EDIT ADD: Survivor Here stands Erik, now officially the Dumbest Survivor Of All-Time
Wear the title proud, Erik. You earned it. And it sure made for some historically awesome TV. Thanks, man.
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Big stuff to cover today. Let's get right to it.
Iron Man I saw Iron Man. It rocked. The end. P.S. If you see it, stay until after the final credits roll.
FlipShot I signed a new contract and got a new phone:
Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Turns Suicide Bomber I still continue to marvel at those who want to close Gitmo. The people held there want us to die, and when they get out they get right back to work to accomplish that goal. It's happened before. It just happened again, as a released prisoner just turned himself into a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Abortion Is A Right! You Can't Challenge It! So say some dudes who take it upon themselves to tear down a pro-life memorial. It's captured on video. Listen to them rant about it as they pull the little crosses out of the ground. "It's a constitutional right; you don't have the right to challenge it.... do not put this in front of us!" Just sad. And weird.
(Also, umm... since when is abortion a constitutional right?)
80's Cartoon Nostalgia My friend Tim hooked me on this one, and I've been sitting at my computer all night wasting time watching more YouTube videos like it. Here's 10 minutes of pure 80's nostalgia, set to some classic 80's tunes. See how many of your favorite cartoons you can spot.
"Yes We Shall!" - Cobra Commander Edition I'm sure you've seen the now classic/infamous Barack Obama "Yes We Can" video put together by various celebs and musicians who support him. Here's a satirical response. An ingenious response. A hilarious response that almost made me spit out my McDonalds Vanilla Iced Coffee when I watched it. It's funny all on its own, but if you listen closer and actually hear what he's saying it's off-the-charts funny. Especially if you don't like Obama, and you did like GI Joe growing up.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Guliani Absolutely Destroy's Obama's Credibility On Judges The title says it all. Taken from HotAir, which transcribes a Guliani interview:
KELLY: It’s funny you should mention that, Mr. Mayor, because Barack Obama in a statement responding to John McCain’s point today said and I quote, “Barack Obama has always believed that our court should stand up for social and economic justice, and what’s truly elitist is to appoint judges who will protect the powerful and leave ordinary Americans to fend for themselves.”
Why the laughter?
GIULIANI: Well, the laughter because that is not what a judge in the American legal system is supposed to do. That is not a really responsible definition of a judge. The judge is supposed to interpret the law. And the law is written by other people. It’s written by members of the Congress. It’s written by framers of the Constitution. It’s written by the people when they amend the Constitution.
And then a judge has to have a certain, I would say, dedication to trying to interpret what other people mean and sometimes cannot put their social views into action. This is a very fair issue. John McCain would appoint judges who are more, I would call, originalists in terms of trying to define the meaning that other people had.
I think Senator Obama has made the case very strongly that John McCain has made that, he will appoint social activist judges, judges who tend to try to solve social problems rather than trying to figure out what does the law mean?
"The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it is not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after Al Qaida’s leaders. I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
They then nail him on his complete and utter lack of historical comprehension:
Putting aside the “labeling and name-calling”, leaving a war without winning it is, in fact, surrender. How else would anyone describe it? “Quitting” and “running away” come to mind, but both are synonymous with surrender. Leaving when the new strategy has made great progress in bolstering the elected government in Iraq is especially egregious, but in any case retreating while engaged with the enemy is surrender by any definition of the term.
I’m particularly bemused by the references to FDR and Truman. Both men ended up having to conduct massive wars that outlasted their presidencies, and in FDR’s case in no small measure because Western nations insisted on talk rather than action. While we maintained diplomatic contact with Germany and Japan until Pearl Harbor, FDR did not meet with Hitler and Tojo. And that diplomatic contact didn’t stop war from coming; indeed, it make it much worse than it otherwise would have been, at least in Europe, had the US, UK, and France had taken the appropriate steps to disarm Hitler when he started his Versailles Treaty violations.
Truman met with Joseph Stalin during and after World War II, but that didn’t stop the Soviets from blockading West Berlin or ringing down an iron curtain across eastern Europe, enslaving those nations for almost 50 years. If Potsdam and Yalta are Obama’s idea of successful foreign policy, then he obviously hasn’t studied 20th century history. Talking with implacable tyrants leads to appeasement, which leads to either war or more implacability of the tyranny in question.
Idol Swami Update It's a big week, because we not only have our boot but we have the official top three. This means that our preseason Final Three predictions now come into play. And that means: bonus points!
Castro finally exists stage left. About time. Syesha gets political. Everyone had Castro to go, and everyone except Christy had Syesha as the second pick.
Today what you'll see after you boot picks listed are your scores from this week, then your bonus points that you got for your F3 picks. You get 10 bonus points for each correct pick. So, for example, Downs gets 30 bonus points this week because he's the only person to get all of the final three people right. But spiritvsFLESH gets 0 bonus points, because unfortunately for him all three of his picks have already been eliminated. It doesn't matter what order your F3 predictions are this week - the goal is that they simply made the final three. Next week you'll get 20 points for each correct F2 pick you have, and if you picked the winner right you'll get an extra 30.
Final Three Predictions csemsen: 3. Carly 2. David A WINNER: David C MikeknaJ: 3. David C 2. Brooke WINNER: David A briansbabe94: 3. Brooke 2. David A WINNER: David C Dowens: 3. Syesha 2. David C WINNER: David A dsemsen: 3. Michael 2. Syesha WINNER: David A jsrichie: 3. Brooke 2. Carly WINNER: David A spiritvsFLESH: 3 Michael 2. Jason WINNER: Brooke KariStar86: 3. Carly 2. David A WINNER: Brooke curlyprincess: 3. Michael 2. Carly WINNER: David A pedro1music: 3. David A 2. Jason WINNER: Brooke HuckabeesFriend: 3. Michael 2. David A WINNER: Brooke wsemsen: 3. Syesha 2. Chikezie WINNER: David A alittlebitrocknroll: 3. David C 2. Carly WINNER: David A paulaangela: no picks made marshallismyalias: 3. Burt Reynolds 2. Alex Trebek WINNER: Sean Connery
