Friday, September 23, 2005
The Court, The OC, The Football
Roberts:
John Roberts is nearing confirmation as Supreme Court Chief Justice. This is such an important confirmation because Roberts is just fifty years old and if confrimed could be the chief justice for 25 or 30 years. I could be his age now before we have a new chief justice. And with so many hot button issues coming to The Court's attention, the two people who fill the two empty seats will be an intragal part of painting the future of this country. Separation of church and state, abortion, The Patriot Act, privacy, and a multitude of other key topics will come before the court in the near future and I just hope that Congress does not put some crazy-ass-radical-republican-uber-Christian on the bench.
Senator Russ Feingold (WI) voted in favor of Roberts, which gives me hope because after listening to Feingold he usually seems to be quite liberal. But at the same time Roberts didn't give the committee much information on how he sees various issues. But why would he? By doing that, no matter what he says, he'll turn 50% of Congress away.
After I spent 3-4 hours over the course of two days watching the hearings, I was speaking to Will about them. I was saying how good of a speaker he is and how good he was at saying what he wanted to say, no matter what the question was and how the senators were having trouble getting him to cough up a straight answer. His intelligence is undeniable. Will then mentioned his blue eyes. No joke. It also bothers me that he worked in the Reagen administration for a while.
President Bush nominating judges is a very scary thing. This is a president who is very concerned about his legacy. He is a guy who desperately wants to push his agenda and leave a lasting impression on the country after his term is up or someone assassinates him. - Note to FBI and Secret Service: Red Flag this blog! - After he has royally fucked up all things middle-eastern and is taking a lot of flack from the media and politically savvy rappers like Kanye West (if my sarcasm didn't come through there, I'm sorry) for the relief efforts in New Orleans.
Quick note on Kanye West. I was watching a show on MTV2 where he was talking about making his new album and his life and shit and the fool had the audacity to say the following, "Yeah we're a lot of fun, I mean, I would want to be around us all the time if I weren't me." That is not what he said word for word, but the idea is there. Bo knows Bo and Kanye loves Kanye.
Anyway, I don't like saying Bush "screwed up," because he didn't screw up. Screwing up is letting a ground ball go through your legs or misreading a teleprompter. Bush made a conscious effort to do something stupid. That is not a "screw up." It's just plain incompetence. Good job, Red States.
So who knows what Bush's motivition is in the nominating process. Is he trying to pick a great chief justice who the country will be proud of for 25 years, or is he trying to push his wacked out crazy ass Christian program of American politics? Who knows for sure. I just hope soon to be Justice Roberts is as objective as he says he'll be. I hope he interupts the constitution without bias and does right by all the cases that will appear before him.
But Bush getting to nominate two justices couldn't be a scarier thing for this country.
One more disaster or terrorist attack under Bush and the first groundbreaking case to go in front of Roberts will be Christianity as the Nationl Religion. And people in the country will bite on it because that's what we do in times is crisis, find the leader and follow. Forget free thinking, let's get behind The Patriot Act. God help us if that ever happens.
The OC:
From matters that matter to ones that don't, let's recap last night's all new episode of The OC.
Right in the beginning of the episode Summer doomed Marisa and Ryan, telling them that "If you stick together everything will be alright." Those words are the knife in the back of teenage love. See Romeo and Juliet. Sticking together worked great for them.
Summer and Seth are really bent over a table right now for the Dean Dude. He is just pushing them around and you would think that Seth would be smart enough to be able to say, "Wait, Dude, you can't do this." But he just takes it. This is all setting up the episode where Summer and Seth gain leverage over the Dean when they catch him banging Taylor.
And how proposterous is it everytime a member of the Cooper-Nichol-Cooper family says, "We just want to be a real family again." Are they blind to the fact that this is impossible? Are they blind to the fact that they aren't even trying?
Jimmy has twice fucked them financially. Julie was banging Marisa's ex-boyfriend. Julie married the man who is her daughter's boyfriend's adopted Grandpa. Ryan also dated Cal's estranged daughter. By the way, I'm glad she's off the show. Marisa shot Ryan's brother. Ryan's brother tried to rape Marisa. Julie tried to put Marisa's boyfriend in jail by bribing Tre. And they have a daughter they probably have nearly forgot about in boarding school. Who are we kidding? They want to be a "normal family"? I'm afraid that ship, like Jimmy's, has left the port.
So Jimmy gets a royal ass kicking. He calls Marisa. She sees him, learns he's leaving, destroying her hopes of having a "normal family," and what do we hear Ryan say on the beach? In a casual voice, "Sorry about your dad." That's a hell of an understatement.
So Jeri Ryan's character is broke and she's fleeing. Looks like she was mooching off the rich, as I predicted, and I think she'll probably try to steal Kirsten's identity somehow or go on some psycho jealous stalking spree of the Cohen family.
And apparently Kirsten knew of all the things going on with Ryan, Tre, and Marisa. Where was her reaction or a comment on those event from her? Mmm...
And of the sex scene... Was it strange to anyone else that they cut from the sex, to the beating, to Kirsten buying booze, to Sandy on the phone, back to Sex, back to Jimmy getting his ass kicked, then sex, beating, sex, beating... It was bizarre. It's almost as if they were trying to create some parrallel between Jiimmy leaving and Ryan and Marisa having sex, which I don't understand. It's the end of something, the beginning of something else. Are we to believe that the sex is the beginnig of the end for Ryan and Marisa? Will their relationship go the way of Jimmy's stay in Newport?
About Caleb's Will... I could not have been more wrong. I'm also dissapointed, I wanted there to be more to it than "Oh, he's broke, sorry." Oh well.
It will be nice next week when Kirsten is back in her home and shit starts to settle again and they go back to some not-so-out-of-this-world plot lines. As long as the water isn't too muddy for a fun Holiday season, I'm cool.
Football:
So many games to watch this weekend. I cannot wait to see the Wisconsin/Michigan game Saturday night.
It doesn't get any better than college football.
But the game I'm most looking forward to seeing will be played on Wausau West's practice field at 9 am Saturday morning. My brother Bryce, 10, is in his first year of Pop Warner and will be beating the hell of a bunch of little fuckers on the other team's D-Line. How about swearing when speaking of 10-year old football? I'm going to be the next parent to beat the shit out of a coach in the middle of a little league game. My parents have always said that worst thing about youth sports is the parents. And it's true. But anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing Bryce move some bodies and open some holes and hopefully he'll get to play some D End, which is where he really wants to play.
MacBond, sorry to say you were 1 for 3 on my night last night. All you had right was The OC. I didn't go out and hit up Water St. And, surprisingly, I didn't watch CSI. I chose to watch Reunion instead, which is going to be a really good show. Again, the acting is a little shaky at times, but the plot is good and full of mystery. Hopefully it won't dissapoint in the end. It looks like the only shows I'll be watching this fall will be Las Vegas, My Name is Earl (I missed the premiere because of work, but I love Jason Lee - anyone see it???), The OC and Reunion. I wish I could watch Numbers, but I think work and getting wasted will interfere.
Alright. Can't wait to tailgate in my yard. Go Badgers.
Until The Next.
John Roberts is nearing confirmation as Supreme Court Chief Justice. This is such an important confirmation because Roberts is just fifty years old and if confrimed could be the chief justice for 25 or 30 years. I could be his age now before we have a new chief justice. And with so many hot button issues coming to The Court's attention, the two people who fill the two empty seats will be an intragal part of painting the future of this country. Separation of church and state, abortion, The Patriot Act, privacy, and a multitude of other key topics will come before the court in the near future and I just hope that Congress does not put some crazy-ass-radical-republican-uber-Christian on the bench.
Senator Russ Feingold (WI) voted in favor of Roberts, which gives me hope because after listening to Feingold he usually seems to be quite liberal. But at the same time Roberts didn't give the committee much information on how he sees various issues. But why would he? By doing that, no matter what he says, he'll turn 50% of Congress away.
After I spent 3-4 hours over the course of two days watching the hearings, I was speaking to Will about them. I was saying how good of a speaker he is and how good he was at saying what he wanted to say, no matter what the question was and how the senators were having trouble getting him to cough up a straight answer. His intelligence is undeniable. Will then mentioned his blue eyes. No joke. It also bothers me that he worked in the Reagen administration for a while.
President Bush nominating judges is a very scary thing. This is a president who is very concerned about his legacy. He is a guy who desperately wants to push his agenda and leave a lasting impression on the country after his term is up or someone assassinates him. - Note to FBI and Secret Service: Red Flag this blog! - After he has royally fucked up all things middle-eastern and is taking a lot of flack from the media and politically savvy rappers like Kanye West (if my sarcasm didn't come through there, I'm sorry) for the relief efforts in New Orleans.
Quick note on Kanye West. I was watching a show on MTV2 where he was talking about making his new album and his life and shit and the fool had the audacity to say the following, "Yeah we're a lot of fun, I mean, I would want to be around us all the time if I weren't me." That is not what he said word for word, but the idea is there. Bo knows Bo and Kanye loves Kanye.
Anyway, I don't like saying Bush "screwed up," because he didn't screw up. Screwing up is letting a ground ball go through your legs or misreading a teleprompter. Bush made a conscious effort to do something stupid. That is not a "screw up." It's just plain incompetence. Good job, Red States.
So who knows what Bush's motivition is in the nominating process. Is he trying to pick a great chief justice who the country will be proud of for 25 years, or is he trying to push his wacked out crazy ass Christian program of American politics? Who knows for sure. I just hope soon to be Justice Roberts is as objective as he says he'll be. I hope he interupts the constitution without bias and does right by all the cases that will appear before him.
But Bush getting to nominate two justices couldn't be a scarier thing for this country.
One more disaster or terrorist attack under Bush and the first groundbreaking case to go in front of Roberts will be Christianity as the Nationl Religion. And people in the country will bite on it because that's what we do in times is crisis, find the leader and follow. Forget free thinking, let's get behind The Patriot Act. God help us if that ever happens.
The OC:
From matters that matter to ones that don't, let's recap last night's all new episode of The OC.
Right in the beginning of the episode Summer doomed Marisa and Ryan, telling them that "If you stick together everything will be alright." Those words are the knife in the back of teenage love. See Romeo and Juliet. Sticking together worked great for them.
Summer and Seth are really bent over a table right now for the Dean Dude. He is just pushing them around and you would think that Seth would be smart enough to be able to say, "Wait, Dude, you can't do this." But he just takes it. This is all setting up the episode where Summer and Seth gain leverage over the Dean when they catch him banging Taylor.
And how proposterous is it everytime a member of the Cooper-Nichol-Cooper family says, "We just want to be a real family again." Are they blind to the fact that this is impossible? Are they blind to the fact that they aren't even trying?
Jimmy has twice fucked them financially. Julie was banging Marisa's ex-boyfriend. Julie married the man who is her daughter's boyfriend's adopted Grandpa. Ryan also dated Cal's estranged daughter. By the way, I'm glad she's off the show. Marisa shot Ryan's brother. Ryan's brother tried to rape Marisa. Julie tried to put Marisa's boyfriend in jail by bribing Tre. And they have a daughter they probably have nearly forgot about in boarding school. Who are we kidding? They want to be a "normal family"? I'm afraid that ship, like Jimmy's, has left the port.
So Jimmy gets a royal ass kicking. He calls Marisa. She sees him, learns he's leaving, destroying her hopes of having a "normal family," and what do we hear Ryan say on the beach? In a casual voice, "Sorry about your dad." That's a hell of an understatement.
So Jeri Ryan's character is broke and she's fleeing. Looks like she was mooching off the rich, as I predicted, and I think she'll probably try to steal Kirsten's identity somehow or go on some psycho jealous stalking spree of the Cohen family.
And apparently Kirsten knew of all the things going on with Ryan, Tre, and Marisa. Where was her reaction or a comment on those event from her? Mmm...
And of the sex scene... Was it strange to anyone else that they cut from the sex, to the beating, to Kirsten buying booze, to Sandy on the phone, back to Sex, back to Jimmy getting his ass kicked, then sex, beating, sex, beating... It was bizarre. It's almost as if they were trying to create some parrallel between Jiimmy leaving and Ryan and Marisa having sex, which I don't understand. It's the end of something, the beginning of something else. Are we to believe that the sex is the beginnig of the end for Ryan and Marisa? Will their relationship go the way of Jimmy's stay in Newport?
About Caleb's Will... I could not have been more wrong. I'm also dissapointed, I wanted there to be more to it than "Oh, he's broke, sorry." Oh well.
It will be nice next week when Kirsten is back in her home and shit starts to settle again and they go back to some not-so-out-of-this-world plot lines. As long as the water isn't too muddy for a fun Holiday season, I'm cool.
Football:
So many games to watch this weekend. I cannot wait to see the Wisconsin/Michigan game Saturday night.
It doesn't get any better than college football.
But the game I'm most looking forward to seeing will be played on Wausau West's practice field at 9 am Saturday morning. My brother Bryce, 10, is in his first year of Pop Warner and will be beating the hell of a bunch of little fuckers on the other team's D-Line. How about swearing when speaking of 10-year old football? I'm going to be the next parent to beat the shit out of a coach in the middle of a little league game. My parents have always said that worst thing about youth sports is the parents. And it's true. But anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing Bryce move some bodies and open some holes and hopefully he'll get to play some D End, which is where he really wants to play.
MacBond, sorry to say you were 1 for 3 on my night last night. All you had right was The OC. I didn't go out and hit up Water St. And, surprisingly, I didn't watch CSI. I chose to watch Reunion instead, which is going to be a really good show. Again, the acting is a little shaky at times, but the plot is good and full of mystery. Hopefully it won't dissapoint in the end. It looks like the only shows I'll be watching this fall will be Las Vegas, My Name is Earl (I missed the premiere because of work, but I love Jason Lee - anyone see it???), The OC and Reunion. I wish I could watch Numbers, but I think work and getting wasted will interfere.
Alright. Can't wait to tailgate in my yard. Go Badgers.
Until The Next.
