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No More Pick Up Wiffle Ball in Greenwich, CT

July 10, 2008August 10, 2015 1115 Views 0 Comments fun, Kids, Wiffle Ball, Liz Pate, Greenwich, CT, Summer, Lin Lavery

Just up the road from Greenwich is Fairfield where Wiffle Ball was invented. Across many summers, kids found vacant lots, and turned them into baseball diamonds and whiled away the days. But apparently in Greenwich, Liz Pate, who’s building a new house, wants peace and quiet when she gets home at 6pm. So, after some kids in Greenwich cleared a vacant and overgrown city lot to play a little wiffle ball, here came Liz and a bunch of adults to spoil the fun.

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Hancock – A Movie Review

July 9, 2008 B. John 325 Views 0 Comments Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Peter Berg, Eddie Marsan, Charlize Ther, Action, Adventure, Comedy

There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there’s Hancock. With great power comes great responsibility — everyone knows that — everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock’s well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough — as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn’t the kind of man who cares what other people think — until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey, and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock’s greatest challenge yet — and a task that may prove impossible as Ray’s wife, Mary, insists that he’s a lost cause.

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Meet The Spartans – A Movie Review

July 8, 2008 B. John 304 Views 0 Comments Aaron Seltzer, Diedrich Bader, Kevin Sorbo, Jim Piddock, Jason Friedberg, Comedy

The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13–count Ã¢â‚¬Ëœem, 13!–Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton–no one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture).

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Get Smart – A Movie Review

July 8, 2008 B. John 316 Views 0 Comments Comedy, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Peter Segal, Steve Carell, Dwayne Johnson, Get Smart

Maxwell Smart is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99. As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS’ master plan–and each other–they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried and his sidekick Shtarker are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart–armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm–must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.

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Fox News Pundit Says McCain Has to Bash Gays to Win

July 7, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 305 Views 0 Comments Fred Barnes, Juan Williams, GLBT, right wing, conservative, gay bashing, Fox News, Gay Marriage, Faux News

From the “comes as no surprise” category, Fox News Pundit Fred Barnes said Sunday that McCain would have to run a center/right (not sure what that actually looks like myself) in order to win the election. This would mean appealing to the far right wingnuts of the party by using the “gays in the military” and “gay marriage” issues. Barnes explicity cites these issues. The left side of the blogosphere is all in an uproar over the comments. I don’t like that this happens to be a true statement, but it is true that McCain will win friends from the krazy kristian kooks by bashing gays. This has been a winning issue for Republicans for a while now.

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Weekly Weirdness for July 4th, 2008

July 5, 2008 B. John 400 Views 0 Comments ANC, African National Congress, florida, U.N., Terrorist, Naked, United Nations, Marijuana, DHS, South Africa, Pot, Palmetto, Nelson Mandela

All the weird stuff from the weekend ending on Friday, July 4th, 2008.

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The 4th of July, 2008

July 4, 2008 B. John 379 Views 1 Comment george bush, Thomas Jefferson, Freedom, 4th of July, Jesse Helms, Patriotism, Independence

Today is a day or ironies. George Bush is visiting Thomas Jefferson’s beloved Monticello on this the 232nd anniversary of our declaration of independence from a king named George. As Jefferson warned that Americans would have to be ever on their guard against those who might turn the presidency into the tool of their “elected despotism,” I doubt he would be greeting Bush. And Jesse Helms, father of the politics of division, died today.

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John McCain is SHOCKED! SHOCKED! To Find There's Campaigning Going On Here

July 2, 2008 B. John 335 Views 0 Comments General Wesley Clark, POW, John McCain, Swiftboating

Well, the McCain camp is all atwitter about Wesley Clark’s comments Sunday related to McCain’s status as a POW. They’re calling it “Swiftboating,” and condemning Obama for it. Of course, that didn’t stop McCain from putting the head of the original Swiftboats for Truth on a conference call run by his campaign.

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Craig and Vitter Sponsor Marriage Protection Amendment

July 2, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 415 Views 0 Comments Marriage, senate, Constitution, Constitutional Amendment, David Vitter, Hookers, Larry Craig, Prostitutes, Homosexual Sex, Marriage Amendment

It’s not really surprising to find that a small group of Republican Senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution. After all, they are mostly behind in the polls, the base is distraught and disorganized, and even fund raising isn’t going so well. What you might find interesting though, is that two of original 10 sponsors is Larry “wide stance” Craig (R-Idaho) and David “I heart hookers” Vitter (R-LA).

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The Tears Continue for Our Once Great Nation

July 2, 2008 B. John 1070 Views 0 Comments Bush, cheney, torture, Interrogations, Guantanamo Bay, Chinese

The New York Times is reporting that military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 based an interrogation class on a chart showing various “coercive” techniques for use on prisoners. What the trainers did not reveal, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied an Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain false confessions from American prisoners. Whoohoo, we’re on a roll now.