Rapper 50 Cent has a pretty amusing Twitter and recently he posted a series of pictures of himself with a pile of money consisting of $100 bills amounting to half a million bucks. I love every one of them and wish more rich people publicly enjoyed their wealth, Scrooge McDuck style, but this is my favorite one:
This could be what your pack of cancer sticks looks like if the FDA gets its way and is allowed to require “graphic images” on cigarette packages to deter smoking…
The NY Daily News report gives me mixed feelings since the Liberal in me thinks it’s awesome and well over due, but the Conservative in me knows it’s a ridiculous stipulation. I still side on the left on this one though, stupid rule or not. It’s just too awesome to speak out against.
It’s going to be harder to feel “alive with pleasure” with a photo of an emaciated man, dying of cancer, staring back at you from your cigarette package.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will require such graphic images to be placed on the front and back of cigarette packages as part of a radical new campaign to keep teens from lighting up and to push longtime smokers to quit.
The FDA set a June 22, 2011 deadline for tobacco companies to redesign their packaging to include the images. They will also be required to place the jarring images on cigarette cartons.
I have been creeped out and disgusted at the reaction I’m seeing and hearing from female friends crying over the news that Nick Lachey has gotten engaged (picture of the rock on said fiance’s hand, below).
Fans were still, after all this time for the obvious reality to sink into their skulls and ring the DUH bell, hoping that Nick and Jessica would patch things up and get un-divorced… oy.. Really ladies? after all these years you STILL havent got that Nick and Jessica were a horrible horrible match? The fact that the incompatibility in the interviews while they were dating, the contempt for each other in their reality show and – oh ya – their DIVORCE wasn’t enough to drill the message into you is why your gender scares me. Never under estimate a females ability to see things how they WANT them to be…
Appropriate for the day after the election? This didn’t happen today – it’s from a few days ago from a station in San Diego – but perhaps it works as a metaphor?
Too many people vote in America. People who say that too few people vote just support dumb things that would easily attract dumb people and thus want more dummies mindlessly casting ballots.
If you’re not informed or are voting for something/someone stupid then DONT VOTE.
Even dumb people have a right to vote but not without requirements. there is no right to vote without restriction. its just a matter of policy and rules. you used to have to own land or have a penis to vote, which were good things at the time. they both changed at appropriate moments in history when neither was necessary to make an informed decision but unfortunately it removed standards all together.
Do your civic duty and don’t vote if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Here is my prediction for tomorrows election results (Red means Republican win, Blue is a Democrat win, Gray marks the states where there is no election):
Image created using ABC News’ iPad “what if” app, so it’s their fault that they don’t let you view the whole map at once (you have to scroll down even while zoomed out), so it’s their fault that Alaska is half cropped :p
Straight 50/50 split. In such cases, the Vice President takes on his role as President of the Senate and serves as tie breaker, and since he is a Democrat, that means the Republicans will fall 1 person short of winning the majority and taking back control of the Senate. Way to go Tea Partiers: you had that 51st vote in the bag in Delaware with a candidate (Mike Castle) who would have won by 11 points. Instead, you decided that he wasn’t fiscally pure enough for your standards and nominated Chistine “I’m not a witch” JesusCamp O’Donnell and now she will lose by 11 points. Had the GOP nominated Castle instead of O’Donnell, Republicans would have won both President Obama’s AND Vice President Bidens senate seats.
You missed a huge headline there, douchebagels.
The 2 states that could change are West Virginia and Washington. If Republican Dino Rossi wins in Washington, it will only be by a point or two so that means it’s also entirely possible for him to lose by a point or two – or worse – win by a narrow margin and get raped by a recount (something he has already experienced as the previous winner of the Governors race that was then yanked away from him during a recount). In West Virginia, popular Democratic Governor Joe Manchin is running for senate and is a few points ahead of Republican businessman John Raese. The most amusing part about this race is that Raese’s name is pronounced “Race-E” and it’s…a race, and Joe Manchin doesn’t have a very strong jawline. lolz. I guess it’s also kinda funny that the two dudes are trying to out-conservative each other. Watch this ad below and remember that this is the DEMOCRAT appearing here:
If the Republican wins in WV and loses in WA then nothing changes, obviously, but if they both win then the Republicans gain Senate control.
Whats certain is that the country is about to look like a Hawaiian Punch commercial as it’s washed in a Red wave of right-of-center candidates. This is good for everyone, so no one should really freak out over it. Republicans will like it – cuz duh. Moderates and Independents like me will think it’s alright because we’re okay with a little balance (the Democrats have held control of the House and Senate for 4 years and had the Presidency for 2 years so balancing Obama with a Republican congress isn’t exactly the end of the hope and changey world for the left). Also – these Tea Party candidates poised to win are not as looney tunes as initially thought. Rand Paul (R-KT) for example made me facepalm at first but now I’m alright with him and Marco Rubio (R-FL) has earned a lot of respect and street cred, including an endorsement by the left-of-center Miami Herald when he too was initially considered a dangerously right-wing nutjob. Also there are a lot of moderates getting elected tomorrow too, don’t forget. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is just barely a Republican and in the event that other longshot Republican wins were to happen (like Linda McMahon in CT or Carly Fiorina in CA – both self made business women) they would just be additions to the “oppose my party when it’s wrong” side and not the Tea Party kooks.
I voted for the least amount of Democrats I ever have this year in my mail-in ballot, so I’m somewhat reflecting the nationwide shift. I am hoping that a Republican congress with a Democrat president will work as good as it did under Clinton (quick history recap: Clintons first two years were as ambitious and as unpopular as Obama’s, but in 1994 during his midterm there was a Republican wave and Clinton became more centrist and more awesome).
Even Sharon Angle, the Republican running against Democrat Harry Reid for Senate in Nevada has proved to be not as bat-shit crazy as she initially came off as. I was dead set against this creepy freakshow right up until I watched the debate between the two and I felt shnookered. Reid, whom I previously thought was a loveable grandfatherly old bloke came off as slow, awkward and batty. Angle presented herself well and didn’t say anything that made me cringe. Actually, she impressed me by answering the questions asked of her – especially the yes or no ones, which she answered with yes and no. Reid on the other hand said 2- 4 sentences within his responses for each and dodged them. Example: “Should English be the Official National Language?”. Angle said Yes. Reid said “it already is the national language”. Well, that’s not a yes or no and it’s not even true. There was actually a vote to state it as such and Reid voted against it. Weaselly. I agree with Dennis Miller in that such a dim bulb shouldn’t be representing the state where Las Vegas is located. His son Rory is also on the ballot, running for Governor and is going to lose along with his dad. His commercials all just say “Rory” as he tries to hide his Reid-ness from voters (or maybe its just because “Rory Reid” is impossibly awkward to say).
And wtf is with the reruns? The former senator from Indiana, (R) the former Governor of Iowa (R) and the former Governor of California (D) are running for their old jobs again this year and all 3 of them are going to win. All of them held those jobs over 12 years ago – and in Jerry Browns case over 25 years ago! (god dayum). Couldn’t either party get some fresh blood in these races?
The rest of the map is all goofy too. Check out this weird pattern I noticed with Governors vs Senators in the following states:
Arkansas is going to elect a Democrat Governor by a decisive margin, but going to kick out their Democrat Senator (Blanche Lincoln) on the same ballot. Why? Lincoln isn’t a radical. She’s a Bill Clinton squish who will do what the polls say to do. Are you really THAT mad at her for her vote on Obamacare (rhetorical since the answer appears to be yes, but I still don’t get it). Course, I may get it with time. I’m late to the anti-Obamacare game since I initially supported it before finding out it’s gory power grab deficit steroiding details.
Ohio is going to elect their next Republican senator with a victory of 15 or more points ahead of the Democrat opponent, however they are only going to trade their Democrat Governor for Republican John Kasich by 2-4 points. That one is less interesting since it lacks the party divide, so that’s all I’ll say about it. The next one is the most wtf-er:
Connecticut is more interesting because it is going to elect a Republican Governor by a point or two yet it is going to reject the Republican candidate for senate by double digit margin (Update: The senate race went as I predicted but the Republican Tom Foley lost by 1% to Democrat Dan Malloy: 48%.9% to the Democrats 49.5% – or about 7,000 votes). It’s insane because Connecticut is a dark blue Democrat state and the Republican Governor they’re about to elect seems more conservative than the Republican Senate candidate they’re going to reject. The Gov seems totally blah, while Linda McMahon for senate is an outstanding candidate running against the totally lackluster Democrat Sidney Blumethal. McMahon is a millionaire self funding her campaign and has vowed to work for god-damn free in the US senate, not take any special benefits in addition to not taking a salary and will only serve 2 terms if elected so she never becomes a corrupt career politician. The dude running against her lied about serving in Vietnam and will not only take his full salary and benefits but thinks the answers to solving our broken economy is more government spending, more government regulation and more taxes. Wtf Connecticut.
and WTF California? We have the former CEO of eBay running for Governor of our bankrupt state and we’re supposed to be scared of her for some reason. People are bashing her because she’s a billionaire, but not me. Cuz you know who else is a billionaire? Um, Tony Stark… also known as IRON MAN. And a young gentleman named Bruce Wayne aka BATMAN. So a billionaire using their millions to self fund a campaign they are trying to win with a platform of reducing the size of government (ie: give themselves LESS power for the benefit of the citizens)… and that’s…bad. According to…dumb people, I guess. Makes no sense.
My dumb state is also set to re-elect Barbara Boxer for a third term as Senator despite her being a useless waste and kindov a total bitch.
UPDATE: Colorado and Washington both went Democrat by slim margins and Harry Reid pulled out a 5 point win in Nevada, making my prediction map close, but still off by 3. Washington and CO I knew were gonna be tough bets but I am shocked by Nevada.
Wait, *this* is what Chelsea Lately is? dude, ya’ll are haters. She’s funny.
She’s also clearly not Baldwins girlfriend on 30Rock (looks more like whoever that girl is’s mom) so now I’m confused over that a little but wtf. Why’s everyone bag on this chick for being an unfunny hack all the time?
I’m not into the announcer guy at the beginning and she could have gone without the dig at Pappa Bears sex appeal (i’d hit it) and some other stuff thats like, bleh. but nothing deserving the hate I’m always hearing in the comedy circles of LA and online. sup u guys.
She’s fun. makes me reconsider reading her book that’s on my iPad for some reason (I wont, but it makes me reconsider at least. wait, why IS that shit on my iPad??)
Another epp I’m watching now (mostly for the Justin Bieber jokes):
to someone who has never seen Glee, we have no way of knowing wtf it even is… there’s songs, but there’s some kind of competition? celebrity guests? but it’s a multi-camera scripted show? so wtf. is it a sitcom musical, a MadTV with songs or an American Idol competition type fake reality show?
I’d Google or Hulu it i…f I really cared but I kinda like the suspense of never quite knowing.
This story is getting a lot of traction lately and I think it’s unfair since it’s not news. Morgan Spurlock already did this and included it in the special features of his documentary Super Size Me.
But whatever: McDonalds Happy Meal burger and fires doesn’t decompose. This chick Sally Davies bought the meal on April 10 of this year “with the express intention of leaving it out to see how it fared” Davies told the Daily Mail.
She told the Daily Mail that after the second day she had the Happy Meal in her home, “[M]y dogs stopped circling the shelf it was sitting on trying to see what was up there.”
this is bullshit. i have eaten pizza that was weeks old. food left out dries out and wont typically grow mold. another hippie trying to bring down the man. get a real job you old bitch (referencing the artist).
The more processed it is, the more it will likely just dry out and go stale, so its yes&no on the bullshit level.
Yes it’s bullshit cuz they’re implying that it’s like plastic (or like my headline says, Styrofoam) and will just sit in your stomach for a million years like the old chewing gum myth and that’s obviously not true. The food is just dried out and cardboardish like a rice cake. No one would keep a rice cake around for 6 months and claim it is shocking and gross that it hasn’t changed.
No it’s not bullshit though because pure food should mold. These apples should be rotted, a home made pizza should be moldy and a burger should smell terrible with its bun and fries covered in a blue and white Cruella DeVille outfit of fuzz. Yes, sometimes food doesn’t hold the ingredients necessary to foster bacteria in a way that makes it rot but bread and sliced fried potatoes and definitely ground beef should not be in that category.
Spurlock did his test as a REAL experiment: with a control group. He bought a mom and pop restaurant burger and fries and kept them around too and they decomposed naturally while the Mickey’s food looked just like the pictures on this Flickr album…
I admit that I want polished and personable politicians. I also admit that that is a childish and counterproductive desire – especially with Senators, whose only important job is to vote on things. Still, I get creeped out by weird politicians and in Nevada, both Senate candidates creep me the hell out. Incumbent Senator Harry Reid (D) is a slow spoken dim bulb spread on a slice of blah-milquetoast while his challenger Sharon Angle is a tightly wound awkward jittery goof that gives the impression of no one really being “there” on the inside. I’m not a Republican and I don’t live in Nevada, so I have no say in this whatsoever, but I would have preferred either of Angles 2 main challengers: Danny Tarkanian – son of some famous coach of some sport or something and Sue Lowden – a former beauty pageant winner (with other accomplishments that I dont care about). But Angle was the “Tea Party” favorite and she won the Republican nomination, which gives Nevadans an icky choice to make. I started leaning towards Angle after a pitch for her made by Dennis Miller, which makes sense, but then Reid came at me with this very personable 4 minute silly interview. First, here’s Millers take on Angle:
The clip of Reid is from RighNetwork, a new conservative Cable “On Demand” channel that has these little segments where they ask silly questions to some political figure. So far Reid is the only left-of-center person in the series and i’m not sure why he’s included at all. There are no gotcha questions or any tips that this is an opposition media source that is sitting down with him. The tone is jovial and light and Reid comes off excellently.
UPDATE: So dazzled by Reids show of genuine humanity was I that I failed to notice how badly he fumbled the question of “Can you think of a greatest living American?” by naming 2 famous, but pretty unremarkable (for anything good anyway) senators who are, eh, no longer living:
It may be even more remarkable that Reid apparently can’t comprehend a softball question. What do these two have in common? They’re both dead, not living. What else do they have in common? Their supposed greatness came from winning elections in safe seats for almost half a century or more. Byrd’s example is especially notable, as Byrd was a Klan recruiter who used that safe seat to filibuster the Civil Rights Act in the Senate. Kennedy used his connections and his political power to duck responsibility for a vehicular homicide, and then lived a dissolute life on the grandest of American stages.
Most people would look outside the clubby Senate for a greatest living American anyway, but even if they didn’t, they would be looking for an American that still registers above room temperature.
Wait, *this* is what Chelsea Lately is? dude, ya’ll are haters. She’s funny.
