Opening Stuff:
Welcome to easy-goin' Friday. Well at least for me who has shut down all live wires within my body. The fire is out in synapse land. I'm not worrying about anything. Nothing. I'm a vegging-tarian. I know lots of you out there have deadlines to meet, projects to finish, i's to dot and t's to cross. But me, I'm just going to cross my legs, leaning back to watch the tension flow into a pool around my feet. Which is another way of saying I'll be traveling and the Tids may be a little lite...like our Governor.
I am kind of scratching my head over the Boston Celtics trade last night. It doesn't seem to make sense on the court. That must mean it has a lot to do with salary caps and having money available for the future replacement of the soon to retire Big Three. But, I'm not worrying too much about it.
It looks like 0-Man just took step one to regain his left wing funding when he declared the 1996 Clinton signed anti Gay marriage law unconstitutional. Which supposedly allows him not to perform his constitutional duty of upholding the laws passed by the representatives of the people. Hey, wait a minute, I thought The Supreme Court ruled on constitutionality! I guess Charles Schumer changed the batting order.
One political observer, Chris Wallace, says that Prime Time just has to stop saying "Unacceptable" in response to every world crisis. Especially when he intends, or at least it appears, that he will do absolutely nothing about it. Including a little sword rattling...or filling his water pistol.
The Question:
It's Friday, so there must be two. 1. Which actor was nominated 8 times but never won the big prize? 2. Here's another of those new corporate giants that touches your life and you may not know it-- Fortune Brands. What are their famous brands?
The Headlines:
--Stocks Expected To Rises As Oil Fears Ease.--US Fourth Quarter Growth Revised Down.
--Ghadafi Opens Fire On Protesters, Tobruk In Hands Of Rebels.
--Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Diminishing Union Rights.
--Europe Conservatives Blame Multiculturism For Decline Of Culture.
--Rookie RI Rep Cicillini Takes First Boondoggle To Middle East; Finds New Gig For Gang Mouthpiece Brother As Lawyer To Gaddafi.
--Death toll Rises In NZ.
Back To More Stuff:
You have to figure that each night the Dems kneel down at their beds and pray, "Now I lay me down tonight, Hoping to lose the the budget fight, So Repubs will shut Gov down Tight, And our media pals will ridicule their plight!" The fact is the media will paint a dire picture, but the essential parts of Government will continue and the only thing the public may miss is a free elevator ride up the Washington Monument.
While we're in the "put it in perspective" mode, you may or may not be surprised that all of this hullabaloo that's sending pump prices through the roof is based Libya who is but seventeenth on the list of top oil producers. At 1.7 barrels/day it is far below the top three -- Russia (10.1), Saudi Arabia (9.7 and...The United States? Yup, at third the good ole' US of A is a force that actually could be far bigger if it were producing to it's amazing untapped capacity. This oil conspiracy is the biggest game in the global neighborhood. Oh...in case you are interested, the rest of the Top Ten are Iran, China, Canada, Mexico, UAE, Brazil and Kuwait.
But, you have to sense that the Admin and the Media love these suffocating gas prices. Remember when the media battered George W. to a pulp for allowing "His Oil Friends " to make the big bucks? And how GW tried to get out front and comfort the folks. Have you heard a whisper of discontent about the "0-Man efforts. Have you heard a whisper of comfort from the admin? No! You have to figure they love this death to Americans by gas prices because it makes the bloated costs of "Alternative Energy"
schemes look milder. That's all I can figure.
Almost Near: Chapter 9 continues. --After five minutes of sobbing, Samantha felt a lot better, bt still had no idea of where she belonged in this world, or for that matter, if she was this person she thought she knew sitting in the car by the side of a New England road.
All she really knew is that running away again felt comfortable to her. Then she paused. Reflected. Tucker had been good to her, good for her. But he seemed to be looking for something from her, oh not sex or anything like that she thought, And then she smiled a smile that seemed to come from somewhere deep inside of her. A place where she might have been. Maybe the place where Tucker wanted to go. Wanted to be a part of.
Going back to Tucker is out of the question she said emphatically to the rear view mirror. I have to find what he seems to be searching for in me, myself. Not the me he wrote about in is journal. The me I love, but I am not so sure I am. The me he created. Am I crazy.
An Oscar Fan Poll has Inception as Best Film with the acting awards to Firth, Portman (Runaway- 82%), Bale and Steinfield. The 2nd's are Kings Speech, Bridges, Benning (7%), Rush and Amy Adams. Some of the critics are saying Benning might win because her Movie is a Hollywood kind of movie.
Here's a little Oscar oddity for you. The year that Anette Benning was upset for the Best Actress award for American Beauty, she was pregnant. This year Natalie Portman is pregnant and Benning is in the running. Call your bookie.
Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--Don't look for any Oscar winners in this week's big movie release, the Farrelly Brothers over the Top sophomoric sex comedy, Hall Pass. It's gross out time at the neighborhood theater as a couple of buddies have the "20 year itch" (3x the 7 year itch) and the wives give them a week off. The boys proceed to go on to many a romp, some funny some tedious, while the girls look for their own adulterous affairs. And they do quite well compared to the bumbling men. This leads to some marital problems. HP will be a winner at the box office, but I won't be there.
The Answer:
1. Peter O'Toole has been great in almost everything he has done. But no Oscar after 8 nominations. 2. Fortune Brands makes Titlelist, Footjoy, Pinnacle, Scotty Cameron Putters, Jim Beam and Makers Mark bourbon, Moen Faucets and fixtures and Master padlocks. That reminds me, I should lock up my golf clubs, throw away the key and relax in a bathtub with a fifth of bourbon.
Vege!
Oh...Take away that exclamation point. It's much too exctiting.
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