Now we have Terry Moran of ABC News saying the we shouldn't feel to sorry for the Duke accusers because they are white and rich, so they'll bounce back just fine. How vile and disgusting a statement is that? What if they HADN'T been wealthy???

They'd be sitting in jail right now, that's what. What a freaking stupid, vile thing to say.

And then we have Nancy Grace another vile spewer of tabloid TV journalism...

I watched part of her show the next day and there was NO mention of the Duke case. She was on to her next pre-trial witch hunt. No apology, not even a mention of the Duke case.

That marks her as a vile human being in my book.

So back to Imus: What about Rosie O'Donnell? Thank goodness she hasn't said anything derogatory about blacks, huh? I guess it's open season on Chinese people and Christians, and you can accuse the President of being behind the murder of 3,000 U.S. citizens on 9/11, but God forbid you say anything about black people.

Shouldn't SHE be fired if Imus was? What about all the disgusting black rappers that have been spewing what Imus said ONE time for well over 10 years? Why do they get a pass? Isn't it MORE damaging to have people within the same culture denigrating their own? What about it Jesse? Al? Hello? If you guys really cared about ending black poverty you'd be concentrating at pointing the finger of blame back at yourselves and the community that glorifies going from one woman to the next, leaving each pregnant.

I've had it with this hypocritical crap. Pick and choose who to label as racist, prejudiced or whatever. Nail some to the wall and give others a pass.

What a load of crap.

Freaking hilarious.

She was talking about Frenchie Davis being kicked off the show in a previous season because topless photos of her emerged while Antonella Barba is still competing despite the racy photos of her that have been all over the internet. According to Rosie, not only was Frenchie kicked off the show because she's black, but ALSO because she was overweight.

Um, Rosie.... can you say Fantasia Barrino? Winner of the contest three seasons ago? Fantasia wasn't extremely TAN, she's black. How about Lakisha Jones, the overweight contestant this year with an AMAZING voice who will no doubt finish in the top two or three? Then there's Chris Sligh, overweight as well but one of the top three singers on the guy's side.

I don't know why I'm even wasting time on this, I'm just feeding into the Rosie-publicity-monster. She's incapable of staying out of the limelight for more than a couple of weeks at a time. I'm sure our fine psychiatric community will come up with "disease" to explain it, perhaps related to ADD or ADHD.

Source: BuddyTV

As I pull up in traffic I see one little girl in the back seat (with the window open) just bouncing all over the place with no seat belt on. So I while the cars are moving slowly I catch her eye, grab my seat belt and say: "You should put your seat belt on."

Eventually I have to get on the other side of the Expedition to make a turn, and as I pass it I see the driver's window down and the dad yelling at me and making gestures, and they weren't gestures of thanks.

He's riding around with a seven year old in the back set with an open window and no seat belt and he's yelling at ME.

Freaking idiot.

It takes me a HUGE amount of self-control to not send off a final email or phone call saying "You know what? I'm done. See ya around." I just tend to wonder what the deal is... did I do something to annoy somebody (can't wait for the comments on THAT one), or is it some wierd personality issue on the side of the person I've contacted?

Do any of you just not reply to personal emails sent to you on a regular basis? Sure, it might take me a few days, maybe even a week if my Inbox and schedule are particularly swamped, but I always try to respond to a one on one personal email. Heck, this is even transferring over to phone calls. I'll leave a message with someone and I'll never hear back from them.

Of course the other thing that really kind of gets to me is folks who are polite when you do happen to catch them on the phone, saying how glad they are you called and such, but God forbid they ever pick up a phone to give you a call. Same thing when you happen to run into them... it's like you're their best bud ever, but outside of the coincindental meeting, you may as well have fallen off the planet.

And the same goes for Christmas cards as far as I'm concerned. Don't hear from someone all year and then you get either:

1. A card with nothing on it except "Merry Christmas" and a couple of signatures.

or

2. A four page newsletter with no personal note.

Tell me: Why even bother?

Why do I say that? Because since I titled it Justice League: Soft Core Porn For Kids? (due to my feelings on the subject, read the article for details) the page has received tons of traffic. Not from concerned parents, but from sick bastards searching for kiddie porn.

WTF is wrong with people? Freaking unbelievable...

Since the home page of that site is updated with the most popular posts in the sidebar, due to the nature of searches for that particular page, I actually went out of my way to remove that page from the "most popular" results due to the nature of the searches used to find it.

Although those searches rank up there, thankfully they are a small percentage of the overall visitors to my site. Most people are searching ScreenRant.com for stuff like info on Smallville, Spiderman 3 or the upcoming Iron Man movie. Still, it's disturbing to see people visiting the site looking for that other twisted stuff.

UPDATE
Heh, I've added some code to the site so that if someone tries to click through to that page using one of those search terms, it will give them a chance to go ahead if they're a concerned parent, but if not it will redirect them to a more... appropriate site. :-) If you want to see what happens, click here (don't worry, it's nothing bad or repulsive).

In my opinion, a major strike against the "genetic fat" argument is that obesity levels were FAR lower up until 40 years ago than they are today. Add to that the fact that the percentage of people who are overweight in the United States is far greater than the number in other countries.

So what people who cling to the "it's not my fault" argument are saying is that there has been some wierd genetic mutation that has taken place ONLY within the last 40 years and ONLY within the United States.

Wow... I'll bet it was the same people in the U.S. government who brought down the WTC that are behind this insidious conspiracy!!!

Why is it a counterpoint to the "genetic fat" argument? This season they had one person from every state participate. Only 16 of the 50 people ever made it to "The Ranch" where they had the benefit of a personal trainer, doctor, nutrition info and a full-blown gym, however those who were not chosen still had incentives to work on their weight loss.

These were not folks with only 20 pounds to lose... the combined weight of the 50 participants was over 14,000 pounds or seven TONS. That's an average weight of 280 pounds per person, folks.

Well at the finale they weighed the group as a whole, and they lost a combined total of 4,000 pounds or 80 pounds each over a six month period. How did they do it? They took responsibility for their health by learning how to eat right, reducing or cutting the crap from their diets, and they started working out on a daily basis.

It was amazing to see the difference in these people, especially the ones who made the most progress and lost in the range of 50% of their body weight in six months!

The image above shows Erik, the winner of this season's prize as he looked when he begain and after six months, and yes, that really is the same guy in both images.

He made an incredible transformation which not only affected his appearance, but also his health, his attitude towards life, his emotions and his family. Now he will no doubt live long enough to see his daughters married, which before was most likely not the case.

So please don't give me that genetics B.S.

The total amount of extra gasoline burned due to weight gain since 1960 is 938 MILLION gallons.

According to the Sierra Club, the average automobile emits 6 tons of carbon dioxide pollution every year, so every car driven by an obese person puts approximately an extra 360 pounds of pollution into the air. If 2/3 of the U.S. population is obese that comes to an extra 37,000 tons of additional emissons being put into the air, and if that doesn't add to global warming, I don't know what does.

So the next time you want to rant about global warming, get mad at a fat person, not a Republican.

Now personally I think that the whole global warming thing is B.S., so if you're overweight take the above post in the humorous spirit in which it was intended. :-)

You can find a local news story with a link to the video here.

The two boys, who like like they are MAYBE 10 years old, tops, wrestle, punch and basically brawl while a bunch of adults are standing around encouraging them to beat on each other and keep going. The video is hard to watch, and basically made my blood boil.

THIS kind of behavior from adults who are supposed to be role models is the reason that the next generation grows up to be poor, violent and utterly under-educated. So don't you DARE try to tell me that this is MY (middle class, conservative, white America's) fault.

And I don't care how uneducated you are... anyone who views that either in person or on video and is not mentally retarded KNOWS it's WRONG.

F***ing morons (the adults, that is).

Source: Drudge Report

Can you imagine how different things would be right now if somehow (and legitimately) the Republicans had won? HOLY cow what a monster outcry there would be!!!!

What about all that "voter suppression"? Hmm? Guess not.

At least Republicans know how to lose gracefully. No idiotic recount tirades and nary a lawsuit to be seen, which is exactly the opposite of what would have happened had the Dems not won control.

Just a little observation as yesterday I scanned a bunch of news aggregator sites for any new news having to do with voting machine-related stories. :-)