I read a lot of different kind of news from a lot of different kinds of news sources. I do this so that I can get a wide variety of news, as well as get a wide variety of opinions on the news stories that are going on. Sometimes the difference between how two different sources reports a story is striking.
Take, for example, the story of Elizabeth Phillips. If you read this story written by Shawn Smith for Vice Magazine's Fightland Blog, you get a picture of a strong female fighter who goes against the normal stereotypes that people have for women. You get a picture of Elizabeth Phillips as a modern woman making a name for herself in a predominately male sport, and kicking a lot of ass while doing so.
If you read this story written by Thomas Gerbasi for the official UFC website, you get a picture of a woman who's been through some fucked up shit in the past year. You get stories of drastic weight cuts, horrific fights that didn't go her way, as well as slight references to her life previous to 2014. From Vice you get a full picture of a fighter on the rise. From the UFC you get a small sliver of a picture of a fighter they might be utilizing more if she continues in her success, if. This is why I get my news from multiple sources. Not just so I can get a more complete perspective on the stories that go on in my world, but also a more complete perspective on the people that tell those stories. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to watching MSNBC's coverage of the Ferguson protests. I'd watch Fox News's coverage, but I'm not at the gym right now.
Controversial execution botched in Oklahoma Like most liberals, I don't like the concept of the death penalty. There are too many questions about the true guilt of suspects, evident disparities in how different races are sentences, and whether suspects have available to them adequate legal representation. However, if we are going to put prisoners to death, we need to do so in a way that does not constitute cruel and inhumane conduct. For this reason, I can no longer support executing prisoners via lethal injection due to the inability for states to obtain Sodium thiopental, a fast acting anesthetic that was typically used for lethal injection before the manufacturer decided to stop providing the drug to states for the purposes of execution. Ending lethal injection does not stop a state's perceived need to execute it's prisoners, and if a state is going to execute their prisoners it need to be done in a way that is safe, effective, and humane. For that reason, if a state is going to execute it's prisoners, I would support doing to via firing squad, as was recently proposed in the state of Utah. Yes, I'd rather that we not execute people, but if we are going to do it we need to do it right. Not right in a moral context, but right in the method that we utilize.
Early on Thursday, Director of Programming for Xbox Live Larry Hryb, also known as Major Nelson, released the video embedded above providing tips and tricks to using the new Kinect enabled voice features rolled out with the Xbox One. Many owners of the Xbox One have voiced frustration about new voice commands, some have even suggested improvements that need to be made to the system. While the tips and tricks provided in the video above can help some consumers use the voice commands to navigate the Xbox One user interface, no where in the video does Major Nelson assist consumers in using doing one of the things that many consumers will use the Xbox One for. Watching porn. While such aid may not be coming, seeing as Microsoft is a responsible company that has to answer to many conservative action groups, perhaps it is those same conservative action groups that can provide consumers with help in using the Xbox One to view pornographic content. After all, this article exists.
I'm not going to air my personal views on this issue as I feel it has not played out to it's completion yet. I do want to clarify one of the points raised by Karen Meredith. One of the games she referenced, Shock And Awe, is real. Sony to cash in on Iraq with 'shock and awe' game On the day after the beginning of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Sony did copyright the name "Shock And Awe" for use in a video game. It appears that this project has since died as I can find no other substantive article about it. I sent an e-mail to Fox And Friends on Monday.
To friends@foxnews.com From: Redertainment C.O.A. (redertainment@live.com) Sent: Mon 8/16/10 7:49 PM To: friends@foxnews.com Dear Fox and Friends,
I viewed the video pertaining to your discussion of the upcoming Electronic Arts video game Medal Of Honor after finding out about it on Twitter. Near the end of this segment, the host, Clayton Morris, talked about the need for a wider discussion of this game to take place. I was wondering if such a discussion is scheduled to take place, and if so when and involving whom?
Thank You For Your Time Hunter Red
I have yet to receive a response but I do look forward to such a response.
Revolution Is The New Fuck You
The Introduction Of Rodger Red and The Firing Of Seifer Kinneas
Hunter Red is working away in his office when Liz calls to him over the intercom.
Liz- Hunter, Rodger Red is here to see you. Hunter- Yes, show him in.
Rodger Red enters Hunter's office. Hunter rises from his chair, hugs him, and says-
Hunter- Grandpa, good to see you. Rodger- It's good to be back in my old stomping grounds. Hunter- Please sit down.
Rodger looks around and says-
Rodger- Where?
Hunter looks around his office and says-
Hunter- Oh. Well, you can sit in my chair. Rodger- No, I'll sit on the window sill here. Hunter- Okay, just don't fall out. Rodger- Will do. So, you called me here to ask me for money for that wedding you're having in November? Hunter- No. Rodger- But you said you wanted to talk business. Hunter- Yes. You own The Redertainment Corporation Of America, you still hold a leadership position in it as the CEO, that is the business I want to talk to you about. Rodger- So, what are we discussing?
Hunter walks over to the door to his office and closes it.
Hunter- I need you to fire Seifer Kinneas.
Rodger looks at Hunter oddly.
Rodger- The President of The Redertainment Corporation Of America, your boss? Hunter- Yes, him. Rodger- Why? Hunter- Have you been reading my blog lately? Rodger- Yes, every week. Hunter- So you are aware of the sexual jokes Seifer has been making lately. Rodger- I thought that was satire. Hunter- No, that is real. The sex jokes Seifer Kinneas tells are real and have been going on as long as I've been dealing with him. Rodger- So Seifer Kinneas tells sex jokes. And? Hunter- A boss telling sexual jokes in the workplace constitutes sexual harassment. Rodger- Are you sure? Hunter- Yes, that is what the woman you pay to come here and tell us about sexual harassment on an annual basis tells me on a yearly basis. Rodger- So Seifer Kinneas is telling sex jokes, knows it's illegal, and still does it. Hunter- Yes. Rodger- And I should care... why? Hunter- Because Robin has been talking about going to the EEOC about Seifer telling sex jokes and filing an official complaint. Rodger- He has? Hunter- SHE has. Robin is a woman. Rodger- Oh. Sorry, I just remember you and Christopher and the relationship you have. Hunter- Rodger, you're straying from the point. Rodger- What is it? Hunter- Robin is on the verge of filing an official complaint to the Federal Government about the treatment she gets from her superiors here, and the only thing preventing her from doing that is me promising her I would talk to you and get Seifer's ass fired.
Rodger Red gets up off the window still.
Rodger- Well, I guess I know what I have to do. Hunter- Fire Seifer Kinneas? Rodger- Exactly.
Rodger walks over to Hunter's office door, opens, and passes through it. He walks across the way to Seifer's office, enters, and closes the door behind him. Several minutes of muffled yelling comes afterward, Rodger yelling. After the yelling is done, Seifer walks out of his office, looking like a man defeated, and leaves the offices of The Redertainment Of America. Rodger appears in Seifer's office door and says-
Rodger- So, who wants to help me throw all of Seifer's shit out of his office window?
Liz raises her hand and yells-
Liz- I do! I do!
Rodger points to Liz and says-
Rodger- You, I choose you to help me young lady.
Liz gets up from her desk and goes into Seifer's office where she and Rodger begins literally throwing all of the objects in Seifer's office out of the office window. While this is happening, Robin comes out her office, looks at Hunter watching all of this go on, and asks-
Robin- What's going on? Hunter- Seifer just got thrown out on his ass. Robin- Why? Hunter- I got tired of all the sex jokes he tells and got my grandfather to fire him. Robin- Oh.
There is a short pause.
Robin- You're really bad at ending sketches, aren't you? Hunter- Yep.
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This Is Why Newspapers Are Dying
This is an actual column that made it into the Deseret News. Not the online edition of this newspaper, nor the blog of the guy who wrote it. The actual paper. The one made of paper that gets thrown on my doorstep every morning. Seriously.
It's interesting that Garner is thought of as a television actor … not that there's anything wrong with that. And TV is indeed where he gained his greatest fame. But he has also made a lot of successful movies and earned an Oscar nomination.
And, perhaps ironically, many more of his movies are on DVD than his TV series.
Garner starred in six TV series and had a supporting role in a seventh, but only "The Rockford Files" and one of his seasons on "8 Simple Rules" are on DVD.
Hey, you can find all six season sets among my DVDs, along with the first four of his eight reunion movies, which followed the series a decade-and-a-half later. (By the way, Universal, fans are ready for those final four movies.)
But that wasn't Garner's only big hit. The glaring question is, where's "Maverick"?
The black-and-white Western was Garner's first series, in which he played (mostly for laughs) an itinerant professional card player. "Maverick" began its run in 1957 and almost immediately made Garner a star.
There are a scant three "Maverick" episodes on a DVD titled "Television Favorites," which was released five years ago, and there's one as a bonus feature on the movie "Unforgiven" (because Clint Eastwood is in the episode).
Garner was on "Maverick" for only half as many seasons as "The Rockford Files," but he made such an indelible impression that when he revived the character in a 1978 TV movie titled "The New Maverick" (also on DVD), the ratings were high enough to surprise network executives.
But the movie was actually a pilot for a series titled "Young Maverick," with Garner only appearing briefly in the premiere to hand over the reins to a younger actor. And when people realized Garner would not be around, the show was canceled after a handful of episodes.
In the early 1980s, Garner revived the character again for a series titled "Bret Maverick," but that one lasted only one 13-episode season.
Many other Westerns from the 1950s are on DVD, at least one or more seasons of "Cheyenne," " Have Gun — Will Travel," "Gunsmoke," "Rawhide," "Wagon Train," "The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp" and many more.
So how about "Maverick"? Heck, I'd settle for "Bret Maverick" at this point.
Garner's other series were "Nichols," another one-season Western (1971-72); "Man of the People" (1991-92), a sitcom that ran only 10 episodes; and "First Monday" (2002), another 13-episode single-season show with Garner as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind seeing some of those again.
And while Garner's most famous movies are on DVD — "Sayonara," "Up Periscope," "Cash McCall," "The Great Escape," "The Thrill of it All," "Move Over, Darling," "The Americanization of Emily," "Support Your Local Sheriff," "Skin Game," "Victor/Victoria" and "Murphy's Romance," among others — it's surprising how many are not.
Chief among the missing is "Marlowe," with Garner as the oft-filmed private eye (well before "The Rockford Files"), and martial arts icon Bruce Lee, who, in one memorable scene, kicks Philip Marlowe's desk to pieces.
Other Garner films I'd like to see back in circulation are "A Man Could Get Killed," a funny James Bond spoof with Melina Mercouri and Sandra Dee; "The Art of Love," a Carl Reiner-written comedy (he also shows up onscreen) set in Paris, with Garner promoting the work of painter Dick Van Dyke after he fakes his "death"; "The Wheeler Dealers," a very funny farce with Lee Remick and a bevy of comic supporting players; "Mister Buddwing," an amnesia thriller with Suzanne Pleshette, Jean Simmons and Angela Lansbury and a few others.
For that matter, although Garner's TV movies "Decoration Day," "Promise," "My Name Is Bill W.," "Barbarians at the Gate" and "Legal?ese" are on DVD, how about "Heartsounds," "Breathing Lessons" and "The Glitter Dome"?
By the way, in case you're wondering, Garner earned his only Oscar nomination for "Murphy's Romance." He fared better on TV, of course, with no less than 13 acting nominations, including five for "The Rockford Files" and one each for "Maverick" and "Bret Maverick."
His only acting Emmy was won for the third season of "Rockford."
So, yes, it's nice that Garner was honored by the TV critics of America, but it would be great if DVD makers would allow us to again enjoy the reason he was honored.
The Black Robin Christmas Carol Summary
In every workplace there is a person. A person who doesn't talk to anyone, has walled themselves socially, and seems openly hostile to everyone. Every workplace has this person, even if you don't know of such a person, they're there. The Black Robin Christmas Carol is the story of one of these people. It delves into who this person is, why this person is, and how this person can change for the better.
Assassin’s Creed 2 Review There are two games that were released last year that many people said were very similar but I have different overall opinions of. Those games are Prototype and Infamous. My opinions of these games seem to hinge on one thing: Getting from point to point in the cities these games take place in. I love getting around in Prototype. Running around on the city streets for miles and miles without stopping, plowing through huge groups of people like they were a stack of cardboard boxes, and scaling the side of giant skyscrapers with relative ease all add to the overall freedom of movement in this game. However my favorite part of getting around in this game is the drifting. Jumping off the top of the skyscraper and gliding through the air over several city blocks appeals to me on a basic level. There are times while I was playing Prototype where I wasn’t doing anything in particular, just drifting around this obvious copy of New York City. I had nearly the exact opposite experience getting around the city while playing Infamous. First of all, you can’t run very fast in this game, so running down the city streets is rather tedious. You’re better off going the direct way, which involves scaling buildings. Not running head on up the side of a building like I was a Jamaican sprinter, but having to find foot holds and hand holds on ledges, masonry, access ladders, and flag poles to drive yourself upward and onward. This isn’t a bad thing, in fact having to find your way like this when faced with time constraints and certain death can be a refreshing challenge. The problem comes with the henchmen that are sent after you. On every rooftop, every billboard, every outdoor garden in this city sit these enemies in red hoods. Most henchmen in video games aren’t that much of a threat and neither are these except for one thing. These henchmen are brilliant skillshots. It doesn’t matter if you’re three feet away, or three buildings away, if these henchmen spot you they will shoot you, and they will always hit you. These henchmen ruined Infamous for me. Whenever I wasn’t actively playing out a mission, these henchmen would pop up and slowly drain my health away. There came a point where I could choose to either meticulously go through this city and eliminate these henchmen or just endure them and neither option really appealed to me. Assassin’s Creed 2 has the same kind of building climbing mechanic that Infamous has but also incorporate something Prototype has: freedom. Yes there are henchmen in AC2 but most henchmen stay on the ground and are rather easy to elude if you go vertical. Even the rooftops henchmen you do encounter are easily dispatched. While you can’t fly over several city blocks like you can in Prototype, you can scale up beautifully recreated pieces of Italian architecture that evoke a similar response in another part of the brain. The free running mechanic is what Assassin’s Creed 2 is built on and this mechanic is pulled off masterfully. I do wish the fighting mechanic was a bit more polished, but perhaps that is something Ubisoft will work on for AC3. Assassin’s Creed 2: B+
Hunter Red For Senate In 2030 Hunter Red is sitting in his office working on Project Carole when his phone starts to ring. Hunter picks up the phone and says- Hunter- Hello. Voice On Phone- He Hunter, this is Crystal Motoko from SLCMetropolitan. Do you remember meeting me at the charity dinner for the Kinneas Medical Institute? H- The only person I remember meeting at that dinner is the bartender. The rest of the night is a blur. Crystal- Well, I’m calling in regards to our Sexiest Man in Salt Lake issue. H- Do you want me to write up a piece for it? C- No. We took a poll in our office and you were found to be the sexiest man in Salt Lake. There is a short pause. H- Did Robin put you up to this? C- Who? H- Robin, my girlfriend. C- You have a girlfriend? H- Yes, I talk about her on my blog. C- You have a blog? There is a short pause. H- So, SLCMetropolitan is seriously going to name me the sexiest man in Salt Lake. C- Yes. H- Because your staff believe I am the sexiest man in Salt Lake. C- No. H- So why are you giving me this title? C- We want to start grooming you. There is a short pause. H- Like a monkey? C- (Laughs lightly) Oh goodness no. We want to start preparing you for political office. H- What, Satirist is Chef? C- No, senate. H- The Utah State Senate? C- No, the US Senate. We think you would be ideal to replace Orrin Hatch when he retires in 2030. H- You think he’s going to live that long? C- With the advances pioneered by the Kinneas Medical Institute, yes. So, you up for revealing your hot body to the women of the world? H- I don’t think you’re up for it. C- Why? Hunter places his hand over the phone and says- H- Robin. Robin- (At her desk outside in the common area of the R.C.O.A. office) Yes? H- Do you have those nude photos of me you took. R- Yes I do. H- Do you have Crystal Motoko’s email address? R- Yeah, why do you ask? H- Could you send a nude photo of me to Crystal. I’m on the phone with her about SLCMetropolitan’s Sexiest Man in Salt Lake issue. There is a short pause. R- Do you want me to sent the one that does or does not show your junk? H- Not. R- Okay, I’m doing that now. Hunter takes his hand off his phone and starts talking to Crystal again. H- Okay, Crystal should be sending you a nude photo of myself now. C- Okay, let me go check and see- Ah there it is. There is a short pause as Crystal reads the email. C- (In an obviously shocked tone) Oh. Oh dear. That’s not- I mean- That’s simply- (Dry heaving noise) Get it away! A dial tone is heard signifying that Crystal has hung up the phone. H- That’s what I thought her reaction would be. Hunter goes back to work. He picks the newspaper and says- H- Looks like Scott Brown has done good for himself.
END SCENE
Patrick Klepek = Chris Wallace?
People have been critical of Fox News’s interview style. People have said it’s too conciliatory, not in any way aggressive, and generally kind of suckupish. There are people who will argue that this journalism style is contained to Fox News and does not occur in any other media source. I submit this video as evidence to the contrary.
Red Tweets About Team Conan Conan went out like the true class act that he is. It takes a truly strong man to not be bitter in his situation. #TeamConan Sat, Jan 23, 0005
I don't believe in saying goodbye, so I'll say see you later Conan. Be it September, 2011, or whenever, definately see you later. #TeamConan Sat, Jan 23, 0006
Also, hello Letterman. #TeamLetterman Sat, Jan 23, 0006
Take your normal superhero origin story. Guy gets powers, guy realizes he has powers, guy goes out to save the world. Now factor this in: the guy has a score to settle.
Everybody wonders what it is that makes them who they are. The Hawk thought that question was securely answered. However a meeting with a boy in a hospital causes him to question everything. Why he is, who he is, what he is, and even if he is.
Eleven years after the events of Consequences Of Mayorust, The Hawk finds himself dealing with many of the same issues that many of us deal with: A less than satisfying job, co-workers of variant annoyance, and a romantic life is unhealthy at best. Thrust into all this is Madison Medina, a well meaning woman who's adversarial relationship with The Hawk morphs into a kind of friendship. Madison, in addition to learning more about herself and her abilities, help to reveal deeper problems inside the organization both she and The Hawk work for.
In every workplace there is a person. A person who doesn't talk to anyone, has walled themselves socially, and seems openly hostile to everyone. Every workplace has this person, even if you don't know of such a person, they're there. The Black Robin Christmas Carol is the story of one of these people. It delves into who this person is, why this person is, and how this person can change for the better.
There is a story. A story of pain, a story of loss, a story of unspeakable horrors, a story that has not been given it's proper attention. Some are ignoring this story. Some are unaware of this story. Some know of this story but are complicit in it's darkness. This is a story that must be told. Told so that the good can stop it and the bad can feel shame for it.
When I thought up thig blog, the name I first thought up was "Random Bullshit". Quickly I recognized that this name would put some people off. Then I thought of the name "Random Bull****". That seemed to be to much clutter. Then I was inspired with the name that dons this blog today.
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