Monday, December 20, 2010

So Bad You Have to Laugh (really hard)



I guess sexy is a cultural thing. This video made me laugh so hard. The poor guy is trying so hard to be sexy and fails hysterically! Be sure to watch enough to get to hear her sing. Totally uninspired to blog tonight so here this tidbit from the weird.

Enough for now...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

A Manly Pasey is Better!

Before there was Edward and Jacob, there was Dawson and Pasey! I was team Pasey and now, I am team Peter.

As all of you know, I love Sci-Fi. And Fringe is awesome. This year, however, I haven't been able to watch the show regularly. So I watched five episodes on the web and I am now ready for the rest.

The problem was that I discovered Hulu (warning, many hours will be lost watching shows that no longer exist). After catching up on all things "Fringe," I then watched the entire first season of "Journeyman" 13 shows!

I was a totally unproductive human being this weekend - I liked it! Plus, getting to watch a grown up Pasey ain't bad either.

Enough for now...

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Attitude Adjustors!


I don't know which one I am more excited about. I love the minions in Despicable Me but I love all things Liam Neeson. I am planning to watch movies, play with doggies and do absolutely nothing productive this weekend. I hope that by Monday, my attitude will be in check. I am struggling with  a "I hate everything" attitude and really need to snap out of it. The biggest contributors to this icky attitude is partly because I am trying to get sick AND I DON'T WANT TO BE SICK! Do you have any sure fire attitude adjusting tricks?

Enough for now...

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

It's Not Christmas Until...



I hear this. Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorite Christmas song but this blend of Drummer Boy and Peace on Earth just brings the goose bumps.  What song that brings an emotion or memory forward? What song is Christmas for you?

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Mind Melding

If any of you are crazy trekkies like me you will know what Mr. Spock discovers when he mind melds with this rock. For those who don't, get with the picture! Star Trek old, new, spin off is the most awesome ever.

However, back to my original thought, the only thought I have had all day, "pain, pain so much pain."

I think I mind melded with the rock sometime in the night last night and haven't been able to even sit up. I hate the change of seasons as it always screws with my allergies.

Gonna take more drugs and go to bed - does anyone know how to break the connection of a mind meld gone bad?

Enough for now...

Friday, December 10, 2010

The Cats Can Go AWAY

Opening the front door and yelling "Rent A Room" does not work when your yelling at cats. Trust me, Winston yelled enough to shame the two into going elsewhere but no they had to hang out on my porch. Finally, Winston got tired of yelling but would not leave the bay window without a bribe.

It's never boring with a beagle.





Enough for now...

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Grandma's Spoiling Him

Mom has not been in the mood to work this week and since she works part time whenever she wants, she has been laying around the house being lazy. Not only has she been lazy, she's been lazy with my beagle - making him lazy too! The big problem with this is when a beagle has been lazy all day, I get to bring home a spastic bundle of energy.

Today, he wanted to play, which means he brings me a baby and I throw it. I did this about three or four times and then I noticed he didn't go get it and fly back to the couch. His baby has gotten stuck and he's pulling it very gently. I am amazed that he didn't pull the clock down.

Seamus, the famous, would have pulled the clock down and dragged over to me - very glad I was playing with Winston! Check out the video.



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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Ring! Ring! Telephone!

My poor dad is having to endure this season's Sing Off in an way that I don't think any dad should. After every performance, I call mom and we discuss the fine points of each group. Well there were eight groups competing and last year's champion. So their telephone rang nine times in a two hour period because we don't say on the phone during the performances.

I fully expect that he will force us to be in the same room when the show airs before the season is up.

I have to admit that on Monday when the judges sent Pitch Slapped home I was tickled pink. I always hate when arrogance wins (see video for arrogance).


If you haven't watched it yet, I recommend it [especially, since the only good show on Mondays was cancelled - bring back Heroes].



 
Enough for now...

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Declaration of Independence - We Need to Re-declar

Here is the complete text of the Declaration of Independence. The original spelling and capitalization have been retained. Read without my edits.

(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The Tea Parties that sprang up had no choice - it becomes necessary for one people to ... it was neccessary.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Unless you have the audacity to earn more that 250K and then you are not equal and must be taxed outrageously, and kill your pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Imagine what would happen if the government thought it derived it's power from the consent of the governed - would we have Obama Care right now if they remotely believed this?
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Prudence, I think Congress needs to looks up the definition of this.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
The election of 2010 and forsight into 2012.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
President Obama and his Congress
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Arizona's Immigration Law.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
Passage of retaining the current tax structure, also known as Brush's Tax Cuts.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
Does Card Check sound familiar?
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
Closed doore meetings that were supposed to be transparent?
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
General Stanley McChrystal
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Rep. Al Franken
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
I guess he's not guilty of this. The problem is that the migration is of the criminal sort and there lies the problem.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
Voter Intimidation in Philly
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Sonia Sotomayor.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
Tsars anyone?
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
Does sharia law scare you now?
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
The illegal immigrant drug armies.
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
The Case of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: A Terrorist Let Off Easy
for the bombing of the USS Cole.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
Do we trade anymore or do we just buy other countries stuff and they take our money? There's no trade cause they don't buy our stuff!
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
Just try to buy Coke in the near future with out taking out a loan, do to junk food tax.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
It's a good thing we're gun toting, bible thumpers to protect ourselves from being transported.
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
Arizona's Immigration Law suit?
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
Gulf oil spill clean up and Obama's recovery.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
President Obama goes over seas and apologies for American encouraging foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death...
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Our high seas is the intranet and our arms are the words we can type and read. We must fight Republic versus Democrat and execute political careers.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Domestic Insurrection, if that doesn't sum up 2009 and 2010 I don't know what does.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
We have emailed. We have called. We have voted.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Did you not notice all the rallies held across the nation? Or the townhall meetings?
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Signed
Dana

Enough for now...

Monday, December 06, 2010

Fun On the Rocks


Just saw these guys on Sing Off and laughed my, well let's just say, I laughed! The guys really sell it, I believe the lead is channeling Lady Gaga. Mom called me and totally did not understand why they were dancing so strangely. Of course, this made me laugh even more. She did not get it because she had never seen the video and warpness that ensues - the hairless cat freaks me out. Sorry guys, I've grown up enough to know that I really don't want to embed Lady Gaga on my blog.

Wednesday, a group of men in their 60s sing Duffy's "Mercy" - I can't wait!

Enough for now...

Friday, December 03, 2010

I think they may bar me from the group!

Would it be wrong to run away to some place where no humans lived? Some days are just not worth living and it's not always life shattering bad. Sometimes its just one piece of crap at time to where you're gonna yell really loud or something.

Today an email went out to our State Web Group that a person who was from an non-profit group wanted to join and a major discussion ensued. One email sent me into orbit. Basically it said that yeah we should allow them in the group but deny them the ability to vote. How rude is that? You can come but don't you dare vote to approve the minutes! Not to mention that the room holds 50 to 60 people and we fill it with 20 to 25 each month.

I have a tenancy to go against the grain with this group sometimes, so I really try to keep my mouth shut when something seems risky. On this I couldn't. I sent the following email.

"Why complicate it so much? Allow anyone willing to come and be an active part – even vote or serve an office. We have a ton of official members who don’t come.  If a non-profit organization web manger joined the group, where is the reason in not allowing them to be full members? I don’t see a ton of corporate webmasters beating our doors down. I am in favor of welcoming anyone willing to participate."
Well yes, I got a response from the guy wanting to allow them to only have limited access and that really wasn't what I was shooting for - I just want the group to be nice to people who want to join and be open to new things. Often the main thing we get from the group is that no you can't take advantage of the newest and greatest free things - today we didn't have to say no, today we could say yes.

I hope I wasn't too snarky! Then when I got home, I went out back with two rather excited dogs who wanted to play. So I take Winston's porcupine and threw it - my aim was bad and it went in the tree only to get stuck. If you want to really mess with a beagle's head throw his favorite toy in the tree. For a second, I almost thought I had a coon hound! So I get his rope toy and try to knock the porcupine out of the tree and that proceeded to also get stuck.

Beagle is plum crazy at this point not sure what he is supposed to do. Alas the broom worked and porcupine came down. Winston proceed to grab him and run to the other end of the yard. I doubt if he will ever allow me to touch his baby again.

Click on an ad when you exit as I think I will have to form my own web group as I will surely be banned from this one.

Enough for now...