Sony Pictures - The Pursuit of Happyness

Sony Pictures - The Pursuit of Happyness

Wow, looks good, but why they misspelling Happiness???

What happened to quality television?

As if it weren't already bad enough with all of this reality tv crap, now they are giving that asshole who wrote the book "Sometimes he just aint into you" or whatever the hell it is called, a television show? Hello?!

Greg Berhendt is his name, and let's face it, he is ugly. Where does he get off thinking he is god's gift to female resolutions. Oy. Maybe it is time to get rid of the television....

CNN.com - Teacher under fire for his Cheney-9/11 theory - Jul 21, 2006

CNN.com - Teacher under fire for his Cheney-9/11 theory - Jul 21, 2006

The "conspiracy" grows... Does anyone else find it odd that so many legislatures would take to a small time college professor spouting off his theories? Could it be that he has hit home? Why are they being so defensive about it? What's next, pulling down every website backing up this same theory???

On Jury Duty

So, after being a registered voter for 20 years, I finally got summoned for Jury Duty. Down here in GA, you serve for an entire week. That is, you are oncall for the entire week. You call in each evening to see if you have to report.

So, I did have to report on Tuesday. How disappointing it was to sit there for over 4 hours only to have the Judge come and thank us for our patience, but, we must have been a "tough looking jury" because all 5 of the criminal cases on the docket that morning pleaded out. :-(

I so wanted to see the entire process and be a part of the jury. Maybe next time. But, the real reason for this blog, well, I was quite irritated. Now, I know that some people don't get paid for Jury Duty, but here in GA, it is a statute that your employer pay you. So, why were so many people bitching and moaning about it?!

Have a standard of trial by jury is one of the things that makes this country so great. I find it ironic that so many people will sit back and complain about the horrible things that happen, but then not want to do their civic duty when called upon. Many countries would kill for the opportunity to have a jury system such as ours.

It is a sad reflection of our society that we now hold athletes and stars on higher accords than our doctors and teachers, and that we can't inconvience our lives a little bit for the greater good of our judicial system. What if you were erroneously charged for something? Would you not want the most professional, educated people on your jury instead of unemployed people just there to collect the 30$ a day paycheck?

Hang on Sloopy

Hang on Sloopy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I always wondered the background of this tradition at OSU. I know we used the same song by the band at my high school in Toledo. :-)

Are we but a composition of all of those we have known?

I recall learning in college, the first time-around, that children's personalities are supposed to be established and set at age 6. That means, that how they are then is how they will always be. Lately, however, I have wondered if this is indeed true. When I think back to my life, and all of the people I have known, I realize how much of each of them has influenced me.

From my grandfather Crapsey, I gained a huge respect and admiration for baking. My grandpa made a huge box of cookies for each of his 9 living children each year at Christmas time. I can still recall the smell of the cookies baking. The table laid out with dozens upon dozens of decortated cookies. He started every December 1. This was a tradition that I have carried on off-and-on for my siblings since I became an adult. In fact, I was always so poor in college, that I could not afford Christmas gifts. Instead, I saved up to have the $50 that it took to make cookies for each of my siblings.

From my grandmother Crapsey, I learned of a love that could not sustain a death. And I learned that a couple could have huge fights, and huge love, all at the same time. I remember the fights that they might have with my grandpa saying that he was going to divorce my grandma, yet she could not survive without him.

My personality was affected by the abandonment and desolation I felt when my grandparents died, and I was forced to live with a viscious aunt. My faith and trust in people abolished as I laid witness to the greed and vengefullness of my aunts and uncles stealing everything from my grandparents' house before my grandmother's body was even cold.

And just when I might have regained some faith, when my biological father rescued us from the horrid aunt, the nail that is distrust was driven deeper by his later abandonment.

As I continue to reflect, I realize that a part of me was always yearning for love that I was not getting. I tried to hard to buy peoples' affections, not with monetary means, but with my affection, my naive trust, my helpfulness. I just now realized that... My teachers used to always get on me for helping the very same kids who would hurt me at a moment's notice. I used to think that I was living my life by the golden rule; but maybe that wasn't it at all...

I learned how to use food as love from my school chum Sonya. She introduced me to the joys of eating not just one, or even two, but 3 or 4 glazed donuts as we walked home from school. Looking back, I am convinced that Sonya too was being abused. I wonder what ever happened to her...

In the guardian angel that was my cousin Debbie, I finally got a taste of unconditional love, and what being a good mother is all about.

So many things shaped my life, my thoughts, my beliefs; my personality could not possibly been set at age 6. It is a reflection now of my experiences, my personal relationships with others, my education, both formal and from life. What I am today is so much more than I ever could have been at age 6. It makes me wonder how much more my personality might change in 20 or 30 more years....

Opinion: Bush Guilty of War Crimes? » Netscape.com

Opinion: Bush Guilty of War Crimes? » Netscape.com

You know what really pisses me off. Not only are more and more of these type of stories popping up, but, what the hell is being done about it?! Look how much money was spent during the Clinton era by the GOP only to find no evidence of the so-called insider trading by Hilary (What, can't a women be financially savvy too?), but, so much was spent to prove that Clinton received a blow-job in the whitehouse. Of course, it was swept under the rug about how long he deferred her advances. And, he did not lie. I watched the hearing. He was very specific. He not only said that he didn't have sexual relations with that woman, but defined what he deemed to be sexual relations. And you know what, a lot of people don't consider BJs to be sex. Anyway, not on that diatribe anymore.

But all of this crap with Bush, and nothing is happening. How much money have they wasted, how many of our youth have to die, for this damn war on terrorism. Hmm, when is the last time there was an act of war on american soil? And, as we know from my last blog, even 911 is in question. I mean, if al-queda really had it in so badly for us, wouldn't they have acted again? Gosh knows that they have had plenty of opportunity.

911 Loose Change 2nd Edition with extra footage - Google Video

911 Loose Change 2nd Edition with extra footage - Google Video

Watch this 1 hour 21 minute video and see if you don't disbelieve 911, as I have said since 911. Bush was behind it all...

LE's Schoolhouse Rock Site - America Rock

LE's Schoolhouse Rock Site - America Rock
We the people
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.

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Schoolhouse Rock - ROCKS!
What Gen Xer doesn't remember growing up with Schoolhouse Rock. I can't believe how many lyrics I recall. This site has sample wav files and a couple of videos. I am ordering the Collection from Amazon. Yea!
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7316/prea.wav