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San Francisco’s Gay Penguin Has A Change Of Heart

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

LOS ANGELES — After six years together, the relationship between a pair of gay male penguins at San Francisco zoo is apparently over, with Harry leaving Pepper for another penguin — Linda.

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the relationship between Harry and Pepper, who lived side-by-side, protecting eggs abandoned by other penguins, came to a shocking end when Harry moved into a neighboring nest with recently-widowed Linda.

In other news PFLAG and Brett Harris claim Harry was forcefully taken to a secrete Exodus International location for intensive reparative therapy for homosexuality and penguin lust. 

Ok all silliness aside, if it is true in the animal kingdom why not in the human realm gay activist, love to use the animal kingdom to justify homosexuality. Fair play is fair play. Leaving my faith in Christ aside, I always felt men and women hate the idea that all we are is slaves to the genetic machine and chained to fate. Man yearns by his volition to break free of fate. In regards to sexuality, one has the volition to leave Heterosexuality for Homosexuality and vise versa. We are not machines. Perhaps this explains the bigot irrational response by homosexual activist. The built their foundation of belief on the quicksand of once gay always gay and gay by genes.  The problem is penguins and 23 year old men are proving how shaky the foundation their argument is.

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BS Flies high with Unemployment Numbers

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

The Labor Department said initial jobless claims rose by 30,000 last week to 554,000. Economists had expected claims to have risen by 43,000. Continuing claims, which are filed by individuals on the unemployment roles for more than a week, fell by 88,000 to 6.2 million — the lowest level in three months

But the BS is the reason is not because of people are finding jobs but exhausting their State benefits as WSJ points out.

“The number of workers on jobless rolls is declining in an encouraging sign for the U.S. economy, although the decrease partly reflects people exhausting their state benefits.”

Don’t believe the hype.

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The Day They Canceled Sunday School

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

At the time my father was stationed at Tripler Army Hospital at the end of our first tour. The hospital was also the location of the Episcopal services. Normally our Sunday was Sunday school followed by church services, we did not have a children’s church.  We believe child should be with their parents. But on a summer Sunday July 20th 1969, there was no Sunday school; instead there was a single TV set and the entire congregation as we watched the approach and landing of the LEM.  Now one expect me to reminisce about the wonder of the event, but in truth like most eight year olds I suffer from a short attention span. Still I know this was not an ordinary day, after the landing we might have said a prayer and continued with the service. 

Later I was with my parents at home, I was almost glued to the tube was we watched Neal Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon.  Now for an eight year old that was the neatest thing in the world. 

Days after  splashdown my dad took  us to Perl Harbor to watch the USS Hornet pull in with the quarantine  trailer.

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Failed at Launch: Virtuality and Firefly

Monday, July 13th, 2009

A lot of fan boys are complaining that Fox has thrown another “SI-FI masterpiece” to the dogs. I think Fox knew it has a dog of a TV show on their hands. After 15 minutes of Virtuality, I was wondering what in the frak the producers thinking. The main problem with Virtuality is it main plotline of mixing reality TV with the wonders of interstellar exploration a la Star Trek. The show could have potential to be a good show if it was not a fake reality TV show with all the dramatic and staged nuances. It is bad enough I have to deal with so called   reality TV but to have a fake realty TV show mixed in with “virtual reality” drama is too much for me to buy into. 

This brings me to another Fox dumped SF-FI fanatic supported show: Firefly. Thanks to Hulu.com I survived the first five episodes before saying no mas. Like Virtuality the show fails because it tries to mix Science Fiction with the old western movie shtick. The plot holes are huge.  First the show jumps unbelievably from 26th century space opera to 19th century Western and in one episode 18th century aristocracy, no time travel was involved. Second a plot line is left aimlessly hanging. On the first episode the crew of Serenity picks up pastor, a man and his daughter and companion without telling the viewer where they are heading and to get off. It like the writer forgot about the plot and arbitrarily made the passengers part of the crew. 

Both shows fails because the produce fell for a common mistake thinking a show success is based on few single elements taken out of context from previous successful franchises. Virtuality fails by taking elements of Star Trek and reality TV and Firefly attempts to mix Space Opera with elements of old west show like Bonanza and throw in rabid fans and astroturfing buzz.

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