My cookout is September 8th this year.  Starting noonish and running till late.

The cookout is scheduled for September 10th at casa de Simon.  Kebababs etc...should be fun.

ISTM that at it's root, what S&P is saying is that the TP wing of the Republican party is more convincing when they say "We're willing to trash the full faith and credit of the U.S." than Obama is when he says "I'm willing to veto the Bush tax cuts when they come up for renewal."  Can you blame them?

Apparantly the Chinese are complaining about the high levels of US government debt.  And yet they are the ones lending us a fair ammount of that money.  It's just like the banks complaining about all the people defaulting on their crazy bat-shit insane neg am liar loans and insane levels of credit card debt.  For the most part, many of these bad ( Read more... )

This is the obious outcome when you let these people into the country.  At first they say that they just want to be left alone to practice their own religion. Then they try to change all the laws to force everybody to live by their religious dictates.  Marriages, family law, inheritance; ALL must be changed to THEIR specification.  Suddenly it is ( Read more... )

You know, a year ago, we were all laughing an California and the complete stupidity of the political gridlock going on there.  It seems that particular infection has spread to the federal government, with there being a significant chance of a completely avoidable fiscal catastrophe ahead of us.  ISTM that the Tea Party has, at some political level ( Read more... )

It's not so much the fact that the Republicans are willing to sell the rest of us out to benefit the rich.  That is, after all what they're paid to do. It's that the're so willing to risk the destruction of the entire economy to further their goals. 

I was a bit disappointed with Sucker Punch.  I mean what I liked, I loved.  Steam-powerd zombies in pickelhalbs.  A dogfight between a B-25 and a Dragon.  Flaming Zeppelins.  Giant Samurai weilding mini-guns.  It really made almost no sense, and I couldn't care less, loads of visually awsome, anachronistic violence.  The fact that said violence was ( Read more... )

Going to go see the 12:50 (pm) show of Sucker Punch at the Majestic in Silver Spring on Saturday.  That movie looks like a bucket full of fun wrapped in a blanket of awsome.  Anybody interested is welcome to join us.

Either they have extended the run, or I was mis-inhformed, they're still showing the Oscar animated shorts through next thursday at the E street Cinema.  A couple of the are WELL worth seeing.