America with the wave of Muslim immigrants and students. One searches in vain for an individual or organized Muslim voice showing real respect or even a minimal liking for America or American customs.

What to make of all of this? The major problem, it must be said, is not the foreigners but America and Europe themselves. Both have essentially lost their grit in terms of protecting and defending their own principles and polities. This fight with Islam is only beginning – and it is in many ways far more important, ultimately, than the war in the Middle East. Until America and Europe regain their voices and their self-respect, this problem... will only continue to grow."

Recommended read.

Muslims Now Outnumber Catholics Worldwide

aux.link: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican Reuters

Although if you consider non-Catholic Christians, Muslims are outnumbered by 33% to 19%. So I suppose we still need the archaeic and hard-headed Vatican-protesting 'faithful' to count amongst our ranks. I just wish evangelicals would give up and come back to the only Church that Jesus Christ Himself founded. It's not like the Vatican is still corrupt, lost in its way of leadership, and cleansing the land of protestants as it once did for a brief period of time hundreds of years ago in the dark ages. Even Martin Luther would probably think his movement is getting old by now.

The question evangelicals have to answer in this day and age is, "who founded your church?" Is that guy's legacy worth following more than Christ's? C'mon. This isn't the 1500s any more. This article should make a final call to stand together and convert back to the one true Christian faith already.

US Stability Offset By Gun-Toting Citizens?

aux.link: If you think it’s bad here, don’t try Switzerland

That's what Jane's finds here, though the ambiguous and highly-questionable data can't be taken seriously. I should add a new post tag called 'incompetence', but I'd end up labeling damn near every post with it.

"Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by the flow of drugs from across the Mexican border."

False. The credit crisis and taxpayer-supported welfare programs propping up the latter argument would have been more-believable answers. Must have been a slow newsday in the UK and the underdeveloped intern yops were getting a bit antsy to speak, now that Heather Mills has apparently shut up and disappeared. As usual, half-wit biased European zealots don't understand the Second Amendment here in America, and will continue not until they study more history than their elementary educations demanded for 'foreign affairs'. This is just another gun rights and the effectiveness thereof debate in the making, but its cleaver angle here is worth putting on notice.

Facts Against Man-Made Warming Surface More

aux.link: Climate facts to warm to The Australian

An ABC Radio debate host in this article thinks these facts coming to light more, about temperatures cooling in the last decade (going plateau and negative since 1998) despite rising natural and man-made CO2 emissions, is "extraordinary". Indeed...

"If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting. A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.

With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.

The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way towards prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre, clean forgotten in six months."

More more more more more more more.

Hollywood's Next Superstar Whore

Only this time, she's a real one with no slander necessary. Mark my words today- record execs are trying to figure out how to contact Ashley Alexandra Dupré this week after realizing her MySpace track is no worse than anything Ashlee Simpson puts out. Someone out there somewhere is going to sign her to a label. Watch for an album and an E! True Hollywood Story special on primetime by Christmas. Of course Playboy is in there too somewhere. The Kardashian and Hilton names are so 2006- we can do much better now than the plots these monikers were built on. Because that's how American pop culture rolls, sadly.

Which brings me back to Bill Clinton- why is he not chastised off his wife's campaign stages every day? Why does anyone give any level of respect to him still? Why didn't he exile to Idaho?

Cooling: Welcome To The New Ice Age

aux.link: Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

"...remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back."

Neil Young: Messages In Music Don't Work

aux.link: Music cannot change the world, says Neil Young

Perhaps the reaction from my last post below would have been more appropriate here. Thanks, Neil. Now STFU about politics and get crankin' on that guitar like we pay you to do.

Uncertain About Prez Candidates Just Like You

edit: I had some worthless, long, drawn-out schpiel written here for the last few days about the current standing of the situation, but it's truly pointless until the polling statistics of a nominee pass the point of no return next month or shortly thereafter. Cindy McCain might make for the hottest First Lady ever, but I'm still bitter about the lack of belly fire from Thompson. At this point, I'm questioning whether I'm even going to bother voting. But I know I will in the end. ****.

Dutchman's Film On 'Retarded Islamic Culture'

aux.link: FOXNews.com - Dutch Politician Plans to Air Film Criticizing the Koran



Contrary to the Dutchie delegate that broke down in tears over the lack of support for climate change measures at the UN recently, this Dutchie delegate is much cooler. I want to buy this man a Heineken to celebrate the balls/courage that he, surrounded by 24x7 guard detail, has to come out and call Islam retarded and make a film about how it is tearing The West down. Prosit, my friend! Prosit!

Horses Make A Comeback: Illegal Alien Herding

aux.link: U.S. turns to horses to secure borders

Giddyup.

"Once they have apprehended a group, agents often have to lead detainees for a mile or more to reach ranch roads where they can hand them over to colleagues with a vehicle. It is there that the horses' stock management skills come into their own, agents say.

'It's what we call cow sense. It's a herding instinct,' Schad told Reuters, as she trailed a group of 18 Mexican migrants out of the desert on her horse, Freckles.

'They gather people up ... and if they run, they have the ability and desire to chase them down,' she added."

Inside The Nigerian Cyber Scammer World

aux.link: Nigerian Cyber Scammers - Los Angeles Times

Old news, but still a worthy read more than two years later.

Texas' Castle Law Gives Residents More Power

aux.link: 'Castle law' arms Texas homeowners with right to shoot

OR, 'Why I Love Texas'.

RIGHTS UNDER NEW LAW - Major provisions of Texas' Castle Law:
• Presumes you are reasonable in using force if someone – illegally and with force – enters or is attempting to enter your occupied home, car or workplace. You are not given this presumption if you provoked the person or are engaged in a crime.
• Removes your obligation to retreat if possible before using deadly force if you are anywhere you have a right to be. The previous law obliged you to retreat if a "reasonable person" would have, except in a situation where someone unlawfully entered your home.
• Gives you added protection from lawsuits by injured attackers or their families. Previous law granted this protection if someone illegally entered your home, but not in other situations.

Hillary And Tyra Schmooze About Lewinsky Tryst

aux.link: Hillary Clinton reveals personal anguish over Lewinsky saga

"I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what
was right for my family," Clinton said on the Tyra Banks talk show on Fox
television.

Or in other words, "it's not personal, it's just business" obviously. She did it for the political advantage, which is amazing in of itself since Slick Willy still has any reputation after that- confusing. Americans need to sit down and think if they really want the Clintons back in The White House again.

A Note To Steve Jobs / Apple's Political Agenda

aux.link: YouTube - Randy Newman - Macworld Expo 2008, Apple Keynote, Part 1/3

Babbling nonsense, especially hate against America, with no tune from a crotchety, old, senile man, does not make the embarassment of his existance on stage at an electronics tradeshow 'entertainment'. WTF is Apple thinking these days? Oh, but he was conveniently playing a piano while comparing President Bush to Hitler and Stalin, so it's ok. Everyone clap along.

Is he really that extraordinary, Steve? That's frighteningly telling for an otherwise visionary man like yourself. Why couldn't you have snagged U2 to close out your keynote speech instead? You know, someone your global audience generally likes and respects? Your company may make the best consumer IT products on the market of which I am becoming more of a fan, but that doesn't keep you from being a total douchebag. I feel equal parts cutting-edge and dirty every time I pick up my iPhone now. I knew Apple was fairly 'left', but this goes beyond the pale.

Antics like this and your incessant showcasing of The New York Times in every one of your product advertisements demonstrating any Internet capabilities, zooming in on questionable articles of obvious intent, keeps me from leaving my HP Xeon workstation behind for a new Mac Pro. Wake up and realize that your target market isn't full of Paulitards and environmentaljihadists any longer. Spin your energy attempting to mislead others about global affairs into giving us a 3G iPhone already. Marketing is obviously your place in society, not politics. A global showcase of great products to attract more market share - not less - is the worst place possible to advertise your ideologies. Give it up- quick.

Wow, Randy Newman isn't black. I had no idea.

In Too Deep: Is America Selling Herself Out?

aux.link: WorldNetDaily: Subprime Nation

I'm still not sure how much sway I'm willing to give Pat Buchanan's seeming scaremongering, but he's still saying some pretty interesting stuff here. Most of which I believe is true. Take a read, then pay some bills.

Don't Give That 750iL Another Look- It's Leased

aux.link: $30,000 Millionaires: Douchebags in the Mist

A co-worker sent this excellent article to me today. As a yuppie with a real job and a salary paying considerably more than the stereotype, I found it hilarious. Specifically because I dodge it with a 5-year old Volkswagen approaching 100k miles, my pleated pants, a weird pint of beer in one hand, and my hot doctor wife in the other. So even though I greatly appreciate the Bentley Continental GT that I showcase at the top of this site, I have the common sense to not lease one.

It is clowns like them who have provided the consumer base for our country's current credit crisis.

Hard Working, Married Republicans: "Life Is Good"

aux.link: Gallup: Most Americans “Very Satisfied” With Their Personal Lives

Indeed- 2007 was the best year of my life and this year looks to hit par for the course.

PRINCETON, NJ -- As Americans look ahead to the new year and reflect on the year past, a recent Gallup Poll finds the public generally content with their own lives. Most Americans say they are generally happy, with a slim majority saying they are "very happy." More than 8 in 10 Americans say they are satisfied with their personal lives at this time, including a solid majority who say they are "very satisfied." This personal satisfaction level contrasts sharply with the low level of satisfaction Americans express with the way things are going "in the United States at this time." Republicans, married adults, those residing in higher income households, parents of young children, those attending church weekly, and whites are most likely to say they are satisfied and happy at this time.

A Short Break For A Grand Moment In Life

The Yuppie is getting married to his beautiful woman, jet-setting to socialist Europe for a long honeymoon, then moving into a swanky, brand-new North Dallas townhouse with her afterwards. You know, the kind of stuff that only hard-working conservatives get to enjoy. I'll get plugged back in closer to November on our new 10Mbit Intarweb pipe to get the apparel line up and running. Cheers and bon voyage.

YHPS Now Coming At You Untethered

Posting from my new BlackBerry 8800 would come in handy more frequently if I were some reporter on the beat inside the Beltway. But having the power to be one if I so suddenly decided is comforting. However, I suppose you need a decent-sized audience to be of any real importance... so perhaps this device and rate plan was a futile effort at nothing.

For right now, I'll just stick to being a dude on the patio of an Italian restaurant in North Dallas, making my way through a bottle of Chianti, and venting about environmentaljihadists. Isn't technology great?
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Sentiment: The Brilliance Of Ben Stein

Y'know, for all the relatively obnoxious and opinionated stuff I cast out here ad-nausea, the Yuppie also has a big heart. My Dad sent this to me, and I couldn't help but share it here. Don't look at how long the story is, just know that I guarantee you'll feel better about anything after reading it than you do right now.

Ben's House - Stuff Ben Wrote

U.S. Overwhelmingly The Most Armed Country

Advocating gun laws this way or that just isn't sexy news these days, which is probably why I've been lax to post anything about it.

Read the brief article below real quick and take careful note that the countries listed with the highest gun-to-citizen ratio are not only the most prosperous, but the safest. The countries listed with the lowest gun-to-citizen ratio are the poorest and most violent. Great debate fodder for the Second Amendment that just makes me lick my chops.

The data generally proves a well-armed community is a safe community.

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

One Year Anniversary

And the crowd goes mild. Although, I've made it for one year whining about hippies and things that err from common sense with some sort of regularity. And according to Google Analytics, still don't have any sort of loyal site hits.

But that's expected- I did this a year ago just to see if I would even take myself seriously and keep up with the place. Like I mention currently in the right hand table, this venting medium is in beta status with no advertising performed as of yet. Is it time to take it up a notch and get on with the marketing, perhaps bribing Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter with a fine dinner followed by a hippie stoning out on the town in D.C. if they'll blogroll me? Perhaps Michael Savage would like to go have a couple pints with me before mounting Halliburton license plate frames on the back of every Prius we can find.

Maybe not, but a little site refreshening, a new Shit List in the right sidebar, and possibly a new forthcoming logo couldn't hurt matters any. Neither could our new domain, yuppiehorror.com, created for easy of memory and redundancy.

...right. Carry on.

Inside The Beltway - Part II

I can't decide whether I love or hate D.C. I know I love it, but my obvious stubbornness got the best of me in the last few days. I didn't plan well for a complex city, have a proper map, nor did I ask for directions anywhere. Armed with Google Maps bookmarked on a laptop with a battery at 43% and a Cingular 3G aircard, I did my best to make it around town on my own, thankyouverymuch. Whoops.

I spent most of my last 1.5 days lost or stuck in obscene traffic. Usually in undesireable areas of town - out of my own incompetence - where it was odd that my black rental Charger wasn't wearing 24" rims. All of this was the greatest disappointment as navigational abilities are one of my strongest traits, though not in this confusing blob of pavement without active GPS for a first-timer. But I digress.

I gave up on the Holocaust Museum (already having a great respect for what happened, I wasn't in the mood to become depressed for the rest of my stay) and the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum aircraft collection (upon combing Reagan Int'l for the facility, I discovered it's actually out at Dulles; f$#% it), and instead wound up at the International Spy Museum near The White House after a couple great lagers and a heaping of Shepherd's Pie at The Dubliner north of The Capitol. It was something fun and of greater interest that I could 'get into' before having to race back to BMI for a departure late afternoon, where two-lane traffic sucks on the 295, even when intimidating Hondas in the left lane with high beams like a cop (55mph posted speed limit!?), only to get pulled over by a real one later for going a perfectly reasonable 81mph. Easy as it would be to ignore and accept a long-distance warrant for my arrest, I'll pay up, though I digress further. While the Museum had more of a focus on past intel tools and historical events relating to spying, and arguably geared at folks younger than I, it was still informative and inspiring. I came away eyeing everyone on the street with more suspicion than I used to. Just what I needed...

Glad I got to visit this area. Maybe I'll be back again with better planning soon, but I was happier to get out of the area and back home far away from that madness this evening. It's amazing how quickly jets can whisk you far away from undesireable locales- modern transportation is cool.

Inside The Beltway - Part I

I decided to take a couple days off on either side of this weekend to see Washington D.C. for myself. I flew into Baltimore a couple days ago, and from the rash of bumperstickers alone, could tell it held near-San Franciscan levels of communism and liberalism within two blocks of Inner Harbor. By that same way of judgement, D.C. doesn't seem as backwards yet.

I'm wheeling a black Dodge Charger around the downtown streets of our nation's Capitol menacing hybrid drivers for the most part this morning. However, trying to pack as many sights into 2.5 days or less, I'm making good time. Arlington Cemetary is... just damn incredible. The Pentagon was actually smaller than I was expecting, but impressive nonetheless- they are working on a huge 9/11 memorial there. I walked around the Capitol building looking to smack Harry Reid, but to no avail- it's the weekend. But I'll be back Monday. I also found out that FOX News' Washington bureau is in an unmarked building with zero access- no signature from Brit Hume this time.

So now I'm around the corner at the Capitol Brewery downing a few pints over lunch trying to figure out what to do next. The Holocaust and Air & Space Museums are on the docket at some point in the next couple days, and the typical stops off at the Lincoln Memorial, et al. Although, I get more of a kick out of driving around getting a feel for the city at the street level and taking hundreds of digital photographs than looking at exhibits of French art. I'm soaking it up best I can- it would be easy to spend a week here. Over and out.

Overwhelmed

Sorry for the latency on updates in the last month. Ever since the Hezbollah grab-n-go incident until now, the pace of the news was too much to keep up with. Think of the average lifespan in minutes of your average Reuters article on that subject last month and you'll catch my drift.

Now that things are back to a normal pace, I'll back back in full effect. And will try not to let an event like that catch me off-guard and inundate me. And now, back to your regularly scheduled smackdowns.

My President Can Kick Your President's Ass

Not only is it admirable to have a Commander In Chief as fit as he is at this age, but even cooler to see that he still goes balls-out down singletrack trails on his Trek mountain bike jamming out to his iPod. Too bad The White House grounds in D.C. cannot accomodate these needs as easily- this man needs it.

Cool article below.



Bush, at 60, showing no signs of slowing

Blogs From Iran

I stayed up way too late combing these interesting online journals. If you've got time to kill, you should do the same. What you read may surprise you.

Iran blog resource Jerusalem Post

The Death Of America's Superman

No, not just any 'super guy', but Superman himself. Is he still American? The directors of his latest movie would rather he not be. Observe the saddening loss:

"...in the latest film incarnation, scribes Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris sought to downplay Superman's long-standing patriot act. With one brief line uttered by actor Frank Langella, the caped superhero's mission transformed from "truth, justice and the American way" to "truth, justice and all that stuff."

"Dougherty and Harris never even considered including "the American way" in their screenplay."

" "We were always hesitant to include the term 'American way' because the meaning of that today is somewhat uncertain," Ohio native Dougherty explains. "The ideal hasn't changed. I think when people say 'American way,' they're actually talking about what the 'American way' meant back in the '40s and '50s, which was something more noble and idealistic." "

"...(using that line) would taint the meaning of what he is saying." "

"...the long-standing member of the Justice League of America seems to have traded in his allegiance to the flag for an international passport. "He's here for humanity," Dougherty says."

Superman eschews longtime patriot act

Commie bastards. Superman is ours. And this movie should be geared for America and America alone. Sure, show it elsewhere for a few extra Euros and release a Region 3 DVD later for the rest of the world, but deliberately leaving America out of Superman is just another example of political correctness gone awry. Chalk up another reason to hate Hollywood.

Blake Gottesman Is The Man

Whoda thunk that the President's closest pointman isn't Karl Rove, but actually a 26 year old guy that formally dated his daughter? On a $96,000 salary, it's safe to say that I'm jealous of his job and acceptance into Harvard b-school. Cool article.

Who Knows Bush's Mind Best?